Sentences with phrase «introduced new measures»

Back in March, Allianz Global Assistance introduced new measures intended to make it easier for customers to file insurance claims.

In the last decade, IIASA researchers have published a large body of research showing that the very boundary of «old age» should shift with changes in life expectancy, and have introduced new measures of aging that are based on population characteristics, giving a more comprehensive view of population aging.

Texas has introduced new measures to monitor earthquakes.

The Bank of Ghana in a bid to save the cedi from further depreciation introduced new measures to save the cedi.

After being criticized for censoring user accounts of sexual assault, travel rating and reservation site TripAdvisor has introduced new measures to make sure similar incidents are not hidden from users.

The move reversed an almost equally feverish rise in recent days that had appeared to be driven by concerns that China will introduce new measures to stop its citizens moving money out of the country.

The U.S. is introducing new measures that will make it harder for Europeans with dual citizenship in Syria, Iraq, Sudan and Iran to enter the country.

HMRC will also introduce new measures to provide help and support for businesses, including a dedicated phone service and online forum for new businesses and self - employed individuals.

Her bill would create protections which are inclusive, applying to all torture survivors; preventive, rather than waiting for harm to occur; and effective, by introducing new measures to ensure the Home Office lives up to its promises.

Now, the Department for Business, Innovation & Skills (BIS), headed by Vince Cable is seeking to introduce new measures on corporate transparency and accountability.

Sen. Tony Avella, D - Queens, introduced a new measure last week with the hope of reviving the millionaires tax.

A survey of 17,500 AA members highlights the problems facing Gordon Brown's government in introducing the new measures, though 42 per cent backed the idea in principle.

«We will equally not compromise on the selection of these centres as they will fully be responsible for our registration and examinations and other related responsibilities that they will be saddled with from time to time as we introduce new measures.»

However, despite having been defended by Schools Minister Nick Gibb just a few months ago as being necessary to «ensure that pupils receive an inclusive and broad - based education», the Government has decided to shelve the cap, allow religious schools to become entirely single - faith in their intake, and then introduce new measures to break down the further segregation this will cause.

In fact, opposition politicians accuse the government of introducing the new measure in order to avoid a 12 June referendum on the return of nuclear power that the government looked set to lose.

The new proposals look to set up a specific point of contact at local councils for parents and teachers in order to raise concerns about a child, as well as introduce new measures to discover how many children are being home - schooled beyond the reach of inspectors.

That's why we are introducing new measures to transform failing and coasting schools, funding the best academy chains to share excellence in struggling regions in the North and creating a National Teaching Service - sending some of our best teachers to the areas that need them most.»

Around # 50 million a year is expected to be spent on the expansion plans while the government will also introduce new measures making it easier for new faith schools to open, and force universities and private schools to play a bigger role in the running of local schools.

The government recently announced plans to tackle failing schools by introducing a new measure to turn all schools rated «inadequate» by Ofsted into academies.

States should then introduce newer measures for use in school classifications once they have collected data that are valid, reliable, and not subject to manipulation in a high - stakes environment.

K. J. Martijn Cremers and Antti Petajisto introduced the new measure of active portfolio management, called Active Share, which represents the share of portfolio holdings that differ from the benchmark index holdings.

The federal government is planning to introduce new measures in an effort to close the U.S. price gap in Canada, according to a report in the National Post.

With the federal deficit now estimated to come in at $ 18 billion (or more), there is nervous speculation that Finance Minister Bill Morneau may go beyond the specific tax changes already detailed in the Liberal pre-election platform and introduce new measures in his March 22 budget to raise much needed tax revenue.

Cremers and Petajisto, in a 2009 Review of Financial Studies paper, introducing a new measure of active portfolio management, referred to as Active Share (i.e., the share of portfolio holdings that differ from the benchmark index holdings), found that between 1968 and 2001 U.S. funds that deviated significantly from the benchmark portfolio outperformed their benchmarks both before and after expenses.

«The EU should scrap all subsidies to nuclear and fossil fuel energy sectors and instead introduce new measures to promote renewable energies.

