Sentences with phrase «government took the lead»

It is suggested that the federal government take the lead on this and work collaboratively with MaRS Innovation or other incubators as well as more established Internet security companies to develop an export program geared specifically to this sector.

They also welcome the government taking the lead in creating opportunities for Canadians, particularly young Canadians, to learn more about Asia.

We should, therefore, let the federal and state governments take the lead in combatting poverty.

Yet for all the yammering of politicians about federal meddling and overreach in the realm of academic standards, nearly as many Americans (41 percent) would have the federal government take the lead in «setting educational standards for what students should know» as would assign that role to the states (43 percent).

As stated above, the government took the lead in creating college tuition loans.

It is therefore very encouraging to see the Welsh Assembly Government taking the lead in the UK on tackling this shameful industry.

Not exact matches

Assistant inspector general Robert Seabrooks noted dryly in a memo: «As the protector of small - business interests, SBA should be taking the lead in ensuring that businesses that are legitimately small are receiving government contracts.»

The state government's asset sales program has taken a step forward today, with Gresham Partners appointed as lead adviser for the partial sale of Keystart's loan book.

CNBC's Leslie Picker takes a look at the background of Makan Delrahim, the man leading the government's antitrust case against the AT&T - Time Warner merger.

Of the 476,000 applications that have been started, just over half have been from the 36 states where the federal government is taking the lead in running the markets.

If the federal government really wants to take a leading role in fostering a more innovative national economy, then it should abandon its Ottawa - centric attitude and turn its attention to policies that have been shown, time and again and across multiple geographies, to encourage productivity.

The GOP took back the Senate and strengthened its hold in the House of Representatives, setting up two years of divided government leading up to the 2016 Presidential elections.

But that carefully cultivated corporate image took a terrible beating last year, when the Indian government declared it had found lead in the company's popular Maggi noodles.

The state government has taken steps to bring Western Australia's broadband network into line with those of leading developed nations following the recent launch of its Statewide Broadband Network Strategy.

«Unilateral actions taken by individual governments reacting to emerging threats may result in unnecessary disruption or lead to unintended safety consequences,» said the members.

Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin is taking the lead on bringing together federal government agencies to coordinate regulation of cryptocurrencies, the chairmen of two financial regulatory commissions said Tuesday.

Specifically, the review will take into account whether waivers in free - trade agreements are leading to unfair trade by allowing foreign companies to undercut American companies in the global government procurement market.

Firstly, it's great to see governments and the EU taking the lead on data privacy law for kids.

This led to a lot of criticism from student loan activists who argued that the government was taking advantage of borrowers.

The survey of 925 Americans was conducted as new revelations surfaced that the company connected to the 2016 Trump campaign, Cambridge Analytica, inappropriately harvested personal information on millions of Facebook users The sharp rise in negative feelings is a significant departure from Facebook's standing prior to the 2016 election, when the rise of so - called Fake News and polarizing content led to calls for the company to take greater responsibility for the content on the popular social media site — or face government regulation.

These are the practices that Eliot Spitzer's office took the lead in investigating when Pres. Bush's deregulatory appointees blocked the SEC and other government agencies from protecting the public interest.

Government officials say it's not even yet clear which department will take the lead on the bill — Natural Resources, Finance or Justice.

We favour Canadian participation in the Trans Pacific Partnership and we encourage our Governments to take the hard decisions that will allow us once again to play a leading role in global trade policy development.

KICKICO recently co-organized a cryptocurrency congress in Argentina, which took place from the 6th to the 10th of April in Cordoba and Buenos Aires.The event demonstrated a rapidly growing interest for blockchain technology and cryptocurrencies with a KIKCICO - led group of Russian specialists meeting local students, startups and government officials.

VICTORIA — After the Christy Clark government refused to take the issue of lead in the drinking water of North Coast communities seriously, B.C. New Democrat MLA for the North Coast, Jennifer Rice, initiated water testing in three social housing units...

Cryptocurrency speculation led to a hype that attracted the government to take action in order to control it.

The new fund marks the latest effort from Chinese government entities in taking the lead on blockchain development initiatives in the country.

