Sentences with phrase «issues affecting country»

Mr Llwyd added: «There will be some people in Wales who will underwhelmed at this appointment but I hope Ms Gillan will make every effort to work with the Welsh Assembly Government - and also to spend time in Wales so that she is able to find out the issues affecting our country.»

President Mahama has sounded his preparedness to take on the three - time leader of NPP on significant issues affecting the country.

At present these are only used to assess a number of contentious issues but Mr Brown said they should be more widely used to discuss issues affecting the country.

There's a chance of that, certainly, but the strategists shouldn't let this sad news deter the leader of the opposition from scoring political points on a key issue affecting the country.

Not exact matches

«We wanted to make sure that our own country was part of the conversation about global health issues in two ways — one, making sure that we're not thinking of it as issues that affect other people that don't have anything to do with us, but also acknowledging that we can learn so much from what has gone well or new models that are effective in other countries,» Bush tells Business Insider.

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It's an issue of concern for our country, as it affects our productivity and ability as Canadians to compete.

A Pentagon spokesman told Defense News that while the US «values its defense relationship with Sweden,» it has discouraged countries from signing on to the ban, which has measures that «could potentially affect our ability to cooperate with parties to the treaty on issues of mutual interest.»

Angus responded by arguing that Chan's role as the company's leading public policy person in Canada means he's in charge of engaging with government on a wide range of business issues that affect Facebook, which has 23 million users in the country and more than two billion worldwide.

The agency will receive written comments on the CPP until Jan. 16, and a spokesman added: «As this is a vital issue that affects people across the country, we will do our best to respond to requests for additional meetings.

This research area covers rules governing trade between Canada and other countries or among Canadian provinces, the impact of trade restrictions or of their removal, and policy issues affecting the ability of Canadians to compete in world markets, including questions of international economic cooperation.

International stocks do come with additional risks, as the exchange rate of foreign currencies and political issues in a country can affect the stock prices.

A small but growing number of countries now have legal requirements for institutional investors to report on how their investment policies and performance are affected by environmental factors, including South Africa and, prospectively, the EU.36 Concern about the risks of a «carbon bubble» — that highly valued fossil fuel assets and investments could be devalued or «stranded» under future, more stringent climate policies — prompted G20 Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors in April 2015 to ask the Financial Stability Board in Basel to convene an inquiry into how the financial sector can take account of climate - related issues.37

The deeper issues, in my view, are tied to the enormous power of the U.S. and the inconsistency of policies affecting the Muslim countries in question.

In his time with World Vision, Rich has traveled to more than 40 of the nearly 100 countries where World Vision works, and has a firsthand understanding of the issues that affect those in poverty.

Prior to attending the Waste Not, Want Not: The Circular Economy to Food Security conference, I thought we, the human race, were not making any palpable efforts to deal with the scourge of food security issues affecting peoples in developing countries.

The aging of the farming population is an issue that affects the country as a whole.

Since you seemingly think that Wenger should focus on his job instead of having an opinion about politics in the country he lives and works in (regarding an issue which would definitely affect his work situation) I'm guessing your work is to write about politics on blogs where it doesn't belong — or would that be an incorrect assumption?

Purchase now to hear Lu Hanessian and Lysa Parker talk with Dr. Bob Sears about an issue that affects 1 in 110 children in this country: autism.

And I've continued to highlight on a regular basis the critical issue of food insecurity in this country, which presently affects one in four American children.

While I now have a deeper understanding on many of the «big» issues that affect developing countries, the trip also provided profound insight into the «small» things of life that impact us all day - to - day.

I think for once the Christian leaders in this country should come out from their cocoon and tell the whole world their intention as orchestrated by this devilish and unruly behaviors of theirs on the issue of hijab and other related issues as it affects the Muslim child.

He also stated that domestic issues in ECOWAS member countries relating to their constitutions and dependence on aids continue to affect the framework for implementing the single currency in the sub-region.

This was a minority issue, but only just: 47 % of British employees are affected by the Home Office's rules, which mean they may not be able to live with their loved one in their own country.

