Sentences with phrase «on national governments»

Such global action, however, depends on national governments, whose first responsibility is to their own people and well - being.

The agency relies on national governments to estimate all of their catch except discards, and many nations don't have the interest or capacity to tally landings from artisanal, subsistence, and recreational fisheries.

«We hope to get initiatives like this all over the subcontinent, and they could all join together, and that would put pressure on the national governments to make the drug bans more effective,» says Chris Bowden, the Bangaluru, India — based program manager for Saving Asia's Vultures from Extinction, a consortium of conservation groups and government agencies.

However, much more of the burden for improving Europe's growth prospects looks to be falling on national governments.

Much more of the burden for improving Europe's growth prospects looks to be falling on national governments.

Furthermore, the spending requirements placed on a national government are far more extensive than those faced by a state legislature.

Professor of Political Science at Cardiff University, Roger Scully, said people treat European elections to a large extent as «opinion polls on the national government of the day, or as an opportunity for an anti-EU protest vote».

Even though the primary responsibility for implementing treaties falls on the national government, every organisation within the nation must refrain from breaching the provisions of the two main human rights treaties (art 5 (1) of ICESCR and ICCPR both state «Nothing in the present Covenant may be interpreted as implying for any..

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The answer depends on whether you think the federal government can play a catalytic role in forcing local authorities to confront national issues.

Trained as a petroleum landman — an agent who bids on government - issued leases on producers» behalf — Orman, 67, was consulting in Calgary when the National Energy Program was introduced.

«I've had the opportunity to consult with the senior officials of the security and police agencies of the government of Canada, and on the basis of all available information at the present time there would appear to be no national security connection to this particular incident,» Goodale said.

The IMF, Royal Bank, and National Bank are three of the non-partisan voices that have called on the Trudeau government to put in writing its verbal commitment to contain debt at current levels.

Two prominent Perth businesswomen have moved on to new government roles, with Heather Zampatti named the new chair for Lotterywest, while Libby Lyons has become a director of the national Workplace Gender Equality Agency.

Carr says the Liberals are returning to «co-operative federalism» and a hands - on approach: «It's not possible to consider major national projects and a nation building policy if you don't have all levels of governments talking to each other.»

CAMBODIA: Riot police watched carefully as more than 1,000 garment workers defied a government ban on marching to deliver a petition to the National Assembly in Phnom Penh, demanding a higher minimum wage and more freedom of assembly.

The African nation of Zambia, for instance, has only enough food available to provide its population with 1,870 calories on average, per day, according to a striking global map in the October issue of National Geographic — and in truth, in much of the world, such calorie counts offer an inflated view of what's actually accessible to most citizens, due to widespread poverty, civil unrest, natural disasters, corruption, government mismanagement, food - distribution failures, and other issues.

The hearing, set for Tuesday, is the latest development in a showdown between Apple and the U.S. government that has become a lightning rod in the national debate over digital privacy and what kind of data on phones and personal devices should be accessible by law enforcement.

«We believe AI technology will become a priority on the government's agenda, and we expect further national / regional policy and funding support on AI to follow,» the bank said in a report titled «China's Rise in Artificial Intelligence.»

According to Catalonian authorities, 90 percent of people voted in favor of independence on Sunday, but the national government said the referendum was illegal.

If Trump's past comments about a ban on Muslims don't weigh heavily on the judges» perceptions of his motivations, the speed with which the order was drafted and rolled out — largely bypassing the government's traditional national - security apparatus — and the extent to which it has been altered since may give courts reason enough to wonder whether an «ulterior motive» was at play, Stock said.

Earlier this year, May's government was forced into a U-turn when it dropped a plan to increase national insurance contributions on self - employed workers after Conservative lawmakers protested that it broke the 2015 pledge.

Based on data investigators have been accumulating, it's likely a «non-state actor» rather than a particular government group carried out the hacking, according to a Wall Street Journal article quoting Director of National Intelligence James R. Clapper's comments on Tuesday in New York at the Council on Foreign Relations.

Canning MHR Don Randall says residential estates and businesses in his electorate are missing out on communications infrastructure and may not receive it for up to eight years as the Gillard government presses ahead with the national broadband network.

Similar criticisms were levied at the U.S. government in the 1940s, when the debate was over whether billions should be spent on building a national interstate highway system.

I'm sure many of us are hoping that the sooner Governments release the grip on services and utilities, and stop hiding behind the «national security» banner, we might actually start seeing some of the world's most intelligent companies being allowed to do what they do best, innovate.

