Sentences with phrase «agency practice as»

If you are a Professional Buyer Agent, I encourage you to seek out alternative remuneration strategies for your buyer agency practice as they better empower your buyer clients and financial support your independence to charge a commission you feel is representative of the work you do.

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No spec work: The practice of marketers asking prospective agencies to provide creative for free (or next to nothing) as part of the pitch process has long been a sore spot in the industry, yet the «spec work» practice persists.

The FCAC commissioner's comments come as the agency released the findings of an intensive review of business practices across Canada's Big Six banks, launched last April following media reports alleging questionable sales tactics such as selling services without the consent of customers.

A Canadian enforcement agency announced today that Amazon Canada will pay a $ 1 million fine for what could be construed as misleading pricing practices.

As a result, the FTC required Facebook to obtain consumers» consent before «enacting changes that override their privacy practices,» the agency said at the time.

Last week Scott Pruitt, administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, dropped the Obama - era rule, claiming modern mining practices, as well as other state and federal requirements, made the financial responsibility rule superfluous.

The hip - hop mogul, whose given name is Shawn Carter, is the target of a Securities and Exchange Commission enforcement subpoena after failing to testify as part of an agency investigation of accounting practices at Iconix Brand Group Inc., which paid $ 200 million to acquire assets from his Rocawear apparel brand in 2007.

In the first instance, a market - maker matches a buyer and a seller of an asset, a practice known as agency trading.

What this means in practice is that we have kept maturities of our investments very short, particularly for low - risk issuers such as governments and agencies, while we seek out opportunities to increase portfolio yield with what we think is well - priced corporate debt.

The hip - hop mogul is the target of a SEC enforcement subpoena after failing to testify as part of an agency investigation of accounting practices at Iconix Brand Group Inc., which paid $ 200 M to acquire assets from his Rocawear apparel brand in 2007.

The Report criticises us either for failing to follow the Church's Policies, or for not following what was accepted as good practice by Child Protection Agencies.

Some concern abilities and capacities normally acquired by reflective participation in practices that comprise other quite different institutions, such as hospitals, congregations, agencies providing assistance to the disadvantaged, and the like.

The practice of the networks was to produce religious programs, either by making production facilities, technical services and some budget resources available to the religious groups for the production of their own programs, or by using these religious agencies as consultants on their own religious programs.

RELIGION: A set of beliefs concerning the cause, nature, and purpose of the universe, especially when considered as the creation of a superhuman agency or agencies, If you believe in Jesus, you are practicing a religion.

This must be guarded against both by informed citizens who detect the signs and refuse to be duped and by government agencies such as the F.B.I. that are skilled in detecting illicit practices.

Finally, the answers made to these two types of questions will interconnect in complex ways with answers made to the question of how the school as community is related to church communities: Is the school itself an ordered Christian congregation; is it an expanded version of the academic aspect of the work of ministerial leadership in a settled congregation; is it an agency for the extension education of practicing clergy?

The form of argument in this presentation has emphasized several specific points: first, that the Asian values argument, as a challenge to the implementation of constitutional democracy, is exaggerated and fails to account for the richness of values discourse in the East Asian region - local values do not provide a justification for harsh authoritarian practices; second, that the cultural prerequisites arguments fail because they ignore the discursive processes for value development and they are tautological, excessively deterministic and ignore the importance of human agency it, therefore, makes little sense to take an entry test for constitutional democracy; third, the difficulties of importing Western communitarian ideas into an East Asian authoritarian environment without adequate liberal constitutional safeguards; fourth, the positive role of constitutionalism in constructing empowering conversations in modern democratic development and as a venue for values discourse; fifth, the importance, especially in a cross-cultural context, of indigenization of constitutionalism through local institutional embodiment; and sixth, the value of extending research focused on the positive engendering or enabling function of constitutionalism to the developmental context in general and East Asia in particular.

