Sentences with phrase «government moved closer»

In April, the Indian government moved closer to developing cryptocurrency regulations, setting up an interdisciplinary committee including the Reserve Bank, the Ministry of Revenue, the Department of Financial Services, and others.

As the hearing was underway, the federal government moved closer to designating contaminated areas of the village as a proposed Superfund site.

All these efforts can help the government move closer to its dream of «Housing for All» by 2022.

A South African environmental group renewed its call for a moratorium on shale - gas fracking, as the government moves closer to a decision on whether to allow the process opponents say imperils water quality.

Unions, working with employers, have come along way to making these workplaces safer over the past 30 years, but there's much more work to be done - particularly as we discover the toll these types of jobs take on workers mental health and as the Conservative government moves closer and closer to total industry self - regulation (something that puts all Canadians at risk).

Not exact matches

By transferring to the private sector ownership of Canada Post, the federal government can eliminate a major drain on public finances and move closer to the goals of eliminating the fiscal deficit and paying down public sector debt.

The 12 - year old scandal over the Australian Wheat Board's payments to the government of Iraq has moved closer to final resolution, with its former chairman Trevor Flugge convicted today of breaching his duties as a director but cleared of more serious charges concerning his knowledge of the payments.

Slovakia's government has moved a step closer to breaking point amid corruption allegations following the double murder of a journalist and his partner.

IT services and consulting firm Arc Aspicio moved its offices from Virginia to Washington D.C. last year to be closer to their main clients: government agencies.

Moody's action to place the government's rating one notch above speculative grade reflects the rating agency's view that Spain has moved much closer to needing to seek direct support from the EFSF / ESM, and therefore much closer to being positioned within speculative grade.

The government of Taiwan has moved a step closer to regulating bitcoin under existing anti-money laundering (AML) rules.

KAMPALA, Uganda (AP)-- Uganda's government on Tuesday issued eight oil production licenses to two foreign companies, moving the East African country closer to becoming a producer of crude.

Scott Nelson, CEO of Sweetbridge, a global alliance leveraging blockchain to enable frictionless commerce is optimistic that governments are getting closer to a comprehensive, regulatory framework and that globally we're moving forward with laws that will help foster innovation and growth, from both investor and enterprise perspectives.

Since the BOJ already owns close to half of all outstanding Japanese government bonds of a 10 - year maturity and below, its move was viewed by some market participants as, in effect, a tacit admission the BOJ had reached the limit for QE and possibly the first stage of a taper of its bond purchases.

ICC say that according to media reports, Pakistan's federal government is considering moving the trial of Mr Bhatti's murder to a closed military court, which would speed up the process and reduce interference from radicals.

The proposals for health care in Congress this year, for example, will soon escalate the clash between religious hospitals and state agencies over mandatory performance of abortion: Any single - payer system will prove, as it must, irresistible to social engineers in government, and each twist of the ratchet necessarily moves Catholic hospitals further from the Church and closer to the state.

Move too close to Moscow, and Roman Catholics risk alienating the Patriarchate of Constantinople — whose suspicion of Moscow is hardly entirely unjustified given the extent to which it had become an aspect of the Russian government.

The party with close ties to the Serbian Orthodox Church said: «Is it possible that the ruling majority has no other candidate for the prime minister - designate but the one imposed by the West, which dictates all the moves by this government?»

During the 19th and early 20th centuries the church both invoked the law against unwarranted government interference in internal church matters and demanded that the nation reject any activity that seemed to move it closer to erecting an established church.

But we can speak to government in the hope that it can move from where it is now one step closer to the will of God.

However, in recent decisions on food labelling, warning labels on alcohol and reforms on medicines, [governments] seem to have moved much closer to the industry perspective,» Moore says.

The move could signal the prioritising of the issue within government in the lead up to the September 14 election, but is also evidence that the voluntary code of conduct is close to completion and may be approved by the Prime Minister's office in the near future.

Tom Schatz of Citizens Against Government Waste called it a prime example of how the nation «is moving ever closer to becoming a «nanny state.»»

With the government now taking on board some of its rhetoric and economic analysis, Labour officials will be congratulating themselves on moving the debate closer to their own turf.

The UK Government and the devolved administrations published the Air Quality Strategy for England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland on 17 July 2007 - setting out a way forward for work and planning on air quality issues and the air quality standards and objectives to be achieved; introducing new policy framework for tackling fine particles and identifying potential new national policy measures which modelling indicates could give further health benefits and move closer towards meeting the Strategy's objectives.

«No government has ever identified with the people as we did, and also no government in the history of Osun and Nigeria has ever moved closer to the people as we did.

But commenting on the Guardian's leaked figures, Labour's position appeared to have moved closer to the government's.

