Sentences with phrase «of key nations»
It's in this backdrop of that key nations in the region have resisted the ICC charge,
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Entrepreneurs are the key to meeting the United Nations goals for alleviating extreme poverty and creating hundreds of millions of jobs.
The DEA viewed distributors — the nation's pharmaceutical fire hose — as key to its efforts to stop criminal misuse of pain pills.
Even so, Alaska's energy demand per person is the third highest in the nation, and the oil and natural gas industries have long been key pillars of its economy.
And with looming leadership changes at organizations key to global health and development aid — the heads of the United Nations, the World Health Organization, the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, and the World Bank — malaria champions say the risk of setbacks is unnerving.
With big banks hugely unpopular, the key opponents of cramdown were the nation's community bankers, who argued that the law would force them to raise mortgage rates to cover the potential losses.
The New York Fed plays key roles in the oversight and management of U.S. payment systems and money markets, and it houses the nation's main gold vault.
During the visit, Chen mentioned distributed ledger technology as one of the key components to the «development and application of fintech,» and highlighted that he and Xing Yujing, the head of the People's Bank of China Shenzhen Central Sub-Branch, agreed that mainland China should reinforce a solid relationship with the Hong Kong and Shenzhen financial sectors by engaging in «pilot schemes» in order to support «the process of the nation's reform and opening - up.»
«While the recovery was gaining traction before sequestration took effect, these arbitrary and unnecessary cuts to government services will be a headwind in the months to come, and will cut key investments in the nation's future competitiveness,» Alan B. Krueger, the chairman of President Obama's Council of Economic Advisers, said in a statement.
A key sponsor for Energy for Defense II was the APC, headquartered in the Twin Cities and operated by Defense Alliance, one of the nation's three U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA)- funded Advanced Defense Technologies Clusters.
Important factors that may affect the Company's business and operations and that may cause actual results to differ materially from those in the forward - looking statements include, but are not limited to, increased competition; the Company's ability to maintain, extend and expand its reputation and brand image; the Company's ability to differentiate its products from other brands; the consolidation of retail customers; the Company's ability to predict, identify and interpret changes in consumer preferences and demand; the Company's ability to drive revenue growth in its key product categories, increase its market share, or add products; an impairment of the carrying value of goodwill or other indefinite - lived intangible assets; volatility in commodity, energy and other input costs; changes in the Company's management team or other key personnel; the Company's inability to realize the anticipated benefits from the Company's cost savings initiatives; changes in relationships with significant customers and suppliers; execution of the Company's international expansion strategy; changes in laws and regulations; legal claims or other regulatory enforcement actions; product recalls or product liability claims; unanticipated business disruptions; failure to successfully integrate the Company; the Company's ability to complete or realize the benefits from potential and completed acquisitions, alliances, divestitures or joint ventures; economic and political conditions in the nations in which the Company operates; the volatility of capital markets; increased pension, labor and people - related expenses; volatility in the market value of all or a portion of the derivatives that the Company uses; exchange rate fluctuations; disruptions in information technology networks and systems; the Company's inability to protect intellectual property rights; impacts of natural events in the locations in which the Company or its customers, suppliers or regulators operate; the Company's indebtedness and ability to pay such indebtedness; the Company's dividend payments on its Series A Preferred Stock; tax law changes or interpretations; pricing actions; and other factors.
Supporting the development of MSMEs is the key to enhancing trade and investment that will benefit both nations.
Important factors that may affect the Company's business and operations and that may cause actual results to differ materially from those in the forward - looking statements include, but are not limited to, operating in a highly competitive industry; changes in the retail landscape or the loss of key retail customers; the Company's ability to maintain, extend and expand its reputation and brand image; the impacts of the Company's international operations; the Company's ability to leverage its brand value; the Company's ability to predict, identify and interpret changes in consumer preferences and demand; the Company's ability to drive revenue growth in its key product categories, increase its market share, or add products; an impairment of the carrying value of goodwill or other indefinite - lived intangible assets; volatility in commodity, energy and other input costs; changes in the Company's management team or other key personnel; the Company's ability to realize the anticipated benefits from its cost savings initiatives; changes in relationships with significant customers and suppliers; the execution of the Company's international expansion strategy; tax law changes or interpretations; legal claims or other regulatory enforcement actions; product recalls or product liability claims; unanticipated business disruptions; the Company's ability to complete or realize the benefits from potential and completed acquisitions, alliances, divestitures or joint ventures; economic and political conditions in the United States and in various other nations in which we operate; the volatility of capital markets; increased pension, labor and people - related expenses; volatility in the market value of all or a portion of the derivatives we use; exchange rate fluctuations; risks associated with information technology and systems, including service interruptions, misappropriation of data or breaches of security; the Company's ability to protect intellectual property rights; impacts of natural events in the locations in which we or the Company's customers, suppliers or regulators operate; the Company's indebtedness and ability to pay such indebtedness; the Company's ownership structure; the impact of future sales of its common stock in the public markets; the Company's ability to continue to pay a regular dividend; changes in laws and regulations; restatements of the Company's consolidated financial statements; and other factors.
