Sentences with phrase «agree a set of»

ISEAL members have agreed a set of common poverty indicators and developed monitoring and evaluation systems, and will report back on their collective impacts.

The RSPO was established as a group of palm producers, growers, refiners and corporate users, to agree a set of principles and criteria, both environmental and humanitarian, that must be met for a producer's output to be certified sustainable.

Last year Parenting UK coordinated the development of national occupational standards for work with parents — which form a ready made, nationally agreed set of competencies on which organisations can base service developments, and are based on the following principles:

Of course, Whittam Smith's local notables would agree a set of policies on areas as uncontroversial as immigration, Europe, and how to balance the UK's wayward budget.

Brian: if you can't see the difference between a minority Labour government that - in your words (from your original posts on this issue)- dares the Lib Dems to vote it down, and a coalition government based on a mutually agreed set of objectives, then you need to take a second look.

All the countries involved in JCPoA got together and agreed a set of measures they would all implement.

This is a formal coalition, with a written contract, an agreed set of policies, a determination that the coalition should run for fi ve years and the embedding of Liberal Democrat and Conservative ministers within departments.

In 2010, the Convention met in Aichi, Japan, and agreed a set of targets, called the Aichi Biodiversity Targets.

His concept of standard time formed the basis of the system adopted in 1884, but it took another 35 years before nations agreed a set of time zones covering the entire world.

The work which they then developed focused on an agreed set of objectives aimed at addressing those issues.

It is based on the delivery of climate variables derived from satellite data sets (not just ESA but all sources via international collaboration) and includes all aspects of their availability including data acquisition, calibration and validation, long term algorithm maintenance, data curation and reprocessing as necessary, all within the context of an internationally agreed set of priorities.

It is not a satisfactory substitute for action to resolve such conflicts according to an agreed set of criteria» (§ 51).

The doctrine is of recent provenance and, as is the case with the common law, its development has not followed inexorably from an agreed set of first principles.

ABN AMRO on the other hand is looking at how blockchain smart contracts can be applied to problems in trade finance and transaction banking e.g. how the technology can facilitate issuance of letters of credit, in which a bank guarantees that a buyer's payment will be received according to the agreed set of conditions.

At CDK Global, which makes and supports software for car dealerships, HR worked with finance to create an agreed set of people metrics, cutting the 2,000 people data points used across the global business to 120 people metrics for use in business reports.

At the same meeting, COAG agreed to commission a regular report against key indicators of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander disadvantage in order «to measure the impact of changes to policy settings and service delivery and provide a concrete way to measure the effect of the Council's commitment to reconciliation through a jointly agreed set of indicators.»

The National Framework of Principles for Delivering Services to Indigenous Australians endorsed by the Council of Australian Governments in June 2004 commits governments to «continue to measure the effect of the COAG commitment through the jointly - agreed set of indicators» in this report.271

Increasingly couples who are about to get married or enter into a civil partnership are signing a pre-nuptial agreement, which is a document that defines an agreed set of rules and guidelines over how the couple's finances will be split in the event of a

For example, Parks Victoria has developed a Framework for Working with Indigenous Communities, (90) and the Victorian Catchment Management Council has developed an agreed set of protocols, principles and strategies for Indigenous involvement in land and water management (91).

Not exact matches

The exact goals vary from person to person - in late»90s Gates once famously used his week to get his head around the emerging trend of the internet - but all commentators seem to agree that the experience is a great way to set your direction.

Picking two sets the stage for trouble if the two agents don't agree on the best course of action.

At that time, the FCC chairman essentially agreed with a federal ruling that would have given ISPs a free hand in setting access to the Web — largely tossing out the underpinnings of net neutrality.

If you're setting individualized goals, practitioners and experts agree that each employee's goals should change at least once a year — if only to stay ahead of people who outsmart the system.

The biggest beneficiaries: Pessina and KKR, who had agreed to receive a set number of shares (rather than a set dollar amount) from Walgreens.

