Sentences with phrase «as national measures»

Comply with the Code and subsequent WHA resolutions, as well as national measures.

Code violations by baby food manufacturers are still widespread, especially (but not exclusively) in countries that have not implemented the Code as a national measure or where monitoring and enforcement is weak.

However, certain implementing acts that «substantially and directly» concretised a principle like Article 27 could nonetheless serve as a benchmark for legality for implementing acts in a wider sense such as the national measure at issue.

Not exact matches

Or as National Geographic measures it: Americans» 3,729 available calories are «the equivalent of one and a half large pepperoni pizzas.»

This shows up in the national accounts as a divergence between GDP, which is a measure of production, and Gross Domestic Income, which tracks aggregate income.

The White House threatened to veto emergency House legislation that aims to avert a threatened national default, as Republican Speaker John Boehner labored to line up enough votes to pass the measure.

French President Nicolas Sarkozy's pension reforms have sparked youth riots, violent strikes and fuel blockages that threatened to hobble the national economy, and austerity measures in countries such as Greece, Italy and Ireland have had similar results.

WASHINGTON (AP)-- The White House threatened on Tuesday to veto emergency House legislation that aims to avert a threatened national default, a pre-emptive strike issued as Republican Speaker John Boehner labored to line up enough votes in his own party to pass the measure.

That information — augmented by advocacy efforts from such Addyi supporters as the National Organization for Women and National Consumers League — turned the tide, and the FDA's joint meeting of the Bone, Reproductive and Urologic Drugs Advisory Committee voted 18 to 6 to support approval for HSDD treatment, contingent on Sprout consenting to risk - mitigation measures like warnings and restrictions to prevent misuse.

The EU should be fully and permanently exempted from these measures, as they can not be justified on the grounds of national security,» the European Commission, the executive arm of the EU, said in a statement Tuesday morning.

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«As the national statistical agency, Statistics Canada takes strong measures to ensure that the confidentiality and security of data provided by individuals, businesses and organizations are carefully protected.

«The E.U. should be fully and permanently exempted from these measures, as they can not be justified on the grounds of national security.»

He has told officials in the Pentagon building that at an uncertain time, he intends, as defense secretary, to provide an even - keeled, measured approach to national security issues.

Focused on public - private partnerships and how we measure their levels of success, the briefing hosted a national gathering of informal STEM experts with on - the - ground knowledge and expertise, as well as professionals who have been examining the national trends and levels of success of informal STEM programs for students.

Other measures, such as the Chicago Fed National Activity Index (CFNAI), are at a level consistent with 2.5 percent, or slightly better, growth.

While the president has persistently argued for steel and aluminum tariffs as a way to create jobs in beleaguered American industries, the formal legal rationale for the measures is actually national security.

«This report establishes a baseline against which we can measure the collective impact of #movethedial as we continue to increase the participation and advancement of women in our tech community,» says Chris Dulny, National Technology Sector Leader at PwC Canada.

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It quotes Kuznets, who formulated the tools to measure GDP in the US, as saying that, «the welfare of a nation can... scarcely be inferred from a measurement of national income.»

Further, as noted by Avril Haines, the former U.S. deputy national security advisor, unlike physical acts of war, there are no «metrics» for defining or measuring cyber-attacks.

Prices of existing single family homes, as measured by the S&P / Case - Shiller National Home Price index, are rising is single digit terms.

Along with the deterioration we continue to observe in the order surplus as measured by regional and national Fed and purchasing managers surveys, actual industrial production and the value of new orders in manufacturing have contracted on a year - over-year basis.

Even if every measure in the national plan goes into effect as promised, it still doesn't fully deliver the reductions we need for our 2030 goal.

As the deadly shooting at a Parkland, Florida, high school, which killed 17 and injured more than a dozen others, sparks a national conversation around gun control, the White House is pushing Congress to actually pass gun control measures.

The strong growth observed in the national accounting measure of profits has also been reflected in financial measures of corporate earnings such as «as reported» earnings and «operating» earnings (Graph A3).

As students across the country walked out of their schools for the National Student Walkout in honor of the one - month anniversary of the mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, House lawmakers passed a narrow gun violence prevention measure with overwhelming bipartisan support.

The ABS also publishes an Australia - wide measure, while the RBA constructs national measures using the REIA and CBA city - based data, using the number of capital - city households as weights.

