Sentences with phrase «national agreement on»

An important national agreement on Closing the Gap in Indigenous Health Outcomes is due to expire at the end of June.

Our joint workshop with the ACGS in 2015 highlighted the urgent need for national agreement on this issue including a common understanding of the legitimacy of data sharing.»

It is among at least 4,000 signatories of the National Agreement on the Right to Decide and the Referendum Agreement, a group comprising of political parties and civil society organisations in favour of the independence vote.

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As part of the $ 5.2 billion, 12 - year agreement announced today, Rogers obtains the national rights on all platforms to every NHL game through the 2025 - 26 campaign — including all playoff games and the Stanley Cup Final.

Verizon Communications and the National Football League have reached an agreement for a multi-year digital streaming deal, Verizon said on Monday.

Feeley went on to criticize many of Trump's signature national - security and foreign policies, including the travel ban, plans to build a wall along the US - Mexico border, decision to end legal protections for the children of people living in the US illegally, and withdrawal from the Paris climate agreement and the Trans - Pacific Partnership.

T - Mobile and Sprint on Sunday announced a merger agreement that would combine the two smallest national wireless carriers into one behemoth that would rival market leaders Verizon and AT&T.

Not only are Johnson and Weld social liberals and fiscal conservatives, they espouse views traditionally associated with moderate Republican candidates on the economy, such as favoring international trade agreements and reducing the national debt.

But based on appointments of ideological hardliners such as Tom Price (a staunch foe of Obamacare nominated to be the Secretary of Health and Human Services), Michael Flynn (Trump's national security adviser with a dim view of Islam) and Mike Pompeo (the incoming CIA Director who has fiercely opposed the Iran nuclear agreement) and many of his campaign pledges, the chances are high that Trump could squander his limited political capital on divisive ideological issues and neglect his most important priority — getting the American economy out of its low - growth rut.

Trump appeared to undermine the U.S. national security argument on Monday by tweeting that the tariffs would «come off» Mexico and Canada if they agreed a «fair» new deal in talks on the future of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA).

This agreement builds on (and helps move forward) Canada's National Housing Strategy, which was released last fall.

In November 2017, three Chinese state companies signed an agreement to invest in a $ 43 billion LNG project in Alaska.120 Xi's engagement with Alaskan state officials may have been a way to mediate potential fallout from rising tensions over trade between China and U.S. President Donald Trump's administration, yet it suggests that Beijing conducts careful diplomacy on Arctic issues on both the regional and national levels.

The agreement takes effect on July 1, 2018 for commercial patients covered by the Express Scripts National Preferred Formulary (approximately 25 million individuals in total).

Over the next decade, Cohn used his mob connections to smooth the younger Trump's relations with construction unions; inked a stingy prenuptial agreement with Trump's first wife, Ivana; leaned on city politicians to favor Trump deals; traded favors in Atlantic City's notoriously corrupt casino industry; and tried to strong - arm the National Football League into a merger that would give Trump a first - tier team at a fraction of the going rate.

2015.01.22 RBC to acquire City National Corporation, a premier U.S. private and commercial bank Royal Bank of Canada (RY on TSX and NYSE)(«RBC») today announced that it has entered into a merger agreement to acquire City National Corporation (CYN on NYSE)(«City National»), a premier U.S. private and commercial bank serving high net worth and commercial clients.

Rather, it is the expansion of trade negotiations from agreements that once focused primarily on tariff reductions to far broader regulatory documents that now mandate domestic legal reforms and establish dispute resolution systems that can be result in huge liability for national governments.

Royal Bank of Canada (RY on TSX and NYSE)(«RBC») today announced that it has entered into a merger agreement to acquire City National Corporation (CYN on NYSE)(«City National»), a premier U.S. private and commercial bank serving high net worth and commercial clients.

Results from APF Canada's 2012 National Opinion Poll indicate that 31 per cent of Canadians have never heard about the TPP, while 11 per cent are uncertain about their stance on the agreement.

Mr. Melby was a senior staff member on the National Security Council from 1987 to 1993, during which he participated in bilateral and multilateral trade and economic negotiations, including the North American Free Trade Agreement, the Uruguay Round, bilateral economic issues, international energy policy and export controls.

Yet our government would have us agree to sweeping economic agreements like CETA and the TPP without providing us any facts at all, just empty slogans about how wonderful things will be after we sign on,» says Larry Brown, national secretary - treasurer of the National Union of Public and General Employees and co-chair of the Trade Justice national secretary - treasurer of the National Union of Public and General Employees and co-chair of the Trade Justice National Union of Public and General Employees and co-chair of the Trade Justice Network.

Numerical quotas are generally inconsistent with the requirements of Article XI of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade of 1947 (GATT), and so the United States may need to defend such measures under the national security exception under Article XXI of GATT.

With representation that spans the political spectrum, from liberal states to conservative ones, getting agreement on a best interest standard for annuity sales was always going to be tough for the National Association of Insurance Commissioners.

Turk Eximbank on May 2 announced it signed loan agreements with private lenders in Uzbekistan and the country's national bank, state - run Anadolu Agency reported.

An agreement signed with Japan Oil, Gas and Metals National Corp (JOGMEC) in 2011 saw the Japanese company earn a 30 % stake by spending $ 5.4 million on feasibility work.

The organisation said the agreement appears to have been reached on the basis that the evidence collected would be used to try those responsible in the Iraqi national courts, rather than the International Criminal Court.

