Sentences with phrase «time the government said»

Talks to transfer the project to PIF began in 2016, around the same time the government said it would rescue the district as part of its Vision 2030 efforts to diversify its oil - reliant economy.

Not exact matches

«I've had the opportunity to consult with the senior officials of the security and police agencies of the government of Canada, and on the basis of all available information at the present time there would appear to be no national security connection to this particular incident,» Goodale said.

DENVER — Western Colorado has 40 times more natural gas than previously thought, but an immediate boom is unlikely because of low gas prices, government and industry experts said Wednesday.

A government document seen by the Financial Times said that the country's amended National Transformation Plan, dubbed NTP 2.0, would «change existing initiatives and add new ones.»

I was at a conference for technology CEOs a couple of years ago, and a former head of Canada's civil service said the government has done all of the policies right, and now it's time for the business community to step up.

Over half (57 percent) of Americans say that they're frustrated with the federal government and only 19 percent say that they can trust the government always or most of the time.

Carr makes it clear that the government he serves is determined to get the job done: «The prime minister has said many times that it's a major responsibility of the government of Canada to move our natural resources to market sustainably.

The pair's solutions to the alleged problems of CEO - speak are greater government control of markets, more bureaucracy in the private and public sectors, an end to CEOs» duty of care to shareholders and — get this — more snore - inducing courses on critical textual analysis in business schools so students can know exactly how many times a CEO says «our company» versus «the company.»

He said the BOJ's coveted independence from the government, granted in 1998, was «clearly mistakenly timed.»

«They could be pre-positioning for use in times of tension,» said Ciaran Martin, chief executive of the British governments National Cyber Security Centre cyber defense agency, who added that «millions of machines» were targeted.

«You have to stop thinking of relating metallic value to value of the medal,» said Jim Greensfelder, a one - time Proctor & Gamble executive, software entrepreneur and former elected city government official who wrote «the bible» on the history of the modern Olympic Games medals.

Coles said the time was right for a «new team» to lead Unifor and fight back against what he called attacks on labour by the federal government.

«Any time you roll out a big government program like this, confusion is inevitable,» said Lois Greisman, an associate director in the Bureau of Consumer Protection at the Federal Trade Commission.

«The government shutdown will have an impact on real estate transactions should it continue for an extended period of time,» said Elizabeth Mendenhall, president of the National Association of Realtors, in a statement to CNBC.

«At a time when young adults and families are struggling more than ever to pay for higher education, they simply can't afford to have more financial support eliminated by this tax plan,» said Reid Setzer, Young Invincibles» director of government affairs.

«Where we need innovation and where I think we are going to finally see social entrepreneurs spend more and more time is the public sector, because the big challenge that is facing every community on the planet is that government and public policy are not moving at the pace of technology or even meeting expectations of constituents,» says Blumenthal.

There has been much debate about how blockchain could solve this problem, but a recent Newsweek report detailing the example of a home title being issued on the Ethereum blockchain showed a solution: It's only a matter of time, the article said, before government agencies start embracing blockchain as a valid alternative to existing title processes.

«We have taken all of our data, all of our exchanges, and we fully encrypted them so no one can get them, especially the government,» he said at the time.

But Lewis says the turnaround time for contacting a government agency in the 21st century is more like the process of writing a pen pal at summer camp in the 20th century.

«I believe there will come a moment in time where I would say we have sufficient adoption of these alternative products... to start envisaging, together with governments, a phase - out period for cigarettes,» Andre Calantzopoulos said in an interview on BBC Radio 4.

They would leave their government - owned apartment with whatever they could carry, with just enough time for her dad to visit his parents and say goodbye.

You can't say changes to OAS are unexpected: the government of Prime Minister Stephen Harper has been dropping broad hints for some time.

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.

Xi said that his government would not condone any form of hacking or commercial theft, and any violation would be punished based on relevant laws and treaties, reported the New York Times.

China may witness its first local government bond defaults, although the timing was uncertain, Fitch Ratings said in a press release issued on Sunday, amid persistent concerns over high debt levels in the world second largest economy.

«Each time you encounter a backlash, it starts to raise the possibility that the government will change their position,» he says.

Among the things that such firms must make determinations about and document, Plakans says, is if they qualify as exempt employers, whether their workers are considered full - time employees, and if so, whether the plans they offer adhere to the cost formulas prescribed by the government.

