Sentences with phrase «national criticism by»

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The Obama administration likened the new agency to the National Counterterrorism Center established after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks by al Qaeda following criticism that the various U.S. intelligence agencies were not communicating well.

There can be no doubt left that the Canadian government has taken seriously the criticisms levied against it by the OECD for not actively enforcing the CFPOA, and now intends to improve its international reputation by actively combating foreign bribery and corrupt activities of Canadian nationals and corporations.

Moreover, such criticism has been made by those involved, and it has been taken with increasing seriousness as the movement has attained greater maturity and impact: witness the large representation of poor and minority women at the 1977 National Women's Conference in Houston.

Manchester City news Former Argentina national team coach rejects job offer in hope of landing Manchester City post Chelsea boss Mourinho baffled by criticism of Man City manager Pellegrini

Los Blancos have come under fierce criticism from the national press and their own fans after squandering their lead in La Liga, having been overtaken by Barcelona, and the atmosphere at the Bernabeu described as «a pressure cooker» by Spanish paper Marca, quoted by MailSport.

Arsenal forward Olivier Giroud accepts the criticism that is currently being leveled at him by fans of the French national side.

A straightforward, elegantly written, concise, and well - organized 215 pages, Back in the Game stands out in a crowded field, not just as a primer on concussions for a parent, coach, or athletes, but for its incisive and often pointed criticism of the way our national conversation about concussions and the long - term effects of playing contact and collision sports has been shaped - some would say warped - by a media that too often eschews fact - based reporting in favor of sensationalism and fear - mongering.

The store of national sympathy for foreign military adventures was utterly depleted by the lies which went into that campaign, and the manner in which it validated every criticism which was made of it in the run - up.

Since returning to parliament Galloway has faced criticism for the scarcity of his appearances in the Commons, been banned by the National Union of Students for comments about the Julian Assange rape case and stormed out of a debate after discovering his opponent was an Israeli.

Today, the worthlessness of the criticisms is brought into sharper focus by the national and international profile of the programme.

At a candidate forum hosted by the Republican National Lawyers Association, Joe Lhota gave a pointed criticism of the Office of Emergency Management under Mayor Bloomberg.

A report due to be published next month by the National Audit Office (NAO) is expected to criticise the Department of Health for failing to properly consult with health staff on the IT upgrade, and Lord Warner today admitted this was «a fair criticism in part».

President Mahama while addressing some supporters of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) in the Volta Region, suggested that, if minority members have been sleeping on the job hence their criticism of government loans which were discussed and approved by...

President Mahama while addressing some supporters of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) in the Volta Region, suggested that, if minority members have been sleeping on the job hence their criticism of government loans which were discussed and approved by the house.

This is an old problem in the United States, where the ill - advised prognostications of the National Science Foundation in the early 1990s were followed by intense congressional criticism and widespread outrage among graduate students and postdocs.

Criticisms tended to come from scientists working in the same fields, but separated by at least 150 miles geographically, according to the study published on 26 October in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

Perluigi Gambetti, who directs the National Prion Disease Pathology Surveillance Center at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio, has a few criticisms: The hamsters were infected by injecting the protein directly into the brain, for instance, which is «like creating a stab wound» through which protein may have entered the blood stream.

The unprecedented decision by the National Science Advisory Board for Biosecurity (NSABB) has sparked fierce criticism and strong support.

Their concerns have been sparked by two simultaneous developments: increasing public criticism by key Republicans of research funded by agencies like the National Science Foundation (NSF) and a congressional power shift that has placed many vocal so - called climate change sceptics and opponents of environmental regulations in positions of power.

The General section — which comprises the coverage of Australian cinema, spotlights on directors, genres and national cinemas, Film Festival reports, film and book reviews, and film criticism itself — is edited by Fiona A. Villella.

Increasing criticism is being directed at what was considered the Cadillac of curricular standards — those developed in 1989 by the highly respected National Council of Teachers of Mathematics.

Released last week by the National Academy of Education, the report represents the sharpest criticism to date of some of the newer methods being used to measure or interpret NAEP results.

I am perplexed by this criticism, since the Secretary in fact proposed national «education improvement targets» when he released the chart.

By chance, the two of us, on Aug. 31, had written to U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan on behalf of the National Superintendents Roundtable, which we co-chair, to warn that 50 years of relentless criticism of schools ran the risk of encouraging «badly informed,...

Girls in elementary school are still perceived more favorably, disciplined less harshly, and graded more generously than boys, but boys receive more attention, encouragement, and constructive criticism, ac - cording to a new report by the Project on Equal Educational Rights of the National Organization for Women.

