Sentences with phrase «of key institutions»

The INDC outlines several national adaptation goals, including development of a national adaptation plan, integration of climate risk reduction into key economic sectors, and strengthening of key institutions.

Sir David Carter often speaks of schools being «givers» and «receivers» of support and how MATs are one of the key institutions that can foster this.

The approach of the GCN is to build on the influence of key institutions — neighborhood cafes and Americans» infatuation with coffee — to try to raise environmental awareness and spur individual action.

Ekiti State Governor Kayode Fayemi has called for a reform of key institutions.

At the Home Ownership Matters page on REALTOR.org, NAR provides links to breaking news, key research, online tools, and resources for associations and members who want to help spread the word about the importance of this key institution.

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Generally, community banks have been key players in small business lending, Mills said, citing data that shows community banks approved 48 percent of small business loans, while larger institutions approved only 13 percent.

The majority of taxpayers receive these documents every year, and TurboTax can import the data from most payroll providers, most financial institutions, and from Quicken, thereby relieving many users from having to key the information in.

We don't know, but for important institutions we need a high level of certainty that key decision - makers are exercising their judgment in the interests of those they serve, rather than themselves.

What's at issue in conflict of interest matters is the need to protect the integrity of the institution, and in particular the way key stakeholders perceive its decision - making processes.

The federal banking regulator, the Office of the Superintendent of Financial Institutions, also last summer said it was reviewing domestic retail sales practices at Canada's key banks, focusing on «risk culture» and «the governance of sales practices.»

The growing use of ETFs by institutions is a key part of that self - reinforcing feedback loop.

«I think truth and transparency for me are the two key pillars of where we need to go and how we need to help because we are here to serve the countries that have started this institution,» she said.

Ruth joined Morgan Stanley in 1987 and has played several key roles at the company, including Vice Chairman of Investment Banking, Global Head of the Financial Institutions Group and and co-Head of Technology Investment Banking.

To keep a step ahead of emerging scams, the Call Center also collaborates with a number of key leaders and community partners including the Attorney General's Office, the Federal Trade Commission, the Washington State Department of Financial Institutions, the FINRA Investor Education Foundation, the Washington State Crime Prevention Association, the Better Business Bureau, and the U.S. Postal Inspection Service.

While we have seen a perceptible improvement in the overall business due to the merchandise and the institution of the factory and mall allocation strategy, regrettably we are experiencing a disruption in our supply of some merchandise due to a dispute with a key vendor.

The only way to do that — as well as advance the key first principle identified by Minister of Democratic Institutions Maryam Monsef to underpin the new system — is a proportional system.

A key feature of democracy is that these institutions are genuinely independent.

The incomplete pass - through from agency MBS yields into primary mortgage rates is due to several factors — including a concentration of mortgage origination volumes at a few key financial institutions and mortgage rep and warranty requirements that discourage lending for home purchases and make financial institutions reluctant to refinance mortgages that have been originated elsewhere.

A key focus of the plan revolves around strengthening ties between the business community, universities and scientific institutions.

Meanwhile, bond markets are concentrating as key participants, such as asset managers, shrink in number but expand in size.8 As a result, market liquidity may increasingly come to depend on the portfolio allocation decisions of only a few large institutions.

The aim of the study is to develop key insights for financial institutions and regulators in order to better understand the extent of its impact as they move forward in utilizing blockchain.

In every democracy the media is key to holding our Government institutions accountable, regardless of which Government institution that may be.

North Korea's recent attacks targeting Bitcoin highlight a key dilemma for policy - makers around the world: our institutions and norms of governance are becoming increasingly outdated as the line between the real and virtual worlds is getting even blurrier.

Key Minister Alexis Tsipras has accused the institution of exacerbating the country's income - movement issues through its steps.

Credit market conditions are still very difficult in the aftermath of the events of the last year, and pressure remains on key institutions — as shown clearly over the past week.

Our energy relationship with Asia should be framed within the context of a broader Canada - Asia strategy that champions stronger diplomatic relations, trade and investment agreements with key Asian partners, engagement with Asian regional institutions, and market diversification strategies at the federal, provincial and sectoral levels.

