Sentences with phrase «up to government standards»

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That means the American government building a nationwide 5G network within just three years — a timespan that includes the recreation of a «telecommunications manufacturing base in the U.S.» There would need to be new national standards for deploying the infrastructure, in order to speed up the process.

Our government supports collaborative medical innovators, whose work leads to employment opportunities for thousands of people, opens up new opportunities in the global marketplace for our home - grown companies and helps people across our province receive the highest modern standards of patient care.»

She says Canada has some work to do if it wants to catch up to countries where both government and industry fully understand the value of standards — countries that are quickly becoming standards «makers» rather than «followers».

A far greater part of the text — thousands of pages in more than 30 chapters — has to do with harmonizing regulations (financial, health and safety standards, etc.), reinforcing intellectual property rights (patents, copyrights), opening up new sectors to privatization and foreign investment (health insurance and education), and putting strict limits on how governments choose to protect the environment or create jobs.

That could set up another showdown like those that took place in 2011 and 2013 — when lawmakers brought the government to the brink of defaulting on U.S. debt, leading Standard & Poor's to downgrade the nation's credit rating for the first time.

And, you will find they are all working hard to live up to God's standards, free of false teachings, having true love for their brothers around the world, living in peace even today, not willing to join anybody's army, nor join political parties but respectful of national governments and authorities, law abiding but God's kingdom interests come first, carrying out the world wide assignment God has given them.

This approach does not conform to the Charter «values» the government claims to uphold, and it certainly does not measure up to the standards of a healthy democratic polity.

The people that take a stand for a secular government are trying to keep our country up to the high standards established by our Founding Fathers.

They found that companies which had signed up to an industry - regulated marketing code were still advertising food that would be considered unhealthy by government standards.

«We are standing up on behalf of the entire organic sector to protect organic integrity, advance animal welfare, and demand the government keep up with the industry and the consumer in setting organic standards,» said Laura Batcha, Executive Director and CEO of the Organic Trade Association.

Answer: In the final analysis, while NOCSAE has every right to protect the integrity of its standards, it should be up to the marketplace to determine winners and losers, with as little government or private interference in that process as possible, so that the best company with the best technology wins.

All car seats are regulated by the US Federal Government; therefore, they are always up to minimum safety standards aka «up to code» regardless of how expensive they are or what brand.

All car seats on the market are «up to code» since they've made it to market (they are required to meet safety standards set by the US government) BUT not all are as safe as they could be.

Given China's troubling food safety record and the fact that its own government official essentially admitted that China can't live up to the food safety standards of more developed nations, there are those who speculate that the timing of the USDA announcement — the Friday before Labor Day weekend — was not unintentional.

At the top of that agenda is democratic localism, which advocates strong local government taking big decisions on public services in response to local demand and in order to drive up standards.

Labour should stick to the facts on immigration; that it overall contributes to raising living standards and point out the Tories and UKIP whip up scape - goating to distract attention from those responsible for cost of living crisis — the banks and government.

The weekly standard had a sensationally titled piece that was picked up and linked to by the Drudge report that claimed it was proof that Hillary Clinton knew she sent classified info over her personal email, which would be a violation of federal regulations regarding the handling of classified information by government officials and employees.

Republicans, who believe the issue could prove toxic in an environment in which voters already deeply distrust government and exasperated with insider - driven politics, have pursued a strategy to knock Democratic Senate candidates off balance and advance a larger narrative that the Obama administration has failed to live up to the high ethical standards and transparency it promised voters two years ago.

«We call on the Federal Government to build five functional sea ports of international standard for the region, and commence the clean up processes of the Koluama Oil Spill in Bayelsa.

It may be a month late — warp speed by government standards — but it appears the ducks are lined up to put the new Family Courthouse at the Business Resource Center in the Town of Ulster.

There is validity to the concept of «off book» debt, and it's true that Social Security payments don't show up in standard accounting projections, but debates about government debt already factor that in.

We lost that standard and I ran for governor of New York to get it back — to clean up Albany, to get our government working and to get our economy running once again.»

The message rings as spin to a number of expert observers who insist Cuomo has long overseen a system that allows, at the very least, for the appearance of pay - to - play to flourish as mini-economies have popped up around the state where connected consultants work with both state government entities and those looking to win state contracts, and where the state funnels money through non-profits, allowing them to avoid scrutiny and standard state contracting procedures.

«The South - East before now was not measuring up to standard in the APC but we have worked out strategies and modalities on how to improve relationship between the people of the South - East and the APC government.

«That this House opposes the Government's plans to impose a polyclinic, or GP - led health centre, in every primary care trust; regrets that this could result in the closure of up to 1,700 GP surgeries; is concerned that the imposition of polyclinics against the will of patients and GPs could be detrimental to standards of care, particularly for the elderly and vulnerable, by breaking the vital GP / patient link; further regrets that these plans are being imposed without consultation; is alarmed at the prospective loss of patient access to local GP services at a time when care closer to home should be strengthened; believes that the Government's plans would jeopardise the independence and commissioning capability of general practice in the future; supports the strengthening of access to diagnostic and therapeutic services without undermining the structure of GP services; and calls on the Government to reconsider its plans for polyclinics.

