Sentences with phrase «first policy ends»

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But he has left some room to trim that forecast in next month's monetary policy report, noting that some indicators are suggesting the first quarter ending March 31 may be weaker than expected.

That changed in the U.S. in 2007 after President George W. Bush signed the Energy Policy Act, which extended Daylight Saving Time in the U.S. Rather than starting on the first Sunday in April and ending on the last Sunday in October, the U.S. began observing Daylight Saving Time on the second Sunday of March, with it lasting until the first Sunday in November.

In October, the European Central Bank announced a reduction in its asset purchases, a signal that its quantitative easing policy was coming to an end, and in November, the Bank of England made its first interest rate hike in more than a decade.

Within his first week in office, he lifted capital controls that had prevented companies from repatriating dividends and devalued the peso, ending years of a gradual - decline policy that kept the currency overvalued as inflation soared.

That has been the question on many investors» minds ever since the Fed first indicated it was prepared to eventually end its zero interest - rate policy once the economy improved to its liking.

Since the company's initial public offering in 2013, Voya has reduced the number of variable annuity policies with living benefits in its closed block by 35 percent to 199,000 policies at the end of the first quarter.

Their articles cover a wide range of topics: energy policy, emerging technologies in supply and end - use sectors, engagement by First Nations communities in the energy sector, and innovation's role in the development and use of technology and in policy - making.

That policy letter states: «For any mortgage... with an LTV greater than 90 %, FHA will assess the annual MIP until the end of the mortgage term or for the first 30 years of the term, whichever occurs first.»

Stephanie Taub, Counsel for First Liberty, which is defending the church, said the district should end «its discriminatory new policy».

With regard to war, two factors prevented international conflict from being specifically dealt with in the New Testament as a pressing problem: the apocalyptic expectation of the world's immediate end, so that the gradual reform of social institutions was not in the picture, and the further fact that the first Christians had no responsibility for governmental policies or influence in determining them.

Fox tells the story from beginning to end: childhood in the German - American parsonage; nine grades of school followed by three years in a denominational «college» that was not yet a college and three year's in Eden Seminary, with graduation at 21; a five - month pastorate due to his father's death; Yale Divinity School, where despite academic probation because he had no accredited degree, he earned the B.D. and M.A.; the Detroit pastorate (1915 - 1918) in which he encountered industrial America and the race problem; his growing reputation as lecturer and writer (especially for The Christian Century); the teaching career at Union Theological Seminary (1928 - 1960); marriage and family; the landmark books Moral Man and Immoral Society and The Nature and Destiny of Man; the founding of the Fellowship of Socialist Christians and its journal Radical Religion; the gradual move from Socialist to liberal Democratic politics, and from leader of the Fellowship of Reconciliation to critic of pacifism; the break with Charles Clayton Morrison's Christian Century and the inauguration of Christianity and Crisis; the founding of the Union for Democratic Action, then later of Americans for Democratic Action; participation in the ecumenical movement, especially the Oxford Conference and the Amsterdam Assembly; increasing friendship with government officials and service with George Kennan's policy - planning group in the State Department; the first stroke in 1952 and the subsequent struggles with ill health; retirement from Union in 1960, followed by short appointments at Harvard, at the Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions, and at Columbia's Institute of War and Peace Studies; intense suffering from ill health; and death in Stockbridge, Massachusetts, in 1971.

They were conscious of their great Islamic prestige during all these centuries and developed gradually an Islamic policy which came to an end only with the dissolution of the empire at the end of the first World War.