Key steps along this path include completion of the transition to full implementation of Basel III, including new liquidity requirements; enhanced prudential standards for systemically important firms, including risk - based capital requirements, a leverage ratio, and tighter prudential buffers for firms heavily reliant on short - term wholesale funding; expansion of the regulatory umbrella to incorporate all systemically important firms; the institution of an effective, cross-border resolution regime for systemically important financial institutions; and consideration of regulations, such as minimum margin requirements for securities financing transactions, to limit leverage in sectors beyond the banking sector and SIFIs.

BC: One of the key factors financial institutions take into consideration before entering a new market is clarity and a deep understanding of rules and regulations.

This dedicated team interacts daily the key players of a deal - hedge funds, arbs, institutions, and the back offices at brokers and banks.

For better or for worse, Ron Paul and the Tea Parties represent the best things going for the libertarian movement of which Cato is a key institution.

If in Emerson's words «Every great institution is the lengthened shadow of a single man'there's no doubt that the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association's commitment to accountability is both a true reflection of Graham and a key reason why he has remained free of financial scandal.

Then there was the «Americanist» crisis at the beginning of the twentieth century when, in the view of many, Rome's hostility to key ideas and institutions of the American experiment forced Catholicism into a countercultural ghetto.

But one must also consider the roles played by institutions (the cult, the school, the court of law, the state), family and kinship groups and key leaders (including the prophets and the sages).

If Greider's key institution for reform is the corporation, then Wight's is the guild of economists.

That was an amazing feat, taking place at a time when the amendment's feminist and liberal supporters seemed to be in control of every American institution except the White House, but I was living in California at the time, and the key battles of the ERA had taken place in geographically and culturally distant states: Florida, Illinois, North Carolina.

The key question is, who effectively has the choice of schools, and the Milwaukee program empowers individuals, not institutions.

Focusing on church decisions in the late 1980s and on key theological leaders, Burgess documents how the church moved from offering a cautious, even veiled statement of an alternative worldview to advocating alternative institution building.

As «social» as the coordinate processes of weaving one's own life from strands taken from the lives of others and giving one's own life as a strand to be woven into their lives, and as the universal essence of actual events, the single principle of love is the master key to the understanding of both facts and values.37 He denies that any human institutions, churches included, could be infallible; but he affirms that we can infallibly know «the appropriateness of love.

Given my lack of faith, the key question is whether religious and non-religious supporters of traditional institutions like marriage can find common ground or, indeed, whether there is any coherent non-faith-based case to be made for social conservatism.

The impulse out of which oldline Protestantism's key institutions arose was nicely captured in the words of a New Yorker editor describing Cambridge, Massachusetts, in the 1970s.

Here I am thinking most immediately of building research and graduate study centers in key fields at the best institutions in various Christian subcultures.

Australia is endowed with some of the world's best energy resources, has good skills in low emissions technologies, strong institutions and established trading relationships with key consumers of energy.

The Fortune 500 company — which runs the dining operations at thousands of schools and other institutions across the country — is tackling three key area where industrial agriculture has been badly failing in its production model: intensive confinement, painful procedures and practices, and unnaturally fast growth.

DayOne Baby has become a key resource for some of the most famous and prestigious hospitals and medical institutions in the world, who have outsourced their consumer outpatient breast pump rental needs to us.

We have established partnerships with a wide range of credible professional organizations, government agencies, and academic institutions to advance the public understanding of key issues.

The economy is currently one of the central government's key instruments for putting pressure on the Catalan institutions.

They also need to trust that key institutions such as the Judiciary and Legislature will protect integrity of the political system so that they can also have a chance of winning future elections.

In a number of countries, legislators have played a critical role in defending key democratic institutions such as presidential term limits.

We are a truly pan-African institution and after this period of consolidation, we know that the continuing expansion of our Africa footprint is a key goal.

He told BBC Radio 4's Today programme on Saturday morning: «Almost the entire government machine is spending its time seeking to wrench us out of the key economic and political institutions of the EU.