Sentences with phrase «developed systems of government»

It will undoubtedly be a surprise to many, as it was to me, that Sweden, a country with one of the most developed systems of government - provided social services, was swept up in the Reagan revolution.

The Review of the Project Development Approvals System (the Keating Review 2002)(90) sought to develop a system of government decision - making that is coordinated and integrated, clear and unambiguous, and that is balanced between community and developer needs.

The review's objective was to develop a system of government decision - making that is coordinated and integrated, clear and unambiguous, and that is balanced between community and developer needs.

Not exact matches

The lens of the microscope: Standard Industrial Classification (SIC) codes, a system the government developed to categorize every company's primary line of business.

Such risks and uncertainties include, but are not limited to: our ability to achieve our financial, strategic and operational plans or initiatives; our ability to predict and manage medical costs and price effectively and develop and maintain good relationships with physicians, hospitals and other health care providers; the impact of modifications to our operations and processes; our ability to identify potential strategic acquisitions or transactions and realize the expected benefits of such transactions, including with respect to the Merger; the substantial level of government regulation over our business and the potential effects of new laws or regulations or changes in existing laws or regulations; the outcome of litigation, regulatory audits, investigations, actions and / or guaranty fund assessments; uncertainties surrounding participation in government - sponsored programs such as Medicare; the effectiveness and security of our information technology and other business systems; unfavorable industry, economic or political conditions, including foreign currency movements; acts of war, terrorism, natural disasters or pandemics; our ability to obtain shareholder or regulatory approvals required for the Merger or the requirement to accept conditions that could reduce the anticipated benefits of the Merger as a condition to obtaining regulatory approvals; a longer time than anticipated to consummate the proposed Merger; problems regarding the successful integration of the businesses of Express Scripts and Cigna; unexpected costs regarding the proposed Merger; diversion of management's attention from ongoing business operations and opportunities during the pendency of the Merger; potential litigation associated with the proposed Merger; the ability to retain key personnel; the availability of financing, including relating to the proposed Merger; effects on the businesses as a result of uncertainty surrounding the proposed Merger; as well as more specific risks and uncertainties discussed in our most recent report on Form 10 - K and subsequent reports on Forms 10 - Q and 8 - K available on the Investor Relations section of www.cigna.com as well as on Express Scripts» most recent report on Form 10 - K and subsequent reports on Forms 10 - Q and 8 - K available on the Investor Relations section of www.express-scripts.com.

Speakers making the case for why it's time to listen to the experts and Canadians — and get down to business and develop a made - in - Canada proportional representation system include Hassan Yussuff, President of the Canadian Labour Congress, Katelynn Northam, electoral reform campaign lead at Leadnow, Farhat Rehman of the Canadian Council of Muslim Women and Annie Bérubé, director of government relations at Équiterre.

These strategies, along with a well - developed transportation infrastructure and a well - capitalized banking system, underpin the government's goal of evolving Mauritius into a regional trade hub for trade and investment into Africa.

Kristina: So it's interesting, these cryptocurrencies developed because sort of lack of trust in government or official systems.

I think our listeners are aware of the SWIFT system (Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication), we really have two sets of governments in the world, the developed countries and countries that I will simply refer to as the «bricks».

«Canada doesn't have a well - developed system of prosecution of white - collar crime and I think, quickly, the government will find itself overwhelmed,» Mr. Dattu said, as trials in such cases are inevitably lengthy and expensive.

With corporations eliminating more than 84,000 pension plans since 1985, over a decade of unprecedented and ongoing market volatility, a Social Security system that has over 2,000 filing rules and a government agency prohibited from dispensing advice, the ability to offer expertise on the topic of when and how to develop a Social Security filing strategy is paramount to helping retirees remain financially viable throughout retirement.

the abundance of purely uneducated Muslim believers, their oppressive existence in their self created repressive regimes, lifestyles, and governments, their radical inturpitations of their fairy tale book, the fact that their culture and people have contributed less to man kind than any other culture and people of all the earth, their self ritious belief system that empowers them to commit atrocious crimes against humanity, the muslim men prance around in flip flops and linen moo moo's while they lock their woman in their household prisons to be abused slave - wife's, are entirely too ignorant to even build sewer systems and even after thousands of years that other cultures have developed running water toilets, toilet paper, and effective sewerage systems, they still whipe their pood - cracks with one hand (no paper) and eat with the other, and yiddle to the sky just before detonation of their suicide bombs that murder innocent men, woman, children, and babies.

