Sentences with phrase «as a mandate for»

If we take everything in the Bible literally as a mandate for today, we run into strange developments.

Labour's 179 seat majority in parliament will not be taken by Tony Blair as a mandate for progressive social reform.

Catalan authorities said 90 percent voted «Yes» in the unregulated plebiscite held up by secessionist leaders as a mandate for independence for the wealthy region of 7.5 million people.

We should have been able to quickly agree to argue strongly that although immigration was an issue in the campaign, the combined strength of Remain and liberal Leave votes meant that it should not be interpreted as a mandate for huge cuts in immigration.

In an interview on the BBC's World This Weekend, Blair said that if Theresa May won a landslide, as the polls currently suggest, the Conservatives would read it as a mandate for «Brexit at any costs» — and voters concerned about the risks of leaving the EU should press every candidate to answer whether they had an open mind about whether the final deal was in Britain's interests.

Such hypersexuality can be just as oppressive as a mandate for abstinence.

This set him apart from his more - liberal colleagues, who viewed Brown v. Board of Education (1954) not as a prohibition on the use of racial classifications in education, but rather as a mandate for judges to do whatever they could to promote «equal educational opportunity.»

That was perceived as a mandate for teaching children in their parents» language, writes Paul Peterson in Saving Schools.

The Shelby County Schools have adopted Facing History units as a mandate for the social studies curriculum in grades 6 - 8.

States will be able to override NCLB requirements such as the mandate for 100 percent proficiency by 2014 and making the measure of «adequate yearly progress» by raw performance instead of growth, instead creating their own accountability systems with higher standards.

In addition, Fannie and Freddie are potentially on the chopping block as the mandate for the agencies funding expires at the end of the year.

Not exact matches

As if that weren't enough, Obamacare's individual mandate includes a tax penalty for anyone who refuses to purchase health insurance.

While the training is mandatory, the districts create safety plans that work best for their schools as opposed to a top down mandate from the state.

And health care is likely to remain a top concern, as the Affordable Care Act mandate for small businesses kicks into gear in 2016.

Under Cruz's somewhat complicated amendment, insurers would be able to offer plans that don't comply with various Obamacare standards (protections for those with pre-existing conditions, mandated benefits, etc.) as long as they also offer a plan that does comply with those standards.

As manager of the Mawer International Equity Fund, David Ragan has a mandate to shop for equities outside North America.

Withholdings — There are various state and federal withholdings that are mandated by the government as well as optional withholdings for items like insurance, dues, and other such items.

The technologist's mandates are to set a tech vision for promotional activities while aligning marketing technology with goals, serving as a liaison to IT and evaluating and choosing tech providers and platforms.

Federal regulations mandate that most contracts valued between $ 3,000 and $ 150,000 should be reserved for small businesses, generally defined as companies with fewer than 500 employees and less than $ 7 million in annual revenues.

Sheffield Resources has mandated finance group Taurus to arrange a $ US200 million ($ A255 million) debt facility for development of its Thunderbird mineral sands project, and also named GR Engineering Services as its preferred contractor.

(A handful of states, including Alabama, Arkansas and Minnesota, mandate even less than the federal minimum wage, which was established as part of the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 and contained exemptions for some poorer states.)

Instead of viewing regulations like those mandated by OSHA as a nuisance (NAM and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce for years fought against implementation of the original OSHA legislation and continue to lobby against efforts to expand the legislation), Keller came to see them as a blueprint for improvement.

It describes California, for instance, as one of the two states with the most mandates (the other is Maryland), but notes that premiums there are among the lowest in the country.

As he points out, when a review of the city finances under Mayor David Miller called for improved economic development, Toronto created Build Toronto and Invest Toronto, arms - lengths organizations with a «mandate from the mayor and council... that the city is indeed open for business.»

These are referred to as «CoCo's,» which is short for contingent convertible capital instruments, and they are basically a creative way for banks to meet mandated capital requirements.

Health insurance premiums rose, in some cases heftily, in many Obamacare markets as insurers prepared for Trump to end critical federal subsidies that help pay for consumers» out - of - pocket medical costs (a move the president eventually made) and the repeal of the individual mandate.

Another negative effect of the sequester on Redhorse has been the mandate that the government put many of its procurements up for bid under a standard called lowest price technically acceptable (LPTA), which as its name suggests, basically means the lowest price possible.

