Sentences with phrase «national institutions in»

The Adaptation Fund and Green Climate Fund are unique in that they provide climate finance directly to national institutions in developing nations.

Flt Lt Rawlings stated that, «the current government owes its own survival to the anti-corruption crusade,» explaining that some administrations who found the integrity level of the Provisional National Defence Council (PNDC) too high and intimidating made it a point to corrupt some of «our national institutions in order to survive.»

Since winning the Turner Prize in 2003, the celebrated transvestite potter Grayson Perry (born 1960) has become something of a national institution in the U.K..

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«It's been 20 years, but it's got to be another 20 years because the only way we're going to end this is through concerted efforts and encouraging governments like the government in the Philippines, encouraging the national community, institutions like World Bank, encouraging major countries, but also just getting our hands dirty and doing it,» Evans told «The Brave Ones.»

It is expected that European countries will be competing to get their national representatives in the various institutions.

Clients have included national and local governments, military institutions, public security agencies, law enforcement and police agencies in over 70 countries.

These cooperative financial institutions are among the most active in making smaller loans to entrepreneurs and have only gotten busier in recent years, according to the National Credit Union Administration (NCUA).

Some foreign investors, rather than crunching data on earnings and stock valuations to come up with investment strategies, actively mimicked the actions of China's so - called «national team» — a group of state - backed financial institutions that were tasked with propping up share prices in the height of the market rout.

For many Europeans, this manifests itself in at least two forms: immigration and the loss of national sovereignty to the institutions of the European Union.

The US intelligence community «is confident that the Russian Government directed the recent compromises of e-mails from US persons and institutions, including from US political organizations,» Director of National Intelligence James Clapper and the Department of Homeland Security said in a joint statement shortly after the first batch of Podesta's emails were first leaked.

«The US intelligence community is confident that the Russian Government directed the recent compromises of emails from US persons and institutions, including from US political organizations,» the Department of Homeland Security and the Office of the Director of National Intelligence said in a statement at the time.

Rapid changes in retail banking have left many people wondering whether to choose big regional and national banks, or smaller local institutions.

Consolidation is evident in the merger activity among financial institutions both across national boundaries and across earlier financial boundaries, such as those separating investment banking and insurance.

His acquisition strategies have also been used in obtaining clients from luxury automotive brands, multinational award - winning franchises, law associations, and leading medical institutions, as well as National Premiership Football and Olympic teams.

These factors include historical reliance on national banking institutions for investment guidance, a public company venture capital markets in Canada being down 75 % from its peak in 2011 causing risk capital investment fatigue and a need for education, success stories and media attention on equity crowdfunding.

In April 2011, hackers damaged the computer network of the National Agricultural Cooperative Federation, a major banking institution, suspending its service for four days.

«We have been encouraged by the great progress Secretary Shulkin has made and believe that he remains the best person to lead this important federal public institution on the behalf of the American people,» the group's national commander, Denise Rohan, said in a statement Monday.

He worked for a major Canadian and global financial institution on the brokerage and investment counseling side and just prior to joining Leith Wheeler, Jerry was a portfolio manager with a national investment counsel firm in Calgary before its acquisition by a major Canadian bank.

The majority of the companies under coverage are in the banking sector; our coverage of this sector is among the broadest in the U.S. and includes large - cap multinational financial institutions and small - cap community banks located throughout the U.S, plus a broad array of national and larger regional banks.

Since 1984, we've grown from a single branch operating in Edmonton, Alberta, to a western - based, federally regulated financial institution with a national presence.

RBC is the only Canadian financial institution with a national team of industry specialists serving clients in the manufacturing, wholesaling, and logistics sectors, helping to meet the challenges of an increasingly global and competitive business environment.

Our lawyers take a hands - on, accessible approach in representing leading national and international financial institutions, investors, landowners, tenants and developers in relation to all aspects of real estate and municipal law.

The head of the national securities regulator eventually will join the SAC and the Financial Institutions Supervisory Committee, another inter-agency panel that keeps tabs on developments in the banking system.

The Ombudsman for Banking Services and Investments — a national, not - for - profit organization to which consumers can turn to settle disputes with OBSI's participating financial institutions — said in its annual report that it had 5,477 inquiries and opened 721 investigations in 2017, increases of eight per cent and 13 per cent, respectively, over 2016.

Founded in 1856, BCEE remains something of a national institution.

Lagarde also said that in countries with weak institutions and unstable national currencies it may be preferable to move to a digital currency rather than adopting the currency of another country such as the U.S. dollar.

Founded in 2002, Bladetec provided it support, supply and consulting for such institutions as the British Ministry of Defense, NATO and National Grid.

However, many of these institutions only operate in certain regions, limiting their national availability.

The Canadian frontier had taught him that national differences do not fade quickly, and Germans, while industrious and personally admirable, had little experience with free institutions in their politics.

