Sentences with phrase «measures announced last»

South Korea's cryptocurrency exchange association will verify member compliance with self - regulatory measures announced last year.

Not exact matches

Announcing the report findings, commissioner for census and statistics Leslie Tang Wai - kong pointed out that the Gini coefficient - an index from 0 to 1 that measures the wealth gap - for households rose by 0.002 from 0.537 in 2011 to a record high of 0.539 last year.

The ban was lifted «effective immediately» on Dubai International, the world's busiest airport for international travel, after new security measures announced by the U.S. last week were implemented, an Emirates spokeswoman said in a statement.

I thought Kalanick's leave of absence, announced just last week, was a weak half measure.

The Prime Minister thought everything was going as planned, when he announced last October, several measures promised in the 2011 Conservative election platform.

Notwithstanding all their «creative budget accounting» tricks, the measures announced since last fall will put the budget into a deficit for 2015 - 16.

The Prime Minister announced all these measures last October.

He'd already taken a step in that direction back in June when he announced the last rate cut and first revealed the bank's asset - backed securities purchasing program and Targeted Longer - Term Refinancing Operations (TLTROs), but now he's reinforced that message with more measures.

Chinese and American officials have quietly begun talks since President Trump announced the trade measures last week.

The measures, which were first announced last Friday, have set the markets in disarray, as investors braced for a more hostile environment for global trade.

Chicago Park District facilities and offices will be closed on Pulaski Day as a last - resort measure to balance the district's $ 400 million budget, officials announced Wednesday.

Last week the home secretary announced a new crackdown on underage drinking, promising stricter enforcement of existing laws and more measures to hold parents responsible for their children's behaviour.

We ordered the suspension of all air - freight from Yemen and I have announced further measures in the last few days, including the suspension of unaccompanied air freight from Somalia.

Florida's Republican state leaders announced that they are moving ahead with a «sweeping» bill responding to last week's school shooting — but the measure will likely not include any restrictions on assault rifles.

Last month Europe minister David Lidington announced a series of measures pledging to improve parliament's scrutiny of European Union business, which included the promise for a vote to take place.

AG Andrew Cuomo, who is upstate today to announce an investigation into predatory health care lending, weighed in during a stop in Buffalo on the Senate's action (and inaction) on some key policy measures before lawmakers departed Albany last night — presumably not to return until at least after the Sept. 14 primary.

Cuomo's office has insisted the measures announced in the last several weeks remain consistent with his agenda.

In the autumn Mr Reid announced operation safeguard - which allows the use of police cells - as an emergency measure, and last month he reminded courts they should only be sending the most dangerous offenders to jail.

The new measures, announced last month by home secretary Jacqui Smith, would mean that men would be breaking the law if they paid for sex with a woman trafficked into the UK or is working for a pimp, regardless of whether the man was aware the woman was forced into prostitution.

Last November, General Electric announced it was closing its capacitor factory early next year in a cost - saving measure, taking its 200 jobs to Florida.

At the last election the Lib Dems said they could raise large sums by closing tax loopholes and today Alexander announced that the government would spend an extra # 900m on anti-evasion and anti-avoidance measures.

Smith will announce that he does not believe the measure has sufficient votes to pass — a statement that is at this point undoubtedly true, although it's unclear how long that will last if, as Democrats are hoping, the prospect of being in the minority leads to mass GOP retirements.»

John McDonnell, the shadow chancellor, said that information buried in the small print of last month's Office for Budget Responsibility report showed that three tax avoidance measures were now expected to raise significantly less than when they were first announced.

Last week President Obama announced plans to limit carbon pollution from new and existing power plants, a measure likely to have even more impacts on coal - fired plants, including Georgia Power's eight.

In the last week, half the country's 10 general electricity utilities have announced that they would suspend reviews of proposals for new generation from renewable energy producers or take measures to ensure that the addition of that energy does not compromise their transmission and distribution networks.

Last year, scientists working with the BICEP2 telescope announced that they had found these gravitational waves; now it seems they were actually measuring interstellar dust.

French environment minister Segolene Royal went on television last week to announce emergency measures to combat the country's four - year drought and to launch a campaign urging people to conserve water.

However, under proposals announced by the government last year, England's primary schools will be judged on two new measures from 2016.

Bright Tribe had been lined up to take on Haydon Bridge since it was placed in special measures in 2015, but announced in November last year that it would be walking away from the school, blaming a «significant and increasing financial deficit» and falling pupil numbers at the 11 - to - 18 secondary school.

Last week, the school district backed down, announcing that the Measures of Academic Progress — or MAP test — is now optional for high schools, but those refusing the test must find another way to gauge student performance.

Last week, Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo and legislative leaders announced measures designed to help put an evaluation system in place.

The proposed change to Ofqual's code of practice is part of a raft of measures announced by the regulator last year and comes after a consultation on the plans held earlier this year.

The government is introducing a number of other measures that have consequences for the personal finances of Canadians, although they were first announced last fall and not in Budget 2015.

The Ontario government announced last week that it will be instituting measures to curb the abusive practices of «debt settlement» companies.

Similar to last time, though difficult to tell the degree to which they disagree over the additional measures announced today.

Last year's Throne Speech signalled that the government plans to announce a string of consumer - friendly policies, including rules limiting charges on pre-paid credit cards and measures to reduce the Canada-U.S. price gap on consumer items.

We showed up to Pearson International Airport extra early since the US Department of Homeland Security last week announced new security measures on air travel to the United States from over a hundred countries, including Canada.

Last week, we announced a key strategic acquisition for our organization, reflecting our strategy to deploy our capital resources prudently and to take measured risks that provide immediately accretive opportunities for our business and the potential to long - term growth.

I am myself a libertarian in large part because of what happened on the evening of Sunday, 15 August 1971, when I watched Richard Milhous Nixon announce that by executive order he was «temporarily» closing the gold window (ain't nothing so permanent as a «temporary» government measure) to divorce the U.S. dollar from the last vestige of even a fiction of specie convertibility, thereby opening the sluices to the present flood of fiat currency inflation.

Following a major referendum last year in which San Francisco residents approved a $ 100 million bond measure to install as many solar panels in the city as the rest of the nation does all year, Mayor Willie Brown announced a $ 7.4 million project to install solar panels on the roof to the Moscone Convention Center.

Recent figures suggested emissions from Chinese coal plants may have peaked last year, while the government in the past few months has announced a series of measures to curtail coal development.

The U.S. is on track to achieve President Obama's goal announced last year of lowering carbon emissions 17 % below 2005 levels by 2020, but we will need more aggressive measures to meet our Paris Agreement target of 26 - 28 % below 2005 levels by 2025.

Announced in July 2015, the legislation will restrict mortgage interest tax relief for individuals renting out residential property and follows a raft of measures aimed at controlling the unprecedented growth of the buy to let sector over the last two decades.

Announced last week as part of President Trump's response to the Parkland shooting, the meeting was hastily assembled and has been criticized as a purposeful distraction from more concrete gun - control measures.

In a statement to Reuters on Wednesday, an Emirates spokeswoman said that the in - cabin ban on laptops and large electronic devices was lifted for flights out of Dubai after the airline implemented new security measures that the US Department of Homeland Security announced last week.

The measures build on a plan, announced last October, to require American political advertisers to undergo an authentication process and reveal their affiliation alongside their adverts.

In preparation for Mr. Zuckerberg's testimony, his first such appearance, Facebook has spent the last couple of weeks trying to transform its public image from a defiant, secretive behemoth into a contrite paragon of openness, announcing a string of new privacy and anti-abuse measures and making company executives available for numerous interviews.