Because the law includes much more than tax cuts — it removes Affordable Care Act's so - called individual mandate and opens up Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge for oil drilling — potential avenues for future agenda items are now viewed as increasingly possible for Republicans.

But as Congress moves toward repealing the mandate as part of tax reform, voters, legislators and industry experts have flocked to its defense, pointing out that doing away with it would cause already high premiums for individual health plans to rise by 10 percent.

Importantly, Siddall and his management team also wrote a new mission statement that emphasized the agency was about satisfying housing «needs,» not wants — a key distinction for an organization that long saw boosting homeownership as part of its mandate.

«In the U.S., this obsession on inflation targeting has lately been taken to a new level as former Fed Chair Ben Bernanke has floated the idea of a price - level targeting mandate for the Fed.

On Wednesday, FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler proposed a new technology mandate that would require satellite and cable TV providers to disaggregate or separate their services so that a few companies could repackage them as their own without negotiating for content rights like everybody else in the market does today.

For purposes of the Unfunded Mandates Reform Act, as well as Executive Order 12875, the final rule extending the applicability date does not include any federal mandate that we expect would result in such expenditures by State, local, or tribal governments, or the private sector.

A crucial Senate health committee has scheduled hearings for September to review a bipartisan framework that would guarantee insurers payments (called «cost - sharing subsidies») that help reduce low - income Americans» out - of - pocket medical expenditures, carry on the universal coverage mandate, and incorporate GOP proposals to make more bare - bones plans available as well as repeal certain ACA taxes.

Many professional mutual fund managers follow investment mandates that only allow them to focus on individual stocks without adjusting for the market environment as a whole.

Now that the Small Business Administration (SBA) has mandated a minimum 10 percent down payment on all SBA loans (and most individual lenders require up to 25 - 30 percent), the necessary cash needed as an SBA down payment can range from $ 40,000 to $ 120,000 for an average - sized loan.

«These exciting new anchor tenants align directly with MaRS» mandate and will further Ontario's position as a global leader in life sciences, leading to tangible medical benefits for Ontarians while taking advantage of a massive economic opportunity.»

Chetney expects much of the demand for the new Morningstar service will come from independent broker - dealers such as LPL, Commonwealth Financial Network and Cambridge Investment Research, which could mandate that their advisors use a third party to assume the fiduciary responsibility for defined contribution plans.

And, given the importance of the SR&ED tax credit system as noted above, we do not believe it is realistic to think that the proposed council could succeed in meeting its leadership mandate without having responsibility for the success of SR&ED incentives, the largest element of the Government's support for business innovation.

Several changes Congress mandated for the 2008 tax year will change the way many taxpayers fill out Internal Revenue Service exemption forms 6251, 8917, 8859 and 5695 as well as how they use the exemptions available on the standard tax return From 1040a.

Negotiating with politicians is regarded as a key skill for any chairman of RBS because of the stake owned by the Treasury, even though it is held through UK Financial Investments, a body that has a mandate to look after the shareholding at arm's length from the government.

Thailand is expected to enact a law soon that will mandate cryptocurrency traders for both value added tax as well as capital gain tax.

The analysis does not include an additional cost of the legislation: its repeal of the individual mandate, which the Congressional Budget Office estimates could cause as many as 13 million fewer people to have health insurance, reducing federal spending for poor and middle - class Americans» health insurance by $ 338 billion over 10 years.

The NASAA statement highlights several of the conundrums that regulators like the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) must confront when seeking to exercise their legal mandates for cryptocurrency, such as associated tangible assets, controls by regulators or governmental authorities, and reliable methods of exchange for other commodities.

Effective in 2019, Americans won't face a penalty for choosing not to purchase health insurance as mandated by the Affordable Care Act.

Since Canadians see our commitment to our target as credible, that makes it much easier for us to reach our mandated goal without needing big swings in output or interest rates.

Be Careful about Home Mortgage Interest: As of December 14, 2017, the new tax law mandates that you can only deduct interest for new home loans up to $ 750,000 (the previous limit was $ 1 million).

International trade experts at the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), the WTO and other organizations all confirm that mandated consumer - paid support distorts trade just as much as direct government subsidies do.

Marceau presented the economic road map at a critical time for the minority PQ, which is widely expected to call a snap election in the coming weeks as polls suggest Marois is within striking distance of a majority mandate.

Keep in mind that the ECB's main objective is price stability, ie to control inflation, as opposed to the Federal Reserve's dual mandate to strive for full employment as well.