Sentences with phrase «prompted immediate calls»

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This has prompted farmers groups in Asia to call for the immediate halt of the said project, stating that the said GM crop would adversely affect the staple food crop of billions of people across Asia.

The importance of early life feeding and behaviour has prompted priority calls for the protection, promotion and support of breastfeeding and an immediate end to the marketing of unhealthy foods to all children, for example in the EU Childhood Obesity Action Plan 2014 - 2020 9 and most recently the Second International Conference on Nutrition 10 in Rome.

Word that plans are proceeding for construction of a new international bridge linking Detroit and Windsor, Ontario has prompted Congressman Brian Higgins to call for an immediate end to all the hemming and hawing that has been part of the Peace Bridge expansion issue for two decades.

MCA 1937 had clearly had an effect, but it was the social and economic change in the immediate post-war years that had really fuelled the increase and which prompted the call for reform.

Preparing the Hague Convention case for a hearing (invariably on an expedited basis since the treaty calls for prompt action and ICARA allows American courts to take immediate measures to protect the child);