Sentences with phrase «made about this infrastructure»

The decisions made about this infrastructure will influence the country for decades to come.

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Russia is certainly cognizant of this fact, and has occasionally made (not very well thought - through) noises about setting up its own internet infrastructure, in order to mitigate the threat posed by western states to Russian websites.

And on Friday, the company made the paperwork public, revealing details about its financial performance, it's internal tech infrastructure, and plans to expand.

«While no decisions have been made about Department of Defense activities on the islands based on the study, DOD continues to focus on ensuring its installations and infrastructure are resilient to a wide range of threats.

Beyond consumer and business data — energy companies possess much proprietary information about their holdings, trading strategies and exploration and production technologies — the increasing dependence of pipeline infrastructure on digital systems makes them a particularly ripe target.

We made it clear we need to make significant investments in infrastructure and middle - class families, so we talked about reducing the tax rate for middle - class families and increasing the child tax benefit to deal with the rising costs and anxieties.

His proposed solution is to have the U.S. government create an independent Federal Energy Resources System, modelled after the Federal Reserve Bank system and empowered to make real - time (not «political time») regulatory decisions about the energy supply, technology and infrastructure choices, and environmental protection.

Beyond the actual gas project and LNG sales, China's state - run shipping conglomerate COSCO has also secured a 50 percent stake in the four LNG shipping carriers serving Yamal.90 Chinese engineers and workers have been deployed to the Yamal Peninsula to help construct surrounding infrastructure, which includes a Chinese - produced polar drilling rig.91 Moreover, a Chinese oil and gas rig producer now provides Russia with about 60 percent of its imported oil rig supplies, indicating that China is becoming a dominant player in this sphere.92 Chinese media recently hailed Yamal as an example of China's construction and engineering prowess and a symbol of its transformation into an Arctic player.93 In return for China stepping into support the project, senior officials from Novatek, the main shareholder of the project, announced that the first LNG shipment would symbolically go to China.94 But a British subsidiary of Malaysia's Petronas purchased the first shipment of Yamal LNG and sold it to France's Engie, which then shipped the cargo to its Boston import facility for American use.95 Western sanctions on Novatek, Russia's largest independent national gas producer and a company with close ties to the Kremlin, made Yamal's pivot to China possible, as sanctions forced Russia to find an alternative source of investment and technology.

The things about our cities that make you want to move here are the same reasons many of us live here — we have great systems of higher education, museums, and infrastructure that helps move people and things from one place to another.

«I intend to spend the coming months talking about issues that affect the everyday lives of Mississippians — issues like jobs, making health care more affordable, and infrastructure,» He wrote in one.

After the interim Liberal leader had expounded on the «absurd situation» before us — a cabinet minister unable or unwilling to stand in the House and explain his actions in helping divvy up millions in «border infrastructure» funds for bike racks and gazebos in his riding — the Prime Minister stood and restated the script about this having been «thoroughly aired» and there being «process improvements» to be made and so forth.

Publishing an Infrastructure Sunshine List will ensure that decisions about new schools and hospitals are made with public oversight and full transparency.

As we have spoken about previously, this new payments infrastructure will provide Australians with the ability to make real - time, information - rich payments on a 24/7 basis.

Faced with dwindling numbers and an ageing infrastructure, especially in the traditionally strong Catholic bastions of the nation's largest cities, painful decisions must be made about how best to continue the mission of proclaiming the Gospel in a dramatically different cultural setting.

Forget about sacking the man, that call just divides us, we all want to be competitive and not just make up the numbers so unite in getting the infrastructure in place, this will reduce Wengers role and our dependence on him.

Imagine a powerful mayor, with control over the Greater Bristol area, able to make strategic decisions about housing, transport, infrastructure and skills, with devolved power and resources?

Long Islanders care about their property values, and the infrastructure improvements and enhancements he discussed will increase property and home values making Long Island a more attractive location to live and work in.

Rebalancing this could make way for the # 5 billion package of essential infrastructure investment which is being widely talked about.»

David Jones announced that Wales would get an extra # 161 million to spend on infrastructure — but we all remember that this is just putting back some of the # 500 million cut in capital spending that was made in 2010 budget and even in the terms of this Budget it's not quite as simple as the Welsh Secretary would have us believe, because a further # 59m is cut out of the Welsh Government's revenue funding, forcing hard decisions about cuts to services on which we all rely.

He also applauded the Governor for announcing a major commitment to clean water infrastructure and water quality protection and said he welcomes «a serious discussion about college affordability and making high quality college education accessible for all New Yorkers.»

Over about a one - year period, the mayor made 10 trips out of area to speak, present to or attend conferences on infrastructure and innovation.

If you want to tell me about issues you see with traffic infrastructure, and I keep demanding that you first establish that internal combustion is actually a thing, and that it does have the ability to power a motor vehicle, you'd never make any progress because you'd be re-proving what has been proven.

Trump and Gov. Andrew Cuomo met at Trump Tower, where Cuomo made his pitch for the state to receive federal infrastructure dollars for state projects and voiced concerns about Republican - led efforts to repeal the Affordable Care Act.

