Sentences with phrase «ensure neutrality»

Though we made every effort to ensure neutrality in the collection, analysis, and reporting of the OCI survey, we recognize that improvements can always be made.

One of the reasons that the child is interviewed twice is to ensure neutrality — the interviews are arranged such that each parent brings the child to one of the the interviews.

Empower the OLRB to conduct votes outside of the workplace (including electronic and phone voting) and authorize Labour Relations Officers («LROs») to give directions relating to the voting process to ensure neutrality

Members of teams collating official graphs should be banned from having a view on AGW or CAGW to ensure neutrality when collating and publishing information.

He mentioned institutions such as the Judiciary, the Police and other security agencies to be strengthened to accomplish their mandate and also ensure neutrality in the process.

Best - in - class organizations, to ensure neutrality, used 3rd party expertise.

Following Osborne Report recommendations, the Rule was amended in 2010 with the aim of ensuring neutrality.

Not exact matches

The search company was one of the most vocal supporters of net neutrality and openness in wireless, going so far as to bid billions of dollars to ensure that people could use whatever devices and apps they wanted on whatever networks they wanted.

As one of the most vocal Senate proponents for net neutrality, the consumer protection that compels internet service providers to ensure equal access to all websites, Franken is already on a collision course with the new administration.

(Trump didn't explain why he thought net neutrality would specifically target conservative media, but it's worth noting that, in principle, preventing ISPs from giving a leg up to any online source would seem to ensure that a conservative news outlet could deliver stories without technical handicaps.)

While the largest tech giants are on record in support of the current FCC rules, their size likely means they will be able to negotiate with Internet providers to ensure any changes to net neutrality policy does not affect them.

While McCaskill's support is good news for those who wish to see the decision overturned, the vote in itself will not be enough to ensure that net neutrality will be restored.

«During the meetings, we stated that Amazon has long supported net neutrality protections to ensure our customers can enjoy an open internet, and we emphasized that the company remains committed to that position,» Gerard Waldron, a lawyer who represents Amazon and participated in the meeting, wrote in an account filed with the FCC.

In recent months, the company's chief executive, Reed Hastings, has said net neutrality was no longer the company's «primary battle,» partly because Netflix is now large enough that it can secure the deals it needs with internet access providers to ensure its service is delivered smoothly to customers.

«Facebook has always supported the kind of strong net neutrality protections that will ensure the internet remains open for everyone,» Egan said.

Regardless, thanks to the FCC's new rules, there's no way to ensure that they really will keep net - neutrality protections in place.

In December, the US telecoms regulator is planning to roll - back Obama - era rules that ensure net neutrality — the principle that all data must be treated equally, and companies can't charge for preferential access.

While great in theory, revenue neutrality is difficult to ensure in practice.

Leaders have expressed their «responsibility» to ensure voters understand the stance of the church on terminating a pregnancy, adding that neutrality in the debate isn't an option.

Unconscionable conduct (agrees with NFF that they have not provided protection and support reforms «to provide transparency in the supply chain» and recognise that «certain classes of suppliers... are predisposed to suffering from a special disadvantage...»; misuse of market power (legal framework must «level the balance of market power in negotiations...», «ensure transparency in the transmission of market prices» and «not allow for final market risks to be borne by the primary producer» and provide «transparency of contract processes» - specifically, Canegrowers supports effects test and a process giving ACCC greater power to «regulate anti-competitive behaviour and impose penalties», shifting «the decisions framework from the judicial system to a regulatory system» which would make it more accessible to small producers); collective bargaining (notes limits of Sugar Industry Act (Qld); authorisation and notification approval costly and limited and not a viable alternative - peak bodies should be able to «commence and progress collective bargaining with mills on behalf of their members» and current threshold too restrictive)» competitive neutrality (mixed outcomes - perverse outcomes in the case of natural monopolies - suggest remove «application of competitive neutrality provisions to natural monopoly essential services»)

Senate Democrats narrowly won a vote on Wednesday to save so - called net neutrality rules that ensure unobstructed access to the internet.

It is therefore necessary that while each agency maintains its independence and neutrality, the Office of National Security Adviser, Defence Headquarters and Ministry of Interior should rein in their supervisory functions in ensuring better synergies among the security organs.

Jennifer Pozner, founder and executive director of Women In Media & News, emphasized that net neutrality was crucial to ensure that women and minorities could continue to make their voices heard outside the mainstream media through the power of online communities.

The vice president of a regional telecommunications group says the best way to ensure net neutrality is through «a clear and predictable national standard.»

Rep. Elise Stefanik has called for hearings through the House Energy and Commerce Committee to ensure the principles of net neutrality are «codified in law» by Congress.

