Sentences with phrase «as years of inaction»

Many environmental groups have applauded the scope of the EPA's efforts in the past year, saying they were necessary to overcome what they characterized as years of inaction under President George W. Bush.

Cinzia Caggiano, who has campaigned for safer schools since her experiencing tragedy in 2008, urged Renzi to follow through with his plan after what she described as years of inaction by successive governments.

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So for the past three years, dozens of Christians from GKI and HKBP have been gathering on Sundays to worship in a plaza near the country's national monument and presidential palace as a way to protest the local government's inaction.

The conclusion of the Court is that plaintiff's predecessor originally acquired a valid trade - mark in the word «Tabasco» as applied to pepper sauce, and that, by no action or inaction during the subsequent years, has plaintiff lost the resultant right to its exclusive use.

Now today, 2018 is critical and the next couple of years as well are far above «truly critical» tipping point of no return — that «battle / argument» has already been lost with the most likely outcome being inaction, denial and ongoing minimisation by those with the only institutional political power to engender change leaving nothing much more and a reliance on a forlorn unrealistic impractical hope» alone.

As the delayers have spun years into decades of inaction, claim after claim has come to pass.

As we meet here today, the good news is that after too many years of inaction and denial, there is finally widespread recognition of the urgency of the challenge before us.

as mt pointed out this is definitely not good enough news to outweigh the six more years of inaction since AR4.

The next day headlines will celebrate the «stunning» reduction in GHG and Peter Kent will be quoted as saying that Canada has met half of its Copenhagen target (a 50 - something Mt drop would mean total emissions of around 680Mt), etc., neutralizing any criticism of Canada's inaction on climate change on a hot political year, with 7 provincial elections and, in all likelihood, a federal one.

The problem is that because of the inaction to date, that is the amount of emissions that have been put into the atmosphere already due to lack of action in the last 10 - 15 years, and because of that fact there are sectors in which we see it difficult to reduce emissions, such as the one we just mentioned, agriculture, perhaps some industrial sectors.

Leaving the work under the Paris Agreement that is already weak enough for the year 2020 leaves us with four years of inaction that will have irreversible consequences such as the disappearance of small island nations, threatening of agriculture and food security, displacement of frontline communities, health problems like never before.

An audit of the Department of Energy's (DOE's) Fiscal Year 2016 Nuclear Waste Fund financial statement, conducted by accounting firm KPMG for the DOE Office of Inspector General and released in December 2016, showed 38 lawsuits had been settled as a result of the DOE's partial breach of contract ensuing from inaction on Yucca Mountain, and 41 cases were resolved by final unappealable judgements.

What has been, at least temporarily, set aside by lawmakers is an eight - year extension of renewable energy production tax credits, tax credits for development of carbon capture and storage technologies, as well as a one - year extension of production tax credits for certain biofuels.As would be expected, the renewable energy industry has decried the inaction.

As has been made clear over the years of apathy and inaction, the industrialised world will do everything it can to avoid making serious emissions reductions.

If we don't have a decision under the COP and continue these issues under the Subsidiary Bodies of the Convention (as proposed by developing countries) they will be forgotten and followed with very slow implementation, these issues need the status to be prioritized, otherwise we will be locked in to 8 more years of inaction.

Of particular note, this year's report card identifies BC's glaring lack of action to improve the safety of Indigenous women and girls, noting the province's failure to fully implement the vast majority of the recommendations from the Missing Women's Commission of Inquiry, as well as the recent intentional deletions of emails related to violence against Indigenous women along the Highway of Tears, and the ongoing international criticism of BC and Canada's inactioOf particular note, this year's report card identifies BC's glaring lack of action to improve the safety of Indigenous women and girls, noting the province's failure to fully implement the vast majority of the recommendations from the Missing Women's Commission of Inquiry, as well as the recent intentional deletions of emails related to violence against Indigenous women along the Highway of Tears, and the ongoing international criticism of BC and Canada's inactioof action to improve the safety of Indigenous women and girls, noting the province's failure to fully implement the vast majority of the recommendations from the Missing Women's Commission of Inquiry, as well as the recent intentional deletions of emails related to violence against Indigenous women along the Highway of Tears, and the ongoing international criticism of BC and Canada's inactioof Indigenous women and girls, noting the province's failure to fully implement the vast majority of the recommendations from the Missing Women's Commission of Inquiry, as well as the recent intentional deletions of emails related to violence against Indigenous women along the Highway of Tears, and the ongoing international criticism of BC and Canada's inactioof the recommendations from the Missing Women's Commission of Inquiry, as well as the recent intentional deletions of emails related to violence against Indigenous women along the Highway of Tears, and the ongoing international criticism of BC and Canada's inactioof Inquiry, as well as the recent intentional deletions of emails related to violence against Indigenous women along the Highway of Tears, and the ongoing international criticism of BC and Canada's inactioof emails related to violence against Indigenous women along the Highway of Tears, and the ongoing international criticism of BC and Canada's inactioof Tears, and the ongoing international criticism of BC and Canada's inactioof BC and Canada's inaction.

For many residents of Toronto, this inquiry will come as a relief after years of feeling that there has been complete inaction or change.