Indeed, in his time there was a very highly developed civilization in China, a rich art, many books, and a very complex system of government.

The new project focuses on the broader dissemination of knowledge and is build around an intensive training course for agents of the agriculture knowledge dissemination system (e.g. technical advisors, farm managers, government representatives etc.) Materials and teaching methodology will be developed and passed on to the trainees as part of the course and a first round of replication will be carried out and technically supported in the framework of the project.

In Japan, a system of lifetime employment in many big businesses, a tradition of employer provided benefits such as housing in many cases, and a wage system in those kinds of businesses where workers receive a substantial share of their annual income in the form of an annual bonus whose size can be used to buffer good and bad years for a company sharing risks and rewards with workers instead of limiting the risks and rewards to an investor class, have contributed to low levels of income inequality in the Japanese economy relative to comparably developed countries with comparable levels of government spending on welfare state type programs in other countries.

Decides that, in order to begin to comply with its disarmament obligations, in addition to submitting the required biannual declarations, the Government of Iraq shall provide to UNMOVIC, the IAEA, and the Council, not later than 30 days from the date of this resolution, a currently accurate, full, and complete declaration of all aspects of its programmes to develop chemical, biological, and nuclear weapons, ballistic missiles, and other delivery systems such as unmanned aerial vehicles and dispersal systems designed for use on aircraft, including any holdings and precise locations of such weapons, components, subcomponents, stocks of agents, and related material and equipment, the locations and work of its research, development and production facilities, as well as all other chemical, biological, and nuclear programmes, including any which it claims are for purposes not related to weapon production or material;

The economy was rotten, the political process was rotten, they had developed a central government that was no longer believed by people outside of Moscow, there was total cynicism throughout the Soviet system of governance, there was no real civil society.

The Labour government of 1997 - 2010 introduced pre-appointment hearings for some ministerial appointments, formalising a de facto system which had been developing gradually.

«We were worried, but fortunately the new system developed by the previous government started in 2015, which is the e-salary system, where before salary is paid to the workers at any department, the head of the department must confirm and authenticate the number of workers.

In U.S. history, the two most notable efforts to develop religious communities that served much of the role of the welfare state to its members that most developed countries provided through government to its citizens, have been the Roman Catholic Church, which has developed a large parallel education and health care system, and the Church of the Latter Day Saints, which uses tithes to finance a wide variety of services and economic supports for members of the Mormon community.

Mr Prosper Ahalivor who spoke on behalf of the Head of the Local Government Service (LGS) said it was pertinent to disclose that in its bid to improve institutional and staff capacity, competition, performance and service delivery, the Service had developed and implementing an evaluation / assessment system known as the LGS Performance Management System system known as the LGS Performance Management System System (PMS).

The government will next week convene a meeting with key stakeholders to begin the process of fashioning out a national Property Addressing System (PAS), to be developed in tandem with the National Identification sSystem (PAS), to be developed in tandem with the National Identification systemsystem.

What follows is a list of areas where the new government must focus its attention in order to avoid the mistakes of the past and to develop robust management systems to ensure the country's social and economic development.

In order for small, roving bands of nomadic humans to evolve into the organised societies we see today, social institutions such as government, a justice system and formal education needed to develop.

For their analysis, the researchers used RETScreen, a free clean energy software package developed by the Canadian government, along with the typical energy considerations to determine the financial savings from the heating systems over the course of 22 years.

It was trying determine what it would take to develop a government system that spots bioweapons in the making by screening the genetic sequences routinely ordered from commercial suppliers of synthetic DNA.

The study's recommendations, which align with the government's current proposal of developing an offshore national fishery as part of the recently designated National Marine Sanctuary, may allow Palau to protect reef systems and the industries that rely on them, as well as traditional local lifestyles intimately linked to catching and eating seafood.

