Sentences with phrase «in failing government»

Is it okay for a «parent advocate» to send her kids to a private school while maintaining that your kids remain in a failing government run school?

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These companies use political contributions and armies of lobbyists to cajole governments to ignore the consequences: an economic crisis worse than the recent recession awaits if these nations fail to spark growth in areas that can stimulate growth and create jobs.

Not only did the government fail to ease foreign ownership and entry restrictions in the key sectors of telecom and air transport, it rendered the Investment Canada Act's foreign investment review process more uncertain and less transparent.

If your state fails to set up a SHOP exchange in time, the federal government will be obligated to provide an alternative, most likely one of its own.

A British inquest into the death of a former soldier was told that BMW had failed to recall thousands of cars in the country, despite a government agency warning it of a fault.

Enbridge's Northern Gateway project, in the works since 2005, was likely dealt a fatal blow on June 30th when the Federal Court of Appeal threw out its 2014 conditional approval because the Crown (read: Harper government) failed in its «duty to consult» aboriginals as required by the Constitution.

«If the private plan fails and the government decided to refer to the clause in Bank Recovery Resolution Directive (a European regulation) that permits extraordinary financial support, government's popularity could be at risk of severe deterioration,» he added.

Hammers, too, had been tried before in government labs in the 1970s but failed.

DesRosiers also believes the federal government is failing to invest sufficiently in research and development, and this at a time when the U.S. has set highly aggressive fuel efficiency targets that demand much more innovation.

If Democrats and Republicans in Washington fail to strike a deal by midnight tonight, then large swaths of the U.S. government will shut down.

Big - business leaders are fed up with the tactics of conservative Republicans, who instigated a partial closure of the Federal government and engaged in brinksmanship over the debt ceiling in a failed effort to stop the implementation of the Affordable Care Act.

According to McGonigal, the government's conservative estimate is that over a roughly four - year period McKesson had failed to report tens of thousands of suspicious orders in those districts.

Facebook has faced fierce criticism from governments and rights groups in many countries for failing to do enough to stem hate speech and prevent the service from being used to promote terrorism, stir sectarian violence and broadcast acts including murder and suicide.

A spokesman for Varadkar, who is due to meet Fianna Fail leader Micheal Martin again on Tuesday morning in a bid to avoid the election, said the government was standing by Fitzgerald.

He's on trial before a special court reserved for members of government and faces two years in prison if found guilty of failing to reduce the size of the banking sector.

Fianna Fail, whose backing Varadkar requires from the opposition benches to keep his government functioning, has said it will move a motion of no confidence in Fitzgerald at 2000 GMT on Tuesday unless she quits, a position that hardened on Monday.

The Trump White House, by contrast, in its vetting of Flynn either failed to detect or overlooked the fact that Flynn had been lobbying on behalf of Turkish government interests throughout the latter half of 2016.

Both carriers launched after the federal government sought to bring more competition to the market in 2008, but have failed to gain traction.

Jan 18 (Reuters)- Investors have shrugged off the latest threat of a federal government shutdown, saying they are not worried about a major pullback in shares even if U.S. lawmakers fail to strike a deal.

Will governments, investors and green - minded consumers, who put their faith in the sun's power to help wean us off our fossil - fuel addiction, back away from another technology that promised too much — in jobs and profits as much as in renewable energy — and failed to deliver?

The WTO established a dispute settlement panel in September, a month after consultations with Canada failed to resolve Brazil's complaint that government subsidies for the C Series are inconsistent with Canada's WTO obligations.

That message orchestration starts in Stouffville, Ont., where he was reportedly set announce a small business tax cut shortly before noon, effectively returning to a 2015 election promise then failed to deliver on in the government's first two budgets.

Gerard Lyons — one of the few prominent economists to back leaving the EU, and a co-founder of the Economists for Brexit group — told an audience at the Brexit & Global Expansion Summit in London on Monday that by failing to prepare plans for what might happen in the event that Britain voted to leave, Prime Minister David Cameron and Chancellor George Osborne left both the new Conservative government and the British people high and dry.

Bombardier is in talks with the federal government to secure even more financial aid, and the market believes the company won't be allowed to fail.

And if the corporation failed to measure up — because of problems like unfair labor practices, environmental damage, unsavory tax practices — and rehabilitation failed, the government would place the company in «moral bankruptcy.»

Asked whether he was concerned that the federal government's efforts to keep the project alive would fail, he replied: «It's hard to predict the future in pipeline politics.»

The new rules combined with the Italian banking system's structural flows and weak markets globally could test the government's credibility rapidly, especially if a number of banks fail and Italians start pulling their money out in a move of panic.

