Sentences with phrase «on government efforts»

The Committee, who have been investigating behaviour change since July, have so far focused on Government efforts to promote healthy eating and reduce obesity.

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Previously, Caruso - Cabrera has done extensive reporting on Mexico's efforts to modernize PEMEX and has interviewed dozens of Mexican business executives, CEOs and government officials.

NEW DELHI, May 2 - India's cabinet on Wednesday approved a proposal to help sugar mills by paying the cane farmers that supply them a subsidy for their produce, a government source said, as part of efforts to help a sector struggling with a glut.

To J. Maurice, who helped found WizSec but left the company early on and was not involved in the investigation, Nilsson's effort epitomizes the virtues of Bitcoin — a decentralized system free of government control, which relies instead on individual users to sustain it.

«With limited resources and budget deficits across the country, governments must refocus their efforts and spending on key priorities.

Lane kept up that effort, saying that governments must put a greater emphasis on retraining and lifelong learning or risk a public backlash against the merits of freer trade.

The Fraser Institute is calling on the federal government to further tighten Old Age Security eligibility rules in an effort to «to better target lower and middle - income seniors.»

The government focussed on eliminating measures in an effort to level the playing field between incorporated small businesses on the one hand and unincorporated businesses and salaried employees on the other.

That traction results from a concerted effort Amazon management over the past four or five years to convince businesses in the financial services, healthcare, and government that running on shared public cloud infrastructure meets their security and other requirements.

New age increases have been proposed in the federal government's continuing effort to keep the retirement system on sound economic footing.

Signs on building throughout New York City are all that's left of a widespread government effort to shelter millions of people from the fallout of a nuclear attack.

Its European creditors decided on Wednesday to suspend the implementation of short - term debt relief measures after the Greek government announced additional spending on pensions - an action that European partners deemed as «unilateral» and disrespecting the efforts agreed under the country's 86 billion euro ($ 89.75 billion) bailout program.

Their efforts were complicated on Thursday by a Congressional Budget Office report that said the Senate proposal would cut spending on government Medicaid for the poor by 35 % come 2036.

«We can watch very focused efforts to steal American information, to infiltrate the United States with spies — with people who are going to work on behalf of the Chinese government against America,» Pompeo said in an interview.

He is also planning to remain the voice of Starbucks» social impact efforts, like when he asked his employees to write «Come Together» on cups during the government shutdown in 2011 or his decision to offer full - and part - time employees tuition for a college education.

Sanger - Katz lays out eight questions that are on a lot of folks» minds after President Trump's latest efforts to undercut the Affordable Care Act — an executive order Thursday morning, followed by an announcement last evening that the government would stop making certain ACA - related payments to insurers — and answers them.

Carillion on Monday announced that it would go into compulsory liquidation after the British construction giant's last - ditch efforts to broker a deal with the U.K. government and its lenders failed over the weekend.

The federal government will spend $ 8.5 million to change the traffic lines on all Mitchell and Kwinana freeway on - ramps in an effort to improve traffic merging and remove the stigma widely associated with Perth drivers.

The Foundation will continue to aid PJT partners and the government in their investigations, including on efforts to be made whole on the Foundation's investment for the benefit of important conservation efforts.

«Based upon his extensive business dealings with the Putin government and his previous opposition of efforts to impose sanctions on the Russian government, there are many questions which must be answered.

If these efforts at refunds are tried, a) there will be public outrage and heat on the government, and b) others will sue.

But S.Y. Lee, a spokesman for the DHS, told Fortune that the government agency coordinates «national efforts to strengthen the security and resilience of critical infrastructure, working with our federal and industry partners across the country to raise awareness about evolving threats and promote measures to reduce risks to systems we all rely on.»

A recent survey of Mexicans also found that 52 % thought the government should stop commenting on the situation in Venezuela, while just 37 % supported the effort.

Trump on Monday railed against the recent string of attacks in Afghanistan, and ruled out any US discussions with the Taliban as part of the effort to seek peace talks between the Afghan government and the insurgents.

In Hoey's opinion, the federal government's efforts amount to little in trying to entice a foreign company to enter Canada's wireless market, mainly because a cap on foreign involvement still exists in the form of a 10 per cent limit on the market share of any wireless entity with international financial backing.

The federal government has increased pressure on the private sector to fight the war on drugs, just as public support for the effort has reached a low.

Speaking at the Dealbook conference aired on CNBC, Diller chided the government's efforts to put the squeeze on the largest U.S. bank.

