Sentences with phrase «government and business concerns»

Likewise, private citizens or organizations, other government and business concerns also send communications to the legislature asking that action be taken on some matter.

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THE Chamber of Commerce and Industry WA remains concerned that the federal government's proposed industrial relations reforms will have a negative effect on business, despite a Senate inquiry dismissing recommendations for significant changes.

Perry Metz, who oversees WFIU and WTIU in Indiana, told Business Insider that he was concerned by the proposed budget and argued that the percent of the federal government's budget that is spent on public media is «tiny.»

But the filing claims that Flynn's work was on behalf of Inovo, not the Turkish government, and that it concerned merely «the political climate in Turkey» and «doing business in Turkey,» related to the export of natural gas.

Nearly a quarter of the companies surveyed said that managing cash was their top concern, more than factors like the costs of running a business, hiring talented people, and following government regulation.

According to the survey, the top concerns of small business owners over the next year are the effectiveness of government leaders, commodities prices, healthcare costs, recovery of consumer spending and the strength of the U.S. dollar.

While there are still some security concerns, electronic signatures are now widely used in private affairs, legal dealings, business transactions, and even as part of official government documents.

Some key concerns raised during talks included potential UK government scrutiny as well as differences between the companies» cultures and business models, one of the people said.

THE State Government continues to be very concerned about the effect of ongoing petrol price rises and their impact on everyone in the State, from families to businesses.

Federal government is concerned with public, not private, business as it relates to power, money and the stock market.

The Greater Vancouver Board of Trade is concerned that the announcement by the B.C. government of a further regulatory process around spill response may send a chilling signal about British Columbia's openness for business, attractiveness for foreign investment, and predictability or reliability of our environmental regulatory system.

While our own government in Ottawa silently condones the plans for further integration with the U.S., and while our provincial governments continue to be completely sound asleep on this vitally important topic, irony of ironies, at this writing 15 U.S. states have expressed concern that the big business sponsored Security and Prosperity Partnership is a process that, wait for it, is a threat to states» rights and to the sovereignty of the United States.

The 2016 $ 5 billion acquisition of German robotics firm KUKA brought out these concerns among German business and government elites.

«It's clear government has listened to our concerns and acted to make sure that we can fund transit and transportation in a way that has the least impact on small business,» states Iain Black, President and CEO of The Vancouver Board of Trade.

«Premier Horgan went to Ottawa citing B.C.'s jurisdiction and concerns over protection of the marine environment, despite his government's recent admission that they were advised by their own legal experts last summer that BC has no jurisdiction to stop the pipeline,» said Chris Gardner, President, Independent Contractors and Businesses Association.

The GVBOT is pleased that government heard and responded to the concerns expressed by small businesses all across Canada: the tax measures in Budget 2018 represent a notable shift from the government's original proposals announced in July 2017.

The agency has been pushing for a political firewall to prevent governments from making changes like the previous government did when it made the long - form census a voluntary survey, raising concerns about data quality that governments and business rely on.

A topic which I have been following with growing concern is the continued practice of the Government of Canada picking favorites when it comes to business support and economic policy.

Last month, President Trump expressed concern over Amazon, declaring, «Unlike others, they pay little or no taxes to state & local governments, use our Postal System as their Delivery Boy (causing tremendous loss to the U.S.), and are putting many thousands of retailers out of business!»

My reading of the episode is that the extraordinary financial events of September and October 2008 — several large financial failures, large - scale rescues of major institutions, enough incipient systemic concerns about banking systems to lead governments to issue guarantees, investor panic on share markets — were all observed in real time by households and businesses right around the world.

«The Chinese are deeply concerned and we hear now from reliable sources in Beijing who suggest the Chinese government, the Communist Party, are developing lists of U.S. interests against which they could retaliate, commercial interests, and obviously one merely has to look at top U.S. exports to China to get a quick sense of whose heads may be on the chopping block,» said one China trade policy expert who interacts closely with U.S. business.

Party member Hong said that they had based the bill on research conducted between his office and the Korea International Trade Association (KITA) and reiterated that last years» government concerns could be addressed by more clarity: «The primary goal (of the legislation) is helping remove uncertainties facing blockchain - related businesses.»

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In most cases they have overcome both political fragmentation and government overload by replacing their old governmental bureaucracies with an innovative and effective form of governance: coalitions (composed of business, government, nonprofits, universities, neighborhood and minority associations, and religious groups) that develop a cooperative agenda to improve the city and that assume many of the city government's traditional functions (economic development, long - term planning, educational reform, even care of the homeless), and that also operate like political parties of yore (providing the point of access for new groups and a public realm for discourse, debate, and negotiation concerning matters of the common good).

The other two branches of government have no business in the issue; they need to be concerned with the bigger picture; foreign policies and matters, national economy, and disagreements between states on matters that affect national politics.

With more than 50 percent of all U.S. seafood harvested from the Bering Sea, sustainability is a major concern of scientists, the government and fishing industry so that both the fish population and businesses can thrive.

«It is something that I am quite concerned about in terms of how the government progresses that policy, and if it does, how we transition as a refining business,» he told The Australian Financial Review.

