Sentences with phrase «letter calls on»

The letter calls on the credit and lending industries and Federal regulators to «reassess the entire credit structure and look for ways to increase the availability of credit to qualified borrowers who are good credit risks.»

Letter calls on the Minister of Labour to ensure that recently announced increases to minimum wage do not penalize injured workers through benefits being decreased because of the higher deemed post-injury earnings.

The letter calls on president Jean - Claude Junker to increase the current 20 % climate action share of the EU budget to climate - proof the budget by excluding fossil fuels and to ensure that EU funds add to member states» efforts to achieve the 2030 and 2050 climate objectives.

The letter calls on developed countries to urgently scale up the ambition of their emission reduction targets and reminds negotiators that current emission reduction pledges will lead us to a world that is 5 °C warmer.

The letter calls on the EPA to generate new data about the cleanup's effectiveness conducted by independent scientists instead of basing its decision on data from GE scientists who relied on flawed models.

Endorsed by more than 100 independent scientists, engineers and economists who work in the field of climate change, the open letter calls on world leaders to abandon the goal of «stopping climate change» and focus instead on helping nations become resilient to natural changes by promoting environmentally - responsible economic growth.

Signed by party co-leaders Caroline Lucas and Jonathan Bartley and four other party members, the Green Party letter calls on Barclays and HSBC to stop funding the U.S. pipeline project due to its impact on the climate and indigenous communities.

The letter calls on youth to show up and join the action because of the risks presented by the Kinder Morgan pipeline, the need for urgent climate action, and because of the role youth and young people played in winning Justin Trudeau his mandate in 2015.

The letter calls on Mrs Morgan to offer a guarantee that primary schools will not be forced to become an academy on the basis of the tests.

The letter calls on MPs to vote to ensure that all schools have an adequate level of funding and that spending plans are «credible».

An open letter calls on Barack Obama and Mitt Romney to address the challenges posed by rising seas as a result of climate change

The letter calls on the Trump administration to «exercise the discretion available under the law to defer the deportation of Chaldeans who pose no threat to US public safety to Iraq.»

The letter calls on Sessions to uphold that arrangement.

More recently, 27 former executives of Air Canada Pilots Association issued a letter calling on their colleagues to embrace «new ideas,» implying support for a discount airline.

A growing movement of more than 70 business, industry and community groups, representing hundreds of thousands of British Columbians and Canadians, have come together over the last two days to sign a joint letter calling on Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Premiers John Horgan and Rachel Notley to resolve the impasse on the Trans Mountain Pipeline project.

Entrepreneurs and business leaders from across the country and representing every major sector of the economy released an open letter calling on Congress to immediately pass the bipartisan Dream Act or legislation that provides Dreamers raised in our country the permanent solution they deserve.

Six of the country's largest investors have signed an open letter calling on asset managers to adhere to a code of conduct, in a move to «rebuild confidence.»

VANCOUVER, B.C. — A growing movement of more than 70 business, industry and community groups, representing hundreds of thousands of British Columbians and Canadians, have come together over the last two days to sign a joint letter calling on Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Premiers John Horgan and Rachel Notley to resolve the impasse on the Trans Mountain Pipeline project.

In a cross sector act of cooperation, signatories from 35 representative bodies in the UK food and drink supply chain have signed an open letter calling on the government to make an early agreement on future trade with the Republic of Ireland as the United Kingdom leaves the European Union.

So, we organised an Open Letter calling on all four governments of the UK to safeguard public health budgets and end those cuts.

The British Humanist Association (BHA) is one of over 70 civil society organisations in the UK signing a letter calling on Prime Minister David Cameron and Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg to secure and advance the Human Rights Act.

They planned to co-ordinate a series of ministerial resignations, while other MPs would write letters calling on him to go.

A group of religious leaders, parliamentarians, education experts, and prominent public figures have signed a joint letter calling on the new Education Secretary Damian Hinds to reconsider a proposal to allow fully segregated intakes in new and existing religious free schools.

Brooklyn Daily Eagle article on Borough President Adams submitting a letter calling on the US Soccer Federation to reconsider its decision to drop the New York Cosmos from Division II.

A coalition of progressive groups sent a letter calling on Gov. Cuomo to cancel all state permits for the Competitive Power Ventures (CPV) natural gas power plant that is central to the trial of Joseph Percoco, the governor's long - time friend and former aide.

A letter calling on Rep. Rick Nolan, D - Minn., to run for governor next year is being circulated to more than 1,000 members of Minnesota's Democratic - Farmer - Labor Party.

