Sentences with phrase «under reforms implemented»

The U.K. had a similar rule barring nonlawyer ownership, but under reforms implemented by the Legal Services Act of 2007 law firms have been able to take on a limited number of non-lawyer partners and lawyers have been allowed to enter into a wide variety of business relationships with non-lawyers and non-lawyer owned businesses.

Not exact matches

The Greek government has seen a sharp fall in its popularity as it implements the controversial reforms under the country's bailout program.
THE National Competition Council this week released a comprehensive stocktake of reforms undertaken by various State governments, as part of their yearly review of progress by States in implementing reform under the Hilmer competition policy agenda.
But in the years since, the SEC has also been overwhelmed by the task of implementing dozens of rules called for under the 2010 Dodd - Frank financial reform law and the 2012 JOBS Act, which aims to make it easier for small businesses to raise money.
Under the previous Conservative administration, a number of cost - saving reforms were implemented in an attempt to stretch limiting funds further.
Under the «Push - Out Rule» (Section 716 of the Dodd - Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act), insured banks were not going to be allowed to hold these derivatives when the rule was fully implemented in July 2015.
Under the NPA, each Basin state is implementing the reforms in accordance with the milestones set out in the agreement, and is reporting on milestone progress through an annual «statement of assurance».
Only 40 percent of the rules required under the financial reform act have been implemented, the financial inudstry has started to modify some practcies in anticipation of the changes.
Only under tremendous pressure from the markets, from the EU, the IMF and other actors, did governments in those countries decide to implement reforms that should have been considered years before.
Under what is called «AV plus» every constituency on the electoral map would need to be redrawn, making it difficult to hold a referendum and implement reform in one parliament (while straight AV would use the current constituencies).
Ghana has a free education 6 - year primary school education system beginning at age six, [163] and, under the educational reforms implemented in 1987 and reformed in 2007, they pass on to a 3 - year junior high school system.
George Wiafe on the sidelines of the IMF / World Bank spring meetings in Washington DC, Mr. Ofori - Atta said these tough measures and reforms would have to be implemented even if the country was not under a fund program.
«Kachikwu is focused on delivering on the reforms currently being implemented in the petroleum sector under the leadership of President Buhari and Acting President Osinbajo in line with his duties as Minister of State for Petroleum Resources and Chair of the Board of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC.
In February 2011, Foreign Secretary William Hague confirmed that the EU had decided to continue the «Zimbabwe Restrictive and Appropriate Measures» in light of the fact that essential reforms to promote the rule of law, human rights and democracy, as agreed under the Global Political Agreement, had not yet been implemented.
This is a plan that keeps spending under two percent, reforms New York's education bureaucracy, implements the nation's strongest and most comprehensive disclosure laws for public officials and makes the largest investment in the Upstate economy in a generation.
Harris County's (Houston, TX) District Attorney's office has recently implemented a major reform: the pre-charge diversion of all arrests for possession of marijuana under 4oz.
The most controversial reform implemented under Driscoll's watch was requiring that students perform at a certain level on the state's 10th grade test in order to graduate.
The only way to implement any of these reforms successfully, within budget and at scale, is to help excellent teachers increase their productivity: swap portions of excellent teachers» time with digital instruction so they can teach more classes with similar or even smaller group sizes; let them delegate nonessential tasks to other adults; use digital tools to save time on instructional monitoring and planning; put them in charge of other teachers; and let the willing have more students to nurture under their strong wings.
«Success» in implementing standards - based reforms under this model is defined not in terms of test scores in a limited number of subject areas, but broadly, in terms of providing all students a sound basic education on a sustained basis.
Education Next: Many promising education reforms were implemented in Florida under your watch.
Second, can voucher programs be expected to enhance student performance or improve public education systems, based on the education reforms implemented in the nations that currently rank in the top five in the world in reading, math, and science under PISA?
The Community Schools Initiative works at the regional, district and site levels to develop, implement, and sustain FSCS as a school reform strategy in under - resources communities.
Under proposed reforms to the system by which schools can challenge results, set out recently by the exams regulator Ofqual, exam boards will eventually have to accept requests from schools for access to marked GCSE papers, as they already currently do for A levels, but it is not yet know when this will be implemented.
Kernan now must implement a reform plan under the state's existing guidelines for school reform.
The District has made a good faith effort to implement the 2007 law that placed public schools under mayoral control, but there is no evidence that the change in governance has been a factor in improved standardized test scores, according to the first major independent study of D.C. school reform.
As documented under Section 1114 of Title I, Part A of the Every Students Succeeds Act (ESEA), a local education agency receiving Title I funds «that desires to operate a schoolwide program shall first develop (or amend a plan for such a program that was in existence on the day before the date of enactment of the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001), in consultation with the local educational agency and its school support team or other technical assistance provider under section 1117, a comprehensive plan for reforming the total instructional program in the school that describes how the school will implement the components described in paragraph (1)».
Under waivers to the No Child Left Behind (NCLB) Act, the federal government required states to identify schools where targeted subgroups of students have the lowest achievement and to implement reforms in these «Focus Schools.»
As the Hartford Courant reports, «Performance pay was one of the district's reform initiatives implemented under former Superintendent Steven Adamowski in 2008.»
Rabinowitz questioned whether the embattled charter organization, also known as Family Urban Schools of Excellence, should continue running Dunbar School under a year - old arrangement through the state Commissioner's Network, a reform initiative that gives millions in extra funding to struggling schools that implement a three - to 5 - year «turnaround» plan.
«I have learned from your past actions that you are either a proponent of the privatization of public schools as is being implemented under the guise of school reform, or our bully of a governor has you under his boot heel.
Under the leadership of Superintendent Tony Alvarado, New York City's Community District 2 implemented a complex and interconnect culture of reform that included standards and assessments.
«For the new ministerial team, the key priority is to give schools and colleges time to implement the large number of reforms already under way,» he said.
MCLEAN, VA --(Marketwired - Aug 7, 2017)- Freddie Mac (OTCQB: FMCC) today issued the company's stress test results for the severely adverse scenario conducted under FHFA's rule implementing the Dodd - Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act.
Poland is likely to do this, as standard bearer for the opponents of ambitious EU ETS reform, and because it has reduced voting power under the new rules... Sandbag would like the EU to cancel some suprlus allowances to «ramp up its climate offer»... If the reforms backed today by the European Parliament were implemented, they would be expected to increase prices to between roughly $ 17 and $ 35 by 2020, according to differing forecasts from market analysts Thomson Reuters Point Carbon and ICIS Tschach Solutions.
The oil and gas industry will be operating under tighter rules, stronger oversight, and in a regulatory environment that will remain dynamic as we continue to build on the reforms we have already implemented
Chip and his team negotiated and implemented bilateral logging agreements with China and Indonesia, coordinated the Climate and Environment Working Group under the U.S. - Indonesia Comprehensive Partnership, led trade - related efforts on forests with Peru, the Asia - Pacific region, and the European Union, and played a leading role in developing the U.S. relationship with Burma on forest policy since that country began its political and economic reform process in 2011.
The annual and quarterly data for 2010/11 reflect the first full financial year under the new risk of significant harm threshold and the Structured Decision Making tools implemented on 24 January 2010 as part of the Keep Them Safe Reforms.
MCLEAN, VA --(Marketwired - Aug 7, 2017)- Freddie Mac (OTCQB: FMCC) today issued the company's stress test results for the severely adverse scenario conducted under FHFA's rule implementing the Dodd - Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act.
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