Sentences with phrase «by policy officials»

«The glaring need for more new - home construction is creating an affordability crisis that needs to be addressed by policy officials and local governments,» Yun says.

Not exact matches

The widely read Global Times is run by the ruling Communist Party's official People's Daily, although its stance does not necessarily reflect Chinese government policy.

His comment followed Abe's remarks on Monday that buying foreign bonds, considered an extreme measure by many officials, may be one policy option for the BOJ.

A report issued by Deloitte in 2011 called for revamping the K - 12 curriculum to expose kids to entrepreneurial concepts, and Stuart says government officials and policy experts are even considering the possibility of specialized, innovation - focused schools.Programs like the lecture series currently offered at Toronto French School that brings in entrepreneurs to talk to students can make a difference, he says.

Officials said on Saturday in a briefing with reporters that spending on policy and politics could total up to $ 400 million by the end of 2018.

Minutes of meetings from the Federal Open Market Committee and speeches by Fed officials suggest that the Federal Reserve has been itching to «normalize» policy for some time now.

Trump gave Mattis six months to come up with a policy on those currently serving, and he must implement it by March 23, 2018, the official said.

ACA planners attempted to undermine the insurance company model by proposing a public option - government - managed insurance that officials could deck out with generous benefits while subsidizing coverage to hold down policy prices.

It is a one - of - a-kind event, a mixture of unalloyed commerce, high - minded do - gooderism, and brass - tacks policy discussions, attended by corporate bigwigs, journalists, academics, non-governmental organizations, and top government officials.

«The choice of Williams... would in effect have chosen to prioritize monetary policy expertise over first - hand experience of financial markets and diversity considerations pushed by some,» wrote Krishna Guha, Fed watcher at ISI Evercore and a former NY Fed official.

Yet as Bloomberg's Jeanna Smialek put it, «Fed officials swear by their data dependence, and the numbers look strikingly similar to when the policy - setting committee last met.»

In the currency markets, the differing messages of the world's major central banks on inflation and monetary policy prodded the dollar higher against the yen ahead of a series of appearances by U.S. Federal Reserve officials this week.

Federal Reserve officials go out of their way to assure financial markets that they could make a policy move at any meeting, not just the four of eight meetings per year that are accompanied by a press conference from the Fed chairman.

A China - based business source with knowledge of discussion among senior European officials said there had been a «clear effort» by the U.S. government over the past six months to introduce a coordinated approach to Chinese industrial policy, but that Trump's metals tariffs had undermined European support.

A China - based business source with knowledge of discussion among senior European officials said there had been a «clear effort» by the U.S. government over the past six months to introduce a coordinated approach to Chinese industrial policy, but that Trump's proposed metals tariffs under section 232 of the Trade Expansion Act of 1962 had undermined support from Europe.

In 2010, Russ Shay, the Alliance's public policy director, privately urged IRS officials to crack down on the syndicators through more aggressive action than individual audits — perhaps by issuing a public advisory.

Ambassador Sergei Kislyak's accounts of two conversations with Sessions, then a U.S. senator and key foreign policy adviser to Republican candidate Donald Trump, were intercepted by U.S. intelligence agencies, the officials told the Post.

Those policies were praised by government officials as proof positive that a four - way competition among the big carriers had been the right decision.

The Global Times, an influential tabloid published by the ruling Communist Party's official People's Daily, said in an editorial that Trump was «naive like a child on diplomacy» and that the «one China» policy «could not be bought or sold».

Christopher J. Paul: «The Board policy is that the chairman of the Board Jack Bovender is the official spokesperson and so it's really not appropriate for me to comment beyond that unless directed by the Board chairman.»

The moral Contrasting Ms. Bachmann's remarks to the panicky claims by Mr. Geithner and Hank Paulson in September 2008 confirm a basic axiom of today's junk economics: When an economic error becomes so widespread that it is adopted as official government policy, there is always a special interest at work to promote it.

If you look back at the press release which accompanied our easing of monetary policy in December 1998, you will see it referred to the expectation by official and private forecasters that 1999 would be a worse year than 1998.

In an official Facebook Newsroom post, VP & Deputy General Counsel Paul Grewal explained that a certain Dr. Aleksandr Kogan violated Facebook's Platform Policies by harvesting data from an online personality quiz that he created on the social network.

G - 20 Finance Ministers and central bankers meeting in Baden - Baden over the weekend dropped a long - standing reference to the pursuit of free and open trade and the rejection of protectionism in their official commnique, a move many saw as a swipe at U.S. - focused trade policies pursued by the Donald Trump administration.

They said students are getting around the backpack policy by putting liners or non-clear bags inside them, and that school officials were inconsistent at searching them.

A review of the policy and interviews with district leaders make it clear that PROMISE had nothing to do with Cruz's treatment by school officials; in fact, according to Superintendent Robert Runcie, Cruz wasn't even in PROMISE.

