Sentences with phrase «new policies aim»

Though new policies aim to close the donut hole in the next few years, many patients still face it if they choose costly therapies.

NAHB Chairman Granger MacDonald chalks up the incredible improvement in optimism to «new policies aimed at providing regulatory relief to the business community.»

The Department of Education announced a series of long - awaited reforms to the school discipline code on Friday, including new policies aimed at lowering suspension rates, and new funding to support restorative justices practices and students in the criminal justice system.

The new policy aims to protect consumers by using the state's lucrative information technology contracts as leverage over internet companies.

Mr Corbyn is expected to appear on television more often, while strategists are drawing up new policies aimed at capturing the imagination of ordinary voters disillusioned with the political status quo.

In a break with New Labour's hardline rhetoric, Khan is to argue that the party should declare a new policy aim of jailing fewer people.

Cuomo's new policy aims to improve the financial outlook for nuclear plants, or at least the Upstate reactors.

Previously, Mr. Knight led the development of the Multi-Sector Emissions Model (M - SEM), a spreadsheet - based tool used for evaluating historical energy use and emissions, as well as future energy use and emissions based in light of new policies aimed at reducing CO2 emissions sector - wide.

his new policy aims to double the target in just one third of the time.

This week the International Court of Arbitration at the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) announced two new policies aimed at enhancing transparency and efficiency in ICC arbitration proceedings.

Twitter, in December, began enforcing new rules around violent and hateful content posted to its platform, as part of the company's broader agenda to craft new policies aimed at reducing the amount of online abuse, hate speech, violent threats, and harassment associated with its service.

With the new government came new policies aimed at improving Aboriginal's and Torres Strait Islander's social and economic situation.

«Housing market conditions are improving partially because of new policies aimed at providing regulatory relief to the business community,» said Granger MacDonald, chairman of the NAHB, in a statement.

Not exact matches

On Tuesday, the Obama Administration tried to spin some old ideas on corporate tax cuts and infrastructure spending as a new «grand bargain» aimed at stemming another confrontation on fiscal policy.

The Journal reports the main aim isn't to build up Trump's policy bonafides, but «educate voters on the records of Rubio and potentially Chris Christie since they are on the move in New Hampshire.»

Facebook's new privacy policy aims to explain the data it gathers on users more clearly, but doesn't actually change what it collects and shares.

«A new U.S. rule aimed at restoring consumers» ability to band together to sue financial companies has survived its first challenge, as a top banking regulator on Monday said he would not petition for it to be suspended... «The rule is a well thought - out response to the serious consumer harm of forced arbitration,» said Brian Marshall, policy counsel for advocacy group Americans for Financial Reform.»

City officials had prepared for the biggest march since about a half - million women gathered on the day after Mr. Trump's inauguration, declaring a new political movement aimed at resisting the president and his policies.

The debt problem called for new «monetary policy measures — we call them «non standard» decisions, strictly separated from the «standard» decisions, and aimed at restoring a better transmission of our monetary policy in these abnormal market conditions.»

He supervises CUNY's Creating Law Enforcement Accountability & Responsibility project, which aims to meet the legal needs of New York City Muslims affected by counterterrorism policies.

This attitude has also been held among scientists until recently, when the creationist pressures on public education and policy became so threatening that some scientists founded a new journal, Creation / Evolution, a «Committee of Correspondence» and a Creation / Evolution News letter, aimed at defending evolutionary science and dismantling creationist arguments.

Thus, a new and healthy inequality will reappear and will give a new dynamism to the economies of developed countries sick of the slumpflation, sickness coming from the combined inheritance of policies inspired by Keynes and Beveridge, i.e. of the anti-cycle intervention of the State (aiming at cushioning) and of the social redistribution.

After Jimmy Carter defeated Jackson for the 1976 Democratic presidential nomination and bested President Ford in the subsequent general election, the Carter administration adopted the language of an assertive human - rights policy but filled it with New Left content, aiming its criticism primarily at authoritarian American allies rather than at America's totalitarian enemies.

A government may introduce new policies and new measures, but they are aimed at the reformation of an already existing order of things.

Force India have issued a new team policy to their drivers aimed at preventing incidents such as their Belgian GP collision from again happening.

FI joins call for new deal for dads in election manifestos The Fatherhood Institute has joined a coalition of charities and trade unions, to call on the UK's political parties to include policies aimed at promoting involved fatherhood in their election manifestos.

WASHINGTON, Dec 10 (Reuters)- U.S. regulators are relaxing school meal rules aimed at reining in calories and portion sizes after some students, parents and lawmakers complained that new stricter policies left many children hungry.

* Schools say tough to buy different portion sizes * Move follows complaints that rule left some students hungry * Change won't undermine overall healthier standards - advocates By Susan Heavey WASHINGTON, Dec 10 (Reuters)- U.S. regulators are relaxing school meal rules aimed at reining in calories and portion sizes after some students, parents and lawmakers complained that new stricter policies left many children hungry.

