Sentences with phrase «upon governments in»

Speaking at the conference on Monday, Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono called upon governments in the region to commit to sustainable land - use and investment practices that do not come at the expense of Southeast Asia's natural resources — chiefly its forests.

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Issuing bonds is one of the most routine things that happens in today's financial system; governments and companies get a sum of money today and pay interest on it over time, before paying back the principal at some agreed - upon future date, when the bond «matures.»
In the same blog post, Branson called upon agencies and governments to do everything they could in providing aid to those impacteIn the same blog post, Branson called upon agencies and governments to do everything they could in providing aid to those impactein providing aid to those impacted.
Upon release, de-facto authorities in the rebel capital Donetsk arrested him on suspicion of working for the Kiev government.
Contractors are relied upon to fill in when government staff and resources have been stretched thin.
Papadopoulos was arrested on July 27 of this year upon his arrival to Dulles airport in Washington, DC, and met with government agents several times thereafter.
Tech companies in China are required to share data with the government upon request.
On paper, the recommendations for debt relief and reduced austerity «suddenly evaporate when IMF functionaries coalesce with their ECB and the European Commission colleagues in order to impose upon our government their chosen policies,» said Mr Varoufakis.
Having served in various public sector roles, Mr. Friedman offers a seasoned perspective on government, regulation and risk management, which he draws upon in his role as Chair of our Risk Committee.
«As things shift downwards, the degree to which the government will be tested is the degree to which the government has prepared for the inevitable downturn and built upon the natural and human assets of the province, in order to provide some protection from that downturn.»
But in the 1920s the Allies imposed an unpayably high reparations burden on Germany — largely to obtain the foreign exchange to pay the Inter-Ally arms debts that the U.S. Government insisted on collecting, rather than forgiving these debts as allies traditionally had done among themselves upon achieving victory.
I just graduated college in May and was fortunate enough to secure an entry level consulting position that pays 55k / yr (a little less than ~ 35k after 401K, other benefits, and the lovely taxes that government bestows upon us).
[5] The inflation - targeting framework in Australia was subsequently verbally endorsed by the government of the day, but was not formally endorsed until 1996, when a new government signed a letter of agreement with a new Governor, upon his appointment.
The status of the Statement has been reinforced by the issuance of a second Statement (almost identical to the first) upon the re-appointment of Governor Macfarlane in 2003 and the appointment of current Governor, Glenn Stevens, in 2006, as well as upon the only change of government that has occurred since the formalisation of the inflation target.
Once upon a time, the US government wisely believed that it would be a bad idea to subject promising young internet startups to the bureaucratic morass involved in things like HIPAA or GLBA compliance.
There is a role there for the government to play, but a lot of this is going to be done by private individuals and private entities in America taking upon themselves of keeping their information more secure.»
Meanwhile, Albert Edwards of SocGen suggested that there has been an excessive «move away from equities» in recent years — instead of noting, for example, that the volume of U.S. government debt foisted upon the public (even excluding what has been purchased by the Fed) has doubled since 2007, not to mention other sources of global debt issuance, while the market capitalization of stocks has merely recovered to its previously overvalued highs.
This is somewhat random depending upon the nature of the payments that take place in the community and on which banks» customers are the recipients of government spending or are paying tax.
Its official debt is unpayable, and never should have been forced upon it in the first place — under conditions where the Troika removed the elected prime minister from office to put in their own technocrat (Lucas Papademos, who had worked with Goldman Sachs to falsify the government's 2001 balance sheet to enable it to meet the eurozone's entry conditions).
In its paper, the BPP Group raises a number of concerns regarding the hard regulatory approach suggested by the Directive proposals and calls upon the European Commission, Parliament and national governments to support the proportionate, principles - based approach to service supplier oversight overwhelmingly supported by shareholders that is embodied in the Best Practice Principles for Shareholder Voting Research & Analysis, stating that «unwarranted or disproportionate legislation may inhibit the provision of independent information and services that assist investors in the exercise of the very rights and responsibilities that the Directive aims to foster and support.&raquIn its paper, the BPP Group raises a number of concerns regarding the hard regulatory approach suggested by the Directive proposals and calls upon the European Commission, Parliament and national governments to support the proportionate, principles - based approach to service supplier oversight overwhelmingly supported by shareholders that is embodied in the Best Practice Principles for Shareholder Voting Research & Analysis, stating that «unwarranted or disproportionate legislation may inhibit the provision of independent information and services that assist investors in the exercise of the very rights and responsibilities that the Directive aims to foster and support.&raquin the Best Practice Principles for Shareholder Voting Research & Analysis, stating that «unwarranted or disproportionate legislation may inhibit the provision of independent information and services that assist investors in the exercise of the very rights and responsibilities that the Directive aims to foster and support.&raquin the exercise of the very rights and responsibilities that the Directive aims to foster and support.»
The open letter calls upon the Canadian government to address environmental concerns in NAFTA and to ensure that the new North American trade deal currently being negotiated does not undermine -LSB-...]
(Shkreli was sentenced to seven years in prison in January for securities fraud and conspiracy to commit fraud, and a forfeiture order authorized the government to seize a Picasso painting and the sole copy of Wu Tang Clan's «Once Upon a Time in Shaolin.»)