The Federal Emergency Management Agency holds a press conference to discuss the latest information on the government's rescue and recovery efforts in the wake of Hurricane Harvey.

Governments have made efforts to improve accountability by requiring lobbyists to register their activity and making campaign contributions public, predicated on the idea that transparency will reduce the risk of undue influence.

But formalized corporate governance is designed to be executed by boards, investors, and government on behalf of the public good, and the active efforts of all three are required.

My colleagues at the McKinsey Global Institute, our firm's business and economics research arm, have analyzed previous downturns and found that when individuals and governments focus on paying down debt, these efforts curb economic growth for three to five years.

Lynch leaves office following a nearly two - year tenure marked by massacres carried out by violent extremists, including the shootings at a nightclub in Orlando, Florida; persistent hacking from overseas, including Russian government efforts to meddle in the U.S. presidential election; and an election - season investigation into Hillary Clinton's email server that entangled the Justice Department in presidential politics and led to criticism for her ill - timed meeting on an airport tarmac with former President Bill Clinton.

Tang said the wealth gap was actually widening at a slower pace compared with a rise of 0.004 between 2006 and 2011, thanks to the government's increased efforts to help the impoverished, including an increase of over 40 per cent in welfare spending on public housing and medical benefits for the poor.

Kushner, who had a broad portfolio in the White House, including leading Middle East peace negotiations and an effort to modernize and reduce the size of some government programs, lost his interim top - secret security clearance, two U.S. officials familiar with the matter said on Tuesday.

The Real Estate Board of Greater Vancouver released the data a month after the British Columbia government implemented a 15 - per - cent tax on foreign buyers in Metro Vancouver in an effort to chill one of the hottest markets in North America.

CNBC's Hampton Pearson reports on the lawsuit filed by the U.S. government in an effort to block AT&T's $ 85 billion acquisition of Time Warner.

The House's move is part of a broader GOP agenda - such as the effort to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act - to reduce the size and influence of the federal government on everyday life.

On the corporate side, recent improvements are supported by the government's continued efforts to ramp up capital expenditures.

The 1MDB case has become a signature campaign in the global effort by prosecutors to crack down on kleptocracy and the relative ease with which the superwealthy move their money beyond the oversight of government authorities.

On the broadest social level, the ostensible «free market» lobbying effort sponsored by banks to shift the property tax onto labor and industry has become a campaign against government itself.

These steps include: efforts to simplify prospectus requirements for retail vanilla bonds and ease the personal liability of company directors; improving market transparency through the RBA's publication of new measures of corporate bond yields; the lengthening of the government bond curve; and the listing of certain fixed - income securities on the Australian Securities Exchange.

RIYADH (Reuters)- Saudi Arabia's banks are preparing for muted lending growth this year, providing a reality check on the state of the country's economy and government efforts to stimulate growth.

The Honest Ads Act would require social media companies to disclose what groups are running political advertisements and make «reasonable efforts» to ensure foreign governments and agents aren't purchasing ads on their platforms.

We do not know at this point what the new Quebec government's intentions are with the VRSP concept but we hope they will move forward as it was on the leading edge of efforts in this regard.

Google security executives were suspicious that outside parties, like governments, could tap into the cables, but did not have hard evidence that the spying was occurring, according to three people briefed on Google's security efforts who spoke on condition of anonymity.

Google (GOOG) has set up a web page with a search function for missing persons, as well as links to official government information on the disaster and the relief effort.

In more recent years, our advocacy efforts have also focused on regional issues, from our very public role in the 2015 transit and transportation plebiscite, to our work around Metro Vancouver's proposed Bylaw 280 and regional waste management, our longstanding calls for a mobile business licence program across Greater Vancouver, and our advocacy at all levels of government to invest in roads, bridges, and Pacific Gateway trade infrastructure across the region.

Taobao is the e-commerce (and around Taobao, recently more effort is spent on its own SNS, open platform etc); Alipay solves the online payment; Koubei (Yelp - like service) is building an active online community; Aliwangwang, the Instant Messenger helps you to communicate with the seller, the customers and friends; Alisoft is the SaaS platform, and strong partnership with third parties and the government help on the logistics, setting up offline stores, branding etc..

We are pleased to see the Provincial Government making a concerted effort to improve B.C.'s tax competitiveness and embrace the recommendations of the independent Commission on Tax Competitiveness.

Now, as Wall Street executives come under pressure from shareholders for their mounting subprime - related losses, Mr. Steel's mix of a Goldman pedigree and years in the thick of the government's effort to grapple with the housing crisis has made him a short - list regular on investment bank board committees looking for new leadership.