In a 10 - minute exchange, Cuomo said his «friend» Clinton's loss made for an «emotional day,» but that he had already conducted a pleasant conversation with President - elect Donald Trump about his own plans to upgrade the state's transportation infrastructure.

President - elect Donald Trump and Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo met at Trump Tower Wednesday morning, where Cuomo made his pitch for the state to receive federal infrastructure dollars for state projects and voiced concerns about Republican - led efforts to repeal the Affordable Care Act.

«I see the development as a good thing, but I want to make sure it does not affect the residential character of lower Manhattan,» Xie said, mentioning concerns about traffic, air quality and infrastructure.

«The best way to protect our homeland is to make investments around the world,» because we only know about threats if our partners around the world have the capacity to detect, respond to and control threats, she said, adding that when it comes to pandemics, plans and prior infrastructure must be in place because «we don't have a lot of time for bureaucracy.»

Those would be very expensive changes to make, but the fact is you are also still putting in about two - thirds that same amount just to keep up the infrastructure that we have now, so these costs really always have to be put in the right context.

Fifty percent of all plastic is made for disposable applications such as packaging; about a quarter goes into long - term infrastructure items such as pipes.

He said that future rainfall projections would be useful for his city when making budget decisions about the size of the stormwater collection system and for green infrastructure and permeable asphalt projects.

«Especially when we talk about investing in science and innovation, where the fruits of those investments may take years or even decades to materialize, we need to make sure that we have a data infrastructure in place to document and evaluate their outcomes,» said Li.

As the threat of cyber attacks on our nation's infrastructure continues to grow, Argonne has made it a priority to promote student interest in, and knowledge about, the field of cybersecurity.

Scientists in the northwest have made a new discovery about how whirlpools function, which could have important knock on effects for the design of flood defences, energy systems and other large scale infrastructure.

Please talk about your experience with prescribing this treatment and then the challenges you've seen at your center in terms of making the treatment, meeting infrastructure needs, and delivering the therapy.

There's already 50,000 of these websites out there, one more doesn't make a difference, and their infrastructure basically copy and pastes, doesn't worry about maintenance, and you just use SEO, pay - per - click, these handy funnels that everyone's spent a decade polishing and you're away.

2018-04-07 14:17 A company led by Asia's second richest man Li Ka - Shing has made a $ billion bid for infrastructure owner Duet Group, just four months after the Turnbull DUET Group is facing questions from the market about increased risk in its business after agreeing to buy power project developer Energy Developments Ltd

Join Steve Baines, Business Development Manager and Data Security Officer at Groupcall, to find out about the pitfalls of working with multiple systems, how to identify where there are problems, and ultimately how you can consolidate these systems and make sure all parts of your school infrastructure are working together.

For ALEC, it is all about tearing down our public school infrastructure so corporate privatization efforts can move in and make a buck.

In her recent column, state Rep. Chris Taylor argues that the American Legislative Exchange Council, ALEC, and presumably other voucher proponents are «all about tearing down our public - school infrastructure so corporate privatization efforts can move in and make a buck.»

His talk about «edu - localism» connects with his usual arguments about how improved transit infrastructure in urban settings makes everything better — he wants kids to be able to easily commute across town to access better schools that might be far from the neighborhoods they live in.

Historically, TIFIA has supported total infrastructure investment of about four times the amount of total credit assistance it has made available.

What most people do not understand about the App Store ecosystem is that Apple created an entire end - to - end infrastructure to create and distribute the apps, all the way from designing and releasing the applications used to program them — and even making their own programming language to boot — hosting said apps on their servers, designing the operating system used to run the apps, and last but not least designing and producing the actual hardware devices that run them.

And the Guild and the Society are going about exposing details of what they characterize as unfair and inadequate payment practices that they say damage authors» ability to make a living and take advantage of authors» comparatively weak stance in the face of a corporate publishing infrastructure.

If you're thinking about investing in an infrastructure entity, or if your financial adviser has recommended such an investment, make sure you find out the answers to the questions opposite.

Microsoft has made bold claims about its cloud infrastructure: it has built 300,000 servers to upgrade Xbox Live for the next gen, which it says is the equivalent of «three Xbox Ones in the cloud for every Xbox One in the living room».

In Svobodová's paintings, folds made during a concentrated period of time build the infrastructure of the final image and create a narrative of space that never stops suggesting something intrinsic about flatness.

In any case, if what really counts is the second half of the century, that makes the 7 vs 9 vs 20 debate somewhat marginal, since what matters most is what the wedges say about technological and infrastructure trends, not what they mean for emissions per se.

When it comes to commuting and two - wheeled urban transport, the Dutch know a thing or two about making city bikes (and about making good city bike infrastructure), and from Royal Dutch Gazelle, which has been making quality city bikes since 1892, comes a new e-bike entry in the daily rider category.

Developing nations on the other hand are spending money today on establishing an energy infrastructure and they can make choices about spending this money on a system that will produce a lot of Carbon emissions or one that will be produce less.

Electric utilities, who have to plan decades ahead and who make their money on investments in energy infrastructure, now find themselves in a brave new world where their assumptions about perpetual growth are no longer holding true.