Sentences with phrase «than any government effort»

Private people are better at getting things done than bureaucratic government organization that may not have a budget after the next election so I think that fusion power will see the day by a private effort rather than a government effort.

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By detailing the specifics of its efforts rather than dragging its feet or waiting for government inquiries, Facebook may be able convince people it's not asleep at the wheel of its social network.

Less than a year after spinning off from the University of Waterloo's faculty of engineering, IPT has been recognized by the Federal and Ontario governments for its breakthrough technology and efforts towards commercialization.

In August 1972, more than a year before the military coup, the CIA funded a 300 - page economic blueprint which it supplied to the country's military and some of the most ambitious business families in an effort to hasten the overthrow of Salvador Allende's socialist government, which had been elected by a small plurality in 1970.

The main man in this regard was Mr. Paul Boothe, an unassuming, consummate federal civil servant who proved in the heat of battle that he could negotiate with the best of them. If only all our public officials were as determined and skilful in their efforts to pro-actively win real investment and real opportunities for our industries. The St. Catharines announcement is in large part the fruition of the efforts by Boothe (and all the other stakeholders in last year's rescue, including the provincial government and the CAW) to negotiate a package that was much more than a bailout. Rather, it was a recipe for a reaffirmed Canadian presence by these two lynchpin manufacturers (GM and Chrysler).

And they are slightly more supportive than their elders of government efforts to protect morality...» Back in March of this year, The Pew Forum made news when it reported that 70 % of millennials are in favor of same - sex marriage.

In early January, the US government released new details about Putin's reported efforts to help Trump win the election through leaked information — news that raised far more concerns in the US than it did in Russia.

However, Rev Nassar said the government isn't the only one that's been silent; he's blamed the Church for not going further than its humanitarian efforts in Syria.

Yet nothing can have a more deadening effect on real participation by the citizens than if government, instead of merely providing the essential framework of spontaneous growth, becomes monolithic and takes charge of the provision for all needs, which can be provided for only by the common effort of many.

Serious efforts should likewise be made to secure for foreign service in government and commerce men and women who are capable and dedicated, who will inspire confidence, respect, and affection in the people among whom they sojourn, and who will identify sympathetically with these people in attitudes and way of life rather than create little outposts of the home country in a foreign land.

More than 25 UK food manufacturers have released their pay information to the government in an effort to address the gender pay gap.

But there was even an effort in that legislation that was being proposed by the government to ensure that we would see coercive powers used against workers rather than used against employers who were intentionally underpaying those workers or other workers in the labour market.

But public health experts say the market is larger — perhaps far larger — than the $ 300 million to $ 400 million estimate by the U.S. General Accounting Office in 1988, the last time government made an effort to quantify the problem.

It's also the date for an $ 8 billion bailout of some upstate nuclear power plants to begin, and more than 80 local government leaders are making a last - ditch effort to stop a plan that they say will cost electric utility ratepayers billions of dollars.

In fact, both parties» immigration stances — Democrats» efforts to protect the so - called Dreamers and Trump's insistence on funding a border wall with Mexico — are viewed by voters as less important than keeping the government open.

The Northern Regional Minister, Abdullah Abubakari said the effort of the committee to consult widely on the issue is appropriate and timely and it demonstrates government's commitment to seek consensus on the issue rather than resort to a unilateral position.

«In the run up to the creation of this District Assembly that argument was made that it was economically viable, so it is important that we strengthen our efforts in generating revenue locally rather than blaming central government,» Mr. Ziedeng.

Touting his government's work in the energy sector, he said, «it has taken a lot of hard work and effort fast tracking the deployment of emergency plants and speeding up the completion of ongoing plants ensuring that we added more than 800 megawatts of power over an 18 - month period.»

David Cameron's official spokesman later suggested to reporters at a regular Westminster briefing that the government's efforts during the coming months may be focused on seeking a timetable for debate which would satisfy Labour, rather than trying to win over Tory rebels with concessions in the bill.

The system is unfair and I am delighted that, under the coalition Government, it will change to reward those who strive in the face of adversity, rather than those who sit back and ask, «What can I have for as little effort as possible?»

More than 80 local government leaders are making a last ditch effort to stop a plan that they say will cost electric utility ratepayers billions of dollars.

He was one of a handful of Republicans who broke ranks with his caucus rather than risk a government shutdown in a failed effort to defund Obamacare.

In addition to eliciting testimony from two current teachers with the education program who «have always been paid substantially less than what Percoco's wife was paid for performing similar work,» the government will likely seek to undercut the notion that the payments were bonafide by citing alleged efforts at concealment.

Topics during the Q&A portion of his press conference included the looming discontinuance of the Rockaway ferry, a broad consideration of his earlier statement about «righting greater wrongs,» what happened to government funding for a ferry obtained by Anthony Weiner and Joe Addabbo, whether there is any City effort to «track down scammers» in the Build it Back program, how satisfied de Blasio is with the pace of Build it Back, whether an updated evacuation plan is contemplated in conjunction with increasing the housing supply in Rockaway and a government memo reported by The Wave which stated that more money was available from FEMA than publicly acknowledged and that such additional funding could be a political liability.

