Sentences with phrase «conducted by the agency»

The study is one in a series conducted by the agency on trends in the community bank sector.

According to a survey conducted by the agency, 50 % of pregnant women consume fewer than 2 ounces a week.

Abby's One True Gift Adoptions is a licensed child placing agency and is required by the State of Iowa to EITHER, conduct a criminal background search on all prospective birthmothers OR, receive notification from the prospective birthmother that they do not wish to have a criminal background search conducted by the agency.

According to the Tiamiyu, «Investigation conducted by the Agency at scene of the incident revealed that an existing uncompleted bungalow under construction with sands and concrete block seen on the deck suddenly caved in with three people trapped under the rubbles.»

The research team used data from the Medical Expenditure Panel Survey, a set of large - scale surveys conducted by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality to find and collect data on health care services, usage and costs.

However, research conducted by the Agency by Design team suggests that a central promise of maker - centered learning is the concept of maker empowerment.

First time applicants for DBE certification must complete and submit this certification application and related material to the certifying agency in your home state and participate in an on - site interview conducted by that agency.

This latest investigation follows a number of other probes relating to fires of EVs equipped with lithium - ion batteries, including a much publicized incident relating to Chevy Volt crash tests conducted by the agency last year.

Now let us ask: exactly what was it in this unsolicited and arguably inappropriate «report» — not official EPA business, and not conducted by any agency scientist — that was supposed to have been suppressed?

For assessments conducted by the agency, a final report must be issued within 300 days after it begins.

The legislation also requires the minister or the cabinet (depending on whether the assessment is conducted by the agency or a review panel) to provide reasons for the government's ultimate decision on a project.

Tencent now ranks number one among China's top 100 most valuable brands and ranks fifth in the world for global technology leaders» brand value, closely following Google, Apple, IBM and Microsoft, according to research conducted by agency Millward Brown and media company WPP.

Effective July 14, 2014 the federal Universal Accreditation Act requires that ALL prospective adoptive families wishing to adopt a child from a Covention OR Non-Convention country must have their home study conducted by an agency that has acheived Hague Accreditation from the Council on Accreditation.

Not exact matches

«The agency should include and explain the... investigations conducted in Dimock, Pennsylvania; Pavillion, Wyoming; and Parker County, Texas where hydraulic fracturing activities are perceived by many members of the public to have caused significant local impacts to drinking water resources,» states the advisory body's review.

According to a recent study conducted by staffing agency Robert Half International, 74 percent of companies surveyed choose not to alter their annual dress code for the hotter months.

A 2010 study conducted by Cone Communications, a public relations and marketing agency focused on social causes, reported that 80 percent of consumers are more likely to purchase a product that supports a cause during the holiday season.

Some of the illegal conduct was an «arrangement organized by the company,» the deputy director of the agency's Shanghai bureau, Gu Zhenghua, told the official Xinhua News Aagency's Shanghai bureau, Gu Zhenghua, told the official Xinhua News AgencyAgency.

That means the attacks were likely conducted by the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency.

(Another recent consumer study, this one conducted by advertising agency Bensimon Byrne, found that more than half of respondents thought they were doing better financially now than they were a year ago, or before the recession.)

Earlier this fall, the government announced a review into the matter to be conducted by the Public Service Agency.

A total of 138 public libraries and other locations in seven states — Alaska, Florida, Iowa, Kentucky, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Wyoming — and the District of Columbia took part in the 2017 DASH for the STASH investor education and protection program and contest conducted by the Investor Protection Institute (IPI) and state securities agencies.

«We are writing to set out Mr. Whitmarsh's concerns with respect to the manner in which the Public Service Agency's review is being conducted, as well as the damaging public comments that have been made about him recently by the Minister of Health Terry Lake, Premier Christy Clark and others in Government,» wrote Adams.

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.

We do this by conducting clinical trials in which we collect safety and efficacy data about our experimental drugs with the goal of submitting those data to regulatory authorities, like the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the European Medicines Agency (EMA), so that these experimental drugs can be approved for use by patients.

Most recently, the agency brought charges against an additional defendant involved in the fraudulent initial coin offering (ICO) scheme conducted by Centra Tech Inc..

Our empirical studies on the analysis and assessment of entrepreneurial attitudes were conducted on the basis of data published by the Polish Agency for Enterprise Development within the framework of the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) study.

OMI conducts market surveillance, supports trading - based investigations, and collects, analyzes, and disseminates tips, complaints, referrals, and other forms of intelligence submitted to the SEC by the public, whistleblowers, self - regulatory organizations, and other government agencies.

