Sentences with phrase «only national governments»

Only national governments have the resource, influence and power to achieve such results.

And this resentment does not target only national governments.

Astrea Academy Trust has given its teachers a two per cent pay rise, despite only a national government increase of one percent, Tes has reported.

Not exact matches

«It's been 20 years, but it's got to be another 20 years because the only way we're going to end this is through concerted efforts and encouraging governments like the government in the Philippines, encouraging the national community, institutions like World Bank, encouraging major countries, but also just getting our hands dirty and doing it,» Evans told «The Brave Ones.»

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.

A great many of the continent's banks have similarly been zombified, existing only at the pleasure of their respective national governments.

They warn that the B.C. government is «trying to break the rules of Confederation and ignore the national climate plan, choosing to agree with only parts of the federal decision.»

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.

Not only did an entire delegation from the Turkish government, including high - profile diplomats, travel to the U.S. Small Business Administration's National Small Business Week event in Washington, D.C., last year; tech giant Dell chose to host its Women's Entrepreneur Network event in the nation's most populous city, Istanbul, this month.

«States and the federal government should invest only in initiatives that have strong national benefit and in areas that have high potential for U.S. competitiveness.

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

Thanks to government subsidies, low - income workers pay only 13 percent of their salaries for rent, and many are encouraged to buy the apartments with part of the otherwise untouchable savings that they are forced to put into a national retirement fund.

When the city of Lillehammer could only scrounge up $ 289 million to foot the bill, the oil - rich Norwegian national government ended up bailing out the city with the rest of the $ 1 billion in order to avoid national embarrassment.

The elections only concern local government and have no impact on the make - up of MPs in the national parliament.

The deal about this kind of services is that they only convert bitcoin into rubles and execute payments by using the national Russian currency and so there are no reasons for the Russian government to consider it illegal.

The Liberal government spends only five per cent of the province's GDP on agri - food (far below the national average of 14 per cent), cut thesuccessful Buy B.C. program, and in 2009 cut theAgriculture and Lands budget by 25.4 per cent.

OTTAWA — The Trudeau government is facing calls to produce its long - awaited plan to help homeless veterans in Canada, after their plight received only a passing mention in the Liberals» new national housing strategy.

Because they are the only deep space communication service available to US - based space companies, access to NASA's DSN is prioritized to government - funded missions, or missions of national interest (as determined by NASA).

While it's true that innovation can build a prosperous nation, this can only occur if national governments work hand - in - glove with domestic technology firms to help them grow through increased access to talent, capital and customers.

Note: WBEs are not eligible for this award as it is for WBENC National Corporate and Government Members only.

That biblical vision helped form the bedrock convictions of the American idea: that government stood under the judgment of divine and natural law; that government was limited in its reach into human affairs, especially the realm of conscience; that national greatness was measured by fidelity to the moral truths taught by revelation and inscribed in the world by a demanding yet merciful God; that only a virtuous people could be truly free.

«We are determined, as leaders of the nation, to fulfill as a national government the task which has been given to us, swearing fidelity only to God, our conscience, and our Volk....

Most of the documents originated during the years between Lexington and Concord (1775) and the passage of the Bill of Rights (1791), a period during which patriots established not only two different national governments but also the governments of the 13 states.

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.

The only feasible financial base appears to be direct contributions, either from broadcasting organizations (national and regional) or from national governments.

It not only implies, for the several national «governments», the prospect of having to waive a substantial portion of the pomp, prerogative and privilege which they now enjoy as the traditional concomitants of the possession of national military power, and having to content themselves with the considerably smaller amount of glory which is reserved for mere units of local administration.

At least some of our citizens have come to see that the present organization of our economic life, including the corporation, threatens not only our democratic government, because of its inordinate political influence, but also our national character and form of life, because of its propagation of the idea of wealth as merely the accumulation of consumer goods.

This picture of a radically individuated human being gave rise to the observation during the Democratic National Convention that «government is the only thing we all belong to» [sic].

For example, we should oppose the Multilateral Agreement on Investments, whose only justification is the further globaliztion of the economy at the expense of local business and national governments.

It is in fact an extension into the field of higher education of the government policy of globalization, that is, of letting the global market decide the pattern of economic development of the nation without intervention from the government in the name of social justice, protection of the natural environment or national self - reliance; it is a decision to make economic growth the ultimate criterion not only of economic development but also of social and cultural development of the peoples of the country.

IFOAM — Organics International advocates for the inclusion of Organic Agriculture in national governments» policies on addressing not only climate change, but also hunger and poverty.

