Sentences with phrase «less than the federal government»

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Trump's name shows up in filings of less than 14 % of all companies, but the stakes are much higher for firms that have bet on the federal government taking a hands - off approach to marijuana policy.

The federal government is also adding restrictions on when it will insure low - ratio mortgages, stipulating that such loans must have an amortization period of less than 25 years and that the property must be owner - occupied, among other criteria.

The federal and Ontario governments issued a joint press statement on Monday declaring that approval from provinces must occur by July 15th — less than a month from now.

But less than a month later, Sessions wrote to congressional leaders criticizing the federal government's hands - off approach to medical marijuana, and citing a Colorado case in which a medical marijuana licensee shipped pot out of state.

The CPB accounts for far less than 1 % of the federal government's annual budget (it was allocated $ 445 million in 2016).

Less than a month into office, he signed an executive order directing the federal government to «thwart transnational criminal organizations» and calling for the removal of foreigners involved in those organizations.

Last April, facing a Federal Court lawsuit launched by unions over the HD Mining workers, the federal government introduced reforms to the program, including removing a provision that allowed employers to pay temporary foreign workers up to 15 per cent less than the prevailing CanadiaFederal Court lawsuit launched by unions over the HD Mining workers, the federal government introduced reforms to the program, including removing a provision that allowed employers to pay temporary foreign workers up to 15 per cent less than the prevailing Canadiafederal government introduced reforms to the program, including removing a provision that allowed employers to pay temporary foreign workers up to 15 per cent less than the prevailing Canadian wage.

The federal government announced initial changes in April, scrapping an aspect of the program that allowed employers to pay foreign workers as much as 15 per cent less than the average wage for a job.

Less than a year after spinning off from the University of Waterloo's faculty of engineering, IPT has been recognized by the Federal and Ontario governments for its breakthrough technology and efforts towards commercialization.

In this scenario Canada would be required to contribute $ 41 billion of stimulus, which is only slightly less than what the federal government did under its Economic Action Plan.

Absent such a standard, the shareholder proposal rule becomes nothing less than a species of private eminent domain by which the federal government allows a small minority to appropriate someone else's property — the company is a legal person, after all, and it is the company's proxy statement at issue — for use as a soap - box to disseminate their views.

For the first three months of fiscal year 2012 - 13 (April to June), the federal government posted a deficit of $ 2.0 billion, less than half of the $ 4.2 billion deficit reported in the same period in 2011 - 12.

With the Liberal plan, the federal government will have a modest short - term deficit of less than $ 10 billion in each of the next two fiscal years — less than half the average Harper deficit of over $ 20 billion per year.

Since January 2014, the federal government has enforced rules on new mortgages, requiring borrowers to maintain debt loads less than 43 %; and lenders to cap loan fees as a percentage of total loan size.

Indeed, with the US Federal Reserve finally beginning to hike interest rates and half of all European government bonds of less than five - year maturity paying negative yields, it would appear to us that the rate cycle is bottoming.

The following analogy might help: Cover the entire North American continent in dimes all the way up to the moon, a height of about 239,000 miles (In comparison, the money to pay for the U.S. federal government debt would cover one square mile less than two feet deep with dimes.).

If the branches of the federal government are truly coequal, if the President and Congress are not subordinated to the Court by the Constitution (except insofar as the Court might declare them to be), then the theme of «judicial restraint» that runs wistfully through your symposium is less an appeal for the impossible than a misconstrual of the problem.

Since Non-GMO labels are not regulated by federal government, The Non-GMO Project verifies these products based on their best practices, which includes a GMO presence of less than.09 %.

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The court granted them bail in the sum of 100 million naira each and one surety each who shall be not less than a Director, Grade Level 12 in the employment of the federal, state or local government.

It is thought to be a much less common problem than in the US, where the federal government had to intervene with the Prison Rape Elimination Act last year.

Though the federal government extended FMAP in August, it did so at a less generous level than before.

