Sentences with phrase «as central authority»

The United States has designated the State Department's Office of Children's Issues in the Bureau of Consular Affairs as its Central Authority.

Provisions are inserted into the FPR 2010 to ensure that the courts provide any necessary information or documents to the Lord Chancellor (as Central Authority) when requested for purposes of Central Authority functions under the European Maintenance Regulation (Council Regulation (EC) No 4/2009 on jurisdiction, applicable law, recognition and enforcement of decisions and cooperation in matters relating to maintenance obligations) or the 2007 Convention.

The request will be deemed to be made in cases where the Lord Chancellor (as Central Authority for England and Wales) forwards an application.

Moreover, the U.S. State Department — whose Office of Children's Issues serves as the Central Authority for the United States under the Convention has long espoused and argued for — such an interpretation and the U.S. Government submitted an amicus brief supporting the father's position.

The NSABB, set up after the Fink Committee report, has already become a source of expertise in regulation and safety and is an obvious choice as a central authority to oversee DIYbio.

Cruz and Rubio's strategy is almost Maoist in approach: organize the countryside, undermine and discredit the Establishment, then take the power centers as central authority crumbles.

Evangelical theology views the Bible as the central authority for Christian doctrine and ethics.

It also expedites interactions among nodes in the network, as no central authority is needed to approve transactions.

If you fear that your child has been abducted to another country by your former partner / spouse then your first step should be to contact the Ministry of the Attorney General as well as the federal Department of Justice that function as the Central Authorities for the province of Ontario and Canada respectively.

Not exact matches

Separately, a senior Chinese central banker said authorities should ban centralized trading of virtual currencies as well as individuals and businesses that provide related services.

In January, a senior Chinese central banker said authorities should ban trading of virtual currencies as well as individuals and businesses that provide related services.

For starters, here's an overly simplified explanation of Bitcoin: It's a digital currency (there are more than 800 now) that isn't controlled by a central authority such as a government or bank.

Like other virtual currencies, such as Ethereum and Ripple, bitcoin has no central authority and relies instead on thousands of computers across the world that validate transactions and add new units to the system - technology known as blockchain.

This differs from permissionless systems, like those used by blockchain pioneers such as Bitcoin, which have no central authority.

The technology was first developed to underpin digital currency bitcoin as it removes the need for a central bank or authority to police the currency.

The central system, also known as the «Integrated Joint Operations Platform» (IJOP), then analyses people's profiles, predicts whether they could harm the Chinese Communist regime, and alerts local authorities to potential rebels.

So the recent presidential term limit abolishment could be viewed as just another way to give the central authorities greater power and control over the economy, business and markets.

Unlike traditional currencies such as dollars, bitcoins are issued and managed without any central authority whatsoever: there is no government, company, or bank in charge of Bitcoin.

Spain's constitutional crisis seems set to rumble on, as the central government looks to re-assert its authority over Catalonia.

Just as email allowed messages to move around without going through a central postal service, the computer network maintaining Bitcoin records allows money to move around without going through any central authority.

If that sounds similar to how Bitcoin bills itself — as a cryptocurrency that «uses peer - to - peer technology to operate with no central authority or banks; managing transactions and the issuing of bitcoins is carried out collectively by the network,» — you're on the money.

««Virtual currencies» means a digital representation of value that is neither issued by a central bank or a public authority, not attached to a legally established currency, which does not possess the legal status of currency or money, but is accepted by natural or legal persons as a means of exchange or for other purposes, and can be transferred, stored or traded electronically.

According to the Wall Street Journal, Chinese bitcoin exchanges would be required to collect information to identify customers as well as to install systems «for collecting and reporting suspicious trading activity to authorities; China's central bank would be in charge of handling violations by the exchanges.»

Ultimately, the central authority becomes a point of weakness as there is only one list with this vital information available.

Also known as distributed ledger technology (DLT), it is a shared record of information that is maintained and updated by a network of computers rather than a central authority.

As its defenders point out, it will be difficult for the U.S. government to completely stamp out Bitcoin use, since there is no central repository for the currency and no central authority that can be targeted (there is a FAQ with some responses to popular misconceptions about Bitcoin, including the central authority question).

It is worth noting that bitcoin and the rise of cryptocurrencies as a trillion - dollar asset class in 2017, was spurred without the oversight of a central bank or monetary authority guaranteeing trust or market conduct.

The European Central Bank, the top monetary authority for the 19 countries that use the euro as currency, has said its 30 billion euros ($ 37 billion) in monthly purchases will continue at least through September, but has given no fixed end date.

