Sentences with phrase «used by a nation state»

They are typically used by nation states for espionage and sabotage, not by cyber criminals who tend to use widely known bugs for their attacks.

But all of a sudden the «so what if» becomes more serious — «I get denied insurance or my information is used by a nation state actor to manipulate me.»»

Chrysaor was an Android version of the Pegasus mobile spyware used by a nation state to monitor iPhones belonging to activists in the Middle East.

Not exact matches

The report summarizes how «middlebox» technology — created by the Canada - based Sandvine Corporation — was used to «deliver nation - state malware in Turkey and indirectly into Syria, and to covertly raise money through affiliate ads and cryptocurrency mining in Egypt.»

Whether this was a reference to the United States in Iraq, or to the structural dominance of the Security Council in the U.N., or to the efforts of select nations to use the U.N. in imposing population and family policies opposed by the Holy See, Benedict did not say.

They exist beyond the laws and regulations of state and federal governments, which until mid-century were used by states and nations to curb the excessive power of huge business enterprises.

The unipolarist ideology by whatever name, adds a fourth party to the foreign - policy debate, which has otherwise involved 1) liberal internationalists, who seek world peace and stability by securing collective agreements from nation states to comply with international law; 2) realists, who seek to ensure a balance of power among competing regimes; and 3) principled anti-interventionists, who renounce the use of military force for all reasons besides self - defense.

The United States is one of a dwindling number of nations unenthusiastic about the application of world law when applied to its own conduct, but for reasons supplied by the author, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights is still a tool for people of conscience to use in the struggle for a world more respectful of human dignity.

The idea of the separation of church and state resulted from Enlightenment ideals in response to how religion is often used by government to dominate and control its citizens and make war on other nations.

The Iraq Resolution known as «AUTHORIZATION FOR USE OF MILITARY FORCE AGAINST IRAQ RESOLUTION OF 2002» cites national policy, a war on «terrorism», and United Nations Security Council Resolutions to justify authorization of military force against Iraq, but I am not aware of any document by which the United States has been legally bound by a declaration of war against Iraq as per the federal Constitution (Article 1, Section 8, Clause 11).

That this House notes that ISIL poses a direct threat to the United Kingdom; welcomes United Nations Security Council Resolution 2249 which determines that ISIL constitutes an «unprecedented threat to international peace and security» and calls on states to take «all necessary measures» to prevent terrorist acts by ISIL and to «eradicate the safe haven they have established over significant parts of Iraq and Syria»; further notes the clear legal basis to defend the UK and our allies in accordance with the UN Charter; notes that military action against ISIL is only one component of a broader strategy to bring peace and stability to Syria; welcomes the renewed impetus behind the Vienna talks on a ceasefire and political settlement; welcomes the Government's continuing commitment to providing humanitarian support to Syrian refugees; underlines the importance of planning for post-conflict stabilisation and reconstruction in Syria; welcomes the Government's continued determination to cut ISIL's sources of finance, fighters and weapons; notes the requests from France, the US and regional allies for UK military assistance; acknowledges the importance of seeking to avoid civilian casualties, using the UK's particular capabilities; notes the Government will not deploy UK troops in ground combat operations; welcomes the Government's commitment to provide quarterly progress reports to the House; and accordingly supports Her Majesty's Government in taking military action, specifically airstrikes, exclusively against ISIL in Syria; and offers its wholehearted support to Her Majesty's Armed Forces.

With the nation still reeling from the harm caused by underregulated markets, conservatives are using city and state budget crises to call for across - the - board privatization, entrusting unaccountable private companies with an ever greater share of the public good.

The insurgency group, who at the peak of it's siege on the nation occupied towns in Borno, Yobe and Adamawa states, used Sambisa forest, especially the mountainous region of Gwoza near the Cameroon border, as shelter and strategic headquarters until they were pushed out by the military on Christmas eve, last year.

