Sentences with phrase «largely on the administration»

The hearing focused largely on the administration's proposed cuts to school programs while boosting funding for private - school vouchers and charter schools.

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The Obama Administration's request for $ 3.7 billion in emergency funding, largely to deal with the care of the children and expedited hearings on their deportations, has not been warmly received by the Republican - led House of Representatives.

Stringent Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) rules prohibiting the use of unmanned aircraft for commercial use has largely kept American companies from leveraging drone technology to their advantage, but that's rapidly changing in the Arctic, where a series of FAA decisions handed down in the past year are easing restrictions on commercial drone flights.

Diverging from the Obama administration's approach to the issue, which relied largely on filing complaints to the World Trade Organization (WTO), Trump ordered a probe under Section 232 of the Trade Expansion Act of 1962, which lets the president impose restrictions on imports for reasons of national security.

But administration officials said that action on other key tax code elements would ensure the plan would largely help the middle class instead of the affluent.

Melania Trump stayed largely out of sight during her husband's presidential campaign and was an absent first lady at the outset of the administration, staying in New York and focusing on Barron.

I have written many times before that what will largely determine the path China follows is the political struggle the Xi administration will have in imposing the needed reforms on an elite that will strongly resist these reforms — mainly of course because these reforms must necessarily come at their expense.

The changes are largely welcomed by senior administration officials, who say the president's time is too valuable to be wasted on chitchat and hangers - on.

The Trump administration has largely shunned the highly structured discussions of past administrations, which were used to try to reach agreement on economic and security issues.

But the Trump administration has simultaneously pursued the country on trade, largely because South Korea maintains a large trade surplus with the United States.

For now, we believe that the risks of a full - blown trade war remain contained and are largely dependent on actions taken by the Trump administration in the U.S..

Decades later, when Congress passed the Tax Reform Act of 1986, a Reagan administration initiative, the new legislation largely eliminated tax deductions on interest from personal loans, but kept the MID in place, with the justification that it was an important tool for encouraging homeownership.

Carl Icahn unloaded nearly $ 3.3 million worth of stocks in a company largely dependent on the price of steel just days before President Donald Trump announced his administration would impose a 25 percent tariff on steel and 10 percent tariff on aluminum.

Many other Jewish members of the Trump administration remained largely silent on Wednesday, even after the protesters in Charlottesville had chanted anti-Semitic slogans and demeaned the president's Jewish son - in - law, Mr. Kushner.

While some have argued that Trump is a «baby Christian,» others have focused on his willingness to work largely within the confines of political Christianity during his Administration.

But while the industry applauds the Trump administration's efforts to rebalance unfair, global trade relationships — and certainly the World Trade Organization's anti-dumping measures have been largely ineffective to date — protectionist policies like tariffs will disrupt the complex, global supply chains on which manufacturers rely and stoke the flames of a tit - for - tat trade war.

The order was largely symbolic — the deal was already essentially dead in Congress — but served to signal that Trump's tough talk on trade during the campaign will carry over to his new administration.

Trump's attempt to impose his vision of economic nationalism has largely gone nowhere because of pushback within his own administration (though he did recently slap a 30 percent tariff on solar panel imports).

Over the last six years the New York Times regularly ran front - page stories on the latest stem - cell news, largely to embarrass the Bush administration, and now we rarely see stem - cell stories on any page.

This has largely been the case for IKEA, though they have made minor adjustments in various programs to improve usability (e.g., limiting the number of «clicks» in the tablet to a minimum, making the icons on the tablet larger, making reports more user - friendly, moving certain data input from store co-workers to the global administration).

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«I am well aware that the success or otherwise of my administration will be judged largely on job creation,» the President added.

The comments came the same day the Cuomo administration was trying to push out some good news: Hundreds of millions of dollars being funneled for economic development efforts, largely benefiting upstate and a push on the gun control measure.

It was largely comprised of staffers from the AG's office, enthusiastic volunteers and a number of veterans of Cuomo I — in other words, the administration of former Gov. Mario Cuomo, who was, of course, on hand to hear his son declare con - con — his father's pet project — to be a major agenda item.

The administration has largely ignored recommendations on how to improve recycling made by auditors in the city comptroller's office, citizen groups and Council members.

In 2007, he ran his campaign largely as a sustained assault on the policies and ethics of the Sottile administration.