That's not sound monetary policy - it's a picnic for insiders, bought and paid for through the abuse of public funds by government officials too unprincipled even to recognize the abuse.

Prior to joining U.S. Bank in 2012, Roosevelt was an associate at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, where he helped shape monetary policy by providing fixed income, foreign exchange and macroeconomic research to senior Federal Reserve officials.

The officials led by bank president Mario Draghi decided that «prudence, patience and persistence with regard to monetary policy remained warranted for underlying inflation pressures to continue to build up.»

TALKING THE TALK Aside from their discussion over the stance of monetary policy, officials likely continued to debate fine - tuning their communications strategy by adopting numerical thresholds for economic variables that would guide the central bank's unconventional stimulus.

SAN DIEGO (AP)-- A grocery store in San Diego subjected Hispanic employees to harassment and a hostile work environment by implementing a no - Spanish language policy, federal officials said Thursday.

Being the center of political activity in the U.S. means that this city is shaped by people from all over the country who move here to work as congressional aides, lobbyists, policy analysts, reporters, elected officials, bureaucrats, organizers, etc..

In Europe, the European Central Bank reduced its official interest rate in June by 50 basis points to 2 per cent; the Bank of England also lowered its policy rate in July by 25 basis points to 3 1/2 per cent; and official interest rates in Sweden declined by 75 basis points to 2 3/4 per cent in moves of 50 and 25 basis points in June and July.

Recent policy actions, including today's rate reduction, coordinated interest rate cuts by central banks, extraordinary liquidity measures, and official steps to strengthen financial systems, should help over time to improve credit conditions and promote a return to moderate economic growth.

Elsewhere in the Asian region, Indonesia, Korea, Malaysia, the Philippines, Taiwan, Thailand and Hong Kong all lowered official interest rates, while Singapore announced that it too would ease monetary policy by lowering the target trading band for the Singapore dollar.

The Nunes memo alleges that FBI and Justice Department officials relied on an unsubstantiated dossier compiled by former British spy Christopher Steele to get a warrant to conduct surveillance of Page, who served on the Trump campaign's foreign policy advisory team.

Nevertheless, in light of the latest sluggish inflation figures and dovish comments by a number of Fed officials, there was increased skepticism among many market participants about whether policymakers would go ahead and implement another rise in interest rates before the end of the year, as indicated by the Fed's projections for monetary policy.

This capacity has been further enhanced by a change in operating procedures, which has seen public announcements of every change in the official cash rate — the key policy interest rate — since January 1990.

Also, morality is not external (if byexternal that you mean something that you can know is right or wrong has to be determined by a larger body or set of policies created by someone else many years ago to be official), and morality does not necessarily flow from religion (plenty of Catholic priests, Islamic Imams, Protestant preachers wave their hands high in the air in the afternoon, at praise time, and when the lights go down they crawl on their bellies, and hands and knees like snakes and dogs).

According to school officials, the university has always abided by this policy, but it wasn't until recently that they put it in the rulebook.

In fact, covering it all up is official church policy and was set down by the Pope when he was head of the Congregration of the Doctrine of the Faith.

The U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom's 2010 Annual Report took note of the shift, stating, «This change in phraseology could well be viewed by human rights defenders and officials in other countries as having concrete policy implications.»

But the lawyer for the plaintiffs, supported by Americans United for Separation of Church and State, said unlike legislatures, Greece had no official policy on prayers.

Without these, there is no reliable check on the policies laid down by government officials, and there is a strong likelihood that the ruling elite will become just as exploitative as any capitalist (perhaps even more so).

Most of this tamed religion seems even more extravagantly appreciative of official policy than any historic establishment feared by our Founding Fathers.

What many Americans may not know is that the United States has for over a decade had an official policy of countering persecution and extremism by advancing religious freedom.

question by Sinsinawa Dominican Sister Erica Jordan, who not - so - subtly suggested that Ryan's approach to healthcare reform, tax reform, and welfare reform was in conflict with the Church's social teaching, the very Catholic Speaker replied that he completely agreed with Sister Erica that God is «always on the side of the poor and dispossessed»; the real question was, how do public officials, who are not God, create public policies that empower the poor and dispossessed to be not - poor and not - dispossessed?

The cases primarily revolve around the non-discrimination policies imposed on the campus group by college officials that prevent them from making Christian faith a prerequisite for leadership.

George Weigel is Distinguished Senior Fellow of the Ethics and Public Policy Center in Washington, D.C. Weigel's column is distributed by the Denver Catholic, the official newspaper of the Archdiocese of Denver.

Builders, based in Aledo, Texas, whose expressed goal is «to exert a positive influence in government, education, and the family by 1) educating the nation concerning the Godly foundation of our country; 2) providing information to federal, state and local officials as they develop public policies which reflect Biblical values; and 3) encouraging Christians to get involved in the civic arena.