Sentences with phrase «own national goals»

In addition, the party has pledged other key health - related initiatives, such as limiting the commercialization of genetically modified crops; developing national goals for pre-natal care; reducing cigarette smoking through education and taxes; and promoting healthy eating and physical activity.

Surely it is time for us to shift our shared national goal from increasing economic activity to enhancing the common good.

One of the problems is that the regulation of service activities is often closely related to specific national goals.

If so, there is a chance that we may in this country generate a debate about fundamental national goals that is not limited to how to make the economy grow faster.

Present Americans don't have any good national goal except the filthy immoral co-existence of villains and perverts and pleasues and money - making.

If growth does not make us happier, why make its production out national goal?

Wegmans is proud to stand with the USDA and EPA as we work together toward the national goal of 50 % reduction of food waste in the US by 2030.

JANUARY 27, 2017 — WASHINGTON, DC — The Food Waste Reduction Alliance (FWRA) today announced its support for the Further With Food online hub for the exchange of information and solutions that can help realize the national goal of cutting food waste in half by 2030.

To help meet the national goal of increasing the number of guaranteed organic operations, USDA is delivering results through its many programs which serve the growing organic sector.

NEW YORK, Dec. 15, 2016 / PRNewswire / — Today, The Rockefeller Foundation announced its collaboration with the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), and a partnership of 10 private sector and non-profit organizations to create «Further With Food: Center for Food Loss and Waste Solutions,» an online hub for the exchange of information and solutions that can help realize the national goal of cutting food waste in half by 2030.

Thank you for your interest in learning more about U.S. efforts to reach our national goal of reducing food loss and waste.

On September 16, 2015, in alignment with Target 12.3 of the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), EPA and the USDA announced the first ever domestic national goal to reduce food loss and waste by half by the year 2030.

Reaching the new national goal of cutting food loss and waste in half by 2030, which was announced in 2015, is going to require renewed commitments to aggressively cut food loss and waste.

As noted by soccer-blogger.com, it was the Liverpool defender's first ever national goal.

I have the feeling that, in the US, people are over appreciating breastfeeding and it's a national goal to have women breastfeeding, a reason for not to spread info on the negative aspects of breastfeeding.

At the launch of the initiative, President Barack Obama signed a Presidential Memorandum creating the first - ever Task Force on Childhood Obesity to conduct a review of every single program and policy relating to child nutrition and physical activity and develop a national action plan to maximize federal resources and set concrete benchmarks toward the First Lady's national goal.

As a part of the Healthy People 2020 initiative, the national goal is to increase the proportion of mothers who breastfeed their babies in the early postpartum period to 81.9 percent by the year 2020.

Climate change is an area where working with our European partners can help us to achieve national goals which would be out of reach if we were isolated and alone.

Adopted by parliamentary majority, this declaration must be posted up in all public administrative units and defines such joint national goals as «work, home, family, health and order».

[76] At the conference, Miliband pledged to focus on six national goals for Britain until 2025, including boosting pay, apprenticeships and housing; a mansion tax and levy on tobacco companies to fund # 2.5 billion a year «time to care» fund for the NHS; a commitment to raise the minimum wage to # 8 or more by 2020; and a promise to lower the voting age to 16 ready for elections in 2016.

MIDDLEBURY When former President Barack Obama made universal pre-K education a national goal and a household term during his 2008 campaign for the White House, many of the state's educrats responded with an effort to adopt a one - size - fits - all...

MIDDLEBURY When former President Barack Obama made universal pre-K education a national goal and a household term during his 2008 campaign for the White House, many of the state's educrats responded with an effort to adopt a one - size - fits - all public education version for the Green Mountain State.

He decided to open the policy floodgates, and out flowed Labour's «Six National Goals».

Manhattan Borough President Scott Stringer, who is running against Eliot Spitzer for Comptroller, last week released a report indicating that 75 percent of New York City public school have Internet speeds 100 times slower than the national goal set by President Obama for 2020.