Steve Elliott said «Government in the UK and the European Union needs to look carefully at the design of industrial policy to ensure the concerns of business leaders — who are making investment decisions — are considered.

In his view, government must show more concern for local businesses and that should mean separating illegal miners from legal miners and allowing the latter to freely operate because they have done nothing wrong.

In its submission the CIOT also: · Strongly endorses the need for a transitional period as close as possible to the status quo as the only realistic way for business, their advisers and government departments to cope with the volume and complexity of changes because of Brexit · Expresses concern about the combined impact and timing of the changes for the Indirect Tax sector with Making Tax Digital (MTD) and Brexit both planned for March / April 2019.

Kamson however expressed concerns that in recent times, some non-complaint private operators on the waterways had misconstrued the moves by the State Government as a ploy to harass and intimidate them out of business and had been peddling unwarranted falsehood, claims, counter claims and litigation in the media.

Governor Cuomo has proposed a five year extension in his Executive Budget, but instead of addressing business concerns, it proposes new and unworkable requirements on state and local government contractors.

She indicated that lack of jobs for the youth, teenage pregnancy and adolescent marriages are some of the major concerns of the region therefore pleaded with government to ensure the Central region is fully considered in the implementation of these initiatives to facilitate job creation as well as provide soft loans to enable women especially build businesses and their capacity.

«If he's paying for tickets for fair market value and the individual or entity he bought them from doesn't have any business before the government, I don't think it raises any ethical concerns,» Horner said.

While Gregorius insisted on keeping much of his talk about current legislative business off the record, pending a vote and several candidate events that were taking place in West Hurley and Lake Hill last week, he did note hearing much from people about Irene - related problems, and voiced concerns about how the county's going to handle pass - downs from the federal and state governments hitting local property taxes.

The chancellor, Alistair Darling, said: «As far as I'm concerned we should be concentrating on the business of government and getting through the recession.

But business leaders raised concerns about some aspects of the 228 - page report, which made scores of recommendations affecting government departments, agencies and industry groups.

The deputy prime minister and business secretary Vince Cable are thought to be concerned that the government is not taking a sharp enough stick to the banks, and fear another round of lavish bonuses at the start of next year.

Rep. Chris Collins is pushing his business partner's brother, John L. Sinatra Jr., for federal judgeship, stunning good government advocates and raising concerns among women lawyers because he would take the seat that the Obama administration wanted to fill with Buffalo's first - ever female district court judge.

«Some of the changes needed would benefit cities all over the country... I would borrow from Mayor Bloomberg's efforts on gun control... but I have a more economic frame... I'm concerned about getting the federal government back into the mass transit and affordable housing business where it was for a half - century and should be and can be again.»

I urge you to meet with Business Secretary Cable and present my concerns to him, and to contact me once you have done so; this will help ensure that government institutes a fair graduate contribution, with repayments that reflect graduates» ability to pay, as it is the best policy to help the UK's HE sector remain world - class without placing a burden of debt on young graduates.

And even if May feels comfortable dismissing the combined pressure of Farron, Robertson and Corbyn, she will have a much harder time dismissing the growing voices of British businesses deeply concerned about the government's determination to take the hardest and most economically ruinous form of BrexAnd even if May feels comfortable dismissing the combined pressure of Farron, Robertson and Corbyn, she will have a much harder time dismissing the growing voices of British businesses deeply concerned about the government's determination to take the hardest and most economically ruinous form of Brexand Corbyn, she will have a much harder time dismissing the growing voices of British businesses deeply concerned about the government's determination to take the hardest and most economically ruinous form of Brexand most economically ruinous form of Brexit.

As far as I'm concerned, we should be concentrating on the business of government and getting through the recession.

Does he further share my concern that this would entitle him to review the decisions of Grey and Asquith in relation to more peers to ensure the government can get its financial business through»

Unfunded mandates placed on local government, small businesses, and ultimately, middle - class New York families, continue to be a concern for me and my constituents.

The Government has not addressed the huge concerns which remain on the impact the Royal Mail sale will have on consumers, businesses and communities, but ministers are ploughing on regardless.

Government agencies at all levels are extremely concerned about providing enough safe water for residents and businesses.

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Furthermore, Google is already burdened with many other risks, for instance: (1) increased competition from general purpose search engines and information services (page 7); (2) dependency on remaining competitive and providing value to advertisers (page 7); (3) being subject to increased regulatory scrutiny which may negatively impact business (page 8); (4) being «regularly subject to claims, suits, government investigations, and other proceedings that may result in adverse outcomes» (page 8); (5) «Privacy concerns relating to our technology could damage our reputation and deter current and potential users from using our products and services» (page 12); (6) «Web spam and content farms could decrease our search quality, which could damage our reputation and deter our current and potential users from using our products and services» (page 13); (7) «Internet access providers may be able to restrict, block, degrade, or charge for access to certain of our products and services, which could lead to additional expenses and the loss of users and advertisers» (page 16); (8) «New technologies could block online ads, which would harm our business» (page 16).

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