Sentences with phrase «local action in»

This suggests the need for more local action in Canada and eventually an international regime of fossil fuel export controls.

To realize its mission to enhance and share humanity's scientific understanding of the Universe, the AAS calls on all its members to take local action in support of dark skies.

While supporting regional collaboration it clearly highlights the importance of local action in the drive for sustainable growth and recommends practical actions for planning and development.

Clarity on commitment to decentralisation, including opportunities for local action in Community Energy, Smart Cities and the Internet of Things, which are new developments that hold considerable potential, but developers and entrepreneurs are held back where there is lack of clarity in the government's intent.

In response to his call for «a broad new mental health program,» Congress appropriated funds to stimulate state and local action in creating intensive treatment centers and to encourage research on mental retardation.

Not exact matches

As small businesses claim the Saturday after Black Friday, local restaurants are getting in on the action.

In one case where bitcoin was seized, Aaron Michael Shamo is accused of being a part of a global fentanyl operation that is one of Utah's largest drug actions, according to local press reports and court filings.

Local businessman Peter Landau will be subjected to more court action after China - controlled Nkwe Platinum filed a $ 2.5 million law suit in the Supreme Court of Western Australia.

As a response, Endeavor finally took action in September by opening an office in Miami and assembling a board of local business leaders that includes execs from Virgin Hotels and Cisneros Group, one of the biggest privately held media companies in the world.

Local miner Pilbara Minerals is threatening legal action against its former joint venture partner after discovering problems with the plant at its Tabba Tabba tantalite project, which was completed in November.

Whether you're on Ellen's 12 Days of Giveaways or featured in your local newspaper, you'll want to get in on the action.

His People's Action party opportunistically teamed up with local Communists, who helped Lee get elected Prime Minister when the British granted local autonomy in 1959.

«The Commission will not take adverse action on a license renewal application based upon the subjective determination of a listener or group of listeners that the station has broadcast purportedly inappropriate programming,» the FCC commissioners wrote in a recent decision challenging a local radio station license.

Most important, FedEx believes urgent action is required at the local, state, and Federal level to protect schools and students from incidents such as the horrific tragedy in Florida on February 14th,» FedEx said in a statement.

The impact outside China was, in truth, not large because moves in A-shares were driven by local policy action, momentum, and liquidity, said Davies.

Even your local pizza shop may be getting in on the action!

According to local independent retailers, the proposed sale of the Action stores would present a significant challenge in terms of leasing arrangements that would have to be negotiated with major shopping centres and susceptibility to aggressive competition from rivals Coles and Woolworths.

The UNGC, through its corporate signatories, is setting up local networks (in 80 countries so far) to map out local SDG action plans together with governments and other community stakeholders.

We recognize that improving people's lives often happen at the local level, where individuals take action in their own communities.

Most community groups never get beyond small local actions and, even when a spark catches fire, as in the case of the Occupy movement, it often seems to fizzle out almost as fast.

«In addition, we are expressly prohibiting its use to target action by local regulators going forward.»

Claire from My Local Guide http://www.mylocalguide.net.au — tip # 16 in action!!!

With the passing of MMRSA in 2015 and the (now removed) deadline of March 1, 2016 for local cities and counties there has been a lot of action in

Cappelli and Chauvin (1991)[pdf] documented that in plants where pay was higher relative to the local labor market, fewer disciplinary actions were required.

Yet there's a lack of action in the government, from the federal level all the way down to local representatives.

Pricing increased 5.7 percentage points, primarily driven by actions to offset higher input costs in local currency.

The bank has already paid $ 185 million in fines to federal and local authorities and settled a $ 110 million class - action lawsuit.

Only Coloradans can sign the resolution, either online or in person, but they won't be able to do so until they agree to take action on some level — whether lobbying local officials or getting others on board.

«Therefore, following the dramatic collapse in price, the now aggressive central bank action and Russia's ability to pay, sovereign [debt] is very attractive in both the dollar and particularly in local currency terms.»

The statement highlights the signatories desire to see the growth of a strong Brazilian green bonds market, sets out specific actions conducive to achieving this and aims to foster discussion and future issuance of these bonds in the local market.

