Sentences with phrase «highest reaches of government»

Far more serious is the corrosion of morality at the highest reaches of government and business of which we have heard so much in recent times.

Until digital readers are decided upon, on a Federal level, most companies will focus on markets that already have these things decided from the higher reaches of government.

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It then surged to a record in March, and generally has stayed above the highest levels reached during Barack Obama's presidency, a period that featured the rise of the Tea Party and a government shutdown, among other things.

Some of the cuts were expected as the government seeks to reduce troops levels from a wartime high of 570,000, which it reached during peak fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan.

For one night in June, a small East Windsor strip club will host an adult film star with a secret worth $ 130,000 that has entangled the highest reaches of American government.

Shares of Tesla Inc (NASDAQ: TSLA) were trading higher by more than 3 percent early Tuesday following unconfirmed reports the electric - car and solar - power maker is close to reaching an agreement with the Chinese government.

The government is also aware that during the 2009 - 10 recession the deficit reached an historical high although much of that was due to the temporary stimulus spending.

If we compare operating spending by municipalities to GDP, which is a broad measure of ability to pay, it remains within historical averages of close to 3 % of GDP.  In 2012, operating spending by all municipalities in Canada amounted to just 3.1 % of GDP, the same that it was twenty years ago, and down from the 3.3 % reached in 2009 during the depths of the recession.  This ratio was higher during the recession because GDP had dropped and governments sensibly embarked on stimulus spending to prevent a depression. This was before their misguided adventures in austerity (which presumably the CFIB supports, but have caused devastation to small businesses in countries elsewhere).

The government is confronting the worst fiscal situation in the U.S. with deficits forecast to remain in the 10 per cent range of GDP, and the debt burden to rise steadily higher, possibly reaching over 100 per cent within 15 years.

By ensuring Canadian oil has access to tidewater, the Trans Mountain Expansion Project will extend Canada's reach into new markets with customers who pay higher prices, generate thousands of high - paying jobs, and create billions of dollars in government revenue for both the country and British Columbia.

By ensuring Canadian oil has access to tidewater, the TMEP will extend Canada's reach into new markets with customers who pay higher prices, generate thousands of high - paying jobs, and create billions of dollars in government revenue for both the country and British Columbia.

«This is a massive cover - up of a major scandal that reached the highest levels of our government.»

But, now, with higher food prices and the English government slashing money for education, school lunch prices in England will escalate beyond the reach of a lot of English children.

Following five years of policies designed to reduce immigration, quarterly statistics released at the end of August showed net migration reaching the highest level on record, taking the government ever further from its goal of reducing net flows «from the hundreds of thousands to the tens of thousands.»

Tentative deals have been reached on parts of a new state budget, including about $ 1 billion in additional funding for public schools, a work - around for some higher - income New Yorkers to reduce the impact of new federal tax deduction limits, and a freeze on what Albany sends to local governments around the state.

Spending on education as a proportion of GDP rose steadily in the period 1997 - 2009, reaching its highest point of 6.2 % of GDP in the period 2009 - 10 during Gordon Brown's New Labour government, according to the IFS.

That's why I am proud that it is the Welsh Liberal Democrats in government delivering a national mission of reform to ensure that our young people have an equal opportunity to reach the highest standards.

«And it reached the highest levels of state government.

The leader of the government's push into alternative energy talks about fuel - making microbes, the next industrial revolution and how soon his high - risk projects will reach the market

In addition, public support for income redistribution through higher taxes on the wealthy has now reached historic peak levels: according to Gallup polls in 2013 and 2014, a majority (52 %) of Americans agree that the government should redistribute wealth through heavier taxes on the rich.

If governments fail to take any action, the annual cost of damage stands to reach hundreds of billions of dollars, at best, and as high as $ 100 trillion under grimmer scenarios, according to the paper, published yesterday in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

At the Forests Asia Summit 2014, held in Jakarta on Monday and Tuesday, a high - profile lineup of government officials, business executives, environmentalists, community activists and scientists reached a surprising common ground on the need to address deforestation.