Jerry Jana, Director of Economic Affairs for Malawi's new ruling party (following former President Bingu wa Mutharika's unexpected death in April) has said that long - term projects like the Nsanje port would be shelved while the government dealt with more pressing issues, like the country's fuel shortages and foreign exchange, according to Nyasa Times.

That's already visible in U.S. government forecasts, which say U.S. crude oil production will rise from an average of 9.2 million barrels a day this year to 9.9 million barrels a day in 2018, a new all - time high beating a record set in 1970.

Asked to comment on the ways in which companies appeared to be sidestepping the rules, Daniel Munden, Chief Press Officer for the government Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, which oversees the process, said implementing the new system would take time.

«The government has known for quite a long time that interesting things happen out in the commercial space,» said Moran.

«It's costing too much time and it's costing too much time for the British government to step up their pace,» he said.

«I would say that the central bankers of the world, that have demonstrated great skill at time when governments were dysfunctional... actually came to the rescue of the world by undertaking activities that normally would not fall in the purview of central banks,» said Frenkel.

Rogoff said that government regulation would be a trigger for the drop in bitcoin prices, although he stressed that it would take time to develop a global framework of regulation.

The Union's opening gambit in what Tusk said would at times be a «confrontational» negotiation with May's government also rammed home Brussels» insistence that while it was open to letting Britain retain some rights in the EU during a transition after 2019, it would do so only on its own terms.

CBO talks shutdown: The Congressional Budget Office Chief Douglas Elmendorf says a government shutdown would damage the economy and «scale up» problems over time.

«Many smaller businesses might be on the cusp of being defined as a large employer — namely those having 50 full - time equivalents — and thus being under this law,» says Christine Pollack, vice president of government affairs for the Retail Industry Leaders Association in Arlington, Va., and a spokesperson for an industry coalition called Employers for Flexibility in Health Care (E-FLEX), which was formed two years ago to fight for changes to the Affordable Care Act.

«It is the first time the Libertarian ticket will have more government experience than the Republican ticket, and that is astonishing,» says Stan Veuger, a resident scholar and economist at the American Enterprise Institute, a conservative think tank in Washington, D.C.

Spring time tends to be the busiest for home buyers and sellers in Metro Vancouver, said Oudil, adding the board will wait to see how they react to taxes and other policy measures the B.C. provincial and federal governments introduced so far in 2018.

Premier Christy Clark says the government will provide first - time homebuyers with a 25 - year loan for a down payment on a home to a maximum of $ 37,500, as long as the funds have been matched by buyers.

«Albertans will give the government a free reign for a very long time, as long as they sense the government is taking care of things in a way that is basically sound,» says Danielle Smith, the Wildrose Alliance's leader.

«There would need to be at least one other transmitter probably on the UK mainland for a timing service,» said co-founder Charles Curry, adding that the firm would need the British government to commit to using the technology.

The newly unsealed charge, filed October 3 by the special counsel Robert Mueller's office, said that on January 27 Papadopoulos lied to FBI agents about «the timing, extent, and nature of his relationships and interactions with certain foreign nationals whom he understood to have close connections with senior Russian government officials.»

The credit has been extended 16 times since 1981, but it would cost the federal government more than $ 22 billion over the next 10 years, and it is the most expensive of the tax provisions being considered for renewal, says Rosenberg.

«The US intelligence community is confident that the Russian Government directed the recent compromises of emails from US persons and institutions, including from US political organizations,» the Department of Homeland Security and the Office of the Director of National Intelligence said in a statement at the time.

Tufekci, who has been following the use of Twitter and Facebook by people in Turkey for some time now, said that many Turkish citizens depend on social media as a news source because the local media is either censored by the government or otherwise unreliable.

«As the government, we aim to promote full - time work for women and their moving up to managerial positions and corporate directors,» she said.

A narrow plurality of offerors (49 percent) say the On - Demand economy should not be regulated and companies should compete to offer workers fair pay and benefits, even if it means less security, compared to 40 percent who say the government should regulate the sharing economy to guarantee independent contractors the same benefits afforded to full - time workers, even if it means fewer jobs.

At the time, Pai said it was «sad... to witness the FCC's unprecedented attempt to replace that freedom with government control.»

«Whether Canada ends up as one national government or two national governments or several national governments, or some other kind of arrangement is, quite frankly, secondary in my opinion,» said Harper, who was at the time constitutional affairs critic for Reform.