In 2001, the USDA concluded that if breastfeeding rates were increased to 75 percent at birth and 50 percent at six months, it would lead to a national government savings of a minimum of $ 3.6 billion (and this only considered a few of the health benefits of breastfeeding, not all of them).

His mother, Johanna Whittlesey, like other parents across the country, assumed her child had enough water, but nutrition advocates believe schoolchildren's access to water is a national problem the federal government has only begun to address.

The study team found that only 27 percent of the lunches met at least three of the five National School Lunch Program standards from the federal government, which include fruit, vegetables, grains, meat or another protein source and milk.

When asked if there was nothing positive under the current NPP government six months into their administration, he said, «I will only commend them for the commitment to resource the National Identification Authority but aside that, there is nothing positive under this government I can bodily point to.

Only half the data systems used to measure progress on the government's public service agreement (PSA) targets are fit for purpose, according to the National Audit Office (NAO).

A few clear - sighted politicans at Westminster probably realise that once all four of the UK nations (ie including England) exercise extensive devolved powers, the UK becomes a federation — and a necessary consequence of that is a massive transfer of powers from Westminster to the four national parliaments and governments, leaving the House of Commons (together with the successor to the House of Lords) and the Westminster government with only very limited functions — basically foreign affairs, defence, and co-ordination of all - UK matters that transcend the borders of the four nations.

My fear stems from the fact that a renowned economists and a vice Presidential candidate of a party whose philosophy stands on ideals of conservatism, will confidently move around with a message of establishing one factory in each district at this point of our national reconstruction.How do you implement such a policy after scrapping 70 % of taxes across, build 350 secondary schools, free secondary school etc.You sum up all these deceitful platitudes and you begin to shiver.We are made to believe that the issue of unemployment would be buried under their government forgetting that, we were made to lineup in hot sun to register for employment only to be told in 2005 by Ghana Statistical service that unemployment figure for that year was the highest do far and remains the highest today.The lowest unemployment figures recorded between 2001 - 2016 was recorded in 2013 under Mahama.So who possess the practical record to support his call.

Once a treaty has been signed the only choice available to national governments is a yes or a no vote to ratification.

There would have been absolutely no point the National government sacrificing its seals of office on the altar of rearmament only for Labour to scale back the modest plans already in place.

«Even people in the know will wince at parts of the report: that the Government can not explain why the national roll out of Universal Credit was set for October 2013; that there has never been a «convincing strategic plan» for the project; and that the # 303 million already spent on IT has only produced an insecure, inflexible system that is not fit for purpose.

[2] The General National Congress (GNC) and government agencies froze; it was only through the intervention of local councils and civil society that an end of violence was reached.

The previous government had planned to increase employer national insurance contributions by one per cent as part of its deficit reduction strategy (Alistair Darling, the then chancellor, has subsequently stated that he would have preferred to have increased VAT instead), and after taking office the coalition government only partially reversed this decision.

Specifically, these modern tribunes would be entitled to veto one piece of congressional legislation, one executive order and one Supreme Court decision; to call one national referendum, over any issue they wish (only two - thirds votes of both the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives may render the statute unconstitutional); and to initiate impeachment proceedings against one Federal official from each of the three branches of government during their term of office.

External affairs director Marie - Claude Hemming said: «Not only must we undertake urgent repairs to local roads, but the scale of the challenge is such that the Government must rethink how repairs and maintenance of this national asset are funded.

Okunniyi, however cautioned that a legitimate and valid Constitutional restructuring of Nigeria can only become a reality if the Federal Government initiates a popularly composed constituent assembly and a popular Referendum to agree and resolve on the most suitable structure for the country based on the various resolutions of past national conferences in the country

The attacks only put May under more scrutiny for national security decisions she made during her tenure as Home Secretary, a role she held for six years in the government of her predecessor, David Cameron.

But if we are unwilling to be placed in this perilous situation; if we still will adhere to the design of a national government, or, which is the same thing, of a superintending power, under the direction of a common council, we must resolve to incorporate into our plan those ingredients which may be considered as forming the characteristic difference between a league and a government; we must extend the authority of the Union to the persons of the citizens, — the only proper objects of government.

Applebaum contends that the explosion of apparent support for Moldovan students and other protesters (10,000 + people showed up when only around a thousand were expected) was at least in part due to the work of agents provocateurs, who also led or pushed the protesters to break into government offices and plant a Romanian flag on the parliament building (Romania is apparently the national bugbear for pro-Russian Moldovans).

Over the whole century there has only been one emergency government set up specifically to apply fiscal squeeze (the Ramsay MacDonald «National Government» of Septemgovernment set up specifically to apply fiscal squeeze (the Ramsay MacDonald «National Government» of SeptemGovernment» of September 1931).