Sentences with phrase «agencies crack down»

Remote - controlled bucks and bears are assisting government agencies crack down on illegal hunting.

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Solo - preneurs have different tax - filing concerns, and the Canada Revenue Agency is cracking down on some common practices

The tool would deploy a fake app to thwart enforcement agencies that were attempting to crack down on the service.

This summer law - enforcement agencies in 99 countries cracked down on illegal online pharmacies, confiscating 10.1 million illicit pills with an estimated value of US$ 36 million and shutting down more than 13,700 websites.

In practice, TIEAs allow the Canada Revenue Agency to crack down on citizens hiding money offshore by requesting information from foreign tax authorities.

Law enforcement agencies have cracked down on other encrypted phone companies allegedly catering to organised crime over the past few years.

But Mr. Gensler soon developed a reputation for cracking down on Wall Street during his time at the agency.

Following that, the country's Ministry of Public Security said in a statement on Jan. 19 that the agency intends to crack down on pyramid schemes that involve cryptocurrency.

As the science around prevention develops, this important bill will ensure our federal agencies can crack down on athletic equipment manufacturers that peddle quackery.

«We will create a dedicated Border Police Force, as part of a refocused Serious Organised Crime Agency, to enhance national security, improve immigration controls and crack down on the trafficking of people, weapons and drugs.

A Labour administration would focus on three things to help ease pressure on public services and wages including better enforcement of the minimum wage, cracking down on recruitment agencies who only supplied workers from particular countries and looking at areas and types of jobs where there were large numbers of foreign workers.

Under Governor Cuomo, we have significantly augmented our resources by coordinating our efforts with state agencies including DMV, OASAS and the State Police to help keep our communities safe by cracking down on these illegal sales.»

The Minimum Wage Enforcement and Outreach Unit will have members from the Labor Department and three other state agencies and its job will be to both educate businesses about the new wage and crack down on violators, Gov. Cuomo said Monday.

Cracking down on public urination, disorderly conduct and other low - level offenses doesn't lead to a decline in more serious crimes, a watchdog agency tasked with monitoring the NYPD said.

Commenting on Ed Milliband's announcement that a Labour Government will crack down on the exploitation of workers by agencies, Chris Keates, General Secretary of the NASUWT, the largest teachers» union in the UK, said: «Millions of agency workers, including supply teachers, will welcome today's commitment from Ed Milliband to get tough on unscrupulous agencies.

The U.S. Senate voted 62 - 37 to confirm Kirstjen Nielsen as the secretary of homeland security, elevating a top White House aide and former agency official to oversee the department central to Trump's plan to crack down on illegal immigration and beef up border security.

Law enforcement agencies across the state have been cracking down on impaired driving during the week of St. Patrick's Day with an enforcement campaign.

As I speak, Britain's Royal Navy, National Crime Agency and Border Force are working alongside their Italian partners to save lives in the Mediterranean and crack down on the evil traffickers who are exploiting desperate men, women and children who seek a better life.

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — Sen. Charles Schumer held a pack of gum in one hand and a container of synthetic pot in the other as he called on the federal Drug Enforcement Agency to crack down on the sale of legal chemical substances used to create new synthetic drug combinations.

NEW YORK, NY — The New York State Police, along with local law enforcement agencies, will increase patrols to crack down on drunk and drugged driving this 4th of July weekend.

To aid low - wage workers, Cuomo would crack down on the fees charged by employment agencies.

In science news around the world, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) cracks down on stem cell labs, Brazil opens one of its largest national reserves to gold and iron mining, and the International Atomic Energy Agency launches a global bank for low - enriched uranium.

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, the second most powerful court in the country behind the Supreme Court, heard two cases challenging the Environmental Protection Agency's first rules to crack down on mercury from the country's fleet of electric generating units.

Turning to nature DLA, based in Fort Belvoir, Va., buys most of the military's electronic components and has over the past few years been testing authentication technologies the agency hopes can crack down on counterfeiting.

Engineer Yang Wei believes he can sustain robust growth of China's premier agency for peer review research while cracking down on grant cheaters

It also may become next - to - impossible soon as regulating agencies start to crack down on vitamin potencies.

