Sentences with phrase «government if progress»

«PHE will advise government if progress isn't being made,» said one of the group's leaders.

Not exact matches

«All in all I would be very surprised if the U.S. government progressed with this idea, but I can fully understand why it might be considered,» Woodward said.

The pressure is on for both camps to deliver: the inclusion in the coalition deal of a clause that envisages a review of the government's progress after two years gives each the opportunity to leave the alliance then if it is not working for them.

I'll tell you why... because governments make policy based on it, people are murdered DAILY because of it, Science is delayed and marginalized because if it, and all of humanity is held back from progress,..

«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.

Everyone breathed a sigh of relief when the 2013 elections passed without serious incident, but that success will mean little if the new government does not rule in an inclusive way and make progress in the fight against corruption.

I can't help feeling that if Labour had made progress on electoral reform over its 13 years of government.

Even if the recovery had been progressing as well as ministers might have hoped, we would still have seen the clashes over public sector pensions, tuition fees and cuts to public services - police, schools, the NHS - currently driving the government's popularity downwards.

International development minister Lynne Featherstone, campaign manager for Chris Huhne when he fought Clegg for the leadership and whose London seat would likely be lost if these election results were repeated, praised him to the hilt: «He is brave and capable, and taking us into government has achieved remarkable progress.»

It's good that the Regulatory Policy Committee is there to clamp down on this sort of bad regulation, and we welcome the Government's progress so far on this issue, but the RPC needs real powers if it is to drive change and challenge Whitehall culture.

And he urged the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) to accept this progress and, if tomorrow's conference results in a pledge of confidence in the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI), to proceed to a power - sharing government with Sinn Fein.

«If the proposal for License to Practise signals a commitment by a future Labour Government to restore qualified teacher status (QTS) as a requirement for all teachers in state funded schools, to introduce, within a national framework of pay and conditions of service, a contractual entitlement for all teachers to continuing professional development and to re-establish a proper system of professional regulation which ensures that all headteachers have QTS and NPQH and are accredited to lead and manage schools, then this is a basis on which progress could be made.

The National Union of Teachers has backed a motion to ballot members over strike action if no progress is made through talks on the issue with the new government by the autumn statement.

But she added: «If it chooses not to do so, I will return to parliament after the Easter recess to set out the steps the Scottish government will take to progress the will of parliament.»

Mr Justice Mitting indicated that if after three months the government can not make progress in its negotiations with the Jordanian government he would «very likely... consider that a continued deprivation of liberty is no longer justified».

Don't think about Ukip forming the government in 2015 but if we continue at anything like our current progress, who knows?

«If a government has been there for 16 years and you don't see progress, you must move out of that government; send them away.

And if you look across the country, they just haven't made the progress that you'd expect a party to make if they were going on to become the next government.

«I want us to cast our minds back since the 1992 Constitution and to ask ourselves sincerely that if we were to take away all the things and the major programmes and policies that the NPP has put in place; that is, if we take away everything since 1992 that the NPP government of President Kufuor and Akufo - Addo have done for our country, you would realise that we're the only government that when we come to power we progress the prosperity of this country.

I have been watching with growing alarm as our City government continues to flounder, making little if any headway on issues such as police and community relations, rampant violence, decaying relationships with neighborhood organizations and the lack of progress on jobs, poverty and education.

It understands that the relentless «progress» of the Blair and Brown governments caused many Labour supporters to feel as if their communities had been left soulless.

We will support him if he is frustrated by his own party, for it opens the way for really substantial progress under the next Conservative government.

If oil prices remain high and governments make progress on their emissions goals, there's a possibility that the world has already hit peak oil, and that the next few years will see its use plateau for a while before dropping again.

As per the Bill, schools will be classed as coasting if pupils fail to make sufficient progress, or fail to achieve government imposed standards, consistently over a three year period.

The offending regulation provides that teachers enrolled in «alternative routes» to certification — which is government - speak for Teach For America and similar programs — may be found qualified if they are making satisfactory progress.

This year, secondary schools are considered under - performing if their Progress 8 score is below -0.5 (well below average) and below a further complex calculation that shows government statisticians are confident that score is accurate.

Under NCLB, states were required to implement standardized testing, and if students did not make «adequate progress» towards federal proficiency standards, the federal government could impose penalties.

Secondary schools currently fall beneath the government's floor standards if fewer than 40 % of children achieve 5 or more A * to C GCSEs, including English and maths, and if the proportion of pupils making expected progress between key stage 2 and 4 in English and maths is below the median.

Puzzlingly, lack of research evidence has not stimulated rigorous research (funded by the federal government or the nation's many foundations, for example) into why so little if any progress occurred and how federal money was actually used by the schools or departments of education that spent it.

But the balance between reactive announcements of poorly thought - through initiatives and evidence - led, intelligent policymaking needs to shift if the government is going to make real progress in improving educational outcomes across the country.

Progress is continuing apace; and when (I choose to use that word rather than «if») the science becomes more robust, and when (or if) the corresponding climate trends toward volatility of weather emerge clearly from the background noise of «natural» daily weather, then more and more governments will find motivation to act.

And so, NGOs and media and governments go out and try to figure out what was the progress achieved, if any, and establish the general belief that any progress is less than no progress at all.

If we had directed even a third of that pot of money (the typical markup on green cleaning products) toward lobbying our governments to ban the toxic chemicals we're so afraid of, we might have made a lot more progress by now... But there are small switches in our mentality we can take to make a difference.

If the government is to make meaningful progress toward its national goal to extend a constant supply of electricity to every household in the coming years, it will need to learn from and adapt its current financing structures for off - grid solar (and other renewable energy) technologies.

Obama needs to call some of the corporate leaders who are opposing progress to Washington and ask them if they really want the US government to become their enemies.

While the new data shows how fires present a major challenge to reaching this goal, Indonesia can still make progress if the government focuses on better land planning, improved law enforcement, and alternatives for small farmers to burning land.

If we try to predict what the situation might be in California two years from now by looking at a time - traveled progress report published in the summer of 2017 concerning the impacts the Governor's order actually had on the process of managing state government — we might conclude than anything under the sun can and will happen, including the possibility that the processes state agencies use in making their decisions are gummed up to such an extent that all of California's regulatory and planning activities which affect environmental issues slow to a crawl or even stop altogether.

Since the country will rely on the new plant for needed electricity capacity, and as a means of reducing GHG emissions, the government should monitor its progress and stand ready with alternative plans if delay or other obstacles arise.

«The government has no evidential justification on which to progress with these reforms and its increasingly clear that consumers will lose out financially, there will be no real or sustained reduction in car insurance premiums and if they get injured they will, with no lawyer to represent them be offered paltry compensation by insurers.

However the previous government made clear that such powers will only be brought into force after 2013 and then only if sufficient voluntary progress has not been made.

There was no mention as to if other countries could be expected soon, or how much progress has been made with the remaining governments to allow Google to offer merchant accounts to developers.

This development could be beneficial, particularly if state governments are encouraged to improve their processes and make more concerted efforts to progress negotiations.

We are also confident that if Government delivers on the words of the Prime Minister to work with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples to deliver the solutions to health inequality, progress towards the national priority of closing the health equality gap will occur.

This approach requires that governments identify appropriate indicators, in relation to which they should set ambitious but achievable benchmarks, so that the rate of progress can be monitored and, if progress is slow, corrective action taken.

She added that while it may seem as if regulators have been moving slowly, especially when compared to the rapid progress being made by companies designing and manufacturing new drone technology, the government has been advancing steadily toward efforts to finalize the drone rules.