Sentences with phrase «federal forces on»

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The answer depends on whether you think the federal government can play a catalytic role in forcing local authorities to confront national issues.

The federal health department released its highly - anticipated task force report on marijuana this week, providing clues as to what Canada's recreational cannabis laws will look like.

«We are pleased the federal court in San Diego decided Qualcomm must establish the fair value of its technology and defend its business practices in court before forcing Apple and others to pay exorbitant and unfair rates, which amount to a tax on our own inventions,» Apple spokesman Josh Rosenstock said in a statement.

However, the Federal Reserve increased its benchmark interest rate in mid-December, which is likely to have a direct impact on fundraising and force down the high valuations of many of these late - stage private companies, venture capitalists and economists say.

Apple, which won a federal suit in California that Samsung infringed on iPhone patents, is trying to get the courts to force Samsung to stop selling older Galaxy products in the U.S..

Should Parkin's nightmare scenario pan out, the blame would lie not so much with Carney but with Ben Bernanke at the Federal Reserve, who is bent on using the full force of monetary policy to boost the U.S. economy, consequences be damned.

Recently in Los Angeles, a federal judge signed a warrant to allow the FBI to force a 29 - year - old woman to press her finger on an iPhone cops had seized from her boyfriend's home, an alleged gang member, the Los Angeles Times reported last week.

Federal regulators are poised to impose a $ 1 billion penalty on Wells Fargo for a variety of alleged misdeeds, including forcing customers to buy auto insurance policies that they didn't need, according to people briefed on the regulatory action.

On March 28, Congress voted along party lines to kill a set of rules adopted by the Federal Communications Commission in October that would've forced your internet service provider, or ISP, to ask you before it collected certain personal information.

All this comes on the heels of the recent launch of the federal government's Task Force on Financial Literacy.

Trump typically was short on details of precisely what he has in mind, particularly how much more in federal treasure he is prepared to spend to destroy terrorists overseas and at home and to transform what many already consider the most powerful military machine on earth to an even stronger, more Trumpian - like defense force.

He went on: «New barriers to trade are being imposed right when they can do the most damage to our economy by boosting inflation, which in turn will force the Federal Reserve to tighten faster than it might otherwise need to.»

In 2006, five Federal Reserve economists published a paper on labor force participation, which was falling even back then.

An Air Force review has found that the branch failed to report «several dozen» service members found guilty of violent offenses to the federal gun background check database, with representatives of the service telling the New York Times that the reporting failure that allowed disgraced airman Devin Patrick Kelley to purchase the firearms he used to murder 26 parishioners in a Sutherland Springs, Texas, church on Nov. 5 «was not an isolated incident.»

Some of the blame has been pointed at federal regulations that force banks to have more cash on hand.

That in turn would heap further stigma on the institutions that couldn't reject federal help while simultaneously (and perversely) forcing this lending on the banks least able to absorb the risk.

WASHINGTON (AP)-- The Pentagon has ordered an independent federal auditor to stop providing the public with key information about US war efforts in Afghanistan, accelerating a clampdown on data, such as the size of the Afghan military and police forces, that indicate how the 16 - year - old stalemated war is going.

The federal government has already sent troops to Cancun to help reinforce security forces there, and municipal authorities recently brought on Julian Leyzaola, who inspired fear and praise during his time as police chief in Ciudad Juarez and Tijuana, as an adviser.

Indeed, the federal government became sufficiently concerned that in 2009 it convened the Task Force on Financial Literacy.

A federal judge issued an emergency stay on parts of the executive order Saturday evening, but the DHS and the White House responded early Sunday, saying that the order continues to remain in force.

The government using legislation to force business owners to do something that violates their religion, is one thing, and that, on my understanding, is what the Federal RFRA and various other state - level RFRA's are intended to limit.

A federal judge in Florida dealt a blow on Thursday to legal claims by American technology workers who were laid off by the Walt Disney Company and forced to train foreign replacements, dismissing lawsuits by two workers who said Disney had conspired with outsourcing companies to violate visa laws.

Reduces surging crime, drugs and violence by creating a Task Force On Violent Crime and increasing funding for programs that train and assist local police; increases resources for federal law enforcement agencies and federal prosecutors to dismantle criminal gangs and put violent offenders behind bars.

In a bid to duck the possibility of billions in extra tolls that could result, Suncor and Imperial have filed nearly 500 pages of documents with the U.S. Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, laying out a plan to force Enbridge Inc. to give them a break on pipeline rates into the U.S.

Next up for Congress is the need to reach an agreement on spending before the continuing resolution (CR) expires on Dec. 22, forcing the federal government to shut down.

A host of new legislation, announced in April, relied heavily on the recommendations of the federal task force McLellan led.

All the changes came into force immediately upon receiving royal assent, save for the provision that will eliminate the exception for facilitation payments which will come into force on a date to be fixed by an order of the federal Cabinet.

This kind of money has been made by speculating on Brazilian, Indian and Chinese securities and those of other countries whose exchange rates have been forced up by credit - flight out of the dollar, which has fallen by 7 % against a basket of currencies since early September when the Federal Reserve floated the prospect of quantitative easing.