As a society, we don't agree on how to define the problem, we don't agree on who is responsible, and we don't agree on a set of values from which to seek answers.

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For instance, a group of 15 banks might agree that the ledger becomes official once computers from seven group members agree to record a set of transactions.

But the company is hoping to give those investors a boost through a sort of mathematical illusion: A recent study of Acorn's customers found that people were much more likely to agree to set aside $ 5 per day than $ 150 per month, even though they'd end up contributing the same amount either way.

After ruinous bouts of competition like this, rival railroad companies would agree to cooperate, pooling the business in certain areas and setting common rates.

This purchase part of the contract will specify either an agreed - upon purchase price — which can be higher than the current market value, depending on the length of the rental agreement — or include details of when and how the price will set in the future.

In this case, that means offering not just critique (or more neutrally, «feedback») to the students involved, but also offering compassion and advice in the wake of what everyone agrees is a regrettable set of circumstances.

Twelve percent of workers strongly agreed that their manager helps set work priorities.

Basically, the buyer agrees to rent the house for a set amount of time with the right (or expectation, depending on how the contract is written) to purchase the home at the end of the rental time.

Defined, a brand kit is a set of templates where a company agrees on their color palette, types of fonts and more, which will then be used on all marketing materials to create consistency.

Some have set up loosely defined teams, made up of salespeople and a limited number of key players outside sales who have generally agreed to make themselves available for important presentations.

The team that works on agile delivery agrees, in writing, from the start on a set of deliverables that they want to accomplish by the end of the sprint.

Feng adds that as a company operating and reporting in multiple jurisdictions, Silvercorp must keep several sets of books: one under each of Canadian, Chinese and American generally agreed accounting principles (GAAP), and another under International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS).

The exact goals vary from person to person — in late»90s Gates once famously used his week to get his head around the emerging trend of the internet — but all commentators seem to agree that the experience is a great way to set your direction.

Yet, the aforementioned Gallup study showed that only 12 percent of employees «strongly agree» that their manager helps them set work priorities, and only 13 percent agree that their manager helps them set performance goals.

A U.S. withdrawal from the pact, agreed to by almost 200 countries, would set back international efforts to limit rising temperatures that have been linked to the extinctions of animals and plants, heat waves, floods and rising sea levels..

If your mission stands out, you are more likely to be able to hire people who understand and share your goal; to find managers and executives who are good leaders and understanding employers; to together agree on a core set of company values that strike a chord with everyone on your team.

Without a common and agreed upon set of top leadership qualities, it is more likely that people will hold onto the dominating stereotype of the typical «boss».

«If we set up a partnership on a handshake and agree to split the business 70 - 30, and we then have a falling out because you think you are working harder than I am and deserve a bigger share of the profits, the law may say we are 50 - 50 partners unless we can clearly document in writing, for example a signed Form 1065, our intent to create an unequal split,» Ennico says.

Blatt agreed with James» sentiment, saying, «No question, this summer we looked for and identified ways that we can take advantage of Kev's unique skill set, and hopefully we'll see that on the floor.»

Ankara: Global finance chiefs agreed to avoid getting drawn into currency battles after China set out plans to steer its economy onto a slower path of expansion.

That has to be one of the major lessons taught by Finance Minister Jim Flaherty's surprise announcement today that the federal, Ontario and British Columbia governments have finally, after years of setbacks and delays, agreed to set up a cooperative regulator for securities markets.

The parties would have to agree on a joint platform, or a specific set of objectives in forming a coalition government.

The Irish Government's Cabinet has agreed that the digital age of consent for access to services without parental approval should be set at 13.

The main barrier is to form a set of rules in which to operate, whereby the throttles are tied to an agreed upon set of metrics.

In an April 17 press conference, representatives from 14 of South Korea's leading cryptocurrency exchanges reportedly announced a set of self - imposed, non-legally binding rules that members of the Korean Blockchain Association (KBA), which includes those 14 exchanges, have agreed to abide by.