Sentences with phrase «whether changes to the rule»

The agency's investigation of Google is still ongoing, and it's unclear whether changes to the rule will affect the audit.

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The decision whether to make changes in the military personnel rules ultimately will rest with the next defense secretary.

The Department will aim to complete its review pursuant to Start Printed Page 16908the President's Memorandum as soon as possible before that date and announce its intention on whether to propose changes to the Rule or PTEs, provide additional transitional relief, or to allow all the conditions of the PTEs to become applicable as scheduled on January 1, 2018.

On the surface, it's a battle over whether bitcoin's developers should change a rather minute rule in the open - source protocol (the 1 MB cap on the number of transactions the miners are able to approve).

Changing the views of many skeptical young Koreans could depend on whether Lee and others implicated in the scandal are in fact held accountable for any criminal wrongdoing in a trial that some have deemed to be a test for rule of law [6] in South Korea, or whether they will continue to enjoy the status of being untouchable.

As to whether the Securities and Exchange Commission will ever come out with its own fiduciary rule, Rhoades noted that the change in the Presidential administration will include a new SEC chair as well as two new SEC commissioners.

When theology, whether under that label or designated as religious studies, flourishes under the auspices of the humanities and social sciences, not only has the game moved to a different ball park, but the rules and umpires are also changed.

The proper issue to be concerned about is the ground rules and guidelines for articulating such changes, not whether they should happen.

yes, but if the rules are discriminatory by nature (whether intended or not), then maybe the rules have to be changed.

In the cutthroat world of F1 teams will do pretty much anything to gain even the tiniest advantage over each other, whether it's by pestering stewards for a rival to get a penalty, or voting for rule changes which benefit themselves over the greater good.

Not an actual humidor, but something to help the pitchers out, whether it's another change to the baseball, a larger strike zone, or some other sort of rule change.

All of us involved in youth sports - from parents, to coaches, from athletic trainers to school athletic directors to the athletes themselves - have a responsibility to do what we can to make contact and collision sports safer, whether it by reducing the number of hits to the head a player receives over the course of a season (such as N.F.L. and the Ivy League are doing in limiting full - contact practices, and the Sports Legacy Institute recently proposed be considered at the youth and high school level in its Hit Count program), teaching football players how to tackle without using their head (as former pro football player Bobby Hosea has long advocated), changing the rules (as the governing body for high school hockey in Minnesota did in the aftermath of the Jack Jablonski injury or USA Hockey did in banning body checks at the Pee Wee level), or giving serious consideration to whether athletes below a certain age should be playing tackle football at all (as the American Academy of Pediatrics recommend).

It is far from clear whether a successor would be any better or what form a change of prime minister would take but the context is too dark and unyielding for May to rule for very long in this parliament.

«New Kings Democrats is appalled that no update was provided on the status of our rules reforms, the membership of the committee appointed to consider those rules changes, or whether nominations to the committee have been considered.

Gorsuch's confirmation, whether with Democratic support or a change in the Senate rules to eviscerate the minority party's power to block him, would accomplish three things for conservatives:

Question topics during a post-announcement Q&A included the surprise resignation of Joe Percoco, the extensive list released today of New York endorsers of Hillary Clinton and Mayor Bill de Blasio's absence from that list, whether he supports de Blasio's call for changes to bail in light of the killing of Police Officer Randolph Holder, «felony drug dealers» being offered treatment instead of jail time, dealing with homeless people in the subway and rail systems, details of his executive order extending anti-discrimination laws to transgender people, Board of Regents Chancellor Merryl Tisch's departure and rules and laws around criminal defendant drug diversion programs.

Full Q&A: Question topics during the on - topic portion of a Q&A session included outstanding warrants on the shooting suspect, whether the mayor's view of the police has changed since he took office and whether he still views himself as a police «watchdog», how the seven steps will be communicated to police officers, a weekend attack on the 7 train, the background & origin of the seven steps, whether assignment rules will change to prevent the pairing of two rookie officers as occurred in the Bed - Stuy shooting, the current condition of the wounded officer, warrant enforcement procedures and current NYPD plans on instituting body - worn cameras.

It's also unclear whether Democrats could take charge in the middle of the legislative session, given a rule passed that a vote of 38 senators is required to change leadership.

Under the «change» cloud, some Nigerians desperately wanted a change of political party / government, whether the other parties were made up of same hands who messed the former ruling party was not important to the set of people.

Whether legislating for a five - year fixed - term parliament, or changing the voting registration system, or redrawing the electoral map, this is a government which has not stopped to think twice before meddling with the rules of the game.

Even the monarchy is changing its succession rules, meaning Kate Middleton's first child - regardless of whether it is a boy or a girl - will become the third in line to the throne.

Officials are looking at whether work rules can be changed to cut overtime costs, whether higher - paid, veteran workers are receiving a disproportionate amount of overtime and whether it makes sense to hire more police officers rather than paying so much overtime.

Places with people often disagree with the central government over whether it is a good choice to change who rules them.

Hague refused say whether the moves would lead to efforts to arm the opposition, saying there was «no change in policy on EU arms embargo, but we rule nothing out».

