Sentences with phrase «key mandates of»

One of the key mandates of the ITL is to ensure an accurate accounting and verification of transactions proposed by registries in order to support the review and compliance process of the Kyoto Protocol.

Fall 2011 — President Barack Obama offers states flexibility from key mandates of the NCLB law, in exchange for embracing his education redesign priorities.

Buhari said a key mandate of the National Food Security Council is to «continuously assess and enhance these infant, but impactful programs, thereby guaranteeing they achieve their full potential.»

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I, therefore, thought that the Netherland's finance minister — a country serving as the key enforcer of German austerity - at - all - cost (as long as the costs are not theirs) policies — showed an incredible chutzpah when he lectured the U.S. Congress last Friday that it would be a real tragedy (sic) if mandated spending cuts were to stifle American economic growth.

Your board mandate should address vision, mission, strategy and operational plans; program delivery and operations; risk identification and management; finances (budgets, investments, use of donations, etc.); government filings and reporting; values, ethics, reputation and integrity; key policies and procedures; and communication and accountability to members and stakeholders.

The appointment comes with the Fed in the middle of some key operations in carrying out its mandate of keeping the economy at full employment and stabilizing inflation.

Importantly, Siddall and his management team also wrote a new mission statement that emphasized the agency was about satisfying housing «needs,» not wants — a key distinction for an organization that long saw boosting homeownership as part of its mandate.

Negotiating with politicians is regarded as a key skill for any chairman of RBS because of the stake owned by the Treasury, even though it is held through UK Financial Investments, a body that has a mandate to look after the shareholding at arm's length from the government.

My response is that you do not need to see the words «financial stability» in the Federal Reserve Act for that to be a key part of our mandate.

For example, some of those who have pressed for a legislative aid mandate believe that its key purpose should be to work toward poverty reduction in developing countries.

In the key Lavigne vs. OPSEU decision of 1991, Justice Gérard La Forest explained that the unionization model in Canada ensures that unions have «both the resources and the mandate necessary to enable them to play a role in shaping the political, economic and social context within which particular collective agreements and labour relations disputes will be negotiated and resolved.»

The first key decisions under the augmented mandate were the introduction of a 2 % inflation target and the initiation of a new open - ended Asset Purchase Program, initially scaled to an estimated 7 % of GDP (view post here).

Will the FED enact its THIRD MANDATE as a the backstop for the global financial system because of the key position of the world's reserve currency?

He is also a commissioner for the Global Ocean Commission, whose mandate is to formulate politically and technically feasible short -, medium - and long - term recommendations to address four key issues facing the high seas: overfishing, large - scale loss of habitat and biodiversity, the lack of effective management and enforcement, and deficiencies in high seas governance.

Support for Israel has become a key issue for American evangelicals, some of whom believe the country plays a key role in end times and others who believe there's a biblical mandate to honor the Jewish state.

It seems doubtful that faith mandates a system of life that appears to require inhumane slaughter of creatures, uneconomical and exploitative uses of land, disregard of personal health, and ignorance of the probability that the key to world peace lies in the conscious cultivation of a practical philosophy of reverence for all that lives.

This is not to say you can't enjoy some popcorn or share a chocolate bar with your movie companion next time you hit the multiplex, but the key is in doing that out of actual physical hunger, rather than some ingrained mandate that advertisers have lodged into our minds.

On the contrary, a key role was played with by European Council and by a few member states in a fully intergovernmanental manner, by the Troika — composed by the IMF, the ECB and the European Commission -, and by the ECB which played a crucial role in avoiding the rise of crisis - hit countries borrowing cost, but without any democratic mandate.

«The Governor and key legislators have set a positive tone for 2014 but there are also renewed calls for increased state spending, new taxes and new employer mandates,» said Heather C. Briccetti, Esq., president and CEO of The Business Council of New York State, Inc. «We believe it is important for New York to maintain its focus on state spending restraint and broad - based reforms.»

The current government has one year left of its four - year mandate and the prime minister, Jyrki Katainen, has announced he will step down in July and accept instead a position in Brussels — presumably as the Finnish Commissioner, or another key EU position.

After a long year of legislative face - plants and just one hour of debate, the House of Representatives voted to approve a massive overhaul of the nation's tax system and knock out a key pillar of the Affordable Care Act: the individual mandate.

Some form of mandate reduction is needed in order for key suburban lawmakers in both parties and both houses to support a 2 percent property tax cap as being proposed by Gov. Andrew Cuomo.

New York's robust health exchange with 4 million enrollees faces two immediate challenges: the loss of the individual mandate as part of Obamacare and the potential loss of funding for a key state insurance program.

The replacement plan would have killed several key elements of the 2010 law, including the mandates to purchase insurance and the Medicaid expansion that covers low - income residents.