And it notes the European Central Bank's (ECB) report «Virtual Currency Schemes» (October 2012) worrying that «virtual currency schemes -LSB-...] could represent a challenge for public authorities, given the legal uncertainty surrounding these schemes, as they can be used by criminals, fraudsters and money launderers to perform their illegal activities.»

«As there is no central operator,» he points out, «the network participants are responsible for implementing local regulatory requirements, including KYC [Know Your Client], AML filtering, etc., as required by the respective banking regulators or other authorities.&raquAs there is no central operator,» he points out, «the network participants are responsible for implementing local regulatory requirements, including KYC [Know Your Client], AML filtering, etc., as required by the respective banking regulators or other authorities.&raquas required by the respective banking regulators or other authorities.»

During a meeting with Taiwan's legislative arm Monday, central bank governor Yang Chin - long was questioned over how the banking authority would address the current «opacity» in bitcoin trading in the country, as highlighted by the -LSB-...]

Bitcoin is a cryptocurrency, a digital asset designed to work as a medium of exchange that uses cryptography to control its creation and management, rather than relying on central authorities.

Some would argue that by acting cautiously on balance sheet normalization (without actively countering impacts of ECB policy measures), Fed policymakers have partially ceded control of financial conditions to foreign monetary authorities, but the same can be said about other central banks as well, for long - term rates are correlated among advanced economies:

In this way, Bitcoin serves as an incentive to add valid transactions to the ledger, removing the need for a central trust authority.

As is the case with Bitcoin and most altcoins, Litecoin is a decentralized entity, which means that it functions without a central authority or governance agency.

To be able to buy and sell a cryptocurrency, you need to purchase it with another form of currency such as digital currency (Skrill, Neteller, etc) or fiat currency (US Dollars, Euros or other currencies issued by central monetary authorities).

Market fundamentals are not tied to any central authority, meaning prices can go as high as possible (though the reverse is also true).

For Luther after 1518, Christ is central not as pattern but as person; we are saved by the faith which acknowledges his authority, competence, and willingness to rescue those who call on him.

and besides this, textual variance is actually a good thing as it provides conclusive evidence that no central authority existed to mandate content, style, flow, etc..

«Respect for authority, tradition, station, and education eroded,» writes Hatch, and as a result, «American Protestantism has been skewed away from central ecclesiastical institutions and high culture; it has been pushed and pulled into its present shape by a democratic or populist orientation.»

Authority is an issue that occupies a central place in current ecumenical discussion among the churches and it is one of enormous social and political importance as well.

The ministry of today and tomorrow must indeed represent all the kinds of authority associated with the office in the past — institutional, teaching or Scriptural, communal and spiritual; but as institutional authority was central in the priest's office and Scriptural in the preacher's so communal authority becomes of greatest importance to the pastoral director.

Historian David Bebbington suggests a respected paradigm for those who identify as an evangelical: a transformed life through following Jesus, faith demonstrated through missionary and social reform efforts, a regard for the Bible as ultimate authority, and a central focus on the sacrificial death of Jesus.

A theology of police work is no answer, but a religious message that seriously addresses itself to the problems of violence and the need for order and authority within a democratic, legal framework must be, as I see it, a central task for the theologian and for Christian apologetics.

Niebuhr contends that, according to the newly emerging picture of the ministry, just as «institutional authority was central in the priest's office and Scriptural in the preacher's so communal authority becomes of greatest importance to the pastoral director».

Central to the prevailing philosophy of the day was the idea that a free man ruled over his household as a sovereign, exercising unilateral authority over his subordinate wives, children, and slaves.

The editors and their collaborators know better; but only in selected instances have some of them managed to transcend such limited conceptions in behalf of the central purpose of the volume as a whole: to demonstrate how the literary dimensions of these texts do, indeed, make credible the power and authority they have exhibited for more than two millennia in shaping decisively the lives and minds of thoughtful people the world over.

The facts were, chiefly, these: Jesus of Nazareth, a man anointed by the Spirit and divinely accredited by mighty works, who went about doing good, and healing all those who were oppressed by the devil (for God was with him), who was put to death by the blind and misguided authorities, religious and civil, at Jerusalem, where he was crucified — all this is preliminary and descriptive, as identifying him, like the central clauses in the Apostles» Creed.

Local authorities also use their high needs budget to pay for central services relating to SEND and AP, as permitted by the School and Early Years Finance (England) Regulations 2015.

The questionnaire also asks potential jurors if they have any connections to business developments such as the Central New York Film Hub, the Aloft hotel, or to state agencies such as ESD or the Dormitory Authority.