Sentences with phrase «government commission»

The firm took a number of government commissions out of a sense of civic pride and duty but also because they had little choice.

This flies in the face of evidence from renowned experts, including several government commissioned reports, on its harmful impacts on the climate, biodiversity and the future growth of forests.

In Chapter 2 I recommended the Australian Government commission an independent inquiry to review the operation of the native title system with a view to aligning it with international human rights standards.

The Scottish government commissioned projections as part of work to draw up a poverty action plan.

Both had special government commissions created to address these issues which led to conferences, meetings, policies statements and bureaucracy... 4.

The century since has seen a number of changes following the findings of government commissions in 1932, 1950, 1967 and 1973.

Excerpt: In this soon to be printed Local Government Commission report entitled «New Schools In Older Neighborhoods» principal writer Ann Kauth juxtaposes the unprecedented need our state's school system will face with the equally needed amount of revitalization our urban neighborhoods will need.

To cite the Whites: «Three hundred provincial museums there might be, government commissions for public works there might be, but the only possible paid destinations for the rising flood of canvases were the homes of the bourgeoisie.

In 1999 and again in 2008, the Pennsylvania Joint State Government Commission proposed the idea of post-divorce alimony guidelines, but those proposals were resoundingly defeated.

Like Pasc, we have previously argued that opening up public service markets requires a seismic shift in government commissioning skills and have called for greater central support to co-ordinate departmental activity and share emerging knowledge about how public service markets operate.

A COMMON thread of deceit and serious ethical breaches ran through a series of secret radiation experiments carried out on Americans during the Cold War, a US government commission declared last week.

In 2012 after the deaths of two equine veterinarians in Queensland the State and federal Governments commissioned the team, along with commercial partner Pfiser Animal Health - now Zoetis - to develop an effective Hendra virus vaccine.

According to a Welsh Government commissioned report, the predicted usage figures for the core Metro area are around 40,000 daily journeys.

And the younger you are, the less chance you have of ever collecting a pension, says Harry Arthurs, the former dean of Osgoode Hall Law School and president of York University, who headed up an Ontario government commission on pensions last year.

At the time the WA government commissioned the review, 131 claims had been filed in the Federal Court in that state.

Last year, the Howard Government commissioned new modelling after the Marrakech climate change conference in late 2001.

Between 1933 - 39, he completed several government commissioned murals under the auspices of the Public Works of Art Program (PWAP), the Federal Art Project (FAP), and the Works Progress Administration (WAP).

The day - to - day operation of the new fund will be managed by two state - owned investment firms, supervised by the city government commission that oversees all state - owned assets, the report said.

But regulators, led by the powerful government commission overseeing state assets — known as the State - owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission, or SASAC — are pushing for changes in the rules to help heavily indebted state companies cut debts.

We even may find an official Government Commission discovering what publishers have just restated and parents and teachers have always noticed: boys and girls prefer different sorts of books, and school reading schemes could and should reflect this.

Please note: Ten years after a U.S. - led war to topple a dictator and establish the rule of law, things are so bad that a U.S. government commission has named Iraq as a particularly worrisome country with respect to religious freedom.

The State Department's report largely lines up with the analysis provided by the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF), an independent, bipartisan government commission, last month.

A Spanish government commission has imposed fines of 3,000 euros each on four Real Madrid fans who displayed Nazi symbols at last month's La Liga match against city rivals Atletico at Real's Bernabeu stadium.

In response, the Coalition Government commissioned a review into the NHS complaints system in England.

The Indian government commissioned a study [pdf] to get to the bottom of the matter, which concluded that spores from algae were indeed to blame.

Kouchner was voted out of office last spring and the new conservative government commissioned Montagnier to write a report on AIDS.

As a result of earlier pressure from Gulf veterans, the British government commissioned two reports.

To help decide whether to recommend that the European Union approve the crops for commercial planting, the U.K. government commissioned three studies.

Hunters hired by a specially formed government commission tracked down stray animals — estimated to number 15,000 in Skopje — to kill them outside the capital.

This work took the form of a mock government commissioned report in which he concluded that, in light of the proven uselessness of art, all areas devoted to the arts should be made suitable for more practical purposes.

Following the Grenfell Tower fire and the widespread concerns that the cladding system — and, in particular, the aluminium composite (ACM) panels containing unmodified polyethylene cores — had played a major part in the severity of the blaze, the Department of Communities & Local Government commissioned BRE to carry out a series of large - scale fire tests on a range of cladding system combinations.

Following the House of Lords economic committee inquiry last year, which spent most of its time promoting denialist attacks on climate science, and had little of value to say on the economic issues, the UK government commissioned Sir Nicholas Stern, former chief economist of the World Bank to look at the issue properly.

The Nigerian government commissioned the operation of WEMPCO's wood processing factory and approved a new 540 square mile logging concession located on the river upstream from many forest communities and the national park.

Findings by former Lord Justice of Appeal, Sir Stephen Sedley, into the scale and significance of the non-publication of government commissioned resea...

Findings by former Lord Justice of Appeal, Sir Stephen Sedley, into the scale and significance of the non-publication of government commissioned research have been published in Missing Evidence: Inquiry into delayed publication of government - commissioned research.

In the same year, the Manitoban government commissioned the Aboriginal Justice Inquiry.

He has served as a labour arbitrator and mediator, conducted inquiries and reviews at Canadian, British and American universities, and recently chaired government commissions on employment standards, pensions and workplace insurance.

Willingham's case has come to prominence again because his was one of the first investigated by a Texas government commission set up to examine errors and misconduct by forensic scientists — something that Canada has recent experience with.

The Guardian responded to this news with: Move for British bill of rights faces deadlock: «Government commission exploring the case for a British bill of rights is divided between human rights act supporters and critics»

Their proposals will be further reviewed by the dedicated Government Commission.

Prior to transitioning most OOHC to the non-government sector and given the increasing number of children in care, the NSW Government commissioned the Boston Consulting Group (BCG) to advise on the best ways of developing a more sustainable OOHC system where children who can not live at home receive quality care.

The Welsh Government commissioned Bristol University to undertake research into adoption disruption in Wales.