Sentences with phrase «broader government move»

Arguments over the legal basis of moves to force a living wage on the private sector appeared to form part of a broader government move to distance Whitehall from Labour's ideas.

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U.S. President Donald Trump's crackdown on illegal immigration and his move to strip Haitians, Salvadorans and others of their temporary legal status have had a broad effect on Canada's refugee system, Reuters interviews with social service providers, government officials and a review of Canadian immigration data show.

The House's move is part of a broader GOP agenda - such as the effort to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act - to reduce the size and influence of the federal government on everyday life.

Even though the intellectual climate within the Reserve Bank and other economic policy agencies was already moving in favour of deregulation in the early 1970s, wider community acceptance of the case for change did not come until after the Government set up a broad - ranging inquiry, conducted by a group of independent experts.

He offers as evidence a litany of recent congressional developments, such as the vote in the House of Representatives to gut the Clinton administration's counterterrorism bill — a move that Henry Hyde (R., Ill.) attributed to a corrosive distrust of government on the part of a broad coalition in Congress.

The move was a described as a shocking reversal by the government, and has fueled hopes for broader amnesty for dozens of jailed activists.

The government is to outlaw all pornography depicting rape, whether online or offline, as part of broader moves to make online videos subject to the same laws as those sold in sex shops.

Government corruption, electoral dysfunction, more investigations, broad popular anger over the political status quo and how it hurts regular people: As they return to the Capitol this week, you'd think it would be a really good time for lawmakers and Gov. Andrew Cuomo to move forward with big new reforms on ethics, elections, campaign finance and voting.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo's goal of seeking broader authority over moving money between state authorities and inking certain contracts isn't about power, but streamling government, he told reporters at a cabinet meeting earlier this afternoon.

They examine the startlingly broad range of education policy changes enacted in Florida during Bush's first term, including moves toward privatization with a voucher system, more government control of public education institutions with centralized accountability mechanisms, and a «superboard» for all public education.

The pipeline approval, in the Trudeau government's estimation, was a necessary trade for the broad support it needed to move forward on climate change on other fronts.

Moving forward, this is a crucial question — the document's short and relatively underdeveloped «implementation» section does little to initiate adaptation action beyond broad «Federal, state, and tribal governments should...» statements.

The new Liberal government has already expressed a desire to revisit this controversial approach to sentencing though unwinding laws that guarantee longer jail terms for gun crimes and child abusers may prove an unpopular move even to Trudeau's broad base of supporters.

On May 30, 2017, the Ontario government decided to move forward with some of the 173 recommendations from the Changing Workplace Review final report which includes broad ranging amendments to Ontario's Employment Standards Act.

There is a need to move the current Indigenous policy space from a position of what they (governments) do to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples to improve our lives — to what governments (and the broader Australian population) can do with us, to support us in achieving our goals and aspirations.