A campaign on 12 July opposes repeal of US net neutrality laws that ensure all web traffic is treated equally, but to succeed it must spark a wider discussion

If the FCC does not try to reestablish net neutrality rules, broadband providers would be free to create a two - tiered market that could force content providers to pay extra for ensuring their services get to customers in a timely fashion — whether that content represents streaming video of movies and TV shows, a two - way telemedicine video consultation between patients and doctors or the live - streaming of a professor's lecture.

Ms. Monique Barbut, Executive Secretary of the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) emphasized the importance of China in spearheading work to achieve land degradation neutrality and ensuring that it becomes humanity's defining achievement of the 21st Century.

UNCCD assists country Parties in achieving land degradation neutrality (LDN) targets, reducing migration flows, creating land - based jobs and coping with recurrent droughts while ensuring gender consideration by supporting major initiatives, such as the Great Green Wall and the 3S (Stability, Sustainability, Security) initiative.

The Madagascan environmental authorities presented the national targets for land degradation neutrality to ensure sustainable future growth.

Principals and superintendents face complex decisions: ensuring safety, ensuring the continuation of the educational program, and maintaining political neutrality, even as they also must support students» right to expression.

Without those rules, proponents of net neutrality say, internet service providers like Verizon, Comcast, and AT&T would be able to charge websites a fee to ensure fast delivery of their data.

In order to protect the taxpayer, the formula for rebates and fees can be set to ensure revenue neutrality (i.e., no net increase in taxation).

«This ensures that companies who choose renewable energy can claim carbon neutrality in their sustainability report,» says Dr. Sascha Lafeld, CEO of First Climate Markets AG.

Among the measures to ensure revenue neutrality include saving $ 1.8 billion from changes to the car fringe benefits tax and cutting public service jobs.

Amongst the lesser known of Donald Trump's new appointees is Ajit Pai, whom the US President recently tapped to head the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) and who has promised to abolish the regulations that ensure net neutrality (the concept that internet service providers [ISP] should allow the same access to all content regardless of where that content originates).

It is now in our collective best interests to stabilise the ISDS system, dispense with any shortcomings thereof, maintain its independence and neutrality from unjustifiable influences, and ensure that the rule of law governs and prevails.

Back in March, Tim Berners - Lee — who invented the world wide web, no less — issued a call to citizens in different countries to pressure their governments to produce a bill of rights to ensure net neutrality and protect the rights of web users worldwide.

Just to echo Sally's comment (which seems to have been misunderstood)-- if «this rule is intended to ensure the quality of communication between people, to validate the person's identity and to promote security» — then what does it have to do with «religious neutrality» — shouldn't it apply to all situations where faces are concealed?

Officially titled An Act to foster adherence to State religious neutrality and, in particular, to provide a framework for requests for accommodations on religious grounds in certain bodies, the bill «imposes a duty of religious neutrality, in particular on personnel members of public bodies in the exercise of the functions of office» and also recognizes «the importance of having one's face uncovered when public services are provided and received so as to ensure quality communication between persons and allow their identity to be verified, and for security purposes.»

Employers thinking of banning all religious or political symbols in the workplace will need to ensure they apply the same rule to all viewpoints, and make sure it can be justified by reference to a pre-existing policy of religious neutrality.

However, it did give guidance saying: «it must be held that the fact that the workers are prohibited from visibly wearing signs of political, philosophical or religious beliefs is appropriate for the purpose of ensuring that a policy of neutrality is properly applied, provided that that policy is genuinely pursued in a consistent and systematic manner.»

According to the order, starting March 1st, any internet service provider entering or renewing a government contract will be required to sign a binding agreement ensuring that it will uphold the ideals of net neutrality and will not block, throttle or prioritize internet content.

I believe the FCC should create a new set of rules protecting net neutrality and ensuring that neither the cable company nor the phone company will be able to act as a gatekeeper, restricting what you can do or see online.

The FCC and FTC have drafted an agreement to ensure ISPs «live up to the promises they make to consumers» following the net neutrality rules repeal... and it ain't great.

Under the Open Internet Order, which was passed by the FCC in 2015, the commission has been given regulatory levers to ensure that ISPs like Comcast, Verizon and AT&T can't violate the principles of net neutrality.

Premium - grade capacitors, air - core inductors and other high end components ensure pristine signal transmission and utter neutrality.

Understanding concepts about the importance of mediator influence and neutrality and their impact on creating and establishing an impartial, non-judgmental, non-evaluative and non-coercive process that ensures client self - determination;

This ensures that total neutrality is met and that the FP has been trained in the collaborative model.

The D.C. Court of Appeals ruled in favor of the Federal Communications Commission's (FCC) net neutrality regulations to ensure an open internet in the U.S.