Sentences with phrase «biggest concern to a government»

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However, the bigger concern is that this is one more threat to your retirement nest egg, on top of low interest rates, a low - growth economic outlook, uncertain stock markets and potential government cuts to other programs, such as health care and nursing - home subsidies.

Bitcoin slumped as South Korea's justice minister reiterated his proposal to ban local cryptocurrency exchanges, fueling concern that a government crackdown will erode one of the world's biggest sources of demand for digital currencies.

«The only way to address these legitimate concerns is to reopen the deal itself and change those provisions that give foreign investors and big corporations such power to dictate government policy,» Barlow said.

The two companies did not mention any possible termination fees related to failing to secure regulatory approval, which may be a heightened concern given recent U.S. government opposition to big deals like Comcast - Time Warner Cable, Staples - Office Depot and General Electric - Electrolux.

While our own government in Ottawa silently condones the plans for further integration with the U.S., and while our provincial governments continue to be completely sound asleep on this vitally important topic, irony of ironies, at this writing 15 U.S. states have expressed concern that the big business sponsored Security and Prosperity Partnership is a process that, wait for it, is a threat to states» rights and to the sovereignty of the United States.

It's conceivable that by sending the Obamacare markets into a quasi-death spiral, the policy will significantly drive up the costs to the federal government through bigger subsidies — which is, funnily enough, a good thing for conservatives as far as the Byrd Rule is concerned.

Government action to influence the price of goods might strike Canadians as out of place in the Conservative playbook but Prime Minister Stephen Harper's Tories are acutely concerned about dispelling the notion they're the party of «big business» as they target middle - class voters.

One big concern: Giving investors the right to sue could have «a chilling effect on people giving advice,» says Ann Combs, head of government relations at Vanguard Group and a former assistant secretary of labor under Pres. George W. Bush.

The biggest concern opponents have about the current ISDS clause is whether or not international corporations would be able to sue governments for altering environmental or regulatory measures post-investment.

I guess that in a world where war criminals continue to commit genocide in Sudan, where dictators suppress religion freedom in China, where people suffer from extreme poverty under the corrupt government of Zimbabwe, where sovereign nations are getting invaded by power - hungry Russian leaders, and where our own government exaggerated intelligence in order to occupy Iraq — Barack Obama is God's biggest concern, worthy of a little extra attention.

Yet, in one of the not infrequent contradictions of American politics, voters combine their concern for economic security» and their reliance on the state to guarantee it» with an intense generalized distrust of, and opposition to, big government.

The other two branches of government have no business in the issue; they need to be concerned with the bigger picture; foreign policies and matters, national economy, and disagreements between states on matters that affect national politics.

That this House: (1) notes with concern the impact on the Dairy Industry of the Coles milk pricing strategy and that: (a) dairy farmers around the country are today seriously questioning their future having suffered through one of the worst decades in memory including droughts, floods, price cuts and rising cost of inputs such as energy and feed; (b) unsustainable retail milk prices will, over time, compel processors to renegotiate contracts with dairy farmers and the prospect that these contracts will be below the cost of production may force many to leave the industry; (c) the fact that supermarkets are now selling milk cheaper than many varieties of bottled water will be the straw that finally breaks the camel's back for many dairy farmers; and (d) the risk of other potential impacts includes: (i) decreased competition as name brands are forced from the shelves; and (ii) the possible loss of fresh milk supplies to some parts of the country as local fresh milk industries become unviable; and (2) calls on the Government to: (a) ask the ACCC to immediately examine the big supermarkets and milk wholesalers after recent price cuts to ensure they do not have too much market power and are not anti-competitive in their behaviour; and (b) support the new Senate inquiry into the ongoing milk price war between the country's major supermarket chains».

«It still doesn't take away the fact, as Ghanaians tell us for us to see, that as far as these numbers are concerned, it is a big government.

Stout said his biggest concern was maintaining community services while keeping the town below the tax cap, adding that his 40 years of experience in public service have helped him to understand how to get things done in government.

Also, the biggest liberal concerns about Islamist practices and abuses involve matters that can only be implemented with majority control of the government (e.g. excessive use of corporal punishment in the criminal justice system), but which are much less harmful to non-Muslims, at least, when Muslims can only enforce their ideologies on co-religionists and can only do so via institutions of civil society rather than institutions of coercive government control.

As thousands of young people today receive their GCSE results, the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) is warning that the Government proposal to remove GCSE engineering could make the skills crisis an even bigger cause of concern for UK employers.

Haters of truth and sentimentalists will call for Oshekomes head, byt will foolishly turn blind eyes to the fact that he have outlaid a child who depends on the father or relative being the invigilator to pass exams will always fail the exam on the day his father or relation is not in the exams hall, that is the case of the EFCC and the FGN, they relied on the judiciary to help them rubbish their opposition or faces they do not like, and have always lost cases because their candidates in the judiciary were not assigned their cases and that is the same head of EFCC Magu that the president keep nominating for confirmation, even when reports indicted him, this recent looses have to confirm to doubting Thomas that Magu is just the best because he can do the dirty work for the APC and Buhari, not because he is the best in corruption fight, I wish there is a listening and discerning government in place back there in Nigeria, they would have known that there is a vacuum as far as EFCC is concerned and use the time to shop for a head that will deliver, it also confirms the fact that the «So called fight against corruption» Is a BIG lie and propaganda, just a wipe to flog opposition into their line, shame on the clapping members and the O yes members who will never hear any criticisms concerning Buhari or anything he does good or bad, bitter or sweet dem go swallow like that shaaaaa.

