Sentences with phrase «stated aim of»

China's President Xi Jinping has repeatedly stated his aim of transforming the country into a «science and technology superpower.»

Transport for London, the local body responsible for transport regulations in the U.K. capital, has published a set of proposals for changes to regulations pertaining to the operation of private hire vehicles (PHVs) in the city — with the stated aim of improving passenger safety.

The project is detailed in the contract as a seven step process — with Kogan's company, GSR, generating an initial seed sample (though it does not specify how large this is here) using «online panels»; analyzing this seed training data using its own «psychometric inventories» to try to determine personality categories; the next step is Kogan's personality quiz app being deployed on Facebook to gather the full dataset from respondents and also to scrape a subset of data from their Facebook friends (here it notes: «upon consent of the respondent, the GS Technology scrapes and retains the respondent's Facebook profile and a quantity of data on that respondent's Facebook friends»); step 4 involves the psychometric data from the seed sample, plus the Facebook profile data and friend data all being run through proprietary modeling algorithms — which the contract specifies are based on using Facebook likes to predict personality scores, with the stated aim of predicting the «psychological, dispositional and / or attitudinal facets of each Facebook record»; this then generates a series of scores per Facebook profile; step 6 is to match these psychometrically scored profiles with voter record data held by SCL — with the goal of matching (and thus scoring) at least 2M voter records for targeting voters across the 11 states; the final step is for matched records to be returned to SCL, which would then be in a position to craft messages to voters based on their modeled psychometric scores.

The end result would be that EEA nationals would easily be able to continue to enter the UK and the Government's stated aim of controlling immigration will be unachievable.

As the stated aim of the costs management regime is to control the costs of litigation, it seems to be an anomaly that costs are only being managed on the multi-track.

The fundamentals Sir Geoffrey's fundamental complaint is that the system of appointing silks is a «glorification of advocacy» and that by concentrating upon its stated aim of identifying excellence in higher court advocacy, it excludes the majority of solicitors from obtaining the status of QC.

The Digital Economy Bill includes a range of measures in support the Government's stated aim of driving the digital economy, including:

It also remains to be seen whether the centre will succeed in its stated aim of centralising all arbitral disputes between African and Chinese entities.

While the government of Morocco stated its aim of creating the council was to improve judicial independence, its effect on judicial independence was not clear by the end of the year.

Second, class actions are poorly suited to achieve their stated aim of deterring wrongful conduct.

While the government was at pains to emphasise during the passage of the Bill that the stated aim of these orders was the prevention of crime, not the punishment of suspected criminals, it is clear from the wording of SCA 2007 that these orders potentially represent a significant incursion into the liberty of the individual.

This situation is only likely to get worse given stated aim of the former Chancellor, George Osborne, for the government to increase NLW to # 9 by 2020.

The post discusses whether the stated aim of the Directive (increased trust between the Member States in the field of criminal justice facilitating mutual recognition) can be achieved.

This was one of the points of the exercise for the young expansionist USA, the «less openly stated aim of pushing the First Nations off their traditional territories, which were now open for white settlement.»

The Copenhagen Accord, agreed in December 2009, has a stated aim of limiting global warming to 2 °C above preindustrial temperatures.

Now, having secured $ 20m in additional investments, the company is set to expand with the stated aim of becoming «a major global car brand».

It DOES NOT achieve its stated aim of greenhouse gas abatement due its inability to achieve base load power generation and never will, therefore it is not fit for purpose.

The CPP specifies intensity rate targets for existing fossil fuel - fired electric generating units operating or under construction as of early 2014, with the stated aim of reducing carbon emissions in the power sector by 30 % from 2005 levels by 2030.

Pierre Bonnard PHILLIPS COLLECTION The stated aim of this show is to reconcile the early work of Pierre Bonnard, Parisian painter, designer, and illustrator of the 1890s, with the late work - the...

