Sentences with phrase «pact on»

AFP / ec: Environment ministers from around the world face mounting time pressure on Thursday (Dec 11) to shape a blueprint for a global pact on climate change with ground - breaking carbon curbs at its core.

The governors of California, Oregon, and Washington and the premier of British Columbia signed a climate pact on Monday that announced the intent of two new carbon prices: a cap - and - trade system in Washington and, likely, a carbon tax in Oregon.

In an effort to emotionally cut ties with her ex, she makes a pact on a blind date with Boone (O'Dowd) to unfollow her former boyfriend on Instagram, as he does the same with his ex-wife.

Cindi wants to break their no - sex pact on prom night, but Eugene is nervous, so Tucker gets him blind drunk.

The Cameron - Brown pact on tax would drive Labour supporters to vote for the BNP and could lead some Tories to vote for the anti-EU UKIP party — though Lord Tebbit stressed he would not do so himself.

Despite the high drama and heavy lawyering that went into it, the Cuomo - de Blasio pact on capital funding for the Metropolitan Transportation Authority solves nothing that really mattered.

City Council Speaker Christine Quinn announced the pact on creating a new watchdog for the nation's biggest police department and said talks were progressing on three companion proposals to set new rules surrounding stop and frisk, including banning racial profiling.

Labour and the Liberal Democrats are edging towards a post-referendum pact on further powers for Scotland, which could see a deal to agree much greater devolution of tax and welfare powers from Westminster.

The narrow window between VIP Splash's formation and the county RFP, coupled with the company's $ 2,925 donation to chief deputy county executive Rob Walker's Hicksville Republican Committee — on the same day Walker signed the $ 12 million pact on Nassau's behalf — raises questions, said a good government advocate.

«The failure of a once powerful political party to respect a pact on power shift and a single term led to its fall at the center in the 2015 general elections.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo and the state's legislative leaders announced a pact on combating sexual assault and rape on college campuses.

Bill Hammond: «Despite the high drama and heavy lawyering that went into it, the Cuomo - de Blasio pact on capital funding for the Metropolitan Transportation Authority solves nothing that really mattered.»

The city's Secretary for Commerce & Economic Development, Edward Yau, signed the pact on Thursday this week with Argentina's Investment & Trade Promotion Agency Chief Executive Officer, Juan Pablo Tripodi, in Bueno Aires, the Hong Kong government has announced on its website.

The accord - the first comprehensive global pact on climate change — commits participating nations to keep global temperature rises to «well below» two degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels.

The Trans - Pacific Partnership can't come into force without the support of the United States, International Trade Minister Chrystia Freeland said the day after Donald Trump promised to withdraw the U.S. from the 12 - country trade pact on his first day in office.

Helsinki eventually succumbed to the Soviet onslaught, however, signing a peace pact on Moscow's terms on March 12, 1940 — though the country did not completely capitulate and would later allow German troops to transit its territory to engage the USSR.

Not exact matches

On Wednesday, Iranian President Hassan Rouhani waved aside U.S. and European talks over changes to the nuclear accord and dismissed Trump as a «tradesman» who lacked the qualifications to deal with a complex international pact.

NEW YORK, April 23 - Global benchmark Brent crude turned positive on Monday, after dropping earlier after Iran's oil minister said OPEC would not extend its production cap pact if high crude oil prices continued.

NEW YORK, April 23 - Global benchmark Brent crude turned positive in volatile trade on Monday as it jockeyed between downward pressure after Iran dashed hopes that OPEC would extend its production cap pact and support on fears that U.S. sanctions could dampen Iran's output.

WASHINGTON, April 25 - A day after flaunting his friendship with Donald Trump, French President Emmanuel Macron forcefully challenged many of the U.S. president's policies on Wednesday, urging the United States to engage more with the world, step up the fight against climate change and stay in the Iran nuclear pact for now.

Trump's national security adviser, H.R. McMaster, struck a similar tone in television interviews on Sunday in which he said Trump had always been willing to consider changes on the climate pact.

For Obama, however, killing the pipeline allows him to claim aggressive action on the environment, potentially strengthening his hand as world leaders prepare to finalize major global climate pact within weeks that the president hopes will be a crowning jewel for his legacy.

One analyst called the deal «very rich» for workers at Verizon, the number - one U.S. wireless provider, which reached the tentative pact with the Communications Workers of America (CWA) on Friday.

Trump pledged during his presidential campaign to withdraw the U.S. from the pact immediately after taking office, but had wavered on the issue since winning the election.