Nothing like one underachiever blowing smoke up the ass of another... we know that Ozil has some incredible technical gifts, but to be considered the best you have to bring more than just assists to the table... for me, a top player has to possess a more well - rounded game, which doesn't mean they need to be a beast on both ends of the pitch, but they must have the ability to take their game to another level when it matters most... although he amassed some record - like stats early on, it set the bar too high, so when people expected him to duplicate those numbers each year the pressure seemed to get the best of our soft - spoken star... obviously that's not an excuse for what has happened in the meantime, but it's important to make note of a few things: (1) his best year was a transition year for many of the traditionally dominant teams in the EPL, so that clearly made the numbers appear better than they actually were and (2) Wenger's system, or lack thereof, didn't do him any favours; by playing him out of position and by not acquiring world - class striker and / or right - side forward that would best fit an Ozil - centered offensive scheme certainly hurt his chances to repeat his earlier peformances, (3) the loss of Cazorla, who took a lot of pressure off Ozil in the midfield and was highly efficient when it came to getting him the ball in space, negatively impacted his effectiveness and (4) he likewise missed a good chunk of games and frankly never looked himself when he eventually returned to the field... overall the Ozil experiment has had mixed reviews and rightfully so, but I do have some empathy for the man because he has always carried himself the same way, whether for Real or the German National team, yet he has only suffered any lengthy down periods with Arsenal... to me that goes directly to this club's inability to surround him with the necessary players to succeed, especially for someone who is a pass first type of player; as such, this simply highlights our club's ineffective and antiquated transfer policies... frankly I'm disappointed in both Ozil and our management team for not stepping up when it counted because they had a chance to do something special, but they didn't have it in them... there is no one that better exemplifies our recent history than Ozil, brief moments of greatness undercut by long periods of disappointing play, only made worse by his mopey posturing like a younger slightly less awkward Wenger... what a terribly waste

The Gunners have long followed a policy of austerity as they coped with the cost of moving to the Emirates Stadium, yet the first signs of them dipping into the elite end of the transfer market came last summer with the $ 50million (Dh253.4 m) club record capture of Mesut Ozil.

Day's scorched - earth policy, under which he has won four tour events in his last six starts by a combined 16 strokes over his closest challengers (six each in his last two), enters the season - ending Tour Championship on the strength of the first five - win campaign since 2013.

Global Summit on Ending Corporate Punishment and Promoting Positive Discipline Registrations are being accepted now for this June 2011 conference in Dallas, Texas, that will assemble, for the first time, an international group of leading policy makers, attorneys, educators, children's rights activists, and researchers from multiple disciplines (e.g., anthropology, criminology, history, medicine psychology, social work, and sociology) as well as other interested individuals who concur that corporal punishment of children is an unsuitable and potentially damaging way to discipline and teach children.

First the industry bended rules to hide it from customers through a loop hole of the USDA labeling and now Kroger announcing this with NO intentions to make policy changes to end the use of PINK SLIME.

I ended up with PPD after my first and I put a lot of the blame on that no - nursery policy, which made the whole experience tremendously stressful and difficult for me.

Despite the tensions over policies, the debate ended on a warm note, when Mrs Clinton said the first person she would call would be Mr Sanders, if she won the nomination.

She was viewed as having pushed through policies like the bedroom tax which hit the disabled and, having only been elected for the first time in 2010, now sees her parliamentary career ended.

One of the Coalition government's first - and best - policies was to end the detention of children in immigration removal centres.

The Senate passed a one house bill that would end what's known as LIFO, the last in first out policy for unionized teachers in New York City, something Mayor Mike Bloomberg has requested as a tool to better manage expected teacher lay offs.

Albany, New York — The push to change teacher hiring rules to end the policy of last hired first fired got a boost when Governor Andrew Cuomo introduced a bill to extend the proposal to all schools in the state.

Harriet Harman's triumphalist marking of Gordon Brown's first Budget as, «the end of the assumption that families consist of a male breadwinner and a female helpmate in the home,» culminated in an Equalities Bill (enacted by the Coalition) and one way maternal employment policies and childcare policies

«I am sure His Excellency President Buhari will be absolutely enthused if he were to find himself, not only crystalizing the policy position we have taken so far but also coming here himself to come and open a facility as big as this before the end of his first term.

Schumer told attendees at an ESPA dinner last fall that he would be one of the first co-sponsors of a measure to end the policy.

Mr. Bellone has vowed to end the county's current policy regarding homeless sex offenders within the first year of his administration but missed his January 1 deadline to close the trailers.

