Sentences with phrase «issues of national concern»

The extensive outreach opportunities to the general public provided by the National Park Service interpreters provide an opportunity to broaden public appreciation of the utility of these kinds of quantitative approaches in addressing issues of national concern related to natural system management.

«With 24 - hour news networks and conversations with friends, family and other connections on social media, it's hard to avoid the constant stream of stress around issues of national concern,» said Evans.

If Labour can not do this, we risk, no matter how ill - advised the specific cuts at issue, appearing sectional and lacking in ability to tackle issues of national concern.

This notwithstanding, he noted that he does not begrudge Akufo - Addo since «like any other permanent opposition leader, he has the right to comment on issues of national concern».

The Forum, a group of corporate CEOs and university presidents, identified and acted on issues of national concern to the business and academic communities such as international competitiveness, technological innovation, and education and training.

Not exact matches

Trump is using authority under Section 232 of U.S. law, which gives the president the ability to issue tariffs based on national security concerns.

The move comes after President Donald Trump issued an executive order on Monday blocking Broadcom's bid to gain control of Qualcomm because of national security concerns.

So, Americans: On an issue of vital international concern, your president is so easily manipulable that a close ally is shamelessly pushing his psychological buttons on national television.

Although the issue of homeschool student participation in public high school sports isn't exactly a pressing national concern, it hits pretty close to home in our family — both our kids are competitive club - level swimmers who could contribute to the success of our local high....

Forty - five leading pro-life advocates, including Gary Bauer of the Family Research Council, James Dobson of Focus on the Family, Clarke Forsythe of Americans United for Life, Wanda Franz of the National Right to Life Committee, and Ralph Reed of the Christian Coalition, signed a much heralded joint «Statement of Pro-Life Principle and Concern» published in First Things in 1996 in which the primary legal complaint was made that Roe «wounded American democracy» by removing the issue of abortion from «democratic concern.Concern» published in First Things in 1996 in which the primary legal complaint was made that Roe «wounded American democracy» by removing the issue of abortion from «democratic concern.concern.»

With the exception of humanitarian relief, church people now tend to concentrate on local issues, showing less interest in national and international concerns and institutional structures, which are seen as overpowering and self - perpetuating.

The other two branches of government have no business in the issue; they need to be concerned with the bigger picture; foreign policies and matters, national economy, and disagreements between states on matters that affect national politics.

Blake's fusion of the holiness tradition of ministering to the poor and oppressed with concern for national issues has garnered a statement of affirmation from Catholic scholars.

What Republican is listening so well to the concerns of today's wage earners when it comes to national issues?

The foreign debt continues to be an issue and new voices have began to sound the need to look for ways to face it; (ii) At the national level two questions are concentrating increasing attention: one is the reassessment of the necessary role of the state to correct the distortions of a runaway market (currently discussed in Europe and in the discussions about the role the initiatives of «an active state has played in the economic development of Asian countries); the other is the need for a «participative democracy over against a purely representative formal democracy: in this sense the need to strengthen civil society with its intermediate organizations becomes an important concern; (iii) the struggle for collective and personal identity in a society in which forced immigration, dehumanizing conditions in urban marginal situations, and foreign cultural aggression and massification in many forms produce a degrading type of poverty where communal, family and personal identity are eroded and even destroyed.

(6) The setting for the dialogue was a national gathering of Presbyterians with deep concerns for issues of social justice and ecology.

The guidelines contain an overview of international policy, goals and guidelines; background on HIV and infant feeding; current recommendations for HIV - positive women and considerations relating to different feeding options; an overview of the process of developing or revising a national policy on infant and young child feeding incorporating HIV concerns; considerations for countries considering the provision of free or low - cost infant formula; suggestions for protecting, promoting and supporting appropriate infant feeding in the general population; key issues in supporting HIV - positive women in their infant feeding decisions; and considerations on monitoring and evaluation.

Sometimes companies listen to our concerns and sometimes they don't, but even a «loss» is a win when individuals like 100 Days of Real Food and the Food Babe can get the national media to shine a spotlight on important food issues many consumers know nothing about.

«The issue of private food vendors prioritizing profits over the well - being of students is a national concern,» Mills said.

(1) to protect and promote breastfeeding, as an essential component of their overall food and nutrition policies and programmes on behalf of women and children, so as to enable all infants to be exclusively breastfed during the first four to six months of life; (2) to promote breastfeeding, with due attention to the nutritional and emotional needs of mothers; (3) to continue monitoring breastfeeding patterns, including traditional attitudes and practices in this regard; (4) to enforce existing, or adopt new, maternity protection legislation or other suitable measures that will promote and facilitate breastfeeding among working women; (5) to draw the attention of all who are concerned with planning and providing maternity services to the universal principles affirmed in the joint WHO / UNICEF statement (note 2) on breastfeeding and maternity services that was issued in 1989; (6) to ensure that the principles and aim of the International Code of Marketing of Breastmilk Substitutes and the recommendations contained in resolution WHA39.28 are given full expression in national health and nutritional policy and action, in cooperation with professional associations, womens organizations, consumer and other nongovermental groups, and the food industry; (7) to ensure that families make the most appropriate choice with regard to infant feeding, and that the health system provides the necessary support;

The issue of how best government is keeping free SHS students has become one of the major concerns to both critics of the policy, parents and the opposition National Democratic Congress.

