Sentences with phrase «move the country toward»

According to the Associated Press, Mohamed's swearing in moves the country toward its first fully functioning central government in 25 years.

Zephyr will be a strong and persuasive voice for moving the country toward greater equality in earnings for women and the 99 %, increasing the minimum wage, and helping more citizens engage in electoral politics by supporting public funding of elections.

However, President George W. Bush has wasted no time at all in claiming that these decisions will move the country toward «race neutral» policies.

In keeping with past practice, the bill does not attempt to move the country toward universal preschool.

The following graphs compare Section 201 with the call by some in Congress for a massive U.S. effort to build 100 new nuclear power plants in an attempt to move the country toward energy independence and significant GHG emissions reductions (click either image to enlarge):

Some in Congress are calling for a massive U.S. effort to build 100 new nuclear power plants in an attempt to move the country toward energy independence and significant GHG emissions reductions.

The resulting coalition government began moving the country toward renewable energy.

Organizations ranging from MoveOn.org and the Union of Concerned Scientists to the American Wind Energy Association urged its passage as a way to fight global warming, promote energy independence, increase wind - lease payments to farmers, and move the country toward a clean energy economy based on solar and wind power.

We can readily continue this rapid expansion of renewable energy by utilizing existing technologies, investing in improvements to our electricity system, and making smart policy decisions that move the country toward a clean energy future.

We can readily continue this rapid expansion of renewable energy — and accelerate the transition away from dirty, coal - fired power plants — by utilizing existing technologies, investing in improvements to our electricity system, and making smart policy decisions that move the country toward a clean energy future.

With the Building Sector consuming almost 50 % of all the energy produced in the U.S., Section 433 is intended to provide federal leadership for addressing climate change and moving the country toward energy independence *.

To get there, we need to make smart investments and policy decisions today that move the country toward a cleaner energy future.

The answer lies instead in a diverse energy strategy that offers the greatest potential to move the country toward a clean, sustainable energy future.

In its decision last week, the Supreme Court affirmed a circuit court's judgement, holding that disparate impact claims are cognizable under the Fair Housing Act, and are an important component to the Fair Housing Act's role in moving the country toward a more integrated society.

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The election reminded many Americans that the US is a country committed to and capable of progress - of moving forward toward an ideal vision.

«ICBMs create a problem because they enable a country to break out of a regional context and move toward potential global impact,» Pike, who now directs GlobalSecurity.org, wrote in 1998.

However, when the U.S. announced it was moving forward toward more normalized relations with Cuba, it seemed like everyone was losing their minds about franchises taking over the country.

Once the company is confident that it is moving toward obtaining an FDA certification, it will embark on a series pre-marketing activities, such as collating clinical evidence from other countries to help promote the product to U.S. cosmetic surgeons.

«We're hopeful this extension moves us toward the most productive path for our domestic steel industry — the tariffs President Trump announced earlier this year and a quota system to limit the amount of imports flooding our country,» Lebow said in a statement.

Heavy tariffs on imports will come back to hurt U.S. if other countries move toward protectionism too, said a former USTR.

«We're hopeful this extension moves us toward the most productive path for our domestic steel industry - the tariffs President Trump announced earlier this year and a quota system to limit the amount of imports flooding our country,» Leebow said in a statement.

«Use this as an opportunity to help us really move forward in advancing the country toward a brighter future now, while the opportunity is available.

It also begins to move European countries further toward a common fiscal policy by linking their budgets and governments.

Additionally, as central banks move toward normalizing monetary policy, the correlations between EM markets are declining and country and stock selection matter more.

As England moved toward entry into the Great War, Herbert Somerton Foxwell wrote a series of papers for the Economic Journal expressing concern that continental Europe was winning an industrial edge over his own country precisely because of a more industrially oriented banking sys - tem.

However, the smart speaker race to launch in new countries is an important angle to the voice assistant competitive landscape and Amazon is moving toward checking off two more countries right after the New Year.

In the U.S., the Federal Reserve (the Fed) is moving toward a more «normalized» stance on interest rates, while other countries and regions are heading in the opposite direction.

Any move toward US monetary policy normalization would come in spite of an appeal from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) that the country delay raising interest rates until next year.

«This is going to allow us to move toward new forms of international financing for the country's economic and social development,» the president said.

The term implies that when the citizens of Cambodia or Argentina see their country's war criminals or dictators tried and convicted, they will place more faith in the rule of law, and the society can move more easily toward a peace settlement or democracy.

The move was seen by many as another step toward Hindu nationalism since 2014, when the country elected as its prime minister Narendra Modi — the only person once banned by the United States because of alleged religious freedom violations.

Every country that in recent years has moved toward democracy and peace first suffered large - scale assaults on human dignity from dictatorship or civil war: genocide, massacres, torture, rape, maiming, abduction of children, illegal detention, the destruction of homes and livelihoods.

States across the country have moved toward similar abortion restrictions in recent years, with Texas upholding its own «fetal pain» law despite state senator Wendy Davis's filibuster making national news in 2013.

And the top veal and pork producers in the country — such as Smithfield Foods, Strauss Veal and Marcho Farms — have begun to phase out crates and move toward group housing systems for pigs and calves.

Sports venues and concessionaires across the country are moving toward environmentally preferable food service to help build a healthier and more sustainable food program.

Thinking through some of these issues within the family will help you choose an agency, identify the birth country (ies) that you are interested in, and move ahead more quickly toward getting a referral.

Dr. Miller, who passed away in 2010, made it her mission to abolish corporal punishment in every country because she believes that will be the only way we can begin to move forward in eliminating violence toward children.

The USDA's move is widely seen as a preliminary step toward eventually allowing China to export its own raw poultry into this country, in exchange for China's opening up its lucrative beef market to American beef producers.

The USDA's move is considered to be a preliminary step toward eventually allowing China to export its own raw poultry into this country, in exchange for China's opening up its lucrative beef market to American beef producers.

The concern is more than justified and the move in many countries toward eco-friendly baby products and organic toys is a wise one.

AT&T Inc.'s wireless workers moved closer toward striking at the nation's second - largest carrier, citing a campaign pledge by Trump to keep U.S. jobs from being outsourced to other countries.

So, fundamentally the problem was not about many people being against Obamacare, it's purely a failure to get to an agreement to move the country in a new direction that necessarily requires a large fraction of the country to agree to disagree and work constructively toward implementation.

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«And we are seeing progress, by the way, all over this country — California and Tennessee and Oregon — we're seeing progress where mayors and governor are moving toward making public colleges and universities — delighted to work with Governor Cuomo on this.

And even though democratic governance is the ideal, like I said, it evolves and every country moves toward that ideal at its own pace, and so it must not be imposed as a necessity that people should adopt democratic governance.

Cuomo said he would work to pass legislation setting a $ 15 minimum for all industries, a promise that comes as more and more cities around the country move toward a $ 15 minimum wage.

Trump on Wednesday began moving toward fulfilling his campaign promises to erect a wall along the U.S. - Mexico border and restrict people from Muslim majority countries from entering the U.S.

China's support this weekend for an early freeze date moves the nation toward a position long held by the United States and other like - minded countries, Deese said.

He says that the R&D carried out in Singapore are among the top in the region and are in line with studies carried out in the U.S. «Singapore is moving toward the knowledge - based economy and was one of the earliest countries to identify environmental studies as a key area for development.

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