Sentences with phrase «major issue in the country»

It is a major issue in the country, making sure that we have background checks, but the background checks have all the information that's needed on it.

This is a major issue in this country.

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«There is the danger that work on major issues for the future of our country will be delayed for a prolonged period of time,» DIHK President Eric Schweitzer wrote in an email.

The company polled 6,000 adults in 27 major countries around the world to judge their anxiety level and see what issue keeps them up at night.

LONDON — The United States and Britain on Monday issued a first - of - its - kind joint warning about Russian cyberattacks against government and private organizations as well as individual homes and offices in both countries, a milestone in the escalating use of cyberweaponry between major powers.

«Small business is a major force in the U.S. economy, and business regulations and taxes are always a hot issue during elections — it's no surprise with nearly 28 million small business in this country,» said Swanciger.

But they often become major public issues in Canada and a significant source of irritation between the countries.

As our occupations of Afghanistan and Iraq turned into major fiascoes, discrediting our military leadership, ruining our public finances, and bringing death and destruction to hundreds of thousands of civilians in those countries, I continued to ponder the issue of empire.

The major benefits of the 3 day - long conference for me was gaining insight and understanding pertaining to international agriculture and food security issues encountered in different countries of the world.

Can not stand the smell of Tide and Persil; my daughter is allergic to Country Save; and BumGenius and Rock in Green caused major stink and build up issues) I thank you for any help or insight you may have on continuing or not continuing to use all free clear on my diapers.

Both the main political parties have promised «change» in 2008, although there is little chance of voters being given a say on the major issues facing the country.

The passionate gun control rallies that brought out large crowds around the country sent a vivid signal that the issue is likely to play a major role in the 2018 midterm elections, and that Republicans could find themselves largely on the defensive on gun issues for the first time in decades.

While a country like the UK generally has effective tax collection — give or take a major foreign corporation or two — significant non-tax payment of taxes can cause major issues, as we've seen recently in Greece.

What on earth is this House doing spending two precious days debating an issue that has no interest outside the Westminster village and for which there is no demand in this country at a time when we are facing a domestic crisis of major proportions?

He said when he went around campaigning in 2008 and 2012, he observed that a lot of the roads in the country were in very bad shape «and any chief I went to complained that the major issue they had was the road network; so I decided that we must do something about it.»

The issue of election of MMDCEs had in time past taken centre stage in major discussions in the country with some Ghanaians demanding for it.

Akufo - Addo said at the time that, he is confident the project will help address the major unemployment issues in the country.

None of these were major issues, compared with problems common in many other countries, but they may still have undermined public confidence in the electoral process.

Mr Boateng noted that drug abuse and addiction also caused sexual exposure which could lead to teenage pregnancy and sexually transmitted diseases that have been major health issues affecting the adolescents in the country.

«The government is focused on solving the many major issues our country faces in the areas of the economy, corruption and security; yet, almost every week, the Presidency has to also deal with the distractions which do nothing but distract from the task of government,» he said.

Hague's statement that the option being proposed was the most easily employed to bring democracy and accountability to a wide range of issues is laughable; if only because true democracy does not exist in this country and there is no accountability of our politicians to the people — in that regard, is not Tony Blair, Gordon Brown and John Major (et all) still «at large»?

The issue of collection, management and disposal of solid waste, continues to feature prominently in major towns and cities across the country.

By a similar process, we calculated another 3.3 tons of CO2 in the next leg of the subscriber - issue journey, which takes them from the major distribution centers to postal facilities around the country.

When the U.S. Food and Drug Administration screens new opioid drugs it should better anticipate how people might abuse them in the real world, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine warns in a major report issued Thursday on the country's opioid crisis, which kills 91 people a day — often via overdoses on prescription drugs.

Even if scientists in developing countries have access to a reasonably fast Internet connection, costs are usually a major issue.

Diarrheal disease is a major public health issue in developing countries and, while not generally increasing in the United States, remains a persistent concern nonetheless.

One major study has concluded that nearly 40 percent of Europeans are plagued by stress - related mental illness — and substance abuse along with chronic disease are just as big an issue in other countries.

October 2, 2012 • Despite millions of troubled mortgages around the country, housing hasn't been a major issue in the presidential race so far.

However, major education issues persist in all countries and regions of the world, and EFA remains an «unfinished agenda».

Today, in spite of all the work about it, the concern on all types of violence and discrimination against women continues to be a major issue and concern, to the point that in many countries there are offices to monitor them as femicides.

