Sentences with phrase «for national commitments»

In fact, in the lead - up to Copenhagen, most of the justifications for national commitments that had been announced by countries to reduce their emissions were exclusively focused on whether they met global goals to reduce GHG emissions unadjusted by equity considerations.

In this brief, the Hassels also call for a national commitment to reallocating other existing and new spending to higher teacher pay, which together with reach models can make teaching a six - figure profession.

Today, a Democratic candidate could bring together the party's wings by calling for a national commitment to high standards and the resources to meet them.

Where national commitments have been deduced from collective decision making — such as the case in the EU — nations should be required to explain the equity and justice basis for its national commitment.

In addition, public servants who manage and implement Indigenous health programs are often underprepared for dealing with issues of cross-cultural engagement involved in program delivery.6 The frustration of Indigenous Australians with the deficient overall strategic view is evidenced by recent calls from Indigenous health and human rights leaders for a national commitment to achieving health equality within 25 years.13

There have been repeated calls by major non-partisan institutions for a national commitment to the early identification of mental health conditions and intervention with effective services and supports.

Not exact matches

Hammond's commitment to find the funds for Brexit preparations stands in sharp contrast to promises made by the Leave campaign before last year's referendum, which had assured Britons that leaving the EU would leave the country with hundreds of millions of pounds more a week to spend on other priorities such as its rickety National Health Service.

Calgary based Enbridge, the company behind Northern Gateway, has emphasized its commitment to safety and the environment, saying the National Energy Board Joint Review Panel, which held two years of hearings on the project, had made many of the company's voluntary commitments a mandatory part of the conditions for approval.

Salesforce tops this year's list, thanks to its efforts to create a Great Place to Work For All, its commitment to philanthropy (employees get paid 56 hours per year to volunteer, for example), and for creating a globally - cohesive culture (in addition to this list, it also ranks on each of our national best workplaces lists in Australia, India, Ireland, Japan, Singapore, and the U.For All, its commitment to philanthropy (employees get paid 56 hours per year to volunteer, for example), and for creating a globally - cohesive culture (in addition to this list, it also ranks on each of our national best workplaces lists in Australia, India, Ireland, Japan, Singapore, and the U.for example), and for creating a globally - cohesive culture (in addition to this list, it also ranks on each of our national best workplaces lists in Australia, India, Ireland, Japan, Singapore, and the U.for creating a globally - cohesive culture (in addition to this list, it also ranks on each of our national best workplaces lists in Australia, India, Ireland, Japan, Singapore, and the U.K.)

UCI's unyielding commitment to rigorous academics, cutting - edge research, and leadership and character development makes the campus a driving force for innovation and discovery that serves our local, national and global communities in many ways.

«This is a strong commitment which will eventually be unaffordable,» Bell said, in one of six academic papers raising doubts about Salmond's economic strategy post-independence released on Friday by the National Institute for Economic and Social Research (NIESA).

For more than 110 years, Midland National has been an industry leader, crediting the company's strength to its commitment to stability, innovation and dedicated customer service.

NDP commitments include a two point cut in the small business tax rate (already implemented by the Conservatives); extension of the accelerated capital cost allowance for two years (already implemented by the Conservatives (but with a different phase in); an innovation tax credit for machinery used in research and development; an additional one cent of gas tax for the provinces for infrastructure; a transit infrastructure fund; increased funding for social housing; a major child care initiative; and, increasing ODA funding to 0.7 per cent of Gross National Income (GNI).

For the New Democratics, we have included their commitment to increase international assistance (ODA) funding to 0.7 % of Gross National Income over the next ten years.

The commitment in Budget 2011 to undertake a Strategic Operating Review to find $ 4 billion in annual savings followed the Budget 2010 initiatives which restrained growth in national defence spending, capped funding of the International Assistance Envelope, forced departments to absorb the increase in annual federal employees» wages for 2011 - 12, and froze their operating budgets for 2011 - 12 and 2012 - 13 at their 2010 - 11 levels.

The National Minority Supplier Development Council (NMSDC) honored Richard A. Hughes, Chief Purchasing Officer for The Procter & Gamble Company, on May 21 for his outstanding commitment to supplier diversity and minority supplier development.

An increase in national income should reduce mortality not just because it is usually associated with lower poverty and better nutrition but also because growth can be a proxy for other good things: more sensible economic policies; more democratic, accountable governments; and a greater commitment to improving people's living standards.

He has earned national awards and recognitions for performance and «integrity, knowledge and commitment.»

The National Minority Supplier Development Council (NMSDC) honored Joan N. Kerr, director of Supplier Diversity and Sustainability at Pacific Gas & Electric Company, on May 21 for her outstanding commitment to supplier diversity and minority supplier development.

Includes a commitment for all parties to provide each other's goods with national treatment once they enter a TPP market, with limited and specific exceptions.

Mr. Hemmer has a longstanding commitment to philanthropy and previously served as Chairman of the National Board of Directors for the U.S. Fund for UNICEF.

The Emerging Young Entrepreneurs (EYE) program was created to support a commitment by the National Minority Supplier Development Council (NMSDC) to advance business opportunities for certified minority business enterprises and connect them to corporate members.

She's brought in comprehensive climate reforms and a carbon tax, but she is using those commitments to try and secure national support for the Energy East and Trans Mountain pipelines, references that received only tepid applause in a convention speech that otherwise had NDP delegates overjoyed by her enthusiasm and winning ways.