«We're not going to pass a budget, we're not going to end this session, without having changed the ethics rules that relate to what people do in terms of outside income — whether it's the level of outside income they have or, more importantly, making sure that people can't use their public office in a way to benefit themselves privately,» Morelle said.

Blake's time in the Assembly has coincided with debates in the Legislature over whether or not ethics rules should be changed to bar lawmakers from earning outside income.

Faced with a worsening financial climate, Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo said Wednesday that he was contemplating whether to propose changes to the state tax code, and he did not rule out the possibility that he would seek to raise taxes on wealthy New Yorkers.

Topics in the Q&A included the source of money for the City's planned pre-K advertising campaign, the City's target number of pre-K applicants, whether Speaker Silver thinks the proposed income tax surcharge should be pursued next year, how the pre-K selection process will work, how the City will cover the approximately $ 40 million annual gap between the estimated cost of pre-K and the amount provided in the state budget, when parents will learn whether their pre-K application has been accepted, how the City will collect data and measure success of the pre-K program, whether the existing pre-K application process will be changed, how the City will use money from the anticipated school bond issue, the mayor's reaction to a 2nd Circuit ruling that City may bar religious groups from renting after - hours space in public schools, the status on a proposed restaurant in Union Square, a tax break included in the state budget that provides millions of dollars to a Bronx condominium project, the «shop & frisk» meeting today between the Rev. Al Sharpton and Police Commissioner Bratton and a pending HPD case against a Brooklyn landlord.

In October, Cuomo told the Freeman that he had no plans to seek changes to the cap rule and it was up to school district voters to decide whether proposed budgets are appropriate.

It is unclear whether the birds consciously recognize these grammatical rules or are just responding to pattern changes.

In a press conference on Tuesday, Wyoming Governor Matt Mead said that the state would analyze the USGS data and then determine whether it needs to change its rules on fracking operations.

Their income, level of education, whether or not they were newcomers to their areas as adults, whether they rented or owned their home, their political party affiliations, their perceptions of the effects of conservation rules on their communities, and their beliefs about climate change were all taken into consideration when their answers were assessed.

UPDATE 18:00 3 June 2009: The UK Health Protection Agency has now changed its rules to recommend testing any patient with flu - like symptoms for swine flu, whether or not they have contacted people or countries with the virus, and especially between the ages of 5 and 44.

The New York State Board of Regents has postponed a decision on whether to change the state education department's rule prohibiting girls from competing with boys in six contact sports, including football.

Whether the Department of Education is able to finalize its proposed rule on a change to a fiscal rule in the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) will have sweeping effects for all students in the United States.

The board isn't a legislative body, however, and some legislative observers wonder whether the changes are significant enough to require state lawmakers to give their own blessing to the new rules.

However, the change in rules to ensure that boards have to provide schools with exam scripts upon request by 2020 would help identify whether marking errors were to blame for a «disappointing» result.

Please download and review the Move Rules chart to determine whether your student needs to change schools based on where you live now.

This change means that the very publishers who sell their own works — whether they are the authors themselves, fully operating publishers, or authors with their own imprint for business purposes — can now be undersold and therefore not be the actual seller when a consumer (oblivious to the rule change) clicks «add to cart.»

The only way to change this industry is to force the insiders who are setting these rules to see that what matters is not whether an author pays for their work to be published.

These rules may be subject to change, so you should always double check whether the information on this page still holds true before committing to any financial decision.

Due to their complex nature, as well as the recent changes to the rules, it's recommended that you consult your tax or financial adviser if you have any questions as to whether an IPP is a viable retirement savings vehicle for you.

The point of the wash sale rule is to determine whether you've changed your position relative to the market.

Whether it's a new tenant or a renewal lease, it's always helpful to point out changes to the lease and specific policies and rules that apply to the housing you're renting to them.

The rule change centers on a technical issue: Whether brokers are allowed to vote on their clients» behalf in director elections.

Juicy Excerpt # 1: I will take steps in my final paper to test a wide variety of assumptions about asset allocation, valuation - based decision rules, whether the period is 10, 20, 30, or 40 years, lump - sum vs. dollar - cost averaging, and so on, and to show that the results are quite robust to changes in any of these assumptions.

As of August 2017, it appears no additional licensees have been added in Minnesota due to this rule change; this fact is hard to believe and it begs the question whether or not the USDA has the resources to fully enforce this new rule change.

These criteria vary from bank to bank and are constantly changing, so it's hard to develop a single rule that can predict whether you will be approved.

I don't like the idea of building up an Amtrak balance, the program has too big a history of making changes with no advance notice whatsoever — whether changes to who their partners are (United dropped out overnight), changes in their redemption rates (making train redemptions more expensive) or changes to their rules (restricting transfers out of the program to elites only)-- that I simply don't trust them as a store of value.

Whether it's using some poorly - coded invisible wall to access an area early, or something more overt (like using some 3rd party product or a memory editor to manually change health / money values), it all can be broken down to, functionally, breaking the rules of the game.