In September 2006, Watson signed a letter calling on Blair to quit.

In September, the ERG's former chair Suella Fernandes asked MPs to sign up to a letter calling on the government to ensure a hard Brexit.

More than a dozen state lawmakers have signed onto a letter calling on Gov. Andrew Cuomo to appoint a special prosecutor to probe the death of Eric Garner after he was subject to a choke hold from police.

NYC Councilman Ydanis Rodriguez, Transportation chair, and 33 other lawmakers signed a letter calling on de Blasio to add funding in the next budget for Citi Bike.

Two dozen Senate Democrats, along with GOP Sen. Bill Larkin, have signed on to a letter calling on General Electric Co. to continue and expand its cleanup of PCB - laden muck from the Hudson River.

Nearly one third of the members of the state Assembly have signed onto a letter calling on their colleagues to let the 421 - a tax abatement program expire if substantial changes are not made to New York City's rent laws.

A coalition of progressive groups sent a letter calling on Cuomo to cancel all state permits for a planned power plant in Orange County that was central to the corruption accusations against Percoco.

21 state, county and municipal leaders have signed a letter calling on New York State to fine New York City 13 - point - 5 million dollars for sending turbid waters into the Lower Esopus Creek... Hudson Valley Bureau Chief Dave Lucas reports.

In the wake of devastating hurricanes and other extreme weather in the past several weeks, more than 60 organizations signed a letter calling on Governor Andrew Cuomo to move New York to 100 percent clean, renewable energy as soon as possible.

Last week, State Senate Democrats, led by Deputy Minority Leader Michael Gianaris of Queens, sent Cuomo a letter calling on him to include a funding mechanism for the MTA in the upcoming state budget.

Clergy members, labor unions, technology leaders and over 100 typically de Blasio - averse business executives signed letters calling on Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan and Gov. Andrew Cuomo to pass a multi-year mayoral control extension.

NEW YORK, NY — Governor Andrew M. Cuomo directed state agencies to issue a letter calling on the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission to immediately halt construction of the Algonquin natural gas pipeline until a comprehensive safety review is completed.

AFTER THE Bloomberg administration repeatedly shifted the Department of Education deck chairs, 120 principals have signed a public letter calling on Mayor - elect Bill de Blasio not to completely upend the bureaucracy again.

With the April 1 state budget deadline fast approaching, the three artists are among 14 industry veterans who signed on to a letter calling on Gov. Cuomo to personally intervene.

In concert with PCCC and its partners Democracy for America (DFA) and Credo Action, two freshman Democratic House members, Jared Polis and Chellie Pingree, wrote a letter calling on Reid to include the public option.

He resigned from this position on 6 September 2006 after signing a letter calling on Prime Minister Tony Blair to step down.

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A few days after a poll showed that a majority of New Yorkers oppose the building of a mosque and community center two blocks from ground zero, Lazio has released a letter calling on Cuomo (who supports the mosque) as attorney general to investigate certain issues the media has raised about the mosque's leader, including his refusal to label Hamas a terrorist organization and his membership in an organization that donated money to the Palestinian aid flotillas — neither of which are illegal, but sure, why not?

► «[M] ore than 300 scholars and scientists, including seven Nobel laureates, have signed an open letter calling on Iran to release [chemist Mohammad Hossein] Rafiee» from its «notorious Evin Prison,» where he has been held «since June 2015, after speaking out in favor of the nuclear deal that was announced a month after he was imprisoned,» Zack Kopplin reported Tuesday at ScienceInsider.

Now, more than 300 scholars and scientists, including seven Nobel laureates, have signed an open letter calling on Iran to release Rafiee.

The multi-society letter called on the OMB to work with leaders of government agencies to back the use of the best scientific evidence in their decision - making and to see that federal agencies support scientists doing the work required to «produce the knowledge upon which the nation relies.»

Bradley Simmons, Ofsted Regional Director for the South West, has published a letter calling on headteachers, chief executives of multi-academy trusts, senior political leaders, governors, the local authority and the regional schools commissioner to work together to improve outcomes.

Campaigners penned a letter calling on Education Secretary Justine Greening to scrap the plans over fears that it would potentially be used «for immigration enforcement purposes».

On April 16, Grassley was joined by seven other GOP senators (including major presidential contenders Ted Cruz and Rand Paul), who signed a letter calling on their colleagues to stop funding the implementation of Common Core, which, they point out, appears to violate federal laws that explicitly forbid the Education Department to influence curriculum or assemble a national database.