Sentences with phrase «standards committee there»

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«There has to be agreement and consensus across the member countries to take a standard forward,» said Mr. Dunn, who is also the head of the Australian delegation to the committee.

Surprisingly, there isn't a league standard or rating system for shoulder pads, though league spokesman Brian McCarthy says this is an area that the Health and Safety committee is looking into.

«When the BFHI was launched in 1991, there were very few countries that had dedicated authorities or committees to oversee and regulate infant feeding standards.

Speaker John Bercow has written to Kevin Barron, the chair of the Commons» standards committee, asking him to investigate the issue because he believes «there is a reputational issue for the House involved».

There must be a solution which protects parliamentary privilege and the continuing integrity of the standards committee's work whilst having external regulation of this sort of complaint.

If there's one thing the Maria Miller scandal should have taught them, it's that the discredited standards and privileges committee has to be reformed - and urgently.

An ad hoc committee of the Trust involving five people - the trustees for Scotland and Wales, and three members of its editorial standards committee - will consider the appeal and whether there should be an oral hearing.

• There should be at least two lay members who have never been parliamentarians on the standards and privileges committee.

I think there's a real concern there, there's a double standard being held,» he said, referring to former mayor Michael Bloomberg's donations to the Senate Republican Campaign Committee to help the GOP retain the state Senate majority.

«Experience from Northern Ireland, the examples of Britain in 1927, conclusions by the committee on standards in public life all suggest there would be considerable reduction in the number affiliated.

And, not to be forgotten, there's the actual reason for the by - election in the first place: the resignation of Denis MacShane, in disgrace, after the Commons» standards and privileges committee pilloried him over his expense claims.

There's no way she could ever mature into the ice - rink princess the media and U.S. Figure Skating committee wanted her to be — nor should she apologize for not living up to those impossible standards.

One instance: When there was an attempt in the Kentucky state legislature to «blow up» what had been accomplished and start over, Adkisson appeared before a senate committee with the head of the state teachers union and the state commissioner of education, with all three calling for the state to stay the course on the standards.

The education select committee said that there was no evidence that academies had «raised standards overall or for disadvantaged children.»

«There is the will in the city of Los Angeles, in Chicago and New York, to tie reform to more money, to... get the kind of flexibility that we need to innovate and set the highest standards for kids,» said Villaraigosa, who was recently chosen to chair this year's Democratic National Committee.

MPs on the education select committee have published a report saying there is currently little evidence as to whether or not academies help improve school standards.

There was also no evidence that making children get to school earlier or stay longer had any impact on standards, the committee was told.

You neglect to mention that Holdren has been far from the only scientist who finds Lomborg's Skeptical Environmentalist ridiculous: In 2003, the Danish Committee on Scientific Dishonesty ruled the book was «clearly contrary to the standards of good scientific practice» and that «there has been such perversion of the scientific message in the form of systematically biased representation that the objective criteria for upholding scientific dishonesty... have been met»

If there are no objections to the technical specs during the vote, then J1772 would become official standard and published in about 10 weeks, said Gery Kissel, a GM engineer and chairman of the J1772 committee.

The EPA has been put through hell this week — first, there were the Congressional hearings in which the new chairman of the House Energy Committee, along with others, railed against the expanded Clean Air Act rules that would hold the nation's biggest polluters to stricter standards.

Up to the time of our resignations, there have been several very improper procedures used, including allowing people without legal training to edit our work on the legal section of the draft standard without allowing us to review the results of such editing before the draft went to the full committee for review.

At the same time, according to Graeme McWilliams, a legal counsel at Standard Life Aberdeen and convenor of the Law Society of Scotland's in - house lawyers committee, «there is a lot for in - house lawyers to look forward to this year».

Overseen by the academic editors from Cardiff University, some of whom founded the series, the first case BMLR published was the controversial case of Bolam v Friern Hospital Management Committee (1957) 1 BMLR 1 in which it was decided there was no breach of standard of care if a responsible body of similar professionals support the practice that caused the injury.

Although the American National Standards Institute (ANSI) did not participate in the work of ISO Technical Committee 259 that developed ISO 37500, there have been suggestions that the Standard will influence outsourcing in the United States as U.S. companies doing business in Europe and Canada will be forced to adopt the standard for international transactions of which they are a part or otherwise indicate that their outsourcing practices are compliant with the SStandard will influence outsourcing in the United States as U.S. companies doing business in Europe and Canada will be forced to adopt the standard for international transactions of which they are a part or otherwise indicate that their outsourcing practices are compliant with the Sstandard for international transactions of which they are a part or otherwise indicate that their outsourcing practices are compliant with the StandardStandard.

Romero wouldn't divulge many details about the committee, but he did say that there is currently no standard for collecting customer feedback and confirmed that Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong is not on the committee.

I commend the approach adopted by the South Australian Government as an approach consistent with important human rights standards, in particular, that there be effective participation by Indigenous peoples in the development of policies that affect their rights.5 Moreover it is consistent with General Recommendation VIII of the Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (the CERD Committee) which states that «group membership shall, if no justification exists to the contrary, be based upon self - identification by the individual concerned.»

There has to be compliance with the Commonwealth Authorities and Companies Act - which is known by the acronym CAC Act - and that includes aspects of finance and personal dealings on the part of committee members, directors and staff which have to be to a very high standard.

I point out there that the United Nations Human Rights Committee and the United Nations Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (i.e., the two committees that operate under and interpret the standards in the two international covenants, the ICCPR and the ICESCR) clearly identify self - determination as a right held by Indigenous peoples, including those in Australia.

The Steering Committee is mindful of the need for the Interim National Executive to be in place and operating as soon as possible, while also ensuring that there is testing of potential members of the National Executive to ensure that they possess the right skills and meet the proposed ethical standards for the organisation.

«I can tell you with virtual certainty, in nine of 10 cases, there was no need to get to a professional standards hearing,» says Howell, who chairs the professional standards committee for the Northern Virginia Association of REALTORS ®.