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There's a widespread view among those constituents that Build It Back has, despite some progress and success when the de Blasio administration first focused on it in late 2014 and early 2015, ground down into a bureaucratic nightmare largely incapable of making broad progress in repairing and rebuilding Sandy - damaged homes.

In response to the audit, the de Blasio administration said it largely agree with Stringer's recommendations and explained that progress was already being made, including in terms of the repair unit, which, it said on Dec. 21, had «already cleared more than 12,000 violations and will continue until all are cleared.»

The EPA's stance, however, was struck down by the U.S. Supreme Court in April 2007, and one of the first actions of Lisa Jackson, the new EPA administrator under the Obama administration, was to declare CO2 and other greenhouse gases a threat to public health and welfare and release a proposed endangerment finding largely built on the earlier ignored analysis.

The Obama Administration opposed the suing states in this case largely on grounds that they lack standing, marking a rare instance in which the Administration finds itself at odds with environmentalists on a major legal issue.

Despite a recent budget proposal from the Obama administration to increase spending on federal R&D by 7 % next year, dollars flowing to research have largely been flat in recent years, and declining when inflation is taken into account.

The Trump administration's 42 - page proposal for repealing former President Obama's Clean Water Rule largely builds its case on a 2009 split decision by the Supreme Court on federal regulation of swear words on television.

According to Valerie Strauss in her Washington Post Answer Sheet blog, the study found that «the report, together with a number of other studies released in the past year, effectively serve as a warning to policymakers in states that are moving to implement laws, with support from the Obama administration, to make teacher and principal evaluation largely dependent on increases in students» standardized test scores.»

But I think these programs, which are largely based on administration proposals, give us an indication of the direction the administration and Congress are headed when it comes to education funding.

The delays have been many, largely blamed by the administration on new data being collected on graduation rates.

Fees in a summary administration are based on a government tariff set our under Rule 128 of the Bankruptcy & Insolvency Act and are based largely on a percentage of realizations in a bankrupt's estate.

This breed is banned from ownership in Australia and New Zealand, largely because the administration of these countries believe them to be aggressive as well as have the audacity to inflict serious wounds on someone if attacked.

The main event is the seventh «Clean Energy Ministerial» — the latest in a series of annual intergovernmental meetings largely shaped by the Obama administration but built on a Bush - era template — the «major economies» meetings on energy and climate.

The report by the Government Accountability Office, based largely on findings from the Lab's American Climate Prospectus, urges the Trump administration to take climate change risks seriously and begin formulating a response.

Following the congressional failure, climate change was largely placed on the backburner for the administration until Obama's re-election last November.

«The Bush administration's strategy relies largely on market - based incentives and voluntary action... But the market can not decide that mitigation is necessary, nor can it establish the basic international framework in which all actors can take their place.»

Oil exploration and extraction have been largely stalled by the Obama administration, except on private and state lands they have not yet been able to take control.

While Stilley characterized the delay in approved mining permits as «unilateral and unjustifiable regulatory actions,» Mackell echoed Rep. Capito in accusing the Obama Administration of declaring a «War on Coal» that is largely responsible for the loss of jobs across Appalachia.

Likewise, the Obama administration largely stalled in its first term on regulating industrial emissions, as Republicans and some more conservative Democrats argued such rules would drive up energy costs and impede the economic recovery.

The costs of legal aid administration reduced by # 3.1 million, when calculated on a cash basis; although total administration costs rose by # 3.3 million, largely due to the development of the widely criticised CCMS system for civil applications and bill processing, which will now not become mandatory until February 2016.

The biosimilars industry is extremely new — the first biosimilar was approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration just last year — which means that the impact of patent laws on the products is still largely unclear and that the need for experienced and knowledgeable patent attorneys in that area is high, according to Jungers.

The crypto market, especially in China, has been in a panic in these past few days, largely because of an official notice on Preventing Risks of Fundraising Through Coin Offering, jointly issued by the People's Bank of China (PBOC), the Cyberspace Administration of China, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, the State Administration for Industry and Commerce, the China Banking Regulatory Commission, the China Securities Commission and the China Insurance Regulatory Commission.

After years as a largely state and local land - use issue, smart growth was put on the front burner last fall by the Clinton administration with the introduction of initiatives that use funding incentives and public controls to curb suburban sprawl.