Sentences with phrase «which called on the government»

A church which calls on the government to take care of the needy in our community has surrendered — not to Jesus — but to the state.

The letter comes just a day before Labour MP Frank Field tables his School Holidays (Meals and Activities) Bill, which calls on the Government to give all councils the duty and resources to provide food and activities during the school holidays, for children who would otherwise go hungry.

Health campaigners are welcoming a new resolution passed at the 65th World Health Assembly which calls on governments to strengthen controls on the marketing of breastmilk substitutes and to establish «adequate mechanisms» to deal with conflicts of interest.

, which called on the government to introduce statutory guidance against the teaching of creationism and garnered significant press coverage.

Mr Reid's comments echo a speech made by David Cameron to the Police Federation, in which he called on governments to tackle the underlying causes of crime, leaving the police free to detect it.

Students and teachers in East London have launched a «Curriculum Campaign» which calls on the government to ensure women and ethnic minorities are fairly represented on the UK's curriculum.

In February, Schools Week reported on the findings of the education select committee's teacher recruitment and retention inquiry, which called on the government to give all teachers the chance to formally improve their professional development as one way to boost retention rates.

Fully implements TRC Call to Action 93, which calls on the government, in collaboration with national Indigenous organizations, to revise the information kit for newcomers to Canada and its citizenship test to reflect a more inclusive history of the diverse Indigenous peoples of Canada, including information about the Treaties and the history of residential schools.

Mines Action Canada has created an online petition to Keep Killer Robots Fiction, which calls on the Government of Canada to immediately prohibit the development and deployment of fully autonomous weapons in Canada and to support efforts to create a pre-emptive global ban on the technology.

The CERD Committee's commitment to the principle of effective participation is encapsulated in General Recommendation XXIII, which calls on governments to:

Not exact matches

In an interview with the El Pais newspaper published on Sunday, the Spanish leader suggested he could trigger article 155 of the constitution, which would allow him to dismiss the regional government and call fresh local elections.

A spat among airlines over which deserved the contract to fly U.S. government workers on certain routes intensified on Tuesday, with the chief executive of JetBlue Airways calling rivals hypocritical for protesting its award.

Last November, British lawmakers called for a tax on sugary drinks as a means of tackling childhood obesity but the idea was ruled out by the government which said it was not the right course of action.

The opposition Labour Party, which had repeatedly called on Rudd to resign, said May was responsible and should explain her own role in the government's immigration policies.

Another negative effect of the sequester on Redhorse has been the mandate that the government put many of its procurements up for bid under a standard called lowest price technically acceptable (LPTA), which as its name suggests, basically means the lowest price possible.

December 1 was World AIDS Day, and a new social - hashtag campaign was launched, #TreatmentForAll, which calls on everyone around the world to demand that governments find a way to provide the resources to allow treatment for all those infected and offer the resources to stop the factors that are contributing to the spread of HIV and AIDS - related illnesses.

«Many smaller businesses might be on the cusp of being defined as a large employer — namely those having 50 full - time equivalents — and thus being under this law,» says Christine Pollack, vice president of government affairs for the Retail Industry Leaders Association in Arlington, Va., and a spokesperson for an industry coalition called Employers for Flexibility in Health Care (E-FLEX), which was formed two years ago to fight for changes to the Affordable Care Act.

Wertham testified before the U.S. government's Senate subcommittee on juvenile delinquency, which soon called for the cleansing of comics» content.

But opposition parties have called on the government to halt the privatization of utility Hydro One, which they have said is raising costs for consumers.

The debt deal, which came on Friday after about 19 similar summits since the start of the debt crisis (with few results), called for countries that use the euro to allows two European bailout funds to aid European banks directly, rather than make loans to governments to bail out the banks.

Calling the 6.6 % real return a «chain letter» and a «Ponzi scheme,» he went on to note, «The legitimate question that market analysts, government forecasters and pension consultants should answer is how that 6.6 % real return can possibly be duplicated in the future given today's initial conditions which historically have never been more favorable for corporate profits.

The UK cryptocurrency community is calling on the Government and the Financial Conduct Authority to toughen up rules governing the trading of virtual currencies and to issue licenses to firms which demonstrate compliance.

A call for comment over the summer from both Industry Canada and the Canadian Radio - television and Telecommunications Commission (enforcement of the law is shared by the CRTC, Competition Bureau, and Privacy Commissioner of Canada) generated dozens of responses, most of which begin by congratulating the government on passing anti-spam legislation and then proceeded to urge significant amendments.

Since this debate over pipelines began in earnest last Fall, Jason Kenney and others have been calling on the federal government to invoke clause 92 (10)(c) of the Constitution, which allows the federal government to exert authority over infrastructure such as pipelines which, «although wholly situate within the Province, are before or after their Execution declared by the Parliament of Canada to be for the general Advantage of Canada or for the Advantage of Two or more of the Provinces.»

«New Democrats are calling on the Liberal government to take immediate action to create green jobs and incentivize environmental excellence by reinvesting in projects which actually lower the carbon footprint of our public sector.»

Even the BC Teachers» Federation, which has long prided itself on being non-partisan, is clearly campaigning for the NDP this time around, with a pricey TV ad calling on British Columbians to dump a government it insists has laid waste to the education system.

Program trading, as it was called, began to take over and automate the stock trading business, which, coupled with investor fears stemming from the government's intent to remove tax benefits and devalue the dollar, sparked a run on the market that no one really foresaw.

