Sentences with phrase «officials say the problem»

Some former U.S. officials say the problem is too few U.S. informants on the ground in danger zones such as Pakistan or Yemen.

American officials say the problem is that China's national, provincial and municipal governments are working with state - owned banks to rush the construction of factories, particularly to make memory chips.

Education officials said the problems were being fixed.

Not exact matches

«If you don't know,» says the former official, «you could have a risk problem.»

The demand may prove a bigger problem than potentially increasing the overall North American automotive value content from the current level of 62.5 % for tariff - free shipments of vehicles within the region, which officials say Trump's administration also wants to raise.

Military leaders also want to review how transgender troops are treated, if they're discriminated against or have had disciplinary problems, the officials said.

Officials said Friday that the chiefs believe the extra half - year would give the four military services time to gauge if currently serving transgender troops are facing problems and what necessary changes the military bases might have to make.

Both union officials and NGOs say Unilever seems serious about tackling the problems, which are common in the supply chains of giant corporations producing across the globe.

Military officials complained at the time that the technology interfered with the radar used by planes — a problem that shouldn't hinder Musk's effort, industry officials said.

«This is about putting as much lipstick as possible on the pig in advance of Xi going into Washington where the administration is saying cyber attacks are the problem and the operating environment for U.S. firms is narrowing,» an official told the New York Times last week.

«I think the I.M.F. raising the debt sustainability issue as clearly as they did, the United States making clear that sustainability had to be dealt with, was a helpful contribution to the conversation, because without dealing with some form of debt restructuring, this problem will just come right back,» a senior United States Treasury official said on Thursday, as Treasury Secretary Jack Lew traveled through Europe.

«If you try to fight the rising power's peaceful ascent you sow big problems in the future,» said Fred Bergsten, a former top international affairs official at the U.S. Treasury and currently a fellow at the Peterson Institute in Washington.

Confirming the IMF's position on this from two weeks ago, a senior official said on Tuesday that «a concrete and ambitious solution to Greek debt problem» is a prerequisite to the IMF taking a new programme to its board.

The problem has only gotten worse in the three years since the report was last produced, state officials said.

Whole Foods officials say they are aware of the problem and are trying to fix it, but they add that the ordering system isn't entirely to blame.

Whether Iran would second 6 or 9 - month extension of the plan was another question from the official who said: «Iran has no problem with such extensions and would agree with any decision made by a majority of OPEC members.»

The amount of debt and delinquencies are climbing, and some experts say the official numbers don't even capture how big the problem really is.

«At the official press conference that unveiled Caritas in Veritate, Cardinal Mgr Renato Martino, President of the Pontifical Council of Peace and Justice -LSB-...] said that Cold War ideologies «have been replaced by the new ideology of technology,» and that the «arbitrary nature of technology is one of the greatest problems of today's world.»

Mark Greaves has written an article for this week's Catholic Herald («Bishops insist on uniformity for Masses on Holy Days») in which he quotes «an official» from Ecclesia Deiwho dutifully says of traditionalists «They're obliged to keep to the Holy Days that have been agreed upon» but then goes on to say that there is «no problem» with them also celebrating them during the week.»

Denomination staffers suggest a variety of reasons for the neglect: a tendency to perceive environmental problems as primarily health issues; limited resources; a disinclination to act in an unfamiliar arena («We understand someone who is hungry,» says one official.

When you say that if you don't buy the official AIG understanding of Genesis 1 - 11, that you're not a real Christian... well then we have problems.

The problem of the church's moral and intellectual record was aggravated, in the Roman Catholic context, by the hierarchy's inability to admit to serious error in official policy (infallibility means never having to say you're sorry!).

When I say «never a pen in a million years», I'm mostly speaking to (c), since, whether right or wrong, the way most of us evaluate whether an official has gotten a call right or not is whether it's more or less consistent with how officials typically call similar situations (of course, a further problem is that there's no one answer to the question, «how do officials typically call this kind of situation on the pitch?»

