Sentences with phrase «national bodies which»

UK About Blog The Higher Education Academy (HEA) is the national body which champions teaching excellence.

Provide a strong voice for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children and families through a national body which represents Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children's services and promotes the rights, needs and aspirations of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children and families.

Not exact matches

In fact, Canada could use a standing body like Australia's Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization, which is mandated to investigate scientific matters of national importance, suggests Canada West Foundation vice-president of research Will Kimber, who used to work for the agency.

He will also take her position on Labour's National Executive Committee, which could tip the body in Corbyn's favour.

Raisman believes the USOC ignored its own mandates «to protect its reputation and blind itself to known abusers within the ranks of the NGBs (National Governing Bodies) for which it is responsible.»

Reacting to the Cambridge Analytica scandal last month, Andrea Jelinek, chair of the European Union's influential data protection body, the Article 29 Working Party — which is made up of reps of all the national DPAs — said the group would be supporting the ICO's investigation.

This includes heavy crudes such as diluted bitumen — which has been studied by numerous scientific bodies, including the highly respected and influential National Academy of Sciences, and found to be non-corrosive and safe for pipelines.

The National Council of Training and Leadership (NCTL), a body which deals with professional misconduct by teachers, heard how Wrigley treated Pupil A as a «teacher's pet», allowing the girl to collect spelling sheets and hand out books.

At the end, they said: let us create a body which will keep us regularly informed on national policies which affect us.

According to National Council of Churches statistics (which appear not to include Pentecostal churches), five of the top eight denominations in per capita giving are Holiness bodies.

Relationships between Holiness and Pentecostal churches are almost nonexistent except in the National Association of Evangelicals, which incorporates some Holiness bodies and a good part of white Pentecostalism.

Even the Syrian National Coalition, an umbrella group which several western governments have recognised as the legitimate representative body for Syria, includes the Muslim Brotherhood, whose recent treatment of the Christian minority under President Mohamed Morsi in Egypt is hardly encouraging.

Even in that country which has so steadfastly refused to have the abortion debate, waves have been caused by the news that in the last two years alone the bodies of more than 15,000 aborted and miscarried babies were incinerated by twenty - seven National Health Service trusts.

On May 15 the National Council of Churches» Governing Board, which consists of 266 delegates from 32 denominations, made one of the most courageous statements that I can remember coming from such a representative church body.

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And the actions of national church bodies belie seriousness, pretending action while only issuing pronouncements which are systematically ignored by the churches, the press, and society.

Golden Rice, which is genetically modified, will be available to farmers and consumers only after it has been approved by national regulatory bodies.

Nick Rose, Secretary and National Coordinator for AFSA, is currently establishing a new body in Australia called Sustain: The Australian Food Network, which aims to do similar work to support and connect local government authorities and other food systems stakeholders across the country.

At baseball's annual winter meetings, you see, the National Association, which is the governing body of the minor leagues, honors someone as the King of Baseball at its big banquet.

The collision of white often made it difficult for judges to keep score when the action was fast, but a few national governing bodies — most adamantly that of Japan, which claimed (among other arguments) that white was a symbol of purity vital to the sport — resisted efforts to allow other colors in the international arena.

She won the 2013 Body Bar Nationals which qualified her for the world junior and cadet finals in Serbia.

The men who choose the national team are, in the main, those who suspended him in May, the Test and County Cricket Board, a body, some claim, so hidebound that it makes the All England Club, which governs Wimbledon, seem like a bunch of giggling, pink - coiffed trendies.

Alternative appointment Harry Redknapp — hailed by the tabloids as the People's Choice, which means the Tabloid's Choice — would have brought chirpy optimism and tup - thumping self - belief; the Football Association, the governing body that oversees the national game, were after something a bit more self - flagellatory.

«Under the UK National Anti-Doping policy by which British Cycling is bound, there is an obligation on an NGB (national governing body) of a sport to report any suspicions or allegations ofNational Anti-Doping policy by which British Cycling is bound, there is an obligation on an NGB (national governing body) of a sport to report any suspicions or allegations ofnational governing body) of a sport to report any suspicions or allegations of doping.

It is a story which, in its telling, offers lessons for all the stakeholders - parents, coaches, administrators, and state and national sports governing bodies, in this case USA Hockey - and cries out for action to be taken to stem and control, if not completely eliminate the emotional and psychological abuse that is, all too often, being inflicted on the children of this country in today's ultra-competitive, adult - centered youth sports.

Suffice it to say, the new mandate hasn't made anybody happy and has garnered plenty of vocal detractors (and rightly so), from US Lacrosse, the sport's national governing body (which, among other things, called the mandate «irresponsible» and premature), to coaches (who don't see the flimsy headband approved by FHSAA — what one longtime game official told The Times looked «more like a thick bandana» — as serving any purpose and no more than a «costly distraction to parents and the players»), to game officials (one told The Times that the only effect the headgear was having on the game was to cause delays because the headbands were prone to falling off) to the athletes themselves, who say all it does is get in the way of their goggles.

This past June I was invited to a press event at the NFL headquarters, where representatives from a group of national governing bodies for team sports talked about their safety initiatives, which showed just how far behind the NFL and its youth football arm, USA Football, had been until recently.

