Sentences with phrase «policies address issues»

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Last March, San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee announced the formation of a «sharing economy» working group, which would «bring together City Departments, neighborhood and community stakeholders and sharing economy companies to... explore policy alternatives and legislation to modernize those laws and / or address emerging impacts and issues.»

There are also forums dedicated to policy issues such as drug pricing and medical standards — last year, former Vice President Joe Biden announced a federal Genomic Data Commons to expedite cancer research during a keynote address.

Pay inequality is ultimately a systemic issue, and policy change is one way to address it.

He is also expected to create a rural America interagency task force to recommend policies to address issues facing agricultural states.

If the issue is important to you, and you have expectations for employees» behavior, you should address it in a policy.

But it also has policies directly addressing issues common to the garment industry, such as prohibitions on forced and child labour.

«We're fairly confident the issues we identified will be addressed in the negotiations,» said Ed Brzytwa, director of global policy at the Information Technology Industry Council.

But markets in those days were significantly concerned by an administration unable to address its policy agenda, bogged down as it was with problems that had taken on a life of their own, and a Congress preoccupied with the issue.

Among pharma CEOs, only Brent Saunders, the chief executive of Allergan, addressed the issue directly, tweeting Sunday that he opposes «any policy that puts limitations on our ability to attract the best and diverse talent.»

Chinese leadership will address the issue with new policy goals for the year when the new legislative session starts Thursday.

They're addressing issues the Bush administration - and Democrats for that matter — have with China's monetary and trade policies.

I'm certainly not going to address the tax policy issues that we may consider after that.

Ryan said that while the issue won't be addressed in the short - term, he stressed the need to address them in the future because they are «going bankrupt,» a characterization disputed by some policy experts.

Committing resources to addressing these issues would be greatly appreciated by the policy wonk community.

Facebook in recent months has sent representatives to Washington to address issues of foreign interference on Facebook, but this week's hearings will be the company's first opportunity to address privacy policies before lawmakers and Zuckerberg's first appearance before Congress.

«Making appearance part of official antidiscrimination policies would be a start, and she also wants more health and nutrition education in schools and in the workplace, to address weight issues in a positive way.

It's not just about having one issue fixed, like establishing better parental leave policies or solving for the wage gap, it's addressing all of these small things that add up to a bigger problem.

I'm pleased to have been part of a very constructive discussion on how we can all work together on policies that support a strong and competitive U.S. economy, create jobs and address safety and environmental issues.

The National Priorities 2016 series provides a high level overview of key issues that the federal and provincial governments need to address, and provides an opportunity to highlight policy...

Scientists uniformly agree that whole - lake research offers the best evidence to guide policy, Blais wrote, while «small - scale experiments are inadequate to address issues related to ecosystem services, food web structure, land - water interactions, air - water interactions, shoreline communities, and migratory species.»

Supporting women affected by violence The Austrian Federal Government committed to addressing complex social policy issues in their 2013 - 18 work programmes.

At issue in many Rule 14a - 8 (i)(7) no - action requests is whether a proposal that addresses ordinary business matters nonetheless focuses on a policy issue that is sufficiently significant.

In responses to three subsequent consultations, issued in 2012 by the European Securities and Markets Authority («ESMA»), Canadian Securities Administrators («CSA») and the Corporations and Markets Advisory Committee of Australia («CAMAC»), Glass Lewis has consistently expressed the view that a market - based solution, in particular a code of best practices developed by proxy advisors, is the appropriate means to address the relevant issues raised in these consultations — namely conflict management, transparency of policies and methodologies and engagement.

We have to address specific issues related to economic policy if we are going to live up to our potential.

Facebook has modified its policies and practices over the years to address some of these issues.

While no single law or policy can address all these issues, much can and should be done to increase clarity and level the playing field for innovators.

But the spokesperson confirmed the government is presently working on policies that will address some of the «special issues» related to those projects, including their «long - term stewardship and liability.»

