Sentences with phrase «economic measures against»

«Representatives at three levels of California government were quick to call for economic measures against neighboring Arizona this week in the wake of its passage of a tough new immigration law... On Tuesday, seven members of the Los Angles City Council signed a proposal for a boycott that urged the city to «refrain from conducting business» or participating in conventions in Arizona.

Not exact matches

Measured against 65 other countries, Canada places fifth overall in reading, seventh in science and eighth in mathematics, behind China, Korea, Finland and Singapore in the Organization for Co-operation and Economic Development's (OCED) education assessment released in 2010.

So financial repression was a very difficult outcome to measure against the broad economic outcomes.

Experts worry that the United States» actions could ignite a trade war, noting that Chinese economic officials have a keen understanding of the American system and are good at designing targeted retaliatory measures against American agricultural products and other exports.

The measures would mark Mr. Trump's most aggressive move yet against a fast - rising economic rival that he has accused of preying on the United States.

On trade policy, he wanted tougher measures against China but faced opposition from National Economic Council director Gary Cohn, the former Goldman Sachs COO.

Romney's 2012 vote total is probably a good measure of how many people are willing to vote for a personally decent, strongly qualified, merely pro-business Republican against an Obama - style liberal under ambiguous economic conditions.

Under the deal, the U.S. would agree to lift economic sanctions against Iran in return for measures to prevent the country from building nuclear weapons.

A good - government watchdog on Monday called for a halt to economic development spending until transparency measures and other new controls are put in place as a safeguard against corruption.

Labour's hold against the SNP in Glenrothes was a resounding success for the PM who visibly grew in confidence as his measures to tackle the economic crisis attracted praise around the world.

In this, a carefully structured, mandatory insurance can assign the costs of actual damage in such a way that the economic incentives for mitigation measures against flooding and heavy rainfall are not lost.

These were the Social and Institutional Gender Index or SIGI (which measures discrimination against women), the Gender Inequality Index or GII (which measures health economic and power inequities), and the Gender Gap Index or GGI (a measure of economic, education, health and political power).

She added: «By showing sound economic reasons for increasing the use of preventative measures, such as tooth brushing and fluoride varnishing, I hope that they can now compete for resource against other less cost - effective interventions.»

Our latest research compares overall interest in dating against established measures and events like economic factors, key political moments, and popular.

The brilliance of Changing Lanes is that it measures each step in the pair's microcosmic conflict against larger issues of racism and the economic and social glass ceilings that dictate each character's decisions.

However, simply measuring NJ against other states does not capture the reality of the 21st century global economy or the economic and educational advances of other countries.

The Programme for International Student Assessment tests run by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development have been seen as driving education policy and stirring education ministers to measure themselves against international standards.

Voting against the action were Richard W. Fisher, who believed that, while the Committee should be patient in beginning to normalize monetary policy, improvement in the U.S. economic performance since October has moved forward, further than the majority of the Committee envisions, the date when it will likely be appropriate to increase the federal funds rate; Narayana Kocherlakota, who believed that the Committee's decision, in the context of ongoing low inflation and falling market - based measures of longer - term inflation expectations, created undue downside risk to the credibility of the 2 percent inflation target; and Charles I. Plosser, who believed that the statement should not stress the importance of the passage of time as a key element of its forward guidance and, given the improvement in economic conditions, should not emphasize the consistency of the current forward guidance with previous statements.

The BoC's decision has been the subject of much debate — recent low interest rates were intended as an economic stimulus coming out of last year's recession, and some economists have been arguing that rates should stay low for the time being as a measure of protection against global market turmoil.

Each project has a series of species, habitat and economic milestones against which progress to the planned conservation outcomes are measured.

To gain a Green Tourism Award, businesses are graded against over 120 measures of best practice, reflecting a balance of environmental, economic and social issues.

If there is a key that unlocks Picasso's achievement, it is to be found neither in the Marxists from Max Raphael to John Berger who measured his achievements against the social and economic vagaries of his times, nor in the formalism of Clement Greenberg, who viewed Cubism and the onset of abstraction as a revolution that Picasso precipitated but that eventually left him behind.

The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs or Global Goals) offer a new framework against which your business can align, measure and explain its actions to operate more responsibly and deliver positive social, environmental and economic impacts.

After all, two decades of economic reform have been aimed at creating a level playing field for producers around the world, and that should require measures against the sort of environmental dumping that US and Australian companies will soon be engaged in.

This work takes future socio - economic developments based on SSP5 (O'Neill et al. 2014), consistent with high mitigation challenges due to high - end warming and willingness to take adaptation measures against climate impacts.

The ALP's weak suits in 2007 (experience and economic competence) will become their strong suits and they will quote the coalition against the stimulus, boast they got us out of Iraq are pressing forward with «responsible» measures on climate change and are now «building for the future».

The choice of a stabilization level implies the balancing of the risks of climate change (risks of gradual change and of extreme events, risk of irreversible change of the climate, including risks for food security, ecosystems and sustainable development) against the risk of response measures that may threaten economic sustainability.

The NIC Principles are of concern when measured against international human rights standards and strategies for economic and social development.

[17] Whilst there is widespread agreement and concern about the state of Indigenous disadvantage measured against a range of economic and social indicators, there is less recognition that this situation reflects a profound failure to afford Indigenous Australians their full range of human rights.

This reporting mechanism establishes benchmarks against which to measure progress towards closing the social and economic gaps; to «assist government and mainstream agencies to maintain a focus on the status of Maori in their work and decision - making»; [16] and to assist in setting priorities for policy development.

However, Indigenous Australians continue to suffer grossly disproportionate rates of disadvantage against all measures of socio - economic status, including health (ABS, 2013; AIHW, 2011a, 2011b).

While it is generally viewed as the benchmark against which other African nations are measured, economic growth in South Africa has slowed and it still faces serious challenges, including poverty, unemployment and income inequality.