Sentences with phrase «system of government requires»

Our legal system and system of government requires that the creation and application of laws take place out in the open.

Not exact matches

Such risks and uncertainties include, but are not limited to: our ability to achieve our financial, strategic and operational plans or initiatives; our ability to predict and manage medical costs and price effectively and develop and maintain good relationships with physicians, hospitals and other health care providers; the impact of modifications to our operations and processes; our ability to identify potential strategic acquisitions or transactions and realize the expected benefits of such transactions, including with respect to the Merger; the substantial level of government regulation over our business and the potential effects of new laws or regulations or changes in existing laws or regulations; the outcome of litigation, regulatory audits, investigations, actions and / or guaranty fund assessments; uncertainties surrounding participation in government - sponsored programs such as Medicare; the effectiveness and security of our information technology and other business systems; unfavorable industry, economic or political conditions, including foreign currency movements; acts of war, terrorism, natural disasters or pandemics; our ability to obtain shareholder or regulatory approvals required for the Merger or the requirement to accept conditions that could reduce the anticipated benefits of the Merger as a condition to obtaining regulatory approvals; a longer time than anticipated to consummate the proposed Merger; problems regarding the successful integration of the businesses of Express Scripts and Cigna; unexpected costs regarding the proposed Merger; diversion of management's attention from ongoing business operations and opportunities during the pendency of the Merger; potential litigation associated with the proposed Merger; the ability to retain key personnel; the availability of financing, including relating to the proposed Merger; effects on the businesses as a result of uncertainty surrounding the proposed Merger; as well as more specific risks and uncertainties discussed in our most recent report on Form 10 - K and subsequent reports on Forms 10 - Q and 8 - K available on the Investor Relations section of www.cigna.com as well as on Express Scripts» most recent report on Form 10 - K and subsequent reports on Forms 10 - Q and 8 - K available on the Investor Relations section of www.express-scripts.com.

But many American practices go against the grain of the more comfortable and communitarian cultural systems of their own societies - the Japanese with life - long employment for their workers, the Germans with their unions having a say in management under co-determination, and the French with their government supporting the right of unions to pressure business from retrenching, by requiring large compensation to be paid to laid - off workers.»

Short of mass deportation, the most aggressive thing the federal government could do to crack down on the 11 million unauthorized immigrants currently in the US would be to require all employers to use the E-Verify system to check the legal status of anyone they've hired or are hiring.

The Chinese government has a hand in this growth, requiring most taxi and bus fleets to have some sort of tracking systems in place.

Let me lust list some areas that will require government action and planning: rejuvenating the centers of big cities, providing mass transportation systems, controlling pollution, maintaining open spaces and recreational areas, taking care of future energy needs, making health care available to all.

To the extent permitted by law, we will disclose your information to government authorities or third parties if: (a) required to do so by law, or in response to a subpoena or court order; (b) we believe in our sole discretion that disclosure is reasonably necessary to protect against fraud, to protect the property or other rights of us or other users, third parties or the public at large; or (c) we believe that you have abused the Sites or the Applications by using them to attack other systems or to gain unauthorized access to any other system, to engage in spamming or otherwise to violate applicable laws.

By creating native printer drivers for Epson color label printers such as the ColorWorks C7500, Teklynx is allowing chemical manufacturers to comply with industry standards and government regulations, such as the globally harmonized system of classification and labeling of chemicals (GHS), which requires the inclusion of specific pictograms, rendered in color, to help classify hazardous materials.

The details of this new system are not yet fixed; the Government will consult on them during 2014, but it has already confirmed that parents will be required to provide a self - certified notice of their leave entitlement to their employers, giving a minimum of eight weeks» notice of intention to take flexible parental leave.

Patrick Roach said: «As the number and diversity of providers in education is unlikely to decrease, the government must face up to the implications of a system which has the potential to become highly fragmented and recognise that the challenge of ensuring equity for all children and young people will be greater and require new arrangements for system governance.

