Sentences with phrase «government move toward»

Private companies can be key players in helping to curb India's GHG emissions, and they have demonstrated their interest in helping the Indian government move toward climate action.

As the government moves toward legalization, it also faces the enormous challenge of combatting the widely held mistaken belief that marijuana is harmless, according to a number of medical organizations and substance use experts.

Not exact matches

As the federal government moves slowly but surely toward the decriminalization of marijuana, Shoppers is looking to stake out its spot in the future market for legal weed.

But Britain's government is determined to move forward, describing the privatization as critical to the future of Royal Mail, which has seen its revenues shift more toward packages and away from the mail of the past.

In late August, Mordy wrote an article entitled «China's Crash: Postponed» asserting that while China is, indeed, moving toward a market economy, it is still controlled largely by the government, and therefore policy remains the most important risk factor.

On the legislative and policy front, Bill C - 11 has passed the committee stage and seems likely to race toward royal assent by the summer, last week's unveiling of the telecom policy (including policies on the forthcoming spectrum auction and foreign ownership) puts to rest a major issue associated with the digital economy strategy, the CRTC recently published its final anti-spam regulations with Industry Canada expected to follow with theirs shortly, the open government initiative has been making considerable progress, and Government House Leader Peter Van Loan told the House of Commons on Thursday that Bill C - 12 (the PIPEDA reform bill) may finally move forward government initiative has been making considerable progress, and Government House Leader Peter Van Loan told the House of Commons on Thursday that Bill C - 12 (the PIPEDA reform bill) may finally move forward Government House Leader Peter Van Loan told the House of Commons on Thursday that Bill C - 12 (the PIPEDA reform bill) may finally move forward next week.

It also begins to move European countries further toward a common fiscal policy by linking their budgets and governments.

The nation braced for a partial shutdown of the federal government, as time for Congress to pass a budget before a Monday midnight deadline grew perilously short and lawmakers gave no signs Sunday they were moving toward a resolution.

Switzerland's government said today that it is «swiftly» moving toward a legal designation of digital currencies.

Instead, Syriza has had to backtrack and move toward what the previous Greek government was doing.

Politicians and the interests behind them, in contrast, use the ideas of virtue and fairness to move decisions away from the market toward the government, where there is no direct accountability.

According to the Kerner Commission's analysis, racist white America was similarly bereft of moral resources, such that government, rather than the institutions of civil society that had been so central to the classic civil - rights movement, had to become the principal agent of enforced social change in order to deal with the crisis of an America «moving toward two societies... separate and unequal.»

Therefore, Coontz would probably say, neither churches nor the marriage education movement nor the government should do much to try keep marriage from moving toward the margins of our personal and social lives.

What's really scary is if Obama gets re-elected and continues his push toward having GOVERNMENT watching over our every move.

If there are greater and more inclusive goods than wealth, then we should move toward what Friedman does not want — either the recovery of control of the market by national governments, or the development of a global government capable of establishing the parameters of market activity.

By giving victims a voice and encouraging offenders to take responsibility for their actions, restorative justice can move communities toward the healing and wholeness that the government can't accomplish with the power of imprisonment.

Overall, the move must be toward world government.

The emir, selected from within that family, rules in accordance with Shari'a law and in consultation with members of his and other leading families, though some moves have been made toward having elections and a more parliamentary form of government.

ChildObesity180 leverages the experience and assets of senior leaders across four sectors — academia, business, government, and non-profit — to work toward a common goal: making healthy changes to the environments that children move through every day.

We're uniquely positioned to continue advocating for systemic change in our often - dysfunctional state and local governments, to move Brooklyn toward a more progressive future.

The state of California, where Democrats control all branches of government, also is moving toward establishing sanctuary status, despite threats from Trump that the state would lose federal funding.

New ideas (and issues) for preserving net neutrality; how Governor Andrew Cuomo uses technology to hide his government's workings from the public; the USA Freedom Act moves toward a committee markup; and much, much more.

She wrote down in our application for the $ 500 million that she would support a referendum to move toward a metropolitan government in the fall.

The state of California, where Democrats control all branches of government, is also moving toward establishing sanctuary status, despite threats from President Trump that the state would lose federal funding.

According to the Associated Press, Mohamed's swearing in moves the country toward its first fully functioning central government in 25 years.

«He's moving toward the three branches of government being me, myself and I.»