Members will debate the proposal, which would call on the UK government to unilaterally recognise the state of Palestine.

I concluded at the time of the riots that of all the things the government now needed to do, it was the married family which most urgently needed to be rebuilt: I was and remain as certain of that as anything I have ever written, and I have been saying it repeatedly for over 20 years: I was saying it, for instance, when I was attacking (in The Mail and also The Telegraph), as it went through the Commons, the parliamentary bill which became that disastrous piece of (Tory) legislation called the Children Act 1989, which abolished parental rights (substituting for them the much weaker «parental responsibility»), which encouraged parents not to spend too much time with their children, which even, preposterously, gave children the right to take legal action against theirparents for attempting to discipline them, which made it «unlawful for a parent or carer to smack their child, except where this amounts to «reasonable punishment»;» and which specified that «Whether a «smack» amounts to reasonable punishment will depend on the circumstances of each case taking into consideration factors like the age of the child and the nature of the smack.»

Since public opinion, or world opinion, or the opinion of governments in general has become a powerful factor in the situation, and since the West must depend very much on capturing the opinion and the sympathy of what might be called the uncommitted powers, our future is going to depend on the kind of internationalism which does not attempt to freeze the existing situation in a legalistic manner but takes the lead in predicting and preparing the necessary changes in the status quo.

A new campaign is calling on the UK Government to protect doctors and nurses who feel pressured to perform medical procedures which contradict their religious views,...

Given that Senator John McCain, who famously called MMA «human cockfighting» and a «blood sport», called for a nationwide ban in the US, which fell on deaf ears, should the UK government ban MMA and professional boxing as some other nations, such as Sweden, have?

Orban has called for a referendum on October 2 at which voters are expected to back the government and reject any future quotas.

The council called on the new government to «restore constitutional order and affirm citizens» political, economic and other fundamental rights and freedoms» and to assert «the territorial integrity of Ukraine, whose independence is a gift from God and is valued by our entire nation, which is why we have no right to allow for its separation, as this would be a sin before God and future generations.»

«Peters Projection — To Each Country Its Due on the World Map,» (clearly credited to the Bulletin, the West German government publication in which it originally appeared in 1977), was reprinted later that year by the American Congress on Surveying and Mapping (ACSM), a professional association with some 11,000 members, in the November issue of its publication, also (incidentally) called the Bulletin.

The Labour leader called on the Government to «update» the current law at an LGBT event which also saw the Education Secretary disparage people who hold traditional views on sexuality.

I recall that on one visit a government official handed me the World Hank's Bangladesh 2020 report, which called for the country to convert more and more of its tiny farms to large, efficient, export - minded agribusinesses.

A new campaign is calling on the UK Government to protect doctors and nurses who feel pressured to perform medical procedures which contradict their religious views, such as abortions.

1) Most Americans oppose Obamacare 2) Our President had to lie to get it passed 3) So the Left is here frantically and paradoxically and hypocritically trying couple Religion and State 4) Which confirms just how desperate our government and their media lapdogs have become 5) When I refuse to define poverty you'll know I'm a marxist disguised as a «social justice» Christian (yes... we can tell) 6) Now we can get back to the name - calling and church bashing from folks with a «tolerance» bumper sticker on their car

A group of MPs in the UK have called on the government to step in over low farmgate milk prices, which they claim are taking ruthless advantage of dairy farmers.

Which in the eyes of some is what Walton's been all along because they couldn't stomach his association with Jack Scott («He was a very close friend and he helped me a lot»); the Patty Hearst connection («I never met her in my life»): and the day in 1975 that he called on the people of the world to «stand with us in our rejection of the United States government.»

May sits on the House pension committee and called for hearings to delve into the Illinois Municipal Retirement Fund, which manages taxpayer - backed pensions for thousands of local government employees.

We make submissions to the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child, which has repeatedly called on the UK Government to fully implement the International Code of Marketing of Breastmilk Substitutes and subsequent, relevant Resolutions in the UK, acknowledging that violations of these measures are «commonplace».

The RLA calls on governments everywhere to legislate according to the World Health Organisation's International Code of Marketing of Breast - milk Substitutes, and challenges the companies which continue to break and bend the Code to put the health and lives of babies before their profits.

Paul Davies, IET Head of Policy, said: «The report acknowledges the importance of smart metering within the context of future UK energy infrastructure and calls on Government to do more to clarify the extent to which smart metering will facilitate the development of a smart grid.

Left leaning media like the idea of Basic Income, even though it is clearly an unrealistic policy and don't call the supporters of the idea populists, on the other hand TeaParty movement which advocates for lowering taxes and limiting government intrusion in life of citizens is described as populist.

The foreign affairs committee, publishing its report on East Asia today, calls on the government to change its policy towards China, which it describes as a major «regional and international player».

#StopGalamseyNow is a campaign that calls on government to undertake five steps to clamp down on the menace which is destroying the county's land and water resources, and may see Ghana resorting to the importation of clean water in the next two decades.

In its email appeals for money, the campaign accused the Clinton campaign of making «vicious and coordinated attacks» on Sanders's health - care plan, which calls for a government - run system.

The Government published a call for evidence in March, seeking to understand why claims for tax relief on expenses which employers do not reimburse to their employees increased 25 per cent to # 800 million per annum between 2009 - 10 and 2014 - 15.