Sentences with phrase «secure resource areas»

«Many countries, such as China, Russia, Japan, France and India, are positioning themselves strategically to secure resource areas in international waters,» says Søreide.

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THIRD Rail Limited, the new incarnation of AMX Resources, has secured three contracts to provide a wide area network over a broadband infrastructure to link all university campuses in Ghana.

Head Start and Early Head Start provide reliable assistance in securing resources for families in areas such as food security, safe and adequate housing, family counseling, and the many other challenges that parents face in creating a healthy and nurturing environment for their children.

«That will mean stepping up efficiency savings, it will mean accelerating public service reforms, it will mean committing to far - reaching asset sales and securing responsible pay deals and it will mean switching resources from lower to higher priority areas that better meet the new challenges.»

«We're taking resources from around the city to make sure we keep [the area around Trump Tower] secure,» said NYPD Commissioner James O'Neill at a breakfast event in Manhattan this Wednesday morning.

«The scale of the security needs to secure Trump Tower in the heart of midtown Manhattan is unprecedented, and the NYPD has done an outstanding job, in cooperation with the Secret Service, of devoting the personnel and resources necessary to protect and properly secure the area,» the letter states.

We respectfully appeal to you to mobilise law enforcement resources to all threatened areas to secure the affected areas as a matter of urgency, and stop all illegal mining activities.

In addition, they successfully organized to stop several school closings in the area and secured resources for neglected neighborhood schools.

Because securing high - quality and affordable facilities is such a challenge for charter schools, CCSA devotes significant resources to advocacy in this area.

Players are able to take control of areas within a map by securing generators, increasing their power reserve and discovering potential resources that can be gathered.

Real - Time Strategy games are focused primarily on the control of territory and assets: whereby two or more opposing forces will appear in the same map in an effort to assert dominance by securing resources or locations within the existing defined area.

Often in order for this to be achieved, each force will build collections of structures and units that either improve the resource collection within a given area, defend existing structures and land or scout and secure areas of the map by force.

It is particularly valuable in securing supplies of critical resources, and recycling of rare metals is essential for the European Union to pioneer new technologies, particularly in areas such as communication technologies and renewable energy.

In recognition of the dividends of helping indigenous peoples and local communities in rural areas secure rights to their traditional lands, in October the Rights and Resources Initiative (RRI) announced the International Land and Forest Tenure Facility, a $ 100 million, fund for scaling up recognition of rights to collective lands and forests.

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