Sentences with phrase «policy changes aimed»

The federal welfare overhaul of 1996 ushered in myriad policy changes aimed at getting low - income parents off public assistance and into employment.

The case is thus particularly relevant to policy changes aimed at improving the accessibility of public transit.

A team of sustainability experts will conduct three - day visits this fall to the impacted communities to conduct a neighborhood assessment and develop comprehensive recommendations for infrastructure and policy changes aimed at helping the communities increase resiliency, resource - efficiency, livability, and public health.

Over the next six months, four sustainability experts will conduct three - day visits to communities and provide comprehensive recommendations for infrastructure and policy changes aimed at helping the communities build a future that is more resource - efficient, livable, healthy, and environmentally responsible.

Over the next ten months, four sustainability experts will conduct three - day visits to communities and provide comprehensive recommendations for infrastructure and policy changes aimed at helping the communities build a future that is more resource - efficient, livable, healthy, and environmentally responsible.

The Liberal's campaign pledged several significant tax policy changes aimed at putting more money back into the pockets of middle - class families — and depending on your income bracket, you're probably now wondering how all of this is actually going to impact your wallet in real dollars and cents.

«Policy changes aimed at mitigating GHG emissions affect not only the stability of the climate, but also other environmental aspects and resource use, positively or negatively,» the IRP co-chair, Janez Potoènik, said.

But the document notes that static calculations about debt fail to account for many other factors that can affect the entire picture, such as policy changes aimed at slowing debt accumulation.

Any policy change aimed at retaining effective teachers must alter the structure of pay, not just the magnitude.

The policy change aims to encourage users of the Android Wear platform to pair up and «use what they want» when it comes to wearables and their preferred smartphone.

Not exact matches

As far back as 2002, while vice minister, Kuroda used an opinion column in the Financial Times, co-written with his deputy at the finance ministry, to call for «aggressive monetary policy» from the central bank, including an inflation target, aimed at «drastically changing price expectations.»

An internal investigation concluded that top executives «changed our accounting policies several times,» aiming to manipulate revenues and earnings.

The challenge in prompting change — broadening the classic definition of «infrastructure,» and investing in initiatives aimed at adapting to a turbulent planet — is heightened by partisan divisions over climate policy and development.

The change represents yet another way that Sessions, who served as a federal prosecutor at the height of the drug war in Mobile, Alabama, has reversed Obama - era criminal justice policies aimed at easing overcrowding in federal prisons and rethinking of how drug criminals are prosecuted and sentenced.

A spokesman said in a statement: «At Twitter we've launched more than 30 policy and product changes over the past 18 months, all with the aim of making our platform safer.

The global demonstration, planned in the wake of the Women's March on Washington, is aimed at countering the «mischaracterization of science as a partisan issue» — see climate change, vaccines, and GMOs — and the dubious policy that has arisen as a result.

Facebook's new privacy policy aims to explain the data it gathers on users more clearly, but doesn't actually change what it collects and shares.

Last year, the federal government announced it would develop a policy that aims to cut more carbon pollution than any other in the Pan-Canadian Framework on Clean Growth and Climate Change, by promoting the production and use of cleaner fuels in vehicles, buildings and industry.

When the BoJ takes steps aimed at changing inflation expectations, for example, they are always surprised because these policies do not seem to affect Japanese psychology at all.

I believe with all my heart that the monks who burned themselves did not aim at the fatality of their oppressors but only at a change in their policy.

On what grounds would a policy whose primary aim is to induce demographic change be justified?

No Kid Hungry aims to build partnerships that enlist influential individuals to act as catalysts to advocate the policy changes needed to achieve its end goal of engaging the public to make ending child hunger a national priority.

ACOG and SMFM are encouraging individuals, organizations and governing bodies to conduct research aimed at developing a stronger knowledge base to direct decisions regarding cesarean delivery and to facilitate policy changes that safely lower the rate of primary cesarean births in the US.

* Schools say tough to buy different portion sizes * Move follows complaints that rule left some students hungry * Change won't undermine overall healthier standards - advocates By Susan Heavey WASHINGTON, Dec 10 (Reuters)- U.S. regulators are relaxing school meal rules aimed at reining in calories and portion sizes after some students, parents and lawmakers complained that new stricter policies left many children hungry.

The Bahamas National Trust has launched a national «Conchservation» campaign with conservation partners, including Shedd Aquarium, aimed at protecting queen conch in The Bahamas through research, citizen science and policy change.

Understanding International Policy on HIV and Breastfeeding: a comprehensive resource is a resource which aims to clarify the confusion which has arisen during the last decade due to changing HIV and infant feeding guidance.

Today's changes come hot on the heels of the government's launch of a new Office for Disability Issues (ODI) last week, which will aim to give disabled people a stronger voice in policy - making.

This Occasional Paper aims at giving another perspective on the relevance of climate change for the EU's foreign policy.

Additional language would be aimed preventing favoritism in contracting by having the chief procurement officer review and examine policies of state agencies and non-profit entities in order to recommend changes.

The United Federation of Teachers is taking aim at Andrew Cuomo's proposal to extend the charter cap as it hones its strategy to combat the governor's ambitious package of education - policy changes.