Boosted Fuel Efficiency Standards Coordinated International Response to Financial Crisis Passed Mini Stimuli Began Asia «Pivot Increased Support for Veterans Tightened Sanctions on Iran Created Conditions to Begin Closing Dirtiest Power Plants Passed Credit Card Reforms Eliminated Catch - 22 in Pay Equality Laws Improved Food Safety System Expanded National Service Expanded Wilderness and Watershed Protection Gave the FDA Power to Regulate Tobacco Pushed Federal Agencies to Be Green Leaders Let Space Shuttle Die and Killed Planned Moon Mission Improved School Nutrition Expanded Hate Crimes Protections Brokered Agreement for Speedy Compensation to Victims of Gulf Oil Spill Pushed Broadband Coverage Expanded Health Coverage for Children Helped South Sudan Declare Independence Killed the F - 22

Systematic national programs of these sorts would lead to a steady and substantial decline in the emission of greenhouse gases and greatly increase our ability to lead the family of nations into international agreements on the environment.

At a meeting of the National Council of Churches he asked, not for any legal restriction but a «a voluntary agreement among religious leaders of all faiths that from now on they would not resort to conversions because the social logic of conversions is not valid now», that the promise of liberation from caste structure has not been fulfilled as proved by the fact that it persists in all religious communities; and any attempt to organize Hinduism as a religious community like others of the prophetic tradition has been a failure.

ATTAC (Association for taxation of financial transactions for the benefit of citizens, originated in France) CCAMI (Co-ordination against the clones of the Multilateral Agreement on Investment, originated in France) WFA (World Forum for Alternatives, originated in Cairo) SAFRIN (Structural Adjustment Participatory Review, originated in USA) FUNDE (National Foundation for development, from El Salavdor)

Even when trade agreements required sacrifice on the part of particular American industries, they were often insisted upon by the U.S. State Department for reasons of national security.

If ever there was a homogeneous version of this tradition in national life; if ever, after legal disestablishment, a faith was re-established in the popular ethos; if ever there was agreement on biblical authority, on God, Jesus, heaven and hell and the true, the beautiful and the good, then it was in the high years of what one of my book titles terms the Protestant Righteous Empire.

The next step is the currently proposed Multilateral Agreement on Investments which, if enacted, will still further restrict the ability of governments to influence the nature of economic activity within their national boundaries.

For example, we should oppose the Multilateral Agreement on Investments, whose only justification is the further globaliztion of the economy at the expense of local business and national governments.

The National Hockey League and the National Hockey League Player's Association were either unable to reach an agreement or, depending on who you ask, didn't even try to reach an...

The two denominations merged to become the United Reformed Church (URC) with the agreement that congregations voted on local matters, while the elders voted on regional and national issues.

The majority of U.S. dairy farmer cooperatives and dairy processing companies — members of the National Milk Producers Federation (NMPF) or the U.S. Dairy Export Council (USDEC)-- threatened to withdraw support from the pending Trans - Pacific (TPP) trade agreement if Japan and Canada refuse to follow through on pledges to provide comprehensive market access for...

Fowler Welch managing director, Nick Hay added that the agreement means the company will have achieved its goal of having a logistics platform in the Midlands, offering manufacturers and growers national reach to retailers on a shared - user basis.

In the absence of agreement on the need for additional national level regulation, existing arrangements, which include the successful Australian Packaging Covenant, are to continue.

(WASHINGTON, DC) The Grocery Manufacturers Association (GMA) today issued the following statement from Pamela G. Bailey, president and CEO, on the bipartisan agreement in the Senate on legislation to set a uniform national food labeling standard and promote greater disclosure of genetically engineered ingredients:

The Grocery Manufacturers Association (GMA) today issued the following statement from Pamela G. Bailey, president and CEO, on the bipartisan agreement in the Senate on legislation to set a uniform national food labeling standard and promote greater disclosure of genetically engineered ingredients:

The NCC will exercise recommendatory powers on access and price surveillance issues and will have advisory powers on matters determined by governments, including compliance with the National Competition Policy and Related Reforms Agreement.

National Partnership Agreement on Implementing Water Reform in the Murray — Darling Basin: milestone assessment reports

Wong rejected the suggestion that Labor, which was so critical of Joyce's stance, was in agreement with the National party on the issue.

Also in 2009, the Council of Australian Governments (COAG) National Partnership Agreement on Preventive Health (NPAPH) set a number of complementary targets.

The multi-million dollar agreement will give Homestyle Bake the opportunity to further showcase their products on the national stage as the ongoing supermarket war between Coles and Woolworths heats up.

The National Hockey League announced Monday that regular - season games through Dec. 30 have been canceled, as the Players Association and the league have yet to come to terms on a new Collective Bargaining Agreement.

Despite reports indicating that Osorio may have struck a verbal agreement with the Colombia national team, the former Atletico Nacional coach is adamant that his mind is solely focused on helping El Tri succeed at Russia 2018 and that nothing will be made concrete before then.

Prompted into a response, Bayern did release an official announcement, in a statement on their official website which read: «Bayern Munich confirm that the club have reached an agreement with national team player Mario Götze that he will play for Bayern Munich from 1 July 2013.

On 15 July in Barcelona, before the player joins up with the Brazilian national side for the Olympic Games, the agreement will be presented formally.

IBFAN exerts pressure on national authorities to fulfil their obligations under international agreements and human rights treaties.