Sentences with phrase «such as mandated»

Until now, office leases generally did not encourage environmentally sustainable behaviours, nor deal with new issues such as mandated energy and water conservation, and the availability of new sustainable building materials, equipment and furniture, says REALpac.

Consider how KidsMatter can be productively linked with other mental health initiatives in schools, such as the mandated National Safe Schools Framework or the Council of Australian Governments National Action Plan for Mental Health 2006 — 2011.

The new NRF will, however, take time to implement at a domestic level and remedies such as mandated separation are unlikely to become available before 2010 — 12.

Recent event in Vancouver featured a panel of mining sector experts who addressed questions on how trends such as mandated diversity, investor activism and increased regulatory oversight are likely to impact corporate boards.

Drastic actions such as mandated cuts in carbon emissions would be imprudent.

This might be a good way to help cut it down, along with other improvements such as mandated better engines and emission control equipment and low - sulfur fuels.

The New Jersey Department of Education has not established state - level criteria for identifying students who are gifted, such as mandated tests or assessments, grade point averages, or IQ scores.

However, these private schools may incur regulations and / or restrictions from the associated organization, such as mandated enrollment restrictions and curricular advancements.

Unfortunately, a large percentage of these take the form of emergency or unexpected expenditure, such as a mandated increase in intake.

The second portion of the agenda involves aid to working families, such as mandated pre-kindergarten and refinanced student loan debt.

But some lawmakers, acknowledging the difficult fiscal situation, say attention should be paid to other areas, such as mandated spending on schools.

It does not trash organic agriculture, nor does it shed much light on whether agri - environment schemes, such as those mandated by the European Union, are a waste of money.

In my role on the NYSAC executive committee, I have input as to what could inhibit this goal, issues such as mandate relief, rising pension costs, Medicaid reform.

Even if government accountability is not the norm for government programs, some people may still favor requiring choice schools to take the state test and comply with other components of the high - regulation approach to school choice, such as mandating that schools accept voucher amounts as payment in full, prohibiting schools from applying their own admissions requirements, and focusing programs on low - income students in low - performing schools.

Therefore, federal courts should eschew simple one - size - fits - all remedies such as mandating equal per - pupil funding.

Because John King's team is striving during Obama's final weeks to promulgate regulations that violate the spirit of ESSA, such as mandating that states issue single summative grades for all schools, revising or withdrawing these will be a matter of some urgency.

States will be able to override NCLB requirements such as the mandate for 100 percent proficiency by 2014 and making the measure of «adequate yearly progress» by raw performance instead of growth, instead creating their own accountability systems with higher standards.

This is a pitfall our literary agency has avoided in most instances by having things such as the mandate to publish within a certain timeframe, along with the format of the book written into the agreement with publishers.

These components include important protections for impounded community cats, such as mandating the return of cats to their colony, as well as protections for caregivers.

The Commission is concerned that «top down» approaches, such as mandating governance measures or making access to beneficial tax treatment conditional on the adoption of such measures, are most unlikely to be conducive to effective, sustainable governance.

Not exact matches

Stanford says Morneau and the Bank of Canada should use the mandate review to «put everything on the table,» and take a hard look at adopting a completely different target, such as job creation or «sustainable growth» instead of inflation.

Withholdings — There are various state and federal withholdings that are mandated by the government as well as optional withholdings for items like insurance, dues, and other such items.

Suggested new targets include such things as mandated biodiversity, worldwide employment equity, more female politicians, lower obesity and greater Internet access.

Part of the SBA's congressional mandate is disbursing loans to businesses and homeowners in areas devastated by tragedy, such as where Hurricane Sandy barreled through the Northeast or in areas out West ravaged by wild fires.

By contrast, states such as Connecticut and California mandate that even entry - level workers receive about $ 10 an hour, while cities and, increasingly, states such as Illinois and New York are phasing in a new minimum wage of $ 15 an hour.

But other issues, such as providing tax credits to encourage people to buy insurance (while not outright mandating coverage), have proved controversial to conservative lawmakers who have described the plan as «Obamacare Lite.»

The government top dogs still seek entrée into encrypted data — even as other countries, such as the Netherlands and France, have scrapped plans to mandate that «backdoor» vulnerabilities be built into tech products.

For purposes of the Unfunded Mandates Reform Act, as well as Executive Order 12875, the final rule extending the applicability date does not include any federal mandate that we expect would result in such expenditures by State, local, or tribal governments, or the private sector.

