Sentences with phrase «meet its pledges on»

«The government must make the right choices for the future if it is to meet its pledges on ending child poverty, fair taxes and a welfare system that supports families properly.

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After a week of workshops on social entrepreneurship and meeting with local leaders about enhancing the entrepreneurial ecosystem, those who attended, pledged to choose the latter and here are a few of the opportunities we identified:

Son, the head of telecom operator Softbank (sftby), met Trump on Dec. 6 and pledged a $ 50 billion investment that would create 50,000 new jobs in the United States.

He held a meeting with acting U.S. Secretary of State John Sullivan on Saturday during which the United States pledged its backing for Kiev but urged it to implement economic reforms, a U.S. representative said.

Finance ministers and central bankers from the Group of 20 (G - 20) nations pledged on Saturday to «refrain from competitive devaluations» after a two - day meeting in Ankara.

President Donald Trump launched his long - promised attack Friday on banking rules that were rushed into law after the nation's economic crisis, signing new orders after meeting with business and investment chiefs and pledging further action to free big banks from restrictions.

Myanmar's government leader Aung San Suu Kyi met with United Nations Security Council envoys on Monday over the plight of nearly 700,000 mainly Rohingya Muslims who fled to Bangladesh amid a military crackdown, pledging to investigate any credible accusations of abuse, said diplomats who attended the meeting.

Enough noise was made on that occasion that Trudeau met with their representatives later on and pledged his support for the Porter boycott.

Many economists said policymakers could back off that pledge as soon as their next meeting on Dec. 16 - 17.

Blockbid vows to be the most varied cryptocurrency exchange on the planet, under their tagline «Trade with Confidence» and they are well on their way to meeting that pledge.

Brand on target to fulfill goal to remove artificial colors and flavors; Deepens pledge to meet consumers» desire for simplicity, transparency and choice

The NFL - NFLPA stance on the national anthem remains at «We... pledged to meet again to continue this work together.»

Fitch — which placed the UK's AAA rating on «negative outlook» in March - frowned on the government's decision not to pursue what it called «additional consolidating measures» to ensure it met its debt pledge.

There's been scandal - the suspension of MP Michelle Thomson over allegations about property deals, the award of a # 150,000 government grant to the organisers of the profitable T in the Park music festival after a meeting brokered by a former SNP adviser - and there's been political ineptitude, most notably when the nationalists were put on the back foot by a Labour pledge to use Holyrood's powers to overturn tax credit cuts.

The group invited a number of politicians to the meeting, asking them to pledge their support for its cause, testify at public meetings and pledge to vote «no» on any map that divided the community.

The $ 30 billion announced on Saturday is in addition to $ 32 billion that Japan pledged to Africa over a five - year period at the last TICAD meeting in 2013.

He almost never gave significant on - the - record interviews, reneged on a campaign pledge to post online his private schedule of meetings with lawmakers and lobbyists, and eschewed the public meetings with legislative leaders favored by his predecessors.

Cuomo had previously pledged to veto any lines drawn by LATFOR, on the grounds that the process was inherently partisan, and therefore didn't meet his standard for nonpartisan lines drawn by an independent commission.

The pair's speeches come a few days after Liz Kendall voiced support of free schools and pledged to meet the Nato target of spending 2 per cent of GDP on defence.

Cameron's initial support for his bold stance on the EU was then met with aggravation by backbenchers, who capitalised upon the open - ended nature of his pledge and have remained a thorn in his side ever since.

Mr Brown is expected to meet with David Cameron to form a consensus on anti-terrorism legislation and the Tory leader has pledged to work «as closely as I can» with Mr Brown.

Following meetings at the White House with Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, Trump said he seeks only modest changes in the U.S. trade relationship with Canada, pledging that the two nations would continue to work together on cross-border commerce and security issues.

Cuomo met with all the lawmakers on flipping their votes, and according to The New York Times account, pledged help against campaigns like the one NOM is launching.

The Clean Power Plan, which was already on hold pending the results of a court challenge from Republican governors, was central to President Barack Obama's plan for meeting the emissions reductions the United States pledged as part of the Paris agreement, which updated the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change.

On his questionnaire, he faulted the incumbent for not scheduling physically accessible community meetings and pledged to hire a staff member based upon the recommendation of our club to be liaison to the disability community and focus hiring those with knowledge of disability issues.

