Sentences with phrase «states more power to»

The Trump administration is giving states more power to set minimum standards for health plans.

The Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) gives states more power to set their own accountability standards within the parameters in the law.

ESSA gives states more power to set their own accountability standards within the parameters described in the law.

Obama signed «Every Student Succeeds,» a new bipartisan education bill that scraps the program by giving states more power to decide testing and teacher evaluations.

This gives states more power to regulate investment advisers.

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The offer follows a string of power outages in the state of South Australia, including a blackout that left industry crippled for up to two weeks, and stoked fears of more outages across the national electricity market due to tight supplies.

Even in states that wish to favor coal - fired power, it will be difficult to convince ratepayers that they ought to pay more for electricity from coal than they could pay for electricity from alternative sources.

Ahlborn has stated he has more than 400 investors willing to buy into the project — and says the Hyperloop could potentially sell energy by producing more power than it needs — but even at the lowest possible estimate, it's unclear whether the project would be able to attract enough funding to get off the ground.

Nervous travelers have had plenty of real - world examples this summer, from a power outage in the Outer Banks off North Carolina that forced the evacuation of an estimated 50,000 visitors and prevented the arrival of many more, to Tropical Storm Cindy, which affected travel in five states.

While you can set an intention to be productive, you'll find more power in stating an intention to open your mind and heart to the thinking that will result in higher productivity and other desirable states.

According to the Minerva research team at Georgia State University, the 2014 expansion of IS» so - called Caliphate was foretold by «Wiki Baghdady» - a Jihadi insider, but more than likely an al - Qaida agent - who predicted IS would amass multiple group allegiances and then announce them simultaneously in order to project power and influence.

While this can be a daunting undertaking for any company, The Container Store firmly acknowledges the power behind this principle on its website, which states «nothing makes someone feel more a part of a team than knowing everything has been communicated to them.

Given the beleaguered state of business networks, CISOs clearly require more power and influence to make a difference.

It states: «Facebook's mission is to give people the power to share and make the world more open and connected.»

94 year - old John Goodenough, one of the co-inventors of the lithium - ion battery that now powers everything from phones to Teslas, has developed a new solid - state battery formula that promises to hold three times more energy than li - on.

However, the European Parliament and now the Council of the European Union, representing member states, want to give more powers to this new board, including the ability to make binding decisions.

More recently, it has been an intellectually lazy substitute for engaging seriously with the question that all small and medium - sized states face in a globalized political world: which powers does it make sense to share with other countries and under what conditions?

Speaking before the Senate Intelligence Committee alongside the heads of other US intelligence agencies, Wray said that to undermine the US's military, economic, cultural, and informational power across the globe, China was using methods relying on more than just its state institutions.

Hydro - Quebec, meanwhile, would combine its extensive hydro - based generation assets with NB Power's thermal - based ones, creating a more efficient and synergistic utility with increased capacity to sell to the lucrative markets in the northeastern United States.

Instead, it is in the control of a higher power that cruelly takes the lives of tens of thousands of Americans every year — and this ideology becomes even more absurd when you consider that we are supposed to have a separation of church and state.

Le Maire's call for G20 nations to join together in comprehensive talks over bitcoin, and cryptocurrency more broadly, echoed recent sentiments from Joachim Wuermeling, a board member at Bundesbank in Germany, who had previously stated, «Effective regulation of virtual currencies would therefore only be achievable through the greatest possible international cooperation, because the regulatory power of nation states is obviously limited.»

U.S. Republican Senator John McCain of Arizona, a big solar power producing state, said in a Twitter post that the tariffs amount to «nothing more than a tax on consumers.»

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In North Carolina, state laws and tax incentives that favor solar projects selling power directly to the electrical grid have helped the industry expand to the point where it now powers more than 400,000 homes and employs around 7,000 people.

«Events with severe consequences are becoming more frequent and intense, due to climate change, and have been the principal contributors to an observed increase in the frequency and duration of power outages in the United States,» according to the draft.

This «heartbeat» basically punctuates the synchronisation of system state and guarantees that maintaining a fork (to allow double spend) or rewriting history by malicious actors are impossible unless the attacker possesses more than half of the network mining power (this is the so called 51 % attack).

It is possible the process will highlight pre-existing tensions among the remaining EU members — between those states that believe in moving toward a more deeply integrated, federalist structure, and those largely opposed to further transfers of power from national to regional bodies, preferring to maintain the status quo — and in doing so hasten the move to a so - called «two - speed» EU.

