Sentences with phrase «related issues were raised»

I accept that with the benefit of hindsight I should have taken much greater care to ensure that any meetings with Adam Werritty, at which defence and security related issues were raised, were properly attended by officials and recorded — to protect myself and the Government from any suggestion of wrongdoing.

Not exact matches

Fortunately, although these issues did not come up in the 2009 Bank of America - related hearing, they were raised by Rakoff in the Citi case.

«I see the memo as the CFTC cautioning its employees on the ethical issues that could be raised by their trading in cryptocurrencies, encouraging them to consider and seek advice from the CFTC ethics team before trading in cryptocurrencies, noting that employees may not transact in cryptocurrencies if they have nonpublic information about them from their work at the CFTC, and advising that those who participate in CFTC dealings related to cryptocurrencies may not trade in them for conflict of interest reasons.»

Since this Request for Comments was related to the issue of delay, it is always better to keep comments narrow and specific to the questions the regulating agency raises and not wander off course.

Examples of these risks, uncertainties and other factors include, but are not limited to the impact of: adverse general economic and related factors, such as fluctuating or increasing levels of unemployment, underemployment and the volatility of fuel prices, declines in the securities and real estate markets, and perceptions of these conditions that decrease the level of disposable income of consumers or consumer confidence; adverse events impacting the security of travel, such as terrorist acts, armed conflict and threats thereof, acts of piracy, and other international events; the risks and increased costs associated with operating internationally; our expansion into and investments in new markets; breaches in data security or other disturbances to our information technology and other networks; the spread of epidemics and viral outbreaks; adverse incidents involving cruise ships; changes in fuel prices and / or other cruise operating costs; any impairment of our tradenames or goodwill; our hedging strategies; our inability to obtain adequate insurance coverage; our substantial indebtedness, including the ability to raise additional capital to fund our operations, and to generate the necessary amount of cash to service our existing debt; restrictions in the agreements governing our indebtedness that limit our flexibility in operating our business; the significant portion of our assets pledged as collateral under our existing debt agreements and the ability of our creditors to accelerate the repayment of our indebtedness; volatility and disruptions in the global credit and financial markets, which may adversely affect our ability to borrow and could increase our counterparty credit risks, including those under our credit facilities, derivatives, contingent obligations, insurance contracts and new ship progress payment guarantees; fluctuations in foreign currency exchange rates; overcapacity in key markets or globally; our inability to recruit or retain qualified personnel or the loss of key personnel; future changes relating to how external distribution channels sell and market our cruises; our reliance on third parties to provide hotel management services to certain ships and certain other services; delays in our shipbuilding program and ship repairs, maintenance and refurbishments; future increases in the price of, or major changes or reduction in, commercial airline services; seasonal variations in passenger fare rates and occupancy levels at different times of the year; our ability to keep pace with developments in technology; amendments to our collective bargaining agreements for crew members and other employee relation issues; the continued availability of attractive port destinations; pending or threatened litigation, investigations and enforcement actions; changes involving the tax and environmental regulatory regimes in which we operate; and other factors set forth under «Risk Factors» in our most recently filed Annual Report on Form 10 - K and subsequent filings by the Company with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

Mr Bogle's letter does raise a number of related and important issues, which, however, need to be carefully distinguished from each other.

It is hoped that the following analysis of research, as it relates to the issues which have been raised, will advance substantially a sound and impartial evaluation of the effects and effectiveness of religious broadcasting, and lay a foundation for future research and planning.

When gospel - related themes about justice, peace, and equality are raised in the various elements of culture, the church may suspect that these issues did not rise solely out of the hearts and minds of unregenerate people, but were created by the gentle breezes of the Spirit upon all people in our society.

This supplementary submission has been prepared in response to key issues raised by community members (both in public submissions received by the Committee and at the Committee's public hearings) that relate to Commonwealth environmental water.

Recovering from a C section and raising two babies at the same time took up the bulk of our energy and attention for the past year and a half, but once the dust settled and we found our groove as a new family, I looked at my husband and realized there was an important baby related issue we needed to address — what to do with the remaining 4 embryos.

As the Chicago Board of Education prepares to approve a 2011 - 12 budget Wednesday, school officials and the teachers union are battling publicly over related issues of withdrawn raises and the mayor's push for a longer school day.

With the sole mission of raising the standards of children's diets, Annabel is a sought - after media commentator on food - related issues, and she regularly undertakes consultancy work for major nursery chains, leisure resorts, restaurants, and hotels worldwide.

This is a political subject - matter, and therefore, there are certain related issues that can be raised here.

The proposal was submitted through the Rules Committee to create the bipartisan committee that would report by April 1 with «any findings and recommendations related to updating the employee handbook, employee training curriculum, and notice of practices for reporting and investigations related to the issues raised here within to the full legislature.»

Segun was in control of all the members of the House of Representatives from Ogun State and the three senators and these people had issues that were raised and I was in the committee that listened to them and Segun had always said (in fairness to Segun) that he had no problem with the governor of Ogun State and it is the people he leads that have issues and he thinks for the issue to be addressed, we should be relating to those people.

And that «if payments have been made to the 2nd and 3rd Defendants under agreements other the two * dated 26th April 2006 *, which were terminated, issues relating to those payments would have to be determined in a forum other than this Court (Supreme Court) and in a different action, since they do not come within the issue of constitutional interpretation raised by the Plaintiff's writ».

In a statement shortly after midnight, Cuomo said the financial issues related to the budget were «resolved,» but that there should also be action on raise the age and 421 - a.

Haruna Iddrisu also raised what he termed constitutional issues and strongly registered his disapproval to portions of the agreement which demand that disputes relating to the agreement shall not be referred to local or international court.