Human carbon emissions are certainly disturbing the climate system upon which we depend, and in spite of the economic slowdown, and despite all the efforts by governments, businesses and people to reduce them, our emissions are reaching new highs.

But as American pilot Steve Watts (Aaron Paul) is about to engage, a nine - year - old girl enters the kill zone triggering an international dispute, reaching the highest levels of American and British government, over the moral, political and personal implications of modern military operations.

Frankly, Call Girl could stand to pick a lane — to be more of a trashy B - movie, or to be a lot classier, spending less time with the wayward teen and more time with Simon J. Berger as the man who connects the prostitution ring to the highest reaches of the Swedish government.

This isn't just «The Most Dangerous Game with the U.S. president as the prey,» it's «Sam Jackson as the president in The Most Dangerous Game... plus a teenage underdog and a secret conspiracy that reaches up to the highest levels of government.»

Children with high maths scores at the age of 10 earn 7 % more by the time they reach 30, according to the Government.

The event has been created to address many of the major priorities of the regional Governments for education; in improving finance; increasing access; raising the levels of quality; increasing vocational and skills development for higher employment levels; and harnessing low - cost technologies to improve reach.

While a formal civics course is not offered until high school, kindergarten students learn to «identify personal traits, such as courage, honesty, and responsibility» and third - graders learn to «explain how local government officials are chosen, e.g., election, appointment,» according to the Idaho State Department of Education's social studies standards.22 By the time students reach 12th grade, they are more prepared to learn civics - related topics, such as the electoral process and role of political parties; the methods of public participation; and the rights and responsibilities of citizenship, than students with no prior exposure to a civics curriculum.

In Olen Steinhauer's bestseller The Tourist, reluctant CIA agent Milo Weaver uncovered a conspiracy linking the Chinese government to the highest reaches of the American intelligence community, including his own Department of Tourism - the most clandestine department in the Company.

Government of Canada 5 years benchmark bond yield reached an eleven weeks high (1.47 %)

Government of Canada five - year bond yields reached a two - month high of 1.416 per cent on Wednesday.

Scientists are 95 per cent certain that humans have caused recent temperature rises The seas are set to reach higher - than - expected levels by the end of the century But experts fear the report will fail to spur serious government action Development experts and scientists have reacted cautiously to leaked versions of the first part of the [continue reading...]

Despite the high cost — at the current price of hydrogen ($ 10 - $ 20 per kg), a day's fill - up could reach $ 1,200 — Whistler residents are confident they will continue receiving financial support from the government of British Columbia and are hopeful the technology will prove viable in the long - term.

But some residents hope the probe reaches the very highest levels of government.

Because the value we put on the ability to criticize our government and those we elect to it, as well as all publicly influential people in general, the people Family Guy, etc., make fun of, public figures, have a higher bar to reach when it comes to proving defamation.

Unlike the nearly 50,000 Quebec nurses who were similarly forced back to work after an illegal strike in 1999 — but who enjoyed widespread public support for their wage demands, which convinced the Parti Québécois government of former Quebec Premier Lucien Bouchard to forego fines and reach a higher - paying settlement — Dallaire said the lawyers were unable to garner sympathy for the negotiation process discrepancies with Crown attorneys.

Nearly 90 percent of investors said they would buy more bitcoins if the government passed some sort of laws around it, indicating that «regulation, when it arrives, will be a major boost for bitcoin and ensure that bitcoin trading reaches a new high,» said Pattnaik.

This decision of Indian government comes immediately after Bitcoin reaches record high figures following the announcement by the world's largest futures and options exchange, CME to roll forward bitcoin futures by year end.

Bitcoin Price reached a record high figure of $ 10,000 in the beginning of October given the worsening economy of Zimbabwe which the government is toiling had to turn around.

Many have watched from the sidelines as low inventory, stock - rich high - tech professionals, an ever vigilant Federal Reserve, and growth - conscious state and local governments have combined to push modest - priced housing out of their reach.

The Recovery Fund — mandated by the provincial government to hold a minimum of $ 300,000 — reached a high of over $ 900,000 a year and a half ago, before the Nova Scotia Real Estate Commission (NSREC) withdrew $ 115,000 to help develop a new salesperson licensing program.