«That this house notes that ISIL poses a direct threat to the United Kingdom; welcomes United Nations Security Council Resolution 2249 which determines that ISIL constitutes an «unprecedented threat to international peace and security» and calls on states to take «all necessary measures» to prevent terrorist acts by ISIL and to «eradicate the safe haven they have established over significant parts of Iraq and Syria»; further notes the clear legal basis to defend the UK and our allies in accordance with the UN Charter; notes that military action against ISIL is only one component of a broader strategy to bring peace and stability to Syria; welcomes the renewed impetus behind the Vienna talks on a ceasefire and political settlement; welcomes the Government's continuing commitment to providing humanitarian support to Syrian refugees; underlines the importance of planning for post-conflict stabilisation and reconstruction in Syria; welcomes the Government's continued determination to cut ISIL's sources of finance, fighters, and weapons; notes the requests from France, the US and regional allies for UK military assistance; acknowledges the importance of seeking to avoid civilian causalities; using the UK's particular capabilities; notes the Government's will not deploy UK troops in ground combat operations; welcomes the Government's commitment to provide quarterly progress reports to the House; and accordingly supports Her Majesty's Government in taking military action, specifically airstrikes, exclusively against ISIL in Syria; and offers its wholehearted support to Her Majesty's Armed Forces.»

All States may participate in and permit, provided that the Security Council decides in advance on a case - by - case basis to approve: the supply, sale or transfer directly or indirectly from or through their territories, or by their nationals or individuals subject to their jurisdiction, or using their flag vessels or aircraft, and whether or not originating in their territories, to Iran, or for the use in or benefit of Iran, of any battle tanks, armoured combat vehicles, large caliber artillery systems, combat aircraft, attack helicopters, warships, missiles or missile systems, as defined for the purpose of the United Nations Register of Conventional Arms, or related materiel, including spare parts, and the provision to Iran by their nationals or from or through their territories of technical training, financial resources or services, advice, other services or assistance related to the supply, sale, transfer, manufacture, maintenance, or use of arms and related materiel described in this subparagraph.

A last - minute amendment to the House bill would move $ 1.6 billion in funding from seven Northeastern states to a general discretionary fund for use by the entire nation.

The state hosts vast photovoltaic arrays in the desert as well as the nation's first commercial power plant with the technology to use sunshine at night — by storing daytime heat in molten salts.

Barack Obama last week became the first sitting U.S. president to visit the nation's Arctic territory, using a sojourn in this vast state to highlight the risks posed by climate change.

FOSS curriculum is used in all fifty states by over 100,000 teachers and 2 million students; it is in about 16 % of the nation's school districts.

In the early 1980s, spurred by disappointing national test results and reports such as «A Nation At Risk» — the seminal document published in 1983 that decried the mediocre state of public education in America and recommended sweeping change to fix the problem — other states mounted reforms using administrative reorganization or new curriculum as levers for change.

The opening spreads record the history of space travel — from the first rockets used by the Chinese 2,000 years ago as weapons against the Mongols to the competition between the United States and the Soviet Union, as each raced to be the first nation to put a man on the moon.

The «nation's report card» on student achievement will collect data that can be used to make state - by - state comparisons for the first time in 1990.

Education leaders are lagging behind in drafting policies to govern the use of online courses in the nation's schools, according to a report by the National Association of State Boards of Education.

These are details about our nation and its infrastructure that could be used by an enemy against the state.

Other states or nations that wish to conduct similar projects could use the Framework developed by the Framework 2021 project «as is» or as a starting point, adding information and resources to the existing categories of learning experiences or adding other types of learning experiences.

This paper by Raymond L. Pecheone and Stuart Kahl describes efforts by states to use performance assessment in large - scale state accountability systems and highlights promising practices that can a basis for broadening how the nation approaches assessement and accountability.

In order to examine the viability of vouchers throughout the nation, the Center for American Progress used data and visuals published by EdBuild, a national nonprofit focused on improving the way states fund public schools.

Then in 2010, a year after Schwarzenegger and the Democrat - controlled state legislature took advantage of the leverage given to them by the federal Race to the Top initiative and passed a series reforms (including the nation's first Parent Trigger law and requiring the state's teacher database to be tied to its student data system in order to allow for the use of student data in evaluating teachers), the NEA and AFT spent big to back once - and - future governor Jerry Brown's return to the top office, and successfully back traditionalist Tom Torlakson as state schools superintendent (while defeating longstanding Gloria Romero, the former state senate honcho who worked with Schwarzenegger to pass the reforms).

The Empowerment Account program, which is the first of its kind in the nation, allows qualified parents to apply for an Arizona Empowerment Account and use the funds deposited into those accounts by the state for a wide variety of educational expenses, including tutoring, private school tuition, educational therapies, textbooks and savings for college expenses.

