Sentences with phrase «effective measures against»

In line with the Guidelines to EU Policy towards Third Countries on Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment, EU member states should, through confidential démarches and public statements, urge Egypt to take effective measures against torture and ill - treatment, bring all those responsible for torture and ill - treatment to justice, and provide redress to victims.

Despite his awareness of the excessive pretrial publicity, the trial judge failed to take effective measures against the massive publicity, which continued throughout the trial, or to take adequate steps to control the conduct of the trial.

The Constance gathering was too badly divided to take many effective measures against the widespread corruption.

Not exact matches

«For more than four years, the government of Ecuador has offered to cooperate in facilitating the questioning of Julian Assange in the Ecuadorian embassy in London, as well as proposing other political and legal measures, in order to reach a satisfactory solution for all parties involved in the legal case against Julian Assange, to end the unnecessary delays in the process and to ensure full and effective legal protection, Ecuador said in a statement, Press Association reported.

AZO provides food processors, who are legally required to take effective safety measures against contaminants, with high - quality machinery and systems which help ensure that their products comply with the relevant standards.

But in the book I do argue against the intense national focus on standardized tests, which measure a fairly narrow range of cognitive skills and turn out to be not very effective predictors of the educational goals that I think we should care about, especially college - graduation rates.

Article 11 (2) In order to prevent discrimination against women on the grounds of marriage or maternity and to ensure their effective right to work, States Parties shall take appropriate measures: (a) To prohibit, subject to the imposition of sanctions, dismissal on the grounds of pregnancy or maternity leave and discrimination in dismissals on the basis of marital status; (b) To introduce maternity leave with pay or with comparable social benefits without loss of former employment, seniority or social allowances; (c) To encourage the provision of necessary supporting social services to enable parents to combine family obligations with work responsibilities and participation in public life

Quorums are an interesting case, where you can cause a measure to pass by voting against it, with the result that abstaining from voting can be more effective at defeating the measure than a «no» vote.

Sri Lanka to ratify the Optional Protocol to the Convention Against Torture and establish an effective torture prevention programme including extensive training within the military, police and intelligence services and measures to enable independent national and international monitors to make regular unannounced inspections of any place of detention including unofficial detention facilities.

The Chartered Institute of Taxation (CIOT) has warned that legislation in today's Queen's Speech must have effective guidance so that companies know when they are taking adequate measures to guard against rogue members of staff facilitating tax evasion or money laundering.

The vaccine was most effective against H3N2, increasing antibody titers (a measure how much antibody is produced after vaccination) fourfold in more than 81 percent of who received it, according to the company.

Their results have shown that measures to protect the Baltic Sea have been somewhat effective, however, general climate change has, to some degree, buffered against these measures.

This has rendered it difficult to implement effective and target - specific measures against the contaminative source.

The fundamental purpose of this work was to provide information critical to protect public health and to develop measures effective against future influenza pandemics.

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.»

Congress initiated the creation of the U.S. Military HIV Research Program (MHRP) to develop effective preventive measures against HIV for the US and its Allied Forces.

These measures arent nearly as effective as giving away a pet, however, and going this route will likely have consequences — more symptoms, more medication, and a potential worsening of asthma — that should be weighed against the distress of seeing a cat or dog pitter - patter out of your life forever.

Put that together and you've got a problem: Pharma trials assume that placebos act independently of medications, which is why sugar pills are pitted against drugs to measure how effective the drugs are.

However, after seeing how much cadmium is present in molluscs im not convinced that any of these measures would be effective against prolonged high intake of metals like cadmium, so i am considering dropping molluscs as a regular part of my diet.

That's why we need an education agenda that strategically recruits, retains, and rewards the most effective teachers and principals; that builds incredibly high standards; that develops rigorous and useful assessments to measure progress against those standards; that builds data systems that allow teachers, principals, students, and parents to quickly and conveniently access those data for everyday use; and that focuses on dramatic intervention within our country's lowest - performing schools.

Looking back, I can see that my colleagues and I were struggling to counteract powerful tendencies that work against high student achievement in urban schools: If teachers work in isolation, if there isn't effective teamwork, if the curriculum is undefined and weakly aligned with tests, if there are low expectations, if a negative culture prevails, if the principal is constantly distracted by nonacademic matters, if the school does not measure and analyze student outcomes, and if the staff lacks a coherent overall improvement plan — then students fall further and further behind, and the achievement gap becomes a chasm.

Education World takes a closer look at some of TV's most loved teachers, and measures them against the Rubric for Effective Teaching and the teacher...

To help teachers successfully fulfill their role in this endeavor, effective teacher supervision and evaluation systems that inform teacher professional development and improve instruction are essential; however, disagreement over what those systems should measure remains, and some researchers caution against relying on student test scores as a valid metric (Baker et al, 2010)

In addition, without clear standards against which we can measure effective implementation, there is little consistency in understanding what is needed to transform a school culture and practice.

Even animals that are already on a good diet and do not exhibit any health problems will benefit from the correct mix of supplements, because in addition to their value as remedies, supplements can also be quite effective at preventing disease and providing extra measures of support against illness or factors that the owner or her vet may not be able to see.

Neutering is particularly effective as a preventive measure against a number of common behavioral problems.

