Sentences with phrase «policy adopted last»

The American Veterinary Medical Association, which had long recommended against docking and cropping for cosmetic purposes, came down harder on the practice in a new policy adopted last year, calling for them both to removed from breed standards.

The school has cracked down on disengaged students, according to a statement by its director, Sharon Williams, who said a policy adopted last December mandates attendance at online classes for those students who do not log in, repeatedly fail to complete lessons or are failing three courses.

Sexual harassment is a form of scientific misconduct under a new policy adopted last week by the American Geophysical Union (AGU) in Washington, D.C.

Not exact matches

Last month, the BOJ adopted a 2 percent inflation target and pledged to carry out an open - ended asset purchase program from next year, bowing to pressure from Japan's new Prime Minister Shinzo Abe to adopt an aggressive monetary policy to end years of deflation.

Applying pressure on firms was an effective strategy, as the ones that do have policies adopted them sometime between the end of last year and spring 2015.

As I wrote last week, this wait - and - see policy is exactly what the US Fed has adopted.

By and large, over the last few decades the Church in the West has adopted a don't ask / don't tell policy.

We are fortunate in that we adopted a self - staffing policy last year; those of us who do not feel comfortable or safe «floating» to other areas of the hospital do not have to.

As it happens, last Spring, the Green Party adopted this policy: Civil servants will be responsible for their actions.

In the last parliament, with the Labour party looking more divided and disloyal than ever, some consultants adopted a strategy of picking off moderate MPs and Blairite factions within the PLP in a bid to get support for an issue or policy.

«And so now it's just really just a question of execution of core policies including the 50 percent by 2030 renewables program that was adopted last August by the Public Service Commission,» Morris says.

When I pressed Tom Harris on this at his blog site last year his response, in essence, was to say: «Things like inequality don't depend on voting systems but on the policies one adopts.»

This weekend, the Sunday Times front - page (#) splashed details of what Labour's so - called «policy coordinator», Jon Cruddas said at a Compass gathering last weekend: that Ed Miliband's inner circle are wielding a «profound dead hand at the centre» to stop the party adopting bold policies.

Cuomo's original legislation was meant to extend to private colleges new policies SUNY adopted late last year at his urging.

«Basically, they're adopting a 1960s anti-war, left - wing Democratic policy, or a 1930s Charles Lindbergh policy of isolationism,» King told me during a brief phone interview last night.

NYC JAC and its member groups recommend the city adopt a policy similar to one in Mississippi, where punitive segregation is only used as a last resort.

New York has officially become the last state in the nation to adopt no - fault divorce following the governor's signature of a measure that will permit couples to separate by mutual consent, signaling a major policy shift that has far - reaching implications for both families and attorneys.

After prodding from Cahill, the legislature formally adopted the three - year policy last month.

Cuomo aides last week began casting their decision as a continuation of a policy first adopted in 2007 under the administration of former governor Eliot Spitzer.

Capital first reported last month that state agencies had fully implemented a policy adopted by the Cuomo administration in 2013.

ALBANY — On top of higher - profile disagreements over education and tax policy, legislators threw several darts at Governor Andrew Cuomo in the one - house budget resolutions they adopted last week by de-funding key administration initiatives.

Separately, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo last week increased his pressure on private colleges and universities to adopt state policies on handling sex crimes.

«That debate was at full boil last week, when the U.S. House of Representatives passed the America COMPETES Act, which sets policy for NSF and two other federal research agencies, and the House Appropriations Committee adopted a 2016 spending bill that includes NSF,» Mervis wrote.

In preparatory meetings last week, 65 countries agreed with almost no debate to write into the treaty several policies that have already been adopted in many industrialised countries.

Support for eliminating existing exemptions, except for medical reasons, from immunization laws was among the policy recommendations adopted last weekend at the summer meeting of the Board of Regents of the American College of Physicians (ACP).

Carl T. Hayden, the chancellor of the state board and an opponent of the policy it adopted on Nov. 14, announced last week that he had persuaded...

