Sentences with phrase «under a measure introduced»

At present schools can receive # 488 for each pupil who is eligible for free school meals, under a measure introduced by the coalition government last year.

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The plan contains measures that will help Canada hit its obligations under the Paris Agreement, such as introducing carbon pricing, phasing out coal - burning power stations and boosting support for clean - energy technologies.

The Development: Hong Kong's Securities and Futures Commission recently introduced additional regulatory measures, and seven cryptocurrency exchanges are under investigation for potential unlicensed trading in «securities.»

A smaller lapse would be expected for 2011 - 12, given that most funding under the Economic Action Plan ended in 2010 - 11 and restraint measures introduced in the 2010 Budget will require departments / agencies to manage closer to their appropriations in order to deliver on their programs.

This may be accomplished by establishing standard conditions under which measurement is to take place or by introducing correction factors in the results obtained with the measuring rod.

For Whitehead, a uniform and independent metric structure is presupposed by measurement in the space - time continuum and in particular is necessitated by any attempt, so it seems to Whitehead, to establish standard conditions or to introduce correction factors ensuring the self - congruence of measuring devices under transport.

The «foreign agents» bill, for example, was formally introduced under the names of 243 Duma deputies, helping to sustain a narrative that this was a measure supported by the Russian people, rather than merely the political leadership.

The measure, first introduced years ago by Margaret Markey, a New York State Assembly Democrat, would extend the statute of limitations for civil suits against alleged sexual abusers of children and against institutions that fail to act against such abuse under their roofs.

Many of the same - sex marriage bill's opponents, while testifying against that measure, testified in favor of a separate bill under consideration at the hearing that was introduced by Del..

A letter from Smith and the shadow welfare secretary, Debbie Abraham, to the Northern Ireland secretary, James Brokenshire, warns: «This measure is being introduced in the absence of a functioning executive in Northern Ireland... To impose such changes from Westminster, especially through the back door of a statutory instrument without scrutiny even by committee, is completely at odds with principles of the devolution settlement as agreed under the Good Friday agreement and subsequent agreements, including Fresh Start.»

But the measure was opposed by Liberal Democrats, who secured the freedom under the Coalition Agreement to abstain in any vote on the issue, and Mr Clarke indicated today in an interview with the Daily Telegraph that tough economic conditions made it unlikely to be introduced before 2015.

Alongside UK - wide bills on matters such as child poverty and financial regulation, today's legislative programme included minor measures to increase Holyrood's powers, including extending its licensing of private security companies and introducing a 12 - month limit on legal cases against the Scottish government under the Human Rights Act.

«The identification and adoption of best practices in electoral framework and administration have placed countries under pressure to introduce electoral reform measures.

Tomorrow's vote on a measure introduced by Senator Lisa Murkowski (R — AK) would throw out a determination by EPA in December that greenhouse gases «endanger» health and «welfare» and therefore should be regulated under the Clean Air Act.

Nevertheless, there is still a story to be told, and the essential part of it is that the program that education reformers have tried to promote now for decades — introduce more choices of schools for students, enable competition among schools, open up paths for preparing teachers and administrators outside schools of education, improve measures of student achievement and teacher competence, enable administrators to act on the basis of such measures, and limit the power of teachers unions — has been advanced under the Obama administration, in the judgment of authors Maranto and McShane.

Examples of such initiatives include the No Child Left Behind legislation in the United States, which required schools to demonstrate that they were making adequate yearly progress and provided escalating negative consequences for schools that were unable to do this; the creation and publication of league tables of «value - added» measures of school performance in England; proposals to introduce financial rewards for school improvement and performance pay tied to improved test results in Australia; and the encouragement of competition between schools under New Zealand's Tomorrow's Schools program.

Charles Zogby, the state education secretary, says the goal is «to introduce a more market - based reform into public education... where you have a diverse set of providers... but everybody is under the same accountability measures.»

Only the turbocharged, 1.2 - litre TCe 120 petrol model is capable of dipping under the ten second mark over that benchmark acceleration measure, at nine seconds flat for the newly - introduced manual model or 9.2 sec for the «Efficient Dual Clutch» automatic.

Automakers would have to install air bags, anti-lock brakes and stiffer bumpers under a House bill that was introduced last week.The measure, sponsored by Rep. Gerry Sikorski, D - Minn., would: - Require driver's and passenger's side air bags in all cars built after Sept. 1, 1994.

Last year, Stephen Harper introduced income splitting for families with kids under 18, to a maximum of $ 2,000 in savings for taxpayers with incomes up to $ 230,000 — a measure that helps families with two parents in different income brackets, but not Schwartz.

There are many points of detail where those wishing to preserve the competitive system and those wishing to super-cede it by something different will disagree on the details of such schemes; and it is possible under the name of social insurance to introduce measures which tend to make competition more or less ineffective.

A cyclist who was dragged under the wheels of an HGV and left with a serious brain injury says that the new safety measures introduced around larger vehicles in London are a positive step forward, but more remains to be done.

Allen & Overy (A&O) lawyers will be entitled to a three - year career break under new flexible working measures that have been introduced by the firm.

It was no surprise that, by introducing this measure, Italy was in breach with its obligations under EU law and in particular the Sixth Directive on the common VAT system (Directive 1977 / 388 / EEC).

Companies convicted of corporate manslaughter could be forced to advertise their conviction, under new government measures introduced this month.

Under this objective two measures of capital requirements with different purposes are introduced, the solvency capital requirements (SCR) and the minimum capital requirements (MCR).

Introduced by Rep. Tom Kading and endorsed by six representatives, the proposal seeks to amend the state's Measure 6 under the North Dakota Parental Rights Initiative, which covers equal parenting rights and responsibilities.

Such measures have been introduced under the Cape York Welfare Reform Trial and under the child protection income management measure in WA.