The Australian Government has launched a register of child care agencies that have been subject to enforcement action as it cracks down on shoddy providers.

Because the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is cracking down, Mercedes fears cars could be mpg - tested partially in the manual mode, hurting efficiency.

The agency has a huge task that encompasses everything from prevention of trafficking to international coordination of efforts to crack down on it.

In an apparent attempt to pre-empt the news reports, the CRA issued a statement last Friday, detailing the agency's efforts to crack down on tax evasion and tax avoidance, which intensified following the first huge leak of tax - haven records, known as the Panama Papers, in April 2016.

The legality of many such shelters is questionable, and lately the Canada Revenue Agency has been cracking down.

The Liberals will invest $ 444.4 million over five years to help the Canada Revenue Agency to crack down on tax evasion.

... The USDA's Office of Inspector General has criticized the agency since the 1990s for failing to adequately crack down on violators.

This is due to the Russian government cracking down on the Telegram messenger app, which came under fire for essentially allowing people to communicate without being spied upon by intrusive government agencies (and then refusing to grant said agencies backdoors into the system).

In 2006 a pattern emerged at NASA in which political appointees repeatedly acted in ways that the agency administrator concluded were inappropriate, including telling public affairs officers to issue fewer press releases on global warming in 2004 in the runup to the presidential election and trying to crack down on James Hansen, the agency scientist who had become a vocal proponent of prompt cuts in heat - trapping emissions and critic of big coal companies.

Instead of cracking down on MMS [Minerals Management Service], as he had vowed to do even before taking office, Obama left in place many of the top officials who oversaw the agency's culture of corruption.

Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) authorities are cracking down on local companies that have repeatedly violated the agency's workplace safety rules and regulations.

These agencies have been cracking down since the 1990s and have reported increases in referrals (tips about suspected fraud), opened cases, convictions and court - ordered restitutions.

The fact of the matter is that law enforcement agencies have really begun to crack down on speeding and other moving violations recently in Texas, thus -LSB-...]

An FCC spokesperson told the Associated Press this week that the agency's role was to certify these devices, not require wireless carriers to protect their networks against them or crack down on their use.

The Electronic Privacy Information Center has asked the government agency in the past to crack down on those technologies.

Japan's Financial Services Agency on Friday ordered two cryptocurrency exchanges to suspend business for two months as it cracks down on regulatory lapses following the massive theft of digital money at Tokyo - based Coincheck.

The Financial Services Agency (FSA) has been cracking down on cryptocurrency exchanges in the wake of the $ 533 million theft of NEM tokens from the Coincheck wallet earlier this year.

Japan's Financial Services Agency (FSA) has cracked down hard on cryptocurrency exchanges in the aftermath of the massive $ 530 million crypto heist a few weeks ago.

Ever since the $ 500 million hack of Japan's Coincheck cryptocurrency exchange came to light earlier this year in January, Japan's financial watchdog The Financial Services Agency (FSA) has been seen cracking down the whip on local cryptocurrency exchanges.

On this podcast, we talk about: Facebook cracking down on Russia's Internet Research Agency propaganda arm.

TOKYO (Reuters)-- Japan's Financial Services Agency on Friday ordered two cryptocurrency exchanges to suspend business for two months as it cracks down on regulatory lapses following the massive theft

Custom encrypted phones have long been used by criminal gangs as a way for members to securely communicate with each other, but law enforcement agencies are cracking down on companies that provide them.

Worked with law enforcement agencies, including Sheriff's Department, San Jose Police Department, and Secret Service to apprehend high - risk shoplifters and crack down on organized crime organizations at Target; apprehended 300 + shoplifters and assisted law enforcement agencies to apprehend 200 + individuals.

On Feb. 26, Senators McCaskill (D - MO) and Rockefeller (D - WV) introduced legislation that will better equip the nation's top consumer protection agency with the tools needed to crack down on «patent trolls» — companies that buy patents, but then fail to actually produce goods or services, opting instead to intimidate or sue other small businesses.