- the game's shading mechanism has changed, which allows for increased gear texture quality - all graphical aspects and programming mechanisms have been built up from scratch for this sequel - maximum resolution is 1080p in TV mode - a bigger focus for Nintendo was the 60 frames per second - occasionally the resolution will be scaled down when there is too much ink displaying on the screen - Nintendo reduced the CPU load and refined the way to use CPU power effectively to maintain 60 fps in all matches - weapons were tweaked to let players be more creative by thinking about unique weapon characteristics and their best uses - weapons are designed to be effective when they are used during the right occasion - Special weapons are stronger than the original ones when used in the right situation, but weaker otherwise - the damage and effect of slowing down your movement when you step in the opponent's ink are reduced from original - you can jump up in rank if you're good enough, but only up until S - you can't jump up from C, B or A to S + - when you win battles in Ranked mode, the Ranked meter fills and your rank goes up when its fully filled - when you lose a battle, the gauge does not decrease, but the meter starts to crack - once the meter reaches its limit, it breaks - when the meter breaks, you have to start over again from the beginning or from a lower rank - highest rank is still S +, but if you fill up the Ranked meter, you get numbers after the alphabet such as «S +1», «S +2» and so on - maximum number is «S +50», but this number will not be displayed to your opponent - you are the only one to see it, and you can check it on your own status screen - Ranked Power is calculated by an algorithm to measure how strong each player is with minuteness - this will determine if a player's rank is worthy of receiving a big jump (like from «C» to «A»)- Ranked Power has no relation to your splat rate, and is more tied into to how well you lead your team to victory - you won't drop off more than one rank even if you play poorly - stage rotation time was changed to two hours - this was done because the devs expected people to play for an hour or so, but they found people play much longer - with Salmon Run, Nintendo considered how to implement a co-op oriented mode in a player - versus - player type of game - the devs will monitor how users are playing this mode to see if there's some tweaks they can throw in - more Salmon Run maps will be added in the future, but Nintendo wouldn't comment on adding more enemy types to the mode - rewards are changed each time Salmon Run is played - you can obtain rewards when playing locally, but not gear - originally Nintendo had an idea for this mode, but had no background setting, enemy designs, etc. - Inoue suggested that it should be salmon - themed - when Nintendo hosted the Splatfest that pit Callie against Marie, the development of Splatoon 2 had started - the devs had already decided to have the result reflected in the sequel - they even had an idea to announce the Splatfest with a phrase «Your choice will change the next Splatoon» - the timing to announce a sequel wasn't right, so they decided against this - they eventually released a series of short stories about the Squid Sisters to show how the Splatfest affected the sequel's story - Nintendo wouldn't say if Marina is an Octoling, and noted that Inklings are not paying attention to this too much - Inklings don't care about appearances, as long as everyone is doing something fresh - the Squid Sisters had composers who produced their songs, but Off the Hook are composing their music by themselves - Pearl is genius artist, but she couldn't find a right partner because she's a bit too edgy - she eventually found Marina as a partner though, and their chemistry is sparkling right now - Nintendo is planning a year of content updates for Splatoon 2 - when finished, the quantity of stages will be more than the original - some of the additional stages are totally new and some will be arranged stages from the first game - not all original stages will return and they are choosing stages based on the potential for them to be improved - Brella is shotgun-esque weapon, so the ink hits your opponent more if you are closer - it can shield damage when you open it, but the amount of damage has a limit and once it reaches it, it breaks - you can shoot ink, but you can't use the shield feature when it breaks - the shield won't prevent your allies ink - there are more new weapon categories which haven't been revealed yet - there are no other ranked modes outside of the three current options - the future holds any sort of possibility, but the devs didn't get specific about adding more content like that - for the modes, they adjusted the rule designs so that players will experience the more interesting aspects

Perhaps a more effective way to «celebrate [me], [my] work and [my] contributions to not only the art world at large, but also a generation of black artists working in performance,» might be to curate multi-ethnic exhibitions that give American audiences the rare opportunity to measure directly the groundbreaking achievements of African American artists against those of their peers in «the art world at large.

Her request read, in part: «Perhaps a more effective way to «celebrate [me], [my] work and [my] contributions to not only the art world at large, but also a generation of black artists working in performance,» might be to curate multi-ethnic exhibitions that give American audiences the rare opportunity to measure directly the groundbreaking achievements of African American artists against those of their peers in «the art world at large.

The more I witness this happening, the less I see what effective measures can be taken against it.

-- McConnell has repeatedly voted against Senate bills recognizing global warming, including a «sense of the Senate» amendment expressing «the need to address global climate change through comprehensive and cost - effective national measures and through the negotiation of fair and binding international commitments.»

Without road engineering works to slow traffic down, and without effective police enforcement against speeding and drivers» failures to obey traffic signs and yield the right of way to pedestrians, we only get feel - good measures and ineffective signs.

The ECJ could not remain indifferent to the global trend to widen the category of crimes that «should not go unpunished», according to recent International Criminal Court (ICC) guidelines (see Policy Paper on Case Selection and Prioritisation of the Office of the Prosecutor, 15 September 2016), and therefore consider «serious» financial crimes as crimes against human rights, with the primary objective of ensuring «jointly with the relevant national jurisdictions, that the most serious crimes committed in each situation do not go unpunished» (ICC, Policy Paper, para. 1 (8)-RRB-, through the implementation of «effective» measures.

The addition of a requirement of a 50 % majority is likely to be effective given the relatively low level of support some ballots have achieved when measured against all those entitled to vote.

[63] The Convention against Torture obligates a state to «take effective legislative, administrative, judicial or other measures to prevent acts of torture in any territory under its jurisdiction.»

Mothers Against Drunk Driving also supports the change, saying in an online statement that «mandatory alcohol screening... is one of the single most effective measures Canada can adopt to reduce impaired driving.»

Although accelerated benefit riders will always come at an additional cost, they can still provide an effective measure of protection against critical and chronic illness, disability and long - term care expenses in addition to traditional life coverage.

The cost is lower than for individual policies because administrative expenses per life are decreased, there are certain tax advantages, and measures taken against adverse selection are effective.

In order for reform to be effective, it must be measured against the problems that it seeks to overcome as well as the environment that it then creates.