Sentences with phrase «national mandate of»
This gift will contribute to the Canadian Museum of Immigration at Pier 21's new national mandate of ensuring that the story of immigration is shared and celebrated throughout Canada.
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Take, for example, the recently published report entitled «Public Health Consequences of E-Cigarettes,» by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine — which the Academies helpfully point out is a «congressionally mandated» study.
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.
Small - business owners offer health benefits for a variety of reasons: they're genuinely concerned about their employees being taken care of, it's mandated in their state or they want to be more competitive to attract top talent (a large majority of employees consider a health plan to be the most important benefit they can be offered, according to a survey by the National Business of Group on Health).
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.»
Yet, a proposed multi-agency rule, including the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, Federal Reserve, FDIC, National Credit Union Administration, SEC and the Federal Housing Finance Agency, would mandate that risk management personnel be involved in the development of banks» compensation plans.
A bill making its way through the House of Representatives and heavily backed by Big Food would create a voluntary national labeling standard, while preventing states from mandating labeling on their own.
Via its Laser Ignition Fusion Energy (LIFE) project, the National Ignition Facility (NIF) in the United States has a unique double mandate: not only must it prove fusion power can be a viable source of energy — and become a game - changer for the world's energy supply — but it must also plan to commercialize the energy source even before practical fusion energy is a reality.
The National Federation of Independent Business, while acknowledging that Mr. Obama has the authority to place conditions on federal contractors, said his latest action was another burdensome government mandate on private firms.
Still, in 2015, National Federation of Independent Businesses (NFIB) President Jack Mozloom said that the federation's members «are strongly opposed» to a paid - leave mandate, and the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM), a membership organization for individual HR professionals, has taken a public position supporting only voluntarily provided paid - leave programs.
On June 28, 2012, the Supreme Court ruled by a 5 — 4 vote in National Federation of Independent Business v. Sebelius that the mandate was constitutional under the U.S. Congress's taxing authority.
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.
In his remarks to a standing room crowd at RJFS» national conference, RJFS Chair Dick Averitt is reported to have embraced the fiduciary standard because, in part, of its mandate to serve society at large, as attorneys and medical doctors are obliged to do.
Involving four national laboratories, seven universities, about a dozen corporations and roughly 350 researchers, the interdisciplinary group gets US$ 25 million a year and «a considerable amount of freedom» to pursue its mandate, King says.
Rules of origin, which determine the national source of each product, are additional issues, and especially affect the auto sector as the US attempts to mandate increased American - made content.
The National Housing Act (NHA) mandates that the FHA set its loan limits at 115 % of the area median home price, subject to a national minimum «floor» and maximum ceilinNational Housing Act (NHA) mandates that the FHA set its loan limits at 115 % of the area median home price, subject to a national minimum «floor» and maximum ceilinnational minimum «floor» and maximum ceiling limit.
Wendy Traub, Connecticut chair of the National Federation of Independent Business, and other business advocates spoke Monday against legislation that employers see as costly mandates.
Evidence suggests that while e-cigarettes are not without health risks, they are likely to be far less harmful than conventional cigarettes, says a new congressionally mandated report from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine.
Pier 21, the Canadian Museum of Immigration, is now a national museum with a new mandate to engage with Canadians across the country.
After the war, the League of Nations granted Britain a mandate for the establishment of a Jewish national home there.
In a piece entitled «The happiness of pursuit», in Time magazine July 2013, we read: «All human beings may come equipped with the pursuit - of - happiness impulse — the urge to find lusher land just over the hill, fatter buffalo in the next valley — but it's Americans who have codified the idea, written it into the Declaration of Independence and made it a central mandate of the national character.»
He engaged, therefore, in a lengthy discussion of the «dominion» mandate of Genesis 1, the nature and extent of the fall into sin, the difference between parental and political authority, the creational status of women, and the biblical portrayal of the origins of national identities.
Yet in Casey, three Justices» who had been placed on the Court, incidentally, during a period in which relative anonymity was a leading prerequisite for successful appointment» saw it as their right and duty to call «the contending sides of a national controversy to end their national division by accepting a common mandate rooted in the Constitution.»
No single religion represents all, and it is a personal choice and opinion, not a national mandate If someone believes in a fairy tale, the rest of the non believers should not have to support it financially or live according to that religions code.
To that diagnosis, I would add another disease to which relativism is susceptible, especially when it encounters the afterburn of New Left thought and politics in the United States: namely, the absolutizing of moral relativism as a kind of constitutionally mandated national political creed.