It states that, by the end of 2016, a comprehensive EU strategy should be adopted with a cross-border dimension and an EU added value as a follow up to the first EU Alcohol Strategy (2006 - 2012) based on the work of the Committee of National Alcohol Policy and Action (CNAPA) as well as the WHO Global Strategy and WHO European Action Plan 2012 - 2020.

People inundated the offices of Rep. Brian Higgins in recent weeks with complaints about a First - World problem: a federal agency's decision to end «net neutrality,» an Obama - era policy aimed at forcing internet service providers to allow the same access to all websites without playing favorites.

The by - election was triggered by the resignation of Sinn Fein's Martin McGuinness, who stood down in line with his party's new policy of ending «double - jobbing» to focus on his work as deputy first minister.

«Sajid Javid's first priority must be ending this hostile environment policy.

When first an MP, he shared an office with James Purnell, who now prefers BBC digital policy to the humdrum world of Labour politics, and seems on a trajectory to end up appropriating ideas from Meacher.

By the end of the first campaign we also saw him backtracking on commitments to nationalise energy, instead opting for a similar policy to what ended up in the manifesto.

On ethics reform — a policy area that has proven to be thorny for Cuomo — the governor repurposed several items that were first floated by his office at the end of November as possible elements for a special legislative session that was contemplated but ultimately collapsed after negotiations with leaders of the Senate and Assembly.

The only way to keep UKIP out of Scotland would be to vote for the SNP, said Scotland's deputy first minister, and that independence would mean the end of «Tory prime minister imposing policies like the bedroom tax».

... We know the impact that this can have on adolescents, boys and girls, and we have the chance to say that we will seize the moment in policy terms to do something about it... We can end, once and for all, the hypocrisy of tabloids moaning about paedophiles on one page and then saying «hello Gemma, 16 today, first pictures of Gemma aged 16».

Party sources say Labour's leader will end his first week with an announcement at the National Policy Forum of a special commission to review how the organisation is set up.

Toward the end of his first year in office, Governor Cuomo did change his mind about a key policy item.

«The bad news is that the first year of de Blasio sort of ended up being a hang over after the disastrous Bloomberg policies, much like Bloomberg inherited when he first entered office,» Mr. Markee told the Observer.

The recommendations in the policy forum, whose first author is author Dewei Yang of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Xiamen, China; are created under the guiding principle of telecoupling — never forgetting that effects flow back and forth, touching not only beginnings and ends, but spilling over everywhere in between, sparking other impacts.

At first glance our findings seem inconsistent with evaluations of Chicago's program ending social promotion, to our knowledge the only similarly designed retention policy to be evaluated using comparable methods.

Mr. Fernandez has given the districts until the end of this month to either adopt the teachers» guide, called «Children of the Rainbow, First Grade,» or propose alternatives that conform to the board of education's policy on educating to eliminate discrimination against various groups, including people with different sexual orientations.

In the first several years under the policy, more than one - third of all 3rd, 6th, and 8th graders failed to meet the promotion test - score cutoffs by the end of the school year.

In the University of California's first major admissions - policy decision since its board of regents voted in 1995 to end race - based admissions, board members have approved a plan to admit the top 4 percent of students in every graduating high school class in the state.

In the first several years of the policy, the CPS retained 20 percent of eligible 3rd graders and approximately 10 percent of 6th - and 8th - grade students — compared with an almost negligible retention rate before the ending of social promotion.

Increasing public teacher salaries may end the current protests, but speaking as an expert in education law and policy, I believe it won't touch the new normal in which public education is no longer many states» first priority.

It will indeed be a cause to cheer if and when policy - makers start to turn their sights away from the zero - sum game of whose schools are outperforming on ELA and Math tests and towards the ends that chartered schools were supposed to lead us in the first place: teacher empowerment, innovation, entrepreneurism and new models of teaching and learning to name just a few.

The New York City - based Educators 4 Excellence said nearly 200 Los Angeles teachers had joined the group and signed a declaration calling for linking teacher evaluations to student test scores and ending policies that allow the least veteran teachers to be laid off first.

Mr. Roberts said the governor plans to increase education funding if re-elected, while also seeking to end last - in, first - out teacher - layoff policies.

It also calls for ending «last hired, first fired» teacher - layoffs policies.