The Senate approved late last week its version of the tax legislation that also would discontinue the individual mandate, a key provision of the ACA, also known as Obamacare.

He was not ready to endorse a provision included in the Senate version of the measure that repeals the individual mandate that Americans purchase health insurance, a key provision of the Affordable Care Act, or Obamacare.

But the deputy Labour and Employment Minister has justified the enagement of special assistants by some ministers, explaining they play key technical roles in assisting ministers to execute their mandate.

In light of the Clean Energy Standard mandate, and recognizing the enormous potential renewable energy resource that exists off of its Atlantic coast, New York has set its sights squarely on offshore wind energy as a key component of the State's clean energy strategy.

She said that the commission, therefore, remains committed to carrying out this mandate as well as keying into the plans envisioned by President Muhammadu Buhari for the Persons of Concern (POC) in Nigeria.

Another important part of the People's Mandates, and a key asset of our greater community is our parks.

«The endangerment finding is key because it obligates the EPA to take regulatory action to cut carbon dioxide emissions from aircraft — it triggers a legal mandate,» said Drew Kodjak, executive director of the International Council on Clean Transportation.

For Poirier, the key message was that R&D groups have a mandate of innovation and discovery, whereas the marketing division's mandate is to do what is necessary to sell the drug and provide profits for the company shareholders.

This is key to the appeal of RRW, because the U.S. government, complying with its treaty obligations, has mandated no return to underground testing.

This last point is one that has yet to be addressed; the retention of clinician - scientists is one of the key issues currently under scrutiny by a task force initiated and overseen by CIHR (see the CIHR Web site for more details), with a mandate to design programs and infrastructure that will optimize opportunities and facilitate excellent clinical research.

While many women assume that prenatal vitamins have all the key nutrients needed by a pregnant woman, the iodine content of prenatal multivitamins sold in the United States is not mandated.

In his essay, Coogler shouted out the 13th director's decision to mandate «the use of female directors and key creatives a full two years before the great Frances McDormand shared with the world what an inclusion ride was.

While harmless and even cute on its own, it speaks to Dreamworks» seeming mandate to pander to their target audience by effectively jingling keys in front of their face, lest their attention drift.

We join the call for an empowered intergovernmental body on tax which is mandated to set tax rules and empowered to enforce these rules — as a key step to ending the abuse of tax havens.

NCLB mandated reading and math testing in grades 3 through 8 and at least once in high school, and it required states to rate schools on the basis of test performance overall and for key subgroups.

Regulations issued in November mandate that schools file plans explaining how they will implement key aspects of the law, make supplemental services available in the same year tests are administered, find a way to accommodate students transferring from failing schools, and more.

Mayor Richard M. Daley has made the key appointments in his state - mandated takeover of the Chicago public schools — 13 people assigned to plug the system's $ 150 million deficit and improve education for its 410,000 students.

«By combining the research and services from The Leadership and Learning Center and Learning Sciences International, HMH Educational Consulting Services is able to offer Florida an unprecedented holistic solution that is aligned to state legislative and regulatory mandates, and also supports key priorities within the Race to the Top initiative,» said Senior Vice President of HMH Educational Consulting Services Dave West.

While we know you are examining (1) school safety planning, practice, and training mandates, as well as (2) physical plant, infrastructure and technology, in my limited time today, I'd like to highlight two key areas in (3) social - emotional wellness and resiliency, which is one of our strengths as a support organization.

The term «proficiency» is key because the federal No Child Left Behind law mandates that 100 percent of students must be «proficient» under state standards by 2014 — a goal that has been universally described as impossible to reach.

In the meantime, the key takeaway to remember about the proposed legislation is that it gives state legislatures the power to decide how to intervene in low - performing schools without the constraints of the federal mandates in place under ESEA's previous iteration, No Child Left Behind.

He went on: «I accept that there is a balance to be struck between governments having the right to introduce new policies for which they have a democratic mandate, and the need to avoid an excessive politicisation of key aspects of education policy.

(District of Columbia) Much of the nation is engaged in some new form of teacher evaluation, encouraged by billions of dollars in grant money from the Race to the Top competition or by the promise of a waiver from key mandates imposed under the No Child left Behind Act.

The legislation «evolved» with hard work by AEA from an original mandate that 50 percent of a teacher's evaluation be based upon student test scores, Instead, the key features of the new bill include what AEA called «a statewide uniform system of teacher evaluation (beginning in the 2014 - 15 school year) that emphasizes quality assurance and teacher growth»....

What if the key to breakthrough school improvement is not mandating new solutions built on an elusive combination of the right standards, pedagogy, and assessments but removing entrenched bureaucratic barriers and rethinking restrictive norms and routines?

Parent involvement has increasingly been mandated as a key component of school reform, and school community relations courses (as well as standards for administrators) call for collaborating with diverse families and communities.