In that speech (a full copy of which you can view by clicking here), I offered some suggestions on how each of us — whether we be parent, coach, official, athletic trainer, clinician, current or former professional athlete, sports safety equipment manufacturer, whether we were there representing a local youth sports program, the national governing body of a sport, or a professional sports league, could work together as a team to protect our country's most precious human resource — our children — against catastrophic injury or death from sudden impact syndrome or the serious, life - altering consequences of multiple concussions.

I was still trying to decide which type of delivery to go with (totally natural versus epidural versus some sort of hybrid versus standing on my head singing the national anthem) when my body decided to go all bonkers.

In the latest national data, US women of reproductive age are alarmingly heavy: 52 % are overweight, 29 % are obese, and 8 % have a body mass index (BMI; in kg / m2) of ≥ 40, which places them in the obese III category (1).

The Nigeria Employers» Consultative Association (NECA), which is an umbrella body for private - sector workers, as well as the National Association of Aircraft Pilots and Engineers (NAAPE) have also said they would not participate in the strike.

On 29 August 2009, the convention was ratified by the standing Committee of the National People's Congress of China, China's top legislative body, which indicates that China is under legal obligation to internalize the norms stipulated in the FCTC so as to effectively control tobacco use.

Northwell Health President & CEO Michael J. Dowling said, «The $ 30 million award announced today will permit Northwell Health to continue to grow the Feinstein Institute for Medical Research as one of the major national and international centers focused on bioelectronic medicine, which combines implanted computer technology with next - generation analytics to use the body's own neural pathways to fight and cure disease.

Accordingly, conference, which is the highest decision making body of the party, passed a RESOLUTION instructing National Council to set up a n ad - hoc committee to streamline these amendment proposals together with other relevant considerations and present their report to conference at an extraordinary national delegates» conference to be organized at a latNational Council to set up a n ad - hoc committee to streamline these amendment proposals together with other relevant considerations and present their report to conference at an extraordinary national delegates» conference to be organized at a latnational delegates» conference to be organized at a later date.

After back and forth, Mr Afoko on Monday appealed the decision of the NEC at the National Council level stating constitutional breaches as the basis of the 14 - paged petition, which prompted the highest decision - making body of the party after congress, to meet over the matter Thursday afternoon.

Labour has three democratically elected bodies all of which could play a role — its national executive, the national policy forum (NPF) and party conference.

«In line with the wishes of the majority of the members of the National Democratic Congress, and in the wake of recommendations made by the election review committee chaired by Dr. Kwesi Botchwey, the National Executive Committee, which is the highest decision - making body after Congress, voted unanimously for the scrapping of the register which was used to conduct our internal elections last year,» Kofi Portuphy said.

The Council Of African Political Parties, which was founded in 2013, to form an umbrella Body for the two major political parties in all democratic African countries, has its permanent Secretariat in Khartoum, and is run by the General Secretary, Dr. Al Nafie Al Nafie, a Sudanese national who retained his position unopposed.

It would be recalled that the party's second highest decision making body, the National Council, at its last meeting, which was held on May 10, at the Alisa Hotel among other Resolutions.

Furthermore, the assurances the DfE have received are irreconcilable with the national body, the Steiner Waldorf Schools Fellowship's membership criteria for schools, which demands that amongst staff there should have been «adequate preparation, including Anthroposophical study» and states that «an Anthroposophical impulse lies at the heart of planning for the school, including the Waldorf curriculum».

In 2015, NHS England published new national guidance which for the first time obliged NHS bodies to provide pastoral care to non-religious people on the same basis as chaplaincy is provided to the religious.

It must, however, be difficult for serving officers to understand how the most recent «significant» change, which included performance and role pay, supported by national and local Government and Chief Officers through the PNB, now appears to fail to find any support in those three bodies.

The National Delegates Conference, which is a supreme governing body of the NPP which concerns itself with matters affecting the party across the country, has been scheduled from August 25 to 27 in Cape Coast.

For instance, concerns were also raised about the timetable for the National Policing Improvement Agency, which is due to be phased out in under a year even though no - one has announced which body will be taking over its functions.

In order to establish democratic legitimacy and sovereignty, the National Transitional Council has had to deal with these brigades, a process which has so far been mostly unsuccessful due to mistrust between the two bodies and the popularly illegitimate but regardless tangible military strength of the brigades.

Then the Aketi primary election triumph, which soon turned ashen, no thanks to allegations of delegate fiddling — allegations strong enough to warrant a reported 3 - 2 split decision, by the APC appeal body, to order a fresh re-run, which the APC National Working Committee (NWC) vetoed.

The National Democratic Congress (NDC) has cautioned its members to desist from making comments likely to «compromise, embarrass or impugn» the integrity of the Supreme Court and all other constitutionally mandated bodies which are dully performing their duties.

The creation of the advisory group has angered members of Labour's health and care policy commission, the party's established health policymaking body, which is part of its national policy forum.

Party figures point to the National Infrastructure Commission - an arms - length body which would take a «strategic» approach to Wales» infrastructure and have access to new financial resources - as a significant achievement and something that was not in Labour's manifesto.

In 2014, the National Offender Management Service recognised that non-religious people in prison have the legal right to humanist pastoral care, and in 2015 NHS England updated its guidance on Promoting Excellence in Pastoral, Spiritual & Religious Care, which established for the first time that NHS bodies should provide equal pastoral support for the non-religious to chaplaincy services for the religious.