Sentences with phrase «international standing by»

The boom in hydraulic fracturing and tight oil production in the United States has helped undermine Russia's international standing by contributing to plummeting global oil prices.

Developed at the behest of governors, chief state school officers, and business leaders, the standards have been adopted in a large number of states in part as a response to lagging international standing by U.S. students.

The latest on each state's international standing By Paul E. Peterson, Ludger Woessmann, Eric A. Hanushek and Carlos X. Lastra - Anadón Fall 2011

Not exact matches

Valeant Pharmaceuticals International (vrx) said on Tuesday it would reorganize, and stood by its full - year forecast, as it attempts to restore investor confidence after facing a storm of criticism over its business practices.

China sent weapons to 9 sub-Saharan countries and was the only one in the top three to send arms to South Sudan, a country whose oil industry and international standing are both threatened by an ongoing civil war.

Australia's standing in world financial markets was reinforced recently when it was one of the «significant financial centres» invited to join the Financial Stability Forum, a group set up by G7 to monitor the international financial system.

In October, Schiff, the president of Euro Pacific Capital, told the International Business Times that he still stands by his prediction of gold reaching $ 5,000 per ounce.

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Additionally, as a heart disease survivor and National Volunteer for the American Heart Association, Star uses her international public platform to positively impact the lives of all women by empowering them to take action, stand stronger and join the fight against heart disease.

Now in its thirty - sixth year, the annual Feast of Tabernacles celebration, sponsored by the International Christian Embassy (ICEJ — the J stands for its headquarters in Jerusalem), attracts thousands of Pentecostal Christians from around the world to Israel.

Consistent with the Hoover Report's recommendations that the United States had to reconsider «long - standing American concepts of fair play» and «learn to subvert, sabotage and destroy our enemies,» the shadow government built alliances between U.S. government officials, the Mafia, and international drug cartels; assassinated many thousands of civilians in Southeast Asia; carried out or attempted assassination of foreign leaders; trained death squads and secret police forces; worked to shore up unpopular dictators like the Shah of Iran and the Somoza dictatorship in prerevolutionary Nicaragua; worked to destabilize «unfriendly» governments such as Allende in Chile and the Sandinistas in Nicaragua; cooperated with the Colombian drug cartel to plot the assassination of the former U.S. ambassador to Costa Rica, Lewis Tambs, with the intention of justifying a U.S. invasion of Nicaragua by blaming his death on the Sandinistas; contracted with the Reagan administration and the National Security Council to find ways of circumventing a congressional ban prohibiting aid to the contras, including the trading of arms to Iran in exchange for hostages and money for the contras; illegally shipped weapons from the United States to the contras and allowed returning planes to use the same protected flight paths to transport drugs into the United States; 11 targeted the U.S. people for disinformation campaigns; and helped prepare contingency plans for declaring a form of martial law in the United States that would have formally suspended constitutional freedoms.

He is properly indignant at this abandonment of long - standing commitments: «In two centuries of national existence no more pusillanimous act was ever contemplated, much less carried forward, by American officials responsible for our relations with international tribunals.»

Taliman, 53, also wrote about long - standing efforts by Native Americans to stop the «appropriation and exploitation of sacred ceremonies,» pointing to a 1993 international gathering in South Dakota of 500 Lakota, Dakota and Nakota nation representatives.

This Sunday, many American churches will observe «Stand with the Persecuted,» a day of activism sponsored by the Family Research Council, Open Doors, the Institute on Religion and Democracy, Voice of the Martyrs, In Defense of Christians, Christian Solidarity Worldwide — USA, International Christian Concern, and the 21st Century Wilberforce Initiative.

The satellite - generated maps, developed by the International Rice Research Institute in collaboration with sarmap and the Department of Agriculture - Philippine Rice Research Institute (DA - PhilRice), show that flooding has affected about 1,800 hectares of standing rice crop across 15 municipalities and that the typhoon badly damaged buildings where harvested rice may have been stored.

With the large - scale EIT Food project, since 2016 the pan-European food industry has been on the way to reinforce its importance and economic power worldwide and standing out against international competition by linking and introducing innovative technologies.

The changes have been designed to ensure the Australian red meat industry maintains its global reputation as a world leader in food safety, integrity and traceability, giving producers the evidence to stand by what they sell and stay ahead of international competitors.

While Vonn stands to make a killing in endorsements, Van, who won the gold medal at the women's world championships in 2009, holds on to her job as a physical - therapy assistant, blocked from the chance for gold by the International Olympic Committee's senseless refusal to allow women to compete in ski jumping.

Since 2004, teams have followed the international model of lining up either side of the centre - line, standing to attention for a ceremony that entirely by coincidence lasts exactly as long as one advert break.

Wenger is reportedly a long term admirer of the 25 year - old and todays news that Chelsea will definitely not be standing in the way of any potential bid for the German international wll be welcomed by Arsenal fans.

At the medal ceremony, he stood off to the side glaring at the international wrestling officials, gesturing and cursing until he was pushed to the podium by his coach.

Wayne Rooney made headlines by breaking Sir Bobby Charlton's long - standing goal - scoring record, while Harry Kane also continued his goal - scoring run at international level.

Nestle's claims do not stand up to scrutiny and break the international marketing standards introduced by the World Health Assembly.

The International Code, which is designed to protect infant health, expressly forbids the advertising of formula products and clearly states that information about infant nutrition should not come from the very industry that stands to gain the most by undermining breastfeeding.