The changes, aimed at reducing violence in the city's troubled jail system, sparked criticism from some prisoner - rights advocates who called the policy changes unfair and counterproductive.

And DiNapoli notes that state lawmakers had little time to consider changes to the state's education policy — which included measures aimed at new teacher evaluation criteria, changes to teacher tenure and plans to close schools deemed to be struggling or failing.

Since its inception the PBS has proved to be flexible in the sense that it can be used by the government of the day to implement changes to policies at short notice with the aim of managing net immigration.

Trump is poised in the coming days to announce his plans to dismantle the centerpiece of former President Barack Obama's climate change legacy, while also gutting several smaller but significant policies aimed at curbing global warming.

The decisions the current Government takes on transport to tackle the dual challenges of climate change and rising oil prices could have significant repercussions for many years to come... Friends of the Earth is calling on the Government to: «Change direction on transport policy - and aim to rapidly move towards a low - carbon transport system... Vehicle Excise Duty must be changed to make road tax on gas - guzzlers more expensive - and cheaper for greener cars...&change and rising oil prices could have significant repercussions for many years to come... Friends of the Earth is calling on the Government to: «Change direction on transport policy - and aim to rapidly move towards a low - carbon transport system... Vehicle Excise Duty must be changed to make road tax on gas - guzzlers more expensive - and cheaper for greener cars...&Change direction on transport policy - and aim to rapidly move towards a low - carbon transport system... Vehicle Excise Duty must be changed to make road tax on gas - guzzlers more expensive - and cheaper for greener cars...»

The Empire State Pride Agenda echoed IQ's concerns and noted the history of activism aimed at changing the discriminatory policy.

We also aim to set up a parliamentary website devoted to reform of parliamentary procedure (excluding wider policy issues) to provide a channel so that public grievances or proposals for positive change can be aired.

In addition to highlighting the policy itself — which Quinn has called «inhumane» and «cruel» — the suit also takes aim at the way the city has attempted to implement the change.

Adesina said the presidential address would highlight, among other key issues, Nigeria's commitment to implementing the Nationally Determined Contributions and policy actions aimed at tackling climate change through environmental sustainable efforts.

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Changes in NIH Funding Policy Alumna fellow Dorothy Yuan covers a recent policy change at the National Institutes of Health which aims to more equitably distribute limited Policy Alumna fellow Dorothy Yuan covers a recent policy change at the National Institutes of Health which aims to more equitably distribute limited policy change at the National Institutes of Health which aims to more equitably distribute limited funds.

«As the window of opportunity to avert dangerous climate change narrows, we urgently need to take stock of policy initiatives around the world that aim to accelerate new energy technologies and stem greenhouse gas emissions,» said Laura Diaz Anadon, Professor of Climate Change Policy at the University of Cambchange narrows, we urgently need to take stock of policy initiatives around the world that aim to accelerate new energy technologies and stem greenhouse gas emissions,» said Laura Diaz Anadon, Professor of Climate Change Policy at the University of Cambpolicy initiatives around the world that aim to accelerate new energy technologies and stem greenhouse gas emissions,» said Laura Diaz Anadon, Professor of Climate Change Policy at the University of CambChange Policy at the University of CambPolicy at the University of Cambridge.

A new report by authors from UCLA School of Law's Emmett Center on Climate Change and the Environment and UCLA's Institute of the Environment and Sustainability explores the sources and impacts of plastic marine litter and offers domestic and international policy recommendations to tackle these growing problems — a targeted, multifaceted approach aimed at protecting ocean wildlife, coastal waters, coastal economies and human health.

Scientific research can inform policies aimed at addressing the needs of communities displaced by climate change, something that is already happening in the United States and around the world, according to experts at a 25 - 26 July meeting of the AAAS Science and Human Rights Coalition.

Some of these policy strategies have been enumerated recently, all of which focus on reducing caloric intake or increasing physical activity, and include taxes on calorically dense, nutritionally sparse foods (eg, sugar - sweetened beverages); subsidies for healthier foods, especially in economically disadvantaged groups; agricultural policy changes; and urban planning aimed at encouraging walking and other modes of physical activity.

«As the Federal Government begins negotiations with the new Senate to repeal the carbon price, any technologies, policies or plans that aim to tackle climate change should take water usage into account, especially in arid countries like Australia,» Dr Wallis said.

The AAAS Leshner Public Engagement Fellowship is funded and supported by the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) and these fellowships aim to help develop and support researchers in public engagement and policy work as a force for making change.

economic development Policies aimed at improving the lives of people through changes in their income and quality of life (as measured by improvements in their health, safety, education and more).

The project aims to integrate and advance the control of air quality and carbon emissions in European cities in the context of climate change through the development of sustainable and passive air pollution remediation strategies, policy interventions and behavioural change initiatives.

In the same way that creationists urge schools to «teach the controversy,» climate change skeptics aim to sow doubt about scientific consensus, said Mark McCaffrey, the programs and policy director of the National Center for Science Education, a nonprofit that has long supported the teaching of evolution in schools and recently began to defend climate change education.