Boeing is one of three American companies working with CCP to develop safe, reliable and cost - effective crew transportation systems during NASA's Commercial Crew Integrated Capability (CCiCap) initiative, which is intended to make commercial human spaceflight services available for government and commercial customers.

Iterated Systems, the company founded by Barnsley to commercialise the technology, is currently developing a system of fractal compression for moving pictures with the aid of a $ 2 million grant from the US government.

But that model of a new system, supported by the United States, Europe and even some coalitions of developing countries, is viewed as threatening to many governments worried about the implications of having to take on new responsibilities.

G7 governments will aim to increase by up to 400 million the number of people in the most vulnerable developing countries who have access to direct or indirect insurance coverage against climate - related hazards by 2020, and support early warning systems in the most vulnerable countries, the statement said.

In the last the discussion of the meeting there were 4 conclusions about improving education in science: to motivate and pay teachers well (primary and secondary levels), to promote science via the media (government back up), to inspire leaders to start the change, and to develop a good mentoring system so the student can study at home and go back to the professor with questions.

The Aerospace Corporation typically uses cost models based on historical costs of government systems, and is not equipped to do cost analysis for commercially developed systems, such as with the NASA Commercial Crew and COTS Cargo development programs.

The government website has already been changed and reads «Dental amalgams contain mercury, which may have neurotoxic effects on the nervous systems of developing children and fetus.»

Using the information from their existing MIS system, it will help them to meet the key requirements of the Government's statutory guidance, as well as develop the career aspirations of students from a young age.»

A government agency responsible for petroleum in the Middle East successfully completed a turnkey project that includes setting up fully functional eLearning centers capable of providing synchronous and asynchronous learning solutions, setting up the Learning Management System (LMS), along with training in developing custom courseware.

During this time we have developed Learning Content Management Systems (LCMS), online authoring platforms, and formal and informal learning products used across almost all sectors of business and government.

Educators and governments are therefore paying increasing attention to international comparisons as they seek to develop effective policies to improve the performance of their education systems.

In 2010 - 12, she was seconded to the «Welsh Government» as a Senior Policy Adviser to assist with the process of system wide reform which involved co-leading the National professional learning communities program and developing a new Masters qualification for all newly qualified teachers.

Vermont: A citizen activist has filed suit in Washington County superior court demanding that a government contractor disclose how $ 85 million of public money was spent on developing information technology used in Vermont's health care system.

Independent charters are not included in the California Office of Reform Education (CORE)'s statistics, because CORE's system was developed as part of a waiver its districts received from the federal government relieving them of some of the mandates of the No Child Left Behind law.

The Common Core and the Common Core testing system was developed in conjunction with the federal government and a series of major foundation's created by the country's billionaires and super-wealthy.

1970s The government developed a 700 page national curriculum that created a system of compliance with teachers requiring students to take notes on their lessons.

Educators and governments are paying increasing attention to international comparisons as they seek to develop effective policies to improve the performance of their education systems.

Through this system, members of the public will be able to sign up for and take NHI - developed training, link to a separate government web site to pay for that training, schedule and participate in a Web conference, track their training history, and request transcripts necessary for certification.

A radar braking system developed as part of a Japan government - sponsored program is expensive and requires more development before it is ready for production.

The International Fund may invest in emerging markets, which are generally more volatile and can have relatively unstable governments, social and legal systems that do not protect shareholders, economies based on only a few industries and securities markets that are substantially smaller, less liquid, more volatile and may have a lower level of government oversight than securities markets in more developed countries.

the whole developed world agriculture system re: subsidies and government intervention is both immoral and hugely market distorting as far as I'm concerned, so I'd be pretty nervous about that house of cards collapsing too

As we focus on balancing the federal government's operating budget, we should also develop a capital budget to fund the upgrading of critical regional systems to meet the challenges of climate change and population growth.

As EMBARQ, the WRI Center for Sustainable Transport, we worked with the former government of Mexico City to develop the 12 mile long Bus Rapid Transit System «Metrobus» on Avenida Insurgentes now carrying over 250 000 people / day for a cost of well under $ 100 million (see / / www.embarq.wri.org).