Sentences with phrase «serious concerns to the government»

Not exact matches

The 12 - year old scandal over the Australian Wheat Board's payments to the government of Iraq has moved closer to final resolution, with its former chairman Trevor Flugge convicted today of breaching his duties as a director but cleared of more serious charges concerning his knowledge of the payments.

In the wake of media reports about problems at Surrey Memorial Hospital and serious concerns raised by nurses, the B.C. Liberal government announced that it would conduct a review of Fraser Health, producing a three - year strategic plan to be implemented in the new fiscal year.

While Canadians also say by a wide margin (45 % to 28 %) that their provincial government does a good job of managing gambling activities, there are also serious concerns about government management of negative impacts.

[I'm not convinced that one side or the other has the edge on «bullying,» but I certainly share Caryn's serious concerns over governments threatening to withold building permits from Chick - fil - A, (the same strategy was used here in East Tennessee to try and prevent local Muslims from building a mosque), and her critique of the unfortunate public «outing» this controversy inspired.]

Diabetes is also a serious health concern, with rising rates in recent years, according to the government.

Culture, media and sport spokesman Don Foster said: «There are serious concerns over the level of scrutiny given to the super casino proposals and it was left to the Liberal Democrats in the House of Lords to halt the government's headlong rush to Manchester.

«However much the Government tries to spin and distort it, the Education Select Committee's report highlighted serious concerns about Government policy in scrapping the EMA.

I already wrote to raise serious concerns about the ERG before, and since then its last Head, Suella Fernandes, has been appointed a Brexit minister - showing just how much influence this shadowy group has in government.

Onondaga County Chairman Tom Dadey issued a statement this morning raising «serious concerns» about the IDC - regular Democrat deal, and saying it will «will hand over the keys of state government to the New York City Democrats and the radical Working Families Party.»

The bill also raises serious concerns about the commitment of Nigerian lawmakers and the government to good governance and basic freedoms in a democratic society.»

The concern is that without serious changes to how local governments and school districts are forced to spend their money, which the cap is meant to address, the measure will be overridden.

Comptroller Tom DiNapoli, as you'll recall, said (in a statement to the New York Times) that he had «serious concerns» about Cuomo's budget proposal to allow cash - strapped local governments to borrow against future projected Tier 6 savings to provide more predictability in short - term pension payments.

However, in order to be taken as a serious government - in - waiting, politics has to come first and I was somewhat concerned recently to hear the following story about a member of the shadow cabinet: he had apparently already told David Cameron that he didn't want a higher profile post than that which he currently holds in advance of the general election, because he didn't want to give up other interests on account of time commitments or potential conflicts of interest involved in a different post.

«While I personally like David Valesky, I have serious concerns that the deal his Independent Democratic Conference has struck will hand over the keys of state government to the New York City Democrats and the radical Working Families Party,» Dadey said in a statement this morning.

Shadow foreign secretary Douglas Alexander said «serious questions» remained: «The pain and suffering still felt by many about the tragic events of 1984 places a particular duty on the Government to provide what answers it can to address very genuine concerns.»

... Liberal Democrat sources said the government will retreat on some parts of the lobbying bill as early as next week, after charities raised serious concerns that it would have a «chilling effect» on their ability to campaign.»

[35] Brian Madderson, the petrol chairman of the Retail Motor Industry Federation said that the Government appeared to be «intent on creating a crisis out of a serious concern and that drivers should ignore «dangerous advice».

But its very welcome, it will cause worry and concern in the PLP and this will feed into the public narrative of a government in serious trouble and decline If this type of Conservative poll lead continues with the Labour party continuing to drop under the 30 % barrier, I would expect it to have a similar destabilising effect on the Labour party comparable to the run up to the Conference season last year when we were facing an Autumn election with Labour riding high in the polls.

To cite a recent example, speaking at an event organized by the pressure group Save British Science, Astronomer Royal Professor Sir Martin Rees this week voiced his concern that the lack of a long - term view from successive governments means there is a serious danger that the cohort of young academic researchers needed to replace the older generation will fail to materializTo cite a recent example, speaking at an event organized by the pressure group Save British Science, Astronomer Royal Professor Sir Martin Rees this week voiced his concern that the lack of a long - term view from successive governments means there is a serious danger that the cohort of young academic researchers needed to replace the older generation will fail to materializto replace the older generation will fail to materializto materialize.

China said on Monday it would give rewards amounting to 5 billion yuan ($ 816.91 million) for curbing air pollution in six regions where the problem is serious, underscoring government concern about a source of public anger.