The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission issued an order relating to a newly - implemented energy capacity zone that is already raising electric rates.

The governor says many complicated issues related to the budget are still on the table, including raising the minimum wage.

But after the elections, almost all the issues that are being raised either by the staff of the EC or the EC Chairperson, are all 2016 general election related.»

He has been a leader on statewide mental health issues, worked tirelessly to combat heroin and opioid addiction, and raised awareness about concerns related to post-traumatic stress disorder.

The report, which was produced by Manpower, aims to raise awareness of the issues relating to people with disabilities and work.

«The people who argue for maintaining these bans on student unit records were raising issues related to privacy, and we're very sensitive to those issues.

Klimchuk says the policies that Rudolph referenced relate to an agency's authority to hire rotators or to NSF's policies regarding security, teleworking, ethical conduct, and other everyday workplace issues, not the questions he and his colleagues were raising.

Science for policy seeks to inform policymakers about the relevant science on an issue they are considering and relates more to the second aspect of my job, raising the profile of statisticians in policymaking.

The issue was raised at the gathering because the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics had asked the chiefs to endorse its 1986 position statement that all students be allowed to use the devices during classes and related examinations.

A related issue, first raised by Durkheim and now at the center of critical pedagogy, is: How much emphasis should schools place on promoting individual achievement vis - Ã - vis collective well - being?

Silva et al. (2000) offered a related finding in a case study of teacher leadership, which found it was critical to one teacher leader's development to communicate openly and raise issues freely with the principal.

Meier's book is a wake - up call, and raises some important policy issues related to the standards movement.

If students on any path were free to access specialist teaching in other institutions, many of the issues relating to the consequences of Raising the Participation Age (RPA)-- such as colleges accusing schools of rejecting GCSE «failures» and the challenge faced by further education teachers to deliver results in GCSE English and maths effectively — could be significantly reduced.

Retaining an explicit emphasis in the new standards on including «opportunities for students to study relationships among science, technology, and society» (Hicks et al., 2014, Table 1) would open the door to consideration of a set of issues that every future teacher ought to be thinking about, for example, the power relationships enacted online as manifest through sexism, racism, anti-Semitism, and homophobia; the quality of the discourse and information that circulates there and the effects of rumor on reputation; notions of public and private in a digital age; cyber bullying and suicide; copyright and plagiarism; ethics and professional responsibilities related to social media; and a host of other topics and questions that a critical media literacy approach could raise regarding technology and citizenship education.

«The high level of suspensions among students with disabilities raises questions, the report suggests, about whether such children are unlawfully being taken out of class due to behavior issues related to their disabilities.»

The IDPF similarly has an accessibility forum where EPUB - related issues can be raised.

We are also active in education outreach and advocacy, participating in numerous animal - related events to raise awareness about animal welfare and specific issues as they pertain to Missouri.

While the recent upsurge of feminist activity in this country has indeed been a liberating one, its force has been chiefly emotional — personal, psychological and subjective — centered, like the other radical movements to which it is related, on the present and its immediate needs, rather than on historical analysis of the basic intellectual issues which the feminist attack on the status quo automatically raises.1 Like any revolution, however, the feminist one ultimately must come to grips with the intellectual and ideological basis of the various intellectual or scholarly disciplines — history, philosophy, sociology, psychology, etc. — in the same way that it questions the ideologies of present social institutions.

It's a very natural and immediate reaction to an environment that I was raised in and an environment that speaks to the many issues that relate to the deep mythologies that are present in earth materials.

Since then a number of female artists were active in raising gender - related issues, without necessarily being «feminists».

In the U.S., obesity and food - related illnesses are serious problems — so do museums have a responsibility to raise issues about food?

This situation raises a whole host of issues related to the integrity of science, which is why I made that post that included Gleick's testimony (I embellished the post at CP; gavin didn't snip anything).

This is an issue both in terms of forces raising emissions of greenhouse gases and the extent of vulnerability to climate - related hazards.

And most of the issues related to sustainable development are mainly about limiting vulnerability of the portion of humanity (mostly the poorest portion) exposed to the greatest environmental risks — both those dying young right now by breathing toxic smoke from 2 billion unvented cooking fires and those who could face raised odds of flooding or famine in coming decades if climate is disrupted too much.

In the countryside there can be as few as 15 or 20 pollens,» Olivier Darne, an artist and urban beekeeper who create bee - related art installations to raise awareness about the issue.

With the degree to which the Obama administration has supported the gas industry as a transitional fuel to get away from coal, it is great to see Fox and Gasland II getting this attention and raising the issues related to this source of energy.

This comment should probably be in a different place, but since several others raised related issues and I'm here....

I will discuss a selection of the global warming - related issues that are raised in between the car chases, shoot - outs, cannibalistic rites and assorted derring - do.

The related issues raised - funding, public opinion, more research, regulatory challenges, etc. - are trivial by comparison.

It focuses on three broad issues: how cities contribute to and are affected by climate change; how policy makers can use cities to change human behavior and improve technology related to climate change; how cities should use climate change as an opportunity to raise their profile, reinforce sensible policies, and move toward a more sustainable community and planet.

But at SkyTruth we have acquired good images often enough to illustrate the enormity of the spill and inadequacy of our initial spill response efforts; provide the first estimate of the spill size and rate that made any sense; to identify oil making landfall along the Alabama coast before it was being acknowledged by officials; to show clear entrainment of the spill in the Loop Current while officials were actively denying it; and to detect small but chronic leaks from other damaged wells, raising the related issue of inadequate plugging and abandonment.

JC comment: This post raises the practical economical issues of using renewable energy in the U.S. I would be interested in any personal experiences related to using alternative energy sources.