Decides that, in order to begin to comply with its disarmament obligations, in addition to submitting the required biannual declarations, the Government of Iraq shall provide to UNMOVIC, the IAEA, and the Council, not later than 30 days from the date of this resolution, a currently accurate, full, and complete declaration of all aspects of its programmes to develop chemical, biological, and nuclear weapons, ballistic missiles, and other delivery systems such as unmanned aerial vehicles and dispersal systems designed for use on aircraft, including any holdings and precise locations of such weapons, components, subcomponents, stocks of agents, and related material and equipment, the locations and work of its research, development and production facilities, as well as all other chemical, biological, and nuclear programmes, including any which it claims are for purposes not related to weapon production or material;

• Transforming the ethical environment in Government: Governor Cuomo's «Clean Up Albany» agenda would institute campaign finance reforms including a system of public financing for elections, limits on contribution levels, creating an independent redistricting commission, creating independent monitoring and enforcement of ethics laws, and requiring full disclosure of outside income and clients.

Amid delays that were based, in part, on political point - scoring, the system lasted only five years before the Welsh Assembly Government moved forward with a referendum to get rid of the LCO system and devolve further powers in one go — evidence, perhaps, that a system which requires the agreement of both devolved and central governments on policy changes might prove detrimental to effective governance.

According to companies that are being pulled in for a chat surrounding the government plans, roughly a year after the Foreign Secretary William Hague's Cyber Crime summit in London, the coalition could introduce a system of insurance that would require the owners of PC's to take out cover against data loss and the costs of investigation to identify the culprits.

Unfortunately, I think that's kind of inevitable - any system that requires a centrally planned economy over multiple communities is going to favor a very rigid top - down form of government, which lends itself to authoritarian rule.

Sturgeon requires the continuing support of unionist voters, happy to back the SNP in government if not to endorse their view on the future of the UK, if she is to repeat her party's trick of winning an overall majority in a parliament elected under a system that's part first - past - the - post and part proportional representation.

And reforms to the work and study tiers of the Points - Based System have been estimated by government impact assessments to yield reductions in net migration smaller than required if they are to bear a proportionate share of a reduction in net migration large enough to meet the numerical goal.

Oct. 17, 2013: As part of the fiscal 2014 continuing resolution that reopened the federal government, the House voted to require that accurate income verification systems be put in place before the law's exchange subsidies are dispersed.

It requires a fundamental change of Government policy, including the reinstatement of the requirement for qualified teacher status and a proper national system of regulation of, and entry to, the profession.

In countries that have inherited the Westminster system, loss of supply typically results in government being required to either reform as the majority that blocked supply; or dissolve parliament so the electorate can pass judgement and presumably break the deadlock.

The bill also would require a twice - annual certification by all federal agencies, federal courts and state governments, in coordination with the Department of Justice, to verify that all relevant data has been reported and uploaded to the National Instant Criminal Background Check System regarding individuals who are not eligible to purchase firearms.

Changing the system would mean putting more financial burden onto the state governments and federal government which in turn would require an increase of state - level and federal - level taxes.

Yet in education, health and local government, the Government has increasingly specified from the centre not only an extensive system of targets which schools, NHS bodies and local councils have been required to achieve, but has typically specified how it expects local institutions tgovernment, the Government has increasingly specified from the centre not only an extensive system of targets which schools, NHS bodies and local councils have been required to achieve, but has typically specified how it expects local institutions tGovernment has increasingly specified from the centre not only an extensive system of targets which schools, NHS bodies and local councils have been required to achieve, but has typically specified how it expects local institutions to operate.

The transformation requires the merging of complex computer systems in benefits offices, HM Revenue and Customs and local councils - which the government insists can be done.

The government's original aim was to require adult offenders to contribute to the costs of the justice system.

But he feels that correcting the problem may require a more fundamental overhaul of the current system, in which the government agrees to finance campus research in exchange for having universities train the nation's future scientists and engineers.

The reason the federal government doesn't recommend everyone shoot for under 100 is that despite the lower risk accompanying more optimal cholesterol levels, the intensity of clinical intervention required to achieve such levels for everyone in the population would «financially overload the health care system.

But decision makers at all levels — from students and parents to school leaders to system managers and governments — require dependable information about current levels of achievement to guide future action.

Smarick is surely right that the transition from the monopolistic system of geographically assigned district schools to a market in education will require «new policies» and «a new understanding of the government's role» in education.

The Education Commission of the States requires prospective commissioners to «reflect broadly the interests of the member government, higher education, the state education system, local education, lay and professional persons, and public and nonpublic educational leadership.»

