Sentences with phrase «system of government at»

The event also marked the beginning of the parliamentary system of government at the council level.

Not exact matches

Issuing bonds is one of the most routine things that happens in today's financial system; governments and companies get a sum of money today and pay interest on it over time, before paying back the principal at some agreed - upon future date, when the bond «matures.»

The causes of the crisis that nearly killed Bilinkis's company were many: a patronage system, started by Juan and Eva Perón in the 1950s, that grew into a bloated government bureaucracy; a corrupt privatization of government services that sold off some of the country's most valuable assets at fire - sale prices; and a reactionary monetary policy that exacerbated both of these problems.

Celis became involved with the work of Engineers without Borders Canada, a group of engineers, students and volunteers who use their creativity and problem - solving skills to help communities in Africa, and soon left her job at OPG for a year - long position in Ghana, working with the development systems of local governments.

Oliver said foreign governments had long looked upon Canada's system of 13 separate provincial and territorial regulators with «bemusement» at a time of global financial markets.

France's mostly taxpayer - funded public pension system may do better at ensuring every retiree is sufficiently funded (for now), and America's mostly private pension patchwork may be more sustainable into the future, but our hybrid system of individual -, employer - and government - funded benefits ranks high on both criteria, sufficiency and sustainability — «which is uncommon,» says Morin

Obviously, besides immediately abandoning its propaganda campaign, the Chinese government should reassure the global business community with concrete, honest, realistic, and market - based solutions that address the underlying pathologies of China's poor economic performance: massive debt, endemic overcapacity, and an economic system that channels low - cost capital into inefficient state - owned enterprises at the expense of private entrepreneurs and consumers.

Examples could be found in other systems and at other levels of government.

Our Government will introduce a Victims Bill of Rights to restore victims to their rightful place at the heart of our justice system.

If the island, which is part of China but has its own legal system, wants to attract investors, it needs to show that it isn't at the Chinese government's beck and call.

an independent agency of the federal government, created in 1933, charged with preserving and promoting public confidence in the U.S. financial system by insuring deposits in banks and thrift institutions up to applicable limits; by identifying, monitoring, and addressing risks to the deposit insurance funds; and by limiting the effect on the economy and the financial system when a bank or thrift institution fails; further information on the FDIC and FDIC coverage may be found at fdic.gov

The pace of progress, progress in the direction of more openness to capital flows and greater exchange rate flexibility, will depend in part on the pace at which these governments are able to strengthen the resilience of the domestic financial system and set in place the broader institutional framework and supervisory regime that are vital for an open economy.

Leading members of Quebec's legal community are applauding the $ 1 billion that the provincial government set aside in this week's budget for projects aimed at modernizing the justice system.

It's not a kind of interest that people or companies pay, but the very low interest rate at which the government provides credit to the banking system and large financial speculators.

The British government, which is currently alternating between panicking over Brexit and not preparing for Brexit, originally planned to have to have its very prim and respectable new system for preventing people under the age of 18 from looking at naked people on the internet operating by April 2018.

Speakers making the case for why it's time to listen to the experts and Canadians — and get down to business and develop a made - in - Canada proportional representation system include Hassan Yussuff, President of the Canadian Labour Congress, Katelynn Northam, electoral reform campaign lead at Leadnow, Farhat Rehman of the Canadian Council of Muslim Women and Annie Bérubé, director of government relations at Équiterre.

He sold GM shares at cut - rate prices for a net savings of $ 900 million; cut the contingency reserve by $ 2 billion; and, booked a «settlement» of $ 900 million for a new disability and sick leave management system for federal government employees.

According to this model, a small amount of deceleration in credit growth can occur as additional credit efficiency is squeezed out of the system, but without a sharp decline in GDP growth, substantial and sustainable credit growth deceleration can not occur except after a major transformation of China's growth model, one condition of which is net wealth transfers from local governments to median households of at least one to two percentage points of GDP annually.

Going after tax cheats — personal or corporate — is important work and I take no issue with government tightening rules and / or throwing the book at those guilty of abusing Canada's tax system.

As for the alleged inability of governments to manage the tax deferral, if such a system were implemented, provided that people traded securities or died at a more or less steady rate over time, there's no reason to think that there would be government cash flow issues.

And my liberal friends look at that and they say, «If we had not created this halfway measure of health security, we would have what every other country has,» which seems to work well in other places, which is a government - run system where health protection insurance is guaranteed in some way or another, the exact structures differ, but by the state.

«While the government does need to look at expanding the number of beds available for people with dementia, they should start with taking action and improving the beds our health care system actually does have.

By: Henry Lazenby 28th September 2016 Multinational drilling equipment and services provider Boart Longyear has received an award of C$ 1.37 - million from the Ontario government to help improve safety at mineral exploration drilling sites and the efficiency of drilling systems technology.

«My view, at least, is that the US government and special counsel are going to have a much broader view of all the different signals in the system than we're going to,» Zuckerberg said.

