Sentences with phrase «of central authority for»

The role of central authority for B.C. is delegated to Jane Connell and Jillian Stewart, lawyers with the Ministry of Attorney General.
To initiate Hague proceedings, the left behind parent contacts their own government who will have some form of central authority for dealing with Hague applications.

Not exact matches

For starters, here's an overly simplified explanation of Bitcoin: It's a digital currency (there are more than 800 now) that isn't controlled by a central authority such as a government or bank.
The Monetary Authority of Singapore and Malaysia's central bank did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
«Blockchains are useful when there's no central authority in command, or when there's risk that the owner of the platform might fold,» Emin Gün Sirer, a professor at Cornell, expert on distributed systems, and co-director of the Initiative for Cryptocurrencies and Contracts, said in an email.
This might mean, for example, that the central bank would need to run a more stimulative policy than it would have otherwise to offset the effect of macroprudential policies, and the macroprudential authority would impose more stringent measures than it would have otherwise to counteract the leverage and risk taking generated by looser monetary policy.
Also, in part reflecting strong views expressed by the Australian authorities, the Financial Stability Board developed the notion of «four safeguards» for a resilient global framework for central counterparties.
This raises a number of issues which are the object of vigorous debate at present among monetary authorities world - wide: issues such the appropriate objectives for a central bank and the desirable degree of independence.
««Virtual currencies» means a digital representation of value that is neither issued by a central bank or a public authority, not attached to a legally established currency, which does not possess the legal status of currency or money, but is accepted by natural or legal persons as a means of exchange or for other purposes, and can be transferred, stored or traded electronically.
According to the Wall Street Journal, Chinese bitcoin exchanges would be required to collect information to identify customers as well as to install systems «for collecting and reporting suspicious trading activity to authorities; China's central bank would be in charge of handling violations by the exchanges.»
While securities trading today relies on a central authority to oversee the transfer of cash for shares, Digital Asset aims to link all the participants in the process on the same database to allow real - time movement of assets.
Trust is not dependent on one central authority; it is federated between all users, while, on some level, that may be scary for some who will need to cede control of proprietary systems of checks and balances in favor of an open, transparent approach.
This report is the result of a coordinated research effort by the central banks of Canada, Italy, Japan, the United Kingdom and the United States and the Bank for International Settlements on the determinants of market liquidity and on how central banks and other public authorities influence these determinants.
Some would argue that by acting cautiously on balance sheet normalization (without actively countering impacts of ECB policy measures), Fed policymakers have partially ceded control of financial conditions to foreign monetary authorities, but the same can be said about other central banks as well, for long - term rates are correlated among advanced economies:
After confronting the «knowledge problem» at the heart of discretionary monetary policy — that policymakers are unable to know the true structure of an increasingly complex and global economic system — Dorn calls for the establishment of a Centennial Monetary Commission to evaluate the performance of the Fed over its 100 - plus years of discretionary monetary authority and to discuss how best to reform the country's central bank.
Uber is offering free rides for everyone going out of the Sydney central business district, where law enforcement authorities are in a standoff against a hostage - taking crisis, but not before Uber botched up its PR yet again.
According to recent reports, it seems like the Monetary Authority of Singapore will become the newest central bank to launch its trial, blockchain - based system meant for carrying out interbank payments.
There is no central authority for all Mormon fundamentalists and the viewpoints and practices of individual groups vary.
What common view of the Second Coming, what central theory of the atonement, what view of the sacraments, what grounding for scriptural authority unites these groups?
This period of conquest gave opportunity for a series of warlords, called in the Bible «judges,» to seize power and become local despots, without any central authority to unite the people.
«In fact,» Russell notes, «both the Inquisition and the Parlement or supreme court of France, where you have some strong central authority, were very effective in restraining the convictions for witchcraft — most of which come out of isolated areas of weak governance.
Update (Aug. 13): World Watch Monitor (WWM) reports that government authorities arrested the Rev. Nicolas Guerékoyamé, president of Central African Republic's (CAR) Evanglical Alliance, for remarks he made about the government during a sermon.
Jews have no central religious authority, and haven't had one for hundreds of years.
Historian David Bebbington suggests a respected paradigm for those who identify as an evangelical: a transformed life through following Jesus, faith demonstrated through missionary and social reform efforts, a regard for the Bible as ultimate authority, and a central focus on the sacrificial death of Jesus.
These distinctives remain important to our faith: salvation by grace, not works; the authority of the Bible; personal faith; passion for both evangelism and social justice; and commitment to historic central doctrines.
These Hermetic writings became the central authority for the «magical» aspect of the movement.
There was an enormous diversity within this tradition but its central thinking stressed the necessity of experiment rather than reliance upon authority for understanding the world.
