Sentences with phrase «on particular agencies»

«It would be easy for the present crisis to be blamed on particular agencies: governments, peak bodies, manufacturers, or the farmers themselves.

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The government of Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau introduced the Foreign Investment Review Act (FIRA) in 1973, forming a federal agency to advise on the respective benefits and hazards of particular transactions.

«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 spokesperson said the agency can't comment on open investigations or particular travelers, but that it «firmly denies any accusations of racially profiling travelers based on nationality, race, sex, religion, faith, or spiritual beliefs.»

He was the Prime Minister's Security Adviser at No10 from 2007 - 10, with a particular focus on Islamist terrorism, and was responsible in the Cabinet Office for the coordination and funding of the UK agencies, MI5, GCHQ and SIS.

In other cases, it may make more sense to create targeted summaries for certain stakeholders (for example, busy executives, or external agencies), based on how your content marketing strategy will impact their particular roles, processes, and objectives.

While the agency is focused on making sure kids don't have easy access to any e-cigs, the Juul vaporizer seems to be of particular concern to them.

Securities ratings provided by independent nationally recognized statistical organizations, also called Ratings Agencies, are appraisals of the financial stability of a particular issuer and its ability to pay income and return principal on your investment.

This promise has unnerved Goldman Sachs and, in particular, Moody's, a global agency, which provides international financial research on bonds issued by commercial and government entities.

The lawsuits I saw on the site you linked me to all seemed to relate to situations where government agencies were explicitly or implicitly holding up one particular religion over another.

I was reminded of this with particular poignancy a few days ago, when I read that the Japan Science and Technology Agency had awarded a grant of $ 3.4 million to a group of Japanese and American researchers in «evolutionary science and technology» for a project to be conducted at Monash University, the ultimate aim of which is to determine — based on models provided by Integrated Information Theory (IIT)-- whether it is possible to create «artificial consciousness.»

The form of argument in this presentation has emphasized several specific points: first, that the Asian values argument, as a challenge to the implementation of constitutional democracy, is exaggerated and fails to account for the richness of values discourse in the East Asian region - local values do not provide a justification for harsh authoritarian practices; second, that the cultural prerequisites arguments fail because they ignore the discursive processes for value development and they are tautological, excessively deterministic and ignore the importance of human agency it, therefore, makes little sense to take an entry test for constitutional democracy; third, the difficulties of importing Western communitarian ideas into an East Asian authoritarian environment without adequate liberal constitutional safeguards; fourth, the positive role of constitutionalism in constructing empowering conversations in modern democratic development and as a venue for values discourse; fifth, the importance, especially in a cross-cultural context, of indigenization of constitutionalism through local institutional embodiment; and sixth, the value of extending research focused on the positive engendering or enabling function of constitutionalism to the developmental context in general and East Asia in particular.

Forum 18, a Norway - based news agency monitoring religious freedom with a particular eye on the former Soviet Union, says Burns is right in saying the government won't stop with this group.

GMP produced: Good Manufacturing Practices per FDA Guidance Documents which are formal documents representing the Agency's current thinking on a particular subject.

The surrogate agency will provide counsel to the intended parents about whether they recommend a particular clinic and communicating with the clinic on their behalf.

Pro-choice agencies that support a woman's right to choice and access to all options - while it is not essential for the potential birth - or adoptive parents to subscribe to a particular value around abortion, it is absolutely essential that the agencies working with pregnant women and their loved ones not be in a position of coercion based on disapproval of abortion.

An advertiser on Washington Post web properties, for instance, can aim ads at employees of particular federal agencies, showing them only to readers coming from the selected.

Imagine hitting employees of a particular federal agency on every website that they commonly read and on the email newsletters to which they usually subscribe.

A Labour administration would focus on three things to help ease pressure on public services and wages including better enforcement of the minimum wage, cracking down on recruitment agencies who only supplied workers from particular countries and looking at areas and types of jobs where there were large numbers of foreign workers.

Governments to provide additional funding to disabled people's organisations and advice agencies, to increase the supply of independent advice and information regarding housing options, including adaptations, with a particular focus on the private - rented sector.

In particular, the report found, the agency paid $ 4.6 million to a Western New York landfill, Seneca Meadows, and another $ 3.1 million on fuel for private contractors to haul waste 236 miles to the site without looking for a closer or cheaper disposal facility.

On behalf of Governor Cuomo, I want to thank SHNNY and its members for working so successfully with New York State, in particular with the Office of Mental Health, OTDA, DOH and of course my agency, Homes and Community Renewal.

In particular, we requested the federal government to embark on the recovery of the revenue of $ 42 billion withheld from the Federation Account from 1999 - 2012 by some transnational oil companies, the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation and other agencies of the federal government.

In particular, we urge the security agencies to invite Dr. Mahamadu Bawumia for questioning on the basis that he engaged in falsification and fabrication of public records to deceive public officials.

