Then, the research began to register that whole classes of animals across a wide geography were in trouble — so many that the politically impotent US Fish and Wildlife Service fell years behind in trying to process candidates for its national lists of the threatened or endangered that were supposed to be
under some measure of federal protection.
Not exact matches
«I'm generally wary
of half -
measures that sweep the underlying issue
under the rug,» says Chris Herndon, co-founder and president
of Apartmentlist.com, and a supporter
of net neutrality.
The middle class, which is the bellwether
of prosperity, its truest
measure, and the great creation
of modernity (no, it wasn't the iPhone) is vanishing
under their watch.»
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Credibility is a
measure of staying calm
under pressure.
Its European creditors decided on Wednesday to suspend the implementation
of short - term debt relief
measures after the Greek government announced additional spending on pensions - an action that European partners deemed as «unilateral» and disrespecting the efforts agreed
under the country's 86 billion euro ($ 89.75 billion) bailout program.
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Today, with Londoners grumbling
under the yoke
of belt - tightening austerity
measures, the city's appetite for lasers and massive sports arenas seems to be shrinking fast.
But he noted that Congress is
under a March deadline to pass the Dreamers
measure, saying «We've got other deadlines in front
of that,» referring to the spending bills.
Wall Street support
of similar
measures also has convinced energy companies including Occidental Petroleum to address the Paris climate accord's goal
of keeping global temperature increases
under 2 - degrees Celsius.
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In the most recent bout
of negotiations over the weekend, the deal reportedly sputtered out over the number
of unauthorized immigrants covered
under the deal, and certain immigration enforcement - related
measures that Republicans wanted to include but Democrats considered nonstarters.
Stranger Things led the social - media pack out
of 65 different brands, which ran 104 spots in 49 ad breaks on Fox for just
under 49.9 minutes
of dedicated ad time, according to iSpot.tv, which
measures activity from more than 10 million smart TVs and tracks responses to TV ads on social and digital platforms.
Under the previous CEO, the company could conceive
of sensible
measures to save money.
The tax bill lowers the corporate tax rate from 35 % to 21 %, eliminates the penalty
under the Affordable Care Act for failing to have health insurance, a narrower estate tax, and cuts the top effective marginal tax rate for S corporations to a top rate
of 29.6 percent, among other
measures that gives the biggest breaks to the wealthiest individuals and companies.
«The video conference was the latest in a continuing dialogue with the Russian Defense Ministry
under the memorandum
of understanding for the safety
of flight in Syria,» Cook added, «to ensure that each side continues to adhere to agreed - upon
measures to mitigate incidents in the air.»
Part
of the problem, Stack realized, was that the plant operated
under a system that
measured labor, overhead, and materials by their actual costs, rather than their standard costs.
«The power
of international law is primarily reputational and
measured in terms
of legitimacy,» Mira Rapp - Hooper, a senior fellow in the Asia - Pacific Security Program at the Center for New American Security, told CNBC earlier this year, when China's island - building in the region came
under scrutiny.
Also
under threat may be another
measure to usher in more detailed labeling requirements for menus at restaurants and grocery stores, which passed as part
of the 2010 health overhaul known as the Affordable Care Act or Obamacare.
Without a joint understanding
of the metric used to
measure success, one party may be
under the impression that a project is going well, while the other is woefully disappointed.
RESOLVED: Shareholders request the Board Compensation Committee prepare a report assessing the feasibility
of integrating sustainability metrics, including metrics regarding diversity among senior executives, into the performance
measures of the CEO
under the Company's compensation incentive plans.
The closure
of Hydro - Quebec's Gentilly - 2 nuclear power plant temporarily lowers Quebec's fiscal capacity, as
measured under the Equalization program, which in turn lowers Ontario's Equalization entitlement over a three - year period.
with carbon pricing and other
measures, including eliminating coal - fired power plants, cutting methane emissions from the oil industry, and making cleaner fuels, Canada will still be 90 million tonnes shy
of its international emissions targets set in 2015
under the Paris agreement
The bill's passage also potentially complicates Treasury issuance relative to the debt ceiling, as lower tax receipts
under the new tax plan could cause Treasury to run out
of extraordinary
measures earlier than originally thought.
Airbnb spent more than $ 8 million fighting the
measure, called Proposition F, and the company came
under intense criticism for its series
of anti-Prop F billboards and ads in the city.
