Sentences with phrase «need national action»

A: It is true that this is a global and national challenge, and ultimately we need national action from Congress.

In the late 1980s, state governors promoted national education goals and then national education standards and tests because they believed they needed national action after they had done what they could at the state level.

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Trump justified the action by saying it was needed to protect American metal producers from unfair competition and bolster national security.

Craig Benjamin of Amnesty International Canada said, «This is one more important voice added to the call for the kind of independent public inquiry that we need to establish a truly comprehensive and effective national plan of action.

«Today's report shows that we need action now on our collective agenda for closing the human rights gap,» said Assembly of First Nations National Chief Perry Bellegarde.

Chinese telecommunications equipment companies could face more limits on their U.S. sales as the Trump administration considers actions it says may be needed to address national security concerns.

(e) Not later than 60 days from the date of this order, agencies shall report to the President, through the Director of the National Economic Council, recommendations on agency - specific actions that eliminate barriers to competition, promote greater competition, and improve consumer access to information needed to make informed purchasing decisions.

Apologizing for previous governments lack of action to stop residential schools and calling for a national inquiry into missing and murdered aboriginal women was absolutely the right step to take but action needs to follow.

Moreover, disjointed discretionary regulatory actions are likely to make things worse when the next crisis strikes: domestically - focused regulators are likely to attempt to protect their own national banking system, preventing domestic subsidiaries from transferring much - needed liquidity to their parents abroad, resulting in a weakened international financial system.

Let me wind up with the need for NGO Ombudsmen armed with legal powers to take action wherever human rights are vulnerable and violated and also to recommend cancellation of treaties entered into with oblique motives by suspect national leaders.

This, however, is to impoverish attempts to bring spiritual and moral values to bear on both national and world society, because practical action needs to flow from the life of the spirit.

If I am correct that there has been a narrowing of the horizons of concern in the American public, and a franker affirmation of individual egoism and of national self - interest as determinants of action, we need to ask why.

Much more needs to be done in building local and national citizen - action groups to make their presence felt in government in order to secure media that are responsive to the public interest, both locally and nationally.

«Action by Congress is urgently needed this year to pass a national, uniform labeling standard.

A few Arsenal strikers were in action for their national sides but Alexis Sanchez, Joel Campbell, Olivier Giroud and Theo Walcott all drew a blank and I was really hoping that these games might just provide a goal or two and a much needed boost to the confidence of our struggling strikers.

Figures in the Germany national set up have also advised him that he needs to resolve his lack of club action somehow.

Caroline Abrahams, NCH Cathy Ashley, Family Rights Group John Baker, Families Need Fathers Ruth Black, Ormiston Children & Families Trust Dorit Braun, Parentline Plus Dr Ann Buchanan, University of Oxford Dr Samantha Callan, Care for the Family and Edinburgh University Dr Hamish Cameron, Hon Consultant Child Psychiatrist, St George's Hospital Lisa Cohen, Jewish Unity for Multiple Parenting Mary Crowley, Parenting Forum Ruth Dalzell, National Children's Bureau Professor Brigid Daniel, University of Dundee Carol Daniel, Rhondda Cynon Taff County Borough Council Helen Dent, Family Welfare Association Professor Judy Dunn, Institute of Psychiatry Professor Brid Featherstone, Bradford University Duncan Fisher, Fathers Direct Kate Green, Child Poverty Action Group Nicola Harwin, Women's Aid Joan Hunt, Oxford University Pip Jaffa, Parents Advice Centre, Belfast Sandra Horley OBE, Refuge Mary Macleod, NFPI Penny Mansfield, One Plus One Professor Michael Lamb, Cambridge University Dame Julie Mellor Jenny North, Relate Roger Olley, Children North East Chris Pond, NCOPF Terry Prendergast, Marriage Care Dame Gillian Pugh Kulbir Randhawa, Asian Family Counselling Service Karen Richardson, York Centre for Separated Families Ceridwen Roberts, Oxford University Yvonne Roberts, writer Jane Robey, National Family Mediation Mary Ryan, RTB Associates Dr Christine Skinner, University of York Jean Smith, Scoop Aid Jo Todd, Respect Dirk Uitterdijk, YMCA Gwen Vaughan, Gingerbread

And if you need some more inspiration to take action, check out Chef Ann's latest post on US News & World Report, «The Five - Year Plan for National Childhood Nutrition: Don't Undo the Progress.»

