Sentences with phrase «on national measures»

A national score is calculated based on national measures of the three metrics.

Massachusetts has not yet released its list of schools making AYP, but in 2010, 57 percent did not, even though Massachusetts students score at the top on national measures of student achievement.

Not exact matches

Authors Mark Rovere and Brett J. Skinner found that although Canada is one of the biggest spenders on national health care within the 27 - member Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), it nevertheless ranked below average on most of the indicators measuring availability of medical resources and services.

He then gave a passionate victory speech that sketched out a stronger global role for France and promised to waste no time making the national economy a much more business - friendlyplace, with controversial labour - market, pension, education and constitutional reforms, not to mention tougher measures on crime and immigration.

Bumble is also making a $ 100,000 donation to March For Our Lives, a national rally on March 24 organized by the Parkland shooting survivors demanding increased gun control and school safety measures.

WASHINGTON (AP)-- The White House threatened on Tuesday to veto emergency House legislation that aims to avert a threatened national default, a pre-emptive strike issued as Republican Speaker John Boehner labored to line up enough votes in his own party to pass the measure.

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.»

That information — augmented by advocacy efforts from such Addyi supporters as the National Organization for Women and National Consumers League — turned the tide, and the FDA's joint meeting of the Bone, Reproductive and Urologic Drugs Advisory Committee voted 18 to 6 to support approval for HSDD treatment, contingent on Sprout consenting to risk - mitigation measures like warnings and restrictions to prevent misuse.

Gold bugs like Sprott have long warned about the impact of inflation, central bank policy measures and government spending on the value of fiat national currencies.

We scored all 50 states on 43 measures of competitiveness developed with input from business groups including the National Association of Manufacturers and the Council on Competitiveness.

The EU should be fully and permanently exempted from these measures, as they can not be justified on the grounds of national security,» the European Commission, the executive arm of the EU, said in a statement Tuesday morning.

The National Institutes of Health also studied outdoor exercise, comparing it to indoor exercise, finding, according to The New York Times, that subjects scored «higher on measures of vitality, enthusiasm, pleasure and self - esteem and lower on tension, depression and fatigue after they walked outside.»

Following the publication of an important National Academy of Sciences (NAS) report on poverty measurement in 1995, [40] the Census Bureau has explored a number of experimental measures reflecting NAS recommendations.

This is different than national link building, where it's supremely important to build links only on sites that are highly relevant to your industry, with a measure of authority.

«Building on Ottawa's earlier commitments to set a national carbon price, establish a clean fuel standard and to phase out traditional coal power, these measures will help Canada make the transition from fossil fuels to clean energy.

President Trump on Monday blocked Broadcom's $ 117 billion bid for the chip maker Qualcomm, citing national security concerns and sending a clear signal that he was willing to take extraordinary measures to promote his administration's increasingly protectionist stance.

«The E.U. should be fully and permanently exempted from these measures, as they can not be justified on the grounds of national security.»

Focused on public - private partnerships and how we measure their levels of success, the briefing hosted a national gathering of informal STEM experts with on - the - ground knowledge and expertise, as well as professionals who have been examining the national trends and levels of success of informal STEM programs for students.

The General Social Survey supplement measuring of broad - based employee stock ownership, profit sharing, and stock options is conducted by the National Opinion Research Center at the University of Chicago on contract with the Employee Ownership Foundation.

Using penumbral imaging to measure micrometer size plasma hot spots in Gbar equation of state experiments on the National Ignition Facility

Although unilateral restrictions on imports are prohibited by the World Trade Organization, measures in the name of national security are an exception.

In addition to asking a court to mandate that Uber implement fingerprint background checks — a measure the company has vehemently opposed — the plaintiffs are asking a judge to order Uber to perform national criminal background checks on its drivers every six months, and to bar registered sex offenders or people with rape or assault convictions from driving for Uber no matter how long ago it was, along with other measures.

Stéfane Marion, who is Arseneau's boss at National Bank, says the more reliable measure of wages is found in StatsCan's quarterly reports on gross domestic product, which rely on hard numbers rather than interviews over the phone.

U.S. Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross on Friday recommended that Trump impose measures against foreign suppliers of the metals in the name of national security, the latest sign of a tougher stance on trade by the administration.

The Best Employers in Canada study measures the level of employee engagement at participating organizations and is based on results from a national survey conducted by Aon Hewitt, in association with the Queen's Centre for Business Venturing at the Queen's University School of Business.

