Sentences with phrase «now calls on the government»

As part of its Less Is More campaign, Greenpeace is now calling on governments to stop promoting meat and dairy - focused policies and instead support growing crops for humans, rather than to feed animals.

Dogs Trust is now calling on the Government to introduce compulsory microchipping for all dogs in the UK.

The group now calls on the government to look closer at which funding programs are needed and effective.

Researchers found large differences in the pupil progress gap between different types of schools, and have now called on the government to consider new policies including requiring schools to publish their progress measures for disadvantaged pupils on their website, and for that measure to be included in performance league tables for multi-academy trusts.

Not exact matches

She, along with several of her classmates, have held gun control rallies in their Florida community and called on government officials to act now to prevent future mass shootings from taking place.

These payments must now be made public under an Obamacare provision called the Physician Payments Sunshine Act and are listed on the federal government's Open Payments website.

VANCOUVER / COAST SALISH TERRITORY — With the province's new climate plan expected to land any day now, a coalition of British Columbia power producers, industry associations and environmental organizations is calling on the government to tackle B.C.'s growing carbon pollution problem.

Based on these and other serious risks to the economic benefits of the Fraser River, every chamber of commerce in the Lower Mainland — from the mouth of the river around Richmond, to the entrance to the Fraser canyon at Hope, are calling on senior levels of government to act now to commit funding to head off potential disaster.

Now the task force report has called on the government to expand the number of facilities capable of testing so that proper consumer protection can be assured.

The bubble was centered on the shares of the South Sea Company, an international trading company that was granted special trading rights in the South Seas (now called South America) by the British government.

I concluded at the time of the riots that of all the things the government now needed to do, it was the married family which most urgently needed to be rebuilt: I was and remain as certain of that as anything I have ever written, and I have been saying it repeatedly for over 20 years: I was saying it, for instance, when I was attacking (in The Mail and also The Telegraph), as it went through the Commons, the parliamentary bill which became that disastrous piece of (Tory) legislation called the Children Act 1989, which abolished parental rights (substituting for them the much weaker «parental responsibility»), which encouraged parents not to spend too much time with their children, which even, preposterously, gave children the right to take legal action against theirparents for attempting to discipline them, which made it «unlawful for a parent or carer to smack their child, except where this amounts to «reasonable punishment»;» and which specified that «Whether a «smack» amounts to reasonable punishment will depend on the circumstances of each case taking into consideration factors like the age of the child and the nature of the smack.»

«No sense at all,» he concluded, arguing that the churches and government of his day should allow divorce on the grounds of what we now call «mutual incompatibility.»

Mr Dolan has failed to recognize that soon, not only will the US government, but all of the human governments now existing will turn on the Catholic church, along with all false religion called at Revelation 17:5, Babylon the Great.

1) Most Americans oppose Obamacare 2) Our President had to lie to get it passed 3) So the Left is here frantically and paradoxically and hypocritically trying couple Religion and State 4) Which confirms just how desperate our government and their media lapdogs have become 5) When I refuse to define poverty you'll know I'm a marxist disguised as a «social justice» Christian (yes... we can tell) 6) Now we can get back to the name - calling and church bashing from folks with a «tolerance» bumper sticker on their car

That this House: (1) notes with concern the impact on the Dairy Industry of the Coles milk pricing strategy and that: (a) dairy farmers around the country are today seriously questioning their future having suffered through one of the worst decades in memory including droughts, floods, price cuts and rising cost of inputs such as energy and feed; (b) unsustainable retail milk prices will, over time, compel processors to renegotiate contracts with dairy farmers and the prospect that these contracts will be below the cost of production may force many to leave the industry; (c) the fact that supermarkets are now selling milk cheaper than many varieties of bottled water will be the straw that finally breaks the camel's back for many dairy farmers; and (d) the risk of other potential impacts includes: (i) decreased competition as name brands are forced from the shelves; and (ii) the possible loss of fresh milk supplies to some parts of the country as local fresh milk industries become unviable; and (2) calls on the Government to: (a) ask the ACCC to immediately examine the big supermarkets and milk wholesalers after recent price cuts to ensure they do not have too much market power and are not anti-competitive in their behaviour; and (b) support the new Senate inquiry into the ongoing milk price war between the country's major supermarket chains».

Betts has now called on the Department for Communities and Local Government to intervene in order to help Rotherham council support the victims more effectively.

«We intend to continue our wider investigations into blacklisting and will be calling further witnesses but believe that the government should now investigate, as promised, the clear and unequivocal evidence that has been received about blacklisting on the Crossrail project.»

Delegates voted for two separate motions yesterday — one calling on the government to drop the health and social care bill altogether and the other arguing enough amendments had been made for the Liberal Democrats to now support it.

When Andrew Cuomo's father, Mario Cuomo, was governor back in the 1980s, he also called on the powers in the now 100 - year - old Moreland Act to appoint a commission to look into government corruption.

The issue will now return to the Commons to be reconsidered by MPs, who have already rejected calls for the «meaningful vote» clause to be included in the legislation, saying verbal guarantees given by government on parliamentary scrutiny are sufficient.