It's a common scene of suburban traffic congestion, but critics of a housing development proposed for construction less than a block away say traffic problems will become much worse if local officials approve the project.

The problem is n`t the caps and gowns, some parents and school officials say.

In the past, Knudson said, he has had a problem selling his project to Orland Park because of the «perception «officials have of Sybaris.

«I talked to the park district officials last year about what I think the problem could be, «Levin said.

A problem with the liquid chlorine used in Chicago Park District swimming pools has forced the district to close many of the facilities temporarily so they can be partly drained, officials said.

Although the village can examine the problem, Christmas said, the park board is independent of the Village Board and village officials can not prevent changes on Park District property.

Both Tookey and officials at the Du Page County Health Department, which monitors the county «s 415 public swimming pools, said they were investigating the cause of the problem.

A DuPage County proposal to spend $ 1.2 million to expand nearby Northside Park's wetland areas to improve the flooding problems was narrowly rejected by the Wheaton Park District board in March 1997, forcing the city to pursue its own land purchases for storm - water storage, city officials said.

School officials said studies have shown that runoff would not be a problem.

Park District officials said they fixed the problem as soon as they were made aware of it.

Barring unforeseen problems with needed approvals, construction could begin next spring on two city harbors that would expand the number of mooring spaces for recreational boaters by about 20 percent and bring in more tourism dollars, Chicago Park District officials say.

«We want to solve some of the problems in Grant Park — pedestrian movement through the park, reduction of the impact of the roadway system, better facilities for staging events and moving things around so we don't impact just one place in Grant Park,» said Edward Uhlir, a former Chicago Park District official who now is an assistant to Daley and director of the Millennium Park project.

As Glen Ellyn public works officials continue dealing with emerald ash borers, the biggest problem now is with residential ash trees, they say.

The mayor said village and district officials have worked out most of the details of the annexation and that he expected no problems with an agreement that must be approved by the Village Board.

Burke and Flores said BPA has been linked to medical problems, but chemical industry officials disputed that assertion in testimony Monday before a joint meeting of the council's Finance and License Committees.

USDA officials said they did not see a problem making the temporary changes to help with implementation because the limits on meats and grains and the limits on the calories in lunches are somewhat redundant, as both address portion size.

But child nutrition and hunger problems spike in July, officials say, when there's a lull in the delivery of social services.

Chicago Park District officials, who are preparing the city «s beaches for their official opening Friday, say this spring has brought the worst alewife problem in four years.

A study by the Pew Charitable Trusts» Kids» Safe and Healthful Foods Project, also expected to be released Monday, said that 91 percent of school food officials the group surveyed said they face challenges in putting the standards in place, including problems with food costs and availability, training employees to follow the new guidelines, and a lack of the proper equipment to cook healthier meals.

Downing Street said the pair had reached an understanding on the problems facing Pakistan during official talks held on Friday, but analysts believe the last few weeks have seen Britain's relationship with Pakistan get worse rather than better.

U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions is scheduled to discuss Long Island's gang violence problem Friday during a visit to Central Islip, officials said.

«Unfortunately, many of our elected officials seem intent on proposing legislation as a form of protest, or to win political points in a game of partisan ping pong, rather than listening to their constituents and coming up with ideas that would help to solve real problems for the people they serve,» he said.

Just months before NYCHA's problem - plagued heating systems suffered from periodic outages amid a sub-freezing cold snap, the agency lost roughly 100 boiler repairmen, officials said.

A Buffalo Public Schools official says that the district wants to respond to the city's serious lead poisoning problem with a sense of urgency.

Williams said Howe was an able hand at what he called Albany's «magic phone call game» — where insiders can fix problems with one call to government officials.

The more people involved in fixing the homeless issue the better, says the city official tasked with solving the problem.

Cuomo, however, says he remains open to negotiating the bill even after hearing problems raised from both the State Police and officials in the state Department of Health.