The Home Office says cocaine is the only drug which has risen in use since 1998 and although cocaine use has been stable since 2000 - fewer than five per cent of adults have used the Class A drug in the last year - the government says it is determined to strengthen efforts against it.

More than ever, we need to make sure our local governments and communities have the resources they need to provide affordable housing, deliver vital services to working families and seniors and continue the neighborhood revitalization efforts critical to local economic development.»

Amid efforts to mend broken fences, the minister, often seen as one of a tight inner - circle of «Cameroons», went further than any member of the government yet has in endorsing joint candidates.

He also appealed to the government to pay the outstanding salary arrears, saying that if every effort to settle peacefully fails the union would have no option than embark on industrial action.

So, somehow, in some manner, some things are being put up that seems like a puzzle, but the future prosperity of Lagos is more than well assured and we are happy that we are part of that and this government is heavily committed to complement the efforts of business men like you.

Unless you're a native of a country on the U.S. government's list of terrorist states, you may even find the process a bit more user - friendly than it was before the attacks, because, as part of the government's effort to prove that the terrorists failed to shut down the U.S. economy, INS remains open for business, adjudicating the vast majority of immigration visas as fast, if not faster, than before 11 September.

Many scientists and environmentalists warn that the government's present strategy of simply storing the plutonium could do more harm than good because it does nothing to reduce the risk of environmental disaster, and, rather than discourage other countries from developing nuclear weapons, it could provoke them to increase their efforts.

Instead of moving ahead with a government - built Ares - 1 rocket with a capsule on top called the Orion, Augustine and Edward Crawley, a Massachusetts Institute of Technology engineer and panel member, said that NASA instead might rope in private industry for a joint effort to build a less ambitious vehicle that could be ready by 2016 — rather than 2017 or later than Ares is likely to fly.

The report suggests that government efforts should be geared not only towards academically - minded young people, but also towards the large number of high school graduates who want to start working rather than go on studying.

All told, the Mexican government has committed more than $ 100 million in an effort to protect the vaquita and support the local fishing community.

The Japanese government is pouring money into a research effort to develop flat liquid crystal displays bigger than the largest existing TV screens, but thin enough to hang on the wall.

Environmentalists are fighting on several fronts in Cameroon, where the government has pledged to expand palm oil production by more than 26 percent by 2018 as part of an effort to become a top exporter in Africa.

That is because California has often set standards more stringent than the federal government's — for example its decades - long efforts to rein in pollution from automobile exhaust, including being the first state to mandate catalytic converters in 1975.

Finally, the specification lever is at work in the lead - up to a government shutdown, and if efforts to reach a continuing resolution fail, during the shutdown itself.231 While a shutdown was historically an extraordinary event, the possibility and reality of shutdowns have loomed large in recent years, 232 so this tool is more than merely hypothetical.

«Now, more than ever, we must step up our efforts to reduce the burden of this serious disease,» she said in a government news release.

Many surveyed also say that, so far, the federal government's efforts to boost the economy and job market have done more harm than good.

The consensus appears to be that these higher levels of performance have less to do with policy than with everything else: the «ecosystem» of reform in a given place (usually a city) and its network of «human - capital providers,» expert charter - management organizations, leadership - development programs, school - incubator efforts, local funders and civic leaders, etc. — in other words, what conservatives like to call «civil society»: the space between the government and the individual (in this case, between government and individual schools).

The striking turnaround resulted from a remarkable bottom - up effort that eventually brought together the school district, the city government, and more than sixty arts and cultural organizations in a group called Dallas ArtsPartners.

Had the government, in a well - intentioned but misguided effort to ensure that everyone had access to a mobile phone, mandated that mobile phones could be sold for no more than $ 100, the iPhone might not have been developed.

(This carries more than a whiff of hypocrisy, as those whom the government is «protecting» are the selfsame students who would bridle at any effort to constrain their freedom to have sex, get drunk, and skip class.)

«But the Government needs more than ambition if these efforts are to work.

And so, brushing right past the fact that Common Core was created by states rather than the federal government and does not impose specific texts or lesson plans, Jindal vowed to fight any efforts to impose a «national curriculum.»

In fact, doing so would make the federal government even more - effective than it has been in supporting efforts on the ground to transform public education.

In 2009, the United States» accountability efforts took another turn, this time led by the National Governor's Association (NGA) rather than the federal government.

This is also in keeping with the government's efforts to present the policy in terms of improving chances for the poorest families, rather than funding an escape route for middle class families from the local school system.

This is why movement conservatives not engaged in education discussions are naturally be more - supportive of measures such as the expansion of school choice (because they conform to their views that markets and private actions by families should be the deciding forces in education) than of other reform efforts that seem to involve what they may perceive more - robust federal or state government roles, or involve what they consider to be an abrogation of roles they think should be in the hands of families or local governments.