We are informed from a close source within the camp of the NPP that about 9million dollars of tax payers money may go into the intended renovation of Nana Addo's house hence his refusal to move to the flagstaff house which was built by former President Kuffour as the seat of government.

She examines how US society and government presently work, and looks for a realistic strategy for moving them closer to her libertarian ideals.

The more seats a party or grouping has, the more chance it has of forming a government - with 198 seats out of 646 the Conservative Party could only form a government if significant numbers of other MP's decided to back them, as happened in 1924 when there was a situation that the Conservatives didn't want to form a coalition with either other main party and equally the Liberals didn't want a coalition with Labour and the Liberals and Conservatives saw it as an opportunity to allow Labour into government but in a situation in which legislation was still reliant on Liberal and Conservative votes and they could be brought down at the most suitable time, supposing the notional gains were accurate and in the improbable event of the next election going exactly the same way in terms of votes then 214 out of 650 is 32.93 % of seats compared to at 198 out of 646 seats - 30.65 % of seats and the Conservative Party would then be 14 seats closer towards a total neccessary to form a government allowing for the greater number of seats, on the one hand the Conservatives need Labour to fail but equally they need to succeed themselves given that the Liberal Democrats appear likely to oppose anyone forming a government who does not embark on a serious programme to introduce PR, in addition PC & SNP would expect moves towards Independence for Scotland and Wales, the SDLP will be likely to back Labour and equally UKIP would want a committment to withdraw from Europe and anyway will be likely to be in small numbers if any, pretty much that leaves cutting a deal with the DUP which would only add the backing of an extra 10 - 13 MP's.

It's far from a cast - iron guarantee of action, but is the closest that anyone in government has come to countenancing such a radical move.

BHA Chief Executive Andrew Copson commented, «The Government is effectively proposing to allow more of our schools to become closed - off, single - faith enclaves, and the level of opposition to this frankly unthinkable move should therefore not be surprising to anyone.

The move effectively splits the government position and opens up a potential schism between Mr Clegg and justice secretary Ken Clarke, two close political allies who are currently assessing the need for a British bill of rights together.

Rolison was only one of a number of candidates tapped by Republicans Wednesday during a convention that was, for a time, closed to the public and press in move that Robert Freeman, executive director of the state Committee on Open Government, said was violation of state election law.

Government plans to ensure every child experiences five hours of culture a week moved a step closer to reality today.

Moving closer to a unified blue state government is another notch in the belt of Queens Rep. Joseph Crowley as he rises in the U.S. House leadership.

«The NPP presented a more people friendly policies... and at that time the NDC was so unattractive and still unattractive to up thinking and moral upright people because of the issue of corruption, they way and manner the government was run, the way and manner they didn't care about the plight of the people moved me closer to the NPP than it should have taken to the NDC,» he added.

«As we move City Hall from borough to borough, we hope to continue building a closer relationship between New Yorkers and their city government,» said Mayor Bill de Blasio.

As the prospect of humans who have been genetically cut and pasted moves closer to reality, governments have begun to take notice of the need for regulation.

And just as energy prices are bottoming out, major financial institutions are predicting that the stock market is close to ending its wild price swings as investors respond to the federal government's unprecedented moves to breathe new life into the economy.

The federal government moved a step closer to funding research on some human stem cells today, when the National Institutes of Health (NIH) released draft guidelines covering the controversial research.

Michael Heseltine, the President of the Board of Trade, last week announced plans to move the Laboratory of the Government Chemist (LGC), the National Physical Laboratory (NPL) and the National Engineering Laboratory closer to private ownership.

But in May a secret review of the move commissioned by the department concluded that it would be cheaper to close the laboratory, sack half the staff and transfer the rest to AEA Technology, the government laboratory at Harwell, Oxfordshire.

THE CREATION of a single Government - funded body to oversee the retention of human tissue samples has moved a step closer...

The government decides to close District 9 and move the alien population to a more «suitable» (read: far from the city) site where the locals don't have to look at them anymore.

If the government's Industrial Strategy is to be successful in closing the STEM skills gap, I believe the current relationships between employers and schools will have to move more towards embedding experience of industry in the core curriculum, and forward - thinking schools will be looking at how this might be achieved.

An unprecedented coalition of close to 40 governments, hundreds of businesses and influential international organisations has called today for accelerated action to phase out fossil fuel subsidies, a move that would help bridge the gap to keep global temperature rise below 2 °C.

May I suggest that if a senior US politician had been attacked for daring to write a novel and promote it on Amazon and its degenerate subsidiary Goodreads, the government would have closed ranks around the writer in question and moved heaven and earth to solve the situation?

Even though the Conservative government closed the business - immigrant scheme in 2014, affluent ethnic Chinese eager to buy real estate continue to move to Metro through the back door of Quebec's business - immigrant program.

Being close to retirement, I am now more risk averse and would like to move these stocks to a safer place such as Government Bonds.