In the immediate aftermath of the war, concerns about food shortages ran high, and self - sufficiency in food production was deemed an important national goal.

The minister, who shared the platform with Mrs Obama and the World Bank President, Dr Jim Yong Kim, announced that as part of the national goals, the government would launch an inclusive educational policy by June 2016 and also roll out a gender educational policy from 2017.

Such a loyal water carrier, he is vital to their national goals!

However, those who advocate increases in this very worthwhile area of R&D also must recognize that neither the advancement of the nation's health, nor the many other important national goals to which S&T contributes will be served if it is the only area of R&D that receives strong government support in the years ahead.

This falls well short of the national goal of eight in 10 adolescents.

«Our hope is that all countries will come forward with their national goals and [collectively cut emissions] 40 percent by 2025,» said A.K. Abdul Momen, permanent representative of Bangladesh to the United Nations.

The new fund is the latest example of a large research program to serve national goals that is created outside the regular channel of competitive grants to individual scientists.

That, he said, means that over the coming five years, meeting national goals will be far more difficult.

One key change would require the NSF director to certify that every grant will achieve one or more of six national goals — including strengthening the U.S. economy, bolstering national defense, increasing partnerships between academia and industry, and training the next generation of scientists.

The Obama Administration should use the U.S. civil space program to help meet a broader array of national goals, says a report released today by the National Academies» National Research Council.

Most national goals in space are better realized by robot spacecraft

The book's major thesis is that large - scale water projects are driven by power interests, purporting to serve national goals, while in reality serving the narrower interests of the wealthy.

We're competing against other countries in other markets, most of which have long - term national goals on renewable energy,» said SolarReserve's Smith.

Not only is it inappropriate for reviewers to be asked to «step outside of their areas of expertise» and to «make guesses» as to whether proposals are meeting national goals, Yamamoto told the panel, but it is impossible to make such assessments at the level of individual projects.

The group will also provide a forum for discussing how nations can balance «cooperation and competition» in science, Kleiner said, and consider how their funding practices contribute to both national goals and global needs.

But the new criterion lists nine «national goals» that projects should strive to advance «collectively,» including increasing national security and economic competitiveness.

Some have complained that the national goals seem arbitrary and that review panels would be forced to prioritize these goals since they will be presented with proposals that are equally meritorious, but advancing different goals.

It is busy working out national goals for science, while a subcommittee examines how the councils» boards should change after the election.

Developing countries have resisted enshrining their programs into binding international law because most of these initiatives are rooted in national goals, such as controlling local pollution and increasing the value of forests, which makes them skittish about foreign commitment and monitoring.

(A) report on progress made toward implementing efficiency policies to achieve the national goals established under subsection (a); and

In order for the United States to maintain the global leadership and competitiveness in science and technology that are critical to achieving national goals, we must invest in research, encourage innovation, and grow a strong and talented science and technology workforce.

(1) identify future regulatory, funding, and policy priorities that would assist the United States in meeting the national goals;

-- Not later than 1 year after the date of enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Energy (referred to in this section as the «Secretary»), in cooperation with the Administrator and the heads of other appropriate Federal agencies, shall develop a strategic plan to achieve the national goals for improvement in energy productivity established under subsection (a).

National Quality Forum (NQF) is a nonprofit organization that operates to improve the quality of American healthcare by building consensus on national priorities and goals for performance improvement and working in partnership to achieve them; endorsing national consensus standards for measuring and publicly reporting on performance; and promoting the attainment of national goals through education and outreach programs.

I therefore ask the Congress, above and beyond the increases I have earlier requested for space activities, to provide the funds which are needed to meet the following national goals:

Congress should set a national goal of immediately connecting every school to the developing «information highway» and insuring that every classroom has access to sophisticated data networks by the turn of the century, a policy statement released here by a new national coalition of education organizations urges.