Bitfinex has stated that the incumbent digital token, which would be the original Bitcoin, will continue to be the original Bitcoin, even if B2X has more hashing power.

More than a third of the oil, gas and coal production and more than 10 % of hydroelectric power exported to the United StaMore than a third of the oil, gas and coal production and more than 10 % of hydroelectric power exported to the United Stamore than 10 % of hydroelectric power exported to the United States.

In 2013 the state generated more energy from the wind than any other state in the union — an amount equivalent to about half of Alberta's total power supply.

They need to be decentralized, but you can't decentralize over a border though you can decentralize in the United States by pushing more control and power to the towns, but it's going to be across borders.

In some states, like Ohio, fights have broken out among anti-abortion activists over how to use their new - found power, with one faction pushing for sweeping new restrictions and the other urging more incremental limits that they say will withstand legal challenges.

Many Americans view the United Nations as a threat to our sovereignty even though, in fact, it has functioned more as an instrument of United States» foreign policy than as a challenge to our power.

Von Hayek and his comrades assert that the roots of the crisis are to be found in the ominous and excessive power of unions, and in a more general way, of the labour movement; according to them, unions have undermined the base of private accumulation (of investment) by their salary claims and by their pressure against the rise by the State of the parasitical social expenses without end.

Gregory states this dipolar dialectic with exceptional accuracy: If assertive individualists need to recognize their tendencies to over-assertiveness, humble self - deniers need the opposite: to better grasp their low power position in order that they may offer to others more forthrightly what they are able to offer.7

And the impact of Jesus Christ upon history, his continuing influence and power in the world, the very wonder of his person itself that we read about in the New Testament — all point to his being more than the best of men, making credible the conviction stated in a hymn, that in Jesus we have «God in man made manifest.»

You said, «That said, to hold evolution to be true is to state that there is no way there could possibly be, in all of the universe (s), a power more intellegent and advanced that ourselves, capable of affecting life on earth in any way.»

Even more difficult, on a world scale what forces can be built up to counterbalance the power of totalitarian states?

It is hard to know who is using whom more: the Christian Right for offering secular power in the expectation that the Jewish state will be destroyed by a greater spiritual one; or the Israeli Right for accepting their offer.

These papal priorities, implicitly or explicitly, strike a contrast with Kirill, whose nationalistic - ecclesial ideology of the «Russian World» bolsters Putin's military aggression, whose ministry has been more than susceptible to the power politics of deep church - state entanglement.

If the Supreme Court somehow obtained jurisdiction over this independent sovereign power, according to Coons it would not be acting «either as or for the state, but as the arbiter of legal sovereigns who need a way to live together by some rule more humane than naked power.»

Instead of the present system in the United States in which the federal government collects most of the taxes and then returns money to the states, the states would have more power to tax and would give some of their money to the national goverStates in which the federal government collects most of the taxes and then returns money to the states, the states would have more power to tax and would give some of their money to the national goverstates, the states would have more power to tax and would give some of their money to the national goverstates would have more power to tax and would give some of their money to the national government.

In the United States, the liberalization of the economy has led to reduced purchasing power per hour of work, but since many now work more hours and more members of the average household work, they are not poorer.

Neville there were times when dominionism worked for Israel which were the exceptions rather than the rule but generally it did nt sadly because of the wickedness of peoples hearts.Power tends to corrupt people ie in the case of nebbucanezzar especially when they succeed.Like you i think Gods people have more impact by just letting Christ work through them could be me but i find politics tends to involve power money and compromise.Regardless of what political state we find ourselves Gods sovereign and his will be done on earth as it is in heaven.My focus is real simple just follow Jesus with all my heart mind soul and strength and love others as myself and that is just following Jesus daily and trusting him in everything.regards brentnz

With two possible sources of confusion removed we can state our thesis: It is possible for human beings, in response to the power and goodness of God, to begin to will His Kingdom above all other things and to grow toward a more mature expression of that will.

How can our striving for justice for the weak be any more right than a totalitarian state's will to absolute power?

At a later stage, some fifteen thousand years ago, we see a second scattering, very much more dense and clearly defined: that of agricultural groups installed in fertile valleys — centers of social life where man, arrived at a state of stability, achieved the expansive powers which were to enable him to invade the New World.

«But there is far more truth in the first account; it was the state that had the power to persecute.

While Spain is formally a unitary state, Madrid has devolved powers unevenly to its regions, with Euskadi (the Basque region) and Catalunya retaining more autonomy than others.

As other state chambers follow suit (and they will), they will speak much more loudly than ambiguous election results to the power brokers who determine the direction of the party.