Highlighting the creation of the Church's National Safeguarding Team in 2015 and new policies, she added: «The Archbishop believes this level of rigorous response and self - examination needs to extend to all institutions, including the BBC.»

New research from Gallup shows that, with only 44 percent of Americans having «a great deal» or «quite a lot» of confidence in religious institutions, Americans» trust in church is at its lowest point since the national research organization started asking the question in 1973.

A complicating factor is that some bishops who are most concerned about this development will keep their distance from the national bureaucracy, thus assuring that the relevant institutions will be left in the hands of those who either favor or do not understand what is happening.

Hospitals, in particular, were mission products, as were a wider range of health - care, and social - service institutions, In many — perhaps most — of the developing nations, the missions provided the base on which national programs aimed at social welfare have been builin particular, were mission products, as were a wider range of health - care, and social - service institutions, In many — perhaps most — of the developing nations, the missions provided the base on which national programs aimed at social welfare have been builIn many — perhaps most — of the developing nations, the missions provided the base on which national programs aimed at social welfare have been built.

At the beginning of the Sixties, the National Council of Churches, ecumenical embodiment of mainline Protestantism, was as secure in the pantheon of influential American institutions as the American Medical Association and the American Bar Association.

The rallying cry became the «inerrancy of the Scriptures» (the doctrine that defined for its advocates the limits of the post-fundamentalist, «neo-evangelical» coalition which found expression in the National Association of Evangelicals, the Evangelical Theological Society, Christianity Today, and other institutions of the movement).

Similarly, when the National Coalition for the Homeless speaks to the issue of the «bag lady» doll, it draws attention to the contradiction that allows institutions, whether commercial or academic, to profit in the name of the poor.

Consequently, whoever, even unknowingly, circumvents the institution of the family undermines peace in the entire community, national and international, since he weakens what is in effect the primary agency of peace.

The fact that England had this Holy House, that it was Mary's land, that it honoured marriage as Pope St Gregory wished, led over centuries to that long continuity of our institutions, in which Christian values became writ large in national life.

Along with health and social welfare, education too has become a commodity in the market with self - financed technical institutions imparting training in technical and managerial skills for employment in Trans - national economic enterprises to those who can afford it.

In recent months, the CCCU and the National Association of Evangelicals (NAE) have discreetly led the charge to get evangelical institutions to think through potential legal options to safeguard their Christian distinctives as they look ahead to 2017.

But as Joseph Bottum has suggested, «the single most significant fact over the past few decades in America — the great explanatory event from which follows nearly everything in our social and political history — is the crumbling of the Mainline [Protestant] churches as central institutions in our national experience.»

The essays in Smith's persuasive book mostly concern how one collection of influential males (the new academic secularists) successfully wrested control of the institutions of national culture from another collection of influential males (the old Protestant leaders).

Thus the Holiness family includes pockets of influence within Methodism (many camp meetings and some educational institutions), pre-Civil War perfectionist antislavery radicals like the Wesleyans and Free Methodists, such products of the National Camp Meeting Association as the Church of the Nazarene and the Pilgrim Holiness Church, social - service movements like the Salvation Army, a synthesis of Holiness theology and a Campbellite - like ecclesiology in the Church of God (Anderson, Indiana), as well as a host of smaller bodies.

In total, Catholic institutions employ over 1 million people, reckons Fred Gluck, a former McKinsey managing partner and co-founder of the National Leadership Roundtable on Church.

Two National Review reporters have taken prominent positions in right - leaning institutions.

Unlike many global religions with theocratic institutions or faiths that weave intricately into personhood and national identity, Christian belief and adherence is virtually impossible to assume of anyone in a free society.

In his native Italy, Antonio Rosmini is a celebrated national figure, recognised by secular as well as religious institutions as one of the truly notable thinkers of the 19th century.

If one asks, what are the possible roads to a world without war, that essential way - station on the way to freedom of information in anecologically organized world, Arthur Waskow answers that there are five: (a) Control of the nation - state system through stabilizing the balance of power and reducing international tensions but keeping the weapons; (b) Reform of the system through total disarmament without abandoning national sovereignty or the pursuit of national interest; (c) Extension of the system through the creation of a federal world government; (d) Fragmentation of the system through increases in the power of extra-national associations and Institutions across national boundaries, and corresponding decreases in state power as these occupational, industrial, scientific, and other groups gradually expropriate from the national governments the power to make decisions within their own fields; and (e) Abolition of the system through substituting love f or coercion.20.»

(d) The development of the technology of communications — which simultaneously provides the mainstay of power of the national state and its symbiotic institutions, and an example of the highest stage of development presently visible in world - ecological organization and policy.

The Confessing Church maintained a courageous resistance to Hitler's decree that every German institution had to reorganize itself in conformity with National Socialist policies.