On when the issue of Senator Melaye came up for discussion with Buhari, Dogara said: «On the issue of Senator Dino, of course anything that happens to one of our members or any member of the National Assembly is of concern to us.

«As a Ghanaian, Former President and Founder and Leader of the NDC, is Flt Lt Rawlings not free to speak his mind about political and national issues he is concerned about?

The party said if the views of governors on nominations and other issues concerning their states would not count, the National Council of State should be scrapped instead of being turned into a rubber stamp.

This Committee shall research, study, discuss, evaluate, report and make recommendations to the Executive Committee on public and governmental matters, affairs, issues and problems of concern to the Party at City, State and National level.

In a seat where national issues exactly reflected the concerns of those on the doorstep, Foster breathed a weary sigh as the door closed.

One of the visiting senators, Kabiru Gaya, told reporters that they seized the opportunity of the meeting to discuss issues concerning good governance and national unity with the President.

«We also talked on the issue of concerns to us: the invasion of the National Assembly, which he showed great concern and he said action will be taken to investigate that,»

President Muhammadu Buhari made the reiteration at the Chief of Army Staff annual conference 2015 taking place in Dutse, Jigawa saying despite achievements made by the Nigerian Army intellectuals, the threat of terrorism in some parts of the country remains an issue of serious national concern.

On May 3rd the New York State AFL - CIO issued a resolution urging the National AFL - CIO to consider Senator Clinton's exemplary track record of working with the organized labor movement in New York on behalf of the needs and concerns of working men and women.

But an unrepentant Mr Cameron will insist he is right to speak out on an issue that concerns millions of people — and accuse the last Labour government of fuelling support for the British National Party by refusing to address popular concerns on the subject.

«The National Assembly is not immune to the law that is applicable to anybody in this country but the anti-corruption agencies must respect the independence of the legislature and seek an informed opinion whenever they are delving into issues that concern the legislature because they are still seen as part of the executive.

The National Weather Service has issued a Flood Watch for Northern Erie County through Saturday morning over concerns of ice jam flooding.

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Scientific ignorance on this issue is especially concerning given that Rocque and Duwe describe a slight, but not unprecedented, recent uptick in the national rate of rampage shootings.

The National Council on Pet Population Study and Policy is a coalition of eleven of America's foremost animal welfare organizations concerned with the issue of unwanted pets in the United States.

These issues of astronaut health «must be dealt with now before fundamental decisions are reached concerning the appropriate time for humans to move away from Earth on voyages of exploration,» Ronald White, former associate director of the National Space Biomedical Research Institute in Houston, wrote in a recent paper.

«There's a lot of concern,» said Lewis Kuller, chair of the Department of Epidemiology at the University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public Health, and co-chair of a task force set up by the National Institutes of Health to tackle the issue.

This is something which has been very well documented and mourned in a report from the National Academy of Sciences that was issued by a committee headed by Norman Augustine just a few months ago and this report — which is called «he Gathering Storm» — lays out in some detail the concern that that [leaves us] with a long hole over the next couple of decades, because of weaknesses in [the] way we fund basic physical sciences, the way we are training people to do physical sciences, the way we treat science in elementary and high - school programs — all of those factors, the way we pay teachers, the way we use the patent system where we try to provide incentives in some of the physical sciences; we are losing our leadership gradually to other countries, especially in Europe and [of] particular concern in Asia, where the rise of science in, particularly China, to a certain extent India and other parts of Southeast Asia, are cause for long - term concern.

«Education is a pressing issue of national and international concern, and Harvard University, led by the Graduate School of Education, has a critically important role to play in shaping the debate, advancing the research...

As the Kauffman report notes, Missouri's separate pension systems are «a microcosm of larger national issues concerning teacher pension systems — particularly the ability of teachers to move between systems.»

University of Pennsylvania law professor Amy Wax has a provocative lead essay in the latest issue of National Affairs that warrants thoughtful attention by all concerned with boosting the educational opportunities of poor and minority youngsters.

As Sandi Jacobs, managing director of state policy for the National Council on Teacher Quality, said, «There wasn't enough concern about how these things [the Common Core and teacher evaluation] were running down the path together until the tests became an issue.»

While many national media outlets have perpetuated an image of a national crisis and a Central American invasion, there is also a growing current across the country seeking to humanize these young people and to cast the issue as a humanitarian concern.

The report says females reported higher levels of concern in relation to personal issues like coping with stress, body images and depression, were more likely to choose mental health as a national concern and, according to previous Mission Australia research, were around twice as likely to meet the criteria for having a probable serious mental illness.

«Clearly it's a national issue of concerns about overtesting and striking the right balance in testing.

These concerns led the National Academy of Education's Commission on Reading to issue the report entitled Becoming a Nation of Readers (BNR)(Anderson, Hiebert, Scott, & Wilkinson, 1985).

Evaluation of the National Assessment of Educational Progress (2009) addresses issues identified by Congress concerning the quality of the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), including whether NAEP is properly administered, produces high quality data that are valid and reliable, and is consistent with relevant widely accepted professional assessment standards; and whether student achievement levels are reasonable, valid, and reliable.

The Education Funding Agency also maintains a list of academies of national concern over financial management or governance issues.

The National Association of Head Teachers called for sustained support for school leaders who raised concerns about extremism, and more local oversight to identify issues «before they become crises».