Sentences with phrase «standards we have established»

In writing the No Child Left Behind Act, Congress followed that same logic, requiring states to live up to the minimum hiring standards they have established.

Of course, OCR never explicitly states that its new rules are at odds with the very structure of the American education system — but based on the standards it has established, it is hard to see how local control can survive.

Today's proposed standard would establish performance requirements that each new motorcoach and large bus must meet when subjected to a dynamic test in which the bus is tipped over from a raised platform onto a hard level surface.

Since employees are accountable to their bosses; companies are accountable to their shareholders; and the government should be accountable to the people, then it's not too far off the mark to think that schools should be held accountable to the standards they've established.

In order to maintain our professional standards we have established a strong team of real estate professionals to help provide impeccable service to our clients.

Not exact matches

Earlier this year, for example, Judy Zaichkowsky of Simon Fraser University's Beedie School of Business published a study indicating that the presence of just one woman on a company's board resulted in significantly higher standards of corporate governance (which has an established correlation to better financial performance).

«It is about challenging them — establishing a standard of excellence and holding them accountable for reaching it... You had better be up to the task, because I have learned that they expect you to be good... [They] expect you to hold them to high standards.»

Industry groups have not yet finished establishing all of the technical standards to allow 5G gear to interact, so Verizon will rely on its own preliminary standards effort, known as the Verizon 5G Technology Forum.

That approach has produced some significant offshore customers, including the massive International Air Transportation Association, the Geneva - based entity that establishes global standards for airline activities, as well as the Hills Pet Food Company.

He also expressed doubt about the concept of embedding wage standards in a trade agreement:» It would establish a principle wage norm in free trade agreements, which is certainly outside the spirit of the World Trade Organization.»

Similar to how a corporation establishes a board of directors, overachievers often have not one but several mentors to help set standards and offer suggestions and insight along the way.

Add these to established standards like Zigbee and Z - Wave, as well as WiFi and Bluetooth, and you would be right to wonder where a smart fridge's loyalties lie.

Find the areas that are in most need of having standards and work to establish basic ones.

The next generation, so - called 5G, doesn't exist yet — everyone agrees that it's supposed to be faster and more reliable, and there's a general hope for a roll - out around 2020, but the underlying technical standards have not been established, so no - one can build anything yet.

He said News Corp. had set up an independent Management & Standards Committee to establish and enforce clear standards of operation.

We also have audited, in accordance with the standards of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (United States), Neiman Marcus, Inc.'s internal control over financial reporting as of July 28, 2012, based on criteria established in Internal Control — Integrated Framework issued by the Committee of Sponsoring Organizations of the Treadway Commission and our report dated September 18, 2012 expressed an unqualified opinion thereon.

Americans for Annuity Protection has engaged in active outreach to leaders of influence to establish the argument that the DOL's fiduciary rule should be returned because of the analysis performed by the department is flawed, inconclusive and arbitrary; it is not compatible with the Uniform Security Law or established insurance law, and the law has potential conflict with the Dodd - Frank requirements to the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) on reviewing a uniform fiduciary standard.

Horizon Investment Services was established with the same high standards that have become the hallmark of the 70 - year history of Horizon Publishing Company.

The Audit Committee, which has been established in accordance with Section 3 (a)(58) of the Exchange Act, currently consists of Mr. Buss, Ms. Denholm and Mr. Gracias, each of whom is «independent» as such term is defined for audit committee members by the listing standards of NASDAQ.

Chip vendors like Nvidia have begun handing out circuitry blueprints to establish industry standards.

Banks have strict small business lending standards, and what they offer is generally only available to established businesses.

The parties who sued the Department of Labor say the way is now clear for the SEC to establish a standard that would cover all financial industries.

Rather than mandating burdensome education and compliance costs for advisors, the SEC should focus on establishing standards for research that ensure all advisors have the information and analysis they need to fulfill the Duty of Care.

As for his own king - size national financial planning practice, with $ 16 billion in AUM, Edelman is vigorously recruiting advisors seeking to join a big RIA that has indeed successfully established itself as abiding by the fiduciary standard.

CryptoUK has been established to promote the development and recognition of digital currency technologies in the UK, and to ensure higher cross-sector standards of conduct and consumer protection.