Other official labour cost data based on wage - bill measures, such as average weekly ordinary time earnings and average earnings from the national accounts, paint a similar picture, identifying firm wage outcomes but giving little indication of an acceleration of aggregate wages growth.

Currently prices as measured by the S&P / Case - Shiller National Home Price Index are climbing at a 5 % annual rate and are a mere 3 % from their all - time peak.

«As noted by S&P Global Ratings there is an expectation that in order to maintain our current credit rating the government will seek other revenue measures after the proposed gold royalty was blocked by the Liberal and National parties.»

Nevertheless, I am convinced that rather than continue to assume that growth, as measured by Gross National Product is an appropriate goal of national and international policy, we must examine how it relates to economic welfare, and that requires that we dare to make judgments about what constitutes National Product is an appropriate goal of national and international policy, we must examine how it relates to economic welfare, and that requires that we dare to make judgments about what constitutes national and international policy, we must examine how it relates to economic welfare, and that requires that we dare to make judgments about what constitutes welfare.

My point is only that rough approximations to measuring economic welfare strongly suggest that the time for viewing increase in gross product as the appropriate goal for national policy is ended.

Jerry Johnson, president of the National Religious Broadcasters, said on Twitter that Trump's plan was «sound,» advocating that the goverment limit immigration as a protective measure while the church continue to minister to refugees.

The House Judiciary Committee is scheduled to vote Thursday on a measure to reaffirm «In God We Trust» as the national motto and to encourage its display on public buildings, including schools.

«Nationalism shows its character as a faith whenever national welfare or survival is regarded as the supreme end of life; whenever right and wrong are made dependent on the sovereign will of the nation, however determined; whenever religion and science, education and art, are valued by the measure of their contribution to national existence.»

It rejects ideas of property as being measured in three - dimensions and subject to «ownership» by individuals, corporations or national states.

This implied that a variety of protectionist measures (such as national import quota and state subsidies) which are common in European countries would have to be abandoned.

As measured by gross national product this is progress.

Racial intermixtures have produced some very white - skinned Negroes with blue eyes and fair hair, yet the product of such a union remains a Negro.5 Race as the term is commonly used designates very nearly what the Germans call Volk — a group sharing a common cultural tradition, whether of achievement or servitude, with some measure of national, geographical, and biological affinity.

Even though Fascism remained ideologically eclectic and chaotic — Gentile's systematizations never had any organic connection with the movement — and in large measure it was simply the acting out on the national stage of some of the less pleasant aspects of the Italian underculture — the band of thugs tied to their leader in bonds of personal loyalty — it did develop an ideological style and became once in power, a church, as Jemolo describes it:

It is defined in Article 2 of the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide (CPPCG) as «any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such: killing members of the group; causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group; deliberately inflicting on the groups conditions of life, calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part; imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group; [and] forcibly transferring children of the group to another group.»

Niebuhr and the political realists did share some common convictions: the need for an adequate anthropology, understanding of human existence, which they saw as fundamentally self - centered and self - seeking; this being the case, the measure of an effective foreign policy was the responsible pursuit of the national interest.

Toine Timmermans, Project Coordinator for EU - FUSIONS: «Measuring the level of food waste in a structured way is critical for developing effective strategies that focus on reducing food waste and monitoring progress at the business, national and EU level, as well as contributing to the achievement of SDG Target 12.3.

The peer - reviewed study, commissioned by the Corrugated Packaging Alliance (CPA) and conducted by the National Council for Air and Stream Improvement (NCASI), measures the environmental impacts of a 1 kg industry - average corrugated product manufactured in 2010 and shows substantial improvements over the industry - average product manufactured in 2006, as reported in the industry's first baseline LCA.

Even if measures supported by the best available evidence (such as traffic light labelling on the front - of - food packaging and removing advertising junk food to children between 6 am and 9 pm as recommended in the Government's response to the National Preventative Health Taskforce) are implemented, regulation is no panacea.

National policies should be created to incentivize producers to change the way they manage their farming systems and adopt natural water retention measures used in organic agriculture such as green cover and intercropping as well as diversifying farmers» crop and income base so they have something to fall back on when drought strikes.

The company has grown to employ 50 staff locally and Mr Clarke said it represented a 2 per cent share of the total national online shopping market using measures such as the NAB Online Index.

His sales leadership was recognized within the organization as well as by supplier partners, including national recognition by Anheuser - Busch for developing innovative solutions to measure sales performance and execution.

(a) Implement and / or further elaborate policies and measures in accordance with its national circumstances, such as: