Sentences with phrase «of aggressive measures»

In the months leading up to and during the 2008 Beijing Olympics (August 8 - 24) and Paralympics (September 6 - 16), the Chinese government launched a series of aggressive measures to improve the city's chronic and notoriously poor air quality.

With aggressive treatment it may on occasion be possible to sustain their life somewhat longer, but, because they are essentially dying patients, it seems better simply to give them what care and comfort we can while permitting them to die without the bodily intrusiveness of aggressive measures.

House and Senate Democrats have introduced legislation aimed at lowering drug prices through a series of aggressive measures, including by requiring biopharma companies to reveal far more information about their R&D, manufacturing, and other costs.

Not exact matches

Since November, just before elections in December that bought the ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) to power, Abe has pushed for bold measures and an aggressive monetary policy to revive the Japanese economy, which is in recession and plagued by years of deflation.

And because Lululemon doesn't rely on wholesale partners, it has avoided the channel conflict and third - party discounting issues being experienced by large brands like Nike, Coach and Michael Kors — all of which are taking aggressive corrective measures.

Expect appointment of a more aggressive US Trade Representative open to threatening the use of unilateral trade measures.

South Korean shares rose as technology and auto sectors rallied after the Bank of Japan announced aggressive monetary easing measures, resolving uncertainty about its actions.

The first condition of their success will be the quieting of Jewish apprehensiveness and the consequent elimination of the aggressive and occasionally provocative Jewish defensive measures which the country has recently and anxiously observed.

«They may look aggressive, but they're very measured in terms of their analysis,» says Leblanc.

Strategists at Bank of America Merrill Lynch put a fine point on the paradox of how central banks created both a liquidity solution and problem with their historically aggressive measures while they and congressional legislators created a tighter regulatory environment.

If you are convinced that lowering the interest rate, pumping money into the economy and ramping - up government spending is beneficial, then from your perspective a failure of such measures to sustainably boost the rate of economic growth can only mean that the measures weren't aggressive enough.

The yields on these extremely short - term vehicles just about disappeared as the Federal Reserve's program of bond - buying, known as Quantitative Easing, and other aggressive monetary policy measures drove down rates.

The Chinese Communist Party has taken aggressive measures to combat its decline in the nation's stock market, which had shed about a third of its value in less than a month.

The measures announced were even more aggressive than most had expected, fueling hopes of stronger economic growth and increased demand for various commodities.

The measures would mark Mr. Trump's most aggressive move yet against a fast - rising economic rival that he has accused of preying on the United States.

For example, while the United States is tightening its monetary policy, the central banks of Europe and Japan both have launched aggressive stimulus measures since 2014 to jumpstart economic growth.

Moreover, while the threat of protectionist measures has remained, the political problems of the Trump administration may have lowered the possibility of aggressive unilateral measures by the United States on trade.

The report noted that «not all children become aggressive, of course,» but that «the correlations between violence and aggression are positive,» indeed as strong as «any other variable behavior that has been measured.»

The pass defense was a risk - reward experiment — second in passing success rate, fourth in Adj. Sack Rate, 82nd in passing IsoPPP (which measures the magnitude of the successful plays)-- but the run defense was more reactive than aggressive.

Most mothers in the UK say they wanted to breastfeed for longer and stopping misinformation and aggressive marketing from formula companies is one of the measures required.

Aggressive, because he hopes that it will put pressure back on Labour to either back English votes for English MPs and therefore nobble themselves in a future government, or refuse and be at odds with a majority of English voters who back such a measure.

When an agreement was made on the bill, Cuomo described the measure as a «tough and aggressive approach we need» that did things like requiring legislators to «disclose income from outside employment and the names of clients or customers.»

The Republican - controlled Senate took its first step toward dismantling the 2010 Affordable Care Act, using its initial day in office to introduce a measure that sets an aggressive timeline for repealing much of President Obama's signature health law.

«It is important that reasonable replacement sources of energy and aggressive conservation measures be made available to them before Indian Point is taken off line.»

Still, the business community is disquieted by his endorsement in May by the labor - aligned Working Families Party, which resulted in Cuomo's support for a full Democratic takeover of the state Senate and a host of liberal measures, including a more aggressive approach to the state's minimum wage.

