Sentences with phrase «on voluntary efforts»

The White House called its approach a crucial step to achieving the ambitious greenhouse - gas emissions targets President Obama announced last November in Beijing, but some environmental advocates said the plan, which relies heavily on voluntary efforts, failed to go far enough.

Both collaborations have depended heavily on voluntary efforts in their development, a good sign of common interest in their aims.

In fact, the week relies for its success on the voluntary efforts of the RSC's local sections, which are organising many of the events.

Local democracy relies on the voluntary efforts of a handful of individuals, even in relatively affluent areas.

Not exact matches

But it's the firm's efforts to engage its people in meaningful work that have helped it achieve a 95 % voluntary retention rate and earn a spot on the Aon Best Employers in Canada list for 10 years.

To speed - up the relief and rebuilding efforts, the Government declared a State of Emergency for Barbuda only and evacuated some residents on a voluntary basis.

On the basis of the First Amendment, as well as the general principles of the Constitution, he opposed public payment for chaplains in Congress and the military, spoke out against national proclamations of days of prayer (though as president he did «recommend» them) and while president vetoed congressional efforts to incorporate churches in the District of Columbia (fullest statement, V: 103 - 105) At the same time, Madison frequently opined that it was appropriate for private citizens to support chaplains and various kinds of semiorganized public religion through voluntary contributions (V: 104,105)

And remember the recent, landmark inter-agency effort to issue voluntary guidelines on the marketing of junk food to kids?

It was announced today that Kerrey, the former president of the New School in New York City, had signed on to the effort to tighten campaign finance laws by introducing a voluntary public matching system similar to New York City and lower contribution limits.

Among the new voluntary efforts by pharmaceutical companies to post clinical trial data, the Association of the British Pharmaceutical Industry, one of the trade groups behind last week's proposal, will recommend that its members post trial results on a World Health Organization (WHO) global trials database that WHO hopes to establish in July.

Ironically, even as the U.S. has sharply cut back its efforts on helping poor countries to reduce fertility rates, the evidence is overwhelming that rapid, voluntary and highly beneficial transitions to low fertility rates are possible.

These observations led Dr. Yue and colleagues to hypothesize that training - induced voluntary strength gain relies on level of effort rather than the intensity of physical exercise.

All information contained on this website is provided by the voluntary efforts of individual players and groups working to develop a comprehensive information resource for all Stardew Valley's fans to use and enjoy.

The school board in Montgomery County, an affluent suburb of Washington noted for the quality of its schools and its voluntary efforts at integration, «violated its own regulations and procedures» on racial balance and building use in the cases of four schools, said Mitchell J. Cooper, a Washington lawyer acting as adviser to the state board.

But it seems clear that passage of the measure, which appears on the state's Nov. 5 ballot as Proposition 209, would raise questions about a host of programs that public K - 12 schools and colleges offer — from voluntary desegregation efforts to certain tutoring and outreach programs.

Third, no effort was made to ensure inter-rater reliability since field tests were performed and reported on a voluntary basis and without rater training.

The parents who did this most successfully were the ones who understood that the extra efforts that teachers and administrators made on behalf of their children were indeed extra efforts and often voluntary ones.

She is the author of The Children In Room E4: American Education on Trial, which chronicles a landmark civil rights case and life in a classroom and neighborhood in Hartford, Connecticut and The Other Boston Busing Story: What's Won and Lost Across the Boundary Line, a qualitative interview study of the adult lives of African Americans who had participated in a voluntary school desegregation effort in suburban Boston.

As part of our effort to work with industry leaders on best practices, PIJAC and small animal care experts launched Small Animal Care voluntary standards.

MARLBOROUGH (Ulster County)-- In an effort to spearhead protection of Ulster County's famous «fruit belt,» Scenic Hudson has purchased voluntary conservation restrictions on two parcels of a multigenerational family orchard in the Town of Marlborough.

On Thursday, the Obama administration announced a «comprehensive approach» to enlist American farmers in a voluntary effort to cut greenhouse gases — carbon dioxide, methane, and nitrogen oxides — through programs and incentives designed to reduce fertilizer use, encouraging tree planting, and turn poop into power by capturing methane.

Sensing an opportunity to capitalize on worldwide efforts to fight global warming while simultaneously protecting elements of its economy, Brazil has proposed the establishment of voluntary fund into which developed countries, companies, and other entities pay to finance a program to reduce emissions from deforestation.

The company, known for funding climate denial groups, has declared on the voluntary Register that it has spent between $ 200,000 and $ 299,999 ($ 223,634 — $ 335,449 or # 142,464 — # 213,695) on its European lobby efforts in 2014.

While these two initiatives where shining a light on individual efforts, Gibbs published research into the effects of two massive, voluntary moratoriums on beef and soy from the Amazon.

There is an effort to incorporate the voluntary recommendations of the Taskforce on Climate - related Financial Disclosures.

In addition, we strongly support efforts to rationalize and phase - out over the medium term inefficient fossil fuel subsidies that encourage wasteful consumption, and to continue voluntary reporting on progress.

An in - depth investigation by Reuters describes the dirty details of the onslaught of Big Food lobbying in the wake of an effort by the federal government to improve voluntary guidelines on food marketing to kids.

Exploring voluntary efforts to help deliver on countries» climate commitments, such as market mechanisms, in a way that promotes sustainable development and environmental integrity.

Several voluntary industry efforts to address these sources are underway, including EPA's plans to expand on the successful Natural Gas STAR Program by launching a new partnership in collaboration with key stakeholders later in 2015.

The effort began with the development of a fact sheet on the voluntary use of what is called cy pres to direct unclaimed class action settlement funds to support civil legal services to the indigent in Wisconsin.

When there is no such legal mandate, the disclosure is voluntary on the part of the covered entity, and it is therefore reasonable to expect the covered entity to make some effort to protect privacy before making such a disclosure.

In almost the next breath, however, Zuckerberg steered clear of endorsing a bill that would write such rules into federal law, and instead talked up Facebook's own voluntary efforts on that front.