Sentences with phrase «change agenda of the government»

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This included circumscribing commitments covering cultural products, which was achieved through an exchange of side letters with the other parties, and reflecting elements of the progressive trade agenda of the Liberal Trudeau government, including through the change in the name of the agreement, a side letter eliciting strengthened labour commitments by Vietnam, and side letters acknowledging traditional knowledge.

At this stage of the gender revolution, some 15 years after Beijing, the agents of change want countries - national governments and cultures - to «own» the gender agenda, to become themselves the drivers of the process that will transform their own values from within so as to align them with the norms coming from UN headquarters.

But government means politics, and politics means bickering, backbiting, hidden agendas and an ever - changing cast of characters.

«What can we do to ensure that, if the leave campaign looks to be gaining momentum at a late stage, that will not be used to pretend that there are things on the meeting's agenda to try to change people's opinions, or that things will not be leaked in advance of that meeting to try to give people the impression that the Government have agreed a better deal than is actually the case?»

«To them, he looks like the UK equivalent of a Rockefeller Republican, embracing the opposition party's big government agenda, advocating more of a change in management than of direction.»

With many complex challenges facing Bulgaria, the new government is unlikely to bring any substantial changes, mainly because of its lack of a parliamentary majority, which would allow it to pass its agenda more easily.

A number of provisions in the 2018 agenda have already been released over the last several weeks, including measures aimed at combatting climate change, bolstering airports and encouraging shared services on the local government level.

The fact that both Tony Blair and Paddy Ashdown shared an enthusiasm for this idea helped to ensure that rather more of the Cook - Maclennan agenda of constitutional change was achieved through our co-operation than might have been expected from a Labour government with a large majority.

In his own state of the city address Tuesday evening, Common Council Majority Leader Rennie Scott - Childress (D - Ward 3) offered up a ringing defense of Mayor Steve Noble's progressive «One Kingston» agenda and called on Kingstonians to embrace local government as a force for positive change and economic growth.

«In the Coalition Government, our Energy and Climate Change Minister, Ed Davey, has worked to make sure the environment stays at the top of the agenda, even though it isn't a priority for the Conservatives.

Nor will the Carswell agenda itemised at his press conference — changing the law so that erring MPs can be recalled, or regaining control of the UK's borders, or even disrupting sofa government — be advanced by his departure for Ukip.

He therefore called for the entrenchment of unity and peaceful co-existence among Nigerian people, adding that there is an urgent need for Nigerian government to build on the solidarity required across religious and ethnic lines as part of improving its change agenda.

The Inter-Party Advisory Council (IPAC) says the the hallowed chamber of the National Assembly is frustrating the change agenda of the President Muhammadu Buhari - led government.

«So, this new policy framework that was approved today (Wednesday), puts in place a much better opportunity to engage with states, local governments and communities and executing the priorities of the change agenda,» she said.

«You look at the largest investment in public services since the second world war, the creation of whole new services like Sure Start, the minimum wage, progress on gay rights, changes on paternity leave, the right to join a union, even things that have been difficult that used to cause me problems in government like the Human Rights Act — that is a massive progressive agenda we have delivered.»

One year after entering office with a mandate for change, Mayor Shayne Gallo has pushed ahead with an agenda centered on revitalizing the city by battling blight, forming partnerships with state, federal and county government and ending what he calls a «culture of entitlement» at the highest levels of municipal government.

By compromising on green technology to deliver improved performance to consumers government policy can be accused of being not fully committed to the climate change agenda.

The organization said that, «As a government presumably pursuing a change - agenda, Buhari should do things differently from the former Jonathan administration including by proactively engaging the Nigerian people in an honest conversation about the fight against Boko Haram and the use of the public funds so far invested to prosecute it.»

For example, much of Ed Davey's chapter on localism sits very comfortably within the coalition's decentralising agenda, and government environment policy, like the Green Investment Bank, at least in part reflects Baroness Susan Kramer's essay on using the market to tackle climate change and pollution.

However, our campaigning pushed the role of the Bishops onto the political agenda, raising hopes that the Government's plan for reform could be changed and more recently, we supported amendments which would have led to the removal of the Bishops.

He said, «Beginning with the issue of corruption in this discussion is critical in line with the APC / President Buhari's «Change Agenda» and «hype in corruption chase» which has left sour taste given the dishonesty and charade that has characterized the actions of this Government so far.