To interpret the statement as a straightforward affirmation of Reformed commitments, as de Chirico does, smacks of the way Pentecostal and holiness churches were initially invited to join the National Association of Evangelicals for their numbers, not their theology, a history Molly Worthen has chronicled in her Apostles of Reason.

This perspective unmistakably reveals the unwholesomeness, not to put it more strongly, of our way of life: our obsession with sex, violence, and the pornography of «making it;» our addictive dependence on drugs, «entertainment,» and the evening news; our impatience with anything that limits our sovereign freedom of choice, especially with the constraints of marital and familial ties; our preference for «nonbinding commitments;» our third - rate educational system; our third - rate morality; our refusal to draw a distinction between right and wrong, lest we «impose» their morality on us; our reluctance to judge or be judged; our indifference to the needs of future generations, as evidence by our willingness to saddle them with a huge national debt, an overgrown arsenal of destruction, and a deteriorating environment; our unsated assumption, which underlies so much of the propaganda for unlimited abortion, that only those children born for success ought to be allowed to be born at all.

For instance, faith appears incompatible with infant baptism, and the national church appears contrary to personal commitment and choice.

The churches can unite in a shared commitment to overcome historic animosities and to work for national reconciliation.

It gave evangelicals contact with and visibility of their national leaders and celebrities, a sense of identification with a wider evangelical community, and reinforcement for their individual personal commitment.

He is properly indignant at this abandonment of long - standing commitments: «In two centuries of national existence no more pusillanimous act was ever contemplated, much less carried forward, by American officials responsible for our relations with international tribunals.»

While we acknowledge the broad nature of our concerns for violence in the media, the National Council of Churches of Christ and its member communions declare their renewed commitment to changing this climate of media violence.

In regard to the decision - making process in matters of energy policy, the document calls for «a national commitment to anticipate serious threats posed by certain technologies to the quality of the community of life and to design appropriate energy policy.

Such a community, liberated from all traditional structuring and self - diminishing dogmas, would appear to be anything but the national religion that Harold Bloom fears, however Gnostic it might be in its commitment to a grand counter-dogma for an elite.

That conventional wisdom respects religion, in its place, but it does not trust religious commitment as the basis for national thought or as a perspective underlying public discourse.

Among the top reasons evangelicals expressed for voting for Trump included enhancing our national security and a renewed commitment to a culture of life.

The company is gaining national attention for its accelerated growth and commitment to community, including Newk's Cares, an ongoing program which has raised more than $ 720,000 for ovarian cancer research and awareness.

We call on governments at all levels to come together as a matter of urgency to develop in collaboration with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander organisations and communities, health and community sector peak bodies and other key stakeholders, a policy framework, funding commitments and national action plan for food sovereignty and food security.

But we don't yet have a national emissions reduction target that any credible expert believes is capable of delivering on our Paris commitments for the machinery to deliver.

The national farming unions of Scotland and Wales, alongside Farmers For Action (FFA), this week called on dairy companies and cooperatives to show commitment to dairy farmers, amid speculation that farm gate prices are under threat.

I also have a strong personal commitment to working for fair and sustainable food systems in general, having been centrally involved in the People's Food Plan process as the National Coordinator of the Australian Food Sovereignty Alliance.

Since opening its Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport location, Matt's Big Breakfast has earned national recognition as the top 2017 «Best Chef - Driven, Local or Regional Restaurant» from Airport Revenue News for its commitment to from - scratch cooking and homestyle hospitality.

The first - ever national food waste goal is just one part of the Obama Administration's commitment to protecting our environment for future generations.

During the 2017 National Restaurant Association (NRA) Show, individuals and teams were honored at the Military Foodservice Awards gala dinner and ceremony for their commitment to foodservice excellence in management effectiveness, force readiness support, food quality, employee and customer relations, resource conservation, training, and safety awareness.

New Jersey - based Sprout Foods, an independent infant nutrition company, has been recognized by the National Parenting Product Awards (NAPPA) for its commitment to clean, organic ingredients, outstandi...

Arsenal will be keen to tie Alexis up to a new deal because although Juventus may have been rebuffed in their approach for the Chilean, who has just returned to England following on from his impressive campaign with his national side in the Copa America, there are still concerns surrounding Alexis» long term commitment to the club.

Per 247Sports National Analyst Justin Hopkins, Michigan will host UCLA cornerback commitment Colin Samuel for an official visit following Harbaugh's stop at Long Beach (CA) Poly this afternoon.

That it is only by maintaining their commitment that each can either retain their form or, in some cases, recapture it prior to stepping onto football's biggest stage or being selected for their national squad in the first place.

England's Under - 20 World Cup winning manager Paul Simpson says Everton's commitment to producing and developing young talent is «brilliant for the national team».

Carey Casey is the Ambassador for Fathers with the National Center for Fathering, a nonprofit organization dedicated to changing the culture of fathering in America by enlisting 6.5 million fathers to make the Championship Fathering Commitment.

One of the biggest dairy - related stories to break this month was the announcement that as part of their commitment to increase the availability of healthy, American - made food products in schools, the USDA is expanding its pilot program for Greek - style yogurt for the National School Lunch Program in SY 2014 - 15.

Action 7 of the School Food Plan sets out the National College for Teaching and Leadership's (NCTL) commitment to include food and nutrition in their head teacher training programme.