Sentences with phrase «first measure announced»

The first measure announced this afternoon was legislation to secure fixed parliamentary terms, which will mean the date of the next general election will be 7 May 2015 - «a hugely significant constitutional innovation,» Mr Clegg said.

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South Korea will also develop ways to tax virtual currencies, led by the finance ministry, and should announce measures within the first half of the year to develop the blockchain industry, Hong said.

The Girl Scouts of the U.S.A., the group's parent organization, just announced that it will allow online cookie sales starting next season (although individual scout councils must first vote to approve the measure).

«If confirmed, this will be the first time in the past half year that the central government announces supportive measures — not just the local governments — raising some people's hope that there may be more central government support if the housing market does not recover,» Du Jinsong, a property analyst for Credit Suisse in Hong Kong, wrote in a note.

He'd already taken a step in that direction back in June when he announced the last rate cut and first revealed the bank's asset - backed securities purchasing program and Targeted Longer - Term Refinancing Operations (TLTROs), but now he's reinforced that message with more measures.

Early concepts of an energy - efficient semi-truck were first announced by the company back in May, and it looks the plan, by some measure, has finally materialized and is set to move forward once and for all, with 2020 as the company's expected operation date.

PBOC Governor Yi reiterated some key measures first announced in November, saying that foreign ownership caps on securities companies, fund managers and life insurers will be fully scrapped in three years.

The measures, which were first announced last Friday, have set the markets in disarray, as investors braced for a more hostile environment for global trade.

The majority of the measures announced today are aimed at dealing with fraud and error once it is in the system rather than stopping it entering the system in the first place.

The first would be positive about measures announced in the Autumn Statement.

The campaign against the law was first announced in January by Cuomo during the State of the State address, part of a multi-sided effort to oppose the measure.

Labour's shadow secretary of state for housing, John Healey MP, said: «The Prime Minister should be embarrassed to be fronting up these feeble measures first announced a year ago.

He announced a wave of measures to improve the way the directorate deals with immigration, and Home Office minister Liam Byrne said today that the first step in this effort was ensuring current laws were properly enforced.

Alesi, the first of four Republicans to announce they would vote yes for the measure that ultimately passed the Senate 33 - 29, has subsequently been warmly embraced by the LGBT community.

The measures were announced in the first of six State of the State addresses Cuomo is delivering around the state starting Monday and ending Wednesday.

With a capacity crowd expected inside First Niagara Center - and the possibility of many protesters outside - Buffalo Police have announced some of the security measures for Monday's campaign rally in support of presidential candidate Donald Trump.

The gun control measures a tearful President Barack Obama announced Tuesday would not have prevented the slaughters of 20 first - graders at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, or 14 county workers at a holiday party in San Bernardino, California.

First, it was announced that there would be a free vote on the issue — a measure traditionally allowed for matters of conscience.

John McDonnell, the shadow chancellor, said that information buried in the small print of last month's Office for Budget Responsibility report showed that three tax avoidance measures were now expected to raise significantly less than when they were first announced.

First, the measures have been announced but not yet implemented; second, we do not yet know which specific public services will feel the pain of spending cuts; third, we don't yet know whether the economy will keep growing or slip back into recession.

The new finding brings a measure of closure to a story that first rocked the science world in February 2004, when Hwang and colleagues at Seoul National University announced they had cloned a female donor's cell by transferring its nucleus into one of her egg cells stripped of its nucleus in a procedure known as somatic cell nuclear transfer (SCNT), and harvested embryonic stem cells from the resulting fusion.

Now, the big news — announced in today's Astrophysical Journal paper — is that the evolution of the EBL over the past 5 billion years has been measured for the first time.

First announced by Ubisoft at E3 2013 and heading to Xbox One and XBLA at an unannounced future date, Trials Fusion is the next game in RedLynx's physics - based motorcycle racing series that found no small measure of success on Xbox Live Arcade.

In her first major speech on the NHS since taking office, the prime minister Theresa May is set to announce new measures to support schools to identify children suffering from mental illness.

First, the TEA announced a lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of TVAAS - based merit pay for teachers, a measure supported by the Haslam Administration.

Ofqual's report said: «The decrease in early entry across all subjects, excluding English literature, is possibly explained by the change to school performance measures announced by the Department for Education in September 2013, when the secretary of state announced that only a student's first result in a subject would count towards performance tables.»

Just six weeks after the global reveal of the all - new 2017 Honda Ridgeline at the 2016 North American International Auto Show, the SEMA Garage is proud to announce the aftermarket industry's first measuring session.

Bethesda, MD, January 12, 2012 — ProShares, the country's fourth most successful exchange traded fund (ETF) company, 1 today announced the launch of ProShares 30 Year TIPS / TSY Spread (NYSE: RINF) and ProShares Short 30 Year TIPS / TSY Spread (NYSE: FINF), the first ETFs designed to provide exposure to breakeven inflation, 2 a widely followed measure of inflation expectations.

The government is introducing a number of other measures that have consequences for the personal finances of Canadians, although they were first announced last fall and not in Budget 2015.

Blizzard has announced a new security measure for World of Warcraft and Starcraft II, which surprisingly doesn't involve remembering the name of your first girlfriend, the city you were born in, or any other personal question.

- 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

The former sounded at first as though it was going to be a traditional slimline console, but Microsoft then announced it would bundle in an Ultra HD Blu - ray player and support for 4K streaming for good measure.

In September, the Chinese government announced a plan to tackle the high levels of air pollution including for the first time measures to cut coal consumption.

California - based Virgin America (which is an entirely separate company than Virgin Atlantic, by the way...) has announced that it has become the first US airline to join The Climate Registry, committing to report all of its greenhouse gas emissions: Young Fleet Helps Lower Emissions Founded in 2007, Virgin Atlantic touts its fuel saving measures: It operates a very young fleet of aircraft (Airbus A320s) which on a fleet - wide basis means that Virgin America emits about 25 % fewer emissions than other domestic carriers on the routes it flies.

Other measures that have been announced in recent years include opening up more land for development, piloting public sector land auctions, streamlining planning applications with a fast track for major infrastructure projects and offering first time buyers an equity investment towards the deposit on new build homes.

Following up on the European Council conclusions of June 2017, echoed by G7 and G20 leaders, the proposed measures constitute a first element of the Anti-Terrorism package announced by President Juncker.

In preparation for Mr. Zuckerberg's testimony, his first such appearance, Facebook has spent the last couple of weeks trying to transform its public image from a defiant, secretive behemoth into a contrite paragon of openness, announcing a string of new privacy and anti-abuse measures and making company executives available for numerous interviews.

The agency announced it will raise premiums and sell delinquent loans as it seeks to avoid taking aid from taxpayers for the first time in its 78 - year history, but when asked whether those steps will be enough to overcome the deficit, FHA Acting Commissioner Carol Galante declined to speculate on whether these measures would be enough to keep the agency from seeking Treasury assistance.