Many
of the
measures under consideration were mentioned in a December 15, 2017, press release.
Final program spending for 2011 - 12 should be lower than 2010 - 11, due to the ending
of the temporary
measures under the Economic Action Plan.
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of research and development milestones, sales bookings, business divestitures and acquisitions, cash flow, cash position, earnings (which may include any calculation
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of our liabilities, if any.
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of business risk affects incentive plan performance
measures and compensation decisions.
The decline in direct program expenses was primarily attributable to lower other transfer payments (down $ 5.5 billion), due to the ending
of various stimulus
measures under the Economic Action Plan.
But it also includes
measures that the Opposition Parties may not want to support; for example; the increase in annual Tax Free Savings Account contribution limit; changes to the sick leave provisions
of federal employees; and retroactive legislation to protect the RCMP from possible criminal charges with respect to the destruction
of data
under the Access to Information Act.
Over the period 2008 - 09 to 2014 - 15, the federal debt increased by $ 155 billion, attributable to impact
of the 2008 - 2009 financial crisis and the stimulus
measures implemented by the government
under its Economic Action Plans.
If we discover that we have inadvertently collected personal information from a person
under 13 years
of age, we will promptly take commercially reasonable
measures to delete such information from our systems.
The HRC chose RORCE as the performance
measure because it represents a profitability goal that can be accurately compared to the Financial Performance Peer Group, and it is one
of the performance
measures approved by stockholders in the LTICP (thereby providing tax deductibility
under Section 162 (m)-RRB-.
The benchmark the complaint uses to
measure the difference between actual returns
under the Intel plans and what the complaint contends these returns should have been is a series
of indexed Fidelity funds.
Moreover, a number
of macro-prudential instruments
under consideration would have some
measure of automatic stabilisation built in, reducing the need for discretionary decision - making.
The
measures could fall particularly hard on South Korea, which was named as one
of the countries that would face a 53 percent tariff on its steel exports, along with China, Brazil, India, Russia, Turkey and six others,
under one potential scenario in the report.
But for good
measure, and given the risk
of appeal, Justice Macintosh went on to give his reasons denying Burnaby's application and for supporting the NEB's reasoning in its Ruling No. 40 concluding (at para 80) that «
under both... paramountcy and interjurisdictional immunity... Burnaby is precluded from seeking to apply its bylaws so as to impede or block any steps Trans Mountain must take in order to safely prepare and locate the Expansion Project.»
Otto de Voogd, the site's operator, told ERR News that he had received e-mails in which the Estonian Financial Intelligence Unit requested,
under the Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing Prevention Act, «copies
of IDs
of clients, internal
measures or procedure
of due diligence,» and evidence btc.ee was registered as a trader
of currencies.
Facebook is
under fire for supposedly lax privacy
measures that allowed Cambridge Analytica to retain the private data
of about 50 million Facebook users that the company acquired in 2015.
Under this method, the compensation cost is
measured at the grant date based on the value
of the award and is recognized over the service period, which is usually the vesting period.
In 2014, the Court
of Justice
of the European Union ruled that circumventing DRM on game devices may be legal
under some circumstances, limiting the legal protection to only cover technological
measures intended to prevent or eliminate unauthorised acts
of reproduction, communication, public offer or distribution.
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under the acquisition method, the total estimated purchase price (consideration transferred) as described in Note 3, Preliminary Purchase Price Allocation, is
measured at the acquisition closing date using the fair value
of the Company's common stock on that date.
The House OKs a
measure that would ban the IRS from seizing property
under the Bank Secrecy Act unless there's proof
of some underlying crime.
The Conservative government's tax relief
measures have seen low - and middle - income Canadians receive proportionately greater relief, she said, with about one - third
of the personal income tax relief provided by the government in 2013 going to Canadians with incomes in the first tax bracket (
under $ 43,561).
YouGov BrandIndex
measured more than a thousand US brands using its Index score, for fathers with children
under the age
of 18.
They sharply changed their package on income - splitting,» said Mr. Kesselman about a
measure the Tories announced in October which provides a non-refundable credit
of up to $ 2,000 for couples with children
under 18.
The easier way to compare this tax bill to the tax cuts
under past presidents is to look at how big the cut is as a size
of the economy, which is
measured by gross domestic product.