None of the Reporting Persons nor any manager or executive officer of the Reporting Persons, has, during the past five years, (a) been convicted in a criminal proceeding (excluding traffic violations or similar misdemeanors), or (b) been a party to a civil proceeding of a judicial or administrative body of competent jurisdiction and as a result of such proceeding was or is subject to a judgment, decree or final order enjoining future violations of, or prohibiting, or mandating activities subject to, Federal or State securities laws or a finding of any violation with respect to such laws.

Chetney expects much of the demand for the new Morningstar service will come from independent broker - dealers such as LPL, Commonwealth Financial Network and Cambridge Investment Research, which could mandate that their advisors use a third party to assume the fiduciary responsibility for defined contribution plans.

Leblanc thinks Canada may one day follow after jurisdictions such as the UK and Australia and mandate it; might as well do it now.

The NASAA statement highlights several of the conundrums that regulators like the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) must confront when seeking to exercise their legal mandates for cryptocurrency, such as associated tangible assets, controls by regulators or governmental authorities, and reliable methods of exchange for other commodities.

In July of this year, the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) took a critical first step to rein in the growingly speculative bubble surrounding these start - ups when it issued a report concluding that such coin offerings should be predominantly classified as securities offerings, and hence mandated to fall under registration, disclosure and other requirements that apply to securities, regardless of whether those securities are purchased with virtual currencies or distributed with blockchain technology.

The situation will undoubtedly also have been supported by the ruling in December from the CBRC, which discourages banks from referring their clients to invest in such products, as well as the regulator's recent mandate that firms tighten their risk management and disclosure around entrusted loans.

The «Volta Advantage» includes having access to top talent — Nova Scotia has 30,000 university students, and Volta is directly connected to the student community and physically located next to Dalhousie University; engaging in skill development activities, such as mentoring, lunch and learns, executive training; and leveraging innovation ecosystems beyond the region to engage expertise and talent tailored to the outpost's mandate.

Evidenced by a range of indicators such as; oversubscription, upsizing, as well as public commitments, green bond mandates and statements of expectation from investor groups, green bonds are also being used to successfully tap into the vast capital pool of institutional investors globally (US$ 88 trillion).

«Any financial contribution by the IMF to solve problems that do not imply a need for foreign currency — such as the direct financing of budget deficits — would be incompatible with its monetary mandate.»

They'll say they need to make sure you «actually qualify» or that you're eligible for a specific mortgage program such as the three - percent down Conventional 97 program which mandates a minimum FICO.

This is the short - term interest rate at which U.S financial institutions (such as banks, credit unions, and others in the Federal Reserve system) lend money to each other overnight in order to meet mandated reserve levels.

And the Church teaches that the freedom of religion may not be infringed by government mandates that persons act contrary to what their consciences tell them about the truth of such things as the sanctity of life, the dignity of marriage, and the reality of sex as the basis of «gender.»

Some who speak from a Christian perspective still think that mildly socialist ideas such as anti - individualism, collectivist projects, income equality, and a vision of full state welfare benefits are closer to the mandate of the Gospel than are democratic capitalist institutions.

Having universities that are sensitive to such non «burdensome religious requirements as this mandate adds to the wealth and diversity of American higher education.

The mandate itself is appropriate, and in places such as Germany where it has been used for many years, the experience has been positive.

The contraception mandate and cases such as Obergefell and Masterpiece Cakeshop could lead conservative Evangelicals to think that progressives have targeted them for payback; I suppose progressives would call it a justified comeuppance.

The lawsuit is the most recent challenge to the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) mandate that employers provide insurance coverage of contraceptives, including emergency contraceptives such as Plan B and ella, at no cost to employees.

A churchly school should not teach religion as if all religions were equally true or false, or appoint a critical mass of its faculty from secularists, and undoubtedly in certain situations a functioning magisterium will say so with force, but such mandates are nevertheless mere preliminaries.

He finds these values as well in the handiwork of «insurrectionists» from Daniel Shays to John Brown to Timothy McVeigh, and in the arguments of neo-republican legal scholars such as Amar, Sanford Levinson and David Williams, who find a mandate for revolutionary resistance to oppressive government in the Second Amendment right to bear arms.

You eliminate the mandate by saying there can be no such mandate and you call the penalty that the law calls a penalty a tax because a tax in the absence of a mandate would be okay, and since there is no longer a mandate, it is possible to reimagine the penalty as a tax and therefore the new law without the mandate and the penalty, but with an optional tax, is constitutional even though that is not the law that Congress actually passed.

Under the «mandates» of the old trustee system, Johnson argues, places such as Iraq, Lebanon, and Tanganyika (now Tanzania) were much better governed than they have been since independence.

«34 The mandates are divine because of origin rather than in their nature as such.