(Gothenburg, Sweden, 7 May, 2015): WWF's flag ship business programme Climate Savers is marking 15 years of corporate leadership in reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by introducing a new measuring standard, reflecting the global shift in the role of business in fighting climate change.

WWF: Corporate leadership is moving to match climate science; now we need governments to do their part (Gothenburg, Sweden, 7 May, 2015): WWF's flag ship business programme Climate Savers is marking 15 years of corporate leadership in reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by introducing a new measuring standard, reflecting the global shift in the role of business in fighting climate... Read More»

The Government is looking to introduce new measures to curb clinical negligence costs - including an implementation of fixed fees, as announced by...

Statistics Canada has introduced a new measure of police - reported crime, the crime severity index, in which more serious crimes are weighted more heavily, by comparison with the usual crime rate in which all crimes affect the outcome equally.

An NDTV report quotes Justice Suresh Kait as warning the firms that «like China, we will block all such websites [containing objectionable material]» unless they agree to introduce new measures.

«That suggests to us that there is no need for policy makers to introduce new measures that would reduce housing activity.»

Not exact matches

The president introduced a slew of new measures aimed at reducing the trade deficit with China.

At least in the short term, the bank was expected to be the most affected by the new law, which lowered the corporate tax rate and introduced measures designed to encourage companies to bring overseas profits back to the US.

Hoeven may introduce a new bill in January or February, or he could attach a Keystone measure to a broader bill that Obama would find difficult to veto.

Spain also just released its 2013 budget, which introduces several new austerity measures in an attempt to rein in the government's budget deficit.

A new Fraser Institute study says there's a need to introduce measures that deliver more bang for the buck.

Similar scheduling measures for fast food, retail or other workers have been introduced in several states and are pending in Connecticut, Minnesota, North Carolina, New Jersey, New York, Oregon and Texas, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures.

The new measure, introduced on Friday, appears to take aim at overseas websites that, for profit or propaganda purposes, impersonate local news sites in U.S. cities.

U.S. Rep. Lois Frankel, D - West Palm Beach, introduced a measure Tuesday that would create a $ 7 million fund to help aviation operations in New Jersey and Florida hurt by presidential flight restrictions

For example, a recent Parliamentary Budget Officer analysis of tax expenditure changes from 2005 to 2013 demonstrates that multiple new measures introduced by Stephen Harper provided new benefits to tax filers in the 96th to 100th percentiles.

We have already seen some early effects from the Canada Child Benefit on household spending, and there have been some new measures introduced at the provincial level.

The UIG, introduced only last year by the New York Fed, is a much broader measure of inflation than the CPI.

The rate hike has arrived at a critical time for the banks with many speculating that the chief banking regulator the Australian Prudential Regulatory Authority is about to introduce a new series of macroprudential measures designed to slow the property market.

Measures such as the Global Skills Strategy (GSS), which introduces a new two - week turnaround time for tech - worker permits, and an ambitious new approach to Work - Integrated - Learning placements, show the Government is listening to the concerns of Canadian CEOs facing talent shortages.

The ECB also introduced plans for a series of Targeted Longer - Term Refinancing Operations (TLTROs) at very low fixed rates as a new measure to help boost bank lending to the non-financial private sector over the next two years, and said it would intensify preparations for the outright purchase of certain asset - backed securities (ABS).

The message comes as he introduces new cost - cutting measures to church offices and has encouraged reforms at the Vatican Bank.

A government may introduce new policies and new measures, but they are aimed at the reformation of an already existing order of things.

How Children Succeed introduced readers to an exciting new body of research showing that the traditional way we measure children's abilities — through standardized tests of their cognitive skills — was missing a crucial dimension: the importance of so - called non-cognitive skills or character strengths, qualities like grit, curiosity, conscientiousness, self - control, and optimism.

Cross said some necessary changes came to light shortly after he introduced the bill, but he and Bertino - Tarrant hoped to have the measure approved within the next few months so new commissioners could be seated.

The head of the health department also said the national process for evaluating new drugs would be made more efficient and measures to ensure greater transparency in funding and drug provision issues would be introduced.