Alexander indicated that he was strongly influenced by the recommendation made at a hearing last week by Professor Marty West of Harvard University that the federal government continue to require annual tests but that it leave the design of accountability systems up to the states.

At the same time, the federal government lacks the capacity to design an accountability system that is appropriate to the needs of each state, and has a poor track record when attempting to dictate the required elements of efforts to improve under - performing schools.

Notably, more low - income students gained access to government aid under gratuidad because the program does not require students to meet a test - score cutoff, unlike the system of grants and loans it partially replaced.

A withholding system would also require the government to notify every employer of each employee who has a student loan; otherwise, borrowers would have to elect to have loan payments withheld from their paychecks, undermining the «automatic» promise and reopening the door to default.

As a young entrepreneur, I find it extremely demoralising that our government does not seem interested in improving our education system at a time when, according to the BBC report, 80 % of young people require «significant training» before being put to work.

Within a series of prior posts (see, for example, here and here), I have written about what the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA), passed in December of 2015, means for the U.S., or more specifically states» school and teacher evaluation systems as per the federal government's prior mandates requiring their use of growth and value - added models (VAMs).

«44661 (b) The best practices teacher evaluation system required to be adopted pursuant to this article shall be locally negotiated pursuant to Chapter 10.7 (commencing with Section 3540) of Division 4 of Title 1 of the Government Code.

Idaho Superintendent of Public Instruction Tom Luna agreed that effective evaluation systems are powerful, and said he has no problem with the federal government requiring them, but that it should stop short of defining or regulating such systems and leave those decisions to the states.

Re: the US News article on top about ESSA: Chairwoman Foxx is right about the role of the federal government in America's K - 12 education system; and families can continue to pressure educrats like Mr Botel by opting out, wherever and whenever possible, from their local state schools until the federal government gives up on the continuing mistake of its annual testing requirement in two subjects only, which has produced no significant improvement in American education for 15 years now, but has cost us in lost opportunities, including time and energy that might have been devoted to non-tested subjects, including those in the broader curricula represented by the International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme, which requires assessment — including but not limited to external final exams — in six subjects distributed over at least five fields, an assessment approach that has been imitated by the world's leading educational jurisdictions, but is being discouraged by the ignorant Luddites in the the U.S. ED.

Since the passage of the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) last January, in which the federal government handed back to states the authority to decide whether to evaluate teachers with or without students» test scores, states have been dropping the value - added measure (VAM) or growth components (e.g., the Student Growth Percentiles (SGP) package) of their teacher evaluation systems, as formerly required by President Obama's Race to the Top initiative.

«By statute, [CALPADs] comprises only the data that the federal government requires [California] to collect, so it's not a comprehensive data system [and there are] a lot of weaknesses in it,» said David Plank, head of the research group Policy Analysis for California Education, or PACE.

This, I would agree is something that is very positive that has come out of the nation's policy - based focus on its «new and improved» teacher evaluation systems, again, as largely required by the federal government, especially pre-Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA).

1970s The government developed a 700 page national curriculum that created a system of compliance with teachers requiring students to take notes on their lessons.

In a Sac Bee article about the funding problems at the California State Teachers Retirement System (CalSTRS), which requires an astonishing $ 4.5 billion a year in additional annual contributions from government (on top of the $ 5.7 billion in state and local contributions it already receives),...

Improved quality often requires innovation, and markets do a better job than government - directed systems of spreading the benefits of innovation while mitigating its dangers.

Prior to the development of MOS there was no single database or system available that contains the information required to produce accurate and timely analysis of mariners» willingness and availability to sail on U.S. government and commercial vessels to meet peacetime and contingency requirements.

A: The Office of Management and Budget (OMB) and the DOT require that the identity of users of Federal government systems be authenticated and verified.

The Secretary shall make and administer a driver focused grant program to assist the States, local governments, entities, and other persons with commercial driver's license systems, programs, training, fraud detection, reporting of violations and other programs required to improve the safety of drivers as the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration deems critical.

A radar braking system developed as part of a Japan government - sponsored program is expensive and requires more development before it is ready for production.

I also would've required the US government to set benefits at a level equal to that contributed by each generation, and given no subsidy to the generations at the beginning of the system.