In light of these findings, the Sutton Trust has raised» serious concerns» about using grammar schools in their current form as a vehicle for social mobility and is calling on the government to «make sure the he admissions processes of existing grammar schools are fair», before their capacity is expanded.

«The volume of criticism deployed by successive governments is a serious deterrent to recruitment and retention, and the jump in the number of those reporting teachers leaving the profession is a concern.

Watching a government ignore its nation's needs and political leaders trick their citizens with promises they are unable to keep (to get more votes), serious concerns rise about the country's governmental system.

Governments have categorically refused to listen to the serious concerns of parents, educational professions and allied groups about the unsuitability and undue pressure which assessment is placing on our education system.

Schools Minister David Laws has defended the government's school rebuilding programme in response to serious concerns raised by a School Reporter.

The research, which is published with the Sutton Trust's response to the government's consultation on providing more good school places, raises serious concerns about using grammar schools in their current form as a vehicle for social mobility.

As a parent, it concerns me that you have required states to expand charter schools, increase standardized testing overall, tie teacher jobs to test scores, and turn around schools by firing half or more of the staff, when the overwhelming body of evidence — including that of the research arms of the federal government — is clear that these strategies do not improve academics overall and can have serious negative effects on children and their education.

The union has used its response to the funding formula consultation to urge the government to seize the opportunity to address serious concerns throughout the school sector, regarding the financial situation of some schools with contracts relating to new buildings.

I'm concerned that a Trump presidency may lead to serious problems in the US — civil unrest, authoritarian government, etc..

HSI / Canada calls on the Quebec government to swiftly regulate and enforce the adoption of Bill 51 — and work towards addressing animal welfare concerns relating mandatory jail time for serious cases of animal cruelty and cap on the number of animals and breeds of a commercial breeding operation.

Rep. Smith concluded that the letter was associated with IGES, and wrote in an October 1 letter to Dr. Shukla that this «raises serious concerns» warranting an investigation, because IGES receives government funding and the letter constituted «partisan political activity.»

Organisations representing and providing services for older and vulnerable people have rallied together to raise serious concerns around the Government's online tool for creating Lasting Powers of Attorney (LPAs).

As one trade association representing the information technology sector explained,» [d] espite the Chinese government's serious effort to begin addressing the piracy of intellectual property, the protection of [intellectual property] remains our industry's chief concern in 2005.

Small business owners have serious concerns and would like to see the Government go even further with its reforms.

The economic sustainability of small communities and rural areas in Canada is of serious concern to those working in government, the private sector and the general public alike.

With two weighty reports from two highly respected jurists both pointing to similar, serious human rights concerns Canadians then waited for the government to respond.

As well, Jeff's interest in law reform and public policy development led to his appointment as a counsel for George Adams in the public consultation he conducted for the Ontario Government concerning Ontario's Special Investigations Unit which investigates police action resulting in death or serious injury.

The Government is promoting the Bill as improving services to vulnerable children and supporting strong families but, from the point of view of many of our service users, there are some very serious concerns.

I continue to have serious concerns that Indigenous Australians have largely been left out of the government's equation.

The federal government's tendency to deliver important policy decisions in Indigenous affairs as a fait accompli — even to territory and state governments — raises serious concerns about the ability of Indigenous communities to negotiate as equal partners in the many agreement making processes that have been introduced with the new arrangements.

What do we make of the Federal Government's commitment to «closing the gap» for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health if it continues to back changes to the Racial Discrimination Act, when we know that racism is a serious health concern in Australia?

I'm trying to be as fair as I can but I find it hard to identify positives for the Coalition Government in health and very easy to rattle off many examples of serious vandalism plus a lot of major concerns for their future policies.

This is despite serious concerns and criticism about the 2008 amendments that make it easier for the Queensland Government to compulsorily acquire Indigenous land.

Now I note that you said today that there's been great improvement over a short period of time, and I'm sure there has been, but you know it's interesting to me, and again I will say this because I come from a country myself where there is a disadvantaged community and a lot of government programs et cetera, it's of serious concern the extent of the dramatic inequalities that are still being experienced by these population groups when they represent only, you know, no more than 2 % of the population of a highly developed, industrialised state, and I just, it makes me wonder about things like the effectiveness of the programs, monitoring, benchmarking, what are the standards, is anybody watching this to see whether or not they really are designed to meet the disadvantages that are real in the communities, you know the real history of systemic discrimination, institutional racism?