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The Commission's investigation was conducted by Daphna A. Waxman, David H. Tutor, and Jorge G. Tenreiro of the New York Regional Office and the Cyber Unit, with assistance from the agency's Office of International Affairs.

SB 284: Filed by state Sen. Lauren Book, D - Plantation, this bill requires nursing homes and assisted living facilities to have generators that can power air conditioning in the event of a loss of power, and requires the Agency for Health Care Administration to conduct an unannounced inspection at least every 15 months to check and make sure the generator is in working order.

If you send or receive high overall payment volumes through the nTrust Services, in some circumstances we are required to conduct a background check on you by obtaining information about you from a credit reference or fraud agency.

When plans for a major naval operation had been approved by the proper agencies, to what extent did the Naval Minister exercise control over the manner of conduct of that operation?

But while the former Democratic Congressman from Massachusetts is sharply critical of U.S. human rights policy (especially as conducted by Republican Administrations), he shows less concern about UN agencies, and none at all about the financing, motives, and agendas of the very mixed bag of interest groups known as NGOs.

He was divorced and no background check was done on him; also no follow - up visits were ever conducted by the New Jersey based adoption agency.

A complex modern democracy is at a serious disadvantage in dealing with autocratic states as well as in expeditiously conducting its own internal affairs, unless it possesses strong executive powers which are not hedged about in matters of detailed policy and administration by legislative and judicial agencies.

When there is progress in the development of favorable order, we find conduct protected from relapse into brutalization by the increasing agency of ideas consciously entertained.

I was reminded of this with particular poignancy a few days ago, when I read that the Japan Science and Technology Agency had awarded a grant of $ 3.4 million to a group of Japanese and American researchers in «evolutionary science and technology» for a project to be conducted at Monash University, the ultimate aim of which is to determine — based on models provided by Integrated Information Theory (IIT)-- whether it is possible to create «artificial consciousness.»

Perusing the index of Origins, the weekly publication of representative documents and speeches compiled by Catholic News Service, our imaginary historian will note, for example, the following initiatives undertaken at the national, diocesan and parish levels in 1994 - 95: providing alternatives to abortion; staffing adoption agencies; conducting adult education courses; addressing African American Catholics» pastoral needs; funding programs to prevent alcohol abuse; implementing a new policy on altar servers and guidelines for the Anointing of the Sick; lobbying for arms control; eliminating asbestos in public housing; supporting the activities of the Association of Catholic Colleges and Universities (227 strong); challenging atheism in American society; establishing base communities (also known as small faith communities); providing aid to war victims in Bosnia; conducting Catholic research in bioethics; publicizing the new Catechism of the Catholic Church; battling child abuse; strengthening the relationship between church and labor unions; and deepening the structures and expressions of collegiality in the local and diocesan church.

Commissioned jointly by the Grocery Manufacturers Association (GMA) Sales Agency Committee and the Association of Sales and Marketing Companies (ASMC) Foundation and conducted by Bain & Company, the study provides an analysis of performance results of CPG companies before and after outsourcing to SMAs.

Address any legal obligations related to conduct, especially when it comes to regulated aspects of your business, while taking steps to ensure that any such restrictions comply with the latest mandates issued by regulatory agencies, such as the National Labor Relations Board.

This is consistent with the consumer research conducted by the UK Food Standards Agency during the development of the TL system (Food Standards Agency, 2008).

As part of the MOU, RBT and JBF Worldwide will cooperate with non-profits and international agencies to conduct feeding trials at orphanages in Malawi and Haiti supported by JBF Worldwide to further document the well - known health benefits of meal supplementation with rice bran based products.

«Verification officers, employed by these certification bodies, conduct on - farm and facility inspections to ensure that organic producers are conducting their operations according to the Canadian Organic standard,» the agency said.

The survey was conducted by a business intelligence agency on behalf of Electrolux between May 26th and June 2nd 2016.

Auto mund und Sport revealed a survey conducted by an independent research agency that asked 18,000 F1 fans what they would like to see at the circuit, and the results are a bit surprising.

SI's request to see the dash - cam footage was also declined; the police department, citing a North Carolina law, said that «records of criminal investigations conducted by public law enforcement agencies... are not public records.»

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Ultimately, one of the tests, conducted by the Illinois Environmental Protection Agency last spring, concluded that lead is not a threat to the region's ground water.

In 2009, The American Institute for Cancer Research (a member of the International Agency for Research on Cancer, a part of the World Health Organization) released the largest review of research into lifestyle and breast cancer ever conducted, which reinforced previous findings that women can reduce their risk by maintaining a healthy weight, being physically active, drinking less alcohol, and breastfeeding their children.

Each adoptive parent has been thoroughly evaluated through a home study course conducted by a licensed agency.