Sentences with phrase «say policies aimed»

Ahmed, who addressed the correspondents alongside the Minister of Labour and Employment, Dr Chris Ngige and Minister of State for Petroleum, Dr Ibe Kachikwu, said the policy aimed at using a transformative mechanism for mitigating poverty and unemployment across the country.

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Gail McGowan, the Department of Consumer Employment and Protection associate director of Policy and Education, said WorkSafe aimed to focus on the prevention of workplace injury and the education of employers and employees.

«It seemed as if Bank of Canada policy was solely aimed at bringing the Toronto housing market into control,» Porter says.

«Ending the cost - sharing payments would be a clear signal from the Trump administration that they are not aiming to run the ACA marketplace effectively, so insurers would likely just throw up their hands and leave the market,» said Larry Levitt, a senior vice president at The Kaiser Family Foundation, a nonpartisan health - policy think tank.

«There is some truth to that, because [in] Toronto for example, there is limitation as to where you can build low rise construction,» he said, referring to green belt policies aimed at limiting urban sprawl.

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.

«Didi and SoftBank will diligently study local market conditions and policies, and will actively engage with industry practitioners, policymakers and other stakeholders, with the aim of building an open and inclusive platform that will be available to all of Japan's taxi operators,» the Chinese firm said in an announcement.

While the exact policy details aren't immediately available, the products are said to be aimed at shoring up confidence in digital currency transactions.

Sabet, who worked in the White House's Office of National Drug Control Policy during President Obama's first term and serves as director of the Drug Policy Institute at the University of Florida, said the negative consequences of marijuana legalization include advertising aimed at kids, an increase in drugged - driving incidents and a spillover of marijuana from Colorado into surrounding states, where the drug remains illegal.

«A new U.S. rule aimed at restoring consumers» ability to band together to sue financial companies has survived its first challenge, as a top banking regulator on Monday said he would not petition for it to be suspended... «The rule is a well thought - out response to the serious consumer harm of forced arbitration,» said Brian Marshall, policy counsel for advocacy group Americans for Financial Reform.»

Gregory Klump, CREA's Chief Economist, says, «Homebuyers and sellers both reacted to the recent Ontario government policy announcement aimed at cooling housing markets in and around Toronto.

The Bank of Japan's expansionary policy, Carney said, was aimed at restoring a healthy pace of inflation domestically, not at influencing the currency value.

He also said that the BOJ's «yield curve policy» is aimed at boosting inflation expectations and not flattening the yield curve.

Although I chaired the relevant meetings of the House of Bishops in 2003, I believed that the policies we were discussing were principally aimed at how parishes should deal with matters and I did not envisage that some of these policies would one day be said to be relevant to the decisions I made about how to respond to these various reports about Robert Waddington.

And so, a few years ago, Daniel Callahan of the Hastings Center was condemned for suggesting that public policy should set a point, say age eighty - five, above which no more medical interventions aimed at curing should be attempted.

Mr Djibril Drame, a Resource Person at the launch of the project said it was aimed at providing guidance to food chain actors, government and private sector on appropriate food packaging systems including food packaging, materials, equipment and an enabling policy and regulatory framework.

I started googling way back in may who could we be buying gonzalo higuian, julio cesar and wayne rooney but realize going by history wenger just as no interest in buying world class players, he wants 2 buy d grade players and turn them up to koscienly nd nasri that will take years while da arsenal faithful pay handsome figures for dismal performances, fans allowed wenger 2 get away when he gets away with these lucky matches of fenerbache been strong on paper but a waste of tym on the pitch, also it happen at bayern but they put a slighty weak team but wenger runt his mouth around of how good da team was after that 2 - 0 win, not forgetting it was bould that got the team defense looking solid while wenger moan about referee decisions and no blame on team, I just feel we (arsenal) have allowed wenger and co to misuse us, so now our main target aim is benzema yet giroud plays more often than him for france, can any1 see how wenger is lowing our standards and expectations at arsenal, I wil be over da moon if wenger does not sign an extension wit us, after the gilberto days and disaterous results and teams we play, his approach to the game defensely which is pathetic and his annoying behaviour.So what if manu and chelski haven't really bought they are already strong it was seen last week now we should be worried about our selves since that villa defeat, jst imagine what the man's and london money maniac's are goin 2 do to us, I can see it already coming from wenger, if we find the right player we will buy him, after sept2, we didn't find da right player but the squad can challenge for the title, its so sick having 2 hear that crap, just take him psg, I just wish the fans would say we had enough of this bullshit transfer policies its time we stood up against these pigs of directors by protesting!

* 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 minister said that plans have been put in place to implement the policy with the aim of ensuring that the less privileged in society have equal access to Senior High School (SHS) education.

Mr. Edwin Nii Lantey Vanderpuye Deputy Minister of Trade and Industry said government has an agricultural base policy that aims at ensuring the production of the necessary raw materials to feed the nations industries.

It says the government would have to make it «the central aim of all its economic policies» and identify what it looks like in terms of employment rates for specific groups, more sustainable welfare provision and public services and a greater focus on job creation.

And when you're aiming to fight an election attacking the Opposition's economic policies, it makes no sense to lock the chancellor in a cupboard — «not quite in a cupboard», Hammond said later — for the campaign.