Elected on the back of a pledge to build 300,000 new homes each year, housing minister Harold Macmillan soon met and exceeded these targets, largely as the result of public sector rather than private sector construction.

In recent days, the Chancellor Phillip Hammond has hinted at a few of the measures he will announce on Budget Day to meet his pledge to build 300,000 homes a year — a more ambitious target than set by previous Governments.

The pledge unanimously passed and signed by the Town Board at its April 11 meeting went on to ask «the New York State Legislature to commit to these same clean energy goals, which would represent a 20 percent increase over the current New York State Energy Plan targets» and to urge «Governor Cuomo to adopt a statewide minimum energy efficiency target of three percent per year of annual energy savings for New York's utilities as part of his comprehensive energy efficiency program, to be announced on Earth Day 2018, and further urges that this program be implemented through a centralized planning process rather than in separate utility rate cases.»

State Republican Chair Ed Cox placed Pataki on a list of pledged delegates ahead of a meeting of the party's state committee in Albany on Wednesday, sources said.

RM: This is simply meeting a pledge made under David Cameron but there is a lot of analysis suggesting it will not be enough, especially given the pressure that social care cuts are putting on the NHS.

In principle such a bill should have little problem being pushed through as the Conservative party has also pledged to meet the UN target of 0.7 % of national income spent on international aid, though a spokesman for Douglas Alexander, the international development secretary, claimed that the Tories would not back the draft bill.

They kept their pledge to promote open government by posting the budget and meeting agendas on the town website.

Mayor Byron W. Brown is pledging an extra $ 500,000 for the city schools after meeting with Buffalo parents on Thursday.

Prime Minister David Cameron pledges help on flood defences on a visit to Newgale, meeting people who have been hit by the recent floods.

Speaking on lack of infrastructure hampering effective implementation of Free SHS Policy, he said national and regional houses of chiefs have held several meetings and they have pledged their support to the government to expedite the process to get the dormitories and classrooms completed as soon as possible.

Even if all the individual pledges are met, the planet will keep on warming — almost certainly past the internationally agreed threshold of acceptable risk, 2...

The U.S. is on course to nearly meet its pledge from the Copenhagen climate conference, according to a new analysis

After the U.S. Supreme Court last month ruled to delay implementation of Obama's Clean Power Plan on fighting emissions from power plants, new methane regulations could help Washington meet its pledges made in Paris.

The analysis, appearing roughly 2 months ahead of a United Nations meeting in Paris intended to finalize a new global climate deal, focuses on the emissions levels that nations have already pledged to reach by 2025 to 2030.

Athena Ballesteros, who leads work on climate finance for the World Resources Institute think tank, said, «If this meeting will help contribute to the goal of coordinating countries plans and actions to mobilize the $ 100 billion pledge, that would be most welcome, and part of the conversation is to find innovative sources of finance that would complement the scarce public resources being made available.»

The minister lured down the protesters from the Institute for Environmental Protection and Research (ISPRA) with a promised meeting, and in an agreement signed on 20 January, she pledged to renew all threatened contracts for 1 year and to appoint new positions in the near future.

It is on track to meet Obama's 2009 pledge to cut US emissions by 17 per cent, from 2005 levels, by 2020.

The World Energy Outlook suggests that unambitious pledges made at last year's United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change conference in Copenhagen will mean that much tougher action is needed after 2020 if the world is to meet the goal of limiting atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) to 450 parts per million (p.p.m.).

If, during that time, donors pledge to meet the target amount, the site charges the pledgers and passes along the money, minus an 8 % to 10 % commission, to the proposer, who then begins making good on the rewards and research.

According to a recent analysis from Resources for the Future in Washington DC, cuts of up to 5 per cent from existing plants could keep the US roughly on target to meet Obama's 2009 pledge to reduce US greenhouse gas releases by 17 per cent by 2020, compared with 2005 levels.

«Recent developments, including the US's announced withdrawal from the Paris Climate Accord, and a report finding that few countries will honor their emissions pledges, suggest we are not currently on track to meet this goal,» says Weber.

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WASHINGTON — The President's Advisory Commission on Hispanic Education held its first meeting last week and received a personal pledge of support from President Bush in a session at the White House.

Schools pledge to use Summit's teaching model, which has three pillars: project - based learning focused on cognitive skills; self - paced learning to mastery in content areas; and one - on - one mentoring to help students set and meet goals.