This business model has established itself as the standard of the cryptocurrency industry and is the driving force behind the rise of ICOs.

As previously reported by ETHNews, Australia has hosted experts from around the globe to establish worldwide standards for blockchain and DLT.

Accordingly, he has directed lawyers and national security staff to assess the declassification request, consistent with established standards governing the handling of classified information, including those under Section 3.1 (d) of Executive Order 13526.

Through the Canada - US Regulatory Cooperation Council the organization has been part of a pilot project to establish a common plumbing standard on both sides of the border.

The cost of running a standard bitcoin exchange and trading company when compared to the turnover you get can be poles apart (this is applicable when you have been able to establish your feet in the industry).

Specific policies include researching methods to improve indoor air quality; instituting a Clean Water Act to ensure Albertans have safe drinking water; protecting provincial parks and ecological reserves; requiring government to meet high environmental standards in their operations; requiring Ecological Assessments for all large projects in the province; and establishing an Alberta environmental ombudsman and elected Ecological Impact Assessment Review Panels to monitor environmental impacts and halt projects.

Once a claim is made, a tribunal will be established pursuant to Chapter 11, which will determine if the established standards and / or obligations have been breached and whether the investor may be entitled to recover monetary damages.

Moga's standard of living improved: More homes had electricity and telephones; more towns established primary, secondary, and high schools; and Moga had five times the number of doctors as neighboring regions.

Copyright extension and ISP liability are controversial issues in Canada, and there has been extensive criticism of the way that other agreements, most notably the TPP, have established stricter standards than established Canadian law.

Real estate's new sector status uncovers key differences between REITs and financial stocks As of Sept. 1, S&P and MSCI have established real estate as the 11th sector within the Global Industry Classification Standard (GICS) by separating it from the financials sector.

The pressure of epistemological standards established by minimalistic philosophies was extremely strong at that time, and any philosopher who wanted to be treated seriously in academic circles had to take them into account.

On the one hand, it is drawing all nations and cultures into one global conglomeration which has the capacity to formulate some common moral standards that might enable us to eliminate the wars of the past and establish a stable global society.

Once we have exercised the necessary discipline to thoughtfully challenge ourselves and establish a fair and faithful standard of what is truly necessary for us, the next steps are to follow this to its logical conclusion and then to take this conclusion to heart: once we have what is necessary, anything else is unnecessary, is a luxury.

Indeed, the very topics we neglected in the eighties have become the standard ingredients in the current renaissance of classical theism, where God is established as the ultimate reality.

Yet he admits that the use of classical rhetoric has its limitations and problems, especially in establishing the conscious use of standards for oratory in the writing of narratives and letters.

Because the reality of evil implies the reality of the evaluator who alone has the authority to establish the standard by which evil can deserve to be damned.

But such voluntarism has not been extended to groups that are deemed not to live up to established moral standards.

For the last decade, some social scientists have been arguing that «happiness measurements» should replace or supplement established economic standards to judge a society's «success.»

Once these standards were determined, a new bureaucracy would have to be established» let's call it HAA, the Happiness Advancement Administration» to promote happiness goals and enforce happiness regulations.

And, as was happening with other professions at this time, standards were established that would control membership in the profession.

A practice is any form of socially established cooperative human activity that is complex and internally coherent, is subject to standards of excellence that partly define it, and is done to some end but does not necessarily have a product.

It was then that I discovered there had been so much dispute over the Koran early in its history that an official edict established one standard Koran and ordered all the rest destroyed (Sahih Bukhari 6:61:509 - 510).

This final part of Griffin's argument for the process theodicy turns on an assumption that he appears to have borrowed by Hartshorne, viz., that the so - called «social view» of omnipotence is the only alternative to the monopolistic (and thus to the standard) view.9 The critique of the latter thus established the former as (in Griffin's words) «the only view that is coherent if one is talking about the power a being with the greatest conceivable amount of power could have over a created, i.e. an actual world» (GPE 269).

Even had Griffin succeeded in showing that the standard view of omnipotence is incoherent (which he did not), rigor would require that yet another negative thesis be established, viz., that the selective view of omnipotence is unacceptable.

US Bioethics In the last few months the US President's Council on Bioethics, established in late 2001, has published two very weighty reports of enormous implication to the ethical standards of biotechnological research.