The Gates Foundation and Scholastic recently released «Primary Sources: 2012 - America's Teachers on the Teaching Profession,» which surveyed 10,000 teachers across the country on their honest, professional opinions about the major issues in American public education.

Twenty - three major organizations from across the country also signed a letter sent to Secretary DeVos, in which they stressed: «This federal guidance remains essential for holding our school systems accountable at the local level and for keeping this issue at the center of the national dialogue so that communities can work together to create solutions that bring an end to racial and discipline disparities and provide support so that all students can succeed in our nation.»

Lounges can be found in 120 countries, meaning you shouldn't have any issue finding a lounge in most of the world's major airports.

Our success rate with serious aggression issues and other major behavior problems is considered one of the best in the country, and many dog trainers will refer their more serious cases to us.

Because dog overpopulation is such a major issue in other parts of the country, and because there is a high demand for puppies in our community, CHS regularly teams up with overcrowded shelters in distress to rescue dogs that would otherwise have to be put down.

You seem to equate using «treats» with permissive and ineffective training, and I'm sensing some general disapproval of reward - based training methods for aggression issues in dogs — I would respectfully disagree with this stance, as would every major group of veterinary behavior professionals and educated trainers currently in existence (see guidelines from ACVB, AVSAB, APDT, etc. in the US, or similar bodies in other countries).

While being part of global processes and tagging along with adopting best practices from other countries, Ukraine has it's own array of diversity - related issues, with the status of women in managing positions, work - parenting balance, as well as major accessibility problems being the main ones.

At a time when race and identity became major issues in music, sport and literature, brought to public attention by iconic figures like Aretha Franklin, Muhammad Ali and Toni Morrison, «Black Art» was being defined and debated across the country in vibrant paintings, photographs, prints and sculptures.

The selection of videos of female artists from the collections of four major female collectors in our country (Juana de Aizpuru, Teresa Sapey, Alicia Aza and Sisita Soldevila) will try to show works in this creative field that offer a significant range of languages, both technical and aesthetic and characteristic, as a sample, the current evolution of contemporary video art, where many issues and diverse perspectives meet.

In many arid parts of the world, desertification is a major issue, and advancing deserts and loss of formerly fertile lands can have a big impact on not just the local environment, but can also affect where and how people live in those areas, many times leading to mass migrations from the country to the citieIn many arid parts of the world, desertification is a major issue, and advancing deserts and loss of formerly fertile lands can have a big impact on not just the local environment, but can also affect where and how people live in those areas, many times leading to mass migrations from the country to the citiein those areas, many times leading to mass migrations from the country to the cities.

But although the problem is shared through the country, the question of how Rio deals with the issue is not minor considering the city needs to prove it can manage three major world class events in the next four years.

Nonprofit and for - profit organizations working in developing countries to bring clean water and sanitation to people most in need play a major role in tackling this most difficult global health issue.

It provides an overview of major developments in energy issues, notably the efforts of Member countries to meet their CO2 reduction commitments under the Kyoto Protocol and the action still needed to attain these goals.

Look at the «ozone hole» issue... where victory is claimed in healing the Antarctic ozone hole by banning of fluorocarbons although only some Western countries (such as US) banned the chemicalswhile other major users didn't.

Diarrheal disease is a major public health issue in developing countries and, while not generally increasing in the United States, remains a persistent concern nonetheless.

«And in fact, our friends in Europe, who are certainly leftier and greenier than we tend to be as a country, are trying to back away from this issue,» he noted, adding that the major heads of state of China, India, Australia, Canada and Germany all declined to join President Obama at the United Nations» Climate Summit held in New York this week.

The platform also contains the following vague and ambiguous promise: «A Conservative government will... address the issue of greenhouse gas emissions, such as carbon dioxide (CO2), with a made - in - Canada plan, emphasising new technologies, developed in concert with the provinces and in coordination with other major industrial countries.»

We won't change their minds, and their numbers aren't large enough to impact policy in a major way; at least in the U.S. such individuals don't count climate change as very high on the agenda of things they care about (I understand that in several other countries, this is a more salient issue).

Dawn: Released by the World Bank, the report calls upon the government to make urban air quality improvement a priority in the country's policy agenda, noting that the issue has received little attention despite strong evidence indicating an urgent need to tackle pollution in major cities.

But lead paint remains a major environmental health issue in developing countries — including the Philippines.