In line with the change agenda of the federal government of Nigeria and the «Change Begins with Me Campaign», the Nigeria Police force under my leadership is ensuring accountability by ensuring that citizens and residents of the country have a unit through which all grievances against police actions and inactions are taken and redrchange agenda of the federal government of Nigeria and the «Change Begins with Me Campaign», the Nigeria Police force under my leadership is ensuring accountability by ensuring that citizens and residents of the country have a unit through which all grievances against police actions and inactions are taken and redrChange Begins with Me Campaign», the Nigeria Police force under my leadership is ensuring accountability by ensuring that citizens and residents of the country have a unit through which all grievances against police actions and inactions are taken and redressed.

This very action of the government is therefore not only undermining and defeating the noble objectives of the country's climate change policy and that of the Paris Agreement on climate change but also a demonstration of no practical commitment to the global development agenda such as the Africa Agenda 2063 and the Sustainable Development Goals agenda such as the Africa Agenda 2063 and the Sustainable Development Goals Agenda 2063 and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

This year's Advocacy Agenda from local business and political leaders turns away from specific building projects to changes in government rules and regulations to lower the costs of government and business.

Governor Andrew Cuomo recommended a slew of changes to New York law in his State of Opportunity Agenda today, but the only major new proposal in the area of government reform involves increasing the pay for state legislators.

The focus therefore will be on the rest of the agenda: financial, fiscal, land and government administration reforms, pricing of resources, changes to social security and opening protected sectors to private and foreign competition.

Collective impact, as defined by Kania and Kramer in the Stanford Social Innovation Review, is the concept that large - scale social change requires broad cross-sector coordination of nonprofits, governments, businesses, and the public around a common agenda to create a collective impact.

He said Mr. Gore, despite his high profile, was a close call: «He may have put climate change on the rich countries» agenda, but some felt his solution of trading emissions is not enough and no more than what all major businesses and western governments are now saying.

«Trump is trying to escalate fossil fuel use while people around the world are already dying as a result of climate change,» said Erich Pica, President of Friends of the Earth U.S. «Governments and civil societies at the COP should not bend a single millimeter to Trump's dangerous, anti-science, inhumane agenda.»

In this area, the key objectives of the UN System are: to promote active climate change collaboration of local governments and their associations in global, regional and national networks; to enhance policy dialogue so that the urban dimension of climate change is firmly established on the agenda; and to foster the implementation of awareness, education, and capacity building strategies.

This recent post via Real Climate Science on NASA tampering of Sea - level rise highlights the blatant malfeasance that these government funded institutions will undertake in order to push the man - made global warming climate change agenda, and keep the «Greatest and most successful pseudoscientific fraud in history» rolling and the billions upon billions of taxpayer funds flowing...

But, by and large, nothing much changes, and the fascade of consensus of experts continues to echo down through the media and the various government apparatchiks whose jobs it is to push their bureaucratic agendas.

Electric Vehicles Industrial Cluster - NPO IKEM Corp. (Business entity of EVIC) Changing the Government Agenda of EU's poorest countries using the power.

I hadn't previously realised that you are another wise Aussie trying to bring sanity to the 1 % of the world's population that seem to be concerned about catastrophic climate change, or any other catastrophe that can help them to push their agenda for global government by the Loony Left and Comrades.

On the website of The Nature Conservancy is the kind of matter - of - fact conclusion based on «scientific research» that you can find repeated, echoed, and amplified by numerous groups promoting a government - driven climate change agenda.

Such an approach would be a sea change from the approach currently pursued by Stephen Harper's government, which has pressed ahead with oil sands development and gutted environmental protections of Canada's lakes and rivers, all the while gagging federal scientists to stop the release of data that may contradict the Conservatives» agenda.

Through its unique partnership between scientists and governments, the IPCC has heightened public awareness of climate change, raised the level of scientific debate, and influenced the science agendas of many nations.

As a result of the former Conservative government «s tough - on - crime agenda, numerous changes were made to the criminal law including the passing of the Truth in Sentencing Act.

The health sector agenda will include pooling of resources, primary care, promoting economy hospitals in public and PPP sectors, health information sources, health laws and regulation, promoting AYUSH, control of important diseases, Health Human Resources (HHR), rational use of drugs and technology, healthy demographic change and a better role for states and local governments.

Embracing change might not be easy for governments, but it can be done, according to the head of Dubai's ambitious blockchain agenda.

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Senator CROSSIN — Why does it have to be linked with this government's new agenda of changing the land rights act and allowing for 99 - year leases?