The government has so far failed to clarify the standards of its foreign investment review process, which garnered headlines as the government rejected BHP's takeover of Potash Corp and became even more muddled in the aftermath of the CNOOC / Nexen and Petronas / Progress takeovers.

The Socialists have seen their support crumble as Hollande and his government have failed to live up to promises to cut unemployment while tax hikes early in his term hit voters hard.

Europe's second - highest court has rejected a request from the U.S. government to intervene in Apple's challenge against an EU order to pay back taxes of up to 13 billion euros ($ 15.3 billion) because it failed to prove a direct interest in the outcome of the case.

China's Ministry of Ecology and Environment (MEE) held talks on Thursday with leading government officials in three cities in north China that failed to meet air improvement targets.

Despite this support, the Colombian government has continued to hire defense contractors that are not U.S. - based and fails to ensure that American intellectual property is protected, as required in the U.S. - Colombia Free Trade agreement.

Edison Lee of Jefferies, an investment bank, thinks that ZTE has a shot at negotiating the ban away, but that if it fails it will hope to involve the Chinese government in a mediation process.

The federal government failed to make its case that something about trading stocks and bonds and derivatives has changed so fundamentally in recent times that Ottawa must now step in.

But if those overtures to the provinces fail, the court ruling left the federal government room to regulate in limited areas on its own — that's Hyndman's «move forward with federal legislation» option.

an independent agency of the federal government, created in 1933, charged with preserving and promoting public confidence in the U.S. financial system by insuring deposits in banks and thrift institutions up to applicable limits; by identifying, monitoring, and addressing risks to the deposit insurance funds; and by limiting the effect on the economy and the financial system when a bank or thrift institution fails; further information on the FDIC and FDIC coverage may be found at fdic.gov

So, if our fearless leaders fail to come to some agreement by midnight tonight, and the U.S. government partially shuts down for the first time in 17 years, you may be wondering...

For sure, Mr. Moore would be on surer footing here if the Conservative Party of Canada hadn't pleaded guilty to violating election spending limits in 2008 and if the Harper government wasn't the only government in this country's history to have been found in contempt of Parliament and if the RCMP wasn't said to be presently investigating Mr. Harper's former chief of staff and and if two Conservative MPs weren't presently in court with Elections Canada and if the Prime Minister hadn't left for Peru without facing the House on the first day that Parliament was in session after the deal between Mr. Wright and Mr. Duffy was revealed and if the Prime Minister hadn't fail to show up in the House on the following Monday and if Mr. Duffy hadn't remained a Conservative senator for awhile despite having apparently claimed a housing allowance he shouldn't have.

YANGON, May 3 Journalists in Myanmar believe their government is failing to defend media freedom despite the transition from harsh military rule to an elected government of Aung San Suu Kyi, according to a survey published to mark World Press Freedom Day on Thursday.

Albertans once tried and failed to rope in B.C.'s government.

The IMF added that if growth was lower than expected or if the Greek government failed to meet targets for running a surplus on its budget excluding interest payments, there would be «significant increases in debt and gross financing needs».

Without fail, monetizing large government deficits has triggered massive rises in inflation in the United States and elsewhere.

B.C.'s new NDP government is trying to block expansion of the Trans Mountain in court by arguing that Ottawa failed to evaluate the project's risks to the marine environment, which B.C. says is a breach of its obligation to consider the national interest.

Earlier this month, the B.C. Liberal government took flak for failing in its promise to create 5,000 new long - term care beds by 2006.

The Report also fails to acknowledge that the IMF forecasts the federal government to still be in a deficit in 2015 - 16.

Notley says her government will seek intervener status in the court proceedings and she expects B.C. will fail.

The decision means a previously obscure grouping of senior officials - the Financial Institutions Supervisory Committee - will be thrust into the spotlight as Canada's answer to the pledge the federal government and its allies in the Group of 20 made to correct regulatory failings that contributed to the financial crisis.

Consider these risks before investing: The value of securities in the fund's portfolio may fall or fail to rise over extended periods of time for a variety of reasons, including general financial market conditions, changing market perceptions, changes in government intervention in the financial markets, and factors related to a specific issuer, industry, or sector and, in the case of bonds, perceptions about the risk of default and expectations about changes in monetary policy or interest rates.

A flurry of last - minute moves by the House, Senate and White House late Monday in Washington failed to break a bitter budget standoff over President Obama's health care law, setting in motion the first government shutdown in nearly two decades.

After two failed starts by separate investment funds, a new Chinese blockchain innovation fund has solidified the nation's long - term commitment to blockchain technology and has over a billion USD in government backing.