Sentences with phrase «many harmful practices»

Harvard's Czeisler, perhaps the leading expert on sleep and productivity, points out that while corporations have policies around harmful practices such as smoking and drinking, they tacitly encourage long hours unrelieved by sufficient rest.

Announcing the U-turn, the Department for Education said: «We want to ensure any future system of regulation that we may introduce appropriately targets the small minority of settings which may be exposing children to harmful practices, without causing undue burdens on the sector as a whole.

It is a terrible and harmful practice that needs to stop.

There have been harmful practices in loyalty investigations.

But, for now, we don't have to know exactly why people are gay to put a stop to harmful practices that have left Justin, and so many like him, with no other option but despair.

A growing section of the world population (1.3 billion) depend on fisheries and aquaculture for food and as a source of income, but harmful practices threaten the sector ’s

Yet despite this highly persuasive evidence, parents today are not just persisting in harmful practices, but doubling down.

We monitor baby food companies, work for regulations to hold them to account and campaign against harmful practices, such as the Nestle boycott and DanoNO campaigns.

If nursing past infancy were a harmful practice, the human race would not have flourished so.

In global terms, breastfeeding is normal, whereas because only 8 % of the world's babies are born in countries where bottle - feeding is the cultural norm [10] some might describe bottle - feeding as a «traditional harmful practice of the minority,» as set out in the Innocenti Declaration [11].

Members of the public, NGOs and donor agencies want to assist babies and giving them good information about infant and young child feeding in emergencies will help to prevent harmful practices and help to protect the most vulnerable to illness and death.

Despite current scientific evidence that artificial feeding can be a harmful practice, acceptance of breastfeeding as the normal or «default» method of infant feeding remains elusive in the industrialised world [10].

But the government is delaying ending this extremely harmful practice.»

Health - care providers can send a powerful message — that violence is not only a social problem, but a dangerous, unhealthy, and harmful practice — and they can champion prevention efforts in the community.

We are protecting them from all these harmful practices, and they are able to become anything they want to become in life.

In general, removing gluten from the diet is not a harmful practice, and in some cases can support weight loss much in the same way that the Atkins diet did — by reducing carb consumption.

It would be at least negatively challenging and scandalous to try to defend these harmful practices relying on a society's anachronistic religious and cultural beliefs and theories.

This literature often depicted teachers as stupid or evil: stupid by robotically following tradition and unwittingly imposing harmful practices on students; evil by harboring race - or class - based prejudices that manifested in low expectations for many kids.

It would seem that this clearly harmful practice hasn't been thrust upon teachers by their unions, but rather is entirely in line with what teachers want for themselves.

Research in schools revealed that the new measures were indeed leading to discriminatory and harmful practices, with some schools asking only non-white pupils for their nationality and others asking pupils to show their passports

Now, our campaign is focused on full implementation of the student - created Code of Respect policy by engaging a base of students in upholding the shared values, promoting best teacher practices and stemming harmful practices that undermine the values and lead to student marginalization and disengagement.

As schools were placed under an incentive system linked to test scores, we saw a narrowing of the curriculum, teaching to the test, and other potentially harmful practices.

«The government's inability to confront the harmful practice of ability grouping coupled with its desire to further expand selective schools will exacerbate the challenges highlighted in this report and further entrench educational disadvantage.

«Federal money may have unintentionally funded the infamous «dance of the lemons» that has been a harmful practice in districts for decades,» said Tim Daly, president of the New Teacher Project, a nonprofit group that helps school districts recruit teachers.

The letter, an open missive to Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, asked the online retail giant to curtail the harmful practices that were hurting individual authors.

The sponsor also reserves the right to disqualify entries at its sole discretion if it is believed that the entry was received as the result of unfair, deceptive or harmful practices.

The need for market - wide student loan servicing reforms to stop harmful practices and protect borrowers.

Beginning in January 2014, some new CFPB rules will provide homeowners and consumers shopping for a home mortgage with new rights and greater protection from harmful practices.

As convenient as it may be, this is a potentially harmful practice for the cat!

The lack of uniformity from shelter to shelter and region to region among shelters spawns interesting and sometimes harmful practices.

Of course, we also report more pressing stories about conservation and climate change, paying attention to the severe outbreak of coral bleaching damaging our planet's reefs — and informing our readers about the harmful practice of big game hunting.

Until the experience is regulated, we can not in good conscience be a part of this harmful practice.

In 2008, Ecuador passed similar ruling giving its forests, lakes, and waterways rights on par with humans in order to ensure their protection from harmful practices.

When companies refuse to change their harmful practices, ForestEthics holds them publicly accountable.

What we need is consistent, constant and concerted effort to stop harmful practices so that we can save the environment, for real.

Not only is shark finning an intensely wasteful and harmful practice, it's also essentially pointless since shark fins have no nutritional or medicinal value.

The SFI condones environmentally harmful practices including large - scale clearcutting and chemical use, logging of old growth and endangered forests, and replacement of forests by ecologically degraded tree plantations.

America must permanently ban all new offshore drilling, end the harmful practice of seismic testing and continue to move towards clean and renewable energy.»

Because arbitration decisions are typically not disclosed and not subject to appeal, consumers and workers are left without recourse and must bear the cost of unfair, deceptive and harmful practices.

This has led to many harmful practices:

Health professions and systems have apologised and provided reparation and justice for harmful practices.

But it seems that while many of the Ethiopian men I spoke with were aware that their partners have been mutilated and thought this was a harmful practice, they still did not seem to understand how or why this might cause women to be passive and unenthusiastic in bed.

There were a number of harmful practices using technology that young people had to contend with such as: checking up on an ex several times a day using phone / apps, having sexual images being sent on to others, experiencing verbal abuse and having nasty comments spread across friendship groups.

Not exact matches

In addition, right off the bat, Trump would submit legislation related to currency manipulation and review if trading partners engage in «harmful» practices.

Note also that the oath insists on the duty to avoid «business practices harmful to society,» which is so painfully vague it borders on the vacuous.

Ally's account agreement avoids every practice that Pew considers potentially harmful to bank customers, including complex language, excessive overdraft fees and arbitration clauses.

«We are deeply concerned that the proposed tariffs list and escalating tariff threats from the administration will not effectively advance our shared goal of changing these harmful Chinese practices,» he said.

Trump would also submit legislation on currency manipulation, review whether our trading partners engage in «harmful» practices, and would order the Committee on Foreign Investment in the US to review food security in trade and reciprocity in international corporate takeovers (i.e. whether a US company would be able to buy a Chinese company like a Chinese company would be able to be buy a US company).

The latter often carries high APRs and employs harmful lending practices that make them a very costly way to borrow.

The 2014 deliverables included reports on the digital economy and harmful tax practices, as well as draft rules on treaty abuse and the transfer pricing of intangibles.