The nation's largest professional organization for lactation professionals, the International Lactation Consultant Association, has become so alarmed by growing numbers of parents using Ezzo's «infant management program» with poor results that, at its recent international conference in July, the group offered a presentation to a standing - room - only audience on how to deal with «rigid approaches to care giving» in the clients tInternational Lactation Consultant Association, has become so alarmed by growing numbers of parents using Ezzo's «infant management program» with poor results that, at its recent international conference in July, the group offered a presentation to a standing - room - only audience on how to deal with «rigid approaches to care giving» in the clients tinternational conference in July, the group offered a presentation to a standing - room - only audience on how to deal with «rigid approaches to care giving» in the clients that they see.

And Britain could have played its part in ensuring the international community stood by the people of Libya in practice rather than standing behind the unfounded hopes of potential progress only in principle.»

It would be tragic if the region and the international community were to stand by and watch Burundians killed as they demonstrate for their democratic rights, the country disintegrates into civil war, and ethnicity used instrumentally by unscrupulous politicians.

The international community has rightly been condemned for standing by and allowing genocide to occur in Rwanda in 1994, and in Darfur in 2003.

A broadly similar view that it involves» a slip into racialised language» was taken by a Guardian editorial which is critical of Hazel Blears position and rather sympathetic to both Daud Abdullah and the MCB: «It is also true that a document signed by Mr Abdullah at a recent international conference is in many ways offensive, with sweeping threats against those who stand with Israel and a slip into racialised language in relation to the Jewish state».

Ace Ghanaian award winning OAP, tourism and destination marketing expert & CEO of West Africa's leading travel and tours provider, Gilbert Abeiku Aggrey, known famously as Abeiku Santana in proper proceedings attended and participated entirely as an international hosted buyer in all tasks at the year's Africa Travel Indaba 2018, which stand in as the largest tourism marketing show on the African calendar, proudly organized by Synergy Business Events on behalf of South African Tourism.

Recent remarks made by former United Nations Secretary - General Kofi Annan, advising Kenyans not to vote for presidential candidates who face trial at the International Criminal Court have caused a storm, as the two politicians concerned prepare to announce who their coalition will nominate to stand.

«It's extremely positive that the Chancellor is standing by his promise to dedicate 0.7 % of national income to international aid next year.

The leaflet, purportedly written by the «International Jewish Anti-Zionist Network», suggested that the group, who are long - standing Labour affiliates, were no longer welcome.

U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara said Thursday the city's DOE stood by and did nothing while Pan American International High School Principal Minerva Zanca compared one of the school's black teachers to «a gorilla in a sweater» with «f — ing nappy hair» and demeaned another for having «big lips.»

In 2015, Mr Kenyatta did act, he suspended and eventually removed five ministers and other high ranking officials over corruption allegations but this bold initiative which improved Kenya's standing in the latest Transparency International was misinterpreted by the opposition and its allies.

He believed that the UK needed to stand by America and that they were going to do it anyway, so Britain might as well try to influence it and keep the international community together.

Dr Roach, who is an Executive Board member of Education International, said: «Our delegation is here to show the authorities in Bahrain that the world is watching and that we will not stand by while repression, torture and abuse of citizens is continuing.

The only way for us to respond to this vast array of challenges is for likeminded nations and peoples to come together and defend the international order that we have worked so hard to create — and the values of liberty, democracy, human rights and the rule of law by which we stand.

Clegg will not stand again, however, but his successor has already been selected by the party - international development worker Laura Gordon.

The International community, which include UN, ECOWAS and the AU must be commended for standing by Gambian electorates and insisting on Jammeh's exit from power.

It also stands to reason therefore that the intense media focus on the allegations of corruption in the Judiciary as well as the repetition of some obviously false allegations against government in 2015 contributed to the perception... We commend all stakeholders who have genuinely contributed to this enviable feat as proclaimed by Transparency International,» the Minister added.

National Commissioner and Chairman, Election Observation & Party Monitoring Committee (EOPMC), Prof. Anthonia Okoosi - Simbine (standing), delivering her remarks during the Train the Trainers workshop on Campaign Finance, Monitoring and Tracking for the EPM staff, organised by the International Foundation for Electoral Systems (IFES), in Owerri, Imo state recently.

Despite Ghana's standing as a beacon of democracy on the African continent, the country's decision not to succumb to advocacy for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) rights, has been questioned by some sections of the international community and even met by indirect threats.

The thermometer dipped to 31 degrees at Buffalo Niagara International Airport in Cheektowaga before 6 a.m.. That's where the temperature stood at 7 a.m., and there's a chance it could dip by another degree or two, according to the National Weather Service.

(ME stands for «myalgic encephalomyelitis,» and the meeting was convened by the International Association for CFS / ME.)

The group of Majed Chergui at EPFL, along with national and international colleagues, have shed light on this long - standing question by using a combination of cutting - edge experimental methods: steady - state angle - resolved photoemission spectroscopy (ARPES), which maps the energetics of the electrons along the different axis in the solid; spectroscopic ellipsometry, which determines the optical properties of the solid with high accuracy; and ultrafast two - dimensional deep - ultraviolet spectroscopy, used for the first time in the study of materials, along with state - of - the - art first - principles theoretical tools.

In August a 424 - person vote by the International Astronomical Union (IAU) in Prague settled the long - standing debate over how many planets our solar system contains, bumping Pluto and fixing the number at a modest eight.

«This platform has the potential to accelerate our ability to understand and treat ALS by removing a long - standing hurdle to discovery, and ALS Canada is thrilled to be supporting it as part of this international partnership,» stated David Taylor, Ph.D., Vice President, Research, ALS Society of Canada.

It is also expected that the applicant would be of international standing as demonstrated by peer review experience, invited keynote talks, international collaboration, conference and workshop organisation etc., as indicators of scientific maturity.

Her high standing in the international community is highlighted by a total citation record of 5392; prestigious international keynote lectures; invited high profile collaborations such as Genome 10K;