«There's some discretion to the agency itself on which lands, if any lands, they would like to lease for that particular use,» Abbey said in an interview yesterday.

In particular, the researchers want the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) to reinstate face - to - face meetings of peer review panels, which the agency has ended in favor of an on - line system for evaluating grant proposals.

Because the FDA does not have the resources to oversee all the LDTs that have come to market in recent years, the agency plans to divide them into three categories, based on the likelihood that a misleading or incorrect result from a particular test could cause substantial harm.

To determine the level of a particular pollutant in drinking water — which the EPA does before making a regulatory ruling on it — the agency relies on analytic testing methods so insensitive that they can not identify the contaminants at levels expected to cause health effects.

But the main focus of a program officer, whether for NIH or some other foundation or government agency, is on developing the scientific workforce in a particular area of science.

In particular, the results of scientific research on nature reserves run by the agency are «held by individual site managers» and not passed on to others.

In particular, as a fellow from 1998 - 2000, he organized and attended meetings, helped write parts of agency documents, and gave science and policy advice on air quality issues and on international activities of the EPA.

The program continues to scan progress once public heath agencies declare an outbreak or epidemic to keep both researchers and consumersin the loop and on top of the latest news about any particular event.

Q: On the reauthorization front, are there other particular programs, such as the Department of Energy's Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy (ARPA - E), that would be a priority for you?

The White House could also signal support for controversial policy riders that would bar agencies from spending money on enforcing particular regulations, including environmental rules.

About Blog A well intentioned rant about the current state of Advertising, with particular emphasis on Big Dumb Agencies (BDA's) Because, no matter how bad you think it is, it's actually a great deal worse!

Empowerment on a group level e.g. women organizing around a particular need is likely to have effect on the individual empowerment of the women in the form of increased self esteem and sense of agency (2).

The ESSA also requires that, if students fall behind in meeting these standards, States and local educational agencies (LEAs) implement evidence - based interventions to help them and their schools improve, with a particular focus on the lowest - performing schools, high schools with low graduation rates, and schools in which subgroups of students are underperforming.

While some pursue mainstream accreditation through the major agencies, others seek approval from smaller associations focused on a particular educational approach, such as Christian or Montessori schools.

Initially, he says parents react with frustration and anger when an authorizing agency pulls the plug on a particular school.

The NAE has found that free schools have higher results on average than municipal (state) schools, but the agency says a significant factor for parents who opt for free schools is «choosing a particular desirable social context».

Chapter 3 focuses on federal accountability, Chapter 4 on state accountability, Chapter 5 on accrediting agencies, Chapter 6 on private - sector endeavors (with a particular focus on college rankings and ratings), and Chapter 7 on efforts by students, faculty, and staff to change institutional priorities.

To begin with, for all its faults, No Child Left Behind had at least one redeeming characteristic: it required state and local education agencies to report on the progress of particular pupil groups that heretofore had been essentially ignored — at least from the standpoint of academic achievement.

FAA Authority regarding Noise: While the FAA has the authority to alter flight procedures based on noise, the Agency historically has not exercised that authority to prohibit aircraft flights over a particular area unless the operation is unsafe, or the aircraft is operated in a manner inconsistent with FAA regulations.

(e) Notwithstanding any other provision of this title, (1) it shall not be an unlawful employment practice for an employer to hire and employ employees, for an employment agency to classify, or refer for employment any individual, for a labor organization to classify its membership or to classify or refer for employment any individual, or for an employer, labor organization, or joint labor - management committee controlling apprenticeship or other training or retraining programs to admit or employ any individual in any such program, on the basis of his religion, sex, or national origin in those certain instances where religion, sex, or national origin is a bona fide occupational qualification reasonably necessary to the normal operation of that particular business or enterprise, and (2) it shall not be an unlawful employment practice for a school, college, university, or other educational institution or institution of learning to hire and employ employees of a particular religion if such school, college, university, or other educational institution or institution of learning is, in whole or in substantial part, owned, supported, controlled, or managed by a particular religion or by a particular religious corporation, association, or society, or if the curriculum of such school, college, university, or other educational institution or institution of learning is directed toward the propagation of a particular religion.

While the number of commenters who support or oppose a particular proposal is important information, the agency's decision can not be based on as simple tally of «votes.»

I have a lot of information from writers, most of which is in private correspondence, none of which I can share, that leads me to believe that this particular agency isn't the only one that used my blog on royalty statements to benefit their bestsellers and hurt their midlist writers.

A retail price «most - favoured - nation» (MFN) clause means that a contracting retailer / agent is entitled to apply any lower retail price offered for a particular e-book by another retailer, regardless of whether that other retailer is operating on a wholesale or agency model.

Recently, I was offered a discount on book marketing services just for being a Twitter follower of a particular agency.

In particular, we're talking about the percentage of $ 10 + Agency Model books that make their way on to these lists.

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