Sentences with phrase «part of an effort billed»

The Obama administration has announced a set of financial regulations that would force companies to disclose more information about their owners, part of an effort billed as a crackdown on tax evaders and money launderers.

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Part of Finance Minister Bill Morneau's spending plan is expected to emphasize gender equality and lay out efforts to boost the labour - force participation of women.

The Trump administration backed the bill, the Financial Choice Act, as part of a multi-pronged effort to ease banking regulations to spur economic growth.

Tyagi Bill supported by the Prime Minister Desai restricting religious conversion and also the discrimination of scheduled caste converts to Christianity in the special benefits to people of the scheduled caste background, may be mentioned as violations of the covenant on the part of the State; and the Christian people have been unhappy at giving up minority communal safeguards and many efforts to organize Christian political parties off and on have been made in several states especially in the South by Christians.

Michelle Obama can check off a top priority on her to - do list: The child nutrition bill was signed into law by her husband Monday morning, capping months of advocacy by the first lady as part of her efforts to reduce childhood obesity.

The campaign, which features 30 - second videos on YouTube, is part of an effort from Families for Excellent Schools opposing New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio's recent reduction of $ 210 million in capital as well as a new charter rent policy.

But a bill legalizing the combat sport was passed Wednesday by the State Senate, thanks in part to the efforts of lead sponsor State Sen. Kevin Parker, who has been known for getting into a few altercations of his own over the years.

Mayor Bill de Blasio said on Wednesday his administration is not looking at possible sites across the city as part of an effort to close Rikers Island.

Teen drivers would soon be able to sign up as organ donors under a bill that gained final legislative approval Thursday as part of an effort to take New York out of the cellar among states in organ donations.

ALBANY — Teenage drivers would soon be able to sign up as organ donors under a bill that gained final legislative approval Thursday as part of an effort to take New York out of the cellar among states in organ donations.

Teenage drivers would soon be able to sign up as organ donors under a bill that gained final legislative approval today as part of an effort to take New York out of the cellar among states in organ donations.

But the logjam is being broken in part due to a lobbying effort on behalf of Scarsdale Democratic Assemblywoman Amy Pualin, the main sponsor of the anti-human trafficking bill.

As I reported yesterday, these phone banks will be a twice - weekly occurrance and are part of the coordinated effort to get the Senate to pass a marriage bill before the session ends in June.

Rodriguez crashed the press conference to criticize Rangel for receiving an endorsement from a group he said opposes efforts to reduce traffic deaths on the same day Mayor Bill de Blasio signed 11 bills into law as part of his Vision Zero plan to reduce traffic fatalities.

Ironically, Maziarz had just come from a bill signing ceremony in North Tonawanda at which the governor put pen to paper on Recharge New York and spoke of the bipartisan effort that went into getting it passed as part of the budget earlier this month.

Ahead of the Nov. 8 election, when every seat in the Legislature is up for grabs, the Senate Democrats have found themselves linked to state and federal investigations examining whether New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio and his allies violated laws as part of an unsuccessful effort in 2014 to bring the chamber under Democratic control.

Giving an overview of the law earlier, the Speaker of the Ekiti State House of Assembly, Kolawole Oluwawole, had said that the Assembly gave the bill that culminated into the law an accelerated hearing as part of its collaborative efforts towards maintaining peace and order in the state.

The New York Daily News reported that by the time Vance had a meeting with Mayor Bill de Blasio's attorney as part of his probe into the mayor's failed efforts to help Democrats take the State Senate in 2014, the lawyer's firm, Kramer Levin Naftalis, as well as its partners, gave Vance $ 70,000 — and Vance kept the contributions from the firm.

On Tuesday, a second Republican senator said he would support Cuomo's same - sex marriage bill, less than two years after he was part of a GOP - led defeat of a similar bill that dealt a blow to the national effort to legalize gay marriage.

The plan, announced Sunday by Mayor Bill de Blasio and City Council Speaker Melissa Mark - Viverito, is an expansion of an earlier effort to keep tenants in their homes and to keep them from becoming part of the city's affordable housing crisis.

The NYPD is expanding its pilot program for body cameras, a central part of Mayor Bill de Blasio's police reform effort, by seeking companies to provide another 5,000 devices, according to a recent solicitation published in the City Record.

The Clean Energy Fund is part of an effort by the Cuomo administration to overhaul NYSERDA and the state's renewable energy and energy conservation programs, which are funded by a surcharge on utility bills — about $ 3.50 a month for the average gas and electric customer in the Capital Region.

«I am pleased to sign this bill into law, as part of my Administration's ongoing efforts to ensure our State corrects the long - standing disparities in government contracting and procurement,» Governor Paterson said.

The governor, who recently introduced a program bill to legalize gay marriage as part of his political comeback effort, then went into a long riff on how «sometimes it takes a disciplined effort and some losses to get a victory.»

