Sentences with phrase «act on a national level»

Gov. Andrew Cuomo, a Democrat who has championed gun control legislation, has pushed Democrats to act on the national level.

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One must simultaneously think and act locally, nationally and globally, realizing that a local action will have effect not only on the local level, but also on the national, global and cosmic levels.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo, meanwhile, has reiterated a push for gun control on the national level, pointing to the SAFE Act, approved in 2013, as one of the strongest measures for gun control in the country.

He said «following the receipt of full brief on the 2017 Appropriation Bill as passed by the National Assembly, and to buttress the unity at the highest level of government, President Muhammadu Buhari has indicated that it is in the interest of the nation's economy for the Acting President, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo, to sign the Appropriation Bill into law.

The statement read, «Following the receipt of a full brief on the 2017 Appropriation Bill as passed by the National Assembly, and to buttress the unity at the highest level of government, President Muhammadu Buhari has indicated that it is in the interest of the nation's economy for the Acting President, Professor Yemi Osinbajo, to sign the Appropriation Bill into law.

Amid the backdrop of a pitched battle over immigration on the national level, Assembly Democrats on Monday once again pushed for the passage of the Dream Act, a state - level bill that provides tuition assistance to undocumented immigrants.

According to him, «the crisis in Kaduna APC would not have degenerated to the level of a party Secretariat being demolished if the national leadership of the party had acted on time.»

But if supporters of needle exchanges can not persuade national and state politicians to act, they are having more success on a local level.

He acts also as external evaluator for a number of public institutions and private companies at the national and international level on issues of civil society, peacebuilding, and governance.

In their 2004 action brief on the parent - involvement provisions of the No Child Left Behind Act, the Public Education Network and the National Coalition for Parent Involvement in Education cite several reasons for the low level of parental involvement in many schools, including a less - than - welcoming atmosphere, language and cultural barriers, insufficient training for teachers, and lack of parent education or parenting skills.

In an analysis of the effects of the 1990 Kentucky Education Reform Act recently published in the Kentucky Annual Economic Report, a professor of economics at the University of Kentucky asserts that the state's higher school spending levels have not led to significant gains on national tests or substantial improvements in the dropout rate.

Ms. Harris served on the National Education Association's (NEA) National Every Student Succeeds Act Implementation Team and the state level ESSA Implementation Team in Oregon.

This report presents findings from the first - ever national data collection on school - level expenditures, collected in response to a requirement in the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA).

The Goals 2000: Educate America Act and the No Child Left Behind Act focus on school accountability at the national level.

The ability to obtain a reverse mortgage is not dependent on credit history, income level, or health; however, Section 203 (b) of the National Housing Act does impose limits on how much can be borrowed.

Plaintiff Oceana, Inc. («Oceana») on behalf of its adversely affected members hereby challenges the unlawful decision of the National Marine Fisheries Service («Fisheries Service» or «Defendants») to adopt and promulgate Amendment 5b to the Highly Migratory Species («HMS») Fishery Management Plan because it failed to establish measures necessary to end overfishing and rebuild the dusky shark population to a healthy level as mandated by the Magnuson - Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act («Magnuson - Stevens Act»).

It calls for a new era of climate change science where an emphasis is placed on «fundamental, use - inspired» research, which not only improves understanding of the causes and consequences of climate change but also is useful to decision makers at the local, regional, national, and international levels acting to limit and adapt to climate change.

Black Carbon Methane No Keystone XL In Harm's Way: Keystone Threatens America's Animals, Plants Offshore Fracking Oil Trains Climate Change Is Here Now California Fracking Fracking Global Warming and Life on Earth Global Warming and Endangered Species Initiative 350 or Bust The Arctic Meltdown Energy and Global Warming Energy Development on Public Lands Global Warming Litigation The Clean Air Act Transportation and Global Warming Fuel Economy Standards Airplane Emissions Ship Emissions Fighting Climate Science Suppression Enforcing National Assessment of Climate Change Effects California Environmental Quality Act: Urban Sprawl and Global Warming Saving Mountaintop Species From Warming Clearcutting and Climate Change Population Growth and Climate Change Sea - level Rise

As for action on national level, the letter calls for a climate change act that uses binding climate and energy targets of the Energiewende as a framework for innovation.

This report, Energy Efficiency in the American Clean Energy and Security Act of 2009: Impacts of Current Provisions and Opportunities to Enhance the Legislation, discusses these national - level impacts and breaks them down on a state - by - state basis.

Besides, national legislators must respect EU law even when they act in exercise of an exclusive competence of the State, so as not to adopt measures capable of compromising the protection of legal positions ruled on at the EU level.

[27] It is rare for a state supreme court to adopt a regulatory measure that was not proposed to it, if not directly by the national organization of the ABA, then indirectly through a state or local bar association, acting at the state level on the behest of the ABA.

Whilst the Court of Justice alone has jurisdiction to declare an EU act invalid, where a claim is lodged with the national supervisory authorities they may, even where the Commission has adopted a decision finding that a third country affords an adequate level of protection of personal data, examine whether the transfer of a person's data to the third country complies with the requirements of the EU legislation on the protection of that data and, in the same way as the person concerned, bring the matter before the national courts, in order that the national courts make a reference for a preliminary ruling for the purpose of examination of that decision's validity

Team collaboration launch of Target Now Registry aimed to act as a robust information catalyst, advancing precision medicine in oncology through the broad - based acquisition and sharing of valuable molecular, clinical and outcomes data, while collaborating on a national level in a secure, community - based environment.

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Additionally, there should be input through the IAC at the international level on issues that are relevant to Australia, the Asia Pacific region, and the wider international community, including those matters protected under the EPBC Act (nationally threatened species and ecological communities; migratory species; Commonwealth marine areas; nuclear actions including uranium mining; Ramsar wetlands; World Heritage Listed places and places on the National Heritage List).

Every single lender on a national level has committed criminal acts against consumers.

The ability to obtain a reverse mortgage is not dependent on credit history, income level, or health; however, Section 203 (b) of the National Housing Act does impose limits on how much can be borrowed.