And should National Front leader Marine Le Pen be elected president in France and call a referendum on EU membership, then «her government will become Merkel's antagonist.»

«These investments are having a detrimental effect on our political stability and worsening the relationship between our federal government and the regions,» said former deputy national security adviser Hussein Sheikh - Ali.

The ORPP was billed Thursday as a mandatory plan that will be modelled on the CPP and could be absorbed into the national program if the federal government agreed to a CPP enhancement in the future.

The pro-independence Scottish government says Scotland would be entitled to 90 per cent of Britain's oil wealth — based on divvying up the two countries» waters — but only liable for about 8 per cent of its 1.3 trillion pound ($ 2.1 trillion) national debt, based on its share of the U.K. population.

The Job Bank doesn't provide the flexibility of a Monster.com, however, and bases position titles on National Occupation Classification (NOC) codes, a system used by the federal government to categorize jobs.

«The government shutdown will have an impact on real estate transactions should it continue for an extended period of time,» said Elizabeth Mendenhall, president of the National Association of Realtors, in a statement to CNBC.

After World War II, Taiwan's government resumed the administration of the University, reorganizing and renaming it National Taiwan University on November 15, 1945.

The bill's main objective — capping future government spending on healthcare at rates that won't gobble up a bigger and bigger share of national income, as well as leaving more resources for investment and entrepreneurship — is exactly what government needs to do.

The federal government has raised the National Terrorism Public Alert level from medium to high based on advice from security and intelligence agencies, but says it was not based on knowledge of a specific attack plan.

«Instead of a watch list limited to actual, known terrorists, the government has built a vast system based on the unproven and flawed premise that it can predict if a person will commit a terrorist act in the future,» Hina Shamsi, the head of the ACLU's National Security Project, told The Intercept.

«The risk that the Russian government, whether acting on its own or in collaboration with Kaspersky, could capitalize on access provided by Kaspersky products to compromise federal information and information systems directly implicates U.S. national security.»

The regional legislature voted on October 14 to oppose the deal, which means Belgium's national government can not approve it either.

Cook wrote that the government should drop the legal request and instead «form a commission or other panel of experts on intelligence, technology, and civil liberties, to discuss the implications for law enforcement, national security, privacy, and personal freedom.»

In 2005, the government's National Research Council of Canada published a paper on how to make the cubicle a better workspace.

The development could bring an abrupt end to the high - stakes legal showdown which has become a lightning rod for a broader debate on data privacy in the United States, which was inflamed by revelations in 2013 from former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden about the U.S. government's massive surveillance programs.

Some of the top former national security officials say the U.S. government can try other tacks to fight criminals on the Internet.

It has prompted renewed calls from Scottish nationalists for a vote on independence, and members of the Scottish, Welsh and Northern Irish governments have complained the national government has not involved them enough its Brexit negotiation preparations.

And Mueller is probing a 2016 meeting in Trump Tower between the president's son, son - in - law, top campaign aides and Russian nationals promising damaging information on Clinton from the Russian government.

Only governments can provide public goods and address social challenges on a national scale.

On March 7, after being fired as National Security Adviser, Flynn belatedly filed a FARA disclosure that revealed that, through his firm, Flynn Intel Group, he had worked in 2016 on behalf of Inovo BV, a firm based in Netherlands and owned by a Turkish businessman with links to the Turkish governmenOn March 7, after being fired as National Security Adviser, Flynn belatedly filed a FARA disclosure that revealed that, through his firm, Flynn Intel Group, he had worked in 2016 on behalf of Inovo BV, a firm based in Netherlands and owned by a Turkish businessman with links to the Turkish governmenon behalf of Inovo BV, a firm based in Netherlands and owned by a Turkish businessman with links to the Turkish government.

Indeed, there was something magical about the time, where a mix of national pride and a shame over Soviet advances led us to cheer on a government program that led us to dominate the USSR in the dome of heaven itself.

At a Senate hearing on Nov. 28, Christopher Ford, the National Security Council's senior director for weapons of mass destruction and counterproliferation, disclosed that the U.S. is discussing the issue with the Saudi government.

Britain's National Audit Office warned of risks in the sector in 2013, highlighting a government focus on what it called «short - term savings».

The British government concluded earlier this week that it was «highly likely» the attack was ordered by the Russian government and, in retaliation, it expelled 23 Russian diplomats and imposed additional penalties on some Russian nationals living in the UK.

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.»