A new coalition government led by Chancellor Merkel still seemed the most likely outcome, although negotiations between the various parties looked set to take some time, mainly due to the difficulties of accommodating the opposing views of the junior partners in the proposed coalition, the economically liberal Free Democratic Party (FDP) and the Greens.

The government could take income inequality into account when setting tax rates; but increasing taxes could also lead to a brain drain to countries with lower tax regimes.

With the defeat of the Conservatives, and the election of a new government in October 2015, we were led to believe that these concerns would finally be taken seriously, and that the text could be amended.

In May 2010, French President Nicolas Sarkozy took the lead in rounding up $ 120bn ($ 180 billion) from European governments to subsidize Greece's unprogressive tax system that had led its government into debt — which Wall Street banks had helped conceal with Enron - style accounting.

That naturally led a lot of people to want to buy it, giving the government a reason to take out lots of debt.

That could set up another showdown like those that took place in 2011 and 2013 — when lawmakers brought the government to the brink of defaulting on U.S. debt, leading Standard & Poor's to downgrade the nation's credit rating for the first time.

decade - long low level and volatility of government bond yields led financial institution to take massive notional amounts of interest rate risk

European yields have generally taken their lead from developments in the US over recent months, with yields on German 10 - year government debt also falling toward 4 per cent in mid January, before increasing to 4.2 per cent after the Fed's late January monetary policy announcement.

«As the government is taking the lead in cryptocurrency regulation, the public sector should take the lead in transparently disclosing the property proliferation through cryptocurrency.»

Profit - taking, the stronger U.S. Dollar and government data weighed on the commodity markets on Thursday leading to lower closes in natural gas, crude oil, gold and copper.

VICTORIA — After the Christy Clark government refused to take the issue of lead in the drinking water of North Coast communities seriously, B.C. New Democrat MLA for the North Coast, Jennifer Rice, initiated water testing in three social housing units in her community.

According to the 2018 Edelman Trust Barometer, 64 % of consumers say that CEOs should «take the lead on change rather than waiting for government to impose it.»

Since public opinion, or world opinion, or the opinion of governments in general has become a powerful factor in the situation, and since the West must depend very much on capturing the opinion and the sympathy of what might be called the uncommitted powers, our future is going to depend on the kind of internationalism which does not attempt to freeze the existing situation in a legalistic manner but takes the lead in predicting and preparing the necessary changes in the status quo.

Among the many positions taken by these critics, the argument most relevant to our present theme is that the rise of international institutions under the umbrella of the United Nations system represents the leading edge of a new global system of government that has superseded the state in important respects, including the right to judge when resort to armed force is legitimate.

Government, ultimately, has to take the lead in protecting people.

«Internationally the Government must take a lead in its role on the UN Security Council to support calls from the United Nation's own committees for the creation of a «safe zone» in Iraq, enforced by UN peacekeepers, to protect the country's minorities.

Writing on his website Dr. John Sentamu said: «It is essential that Her Majesty's Government now take a lead both internationally and domestically to respond to the daily unfolding horrors in Iraq.

By 1962, he had been instrumental in the founding of Umkhonto we Sizwe (the spear of the nation), the military wing of the ANC, charged with leading an armed struggle against the Apartheid government which had institutionalised South Africa's long history of racial injustice and taken it to new and bloody depths.

American women would take the lead in criticizing the American government, etc..

«Quakers in Britain ask the UK Government to take a lead on this by halting arms exports to Israel.»

In the pending court case for overturning California's Proposition 8, which banned «gay marriage,» two leading conservative legal scholars face off: Charles J. Cooper, taking the classical conservative line that organic social institutions such as marriage have an inherent value and can not be redefined by legal fiat, and Theodore Olson, taking the more libertarian line that government should simply regulate contractual relationships between individuals and not become involved in private matters.

In the pending court case for overturning California's Proposition 8, which banned «gay marriage,» two leading conservative legal scholars face off: Charles J. Cooper, taking the classical conservative line that organic social institutions such as marriage have an inherent value and can not be redefined by legal fiat, and Theodore Olson, taking the more libertarian line that government should simply regulate contractual relationships between individuals... Continue Reading»

It is time government institutions took the lead in establishing more incubation centres to enable researchers to scale up their innovative ideas, facilitating alignment with start - ups in order to bring in new innovations, which would help in solving a number of problems faced by the society.