Peter Laufer: Yes, except in the environment that we have and the type capitalism we practice the regulatory agency in question which is the USDA, the United States Department of Agriculture; the National Organic Program, the NOP, is serving business at least as much as it's servicing the rest of us and maybe more and it's the position of the USDA that if companies like Trader Joe's or others decide that the origin of their products is a proprietary business tool, then they are successfully able to hide behind that claim and not tell you where something you're going to buy and eat came from.

In addition, she has worked as an adjunct professor and supervises doctoral interns in both her practice and in community agencies.

Diane Carter Dummies & Playdates Nanny & Babysitting Agency 0412791528 www.dummiesandplaydates.com.au Education: Cert 3 in Centre Based Care Practicing as a CSC: since 2015

As a practicing registered psychologist, advisor to various research programs and community agencies, and through her previous experiences with the BC Ministry for Child and Family Development and the school system, Dr. Vanessa has seen it all and has navigated hundreds of tough situations with families.

DONA International birth and postpartum doulas practice in all kinds of settings: in hospitals, in doula agencies, in nonprofits and as independent business owners.

Department of Regulatory Agencies: Board of Nursing Certified Nurse - Midwives are licensed as an advanced practice nurses.

When she's not working as a Doula she works one day a week at a non-profit agency teaching parenting classes and has a private counselling practice that focus» on perinatal mental health, birth trauma and loss.

Before developing her private practice she worked with children in multiple settings, such as family service agencies and foster care.

Julie holds a Master's degree in Counselor Education from Western Michigan University and has over 15 years of experience as a family therapist, working in both private practice and agency settings.

The upshot is that impersonal dynamics are prioritised over experiential ones and progressive democratic agency is construed through free - floating notions of flux and contestation, rather than as an embodied practice in the world.

The conference's report calls for legislation that would enact in statute the state's commitments to reducing greenhouse gas emissions as well as a measure that would enhance «green» or environmentally sustainable practices at state agencies as well as climate neutral goals at the state and city university campuses.

It would be recalled the Magu's nomination has been rejected as the substantive Chairman of the agency by the Senate for alleged corrupt practices.

• Regulate employment agencies so they can not operate exclusionary practices, such as advertising they only have Poles on their books.

From the President who has refused to act on investigative reports submitted to him on grievous allegations of diverting over a billion naira meant for resettlement of Internal Displaced Persons (IDPs) by the Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Babachir Lawal under the Presidential Initiative for the North East (PINE) and the miraculous discovery of 13billion naira in an apartment at Ikoyi, Lagos under the supervision of the Director of the Nigerian Intelligence Agency (NIA), Ayodele Oke, to the Head of Service of the Federation, Oyo - Ita Winifred Ekanem, who connived with others to reinstate into active duty and promote Abdulrasheed Maina, the former Chairman of the Pension Reform Task Team, who allegedly stole over 6billion naira pension fund; the Chief of Staff to President Buhari now renamed the «Thief of Staff», Abba Kyari, who allegedly received a bribe of 500million naira to negotiate a fine reduction for MTN Nigeria, and has continuously been in the heart of every sharp practices in the Presidency; the Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Dr. Ibe Kachikwu who allegedly received a kickback of 3.8 billion naira in exchange for marginal oilfield using his brother, Dumebi Kachikwu as front; the Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami, who was the brain behind the reinstatement of Abdulrasheed Maina; the Chief of Army Staff, General Tukur Buratai who during his time as the Director of Procurement at the Army Headquarters allegedly diverted funds meant to equip the Military into buying choice properties worth millions of dollar in Dubai; the Minister for Solid Minerals, Dr. Kayode Fayemi who allegedly embezled State Universal Education Board (SUBEB) funds as the Governor of Ekiti State; the Minister for Interior, Abdulrahman Bello Dambazau who was indicted by a Presidential investigative committee probing Arm procurement for awarding ghost contracts worth $ 930,500,690 with others while as the Chief of Army Staff between 2008 - 2010 and one of the brains behind the reinstatement of Abdulrasheed Maina; the Minister of Transportation, Rotimi Amaechi alleged to have stolent 142billion naira as the Governor of Rivers State.

