Sentences with phrase «recent government moves»

«The pendulum has swung too far,» he said, in reference to recent government moves to re-direct CSIRO and university science away from basic research toward applied research.

Not exact matches

The move is part of a consumer - first strategy outlined in the federal government's recent throne speech.

The recent move by the Swiss government to allow banks to sidestep secrecy laws won't prevent them from depositing money in the country.

In fact, a recent study in the American Journal of Public Health finds that the EPA «has moved away from the public interest and explicitly favored the interests of the regulated industries,» and is on the slippery slope to what scholars term «regulatory capture,» in which a government agency makes rules in the interest of an industry it's supposed to regulate rather than the public.

CALGARY — Malaysian energy giant Petronas said Wednesday it's delaying its proposed liquefied natural gas terminal near Prince Rupert, B.C., even though it's pleased with recent moves the provincial government has made to make the nascent LNG industry more competitive.

Such a move was no longer attractive after recent measures taken by the Singapore government to cool the city - state's property market, Overseas Union said.

The state government's chief information officer, Giles Nunis, is moving to the private sector following a recent review recommended sweeping changes to his office, which was established under the Barnett government.

The Chinese government plans to immediately impose tariffs on 128 U.S. products, including pork and certain fruits, a direct response to President Donald Trump's recent moves to pursue numerous trade restrictions against Beijing.

Some economists have raised concerns that recent moves by the Trump administration and Congress to boost economic growth through $ 1.5 trillion in tax cuts and increased government spending could cause the Fed to worry about overheating and inflation.

The second major issue in our deliberations was the federal government's recent move to strengthen mortgage markets.

Take away: The move, followed a few recent high - profile mergers among State - owned companies, highlighted the government's determination to push forward reforms of the state - owned companies to improve efficiency.

«Privacy Is Not for Sale» A recent Forbes article has reported that the Russian government has moved on shutting down Telegram, the major messaging platform, in Russia.

Meanwhile, Albert Edwards of SocGen suggested that there has been an excessive «move away from equities» in recent years — instead of noting, for example, that the volume of U.S. government debt foisted upon the public (even excluding what has been purchased by the Fed) has doubled since 2007, not to mention other sources of global debt issuance, while the market capitalization of stocks has merely recovered to its previously overvalued highs.

The recent Albertan NDP budget has further diminished any incentive, by moving further down the path towards government reliance that eliminates opportunity, as the burden of Alberta's record debt mounts.

Former Prime Minister Stephen Harper added to this unease after a recent trip to Washington, stating that he does not believe President Trump's threat to pull out of the deal is a bluff, and that the government needs to think about concessions to move the process forward.

He offers as evidence a litany of recent congressional developments, such as the vote in the House of Representatives to gut the Clinton administration's counterterrorism bill — a move that Henry Hyde (R., Ill.) attributed to a corrosive distrust of government on the part of a broad coalition in Congress.

However, in recent decisions on food labelling, warning labels on alcohol and reforms on medicines, [governments] seem to have moved much closer to the industry perspective,» Moore says.

Recent news on the establishment of IRRI's South Asia's Regional Centre in city of Varanasi in the last quarter of 2017 have raised alarm as it may serve as a pretext to the government's aggressive move to commercialize genetically engineered rice.

Considering most government officials in the UK don't know how Brexit will play out, it would be a huge surprise were Gabigol's move to Arsenal scuppered by the recent vote.

Since the early 1990s, government policy on maternity care in England has moved towards policies designed to give women with straightforward pregnancies a choice of settings for birth.1 2 In this context, freestanding midwifery units, midwifery units located in the same building or on the same site as an obstetric unit (hereafter referred to as alongside midwifery units), and home birth services have increasingly become relevant to the configuration of maternity services under consideration in England.3 The relative benefits and risks of birth in these alternative settings have been widely debated in recent years.4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Lower rates of obstetric interventions and other positive maternal outcomes have been consistently found in planned births at home and in midwifery units, but clear conclusions regarding perinatal outcome have been lacking.

I am forced to believe that your participation in the program is a cynical move on your part to improve your image in the international community, an image which is constantly marred by your unethical marketing of breastmilk substitutes and other widely publicized immoral acts (ie your recent attempts to exploit the impoverished Ethiopian government).

Falkland Islanders are accustomed to political rhetoric emanating from Buenos Aires, but recent moves by the current Argentine Government are conspiring to make every day life difficult for Islanders.