«While we warmly welcome the Government's pledges to tackle rough sleeping, including a homelessness and rough sleeping taskforce, now that we know the solutions to end rough sleeping for good we're calling on the Government to take swift action to tackle the problem and fix it once and for all.»

Good - government groups called on Cuomo and lawmakers to take action now to strengthen oversight of government contracting and boost ethics enforcement.

With the government's case over, the trial is now turned over to Silver's defense team, which told the court Wednesday that it was not planning on calling any witnesses.

So I am calling on our Government to opt in now to the EU plan to take our share of the refugees to be relocated throughout the continent.

Both the DEC and the DOH are now calling on the federal government to reimburse the state for the costs associated with responding to the contamination.

Labour MP Jon Trickett, who will table an amendment calling for more consideration, said: «It is of course unprecedented for a government to offer parliament a vote on such a matter and that is to be welcomed, but the case has simply not been made that we need to replace Trident, and crucially, that a decision must be taken now.

«An appeal I have to make is that it is necessary for all levels of government to maintain some level of respect and civility one to the other, and as we start now the process of reconstructing relationships and consultations, there should be what I will call a ceasefire in terms of the kind of abuse that is used all round on one institution of government or the other, even principal parties of these institutions..

The NASUWT and the NUT have now served notice to employers that NUT and NASUWT members in the North West of England * will be called upon to take strike action on 27 June 2013 in furtherance of the dispute with the Government over pensions, pay and conditions.

But the governor, speaking in a teleconference call on Monday, says with the latest scandals dominating news about state government, a pay hike seems less likely now.

«The Mayor is playing his part, now government must too by taking on board calls for a diesel scrappage scheme and a new Clear Air Act fit for the 21st Century.»

He said, «My appeal is that as we start now the process of reconstructing relationships and consultations, there should be what I will call a ceasefire in terms of the kind of abuse that is used all round on one institution of government or the other, even principal parties of these institutions.»

Last week, New York's chapter of the National Organization of Women (NOW) made an effort to further jumpstart the conversation, calling on women and men who currently or previously work (ed) in government in Albany and throughout the state to speak out about their personal experiences with sexual harassment or assault while on the job, citing the Legislature's history of quashing sexual harassment complaints.

A group called Rebuild New York Now is creating a coalition of government leaders, organized labor and private business to urge Albany to spend the windfall on fixing the state's declining infrastructure.

The churches for some years now have been calling on government to give them more control in some areas, citing issues of indiscipline among others.

But there is an interesting twist to this story tonight, which up until now has centred on whether or not the government's chief whip called the police «f ****** plebs» after they refused to open the main gate so he could pass through with his bike.

But the pro-Union parties called on the Scottish government to act now to improve childcare for parents of young children in Scotland.

When Andrew Cuomo's father, Mario Cuomo was governor back in the 1980's, he also called on the powers in the now 100 year old Moreland Act to appoint a commission to look into government corruption.

Now, after reaffirming the fish's plight at a technical workshop at the New England Aquarium in Boston last month, 10 scientists are calling on the U.S. and Canadian governments to ban or restrict bottom fishing in the skate's few known strongholds.

But it is far from clear whether government agencies will still be calling the tune come 2020: the raft of commercial space firms now vying to put their stamp on the final frontier could have a big say in how long the station is kept in orbit.

Millions of dollars in government innovation prizes — many of them science or technology related — are now helpfully organized on a new Web site called Challenge.gov.

Children's charity Barnardo's is calling on the government to act now to stop the decrease in funding of children's centres, following new calculations that reveal a dramatic budget decrease of over 35 per cent since 2010.

The government now offers two kinds of benefits: a dependent - care tax credit — equal to 20 to 30 percent of expenses, depending on parents» income level — that limits expenses to $ 2,400 for one child or $ 4,800 for two or more children; and so - called «salary reduction plans» that permit parents to have day - care costs withheld from their salary and reimbursed by employers without being taxed.

«The government must now meet with arts campaigners, industry and unions who are united in calling on them to reconsider the EBacc in its current form,» he said.

The government needs to act on it right now — and I am today calling on Damian Hinds to make it clear that action will follow.

The so - called purdah period which covered this year's general election campaign is now over, lifting restrictions on government press releases and the signing of school funding agreements.

Now or never: Demonstration calling for the government to take action on the issue of student migration from N.S.

The Fed's already come this far, the US government's hooked on growth & stimulus, and investors have complete faith in the Greenspan / Bernanke / Yellen put — there's really no turning back now, and at this point I'm sure even a 10 % decline would start setting off the alarm bells & calls for action.

He said Mr. Gore, despite his high profile, was a close call: «He may have put climate change on the rich countries» agenda, but some felt his solution of trading emissions is not enough and no more than what all major businesses and western governments are now saying.

Now he is calling on the Cambodian government to revoke all land concessions and ban timber exports to Vietnam and China.

Then he started to believe his own press, convinced himself that his opinions were of such value that the «Government» was censoring him, urged by activists (lobbyists without the paycheck) he ventured farther and farther afield and shriller in his calls while on his crusade to save the planet, which served to isolate and marginalize him until now he looks around and can not understand why everyone is not just doing what he says.