The move toward more natural coastline protection comes as federal agencies, state governments, and local and business leaders focus increasingly on the concept of resilience as they plan for how communities will adapt to climate change.

To move toward this goal, the federal government must work with local and state governments to make investments in water infrastructure.

«The pendulum has swung too far,» he said, in reference to recent government moves to re-direct CSIRO and university science away from basic research toward applied research.

«We are moving in the direction of bringing the temperature down toward the final defense line that governments have established of staying under 2 degrees,» said U.N. climate chief Christiana Figueres.

But I think that once SpaceX, once Jeff Bezos with Blue Origin, once Virgin Galactic, once these flights become much more routine then you're going to see it moving back away from the government and more toward the private citizen so the Peter Diamandis» of the world are actually going to get to fly.

This kind of biomedical research is really expensive and there is just no other way to do it, so we need the support of government funding and also foundations like BrightFocus that enable the kinds of discoveries that we are working on to happen in the first place and then get moved forward toward clinical deployment.

For decades South Korea has tried to deescalate its relationship with the North, not infrequently expressing its desire to end formal hostilities, which legally never ended after the Korean War, and move toward the long - term goal of a united Korea under a single government.

I love trying to move throughout different groups of stakeholders, schools, business, nonprofits, government, and seeing how we can align toward great outcomes for children.»

Charging that America is «moving backward» in its efforts to ensure full participation by minority citizens in the nation's life and prosperity, a panel of leaders from education, business, and government last week urged all segments of the society to work toward boosting opportunities for minorities.

Meanwhile, the federal government funded the development of national standards in several subjects, but the history standards were pretty much reviled by the entire country, and Congress halted, at least for the moment, the overt move toward national standards.

Will states move toward improving schools without the continued pressure of the federal government?

Council of State Governments Justice Center released a school discipline publication that documents how five states — CA, CT, IL, NC, and TN — reduced their reliance on suspensions and encourages policymakers and education leaders everywhere to take the critical steps needed to move toward a more comprehensive vision of school discipline reform — one that ensures efforts to limit disciplinary removals also foster supportive learning environments that keep all students engaged in school and improve student outcomes.

They examine the startlingly broad range of education policy changes enacted in Florida during Bush's first term, including moves toward privatization with a voucher system, more government control of public education institutions with centralized accountability mechanisms, and a «superboard» for all public education.

For most states, the new government accountability rules eliminate the main substantive barrier to moving toward less costly defined - contribution plans.

«He has helped obtain national attention to the plight of public school facilities, as well as motivate our state government to move toward providing facilities funding.»

The Council of State Governments (CSG) Justice Center has released a new report, Realizing the Full Vision of School Discipline Reform: A Framework for Statewide Change, which documents how five states have reduced their reliance on suspensions while moving toward a more comprehensive vision of school discipline reform — one that ensures that efforts to limit disciplinary removals from the classroom are combined with strategies to foster supportive learning environments.

The U.S. government is moving toward easing restrictions on airline passengers using electronic devices to listen to music, play games, read books, watch movies and work during taxiing, takeoffs and landings.

This is a $ 156 billion company (by market cap) that has a dominant position in routers and switches, and they're a well - positioned company to take advantage of the increasing move toward the Internet of Things as people, government, and businesses continue to rely more on the digital space for everyday activities.

Its strong bond with its clients is the reason why Microsoft came as a natural choice for businesses and governments when it's time to move toward cloud based solutions for their operations.

I guess I'm just philosophically predisposed to the country moving toward a simplified tax code that doesn't let the government decide what individual choices (e.g., home buying) are more socially desirable than others (e.g., renting) by giving a tax break to those groups of Americans is deems more worthy of receiving them.

Fannie and Freddie currently use a credit scoring model introduced by Fair Isaac in 2003 known as FICO 5, but the FHFA has been moving toward updating the government - sponsored enterprises» credit scoring models for the last several years.

Local governments are moving toward TNR because they recognize that it is the only humane and effective approach to community cat populations.

It brought together biologists, engineers, government officials and entrepreneurs seeking — for both environmental and ethical reasons — to move from animal husbandry to technology as a means of providing the kind of protein people crave in a world heading toward 9 billion ever more affluent mouths.

Many experts warn that the move by Australia, following rising anger there over the outgoing government's handling of an epic drought, should not necessarily be seen as reflecting momentum toward a a fresh Kyoto - style pact.