Washington (CNN)-- The Internal Revenue Service targeted liberal groups as well as conservatives seeking tax - exempt status, a Democratic congressman charged on Monday after the agency acknowledged the inappropriate practice continued until last month.

UCIDA was cited in a report by the Budget Office as one of nine industrial development agencies (IDAs) in New York that did not use competitive bidding practices for professional services.

If you agree, you can send a message to our local elected officials telling them you will no longer tolerate their decision to act as willing co-conspirators with the DEP as that agency continues to engage in its long - held practice of profligate spending, this time in our community, as it proposes to spend $ 1.8 million on a parcel of land carried on our assessment roll at $ 165,500.

The state Public Officers Law that covers lobbying says no former public official «who has served as an officer or any employee in the executive chamber of the governor shall within a period of two years after termination of such services appear or practice before any state agency.»

«Instead of pooling enterprise funding and central staff, Lord Heseltine should have looked at good practice from across the world, such as the SBA, and recommended a better policy making machine and an agency which co-ordinates small business policy such as lending, procurement and exporting.»

Swinson joins the Advertising Standards Agency as one of four new appointees to the Broadcast Committee of Advertising Practice, responsible for advising on broadcast advertising codes of conduct.

However, in practice, the Steiner movement is still somewhat hostile, and the Health Protection Agency regards Steiner schools as unvaccinated communities.

He's being charged with forming the new agency as scrutiny increases on the business practices of Wall Street.

As part of his expanded Lead Primary Prevention initiative, Picente recently announced a series of free training courses dealing with lead - safe work practices and designed for area contractors to meet new Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) standards involving work done on pre-1978 housing.

DeParle convened meetings twice a week in the Old Executive Office Building, bringing together representatives of agencies as far - flung as the Internal Revenue Service, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and OMB's regulatory office — all of which had a role in putting the law into practice.

Emergency Hurricane Harvey Supplemental Appropriations — Vote Passed (419 - 3, 11 Not Voting) Frelinghuysen, R - N.J., motion to suspend the rules and agree to the resolution that would provide for the House to concur in the Senate amendments to a bill (HR 601) that would codify practices and programs at the United States Agency for International Development related to U.S. education assistance abroad, with further amendment that would appropriate $ 7.9 billion in emergency supplemental funding for fiscal 2017 as an initial payment to cover the costs of responding to Hurricane Harvey.

Beyond the New York State Comptroller's responsibilities as fiscal watchdog over the state's finances and the management practices of state agencies, the position has particular importance to CSEA members.

The commission issued the directives just weeks after The Buffalo News revealed Erie County's occasional practice to label inmate suicide attempts as «individual inmate disturbances,» a category that does not trigger automatic notification to the state agency.

Leaders of the oversight agency, the Civilian Complaint Review Board, offered public assurances that the department would have limited time — perhaps as few as 20 days — to launch a challenge, but the practice went into effect without any such restrictions.

As advocates experienced with agency recalcitrance, we believe that a more proscriptive, or «stronger,» bill supported by council, but opposed by the mayor, would be symbolically satisfying but close to useless in practice.

Chen could not be reached for comment for this story, but Taiwan's state - run news agency said in July that he had issued a statement taking sole responsibility for the peer - review and citation ring, and admitting to the «indiscreet practice» of adding Taiwan's education minister as a co-author on five of the papers without his knowledge.

With no simple solution in sight, Salyers continues to advise government agencies such as the Food and Drug Administration and the Department of Agriculture to reduce the use of antibiotics in livestock feed, a practice banned throughout the European Union.

«Water Pricing Experiences and Innovations» (Springer, 2015) presents practices and implementation experiences from many countries that face water scarcity conditions similar to those faced by California and elsewhere, and introduces a wide set of water - pricing methods that California agencies might consider as they address the state's historic drought.

«We discovered no cases brought as a result of naloxone administration by [law enforcement officers], which is perhaps not surprising because that practice is relatively new,» the researchers wrote, noting that some 220 law enforcement agencies in 24 states now carry the drug.