Sentences with phrase «members more power over»

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Le Maire's call for G20 nations to join together in comprehensive talks over bitcoin, and cryptocurrency more broadly, echoed recent sentiments from Joachim Wuermeling, a board member at Bundesbank in Germany, who had previously stated, «Effective regulation of virtual currencies would therefore only be achievable through the greatest possible international cooperation, because the regulatory power of nation states is obviously limited.»

At the moment there is little appetite among member states for the EU to be given more powers over taxation.

The group is also pressing to give chairs more power over their committees and to reform the legislative process so that the speaker can't prevent legislation from making it to the floor when it is supported by a large majority of members.

Bitcoin mining operations pushed Plattsburgh over its energy allotment in December and January, forcing the city to buy power on the open market, which is more expensive, said Dale Dowdle, a member of Plattsburgh's Common Council.

Jews resigning over antisemitism, members resigning over Europe; Labour looks more like a minority charismatic religion than a political party with a realistic prospect of power.

Reaching more than 45m members worldwide, the company powers over 25,000 sites across all major English - speaking territories, taking care of the dating software, infrastructure, customer support, payment processing and more.

Indianapolis Star education reporter Scott Elliott points out General Assembly members could vote to strip the state superintendent's power over the State Board, making it all the more critical for Ritz to find common ground with statehouse Republicans.

More significantly, as the 115th member of RE100, the company joins a group which now generates demand for over 153TWh of renewable electricity annually — more than it takes to power PolMore significantly, as the 115th member of RE100, the company joins a group which now generates demand for over 153TWh of renewable electricity annually — more than it takes to power Polmore than it takes to power Poland.

Over the past three years, the EPA's corporate partners have increased their voluntary green power commitments by more than 30 percent, while the list of Fortune 500 members grew by 20 percent, totaling 61 companies that buy more than 7 billion kilowatt - hours (kWh) of green power, the equivalent environmental impact of avoiding the annual carbon - dioxide emissions from electricity use of nearly 644,000 average American homes.

It moves Supreme Court races to a merit selection system, but places much more power over the 15 member Judicial Nominating Commission in the legislature

Both solutions will occur because the power of the news media and of the internet, interacting, will quickly make widely known these types of information, the cumulative effect of which will force governments and the courts to act: (1) the situations of the thousands of people whose lives have been ruined because they could not obtain the help of a lawyer; (2) the statistics as to the increasing percentages of litigants who are unrepresented and clogging the courts, causing judges to provide more public warnings; (3) the large fees that some lawyers charge; (4) increasing numbers of people being denied Legal Aid and court - appointed lawyers; (5) the many years that law societies have been unsuccessful in coping with this problem which continues to grow worse; (6) people prosecuted for «the unauthorized practice of law» because they tried to help others desperately in need of a lawyer whom they couldn't afford to hire; (7) that there is no truly effective advertising creating competition among law firms that could cause them to lower their fees; (8) that law societies are too comfortably protected by their monopoly over the provision of legal services, which is why they might block the expansion of the paralegal profession, and haven't effectively innovated with electronic technology and new infrastructure so as to be able to solve this problem; (9) that when members of the public access the law society website they don't see any reference to the problem that can assure them that something effective is being done and, (10) in order for the rule of law, the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, and the whole of Canada's constitution be able to operate effectively and command sufficient respect, the majority of the population must be able to obtain a lawyer at reasonable cost.

Even for more middle class members of the population, it was a cursory warning as to the power that the government has over the affairs of their citizens.