Important factors that may affect the Company's business and operations and that may cause actual results to differ materially from those in the forward - looking statements include, but are not limited to, increased competition; the Company's ability to maintain, extend and expand its reputation and brand image; the Company's ability to differentiate its products from other brands; the consolidation of retail customers; the Company's ability to predict, identify and interpret changes in consumer preferences and demand; the Company's ability to drive revenue growth in its key product categories, increase its market share or add products; an impairment of the carrying value of goodwill or other indefinite - lived intangible assets; volatility in commodity, energy and other input costs; changes in the Company's management team or other key personnel; the Company's inability to realize the anticipated benefits from the Company's cost savings initiatives; changes in relationships with significant customers and suppliers; execution of the Company's international expansion strategy; changes in laws and regulations; legal claims or other regulatory enforcement actions; product recalls or product liability claims; unanticipated business disruptions; failure to successfully integrate the business and operations of the Company in the expected time frame; the Company's ability to complete or realize the benefits from potential and completed acquisitions, alliances, divestitures or joint ventures; economic and political conditions in the nations in which the Company operates; the volatility of capital markets; increased pension, labor and people - related expenses; volatility in the market value of all or a portion of the derivatives that the Company uses; exchange rate fluctuations; risks associated with information technology and systems, including service interruptions, misappropriation of data or breaches of security; the Company's inability to protect intellectual property rights; impacts of natural events in the locations in which the Company or its customers, suppliers or regulators operate; the Company's indebtedness and ability to pay such indebtedness; tax law changes or interpretations; and other factors.
It logged a third week of gains, up by 0.5 %, bolstered by geopolitical tension in the Middle East and concerns about supply disruptions in key oil - producing nations, such as Venezuela.
In July 2004, MOFCOM, one of the two key government departments overseeing China's investment abroad, released the first industry - based guidelines, Guidelines for Investments in Overseas Countries» Industries (No. 1), which cover 67 nations including Canada with highlighted 10 industries encouraging Chinese investments.
The European Central Bank's ultra-low key interest rate, while appropriate for the ailing PIIGS nations, is too low for faster - growing Germany resulting in negative real interest rates and fears of inflation.
The Honourable François - Philippe Champagne, Minister of International Trade, will travel to Singapore from March 22 to 24, 2018, to promote Canada and Singapore's growing bilateral trade and investment relationship, advance discussions with key partners in the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) and attend the Canada - ASEAN Business Council (CABC) Forum.
Critics like University of Victoria professors Rob Gillezeau and Jeffrey Ansloos point, for example, to the Parliamentary Budget Officer's analysis that shows the federal government may not have allocated enough money to fulfill the Liberals» key 2015 election promise to eliminate the gap between federal spending on First Nations students and kids attending provincially funded schools.
«The administration's decision to move forward with the largest offshore lease sale in our nation's history is a key part of that effort.
While the report is right on on religious and ethnic persecution in most Muslim nations, IT's HIGHLY REGRETTABLE THAT PAKISTAN DOES NOT APPEAR IN THE LIST OF WORST OFFENDERS, purely b «coz we BELIEVE Pakistan to be a key ally (ALL - LIE?)
CNN: My Take: The 5 key American statements on war Stephen Prothero, a Boston University religion scholar and author of «The American Bible: How Our Words Unite, Divide, and Define a Nation,» explores five texts that have served as «scripture» of sorts in American public life, each of which contemplate the meaning and ends of war
«Women are routinely excluded from key decisions, which range from family safety to the design of humanitarian aid delivery and post-conflict nation rebuilding; the concerns of women continue to be marginalized.»
They have frequently expressed pride that they have congregations in 184 of the 215 countries and areas officially recognized by the United Nations, and observed that this means the gospel commission is nearing fulfillment, which is a key indication that the Lord will soon return.
The concentration of income at the top is a key reason that the United States, for all its economic achievements, has more poverty and lower life expectancy than any other major advanced nation.
Nonetheless, the key principle was established — that such prayers should reflect the religious diversity of the nation at the time.
Perhaps the key attraction of world - system theory, overall, is that it sensitizes social scientists to the growing global interdependence that now exists among nation - states.
During his two - month, 5,000 - mile survey trip, Townsend met a number of key figures, of which the most important was Mexico's director of rural education, Rafael Ramírez, who opened the way for him to study the nation's educational system.