But beyond electoral processes, it is just as vital to the health of a democracy that ordinary citizens are meaningfully involved in the discourse concerning issues affecting their lives and country.

Mr Phillips should be aware that this issue is far from «parochial» and affects councillors, religious and non-religious, throughout the country.

He said the NDC understands the issues affecting Ghanaians and has the people of the country at heart better than the NPP; hence their massive infrastructural development to ensure the provision of jobs for the people.

«This is a very serious issue that affects organizations throughout our country including colleges and universities, and Skidmore is not immune from that,» said Wise.

«Through Kidney Disease Awareness Month, Erie County is bringing to light an issue that affects one in every 10 adults in this country.

The commission was very clear on the issue with regards to the Finance Minister as been a former shareholder, beneficiary of several companies in the securities market and more importantly a former director to some of these companies and his interest to see these institutions attain a certain growth within that sector has the Potential to Conflict with the interest of the State.This revelations by the commission is very serious with its potential risk alerted is enormous to affect the securities sector of the country.

Speaking on the issue of power and housing as it affects Osun, Fashola expressed gratitude to the Osun governor, saying Osun is one of the few states in the country that out land for the federal housing project.

«Well, there's no question that the biggest problems we face in the country today are jobs that don't pay well enough and issues that affect middle class families, like college affordability, and it's such a burden to pay for college these days,» Suozzi said.

Mr Boateng noted that drug abuse and addiction also caused sexual exposure which could lead to teenage pregnancy and sexually transmitted diseases that have been major health issues affecting the adolescents in the country.

He did not hesitate to lay the blame for the loss on the failure of the leadership in both party and government to listen to the admonishment that there were serious issues affecting the way the country was being managed.

Burnham, whose wife is Dutch, said the issue would «directly affect the lives of millions of people living in this country».

Wabba said, «One of the things affecting our country today is the issue of accountability.

Previous research has mainly focused on the economic issues that can affect ART usage, such as a country's wealth and health insurance costs.

The immigration cap in many countries (e.g., in the US after 9/11 and recently in Switzerland as a result of referendum 2014 against mass immigration) and the issues associated with international mobility of research funds (e.g., corrupt bureaucracy in collaborating countries) affect science and research.

Inorganic arsenic is naturally present at high levels in the groundwater of many countries, creating an important public health issue affecting millions of people.

Chan suggested that pregnant women not living in Zika - affected countries may want to delay travel to those areas but did not issue a formal travel alert for them, as the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has done.

But on the scientific issues that probably matter most to policymakers — such as which kinds of countries cause most emissions, who will bear the greatest burdens in controlling emissions, or how international trade affects emissions and policies — the pendulum has swung strongly toward the governments.»

Still, Røttingen says, «There seems to be a convergence to establish a group that would finance and pay for vaccines and should also take responsibility for liability issues in cooperation with affected countries.»

Yang says statistics at the time confirmed the issue's importance to the American public, but she wanted to examine the variance between what's important to a news consumer and what's personally relevant in terms of that same person being affected, or the country being affected.

The authors argue that because of the varying risk factors between different income countries, interventions for poorer countries should focus on the issues that affect these countries specifically.

They sought to understand not only the issues facing the country's top researchers, but how government policies might affect their capacity to innovate.

The papers included in this interdisciplinary special issue address how poverty can affect human biology and cover issues including war and forced displacement, minorities and migrants, poverty in both developed and developing countries, health inequalities among girls and women in poverty and the impact of the economic downturn.

«The privileged position of industry to craft language in the trade agreement without public input, and the unlimited potential of TTIP to affect the ability of countries to regulate on toxic chemicals, energy and climate change, food and agriculture and other critical issues.»

Glada Lahn, a senior research fellow at thinktank Chatham House, says the water issues often affect more than one country at a time, making international cooperation even more important:

It's important to realize, also, that the health effects of nutritional deficiencies are not only something that affect people in Africa, India and Afghanistan; it's also a serious issue in industrialized countries like the U.S.

As you may know, a common health issue in this country is the genetic variation MTHFR, which affects how your body processes B vitamins.