Sentences with phrase «consistent international reporting»

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Recently, Amazon has started reporting consistent profits, largely due to the success of Amazon Web Services, its cloud computing business.192 Its North America retail business runs on much thinner margins, and its international retail business still runs at a loss.193 But for the vast majority of its twenty years in business, losses — not profits — were the norm.

Consistent with the Hoover Report's recommendations that the United States had to reconsider «long - standing American concepts of fair play» and «learn to subvert, sabotage and destroy our enemies,» the shadow government built alliances between U.S. government officials, the Mafia, and international drug cartels; assassinated many thousands of civilians in Southeast Asia; carried out or attempted assassination of foreign leaders; trained death squads and secret police forces; worked to shore up unpopular dictators like the Shah of Iran and the Somoza dictatorship in prerevolutionary Nicaragua; worked to destabilize «unfriendly» governments such as Allende in Chile and the Sandinistas in Nicaragua; cooperated with the Colombian drug cartel to plot the assassination of the former U.S. ambassador to Costa Rica, Lewis Tambs, with the intention of justifying a U.S. invasion of Nicaragua by blaming his death on the Sandinistas; contracted with the Reagan administration and the National Security Council to find ways of circumventing a congressional ban prohibiting aid to the contras, including the trading of arms to Iran in exchange for hostages and money for the contras; illegally shipped weapons from the United States to the contras and allowed returning planes to use the same protected flight paths to transport drugs into the United States; 11 targeted the U.S. people for disinformation campaigns; and helped prepare contingency plans for declaring a form of martial law in the United States that would have formally suspended constitutional freedoms.

[In relation to this point, the LCA also notes, at p 7: «This Committee does not support any presumptions based on market share and does not believe such a reform would be consistent with best international practice, as suggested in the 2010 Report, or the objects of the CCA.

«We recommend that the government engage actively with the US administration and with the international community to assist the process of closing Guantanamo as soon as may be consistent with the overriding need to protect the public from terrorist threats,» the report concludes.

That can be shown by the strong and consistent reaction the recent Creative Scotland report garnered from all and how, as one Scottish voice, we made it an international story.»

The projections are consistent with the preliminary findings of a new high - level report prepared by Boston - based consultancy London Economics International.

National contributions «will not be consistent» with international climate targets, researchers led by British economist and climate - change expert Nicholas Stern contended in a recent report cited by the Guardian.

The results, published last year in Nature Geoscience, had been roughly consistent with projections by the International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) which in its 2007 report gave a range of 18 - 59 centimetres sea level rise by 2100.

But I looked at the International Panel on Climate Change's «AR4 Synthesis Report — Summary for Policymakers» from November 2007 and it notes that «methane growth rates have declined since the early 1990s, consistent with total emissions being nearly constant during this period.»

However, AMEEF's aims will not be achieved unless the final report of the MMSD (Australia) project is consistent with international human rights standards, particularly those principles that are legally binding within Australia.

On 9 December 2000 the Senate referred to the PJC for inquiry and report; (a) whether the finding of the Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD) that the Native Title Amendment Act 1998 is consistent with Australia's international legal obligations, in particular, the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination, is sustainable on the weight of informed opinion; (b) what the amendments are required to the Act, and what processes of consultation must be followed in effecting those amendments, to ensure that Australia's international obligations are complied with; and (c) whether dialogue with the CERD on the Act would assist in establishing a better informed basis for amendment to the Act.

8 On 9 December 1999 the Senate referred to the PJC for inquiry and report; (a) whether the finding of the Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD) that the Native Title Amendment Act 1998 is consistent with Australia's international legal obligations, in particular, the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination, is sustainable on the weight of the informed opinion, (b) what amendments are required to the Act, and what processes of consultation must be followed in effecting those amendments, to ensure that Australia's international obligations are complied with; and (c) whether dialogue with the CERD on the Act would assist in establishing a better informed basis for amendment to the Act.