Sentences with phrase «agreed upon system»

With the United States Legal system, there is an agreed upon system to resolve legal disputes.

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Issuing bonds is one of the most routine things that happens in today's financial system; governments and companies get a sum of money today and pay interest on it over time, before paying back the principal at some agreed - upon future date, when the bond «matures.»

The Western - dominated global financial system relies on a slew of internationally agreed - upon rules, norms and institutions that let countries trade and invest in each other.

Because time is of the essence, and because during negotiations the central bank was squeezing liquidity [on Greek banks] in order pressurise us, in order to succumb, my constant proposal to the Troika was very simple: let us agree on three or four important reforms that we agree upon, like the tax system, like VAT, and let's implement them immediately.

The absence of a single agreed - upon pricing system for cryptocurrencies could pose a major challenge as investors and businesses try to comply with financial reporting requirements.

religion: 1: a set of beliefs concerning the cause, nature, and purpose of the universe 2: a specific fundamental set of beliefs and practices generally agreed upon by a number of persons or sects 3: a cause, principle, or system of beliefs held to with ardor and faith

It seems to me that beginning with God we move easily to a system of order that we all want to agree upon.

If there is any public policy proposition that a pluralistic system must agree upon — for the protection of all its members — it is that human life must be immune from arbitrary violation by other humans.

Liberal View: Moral Boundaries = Agreed Upon Discrimination Agreed Upon Discrimination = Legal System Legal System = Individual Rights Government Enforces Your Rights

Under the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture, a system has been established and agreed upon by most countries of the world that facilitates access to genetic diversity while ensuring appropriate sharing of the benefits that arise from its use.

For example, the Dutch home - birth system (in which home birth is common and adverse outcomes are rare) includes formal collaborative agreements between out - of - hospital and in - hospital providers, clear and mutually agreed - upon stratification of risk, and protocols for the transfer of care.35, 36 The process of devising evidence - based guidelines for U.S. home births is under way.37

Reach an audience of more than 40,000 expecting and new parents via our dedicated email system at a mutually agreed upon date and time.

In an anarchical system one can simply ignore what one does not agree with based upon principle.

Agreed, that is the problem right there - though at least the sniggerers can see the obvious absurdities of relativistic liberalism, and the blind alleys one will have to walk up if one were to try and mould a political system upon such lines.

In proposing a system that the United States and China might agree upon, Ramesh in no uncertain terms told U.S. climate envoy Todd Stern and Deputy National Security Adviser Michael Froman that money and technology assistance to developing countries must be part of any deal on formulating a transparent system.

Wan said «to seize upon isolated problems and say our country's science and technology system is rotten is something with which I do not agree.

The interdependent parts of this economy include agreed - upon systems for testing product (a sector of a botnet to confirm the available bandwidth, a few credit cards from a batch to make sure they're real and to check the balances), money - back guarantees, nicely designed interfaces, partnership programs, and, charmingly, free champagne for closing a deal together.

Until this new system for SR is agreed upon and data have been organised accordingly, we have unhided maps and charts for SR at the GRRC web site.

Given its immense importance, it is crucial to have an adequate supply of glutathione, so as to support bodily defense systems against the accumulation of oxidative stress - one of the central factors in aging.1 While the benefits of glutathione are widely agreed upon, there is a great deal of debate as to the best means of raising glutathione levels.

Part of the reason there are as so few well defined accountability systems for AECs is because we lack an agreed - upon definition for alternative schools.

What is more, those same procedures (systematic, explicit, intensive, practice - laden sequences of instruction aimed at mastery of agreed - upon goals and objectives) are very likely to benefit many of the other students in US schools who are disenfranchised by «the perverse incentives of a broken public education system.»

The federal standards forced upon us by an ever intrusive department of education have resulted in no shortage of controversy and has become an albatross around the necks of many a governor who agreed to adopt the system.

This petition demands broad and democratic discussion about the new evaluation system which would include that (1) our union immediately poll the membership with regard to the new measures agreed upon by our leadership (2) provide more frequent updates on the negotiations, (3) host forums at chapter, borough and city - wide levels where members can discuss this new system, and (4) open the New York Teacher newspaper and the Edwize blog to alternative viewpoints and information.

All that being said, it is the district's responsibility to design a process (system) to ensure the district designs its own curriculum process and documents to ensure universal understanding and use of the agreed - upon standards in the development of the district learning expectations.

In the system that we advocate, this process of identifying, interpreting, and scaffolding these learning standards takes three days and results in a Pre-K-12 set of end - of - year and within - year learning targets, aligned to agreed - upon standards, vertically articulated between grade levels, and understood by all teachers within the system.

The report has three sections: 1) Setting the Context, which discusses the need for effective systems of evaluation and support for school leaders; 2) Sharing Key Lessons Learned, which highlights how states and districts can work together to agree upon and communicate expectations for school leaders and implement standards - based systems of leadership support and evaluation, thereby increasing teacher effectiveness and improving student outcomes in all schools across the nation; and 3) Improving Standards Based Leadership Evaluation, which examines leader evaluation as a policy foundation for identifying, and supporting effective educators.

NOW that the district has come to an agreed - upon set of learning standards, aligned to the CCSS or state standards, scaffolded, based on how children best learn and vertically articulated between grade levels, the district can legitimately begin the task of building a system to ensure those learning expectations are the basis for all curriculum, instruction and assessment within the district.

Must be enrolled in teacher preparation program at a public college or university; demonstrate financial need; agree to work within New Mexico's public school system for at least one year upon earning certification.

Through a series of digital conversations recreated through Tacoma's AR surveillance system (that you agreed not to watch) and connecting a dot or two, players learn about what happened to the six Tacoma crew members who are nowhere to be found upon Amy's arrival.