This is not so much a belief or strategy as it is a matter of fact; there are extensive, well - established guidelines from multiple agencies at all levels of government on how to work within the system, and harsh consequences for those who do not comply.

«Given the number of Aboriginal children in care, and their expected outcomes in this system, this critical issue should be at the top of the government's agenda, and the subject of a clear plan for improvement.

Completely scrap the the funding for private schools, but in the event it's not politically expedient for the government heading into an election, at least consider a reduction in funding levels to financially aid the public system and alleviate some of the pressures they currently are experiencing with class size, lack of teachers and the challenges inherent in providing school lunch programs.

One manifestation of Finance's power has been the increasing tendency to use the tax system to deliver social and industrial policy — a quick glance at the Department of Finance's annual, ever - expanding Tax Expenditures report (first introduced under the short - lived Joe Clark government) tells the tale.

Since coming to power at the end of 2015, a minority socialist Portuguese government has overcome initial skepticism among market participants and successfully introduced measures to reduce its budget deficit and reform the country's banking system, providing greater stability for investors.

There is also no need to jump through the personal ID (Know Your Customer) hoops established by the banking system at the behest of government.

These include holding open Cabinet meetings at least once a month, which will be broadcasted on the Internet; giving Members of the Legislative Assembly (MLAs) a greater role by reforming the Legislative committee system and allowing government MLAs to vote freely (as opposed to voting according to the Party's preferences); restricting the tenure of a premier to two (four - year) terms; holding a Citizen's Assembly on electoral reform to examine alternative models for electing MLAs; instituting a system by which citizens can recall elected officials; and instituting elections for all government boards and commissions.

So far, Bank of China (Hong Kong) has led tests on a property valuation system for home loans based on blockchain technology, according to Duncan Wong, vice-president of financial technologies at Astri, the government - backed research institute working on the system.

Taking a realistic look at the system if the government only took care of those who are genuinely poor, I'll bet that the welfare rolls would be reduced substantially, probably to the point that we could actually afford it.

Counterforce networks — often made up of faithful individuals in opposition to institutions, systems and oppressive governments — may have much more influence on the future than we can foresee at present.

The trinity is a false doctrine invented by the «church / government» at the council of Nicea in 325 AD so that the pagans would feel more comfortable allowing the church into their system.

But doesn't Iran have Islamic scholars and Imans making decisions at the highest levels of the Government and Judicial systems in Iran?

Unfortunately, at the same time that many world leaders are recognizing the limitations of the neo-liberal economic system, the United States government is even more fully committed to this than in the past.

If we should inquire for the essence of «government,» for example, one man might tell us it was authority, another submission, another police, another an army, another an assembly, another a system of laws; yet all the while it would be true that no concrete government can exist without all these things, one of which is more important at one moment and others at another.

Thus the Japanese Government had by then accepted defeat and was seeking desperately for a way out; but it was not willing even at this late date to surrender unconditionally, and would accept no terms that did not include the preservation of the imperial system.5

The ubiquity of fiat money (money created by governments and through the credit system) and the expectation of fairly steady economic growth seem to invalidate many of the objections to lending at interest.

The industrialist, Like John Gault, is nto deserving of the government's charity, yet manipulates the system through accountants and lawyers to pay not taxes at all, while the average Joe is forced to pay through the nose.

At the other end of the spectrum is the philosophy represented by the Catholic Worker: all big government is dangerous; caritas emerges not from the tax system but from changing hearts and minds.

The fourth category of systemic approaches includes all those which aim at making larger, non-face-to-face systems such as governments, institutions, and economic and legal systems more responsive to the real needs of people and therefore more supportive of human development.

It may fairly be said that leaving accommodation [of religion] to the political process will place at a relative disadvantage those religious practices that are not widely engaged in; but that unavoidable consequence of democratic government must be preferred to a system in which each conscience is a law unto itself or in which judges weigh the social importance of all laws against the centrality of all religious beliefs.

Jesus thus was assigned by God, a work of preaching about «the kingdom of God» (Matt 24:14), a heavenly government that God designed immediately after Adam's rebellion in the Garden of Eden (Gen 3:15) and built, becoming operational in 1914, at which time began the «last days» (2 Tim 3:1) of this wicked «system of things.»

That Adam Smith, considered to be the patron saint of the free enterprise system and the laws of the market should have forcefully asked for workers» education, and that too at the initiative of the government, may come as a surprise to many.

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Mr Djibril Drame, a Resource Person at the launch of the project said it was aimed at providing guidance to food chain actors, government and private sector on appropriate food packaging systems including food packaging, materials, equipment and an enabling policy and regulatory framework.

The paper is only looking at the hospital based government programmes, not the private midwife homebirths that are outside of the health system.

The «left wing» refuses to acknowledge legitimate flaws in the regs and accuses the right of politicizing our children's future and always fighting against anything the Obama administration puts forward, and the «right wing» isn't recognizing any of the improvements that were made as a result of the regs and blaming the government for over regulating and not giving the administration an ounce of credit for at least taking on an overhaul of a system that hadn't seen significant reform in 20 years.