However, wherever this is true, a submission to it's authority, proper and accurate interpretation of it's contents, and an uncontested exaltation for it's central message — salvation in Jesus Christ — is found.
A theology of police work is no answer, but a religious message that seriously addresses itself to the problems of violence and the need for order and authority within a democratic, legal framework must be, as I see it, a central task for the theologian and for Christian apologetics.
The editors and their collaborators know better; but only in selected instances have some of them managed to transcend such limited conceptions in behalf of the central purpose of the volume as a whole: to demonstrate how the literary dimensions of these texts do, indeed, make credible the power and authority they have exhibited for more than two millennia in shaping decisively the lives and minds of thoughtful people the world over.
The facts were, chiefly, these: Jesus of Nazareth, a man anointed by the Spirit and divinely accredited by mighty works, who went about doing good, and healing all those who were oppressed by the devil (for God was with him), who was put to death by the blind and misguided authorities, religious and civil, at Jerusalem, where he was crucified — all this is preliminary and descriptive, as identifying him, like the central clauses in the Apostles» Creed.
Children Available: Beginning April 1, 2012 Foreigners may only apply to the Central Authority for adoption of children with special needs, unless one of the applicants is a Lithuanian citizen.
The «Impact of the central school services block NFF» table sets out local authority provisional central school services allocations for 2018 to 2019, and illustrative allocations for 2019 to 2020.
For instance, decentralization (in its various forms of political, administrative, or fiscal) can be one response, where powers or function are redistributed or dispersed away from a central government or authority.
Cuomo's «Open NY» proposals included making government information available on one central website and trying to establish a network and augment sites for each state agency and authority under the governor's control with uniform downloadable catalogs of agency data and search engines.
«The default reaction of the left will be to assume more central authority, raise taxes for the rich, regulate hard and stifle enterprise.
Sixteen months into the Port Authority's search for a CEO — the central element of Governors Andrew Cuomo's and Chris Christie's post-Bridgegate reform program — that search is nearing an end.
As the mayor's counsel, Perez Williams was a central figure in some of Miner's biggest confrontations, including a fight over the Civilian Review Board and a struggle for control of the Syracuse Housing Authority board.
The Appellate Court Chief Justice Rosenbaum called the actions of the Transit Authority and MTA unconsciounable, and prepared a «bench order» for the Transit Authority to immediately expunge my department and central personnel files from any false and inflammatory information that suggested there was any misconduct committed by me.
Eldest son, Stephen, was a member of the Inner London Educational Authority from 1986 to 1990 and Hillary was elected as MP for Leeds Central in 1999.
Another central pillar of the budget agenda is a Rider Relief Plan that will invest crucial funding into the crumbling Metropolitan Transportation Authority for immediate repairs, a fare freeze for all riders, discounted MetroCards for the neediest individuals and an Express Bus fare reduction.
Pakistan's «tribal areas» which are the source of many bombings like the West Bank and Gaza Strip in Israel which is home to many bombers when this was a common occurrence in Israel, are both only weakly under the control of the central national government's authority, but it is much more practicable for Israel to wall off the areas that it does not fully control (which was the single most important policy decision that led to fewer bombings in Israel) than it is to do so in Pakistan.
So there is no central authority that could speak for the Muslim world, and it is easy to ignore those that do not fit into one's own definition of Islam.
The DA's Office is in the midst of an investigation aimed at the Waldron Terrace Housing Complex in Central Nyack and have hit pay dirt as the seven defendants — who range in age from 26 to 55 — are accused of stealing over $ 300,000 in benefits, and for falsifying applications submitted to, the Village of Nyack Housing Authority and the Rockland County Department of Social Services between 2002 and 2012, making it possible for each to fraudulently receive a variety of public assistance benefits.
Sixteen months into the Port Authority's search for a CEO — the central element of Governors Andrew Cuomo's and Chris Christie's post-Bridgegate reform program — that search is nearing an end, and it may not bear fruit after all.
The number of organisations which can approach phone and internet companies and ask for communications data will be limited, with local councils having to go through a central authority.
He has forgotten the role of local education authorities in those days, often a force for innovation and an important counter balance to central government and special interests.
Anne Thompson, NBC's chief environmental affairs correspondent, moderated the expert panel, which included (from left): Heidi Cullen, a correspondent for Climate Central, a nonprofit that reports on climate science; Bill Richardson, former governor of New Mexico and a board member of the World Resources Institute, an environmental think tank; Grady Gammage Jr., a practicing attorney and a senior scholar at the ASU Global Institute of Sustainability; and Pat Mulroy, general manager of the Southern Nevada Water Authority.
The specific impact of another 3 - to 4 - foot rise in groundwater levels is unclear, but many of the city's water mains are already below the water table, according to Tom Chaplik, vice president of water quality and outreach for the South Central Connecticut Regional Water Authority.
There is no central authority for either, so an informal code of conduct has grown up among users.
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