The committee said that «shuffling the body responsible for providing cross-departmental science and engineering advice from one department to another» contradicted the government's stated aim of «putting science and engineering at the heart of policy».

Oba Ogunwusi who reiterated his support for programmes and policies of the state government aimed at bringing development to Osun, said «we are not against the state government for this necessary step».

As UKIP prepares for its Welsh conference, Labour's launched a campaign aimed at highlighting what it says are UKIP's «right - wing, Thatcherite» policies.

The Minister of Local Government and Rural Development, Akwasi Oppong - Fosu says the development of the National Decentralisation Policy Framework and National Decentralisation Action Plan is aimed at systematic rolling out of the implementation of tangible activities to promote participatory decision - making and effective service delivery at the local level.

James Browne, a senior research economist at the IFS who wrote the report, said: «Further reductions in household income are inevitable as government policies aimed at helping to reduce government borrowing from its post-World War II high are introduced.

Citing Airbnb and Bitcoin, the Teachout - Wu policy also says that state regulatory efforts «should aim to avoid panic and / or efforts primarily designed to protect threatened incumbents.»

Speaking to Citi Business News in Copenhagen, at a reception by her office to welcome four Ghanaian journalists on a press trip at the invitation of the Danish Government, Her Excellency Mrs. Amerley Ollenu Awua - Asamoa, said Government's policy of diaspora engagement is aimed at attracting Ghana's high quality manpower to help bring home the needed investment to drive the government's industrialization agenda.

Currently, Syracuse police don't have a policy or enforcement effort aimed at panhandlers, said Syracuse Police Capt. Richard Shoff.

Ugwummadu described some policies of the government aimed at fighting graft, including the implementation of the Treasury Single Account, as good, saying the «Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation used to have so many bank accounts and the more accounts you have, the less you know about what is happening with the funds in those establishments.»

According to this Reuters article, «A Senate Democratic aide said Republicans in the House of Representatives were insisting on including policy language aimed at restricting abortions, as well as prohibiting the Environmental Protection Agency from regulating carbon emissions.»

Strategic Advantage also took aim at Schneiderman's filing last month, which it says included «an irrelevant polemic against «dark money,» highlighting the Commission's bias against an out - of - state organization that has chosen to express opinions and support policies of which the Commission and the Governor disapprove.»

Broad based policies aimed at encouraging marriage will do nothing to help the most disadvantaged families, the prime minister said today.

Amongst others, a monetary policy that will stabilise the currency and reduce significantly the cost of borrowing, in addition to a raft of tax cuts, he said, have been put in place to bring relief to businesses, with the aim of lowering the cost of doing business and shifting the focus of our economy from taxation to production.

He said every policy and decision made by his government was aimed to further the peoples» interest and lift them from the morass of hopelessness, helplessness, dejection, poverty and ignorance into the cape of peace, security, prosperity and abundant life.

Trump will issue «further guidance» on an Obama administrative policy aimed at protecting transgender students in public schools, White House press secretary Sean Spicer said.

«If you think you are in this middle group, policies and language aimed at «the poor» by definition exclude you,» he said.

Nigeria's Senate President, Dr. Abubakar Bukola Saraki has said that the 8th Senate will collaborate with the Executive to ensure that the policies and programmes of the present administration aimed at reviving the economy are sustained on a long term basis.

She said she favors a «trust - busting» approach aimed at curbing the political power of large banking interests to influence policy for their own benefit.

«Our aim is to encourage seriously ambitious policy development and to help improve the party's campaigning edge in really practical ways,» said David Davis, who lost the Tory leadership to Cameron in 2005.

Balls says Labour is planning to set out «radical but credible» policies aimed at tackling the «deep - seated cost - of - living crisis» over the coming months.

He said the government can not claim to have improved the economy of the country within its 6 months in office because most of its policy interventions aimed at addressing the economic challenges are yet to be implemented.

«Since her first child entered the City's public school system ten years ago, Ann Kittredge has immersed herself in learning about the many different facets of educational policy and has dedicated a great deal of her time and effort to volunteer projects aimed at improving the education experience of our children,» Borough President Katz said.

He has also said repeatedly that tax policy and other initiatives need to be aimed at keeping businesses and residents from moving out of state.

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.

In his remarks, the Vice Chancellor of the university, Prof. Friday Okonofua, said the lecture was aimed at bridging the gap between academics, policy makers and government officials on what needed to be done to recover the Nigerian educational system to galvanise and ensure the future development of the country.

Now Gordon Brown has also warned this week, saying that there will be no retreat to the soft options, the narrow politics of failed policies of the past and he was aiming that at the Deputy Leadership candidates and I wonder whether he was aiming it at you.

At the lecture titled «Transforming Nigeria's educational System: Looking back and looking forward,» the governor said the educational policy and programme of his administration were aimed at eradicating the poor educational system in Kaduna.

Senior author A. David Paltiel, MBA, PhD, professor of Public Health (Health Policy) at the Yale School of Public Health, says, «Our aim is to confront donor nations with the clinical and economic consequences of any decision to substantially cut HIV program funding and to help recipient nations respond in the least harmful ways possible to the actions of countries in the developed world.»