Sentences with phrase «effective national measures»

-- 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.»

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An important policy issue in this connection is whether measures to establish national or regional import quotas are effective in stimulating more domestic production.

Niebuhr and the political realists did share some common convictions: the need for an adequate anthropology, understanding of human existence, which they saw as fundamentally self - centered and self - seeking; this being the case, the measure of an effective foreign policy was the responsible pursuit of the national interest.

Toine Timmermans, Project Coordinator for EU - FUSIONS: «Measuring the level of food waste in a structured way is critical for developing effective strategies that focus on reducing food waste and monitoring progress at the business, national and EU level, as well as contributing to the achievement of SDG Target 12.3.

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.

The Youth Sports Safety Summit (YSSS) is an annual event hosted by the Youth Sports Safety Alliance (YSSA) and the National Athletic Trainers» Association (NATA) to educate key stakeholders about current issues in youth sports safety and effective measures to keep young athletes safe.

(1) to urge Member States to take effective measures to implement the recommendations included in resolution WHA39.28; (2) to continue to review regional and global trends in breastfeeding patterns, including the relationship between breastfeeding and child - spacing; (3) to support Member States, on request, in adopting measures to improve infant and young child nutrition, inter alia by collecting and disseminating information on relevant national action of interest to all Member States; and to mobilize technical and financial resources to this end.

Buhari who played host to Special Envoy of President Obiang Nguema Mbasogo of Equatorial Guinea, Thursday in Abuja said that since terrorism no longer respects national borders, the international community must urgently evolve and implement more effective collaborative measures to enhance global security.

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.

Finance Minister, Ken Ofori - Atta, has emphasized the need to «trigger» a national sense of urgency as an effective measure to tackling Ghana's economic challenges.

Most of us would like to think we are doing the best to stay healthy as individuals, but some of the most effective preventative measures are initiated at a national level by government — based on the best available evidence and research — and need to be taken up by all sectors of society including teachers, employers, designers, and businesses.

«National drought policies with effective early warning systems would be crucial in promoting vulnerability assessment and risk mitigation measures, particularly in light of the devastating droughts witnessed in Africa this year that have left more than 20 million people on the verge of starvation,» she added.

Through «heart - on - a-chip» technology — modeling a human heart on an engineered chip and measuring the effects of compound exposure on functions of heart tissue using microelectrodes — Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) researchers hope to decrease the time needed for new drug trials and ensure potentially lifesaving drugs are safe and effective while reducing the need for human and animal testing.

«We must be well prepared for the future, and national drought policies which are based on realistic vulnerability assessments and that have effective early warning systems and risk mitigation measures will be vital,» Barbut stressed.

In addition, Rob Tarn, the regional chief executive and national leader of education at Outwood Grange Academies Trust, will be sharing advice on «implementing effective measures to transform schools and improve learning outcomes».

The National Audit Office (NAO) has questioned the Department for Education's (DfE) spending on teacher training bursaries without measuring whether they are effective.

All schools and districts that can demonstrate excellence in character education, as measured by CEP's 11 Principles of Effective Character Education, will be considered for State and / or National Schools of Character recognition.

«We're trying to use what the research says is appropriate and even be on the low end of that,» he said, citing the recent national study known as the Measuring Effective Teaching (MET) Project.

's most recent post, about the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation's $ 45 million worth of bogus Measures of Effective Teaching (MET) studies that were recently honored with a 2013 Bunkum (i.e., meaningless, irrelevant, junk) Award by the National Education Policy Center (NEPC), it seems that the Bill & Melinda Gates foundation are, once - again, «strong - arming states [and in this case a large city district] into adoption of policies tying teacher evaluation to measures of students» growthMeasures of Effective Teaching (MET) studies that were recently honored with a 2013 Bunkum (i.e., meaningless, irrelevant, junk) Award by the National Education Policy Center (NEPC), it seems that the Bill & Melinda Gates foundation are, once - again, «strong - arming states [and in this case a large city district] into adoption of policies tying teacher evaluation to measures of students» growthmeasures of students» growth.»

Further, the conservation measures currently being highlighted by National Geographic's Big Cat Initiative and Panthera's Project Leonardo are minuscule compared to the scale of the problem and it's not clear they could ever do anything effective to conserve an area as large as the Selous (which is the size of Switzerland).

Effective air pollution limits could save more than 20,000 lives every year, yet some national governments are threatening to veto EU measures to tackle toxic pollution.

I think the biggest difference - maker has probably been the indifferent progress of measures to put a price on carbon — complete national - level failure in the US, and with EU measures less than effective.

«biofuel blending» as policy, measure or instrument [is] «shown to be environmentally effective... in at least a number of national cases» — a successful Brazilian tabled amendment to the Summary for Policymakers text.

That question could revive if the national judge decides that the Dutch tax measure is not combating tax avoidance in an effective and / or proportionate manner.

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 Luxembourg Court, in adherence to the great shift in thoughts aimed at protecting «the rule of law at the national and international levels», as the United Nations General Assembly urges (see UN GA Resolution A / RES / 67 / 2012), and intended to repress the crime of serious VAT fraud, with established an effective measure (i.e., the disapplication of national rules incompatible with Article 325 (1) TFEU, Article 2 (1) of the 1995 PIF Convention as well as Directive 2006/112 on the EU's common system of VAT, read in conjunction with Article 4 (3) TEU) which, alongside the guilty, condemns States defaulting and disrespecting EU law and the founding principles of the world legal order.

The UK Home Office, responsible for matters of policing and national security, said the measure had «effective safeguards» in place.

She comments on the intention behind the National Health Service Redress measure passed by the Welsh Government in 2008 and reviews how successful this has been in delivering an effective complaint handling process.

But when applying that test to the facts, the Court observed that the national (Swedish) measure was connected (in part) to infringements of the VAT Directive, and therefore was designed to implement an obligation imposed on the Member States by EU law «to impose effective penalties for conduct prejudicial to the financial interests of the European Union».

«Member States shall ensure that adequate and effective means exist of ensuring and monitoring the implementation of national measures adopted pursuant to this Directive.

• Highly skilled in interpreting documents and manuals compliant to National and International Standards: ISO, OSHA, etc. • Hands - on experience in running production machines and assembling products to customers» satisfactions • Proficient in the use of measuring equipment and techniques specifically used in production processes • Adept at performing preventative and regular maintenance on production machinery and equipment • Qualified to drive a forklift in a safe and efficient manner by ensuring that all standards for safety are met • Demonstrated expertise in writing effective routine reports and correspondence • Documented success in completing inventories, entering product and quantity information on time and with 100 % accuracy • Focused on ensuring all production processes are completed in agreement with QMS and ISO standards • Competent in mathematical reasoning, calculation, and interpreting graphical data pertinent to production work • Proven ability to multi task to ensure that production deadlines are constantly met

OJJDP's National Mentoring Resource Center offers a variety of research - based resources, including mentoring model / population reviews, information about promising and effective mentoring programs, and a Measurement Guidance Toolkit to help programs measure outcomes more effectively.

«Shall take effective measures to review governmental, national and local policies, and to amend, rescind or nullify any laws and regulations which have the effect of creating or perpetuating racial discrimination wherever it exists (Article 2.1 (c)-RRB-; and