A Fit and Healthy Childhood Last autumn, the All Party Parliamentary Group on a Fit and Healthy Childhood made a clarion call to put play at the heart of government policy on child health and well - being, and to adopt a holistic strategy to support child development.

That's what the New York board of regents told educators last week about a policy it had hastily adopted 11 days earlier requiring the equivalent of three years of a foreign language to graduate from high school.

In the last decade, at least 15 state legislatures and boards of education have adopted policies incentivizing their public schools to prioritize measures other than grades when assessing students» skills and competencies.

Late last week, the board that sets policy for the National Assessment of Educational Progress was poised to adopt a new framework for the NAEP reading test that would change the content significantly enough to prevent the continuation of comparisons among tests.

Last year alone, three states adopted new ESA policies, Arizona expanded student eligibility for its ESA, and several other states considered ESA legislation.

The board adopted a policy last December, however, to apply exactly the same standards and process to closing all schools — charter, traditional, and innovation.

At its Nov. 20 meeting in Washington, the governing board — known as NAGB adopted a policy allowing states to offer the tests the last week of January and the first week of March as a way to entice them to take part.

«The main issue is our costs are higher than probably anyone else in the U.S.,» said James «Bubba» Shivler, the director of the commission, which adopted the policy last month.

According to Joseph Crawford, state superintendent of public instruction, last month's conference will «reinforce» recommendations and policy changes adopted by...

Last week, California Attorney General Xavier Becerra provided all California public school leaders with the policies they must adopt by July to protect students from immigration enforcement while at school.

So far, eight states have policies requiring them to do a similar analysis, most of them adopted in the last few years, according to the National Council on Teacher Quality (NCTQ), a research and advocacy group that supports higher standards for schools of education.

Many districts have adopted «last in, first out» policies that defenestrate young, inexpensive teachers over older, salary - heavy teachers when budget cuts come.

And I'm hoping that, until they do, publishers both large and small adopt an Amazon last policy, going to all the added bother of creating a Kindle version only when every other version is taken care of.

It also explains the novel policies adopted by the Fed over the last 18 months.

In the coming months, Best Friends and our friends and colleagues in other agencies, including individuals of a like mind not at last week's meeting, will build on these first small steps with an eye to helping more and more communities to adopt successful no - kill policies and practices.

Postscript: In the meantime, there are few signs of serious action by wealthy countries to carry out the pledges they made last December to help poorer ones withstand climate impacts and adopt less - polluting energy policies and technologies.

In fact, the state of Colorado last week proposed innovative policies to do just that — if adopted, they will be the first in the nation to directly regulate methane.

Focusing on a nation's response to climate change in respect to policies adopted or under consideration, the researcher will examine the following issues, ideally over at least the last 5 years:

IAC Report Last summer, the Interacademy Panel (in rather sharp terms) recommended that IPCC adopt a Conflict of Interest policy, first noting that many institutions had conflict of interest policies and reporting on the IPCC situation as follows:

These two articles perfectly encapsulate two of the problems that have plagued our approach to climate change over the last 8 years: Delay any meaningful action on reducing emissions and, instead of adopting sound, far - reaching policies, take shortsighted, politically convenient half - steps.

GATT has in the last few years adopted a similar process, with countries performing self - evaluation of their trade policies and then submitting them for review.

Ahmedabad, India, leads the pack as cities in developing nations race ahead of their richer counterparts in adopting eco-friendly transit solutions, according to the Institute for Transportation and Development Policy (ITDP), which last week gave the western Indian city its 2010 Sustainable Transport Award.The award has been given out since 2005 to a city that best «uses transport innovations to increase mobility for all residents, while reducing transportation greenhouse [gas] and air pollution emissions and increasing cyclist and pedestrian safety and access.»

Sessions announced last month that he is adopting a «zero - tolerance policy» for illegal entry and attempted legal entry into the country.

Last May, Vancouver Foundation, Canada's largest community foundation, announced it would develop and adopt an open licensing policy.