Far too often can «innovation» become a buzzword in today's new globalized economic reality, as governments seek to find new ways to increase GDP and revenues so they can sustain the critical social programs and public infrastructure so many Canadians rely upon.
``... if those [people] are holders of government bonds based upon a benign outlook for inflation, they had better cash some of them in, especially at today's 4.0 percent yield for 10 - year Treasurys.»
By insisting in an exaggerated fashion on our dependence upon government, by overlooking the ways in which multiple sources of support in civil society and the marketplace afford us a kind of independence, President Obama would, in effect, turn the clock backward.
Your entire frame of reference is based upon a set of beliefs that aren't even supposed to have a place in our Government.
The United States of America have exhibited, perhaps, the first example of governments erected on the simple principles of nature; It will never be pretended that any persons employed in that service had interviews with the gods, or were in any degree under the influence of Heaven, more than those at work upon ships or houses, or laboring in merchandise or agriculture; it will forever be acknowledged that these governments were contrived merely by the use of reason and the senses.
People who can't stand up for themselves and are preyed upon by others typically are in favor of government regulation, laws, things of this nature to protect them.
The point is not trying to force people to believe the same as the atheist; the point is to respect all people, allow them to live as they believe best, and do not allow people in positions of power or government to force their religious beliefs upon others.
He presents many other facts and findings of this sort — particularly striking is the one showing that German capitalists actually exerted pressure upon their government to avoid going to war over a colonial dispute, the one over Morocco in 1911, so as to preserve their profitable trading.
«one of the greatest dangers to the freedom of the individual to worship in his own way lay in the Government's placing its official stamp of approval upon one particular kind of prayer or one particular form of religious services.»
Calling upon the testimony of James Madison and other Federalist winners in the ratification debate, Wills seeks to demonstrate that the founders, far from seeking an enervated, divided, self - checking government, saw themselves as creating an effective national polity capable of necessary good.
Since public education is controlled through agencies of government, racial justice in education depends upon equal political rights and responsibilities for all citizens regardless of color, religion, or national origin.
This process is full of waste, fraud, and abuse, and the wealthy feel like the government is stealing from them, and the poor are not helped in the long term, but only become ever more dependent upon the government.
According to the government the «leftists» of the Coordinadora Revolucionaria had begun the shooting upon arriving, with the intention of stealing the archbishop's coffin and holding the dignitaries hostage in the cathedral.
Therefore I would use all the pejorative language which you suggested to denounce our government's intervention in that nation's internal political affairs — an intervention which depended substantially upon the selective allocation and sales of excess food resources.
The great problem with governments and economic systems that are built upon the wealthy supporting the poor is that they masquerade as being the biblical model, the form of taking care of the poor that was practiced by Jesus and in the early church.
In the space of one generation it was already strong enough in Rome, the metropolis of world - empire, to draw upon itself the unwelcome attention of the governmenIn the space of one generation it was already strong enough in Rome, the metropolis of world - empire, to draw upon itself the unwelcome attention of the governmenin Rome, the metropolis of world - empire, to draw upon itself the unwelcome attention of the government.
Based upon penal codes of law the judicial obligations of public trust placed in our government by «we the people» to punish individuals who break our laws.
In the past, governments were often called upon to perform duties with demonstrable demographic consequences — the regulation of immigration, for example, or the eradication of communicable disease.
For the government to impose its will upon the masses is an effort to force the masses to worship it in order to receive basic necessities of living.
It will never be pretended that any persons employed in that service had interviews with the gods, or were in any degree under the influence of Heaven, more than those at work upon ships or houses, or laboring in merchandise or agriculture; it will forever be acknowledged that these governments were contrived merely by the use of reason and the senses.
Brothers and sisters, when you have a government that says «we can decide whether or not a house of worship can be constructed based upon the theological beliefs of that house of worship,» then there are going to be Southern Baptist churches in San Francisco and New York and throughout this country who are not going to be able to build.
It can be a salutary and enlightening exercise when it causes us to reflect upon the fundamental principles and purposes that define the American experiment in self - government.
The five so - called «World - wide» wire services upon which each nation's mass media (and to some extent government) depend for information about events outside its own border are arms of their respective national systems (American, English, French and Soviet) and mirror the interests of the power structure within their home countries in the selection and presentation of information from the outside world.
While our rights tradition stems from a belief in a moral order independent of government, a strong case can be made that our system of limited and dispersed power depends even more profoundly upon an appreciation of human imperfectibility.
As war or peace may depend upon the stroke of a pen in the hands of a single government official, so your life depends upon the answer to this question.
In this matter we come upon the very core of the uniqueness of Israel's government among the nations of the Orient.
Powerful well - funded agencies, often promoted by the State (I avoid the word «Government» as I do not want to speak in party - political terms), are mounting a relentless onslaught upon the family and especially the moral sense of our young people.
It is not our intention to deny many elements in the Marxian analysis: the reality of the class struggle, the destructive self - contradiction in modern capitalism, the effect of capitalism upon government, law, the established religion.
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