Sentences with phrase «forced by government policies»

In Australia last week, the prime minister Julie Gillard delivered an historic and exceptionally moving national apology to thousands of unwed mothers who were forced by government policies to give up their babies for adoption over several decades.

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This change has come about by government policy rather than market forces.

The outstanding example, of course, is the Chinese government's long - running «one - child policy,» replete with forced abortions, public trackings of menstrual cycles, family flight, increased female infanticide, sterilization, and other assaults too numerous even to begin cataloguing here — in fact, so numerous that they are now widely, if often grudgingly, acknowledged as wrongs even by international human - rights bureaucracies.

Despite massive pressure by the government to force MPs into line, 120 MPs signed a «private» letter to Gordon Brown calling for delay in the proposals at least until an assessment of the government's «Welfare to Work» policies was possible.

«The federal government must take action, but for too long forces in Washington backed by the gun industry lobby have offered empty words instead of life - saving laws and policy changes.

After 10 years of unsustainable increases in public spending, the Labour Government has now been forced by the state of the public finances to adopt exactly this policy for the three years until 2010 - 11.

Paterson tried to force the tax cap issue by including it in his last budget extender bill, (much to the pleasure of both AG Andrew Cuomo, who is also a cap supporter; and Long Island Democratic Sen. Craig Johnson), which theoretically would have made the Legislature choose between accepting an unpopular (at least among Assembly Democrats and the teachers» unions) policy proposal and shutting down the government.

It outlined its plans to repair the military covenant by increasing government support for «overstretched» forces ahead of tonight's second prime ministerial debate which will focus on foreign policy and defence.

«Don't forget that it was by positioning ourselves as the driving force in the government of Wales's first term that over 100 Liberal Democrat policies were put into action.

DeFrancisco, a Republican from Syracuse, says if no agreement is reached on some of the unrelated topics by the budget deadline, lawmakers will likely oppose any attempt by the governor to force through the policy changes in the form of extender bills to keep the government running.

The summit, which was organized by the Government - University - Industry Research Roundtable (GUIRR) of the National Academies of Science and held in Washington, D.C., 11 to 12 November 2002, included representatives from government agencies, disciplinary societies, and several education and science organizations who presented a litany of policy prescriptions and recommendations on the educational and societal forces that affect the experiences and expectations of the nation's future scientists and Government - University - Industry Research Roundtable (GUIRR) of the National Academies of Science and held in Washington, D.C., 11 to 12 November 2002, included representatives from government agencies, disciplinary societies, and several education and science organizations who presented a litany of policy prescriptions and recommendations on the educational and societal forces that affect the experiences and expectations of the nation's future scientists and government agencies, disciplinary societies, and several education and science organizations who presented a litany of policy prescriptions and recommendations on the educational and societal forces that affect the experiences and expectations of the nation's future scientists and engineers.

Rectifying disparities caused by neutral policies forces the government to impose racial classifications and quotas that require intentional discrimination against other citizens.

The program works with youth - serving government agencies, District schools and youth - serving government grantees to ensure bullying prevention policies are adopted and implemented in ways consistent with the best practices adopted by the Youth Bullying Prevention Task Force.

«Work Matters: A Framework for States on Workforce Development for People with Disabilities» represents the culmination of a yearlong joint task force effort of state policymakers convened by NCSL and the Council of State Governments (CSG) to address barriers to employment and develop policy solutions to build a thriving workforce that is disability inclusive.

Only two years ago, it had been government policy to force all schools to become academies, a plan that had been rapidly sunk by a rebellion by backbench MPs.

As government forces double - down by misleading, exaggerating, and blindly promoting misguided public policies, think biblically of David against Goliath, think cinematically of Luke Skywalker against Darth Vader and the Evil Empire.

Animal control shelters, including those operated by private humane societies, are sometimes forced to use narrower criteria for assessing adoptability than private shelters because their mandate is set by government statutes, ordinances, regulations and policies rather than by a mission statement.

Such policies address a pervasive market failure because, in the absence of government policy such as patent protection, the invention of new technologies and practices from R&D efforts has aspects of a public good and thus tends to be under - provided by market forces alone.

Who is actively fighting to ensure government policies shutter U.S. nuclear energy facilities; keep domestic coal, natural gas, and oil in the ground; force up energy prices through taxes and regulations; and endanger national security by installing wind farms near military bases?

The task force's recommendations led to the creation of the National Climate Change Policy, authored by Qamar - uz - Zaman Chaudhry, a climate adviser to the government and currently vice president of the World Meteorological Organisation.

With the BBC appearing to take the side of the Met Office by seeking to force the government to give honest answers, untold harm will likely befall Prime Minister Cameron's global warming policies on energy, taxation and the environment.

This is highly embarrassing to Pachauri who was forced to respond to questions, including one from a diplomatic official, about his reported views, causing him to declare unequivocally in his letter: «I did not even by remote implication endorse the policies of the Australian Government on climate change».

His goal in this book is «to prompt you not to lament our governments» failures to introduce the measures required to tackle climate change, but to force them to reverse their policies, by joining what must become the world's most powerful political movement».

Shell's «Oceans» scenario is one in which energy choices are shaped primarily by market forces, their «Mountains» scenario is one in which government policies play a more dominant role.

This policy has be overturned by a demand for lower CO2 at power plants, so homes now must pay much higher gas prices which are forced even higher by speculation being allowed in the gas and oil markets where supply is controlled by government policies not demand.

Since then, the Conservative MP David Davis has resigned his seat in order to force a by - election in protest at government policies.

The apology (see below for full text) specifically addresses: the assimilative practices of the government; the forced removal of children from their families; the abuse suffered by many of those children; and the resulting effects of these policies.

Rigorous decisions are being forced upon managers and policy makers, for example in the UK, where drastic legal aid proposals are being put forward by the government or in The Netherlands, where the prison system is undergoing a drastic overhaul.

On January 15, 2018 the South Korean government and the Blue House officially stated that a trading ban will not be imposed in the short - term, and the cryptocurrency task force formed by the government will focus on drafting more efficient and practical policies to decrease speculation.

Unpaid jobseekers have been forced to clean private homes and offices for more than a month at a time under government employment schemes, despite mounting evidence that the controversial policy is reducing the overall availability of paid work by replacing temporary jobs and overtime for other staff.

On February 13, it will be 10 years since then Prime Minister Kevin Rudd formally acknowledged the immense suffering experienced by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people due to past government policies of forced child removal.

The Australian Government delivered a formal apology to people affected by past forced adoption or removal policies and practices on 21 March 2013.

On 21 March 2013 the Hon. Julia Gillard AC, 27th Prime Minister of Australia apologised on behalf of the Australian Government to families affected by forced adoption or removal policies and practices.

On the 21 March 2013, then Prime Minister Julia Gillard offered a national apology on behalf of the Federal Government to all people affected by the policies and practices of forced adoption.

The Forced Adoption service was set up following the government apology in 2013 to people affected by forced adoption policies and pracForced Adoption service was set up following the government apology in 2013 to people affected by forced adoption policies and pracforced adoption policies and practices.

The service was established following the government inquiry and National Apology to people affected by forced adoption policies and practices.

On 21 March, 2013 the Australian Government formally apologised to people affected by forced adoption or removal policies and practices.

The combined practices of the Northern Territory Government in regard to the right to negotiate appear to result from a policy decision by the Northern Territory Government to process the mining tenement backlog is dealt with as swiftly as possible by forcing as many tenement applications through the NTA future act processes as is possible in a short period of time.