All of which leaves a nagging concern that a Corbyn government would primarily view local government as a platform to deliver its big national policy priorities.

Hardly surprising, then, that they have never managed to inspire confidence and that the biggest single concern people have about another Labour government — despite Mr Miliband's protests — is that it would once again spend and borrow more than the country can afford.

This was a quintessential example of big government at its worst, straight from the textbooks of Political Science 101, with faraway bureaucrats executing a grand plan and showing no ability to admit mistakes or make real adjustments to address concerns that arose after its execution.

And that same poll found that the issue of government corruption is not that big a deal to likely voters, just 1 % listed corruption as a chief concern for them in the upcoming elections.

Among the questions asked by the press: whether the city is working with Mexican government officials to encourage any eligible Mexican nationals to register with the city for assistance, whether all victims have been located and identified, what is the biggest remaining challenge at the site, whether there are continuing concerns of gas leaking at the site, whether there is any evidence of illegal gas connections in the basements of the destroyed buildings, what damage or evidence the FDNY will look for, the number of people needing housing assistance, whether any victims asked about the investigation when meeting with the mayor, the number and location of apartments being made available by REBNY to temporarily house victims, what the mayor would say to any employer not granting time off to a victim and whether the mayor is concerned about the pace of gas main replacements.

The federal proceedings concern whether the administration doled out «pay - to - play» favors to big donors that dumped money into de Blasio's now - defunct «shadow government» nonprofit, the Campaign for One New York — Vance's case concerns allegations the mayor sought to circumvent state contribution limits in his failed bid to turn the State Senate Democratic, by having people seeking city business funnel unlimited cash into upstate county committees instead of into candidates» campaign accounts.

«There is a big concern because [the government] wants research to solve an economic problem and an industry problem,» says Patrick Monfort, a marine ecologist with CNRS in Montpellier and the general secretary of SNCS - FSU, the national trade union for scientific researchers.

We have no particular concern with the federal government — or philanthropists and venture capitalists, big and small — helping to pay for those activities, as has been done so often in the past.

«Our biggest concern is that the consumer may be confused about which emissions standard to believe — the (real - world) non-mandated one which can not be reliably repeated, or the one which is government - mandated, conducted in controlled conditions, under very strict protocols, and is replicable time and again across different brands and models,» he says in a statement.

Big firms within the UK are required to offer the federal government with knowledge concerning the pay hole that exists between female and male workers.

My friend was sharing his frustrations and concerns regarding the views of many Western organisations and media outlets with regards to the upcoming preCOP in Caracas, a big climate gathering organised by the Venezuelan government to bring social movements, NGOs, and government from all over the world to come together free from corporate lobbyists to make progress on the issue internationally.

To say that this will be an administrative headache would be an understatement, and although the Government and the National Farmers Federation are trying to hose down concerns over how the boundaries have been drawn on the maps, there is no doubt that the scheme will result in big problemTo say that this will be an administrative headache would be an understatement, and although the Government and the National Farmers Federation are trying to hose down concerns over how the boundaries have been drawn on the maps, there is no doubt that the scheme will result in big problemto hose down concerns over how the boundaries have been drawn on the maps, there is no doubt that the scheme will result in big problems.

In 1945, Bush urged for a bigger and more sustained federal investment in science, writing that «since health, well - being, and security are proper concerns of Government, scientific progress is, and must be, of vital interest to Government.»

Big, long - term investments in new technologies are made only by governments and are almost always motivated by concerns about national security or economic competitiveness, from the threat of the Soviet Union in the 1950s to OPEC in the»70s.

I am aware of people making the argument that the big push by the nuclear industry for enormous government subsidies to find a massive expansion of nuclear power on the basis that nuclear power is «THE ANSWER» to global warming is a fraud that dishonestly and cynically takes advantage of growing concern about the very real problem of global warming, and I make that argument myself (because even a quite large expansion of nuclear electricity generation would have little effect on overall GHG emissions, at great cost, taking too long to achieve even that little effect, while misdirecting resources that could more effectively be applied elsewhere).

Still, management of the government is a big concern: almost one in five said the administration should give priority to the national debt.

Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird has sought to dampen concern that what the government has called a «sea change» is all that big a deal.

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Huawei has been trying to make a big push into the US this year but has found its efforts stymied by the US government over concerns that the Chinese company could be a security threat.

But the biggest concern for most governments and environmental stakeholders is the huge uptake of energy required to mine cryptocurrencies.

To my mind the bigger concerns are finding the construction talent to build them right and making sure government regulations, local ordinances etc are not an issuTo my mind the bigger concerns are finding the construction talent to build them right and making sure government regulations, local ordinances etc are not an issuto build them right and making sure government regulations, local ordinances etc are not an issue.

One of the biggest concerns for low - down - payment borrowers relying on government mortgage insurance through FHA is that unless the borrowers put at least 10 % down, they won't be able to cancel their FHA mortgage insurance.

The biggest concern I have with the Lead issue is this uncomfortable feeling that at some point in time, various governments decide the only way to handle it is to require landlords to REMOVE all lead - based paint (some of the things I have read in the past are a little concerning).