Along with the deterioration we continue to observe in the order surplus as measured by regional and national Fed and purchasing managers surveys, actual industrial production and the value of new orders in manufacturing have contracted on a year - over-year basis.

The measures come on top of proposed legislation in Congress to expand the authority of the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States, which reviews foreign deals for national security concerns.

Despite making fiscal changes to reduce the national budget's dependence on oil revenues, he may push for new measures to improve his chances in the country's 2018 presidential elections.

The headline on the Chicago National Activity Index (CFNAI) a composite measure that closely tracks real U.S. GDP — thus it is a coincident economic indicator — came in at -0.46 (consensus was 0.00) and the prior monthly reading was at -0.25.

On trade policy, he wanted tougher measures against China but faced opposition from National Economic Council director Gary Cohn, the former Goldman Sachs COO.

Numerical quotas are generally inconsistent with the requirements of Article XI of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade of 1947 (GATT), and so the United States may need to defend such measures under the national security exception under Article XXI of GATT.

More substantively, while on national security measures the United States and Israel have a complicated relationship that would make cross-pollination hard to imagine — don't expect to see a former Mossad chief to be in the running to head the CIA — economic policy really is different.

Other official labour cost data based on wage - bill measures, such as average weekly ordinary time earnings and average earnings from the national accounts, paint a similar picture, identifying firm wage outcomes but giving little indication of an acceleration of aggregate wages growth.

Although interpretation of earnings data remains difficult, due to methodological differences in the construction of the various measures (for details see Box A, Statement on Monetary Policy, February 2002), the rebound is evident in both national accounts and financial reporting - based estimates.

In a statement issued on June 29, Esma said it was discussing proposals that consider «a number of measures that have been adopted or publicly consulted on by EU national competent authorities».

Jerry Johnson, president of the National Religious Broadcasters, said on Twitter that Trump's plan was «sound,» advocating that the goverment limit immigration as a protective measure while the church continue to minister to refugees.

But because of the relationship between permissible expression in national discourse, and in the subnational discourse that takes place among blacks, a broadening of debate in the black community may encourage white politicians and intellectuals to speak, and think, with a greater measure of candor on this issue.

The House Judiciary Committee is scheduled to vote Thursday on a measure to reaffirm «In God We Trust» as the national motto and to encourage its display on public buildings, including schools.

Although billions of dollars are being expended annually on family planning services in less - developed countries, and such programs have been promoted by various governments at the national level for four decades, there are only a few studies that have attempted to measure the demographic and health impact of family planning against a «control group» — a similar area which lacks the service.

«Nationalism shows its character as a faith whenever national welfare or survival is regarded as the supreme end of life; whenever right and wrong are made dependent on the sovereign will of the nation, however determined; whenever religion and science, education and art, are valued by the measure of their contribution to national existence.»

Here considerations of national security or public interest have an import on regulatory measures.

The usual measure for this, on a national basis, has been per capita Gross National national basis, has been per capita Gross National National Product.

Even though Fascism remained ideologically eclectic and chaotic — Gentile's systematizations never had any organic connection with the movement — and in large measure it was simply the acting out on the national stage of some of the less pleasant aspects of the Italian underculture — the band of thugs tied to their leader in bonds of personal loyalty — it did develop an ideological style and became once in power, a church, as Jemolo describes it:

It is defined in Article 2 of the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide (CPPCG) as «any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such: killing members of the group; causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group; deliberately inflicting on the groups conditions of life, calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part; imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group; [and] forcibly transferring children of the group to another group.»

Mr Trump, who frequently boasts about his support for the National Rifle Association, made no mention of gun violence or any new measure to restrict access to firearms during remarks on Thursday about the shooting.

Toine Timmermans, Project Coordinator for EU - FUSIONS: «Measuring the level of food waste in a structured way is critical for developing effective strategies that focus on reducing food waste and monitoring progress at the business, national and EU level, as well as contributing to the achievement of SDG Target 12.3.

Even if measures supported by the best available evidence (such as traffic light labelling on the front - of - food packaging and removing advertising junk food to children between 6 am and 9 pm as recommended in the Government's response to the National Preventative Health Taskforce) are implemented, regulation is no panacea.

National policies should be created to incentivize producers to change the way they manage their farming systems and adopt natural water retention measures used in organic agriculture such as green cover and intercropping as well as diversifying farmers» crop and income base so they have something to fall back on when drought strikes.

On Wednesday, Liberal MP Dan Tehan stepped up pressure for restrictions governing the level of foreign ownership for national carrier Qantas to be lifted, a measure Mr Abbott supports over the government buying a stake in Qantas.

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