The new CPS policy, whatever it's flaws, aims to nourish Chicago's children — and that, in and of itself, is a very good thing.

(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;

Today's changes come hot on the heels of the government's launch of a new Office for Disability Issues (ODI) last week, which will aim to give disabled people a stronger voice in policy - making.

A major new # 692,000 research initiative launches today with the aim of informing government policy and practice and finding solutions to bring vulnerable homeless people in from the margins of our society.

Building on workshops co-hosted by Oxford's Department of Politics and International Relations, the New Economics Foundation and Positive Money, the blog series aims to inform policy and public debate on the potential of public assets.

A new online ad featuring Gov. Andrew Cuomo, celebrities and regular New Yorkers takes aim at Trump's policies by preaching tolerance and promoting a new state program that offers legal services to immigrannew online ad featuring Gov. Andrew Cuomo, celebrities and regular New Yorkers takes aim at Trump's policies by preaching tolerance and promoting a new state program that offers legal services to immigranNew Yorkers takes aim at Trump's policies by preaching tolerance and promoting a new state program that offers legal services to immigrannew state program that offers legal services to immigrants.

The counterintuitive solution being talked about most on the Scottish Labour left in the case of a Corbyn victory is to demand full autonomy from a Corbyn - run UK party, and to use a newly empowered conference (alongside new policy - making bodies soon to be established in Unite and potentially in other unions) to restate the socialist aims of the party.

A new proposal by New York Governor Andrew Cuomo aims to kill a few birds with one bill: End «lunch shaming,» support local farms, and reduce hunger on college campuses, all in a single enthusiastic policy bundnew proposal by New York Governor Andrew Cuomo aims to kill a few birds with one bill: End «lunch shaming,» support local farms, and reduce hunger on college campuses, all in a single enthusiastic policy bundNew York Governor Andrew Cuomo aims to kill a few birds with one bill: End «lunch shaming,» support local farms, and reduce hunger on college campuses, all in a single enthusiastic policy bundle.

A multi-pronged legislative package passed in honor of Earth Day aims to make New York State more environmentally friendly by banning the use of dangerous chemicals, setting clearer policies for disposing of hazardous waste and protecting New York's wetlands.

• Several new statutes (the Gender Violence Act, 2005; the Equality Act, 2007) with the explicit aim of empowering women, most of them adopting affirmative action policies.

The Conservatives are aiming to portray themselves as the party for the working families of Britain with new policies designed to revitalise social mobility, the party's leader has announced.

Mr Cameron has also announced that former party leader Iain Duncan Smith would be in charge of a new social justice policy group aimed at tackling problems in deprived and disadvantaged areas.

As more people hear his arguments, we aim to build on his early support with new policies and ideas for a fairer and more prosperous country.»

Still, Ms. Mark - Viverito's 52 - minute speech amounted to a clear statement of legislative intent, with the speaker outlining more than two dozen policy ideas aimed at helping less affluent New Yorkers.

Under the governor's budget proposal, two of the top items on his wish list — covering state college tuition for hundreds of thousands of low - and middle - income New Yorkers, and a package of tax cuts aimed at the middle class — would be made possible in part by a three - year extension of a higher tax on people who make more than $ 1 million a year, another policy favored by liberals.

Mr Grieve also signalled that the Conservatives would have a New Year policy drive aimed at ending the «conveyor belt to crime», praising initiatives championed by the former party leader Iain Duncan Smith to target children at risk of falling into delinquency before they enter school.

Mr. Seabrook, the union leader who has been a proud obstacle to plenty of the reform efforts aimed at Rikers Island by Mr. de Blasio over the last several years — he filed court documents to try to stop a new use of force policy and has held City Hall press conferences decrying the mayor's policies and telling him to «shape up or ship out» — pointed to something that would probably be an even larger obstacle to closing down the city's controversial jail complex: resistance from residential neighborhoods who don't want inmates nearby.

In his introductory remarks, Langworthy took aim at Cuomo's economic development policies, suggesting the governor tried to buy the affection of Western New Yorkers after a poor local showing in the 2010 election, the year he was challenged by Buffalo businessman and developer Carl Paladino.

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP)- The Republican - led New York Senate has approved a package of legislation aimed at Democratic Gov. Andrew Cuomo's economic development policies.

And DiNapoli notes that state lawmakers had little time to consider changes to the state's education policy — which included measures aimed at new teacher evaluation criteria, changes to teacher tenure and plans to close schools deemed to be struggling or failing.

By taking aim at the state over the Inner Harbor Project, Syracuse Mayor Stephanie Miner has added a chapter to her long - running clash with Cuomo over his upstate economic policies, which rely heavily on state funds to create new factories, technology centers and other major projects designed to generate jobs.

Despite a slew of recent policies aimed at helping the homeless, 55 percent of New York City voters disapprove of NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio's handling of poverty and homelessness, according to a new Q poNew York City voters disapprove of NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio's handling of poverty and homelessness, according to a new Q ponew Q poll.