Once a title is agreed upon, Nintendo and the publisher work together to bring that title to the designated system, with Nintendo doing the bulk of the work.»

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What we can all agree upon is that it did have issues including reused maps, a new combat system which tended to alienate Origin players, and a relative lack of polish in certain spots.

This fiddly system sees both players rush to agree upon a set of rules just after the characters have been picked.

The village has turned the system into a business, selling 20 - liter bottles of water to residents for an agreed - upon 5 pesos which is far cheaper than the 50 - peso bottles of water they had to buy from facility an hour away.

In hopes of countering the notion that environmental systems are literally priceless — that is to say, without an agreed upon monetary value — the 10th UN conference for the Convention on Biodiversity aims to quantify nature in economic terms.

oit is with indignation that we are speaking othis document is not acceptable • Bolivia owe have learned about this document through the media, not through you onow we are given 60 minutes to accept something already agreed upon by other states owe are seeing actions in a dictatorial way othis is unacceptable and anti-democratic owe say to the people of the world: they shall judge upon it othe rights of our people are not being respected owe are not going to decide about so many lives in only 60 minutes othis is s group of a small number of countries oAPPLAUS • Cuba o4 hours ago Obama announced an agreement which is non-existant owe is behaving like an emperor owe have seen version being discussed by secretive groups in the last hours and days oCuba will not accept your draft declaration oat this conference, there is no consensus on this document oI associate my voice to Tuvalu, Venezuela, Bolivia othe target of 2 degrees is unacceptable o... • Costa Rica ofor the reasons that we have heard, this document can not be considered the work of the AWG - LCA and can not be considered by the COP othis can only be an INF doc, it's just for information oadditional question: in an earlier version, a CP.15 - decision, para. 1: there was a reference to a legally binding instrument to be adopted by the COP onow: we have a new version, but the reference to legally binding instrument disappeared • USA o [wants to speak, but point of order by Nicaragua] • Nicaragua othere is already a precedent where we have not been given the right to speech onow that you have mentioned we finally want to speak • Pres. [moving on] oUS does not appear on my list any more, so next one is Sudan • Sudan othere must be something horribly wrong here oI pushed the button when I saw Nicaragua raising their sign in order to support them • Nicaragua othis is a deterioration of the democratic system oand this happens at the most important conference of the UN for many years owe have draft decisions about how to carry forward the process ostates (lists names) have written a submission: • this has not followed the basic principles of the UN • inclusion • bottom up processes • democratic participation • equality of states oduring this consequence, many states expressed their position against such approaches othe only agreement we recognize is??

Secures a guaranteed buyer for all of the electricity produced from the PV system at agreed - upon prices that allows the company to ensure a sufficient return on its investment.

Among other things, for instance, the parties to the UNFCCC agreed that: (a) They would adopt policies and measures to prevent dangerous anthropogenic interference with the climate system, (b) Developed countries should take the first steps to do this, and (c) Nations have common but differentiated responsibilities to prevent climate change, (d) Nations may not use scientific uncertainty as an excuse for not taking action, and (e) Nations should reduce their GHG emissions based upon «equity.»

«We do not expect significant new guidance to be agreed upon, as many REDD + countries are just beginning to create or design these systems and will be skeptical of more explicit guidance that may not be relevant to their country context,» wrote Chris Meyer of EDF in his blog.

Almost all nations have agreed that they should reduce their emissions at levels to prevent dangerous anthropogenic interference with the climate change system based upon equity under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change.

the furniture that gets shipped to Europe still seems to feed the capitalist system which seems to have society stuck in a place that, it is generally agreed upon, is not really great for our well - being and survival (not the least of which because it contributes to the kind of climate change that might make us go extinct).

We don't have to worry about the enforcement angle until the world's politicians have agreed upon the official procedure for measuring the temperature of the earth, the optimum temperature of the earth, the precise percentage of CO2 that would establish and maintain that ideal temperature, the number, location, and specifications for the CO2 monitoring stations, who would be in charge of the world CO2 monitoring system, who would pay for it, the thousands of pages of regulations and taxes that would require enforcement, who would pay for the regulatory bodies, who would collect the CO2 taxes, how the taxes would be distributed etc..

Meeting the ambitious climate change targets agreed upon in Paris last December will require deep transformation of the global economy — especially in energy systems, transportation systems, and industry — over the next several decades.

As a result, nations have failed to adopt climate change policies consistent with their equitable obligations despite the fact that all nations who are parties to the UNFCCC agreed, when they became parties, to reduce their emissions to levels required of them based upon «equity» to prevent dangerous anthropogenic interference with the climate system.

«I think that the major implication of that will be that we hand young people a climate system where it's not possible to avoid a large sea level rise,» said Hansen, who went on to slam the two - degree target agreed upon at the 2009 Copenhagen talks as being «pulled out of a hat.»

According to the report, the world can emit about 300 gigatons more carbon (total, ever) before there is a 50 % confidence the world will reach warming of 2 degrees Celsius, which is the previously agreed upon «point of no return» for the climate system.

On the one hand, we operate in a system where nearly all cases get resolved by plea bargaining and sentencing determinations can therefore so easily undermine, as a pragmatic matter, the agreed - upon definitions of offences and their attendant consequences.

Each of the panels introduced the audience to the concept of «AI» noting that while there's no agreed upon formal definition, it generally refers to machines and systems that can learn to act as humans.

Throughout the year, Russia objected to the creation of a Group of Governmental Experts, raising «major doubts» about the need to do so now and arguing that it was «premature» when there is not yet an agreed - upon definition of lethal autonomous weapons systems.