Sentences with phrase «prodding governments»

Renewables such as windmills promote trade and market integration by prodding governments to link up national grids, says Peter Brun of the Danish wind - energy firm, Vestas.

For years, Mr. Gates had prodded governments to increase spending on research and development of clean technologies.

The index was designed to prod the government pension fund to allocate more of their assets to Japanese stocks as they invest more in equities generally.

They have also tried to prod governments into doing more to help.

But whether this new report prods the government or industry to action remains to be seen, he points out.

Writer Josh Singer will use «Inside WikiLeaks: My Time With Julian Assange At The World's Most Dangerous Website» as well as «WikiLeaks: Inside Julian Assange's War On Secrecy» to formulate his script about the whistleblowing website's experience prodding the government with embarrassing exposures leading to the site and Assange's prosecution.

If the nightmare in China doesn't prod governments to make their schools safe, I'm not sure what will.

HimalayaGate — An Indian climate official admitted in January that, as lead author of the IPCC's Asian report, he intentionally exaggerated when claiming Himalayan glaciers would melt away by 2035 in order to prod governments into action.

Not exact matches

On July 27, Bennett admonished Gantz as he was speaking before the cabinet, telling him that military leaders should be like «galloping horses» that need to be restrained by the government, not like «lazy bulls,» which require prodding to take action.

The committee is also calling on the Liberal government to better protect the personal data of Canadians who purchase and sell products online through enhanced cybersecurity, modernize federal e-commerce legislation, and come up with ways to fuel telecom competition to prod Canadians» use of mobile devices to make online purchases and sales.

When Auditor General Michael Ferguson prodded Finance Canada last fall to make such comprehensive forecasts available to the public, the department politely declined, noting that «the federal government is not accountable for the fiscal situation of the provinces and territories.»

But the White House hopes it will set a standard that will prod lawmakers, private employers, and state and local governments to expand their leave policies.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau declared his support for TransCanada's Keystone XL pipeline in a speech to the Calgary Petroleum Club in October 2013 while also criticizing the Conservative government's approach to lobbying for the pipeline in Washington D.C. «They have poked and prodded, annoyed and irritated the Obama administration at every turn.

Consider that this proposition, after decades of prodding by good - government groups, was drawn up by a legislature whose fundamental purpose is to maintain its majorities.

He said he viewed his new role, which is expected to be formally announced Thursday along with other Council committee assignments for the next four years, as focused on prodding a «complacent bureaucracy» to better provide city services and dig «deep into the operational failures of city government.»

«The real challenge for us is how we get to the point where structures are sufficiently clear that the capacity to innovate is there within the public service and doesn't need continual prodding and pushing from the government to do it.»

Cuomo has been eager to get the infrastructure project off the ground, prodding the federal government along to provide the needed funding for the effort.

Dean Skelos is charged with prodding several people, including Bonomo, into making payments to his son in exchange for government favors.

The flurry of action — at breakneck speed compared with most vaccine development — shows how a health emergency and a guaranteed global market can prod this process to move a lot faster than usual, with streamlined approvals and millions of dollars in government support.

At the same time, governments and institutions (prodded by employers) are raising standards for what students should know at every stage of school.

A government research facility in 1962 Baltimore is the setting, and «The Asset» being secured and studied is an amphibian man that was captured in South America by a sadistic Richard Strickland (Michael Shannon) and his electric cattle prod.

In Guillermo del Toro's «The Shape of Water,» the actor plays the cattle - prod - wielding government operative who has discovered, and captured, an Amazonian river creature, half - man, half - amphibian.

A lonely, mute janitor, Elisa Esposito (Sally Hawkins), discovers an exotic, aquatic Creature from the Black Lagoon, hidden in a cylindrical tank in a high - security government laboratory, run by sadistic Richard Strickland (Michael Shannon) who tortures his amphibian captive with an electric cattle prod.

Under present day standards and accountability systems, states, pushed and prodded by the federal government, have moved from trying to force districts to educate students to a minimum level of basic skills and to do something about schools that are obviously failing, to holding districts, schools and teachers accountable for (in the words of the Common Core State Standards Initiative) «preparing all students for success in college, career, and life.»

Will Chan Zuckerberg be a pilot fish — a brain trust, prod, and fount of matching dollars — for government?

Through some combination of national pride, Japanese government prodding, and goodwill, Toyota Motor Corporation (TMC) began a relationship with Fuji Heavy Industries (FHI) after Fuji's divorce from GM.

The petition from the environmental groups is meant to prod the federal government to take steps to deal with the growing concern.

The conference in Copenhagen was organized by the Danish government as a way to prod countries toward an agreement with climate - treaty negotiations convene there in December.

The pace of industrial innovation is driven both to the pull of markets and the prod of government policies and public pressure.

«By stunned, the government says the crustaceans must instead be prodded with an electrical device before they are boiled, to produce «mechanical destruction» of the brain.»

Proponents acknowledge that certain improvements are needed to make the technology more attractive to developers even without government prodding.