On the sidelines of the Asia - Pacific Economic Cooperation summit, held in Beijing this month, Russia agreed to a deal to supply even more natural gas to China, on top of a $ 400 billion pact inked earlier this yeaOn the sidelines of the Asia - Pacific Economic Cooperation summit, held in Beijing this month, Russia agreed to a deal to supply even more natural gas to China, on top of a $ 400 billion pact inked earlier this yeaon top of a $ 400 billion pact inked earlier this year.

Financially speaking, their pact had very little impact on cloud storage and collaboration in the company's second quarter, which it reported Wednesday evening.

Consolidation has enabled them to control costs, negotiate favorable labor pacts, and cut back on the «fare wars» that used to routinely shrivel their revenues.

South Korea and the United States will hold talks on a trade deal on Jan. 5 although U.S. President Donald Trump has threatened to withdraw from the pact.

Not only has the billionaire businessman turned president - elect called for doing away with trade deals favored by President Barack Obama, he expressed interest in renegotiating the North America Free Trade Agreement, a 22 year - old trade pact between the U.S., Canada and Mexico that eliminated most tariffs on products traded between the countries and strengthened intellectual property enforcement.

Technology companies, such as Microsoft and Cisco Systems have ramped up lobbying ahead of talks to renegotiate the North American Free Trade Agreement, looking to avoid any future restrictions on cloud storage and to promote an international pact to eliminate technology goods tariffs.

«Cloudera has built its partner strategy out very well over the last year, and this is a key win, challenging the exclusivity Hortonworks seemed to have achieved in the nascent Hadoop - on - Windows world — one that is untapped so far but will become very large,» says Gartner analyst Merv Adrian, addressing Cloudera's pacts with Microsoft.

Jobs cleverly made his pact with the record labels when iTunes worked only on Macs, which in 2002 had a personal - computing market share in the low single digits.

At the end of the G7 summit on Saturday, Trump refused to endorse the Paris climate pact, saying he needed more time to decide.

Mattel is also betting bigger on licensed pacts.

Alexander, who had been defending NAFTA's positive impact on the automotive industry, challenged Lighthizer to name a senator who would support withdrawing from the pact.

Saudi Arabia and Russia are ironing out the details on an unprecedented pact to extend controls over major exporters for decades to come.

Australia and New Zealand said on Tuesday they hope to salvage the Trans - Pacific Partnership (TPP) by encouraging China and other Asian nations to join the trade pact after U.S. President Donald Trump kept his promise to pull out of the accord.

It also stressed that a future trade pact, allowing for not just low or zero tariffs on goods but also regulatory alignment to promote trade in services, should not allow Britain to pick and choose which economic sectors to open up.

Since taking office, Trump has taken a hard line on trade, abandoning a 14 - nation Pacific trade pact and threatening to pull out of the North American Free Trade Agreement with Canada and Mexico.

The European Union offered Britain talks this year on a future free trade pact but made clear in negotiating guidelines issued on Friday that London must first agree to EU demands on the terms of Brexit.

China said on Thursday it will stick to the Paris climate deal as the world awaited an announcement by U.S. President Donald Trump on whether to keep the United States in the global pact to fight climate change.

Trump has also granted a permanent exemption on steel tariffs to South Korea as part of a revision of a free trade pact that he sharply criticised.

MEXICO CITY, March 5 - Canada and Mexico on Monday pushed back against President Donald Trump's suggestion that steel and aluminum tariffs could be waived if they signed a new and «fair» NAFTA deal, setting the stage for a tense end to the latest talks to update the trade pact.

The member countries of the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans - Pacific Partnership (CPTTP), also known as TPP 11, reached a basic agreement on the pact in November.

The pact could resolve investigations led by a specialized group at the Justice Department focused on mortgage securities cases.

The talks in Tokyo starting Monday are expected to iron out technical differences on rules for the treatment of labour and intellectual property but unlikely to yield a conclusive statement that member countries will quickly sign the pact.

On the positive side, overall trade between the three NAFTA partners — the U.S., Canada and Mexico — has increased sharply over the pact's history, from roughly $ 290 billion in 1993 to more than $ 1.1 trillion in 2016.

When critics of the TPP conflate their criticism of that pact with their criticism of «free trade,» they miss an essential element of the TPP that has disaffected many otherwise loyal supporters of earlier - generation agreements that truly focus on deregulation of «trade» per se, he notes.

The court will rule on a fast - track petition for a temporary injunction against the permanent euro rescue fund, the European Stability Mechanism (ESM), and the fiscal pact.

If we are to pull out of the suicide - pact fantasy economy of perpetual, exponential growth on a finite planet, it's time to grow up and move on.