Numerous symbols are used within the state seal that represent both the state and the nation: shields of both lie side by side in the center of the seal.

Via NY Times by Motoko Rich Secretary of Education Arne Duncan announced on Thursday that states could delay the use of test results in teacher - performance ratings by another year, an acknowledgment, in effect, of the enormous pressures mounting on the nation's teachers because of new academic standards and more rigorous standardized testing.

The information from the CRDC is used by OCR as background and context for investigations into complaints of discrimination, and is also used by other offices in US ED, other federal agencies, lawmakers, and various members of the public who are interested in understanding more about the state of educational equity in the nation's schools.

The four documents listed provide a snapshot of credentialing and PD efforts across the Nation by capturing information available on line about the various approaches used by States and Territories.

[ENG] The project Estat Nació (nation state) outlines a critical look at the construction of sovereignty through the use of discourses, laws and regulations involving people not recognized as citizens by the various immigration laws and regulations affecting the rights and freedoms of migrants.

On top of each drawing, Chiurai has inscribed imagined letters by Foucault, writing on the intrinsic nature of madness — a diagnosis Chiurai believes was used to motivate colonial expansion and white minority rule in Africa and continues to serve as a contributing factor to the failure of post-colonial African nation states.

According to data compiled by 24/7 Wall Street for all 50 states from 2009 - 2010, Ohio ranked fifth in the nation for energy used, with less than 1 percent coming from renewable resources.

Rachel Buxton, a post-doctoral researcher at Colorado State University's Warner College of Natural Resources and lead author of the study, led a team of researchers that recorded sounds at 492 sites across the country in order to quantify the extent of noise pollution in the U.S. Using baseline sound levels for each study area established by machine learning algorithms that took into account geospatial features of the area, the researchers determined that anthropogenic noise pollution exceeds three decibels (dB), essentially doubling background sound levels, in 63 percent of the nation's protected areas.

In his address to the nation on April 18, 1977, President Jimmy Carter stated, ``... we could use up all the proven reserves of oil in the world by the end of the next decade.»

Given that in ratifying the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) the United States in 1992 agreed under Article 3 of that treaty to not use scientific uncertainty as an excuse for postponing climate change policies, do you believe the United States is now free to ignore this promise by refusing to take action on climate change on the basis of scientific uncertainty?

Given that in ratifying the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) the United States and almost every country in the world in 1992 agreed under Article 3 of that treaty to not use scientific uncertainty as an excuse for postponing climate change policies, do you believe the United States is now free to ignore this promise by refusing to take action on climate change on the basis of scientific uncertainty?

Commercial buildings consume 20 % of the total energy used in the United States — more than the energy consumed by all the nation's cars, trains, and airplanes put together.

This ruling also jeopardizes the climate change pact that the United States signed last December, because the provisions of the CPP were used by the Obama administration to prove that our country would be taking significant actions in restricting power plant emissions, and the other nations should follow suit in agreeing to limit their emissions.

Micronesia and Mauritius, two low - lying island nations that are highly vulnerable to climate change induced sea level rise, have proposed aggressively phasing out the use of HFC's, and were recently joined by the United States.

No doubt a lot of Americans will read a political story into the Azimuthal equidistant projection used by the United Nations in their symbol and flag, where the United States looks positively puny compared to South America and Africa.

In these times of increasing euroscepticism, critics of the European Union often contest the Union's very raison d'être by referring to measures such as the «Bent Cucumber Regulation» and enquire after its right to legislate and adjudicate on areas that traditionally used to be within the scope of sovereign nation - states.

The Obama administration in 2015 tasked PCAST (President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology) to advise «whether there are additional steps on the scientific side, beyond those already taken by the Administration in the aftermath of the highly critical 2009 National Research Council report on the state of the forensic sciences, that could help ensure the validity of forensic evidence used in the Nation's legal system.»

These plans are offered by almost every state and many educational institutions, and they can be used at any qualified college, university, vocational school, or postsecondary education institution in the nation.

«This is an advisory that studies the weaponized digital applications used by foreign nation - states for influence operations» — James Scott, Sr..

CCIOS «is an advisory that studies the weaponized digital applications used by foreign nation - states for influence operations,» says James Scott, Sr..

Last, the study notes the need to prevent the illicit use of bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies to get around economic sanctions imposed by the United States or other nations.