Its three volumes include more than 300 articles on key individuals (from Abraham, al - Ghazali and Rumi to Malcolm X, Salman Rushdie and Osama bin Laden), empires (such as those of the Mughals and Ottomans), contemporary countries (Algeria, Indonesia, Syria and so on), important doctrines (including those related to abortion, the afterlife, fasting and suicide), and groups and movements often in the headlines (such as Hamas, al - Qaeda and the Nation of Islam).
Veteran analyst of the press (and former presidential press secretary), Bill Moyers, considering a classic moment of media failure, concluded: «The disgraceful press reaction to Colin Powell's presentation at the United Nations [on February 5, 2003] seems like something out of Monty Python, with one key British report cited by Powell being nothing more than a student's thesis, downloaded from the Web — with the student later threatening to charge U.S. officials with «plagiarism.»»
During a recent journey to Japan I discovered that 250 years after his death Bach is now playing a key role in evangelizing that country, one of the most secularized nations in the developed world.
Several of the key conversations in the novel are concerned with the issue of calling, the role of the clergy in the nation, and the contrast between the clergy of London and the clergy in the rest of England.
There are several key players and extreme positions within the movement and the government: Prime Minister Harper, Chief Teresa Spence as an icon of the Idle No More young revolutionaries, drum circles, elders, statesmen, chiefs, passionate youth, and also the brilliant Shawn Atleo as head of the Assembly of First Nations.
(We can talk about the democratic practice of an omnibus bill later, perhaps, because gracious, what a miscarriage of democracy...) So Bill C - 45 is an omnibus bill, attached to our budget currently going through Parliament, with hundreds of provisions included, which (and these are the key ones related to Idle No More) seriously undermine our environmental sustainability as a nation and the sovereign rights of the First Nations still existing within our borders.
Giant pumps can now reverse the flow of rivers and move water uphill to arid land farms that have become key cogs in our nation's not - so - local industrial food system.
«You knew you could only take it so far as, «Let's pray for the nation, let's pray for the turning around of the nation, let's pray that God would raise righteous men into key positions.»
The foundation for the regime was laid down in United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights (adopted on December 10, 1948 by the UN General Assembly) and the two key human rights treaties, the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (in force since January 3, 1976) and the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (in force since March 23, 1976).
(CNN)- Mack Wolford, one of the most famous Pentecostal serpent handlers in Appalachia, was laid to rest Saturday at a low - key service at his West Virginia church a week after succumbing to a snake bite that made headlines across the nation.
A coalition of atheists and secular humanists has placed a billboard on Billy Graham Parkway in Charlotte that displays an American flag with a few key words from the Pledge of Allegiance: «One Nation Indivisible.»
The UK is a nation of snackers according to Snack Foods, a new Market Update from market intelligence provider Key Note, which reports that the snack foods market grew by 29.7 % between 2010 and 2014.
The Rome Office enables direct access to key United Nations (UN) agencies like FAO (the Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN) and IFAD (the International Fund for Agricultural Development).
All eyes were on the cannabis industry this past year — its rapid growth and widespread acceptance amongst consumers and producers in the U.S. legitimized the plant as a key driver of many economies in communities across the nation.
Washington, DC — Trade associations representing the nation's food retailers, food manufacturers and restaurants today launched a series of infographics that represent the key findings of a new analysis, the 2014 Analysis of U.S. Food Waste among Food Manufacturers, Retailers and Restaurants.
Delicato Family Vineyards Decodes the Premium 3 - Liter Box Wine Consumer with 2015 Wine Insights Report: Delicato Family Vineyards, producer of Bota Box, the nation's leading eco-friendly Premium 3 - Liter Box wine, announces the release of a new report revealing key insights into the Premium 3 - Liter Box wine consumer fueling one of the industry's hottest growing categories...
Members of this partnership include the Consumer Goods Forum (of which Nestlé is a key member), the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and the World Resources Institute.
On Monday 16 May, in collaboration with United Nations» International Year of Pulses, Food Matters Live was delighted to welcome key members of the food and drink industry to an industry briefing dedicated to innovation and NPD with pulse fractions.
SB Nation's Jonathan Tjarks put together this detailed preview of Game 5 and asked three good questions that are sure to be keys to this huge game.
As noted by The Mirror last week, Jurgen Klopp has been linked with a raid on his former club for the talented teenager in January, as they look to deal with the loss of Danny Ings to injury while Sadio Mane will be absent for a key period due to the African Cup of Nations.
Pity the poor defender charged with trying to shut down Reggie Bush, the nation's most electric player and the key to USC's goal of a three - peat
J.R. Smith was a key piece of Cleveland's 2016 championship team, but as SB Nation's Cavaliers site Fear the Sword notes, he hasn't been getting it done defensively this season.