It should be used to create a statutory national bioethics commission bringing together a broad spectrum of experts with a clear mandate and an independent role.
Address any legal obligations related to conduct, especially when it comes to regulated aspects of your business, while taking steps to ensure that any such restrictions comply with the latest mandates issued by regulatory agencies, such as the National Labor Relations Board.
More than two decades ago, when the U.S. Congress passed its 1990 Farm Bill, a congressional mandate was included in the bill (Title 21) instructing the USDA to create a national legal definition of «organic» that would provide reliable, uniform, enforceable standards for any food bearing the term «organic.»
The OFC takes an interest in the development and the revision of the national organic standards by the Canadian General Standards Board, which is mandated by the Canada Organic Office.
These seeds are grown under conditions mandated by the National Standard for Organic Agriculture, including rigorous soil testing and use of approved fertilizers and pest controls.
«Yes, because we gave a mandate to the FIA - to the lawyers of the FIA - to check national law and come back to us at the next Strategy Group.
You still want your kids wearing a helmet with the latest technology though and which meets all of the requirements of the National Operating Committee on Standards for Athletic Equipment (NOCSAE), with a certification sticker that says it meet the NOCSAE standard, since the CPSC does not mandate safety guidelines for football helmets.
If your home was built in 2015 or newer, you are lucky: the national electric code now mandates the use of tamper - proof outlets which eliminate the risk of small objects being forced into the outlets.
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.
They also mandate that all of their youth sports coaches are trained and certified by the National Youth Sports Coaches Association (NYSCA), a volunteer coaches training program offered by NAYS.
Findings from the National Early Head Start Research and Evaluation project, a rigorous Congressionally - mandated study, indicate that the program had modest but positive impacts on EHS children at age three in cognitive, language, and social - emotional development, compared to a control group.xxiii In addition, their parents scored higher than control group parents on such aspects of the home environment as parenting behavior and knowledge of infant - toddler development.
School Nutrition Association is calling on USDA to turn this national mandate on meal prices into a pilot program in a limited number of schools with a report back to Congress before the provision becomes national policy.
Recently, the «invincible forces» besieged the National Headquarters of the party for several days and prevented the National Chairman and the General Secretary of the party from going into their offices to perform their constitutionally mandated duties.
The court also mandated INEC to recognise the National Caretaker Committee of the PDP headed by Sen. Ahmed Markarfi, former Governor of Kaduna State in all matters pertaining the conduct of Primary Elections for Political Offices and the submission of the PDP List of Candidates for any elections to be conducted by INEC pending the hearing and determination of the Motion on Notice.
Buhari said a key mandate of the National Food Security Council is to «continuously assess and enhance these infant, but impactful programs, thereby guaranteeing they achieve their full potential.»
The Upper Chamber of the National Assembly on Wednesday mandated its committee on Health to conduct an investigation on the sale and consumption of 42 anti-malaria drugs already banned by the EU in Nigeria.
Botchwey told the appointments committee of parliament during her vetting on Monday that the law mandating national service came into effect a year after she graduated.
She noted that the realignment has expanded the Ministry's mandate to provide a firm and stable policy environment for the effective mainstreaming of the Ghanaian culture into all aspects of national rife and to ensure the emergence of a vibrant and creative economy to improve and advance the tourism industry.
«The whole national movement to mandate this kind of reform... if New York got into a position to really lead on this, I think it would help change in Washington, D.C.»
Opponents of the plan, and some ministers, such as Benjamin Netanyahu and former minister Natan Sharansky, called on Sharon to hold a national referendum to prove that he had a mandate, which he refused to do.
The EFCC boss said in carrying out the mandate of the commission, he has been guided by the «fear of God, national interest and the rule of law».
Samia Yaba Nkrumah, daughter of Ghana's first President, Osagyefo Dr. Kwame Nkrumah, feels her failure to secure a second term mandate to lead the people of Jomoro was through the machinations of the ruling National Democratic Congress (NDC).
Union leaders have relied on mandates for action that lack authority — the National Union of Teachers ballot was run nearly two years ago, while other ballots had extremely low turnouts.»
The committee's mandate, as noted earlier, is to streamline all the proposals for constitutional amendments and by that, determine the «substance and workability» of each proposal and present their report, which shall be in the form of a draft constitution to national conference, through national council for consideration and adoption.
Some members of the Oyo State House of Assembly have requested the assembly to mandate Governor Abiola Ajimobi to seek assistance from the National leader of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, who is the Chancellor of the institution.