In our short time on the island, our team forged local partnerships on the ground with incredible organizations like Community Action Now.

the negation of ideology, the political secularization of the doctrine of original sin, the cautious sentiment tempered by prudence, the product of organic, local human organization observing and reforming its customs, the distaste for a priori principle disassociated from historical experience, the partaking of the mysteries of free will, divine guidance, and human agency by existing in but not of the confusions of modern society, no framework of action, no tenet, no theory, and no article of faith, a distrust of the systems and processes of the idol of self and of the lust for power and status, scorn to all approaches of ideology and meta - narrative.

Vatican officials failed to take action against a priest accused of sexually abusing two teenage girls in Minnesota despite repeated warnings from a local bishop starting in 2005, attorneys for one of the alleged victims said Monday.

That tangible action came in the form of tens of thousands of towels and socks donated by conference - goers to be handed out at local homeless shelters in the weeks following the conference.

Furthermore, Hoge and Wenger discovered a consensus among judicatory officers regarding pastors who have left local church ministry: «These pastors tended to be loners in the district or presbytery, for whatever reason not part of ministerial friendship groups or action groups.

These are probably the social roots which are at the base of these co-ordinated movements from which stem the willingness of different social movements to take their own affairs in hand and start action at a local level and also at a wider level, continental or international.

A pastor will wish to read the basic AA books and pamphlets, which can be obtained from the local group, but no amount of reading is a substitute for the experience of observing AA in action.

Again, one may attend the Eucharist in another country without any knowledge of the language or local ceremonies, and yet recognize the Eucharistic action of blessing and breaking bread and blessing the cup.

It would have been corrected much faster if local christians and churches had taken concerted action, or if the RCC had stepped in to control its cult members, Hitler and others.

A perusal of the Church of the Brethren Web pages provides clear evidence that a commitment to pacifism is not limited to denominational headquarters: the 48 churches of the Northern Indiana District Conference have joined to urge «the use of nonviolent approaches and interventions» in response to the terror; the Elizabethtown, Pennsylvania, Church of the Brethren has adopted a statement in which they «remain committed to walk in the Jesus way of nonviolent love, in which evil can only be overcome with redemptive acts of love»; a group of Brethren Volunteer Service Workers have issued a statement in which they «advocate the use of nonviolent means to settle disputes» and «stand opposed to the increased drive toward militarization»; on October 7 members of local Brethren churches (along with Mennonites and others) organized a peace rally at the state capitol in Harrisburg, «Sowing Seeds of Peace: Prayers and Petitions for Nonviolent Action,» which attracted over 300 people.

It remains unclear who made the complaint but diocesan authorities are said to be taking the issue seriously which has prompted locals to start a petition, calling on the parish's vicar, Revd Dr Stephen M'Caw, to «take no action in respect of concerns expressed about the bells of St John's Church».

And while the strains of the post-Conciliar years (which were also years of tremendous demographic transformation on the American urban / suburban landscape) have tested that claim as never before, there remain, in this, the sesquicentennial year of the erection of the diocese, many impressive signs of vitality in a local church that has been distinguished for its rich ethnic diversity, its identification of parish and neighborhood, its impressive clerical and lay leadership, its self - conscious social and political liberalism, and its sense of itself as the «lead diocese» in matters ranging from liturgical renewal to Christian social action.

It also declares that «several violent actions motivated by religious intolerance against non-Catholics have been committed» in Bolivia» giving as its only example a stoning incident from 1949 that was, according to «some witnesses» left unnamed in a local newspaper account, instigated by a Catholic priest.

Because in our interdependent and rapidly evolving world all actions impact on one another; even local actions can have global and long - term consequences.

Not to mention, characterizing an entire state based on the actions of a few people in one local church is a bit ridiculous.

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Though its terms were drawn from the vast world repertoire of religious and social imagination, they were particularized in a local language that expressed our own views, values, and actions.

Clearly, this epidemic isn't going anywhere without people across the world taking action against allowing it to thrive in our local communities.

CNN: Twitter blocks content of German neo-Nazi group Twitter will withhold content from a neo-Nazi account at the request of German authorities, the first time it has put into action a policy of local censorship it adopted in January and a step that will probably reignite debate over freedom of expression on the Internet.

These range from local «action» potentials in the millisecond range to «DC» potentials with durations of minutes or hours.