In the 1940's, they brought the first museum appearances of Milton Avery, Georgia O'Keeffe and Edward Hopper, fulfilling the museum's stated aim of introducing contemporary American art to a wide public.

The artist's stated aim of circumventing meaning, however, leads her into the realm of the purely aesthetic, which can be a trap if not balanced carefully.

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Accor has continued to build toward its stated aim of operating 300 hotels in the United Kingdom by 2015 with the signing of a franchise agreement with Jupiter Hotels, the new owners of the former Jarvis hotels.

One of the greatest sadnesses of this wonderful conference, however, was that, despite the fact that a stated aim of the conference was to encourage students from all racial backgrounds to study abroad, nearly all of the bloggers in attendance were White.

The stated aim of the Breed Watch initiative is to monitor breed health and welfare.

Thanks, but I'm not really asking how best to make use of one; I'm asking what problem it was intended to solve (as it doesn't solve the stated aim of helping with deposits).

The stated aim of Mercedes - Benz is to make the highest level of safety available to all.

The stated aim of the interior redesign was to lift the vehicle upmarket, with higher - spec models now aimed at the luxury and executive markets.

The Karma is the first of a series of petrol - electric models that Fisker reckons will turn it into a major global manufacturer, with the stated aim of producing up to 100,000 cars within five years.

Tackling education underperformance among disadvantaged young people is a stated aim of the current UK government.

The Sutton Trust in its fourth annual report on academy chains, Chain Effects 2017 — The impact of academy chains on low income students, reveals the continued lack of impact academy chains are having in turning around the low attainment levels of disadvantaged students, a stated aim of the original sponsored academies programme.

Bedard and Do conclude that the decrease in graduation rates of middle schoolers is «a surprising result for a program with the stated aim of aiding less able students.»

AITSL is a public company with the stated aim of developing high teaching standards across the country through its implementation of its national accreditation system.

The Paris climate agreement is better than many expected but it is not enough to achieve the stated aim of limiting warming to 2 °C, let alone 1.5 °C

China's President Xi Jinping has repeatedly stated his aim of transforming the country into a «science and technology superpower.»

The science bodies also warn that the proposals will be unable to fulfil the stated aim of John Patten, the education secretary, to nurture more scientists.

China's stated aim of improving air quality over the coming years would change this radiative forcing, leading to a rather counter-intuitive consequence; the increase in China's contribution to global warming.

Facebook developer Justin Rosenstein developed the «Like» button with the stated aim of making interactions on the social network more positive.

Only # 1bn of the # 17bn cost goes on the stated aim of «lifting those on low incomes out of tax».

This chimes with the Conservatives» stated aim of funding «promising new renewable technologies and research» but only where they «clearly represent value for money».

Although absent from the Conservative manifesto, the policy is the stated aim of a majority government recently elected at a general election (albeit on just 37 % of the vote) and on which the Commons has voted (twice) in favour.

An earlier plan to sell was scrapped in 2014 by Vince Cable, in his role as business secretary in the coalition government, after he said the move would not achieve its stated aim of reducing government debt.

The new Prime Minister, Theresa May, called in April 2017 for a snap general election with the stated aim of securing a majority for Brexit negotiations; [5] it received parliamentary approval the following day, and was arranged for Thursday 8 June 2017.

The planning system favours multiple retailers over independent shops, and does little to prevent out - of - town development, quite against its stated aim of increasing «vitality» in town centres.

Their stated aim of dissuading us from attacking them.

The union has described chancellor George Osborne's proposal as «economically incoherent» because it would undermine the government's stated aim of helping to drive growth and development in the regions.

The Green Party manifesto has the stated aim of creating a «national health society» and presents a picture in which employment, education, transport, housing, food and the environment all contribute towards the creation of a healthier and more equal society.

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».

The committee is holding an inquiry into how well the government is pursuing its stated aim of achieving «gender equality and empowerment of all women and girls».

«This will disadvantage all honest companies and, perversely, turn on its head the government's stated aim of creating a level playing field through the Act's extra-territorial reach.»