Sentences with phrase «as agencies try»

The federal resume is becoming even more important as agencies try to simplify their applications.

Not exact matches

Demand for oil is expected to drop in 2017, the International Energy Agency said in a report on Wednesday, raising further problems for producers as they try to ramp up prices.

Aside from interest generated by Trump, businesses are closely watching the case as a rare instance of an antitrust agency trying to prevent a company from buying a supplier, as is the case with AT&T's purchase of Time Warner.

«By all appearances, Kaspersky Lab happened to be dragged into a geopolitical fight where each side is trying to use the company as a pawn in its game,» RIA news agency quoted the company's press service as saying.

The report, built around detailed chronologies of dozens of CIA detainees, documents a long - standing pattern of unsubstantiated claims as agency officials sought permission to use — and later tried to defend — excruciating interrogation methods that yielded little, if any, significant intelligence, according to U.S. officials who have reviewed the document.

But as De Blasio tries really hard to remind everyone, those are run by a state agency, not the city.

In multiple phone calls and emails, Fortune tried to get the agency to comment on the tax treatment of air drops as well as that for newly - mined digital currency, where the rules are likewise ambiguous.

Sheikh says he tried mightily as head of StatsCan to shift limited resources away from collecting data about the country's shrinking manufacturing sector — more than 300,000 jobs have been shed in Ontario and Quebec over the past decade — so the agency could spend more on tracking the boom in services and trade.

Running my own agency, As hard as I try, I still find myself putting out day - to - day fires more often than I'm actually doing long - term strategic planninAs hard as I try, I still find myself putting out day - to - day fires more often than I'm actually doing long - term strategic planninas I try, I still find myself putting out day - to - day fires more often than I'm actually doing long - term strategic planning.

Unfortunately for Google and YouTube, the controversy has erupted just as advertisers are getting ready for the «upfronts,» a process in which TV networks try to sign long - term contracts with major brands and agencies based on their ability to reach specific audiences.

Horner said Alberta has tried to address some of Ottawa's complaints about the current system by pitching its own proposal — one that would create a new national enforcement agency as well as a national systemic risk committee made up of all 13 regulators and chaired by the federal minister.

During the financial crisis of 2008, Bair insisted that she and her agency have a seat at the table, where she worked — and fought — with Henry Paulson, then the treasury secretary, and Timothy Geithner, the president of the New York Federal Reserve, as they tried to cobble together solutions that would keep the financial system from going over a cliff.

Airbnb is also commanding more of the mix as it expands its offerings to include hotels alongside home shares, and hotels are trying to convince consumers to book with them directly, boxing online agencies out.

The company stock fell hard today as investors tried to assess its future without the long time leader who has helped build that company into an ad agency power house.

As Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt has been sinking deeper and deeper into hot water, one of his press aides apparently tried to throw him a lifeline — at the expense of a fellow Trump administration official.

N.S.A. rules permit the agency to store any encrypted communication, domestic or foreign, for as long as the agency is trying to decrypt it or analyze its technical features.

«The demands on our time to respond and trying to engage us as a public forum was pulling us from focus on the operation of a transit agency and that is our business,» Hunter said in an e-mail message to CNN.

Alschuler points out that the «bad man» whose perspective was decisive for Holmes does not really care about predicting judicial decisions as much as he cares about what the law enforcement agencies will do if he tries to get away with a crime.

Tried to promote consideration of alcoholism as a public health problem with local council of social agencies and state council of social welfare.

And when Nelson tries to prove himself as a salesman at the Toyota agency, by marketing old gas - guzzling convertibles, the results are at once uproarious and pathetic.

«The issuance of a new executive order on refugees and immigrants acknowledges that there were significant problems with the first executive order that caught up green card holders and others as they tried to enter the United States,» said Tim Breene, CEO of World Relief, the evangelical refugee resettlement agency forced to close five offices and lay off 140 employees in the wake of Trump's decision to halve America's intake of refugees from 110,000 to 50,000.

Just for fun, if I were to try and look at it from a Cowboys fan's perspective, I would say that it's possible that Prescott will be a better player in year three than he was in year two, and Elliott probably won't be suspended which obviously helps, and maybe the guys they brought in as O - line depth in free agency will be much better than the depth guys they had last year when Tyron Smith got injured, or maybe they won't even be needed because they'll stay healthy up front.

We at the World Anti-Doping Agency have absolute information from all the other countries who are involved in this and we try to monitor that as best we can.