«The letter, which comes in response to an aggressive campaign by the animal rights group People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA), claims that for more than 30 years researchers at the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) have been «removing [macaques] from their mothers at birth and subjecting them to distressful and sometimes painful procedures that measure their anxiety and depression.»»

Women who have a genetic mutation face a higher risk of developing a second breast cancer and may wish to consider more aggressive treatment, preventive measures or additional screening.

Aggressive measures to curtail the use of fossil fuels and emissions of so - called short - lived climate pollutants such as soot, methane and HFCs would need to be accompanied by active efforts to extract CO2 from the air and sequester it before it can be emitted.

Narins now plans to investigate the neural basis of the aggressive reaction by measuring neural activity when frogs are goaded by RoboRana.

The study, which appears in the journal Pediatrics, reports that maternal demoralization, a measure of psychological distress capable of affecting a mother's ability to cope with stressful situations, was linked with a number of behavioral problems, including anxiety, depression, attention problems, rule - breaking, externalizing problems, and aggressive behavior.

The researchers measured children's levels of aggressive behavior by collecting observations from the children and their mothers.

«Once we can measure this particular triad of emotions in a reliable way, whether it's by words or by nonverbal behavior, then we can monitor the degree to which a person is primed to be aggressive,» he said.

After 10 generations, the line of fighting flies had become much more aggressive than a group of control flies, and after 20 generations, the aggressive insects scored more than 30 times higher than the controls did on a «fighting index» that measured how ferociously they fought, Dierick and Greenspan report online 13 August in Nature Genetics.

The Emergency Operations Center in its report covering Wednesday noted the two Ebola cases in the Koinadugu district, in Sierra Leone's far north, which had taken aggressive measures to keep the virus out of its mountainous territory since the outbreak early this year.»

Hekman and her colleagues used RNA sequencing to measure gene expression in the pituitary glands of tame and aggressive foxes.

I have just a few questions for the aggressive weight loss plan: — max 1 cup of starchy vegetables, would that to be measured dry or cooked?

You'll have to take aggressive measures against tobacco or drugs, as they aren't just answerable for blackening of your teeth, but also damage them.

For all its aggressive energy, The Current War is an uninvolving bore, making it unlikely to measure up as the kind of Oscar - baity prestige entry the Weinstein Company obviously had in mind.

The organization is making an increasingly aggressive effort to exercise some measure of control over each of these factors through partnerships with at least 20 colleges nationwide designed to create a pipeline to four - year colleges able to offer the greatest possible commitment and support to KIPP alumni.

The agency has put in place a permanent team to oversee the changes, new internal measures to keep track of funds, and a more aggressive approach to tracking down collections of defaulted student loans, the officials said.

School districts in some Southern states are taking aggressive measures to protect students from being bitten by disease - carrying mosquitoes because of increasing fears of the West Nile virus.

Faced with these challenges, the administration has relaxed its aggressive timetables for states to begin evaluating all teachers based on objective measures of student learning, such as standardized test scores.

This aggressive move to double the value added portion of teacher evaluations and to override local measures in favor of standardized tests is bad for teachers, and it is potentially even worse for students.

Comfort is already stiff and aggressive, although it offers up a measure of Mercedes» trademark relaxed throttle tip - in.

The CTS - V Coupe's rear track is nearly an inch wider than the CTS - V Sport Sedan, adding to the car's aggressive stance and enabling an extra measure of handling capability.

Part of that plan it seems is its new driver analysis algorithms that measure how aggressive you are or not and serve as an eco-driving coach a bit more frontally than benign green leaves that grow or fade on a Fusion, for example.

Finance Minister Charles Sousa said on Thursday he is looking at the tax as one of a number of options to control aggressive growth in home prices, after rejecting such a measure last year.

In response to the latest crash, instead of allowing market forces to self - correct, Beijing is rolling out aggressive measures to keep the bubble from popping completely.

Interestingly, provides a scale by which a dog's aggressive behavior can be measured to aid in the determination of dangerousness or viciousness.

Any measure of the most aggressive dog breeds is misleading.