«The plans to use academy chains to drive up standards is nothing more than yet another strategy to seek to promote and impose the Government's ideological academisation programme, despite the fact that there is no evidence that this raises standards.

«Residents of this great state rightly expect a government that is honest and beyond reproach,» he said, «and this new office will work to ensure that their elected representatives are living up to the highest ethical standards.»

Information published this week shows that the Welsh Government's flagship scheme to drive up standards of rented accommodation in Wales, Rent Smart Wales, is still lagging behind.

«There is a lot of debate regarding which curve is secure and which curve to use, and there are multiple governments with different standards coming up that talk about different curves.

Ad Astra, a nongovernmental organization of Romanian scientists with an interest in bringing the country up to international standards, has also protested the changes at CNATDCU in a recent public statement, where it pointed out that the Romanian government is sending contradictory messages by removing all expatriated scientists from CNATDCU while organizing a conference aimed at building bridges between at - home and expatriated scientists.

Emanuel hopes that the study's results will help city planners and government officials to decide where and how to rebuild and fortify infrastructure, as well as whether to recode building standards to stand up to stronger storms and more damaging floods.

Thus, WIPP's mission has been to demonstrate whether the federal government and its contractors, at the cost of unknown billions of dollars can: (1) safely operate WIPP to meet the «start clean, stay clean» standard; (2) safely transport plutonium - contaminated waste through more than 20 states without serious accidents or release of radioactive or hazardous contaminants; (3) meet commitments to clean up transuranic waste at about 20 DOE nuclear weapons sites; and (4) safely close, decontaminate, and decommission the WIPP site, beginning in 2030 or sooner.

In late 2008 the STF were appointed by the Learning Outside the Council Interim Council (an independent charity set up by the UK government in 2008) to act as the Awarding Body for the Study & Sports Tours Sector of the LOtC Quality Badge and our standards adopted as the benchmark for all companies operating in that sector.

«The AEU supports the recommendation that the Commonwealth work to ensure state and territory governments that did not sign up to Gonski contribute towards the cost of getting all schools to a national resourcing standard.

Accelerating the growth of multi-academy trusts (MATs) «is key to driving up standards» in the North, according to an independent review commissioned by the government.

But now the programme can be used for professional development up to level 7 (masters level) and the government has recently announced that apprenticeship standards are being developed to train teachers to QTS level.

One telling sign is that the federal government does not impose minimum standards for gifted education, even though the No Child Left Behind law imposes all sorts of mandates to bring up the bottom.

NCLB has a fairly simple structure: states were required to develop learning standards along with consistent assessments of student accomplishment of these standards; schools were required to be on a glide path to get all of their students up to a state - defined proficiency level by 2013; and the federal government established a series of corrective actions — including provision of supplemental services, broad student choice, and reconstitution — that were required of individual schools after continual deviation from this glide path.

At Bett Academies this month, I will start off by looking at what evidence there is to support the belief that the academies programme has so far made an impact on educational standards in England, looking initially at the performance of the Labour sponsor academies that were set up by Tony Blair and his Government.

«Up and down the country, schools like St Andrew's are raising educational standards for our young people and helping the government to deliver on its bold reforms.

The increase in disadvantaged young people not applying for university is as a result of the Government abolishing maintenance grants for students from low - income homes, and allowing universities to put up their fees further if they reach agreed standards in teaching.»

Anne Bull, LACA National Chair commented: «The timeline to have everything in place by September may seem daunting to some schools but we know that they are working hard with parents and staff to improve school meals whilst caterers and government are collaborating to improve standards and take up.

David Simmons, head of the Local Government Association's children and young people board, commented that: «School autonomy is supposed to drive up standards, but in the case of school meals we now have a two - tier system where one type of school can effectively exempt pupils from healthy choices and instead chose to sell fatty and sugary foods.

Money would then be available to bring needy schools up to 95 per cent of the government's schooling resource standard (SRS), which is calculated by taking a base cost for educating each student and adding money for disadvantage (such as coming from a low socio - economic background, being indigenous, or living in a remote area).

In its new integration strategy, the government promised to beef up the action it takes against private schools that fail to meet the independent school standards, but campaigners don't believe it will work.

«This government's piecemeal approach to assessments lacks any joined - up or coherent strategy, threatening standards in our schools.»

Government press releases highlighted the importance of national policies implemented by ministers to drive up standards.

A spokesperson for the DfE said the government «recognised there were challenges» and added that Justine Greening, education secretary, had «set out her ambition to continue driving up standards through investment in professional development so the best teachers stay in the profession.»

A new set of standards is to be drawn up for teaching assistants in England's state schools, the government has said.

The government says the NUT is «blindly opposed» to the schools, which it argues will drive up standards.