HE threw me across a conference room yelling I had no right then he tried to murder his father over us stopping him having a day off since 1985 the offer was just wait 210 more days and he would get his stinking vacation He did not have to hurt us because we stopped him again to let a younger couple have the two weeks for their honey moon He was so angry over that he had me and his father arraigned and jailed for two months for illegally acting as false agency in his name.

SUNNY GAULT: So why did you guys decide to, we may have eluded this a little bit in the introductions and stuff but why did you decided that your twins involved with a talent agency as opposed to trying to do this on your own?

«We tried very hard, we insisted, and we insisted, but it is up to our friends to allow it or not,» the AFP news agency quoted Mr Kouchner as saying after talks with Sri Lankan foreign minister Rohitha Bogollagama.

But he added that it could create new problems for large authorities and agencies like the MTA trying to coordinate huge projects — especially if it's seen as meddling by the governor.

In June, New York state and city agencies announced $ 34 million in tax credits for Aetna — the health insurance giant that threatened to pull out of Obamacare exchanges as it tried to persuade federal regulators to approve a controversial merger.

Prosecutors and police agencies across central New York are trying a new strategy as they continue to fight the rising use of synthetic marijuana.

«As alleged in the indictment, the defendant defrauded government agencies out of tens of thousands of dollars in public funds and tried to fraudulently obtain even more,» said United States Attorney Richard Donoghue.

«We are ready to support the government, but we want your agency to try to dialogue with concerned associations in Ile - Ife so as to succeed in the task», the monarch reiterated.

After signing up with a temp agency, Zeldin was sent to work as a cleaner at a bank, alongside trying in vain to get a job to «sparkle clean» Heathrow's Terminal 2.

In the letter on Thursday, director of state operations Jim Malatras suggested that the governor might try to change the process with the following question: «As you know, the appointment and selection process of the Board of Regents is unique in that, unlike other agencies, selections and appointments are made by the Legislature.

Mr. Taylor took over an agency under intense scrutiny as the problem of homelessness grew — leaving him with the tough job of building better shelters while trying to reduce the need for them.

As concerns about the Zika virus continue to intensify, New York's senior senator is imploring federal agencies to take decisive steps to try to contain the threat.

As for coordinating storm response, Aubertine said the Cuomo administration is trying to sort out which agency covers specific Irene - related problems.

Lindsay Graham, a top Senate Republican and frequent Trump critic, is urging Trump to defend democracy in the United States and around the world by punishing Russia for trying to interfere in the American presidential election as U.S. intelligence agencies allege.

The world's largest herd of white deer is in peril as a local agency tries to find a bidder for an old Army Depot where the animals live.

As with last year's budget cycle, de Blasio has tried to ensure that city agencies are creating larger savings and reserve funds are being set aside for rainy day spending.

Feedback on the failed application from the state agency suggested that Walsh would be able to up the point score on her next try by emphasizing the economic development benefits of integrating a refurbished pool into plans to position Rosendale as a heritage tourism destination.

«This would include working for organisations that seek to influence government policy such as trades unions and industry bodies; work for campaigning organisations and pressure groups who are seeking to influence government; and work for agencies working in the field of public affairs or government relations who try to influence government on behalf of their clients,» he wrote.

Day apparently took great care to try to address the issue in 2016 by reorganizing the agencies as they relate to the structure of county government.

In fact, they often face retaliation, as he did when District and federal agencies cut his research funding and tried to discredit his research.

As we've previously reported, the Environmental Protection Agency has been trying to update its chemical risk assessment for formaldehyde since 1998, but has been stalled repeatedly by the chemical manufacturing industry.

While government agencies try to craft and implement development and zoning standards to help reduce storm water runoff problems caused by commercial and industrial entities, there is still much that individuals can do to reduce their impact as well.

More than 20 years after he began trying to solve one of epidemiology's biggest challenges — understanding why pandemics happen and how we can stop them — Morse serves as the director of the U.S. Agency for International Development's worldwide PREDICT project, which has been part of the organization's Emerging Pandemic Threat (EPT) initiative since 2009.

That's the decision the nation's science - funding agencies are dealing with right now as they try to spend their portion of the proceeds of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009.

Internet agencies such as the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) might be a reasonable place to start when trying to improve cybersecurity and avoid international cyberconflicts, but essentially this is a problem requiring input from the U.S. State Department and international policy makers and perhaps even something along the lines of an Internet Geneva Convention, Saydjari says.

As one interviewee stated, Mayor Bloomberg «delegated or gave agencies a lot of leeway to do what they felt was right and tried not to dictate.»

At EPA, the White House task force had suggested that the agency try developing ways to assess how mixtures of pesticides encountered in the real world affect bees, instead of solely assessing one compound at a time, as the agency does now.