In recognition of National Breastfeeding Month (NBM), each year the USBC hosts a social media advocacy and / or outreach campaign inviting breastfeeding coalitions, member / partner organizations, and individual supporters to join online actions and conversations to build support for the policy and practice changes needed to build a «landscape of breastfeeding support.»

(1) to protect and promote breastfeeding, as an essential component of their overall food and nutrition policies and programmes on behalf of women and children, so as to enable all infants to be exclusively breastfed during the first four to six months of life; (2) to promote breastfeeding, with due attention to the nutritional and emotional needs of mothers; (3) to continue monitoring breastfeeding patterns, including traditional attitudes and practices in this regard; (4) to enforce existing, or adopt new, maternity protection legislation or other suitable measures that will promote and facilitate breastfeeding among working women; (5) to draw the attention of all who are concerned with planning and providing maternity services to the universal principles affirmed in the joint WHO / UNICEF statement (note 2) on breastfeeding and maternity services that was issued in 1989; (6) to ensure that the principles and aim of the International Code of Marketing of Breastmilk Substitutes and the recommendations contained in resolution WHA39.28 are given full expression in national health and nutritional policy and action, in cooperation with professional associations, womens organizations, consumer and other nongovermental groups, and the food industry; (7) to ensure that families make the most appropriate choice with regard to infant feeding, and that the health system provides the necessary support;

The Center for American Progress, the Coalition on Human Needs, Witnesses to Hunger, the Food Research & Action Center, Feeding America, and the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics joined together to launch a national campaign that asked individuals across the country to share their personal experiences with the nation's nutrition assistance programs.

U.S. leadership discouraged collective action by Western Europeans to invest in national defense, when the U.S. had a status quo ante of meeting those needs on their behalf to some extent.

Decisive action is needed to ensure the success of the Government's Road Investment Strategy which now faces deliverability and affordability risks following its hasty development according to the National Audit Office (NAO).

The rest of us will likely need a combined approach that encourages national action where possible and local action where we have the resources to arrange it.

The UK's leading fuel poverty charity National Energy Action (NEA) has today welcomed Energy Minster Chris Huhne's pledge that the needs of fuel poor households will be prioritised in the proposed Green Deal, due to be launched next year.

The National Housing Federation (NHF) said ministers needed to take action to address the «chronic under - supply of homes» currently faced in England.

Party donor Michael Foster launched legal action after Labour's National Executive Committee voted to put Mr Corbyn on the ballot without needing to get 51 nominations from Labour MPs and MEPs.

The statement read in part: «As a people with common destiny, we need to constantly include President Muhammadu Buhari in our prayers for a quick recovery as a matter of overall national interest, and indeed, all our leaders; exhibit a very high level of patriotism; be proactive; make objective not distractive actions and criticisms; proffer progressive advice and solutions devoid of political, selfish, ethnic religious considerations.»

Speaking to the Education and Poverty motion NASUWT National Executive Member, Neil Butler, said: «The NASUWT believes that urgent action is needed to address the issue of child poverty in the UK.

Ron Campbell, Chief Policy and Research Analyst for National Energy Action said: «The original UK Fuel Poverty Strategy was described as «representing the start of the road to the end of fuel poverty in the United Kingdom», there is a consensus that in order to make meaningful progress in the right direction we are in urgent need of a «road map».