A third caveat relates to the criticisms levied against us by the National Commission on Teaching & America's Future (NCTAF) after our report's initial release.

2017 was a big year for education news in Los Angeles, drawing national attention to the most expensive school board race in U.S. history, the looming fiscal cliff exacerbated by declining enrollment, and a new state accountability system that has sparked sharp criticism from parent groups across the state and education advocates across the nation.

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And considering that Virginia has done little to address its educational woes — including addressing the mere one - percent decline in the percentage of young black men in fourth - grade mired in functional illiteracy (as measured on the National Assessment of Educational Progress) between 2003 and 2011 — Gov. Bob McDonnell, state Supt. Patricia Wright, and their colleagues were rightfully shamed by reformers and civil rights activists into revamping those targets (and the Obama administration, which also moved to push Virginia into revising them, deserves criticism for accepting those low targets in the first place).

After all, it is no different than defensive statements against criticism of traditional teacher compensation and other failed practices within American public education made over the past few years by Weingarten and her colleagues within both the AFT and the National Education Association.

The long - standing K — 12 academic standards developed by individual states have come under increasing scrutiny and criticism because of the standards» varying quality and the resulting wide disparities in student proficiency as measured under No Child Left Behind and highlighted by National Assessment of Educational Progress scores.

In part because of its huge presence, Capital One has come under intense criticism by consumer and lending industry groups for withholding its customers» credit limits in its regular reports to Equifax, Experian and TransUnion, the three national credit data bureaus.

For the last ten years he has been the moderator of The Review Panel, a debating forum of contemporary art criticism hosted by the National Academy Museum in New York and the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in Philadelphia.

Donald Judd: Complete Writings 1959 - 1975, first published on the occasion of Judd's 1975 retrospective at the National Gallery of Canada, contains his art criticism and early essays and was published by Judd Foundation in its reprint edition in 2015.

X-TRA is published by the nonprofit Project X Foundation for Art & Criticism, which is generously supported by The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, the National Endowment for the Arts, Pasadena Arts Alliance, The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors through the Los Angeles County Arts Commission, City of Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs, and our patrons and subscribers.

Bernstein noted that among the many awards honoring McEvilley, are the Semple Prize granted by the University of Cincinnati; a National Endowment for the Arts Critics grant; a Fulbright fellowship; and the 1993 Frank Jewett Mather Award for Distinction in Art Criticism from the College Art Association.

The process for environmental impact statements in the United States, under the National Environmental Policy Act, has come under intense criticism for its complexity, length, and use following the Obama administration's decisions and their reversals by the Trump administration regarding the Keystone XL and Dakota Access Pipelines.

The contracts were awarded through a complex auction process, following criticism last year by the National Audit Office that a lack of competition in the system was allowing companies to push prices up at a cost to consumers.

(Although a follow - up report by the National Research Council «found that Wegman report - style criticisms of the type of statistics used in 1998 and 1999 papers reasonable but beside the point, as many subsequent studies had reproduced their finding that the 20th century was likely the warmest one in centuries.»)

The National Academy of Sciences built on Mertonian norms by establishing guidelines of its own that seek to foster a «community characterized by curiosity, cooperation, and intellectual rigor...» While the Academy encourages open debate and criticism, id.

Daniel Drezner (supported by Megan McArdle and Glenn Reynolds, but not by Brad DeLong) has responded to my criticism of his claim that the US should be able to invade foreign countries whenever its «vital national interests» are threatened.

1999 Criticism that satellite measurements show no warming are dismissed by National Academy Panel.

If you've been following the recent Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) global heating releases, you know that there has been a lot of criticism by most scientists involved that the national governments are going out of their way to tone down the group's conclusions so they don't sound so dire and so the governments can justify doing the absolute minimum (in some cases that means nothing, nada, zip) to forestall global heating.

In the meantime, companies that were transferring data to the US under the Safe Harbour (including all Internet Giants) have to find creative solutions to meet the CJEU criteria as the use of the alternative instruments foreseen by the Data Protection Directive (contracts, binding corporate rules) is exposed to similar criticism from national courts, or at least to greater scrutiny from DPAs with regard to the mechanisms of protection installed to prevent (disproportionate) access to the data by US law enforcement authorities.

The EFF announcement comes on the heels of two recent public criticisms of the patent system, one by the Federal Trade Commission and the other by the National Academy of Sciences.

Widespread criticism of the effectiveness and appropriateness of the existing national framework of Indigenous heritage protection, and in particular the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Heritage Protection Act 1984 (Cth)(the Commonwealth Heritage Act) led to a review of heritage protection by the Hon. Dr Elizabeth Evatt AC (the Evatt Report).