Put policies in place to help anticipate and address issues, and be sure that handbooks are adapted to be legally and culturally appropriate for each country in which your organization operates.

Explaining to its shareholders how it is addressing strategic risks linked to major environmental and social policy issues, such as climate change and human rights, is an important dialogue every corporation needs to engage in with its shareholders.

«Although the French government has introduced or announced a number of measures intended to address these competitiveness and growth issues, the implementation and efficacy of these policy initiatives are complicated by the persistence of long - standing rigidities in labor, goods and services markets as well as the social and political tensions the government is facing,» Moody's said.

TLC addresses policy issues that directly affect the well - being of Hispanics in the United States.

We need policies to encourage employee stock ownership, and the proposed policies in S. 1212, should address core social issues such as adequate retirement security and making sure working Americans have an ownership stake in our capitalistic system.»

Officials from both sides have said that the conversation will be focused on topics of shared values and priorities, but prior to the visit, Vatican Radio — which, according to USA Today «is considered an official organ of communication for the church «-- released a story addressing U.S. policy issues at odds with Vatican teaching.

In their eagerness to avoid «blaming the victim» (a valuable concept when William Ryan first promulgated it in 1971, but increasingly a cant phrase used to shut off inquiry), many advocates for the poor are refusing to face the issues that must be addressed if poverty policy is to do more good than harm.

This means adding their distinctive perspective to the budding marriage movement, as well as addressing public policy issues related to marriage, divorce and unwed parenting.

The University's policy is the most sensitive addressing of this issue that I have ever seen.

Rather than address the issue in detail in this paper, we commend to all the Council's policy statement on «Violence in Electronic Media and Film.»

This policy statement addresses the issues of global communication and justice outlined above.

Crisis books usually follow a predictable pattern: first a searing depiction of the problem at hand, then some broad and sweeping assessments of how great changes in attitude might begin to address the issue, and then some piddling and timid policy proposals that clearly won't begin to meet the challenge.

They were killed because they supported the liberating theology and dignity of the base Christian communities; they named social injustice, not communism or outside subversive influence, as the root cause of the crisis (revolution in their view was inevitable unless issues of poverty and social inequality were adequately addressed); they promoted a negotiated settlement to Salvador's civil war, including a significant role for the FMLN and other popular organizations; and, they named U.S. policy as a fundamental obstacle to peace in El Salvador.

Nearly half of leaders (46 %) associated with the National Association of Evangelicals (NAE) selected «immigration / refugees» as the top public policy issue that evangelicals need to address in 2017, according to the NAE's recent monthly Evangelical Leaders Survey.

Here are the major speakers and the public policy issue each will address.

Their proposals are expensive, an issue Page and Simmons address by considering economic productivity and the political obstacles to enacting their policies.

Besides... If Mr. Romney is elected President, he isn't going to run it as a Mormon, but as a President who wishes to address many economic, foreign policy and social issues.

These policies should address issues on how to handle changes in menu items or ingredients, how to determine the nutrient content of a new menu item in compliance with the rule and procedures to periodically review compliance.

Kristie Middleton, food policy manager for The HSUS said, «We welcome Papa John's move to join its peers in the food industry in addressing one of the most critical animal welfare issues in food production today.

Josh Balk, director of food policy for The HSUS said, «We applaud Ahold USA's move to join its peers in the food industry in addressing one of the most critical animal welfare issues in food production today.

As part of his LCA address, ACCC Chairman, Rod Sims, addressed the recurring issue of national champions, claiming the current debate confuses the distinction between industrial and merger policy.

He addressed three broad issues: the ACCC's compliance and enforcement mix investment in the ACCC's criminal cartel unit merger enforcement He also made two key announcements: that the ACCC is commencing a new review of its cartel immunity and cooperation policy in light of recent experience with criminal cartel investigations; and that the ACCC will be taking...

Competition Policy Review (Harper Review), Submission on Issues Paper (2014) Argued new approach needed for problems concerning small business community - not appropriate to make further reforms to the CCA for this purpose (better to address them through separate legislative regime).