First enacted in 1934 as a reaction to the St Valentine's Day Massacre in Chicago, it required registration with the federal government, and placed a heavy (for the time) transfer tax on what was categorized as NFA firearms: fully automatic, shotguns and rifles with barrels less than 18», firearms that had a bore larger than.5», explosive devices (grenades) and projectiles (mortar and cannon shells), and silencers.

Olatunbosun noted that the refund was neither subject to any deduction over debts nor having any local government component that would make the cash shared to Ekiti State to be less than N9.6 bn as published by the Federal Ggovernment component that would make the cash shared to Ekiti State to be less than N9.6 bn as published by the Federal GovernmentGovernment.

Jagaba said the foreign companies «go away with more than 70 percent of the revenue generated from the production of the document while the Federal Government take less than 30 percent».

The U.S. Department of Education warned states this week that federal school aid may be withheld withheld next year if less than 95 percent of students take government - mandated exams.

Less than a week after a man detonated a pipe bomb strapped to his chest in a crowded subway corridor in Manhattan, U.S. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer urged the federal government on Sunday to speed up the rollout of a technology that can detect concealed explosives in crowded areas.

«No state pays more to the federal government and gets back less than New York.»

Affordable housing is defined by the federal government as costing less than 30 percent of household income.

No state contributes more to the federal government and gets back less than New York State.

He said the maximum sentence if the government is successful is 20 years and prison and a $ 250,000 fine but under federal sentencing guidelines it would likely be substantially less than that.

He noted that the shortfall in oil has affected the Federal Government and put not less than 28 states under severe financial strain, adding that if not for the courage of the President and his team, the country could have gone totally bankrupt.

In the light of the foregoing, we are compelled to call on the Federal Government to muster the political will and courage to recover the aforesaid withheld or stolen wealth of not less than $ 200 billion belonging to the Nigerian people.

And, in the U.S., the federal government has almost no control over state tax policy (even less than the E.U. does over its member states).

It was a reminder that the federal government could withhold funding for disadvantaged students from states with less than 95 percent participation on exams.

Candidates who have spent or received less than $ 5,000 do not have to file with the federal government.

The powers kick in if «receipts, including but not limited to receipts from the federal government, are less than the amount assumed in the 2017 - 18 financial plan.»

Cuomo's budget assumes the federal government will approve a $ 10 billion Medicaid waiver, and that state operating spending will hold to less than two percent a year, which helps balance his plans for a local property tax freeze and for $ 100 million in funding during this coming year, to begin expanding pre-K programs statewide.

The federal government has authorized the institute to spend less than half of its planned 220 million reai budget this year, withholding the rest as «contingency funds.»

«Sequestration levels are nothing less really than a disaster across the federal government,» he continued.

Only last October the German federal government tightened up its Energy Saving Ordinance (EnEV) even further by decreeing that in future properties will have to consume even less energy than before.

A new analysis by the Synthetic Biology Project at the Wilson Center finds the Defense Department and its Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) funds much of the U.S. government's research in synthetic biology, with less than 1 percent of total federal funding going to risk research.

ACOG's recommendations come less than a week after the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF), an independent panel of experts that advises the federal government on preventive care, released new guidelines for breast cancer screening.

And at the end of the day, the federal government accounts for less than ten percent of total spending on education, so any changes would be relatively modest.

Would the federal government have its own affirmative duty to provide additional federal funds — which currently make up less than 10 percent of all nationwide funding for K — 12 education?

Scholarship recipients in Florida must earn less than 185 % of the federal poverty line, which is the income threshold for the federal government's free and reduced lunch program.

This means that an employee who worked her way through a low - cost public college in order to minimize her borrowing would receive far less in benefits — both from her employer and the federal government — than a colleague who borrowed heavily to obtain an expensive undergraduate or graduate degree.

No less than 69 percent of the public think the federal government should set standards for the country and administer tests in math, science, and reading.

Last year, heeding calls for «local control» of education decisions and less invasive interventions in underperforming schools, Congress passed the Every Student Succeeds Act, granting states and local school boards, rather than the federal government, broad latitude in determining how to rate the performance of schools and how to intervene when performance lags.

Despite the Federal Government's teacher education reforms and the push for evidence - based teaching, less than 2 % of ARC research funding is directed to educational research.