It needs to educate and organize voters, encourage grassroots activism, and influence the actions of Democratic leaders at the local, state and national levels.

Indeed this was the fundamental political foundation for the groundswell of popular and patriotic affirmative action that culminated in the wind of change 2015 election outcome and it is just what Nigeria needs to facilitate a realistic national resolve and agenda to salvage and safeguard the endangered northern entitlement to second term in 2019.

«As the EU continues to develop we need to be absolutely clear when it is most appropriate to take decisions at the national or local level, closer to the people affected, and in other cases when it is best to take action at the EU or global level,» Hague said.

«We would not have joined issues with the minister for his baseless and apparently false claim that the governor has been creating divisions in the APC and destroying the party, but there is need to set the record straight so that the national leadership of the party will know that it is the minister who has been disrupting the peace in the party with his actions and utterances».

While the massive rally has prompted New York City elected officials to be more responsive to the need to take action on climate change, it has had little impact on state and national political leaders who used their partisan gridlock to avoid needed action on this and many other critical issues while promoting increased wealth and tax giveaways for the 1 %.

«We need all the community allies and all the community support we can get, and the National Action Network provides that.»

What is needed in order to increase the numbers of underrepresented minorities in science, engineering, and technological fields is a push for a new and concrete plan of action, with mandatory implementation guidelines, adopted at the national level which focuses on transitioning women and underrepresented minorities into positions of power.

The work is part of a global response to the need to reduce the use of antibiotics, driven in part by President Obama's National Action Plan for Combating Antibiotic - Resistant Bacteria.

It also became a member of the National Alliance of Latin America and Caribbean Communities (NAILACC), which promotes the need for nations to take part in climate mitigation actions.

«Changing climate conditions are already happening,» says Eileen Claussen, president of the Pew Center on Global Climate Change, which today released a report on regional impacts in the U.S. «It is clear that there is an immediate need for strong national and international policy action.»

By providing a $ 3 billion funding increase for the National Institutes of Health (NIH) for fiscal year (FY) 2018 — the biggest NIH funding increase in 15 years — Congress has taken bold action to regain much - needed momentum in cancer research following a decade of stagnant funding for the NIH.

Uzbekistan has identified the need to update the Strategy and National Action Plan for the Conservation of Snow Leopards.

The deal falls far short of meeting the Paris climate goals, pointing to the need for additional action at national and...

«Bringing a very high - field superconducting magnet to UCSB to create the MRX facility would provide a unique opportunity to fulfill a national need and enable many experiments that can not be done at the NHMFL,» said chemistry professor Songi Han, a member of the «Big Mag @ UCSB» program committee who has been working with Sherwin for more than a decade on filming proteins in action.

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We propose to use the convening powers of the Harvard Graduate School of Education to bring together a kind of national board of directors to develop a bold new agenda for action — one aimed at substantially increasing the numbers of young adults who receive the education and training they need to succeed in the 21 st century.

«It is clear from our findings that action is needed on a national and local level to address these variations and to ensure the weakest places learn from the best.

According to the national charity, Dyslexia Action, dyslexia affects approximately 10 % of the UK population, yet 74 % of teachers surveyed by the charity stated that they did not feel satisfied that their initial teacher training provided them with the skills they need to identify and teach children with dyslexia.

The LDCF plays a key role in addressing urgent and immediate adaptation needs of least developed countries, focusing on reducing the vulnerability of sectors and resources that are central to human and national development, such as water, agriculture and food security; and infrastructure, as identified and prioritized in their National Adaptation Programmes of Action national development, such as water, agriculture and food security; and infrastructure, as identified and prioritized in their National Adaptation Programmes of Action National Adaptation Programmes of Action (NAPAs).

The federal government recognized the critical need for world language in the 2005 Call to Action for National Foreign Language Capabilities, a historic gathering of minds from across government, industry, language associations, and academia that resulted in a shared vision for the need and imperative of world language instruction.