Kamson however expressed concerns that in recent times, some non-complaint private operators on the waterways had misconstrued the moves by the State Government as a ploy to harass and intimidate them out of business and had been peddling unwarranted falsehood, claims, counter claims and litigation in the media.

But recent moves have revealed the complete lack of voices determined to keep Government out of the conversation over businesses operate.

Recent moves have revealed the complete lack of voices determined to keep Government out of the conversation over businesses operate.

The moves by the British government to curb the influence of the European court come amid criticism of the court's recent blocks of the deportation of radical cleric Abu Qatada by the British government.

Against the backdrop of recent moves by ex-militant fighters in the Niger Delta to resurrect the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND), the Centre for Crisis Communication (CCC) has called on the federal government to ensure that the full wrath of the law is brought to bear on any individual or group that wants to engineer crisis in the country.

On the same day that the Shadow Education Secretary will say that he wants to move away from «the narrow, «exam factory» vision of recent years a unique alliance of teachers, students, parents, local government representatives, governors, international experts and businesses has come together to produce a vision of what is being called Big Education.

The Tory leader said the move was part of the government's «pattern of deception» in the recent row over future spending on public services.

She has acquired a high media profile and shone in her job in the Treasury team before her recent move to the local government team.

After residents built seawalls, the government moved to build a barrier in 2004, followed by Alokoa's most recent initiative.

Another is the Canadian government's recent move to halt a construction project in a Montreal suburb in order to protect chorus frogs,» he says.

Today's ministerial visit follows the recent confirmation of a number of other government measures to improve development opportunities for great teachers, whether they decide to move into a leadership role or want to continue teaching in the classroom.

The government spending watchdog has published a report looking at the progress of the academies programme, in the context of recent moves to increase the number of academies across England.

ONTARIO: The Ontario government throne speech makes no specific reference to 21st century skills or competencies, but Premier Dalton places priority on maintaining Ontario's schools as the best in the English speaking world with its recent move to full day kindergarten.

While the diesel engine is an interesting move, considering the recent scrutiny coal - rollers are facing from the government, the extra safety tech is a welcome addition.

The recent changes, while in theory aimed at easing the student loan burden for the debtors, are also part of the federal government's move to trim expenses in the face of its own spiraling debts.

The federal government has moved several times in recent years in an effort to limit risks in mortgage lending.

Bank of Canada governor Stephen Poloz says risks from household debt and the housing market will be better addressed by the government's recent policy moves than by adjusting interest rates.

OTTAWA — The Harper government's recent move to raise the contribution ceiling on tax - free savings accounts offers little to benefit low - and middle - income Canadians, a new analysis of federal tax data has found.

«For private collectors, it hasn't been so tough in recent years to move works, but the red tape between governments for transfers between institutions has been very difficult,» she said.

More recent clearances have been government projects where there have generally been lengthy periods of notice for people to move out, including the demolition in April of Hei Qiao (Black Bridge), a village in which many prominent artists such as Zhao Gang, Sun Xun, and Liang Yuanwei had their studios.

Recent moves by Peru's government to weaken environmental and land rights legislation have raised the stakes further for activists.

«In light of recent rhetoric, observers could have expected a stronger move from the government, that would utilise the market to remove coal generation as soon as possible rather than handing it another lifeline,» he said.

The U.S. government should move toward a coordinated national climate change adaptation strategy, says a federal interagency task force in a recent report to the President.

«While our federal government is sitting on its hands, California is moving full speed ahead toward a clean energy future,» Mr. Schwarzenegger, who campaigned vigorously against the initiative, said in a recent address.

As the federal government moves to limit judicial discretion in the sentencing of violent crimes, a recent decision from the British Columbia Court of Appeal has reasserted the court's authority, ruling that jurors in murder trials need not be unanimous in their sentencing recommendation to the court.

Alison Horner, VAT partner at MHA MacIntyre Hudson, below discusses the UK government's recent moves on customs duty.

Proof of that is the recent and sudden resignation of Shawn Atleo as the national chief of the Assembly of First Nations, over disagreement among the chiefs about moving forward on government bill aimed at reforming aboriginal education.

In light of the moves within Parliament to reform the law relating to stalking, and the recent committee meeting in the House of Commons on 30 March 2011 addressing the need for a change in the law, we wonder whether pressure will build on the government to implement this provision, which would go some way to protecting employees from the harassing acts of others.