Sentences with phrase «catch up to the government»

... Why should kids wait four more years for lunches to catch up to the government's own dietary recommendations?»

Not exact matches

The Chinese government recently announced its intention to catch up to the U.S. by 2020, surpass it by 2025, and dominate the industries of AI by 2030, with the help of its homegrown tech giants Baidu, Alibaba, and Tencent.

Nike has also caught on to a bit of luck in perhaps one of the most effective ways of engaging business in Asia: teaming up with the government.

The federal government limits tax - deductible contributions to retirement plans; for most plans, such as 401 (k) programs, the maximum amount you can receive in contributions in 2016 is $ 53,000 if you're under the age of 50, and $ 59,000 if you're eligible to make «catch - up» contributions.

While the WTO rules are very valuable, they were formed two decades ago and have failed to catch up with the times and realities of the global economy, such as massive government subsidies that create overcapacity and competition from state - owned enterprises.

My wife and I still were waiting for the government to catch up to the 2006 application in 2017.

Zaino advises opening up a separate account and depositing at least 25 percent of those untaxed earnings into the account in order to avoid being caught in the unfavorable position of owing the government more than you can pay.

Catching up to Canada's peers, it commits the federal government to being a «first customer» for Canadian technology.

The AMT hasn't been adequately adjusted to catch up with inflation for years because the government knows this is a great way to generate more tax revenue from the middle class.

«It takes time for all of that to shake out and for the government's system to catch up with your actual income situation.»

Perhaps it seems downbeat to characterize Canada as playing catch - up in the region given the government's recent achievements with trading partners in Asia.

Their message to the provincial government is clear: our response and treatment systems can't cope with this crisis, and addiction won't wait for this government to catch up,» said Horgan.

She says Canada has some work to do if it wants to catch up to countries where both government and industry fully understand the value of standards — countries that are quickly becoming standards «makers» rather than «followers».

The catch is that it still won't even come close to making up for the red ink splashed everywhere else around this fiscal update, most plainly in Notley government's insistence on spending its way through the severest two - year economic contraction ever recorded in the province.

This was rooted in catch - up post-war development and nurtured by the Keynesian belief that governments would come to the rescue with «anti-cyclical» fiscal and monetary policies, should the economy falter.

The longer it takes for the government to play catch - up on proper regulations, the less opportunity Canadian firms have to capitalize on the disruptive industry.

The U.S. government and major business leaders are renewing their call on the Thai government to crack down on slavery in its fishing fleets, and to punish people who force migrant workers to catch seafood that can end up in the United States.

I really hope that the GOP catches up on domestic issues and realizes that religion needs to stay out of politics, because I and many others believe that Small government where the majority of power is left to the states is the superior form of government, and there is nothing wrong with that.

In 1979 Mrs. Thatcher and her government began the return to true capitalism, but even after a decade of common sense reforms and rapid improvements in productivity, we calculate it will still take us another ten years or so to catch up with Germany and France, while the United States and Japan are still further beyond our reach.That is the price of trying to make capitalism do something which is not in its nature to do — promote equality.

Sidenote: I bet that the reason the British government knew women would make excellent codebreakers at Bletchley Park during World War II is because someone high up in the military happened to catch sight of a shawl knitting pattern and thought, «Whoever can decipher that shawl pattern could probably defeat Hitler.»

The morning after Benedict's speech, I caught a discussion on the radio in which two well - known historians, eager to add their reproach to the obloquy heaped on Manuel, agreed that the emperor was no different from the Crusaders» oblivious to the dolorous history in which the Crusaders two centuries earlier had burned and ravaged Constantinople, the seat of Manuel's government, during the Fourth Crusade and set up Western Christian rule in the capital of the Byzantine Empire.

The bill allowing all veterans to buy added pension time was vetoed by Cuomo last year because, notwithstanding a clause in the governor's Tier 6 pension reform, it failed to appropriate money to cover the projected state and local government share of the «past service» catch - up cost of the measure.

The NTC is clearly caught up in a zero - sum struggle for power with the militias, setting a bad precedent for the forging of a working relationship between the militias and the soon - to - be-elected new government.

«After a decade in which we have seen our politicians and officials caught up in the woeful abuses of the «war on terror», the last thing the government should be seeking is to sweep all of this under the carpet.

(It is worth noting that oil prices substantially increased around 2008, creating a unique opportunity that could give the government the means to catch up with the population entering the job market, but unfortunately it is still not clear where all that money was spent on.

Hollywood was slow to catch - up with this change, following several years of desperate subservience to the government by movie - makers, journalists and opposition politicians.

Private employers are mandated to provide lactation rooms under the Affordable Care Act, and government offices are beginning to catch up.

We need to set up more functional sporting facilities in our local government areas to catch young sporting talents and keep our youngsters busy.

''... unless the government re-thinks its proposals, then a number of bodies — such as Conservative Home — are going to be caught up in misconceived and illiberal legal regime.»

Now, you've been caught up in your own false narrative about the John Mahama government and you want to blame Rawlings for Mahama's abysmal showings at the polls?

But Cuomo did leave the door open to other items being considered as local governments also jockey to have their sales tax and other provisions extended — measures that have been caught up in the broader debate.

«The Bank is therefore caught between hiking rates to anchor inflation expectations, or leaving rates on hold to help prop up a fragile economy which faces the ramping - up of government spending cuts in coming months,» Markit's chief economist Chris Williamson said.

Now make that three Labour ministers caught doing so just hours after the Labour Party launched its election manifesto telling us all how quickly and decisively the present Labour government had acted to clean up the parliamentary expenses scandal.

Because each Prime Minister appoints more of their own, each change in government results in tit - for - tat action by the new Prime Minister to catch up.

He evidently believes that the Government can catch up over any delays, that they claw back the money - savings to get back on budget.

We will spare no one responsible when caught» Recall that suspected ex-militants, in the early hours of Friday blew up a gas pipeline in Warri South - West Local Government Area, Delta State conveying gas from Escravos — Warri - Lagos - Abuja, property of the Nigeria Gas Company, NGC, in what is believed to be a resumption of fresh hostilities in the Niger Delta region.

Red Cavaney of the American Petroleum Institute cautions that «it is important that we not ask government to pick technology winners and losers before the science has caught up.»

Nor is the U.S. government the only one to get caught up in the expanding reach of freely available imagery.

Research agencies are spelling out how the 16 - day U.S. government shutdown has affected grantmaking efforts — and how they will try to catch up.

The other side of the coin, however, is that sometimes when government gets ahead of science, science rushes to catch up.

Under the whaling convention, governments are free to set their own scientific catch quotas — even in a sanctuary — so Japan can be expected to kill up to 440 minke whales next season.

It should not take decades for government agencies to catch up with the latest findings of science.

This memo comes as agencies are being forced to play catch up because of the government shutdown.

Government regulations need time to catch up with the technology, too.

One of the bureaucratic balls - ups, government catch - all catchphrases («We're all in this together»), and an ineffectual war on terror that, in Brazil, may be down to no more than bad plumbing.

And the government has ended struggling pupils» automatic right to one - to - one catch up help, pledged across England by the previous Labour government.

Researchers at Impetus - PEF, an education consultancy, said «very few schools» are ensuring these pupils, whom the government classes as «disadvantaged», make enough progress to catch up with their peers.

To top it all off, I got into serious trouble with the military government when I was caught red - handed putting up anti-government posters around Accra in the dead of night.

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The Wall Street Journal mentioned that «In France, newspapers also have had to play catch - up online, given that overall circulation is down by nearly a third in four years and direct government subsidies to the press are projected to slide 29 % by 2015 from their 2010 peak.