The thinking is that the economy is likely to overheat, forcing the Federal Reserve to have to hike interest rates quickly to prevent inflation, where prices rise rapidly on everything from rents to food to gas.

And then Katherine Archuleta, the director of the U.S. Office of Personnel Management, was forced to resign last month after an attack by a group of hackers in China made off with a massive trove of personal information on federal employees, including many key intelligence operatives.

In its announcement on Tuesday, the federal task force said it wants product safety and lab testing to be «a cornerstone» of the new regulated system.

Members of Canada's medical community are disappointed over a federal task force's recommendation to allow cannabis sales to those 18 and over, with some warning unrestricted access could have a detrimental impact on developing brains.

That was for the parliamentary committee hearing on omnibus anti-union Bill C - 4, which guts federal public service union rights, and will force over a million workers to perform unsafe work.

Each of those four banks also have an outsized presence on Wall Street; each of them received taxpayer bailouts during the 2008 crash; each received secret, below - market interest rate loans from the Federal Reserve during the crisis; and three of them (JPMorgan Chase, Bank of America and Citibank) are currently holding tens of trillions of dollars in derivatives within the insured banking subsidiary — meaning there would be a forced taxpayer bailout if the derivatives blew up the bank.

In late July, the Federal Reserve Faster Payments Task Force released its much - anticipated report on how to strengthen and operate the U.S. faster payments system.

Other policies related to federalism include working to remove inter-provincial trade barriers, establishing an Alberta police force to end provincial reliance on the federal Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP); reforming the Canadian Senate after the Triple - E model; and recognizing that all Canadians have equal status under the Canadian Constitution.

Hobson joined together with three other Murphy Oil employees to sue the company, alleging that Murphy Oil had shorted them on overtime and forced them to work off the clock, in violation of federal law.

This is why it was eliminated not only in the Big 6 framework, but under recommendations from the 2005 President's Advisory Panel on Federal Tax Reform, the Simpson - Bowles Fiscal Commission plan, the Domenici - Rivlin Debt Reduction Task Force plan, and former Ways and Means Committee Chairman Dave Camp's (R - MI) Tax Reform Act of 2014.

He formerly served as a executive at the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation and a charge force authority for the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision.

The Federal Aviation Administration was investigating why a passenger window broke on a Boeing 737 operated by Southwest Airlines that was forced to land in Cleveland after leaving Chicago for Newark.

But to remedy the situation the commission recommends measures looking to centralized government control (which would only invite more federal interference and also infringe on the citizens» liberties); for example, development, on the federal level, of a plan for coping with disorder, and the creation of a special police force for suppressing riots.

The incident caused a national uproar and sparked a federal investigation into why an officer would feel the need to use such physical force on a teenage girl, who did not appear to be endangering anyone.

He lives on his own mountain in a section of the country that was forced to integrate it's schools under federal law.

In this regard, the National Housing Task Force recommends that increased federal spending for housing be allocated through a program of entitlements to states and localities based on need as well as through a program of matching funds based on the willingness of local governments, businesses and nonprofits to provide land and financing.

On April 8, 2013, the Little Sisters responded to the «Notice of Proposed Rulemaking» from the Department of Health and Human Services by stating that «the federal government should not force us to counteract through the health benefits for our employees the very same Gospel of Life that we attempt to live out in communion and solidarity with the needy elderly.»

In a 34 - page defence filed in the Federal Court in Melbourne on Monday, lawyers for Coles rejected key claims by the ACCC, which launched legal action in May, alleging that Coles used unfair tactics and misleading information to force about 200 suppliers to pay additional and ongoing rebates to participate in the program known as Active Retail Collaboration.

I get it that JO has brought more attention to the school food issue, but it is so often the wrong kind of attention, the kind that seeks to blame those lowest on the food chain — the cafeteria ladies, the local schools, the local nutrition director — for problems which are coming from the top — the criminally low Federal funding that forces schools to rely on cheap processed food; the thicket of government regulation which must be followed no matter how senseless, and hoops which must be jumped through to get the pitifully low reimbursement; the lack of ongoing Federal funds to pay for equipment repair or kitchen renovation, forcing schools to rely on preprocessed food instead of scratch cooking, unless they can pass the hat locally to pay for a central kitchen to cook fresh meals.

By Steve Gorman LOS ANGELES, Nov 19 (Reuters)- A federal judge denied a bid by a group of Christian churches on Monday to force a California beachside town to reopen a park to a nearly 60 - year - old Christmas - season nativity display it discontinued after atheists upstaged the event last year.

But while fast food customers can vote with their dollars, our nation's school children, particularly those whose lower economic status forces them to rely on federal school meals, lack any voice in the matter.

At the launch of the initiative, President Barack Obama signed a Presidential Memorandum creating the first - ever Task Force on Childhood Obesity to conduct a review of every single program and policy relating to child nutrition and physical activity and develop a national action plan to maximize federal resources and set concrete benchmarks toward the First Lady's national goal.