He has billed the change as part of the administration's broader efforts at «energy dominance.»

Versions of both bills had been introduced in previous Congresses, and their revival was widely expected as part of Republicans» continuing efforts to block key parts of Obama's environmental agenda.

From a climate policy perspective, the bill can be seen as part of the Conservative ongoing effort to 1) gut environmental assessments and scientific research; 2) attack ENGOs that disagree with government policy to promote unfettered development of the oil sands; and 3) to sideline and even eliminate inconvenient advisory bodies like the National Roundtable on Energy and the Environment.

The grant is part of the Swedish government's efforts to strengthen life science in Sweden during the years to come (presented in the research and innovation bill 2012).

Billed as a modern spin - off to the George Clooney led Ocean's Eleven series of heist flicks, the cast list alone is enough to leave you reeling with anticipation, with Sandra Bullock, Cate Blanchett, Anne Hathaway, Mindy Kaling, Sarah Paulson, Rihanna, and Helena Bonham Carter all involved as part of the ensemble effort.

«The proponents of Common Core are trying to bill this as a state - led, state - initiated effort, and, at best, it might have been state - initiated initially, although I find that is only part of the story,» says current doctoral student Chris Buttimer, Ed.M.»

Presidents at least as far back as Bill Clinton have made attendance a priority of their school - reform efforts, in part because of the social costs of youngsters not attending.

In the article Carr has this to say about the MPS Takeover effort that was forced on the people of Milwaukee without any public input in the middle of the night as part of an Omnibus Budget bill in 2015:

The School Climate Bill of Rights is part of the District's larger effort to transform our discipline policies from traditional approaches toward more restorative practices.

(Calif.) In a major effort to crack down on K - 12 truancy, key parts of a package of bills — brought forward by Attorney General Kamala Harris — won passage Wednesday from an Assembly education panel.

Lobbying efforts and peaceful demonstrations on the part of Christian school leaders that took place during the late 1970s to reduce private school regulation culminated in the passage of two bills in 1979.

The effort is part of the «Too Small to Fail» campaign started last year by the Bill, Hillary and Chelsea Clinton Foundation and Next Generation, a San Francisco - based nonprofit.

Created in a recently passed bill, the seal is part of an effort to revive civics education.

But perhaps even more important is Malloy's failure to publicly retract his effort to repeal collective as part of his Corporate Education Reform Industry proposal in 2012 (Senate Bill 24).

In part, the perception of increasing funder participation in policy discussions is due to the very public personas of founders of major foundations like Bill Gates and Eli Broad.7 And the advocacy efforts of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and the Broad Foundation have increased dramatically with a shift from local funding efforts to more direct support for national - level policy advocacy on issues such as the Common Core State Standards.8

The Race to the Top Fund, as Duncan calls it, is part of about $ 100 billion the bill would channel to public schools, universities and early childhood education programs nationwide, helping stave off teacher layoffs, keep class sizes in check and jump - start efforts to revamp aging schools.

In an effort to show gratitude for their service, the VA Home Loan was enacted in 1944 by Congress as part of the original GI Bill of Rights.

You may have heard about the 2015 Student Aid Bill of Rights, which was part of a sweeping effort during the Obama administration to help curb the rapidly - growing student loan debt problem.

(ii) In collection means a debt that has been placed with a collection agency by a creditor or that is subject to more intensive efforts by a creditor to recover amounts owed from a borrower who has not responded satisfactorily to the demands routinely made as part of the creditor's billing procedures.

Called the Disability Forward Fund, the program is part of CreateNYC, the city's first comprehensive cultural plan, which was first announced by Mayor Bill de Blasio last July as part of an effort to extend greater equality, accessibility, diversity, and opportunity in arts funding.

I have a story running on the effort under way today, prompted by Bill McKibben and building on conclusions of NASA's James E. Hansen, to focus the world on 350 parts per million as the long - term target for stabilizing carbon dioxide.

The letter, dubbed the «We Can Lead» campaign, is part of a broader effort lending support for passage of the legislation, even in the face of unprecedented lobbying from vested interests opposed to the bill (or any real action at all on climate and sustainable energy).

In 2001, as part of a major shift to enhance Toyota's environmental efforts in the United States, Bill was appointed Corporate Manager of the newly formed Environmental Coordination Office.

A Center report called Public Lands Enemies analyzes 132 bills part of an effort by 15 U.S. lawmakers, backed by extractive industries, to privatize our public lands — putting at risk hundreds of thousands of public acres home to diverse native wildlife.

As a part of 350 Australia's push to make sure that climate change will be front and centre of every election going forward, our founder, Bill McKibben, is coming back to Australia at the end of April and early May as part of a global effort to accelerate climate action.

The bills represent what is certain to be a concerted effort by the new House majority to address what they consider to be burdensome environmental rules, part of a broader assault on what Republicans characterize as job - killing regulations from the executive branch.