Sentences with phrase «which federal government»

«Residential segregation, which the Federal government helped to foster, remains a fact of life in the Nation's metropolitan areas.»

That's the level at which the federal government considers households to be cost - burdened.

This process should be encouraged and streamlined and is especially important for states in the West, some in which the federal government owns over 50 % of the land.

But if housing stays in the doldrums and the discount at which the federal government purchases the loans is minimal, taxpayers may end up footing some of the rescue bill.

The centrality of culture to the health of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples is emphasised in the National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Plan 2013 - 2023 (which the Federal Government is planning to re-launch with some changes).

With the tenacity and speed with which the federal government automates and integrates judgment - robbing systems, the competency is a rarer quality these days.

The KSA is the device by which the federal government separates the pretenders from the contenders.

3 A «concessions contract» is any contract under which the federal government grants a right to use federal property, including land or facilities, for furnishing services.

That an interpretation of «telephonic» should take notice of the limits imposed on the federal government by virtue of our constitutional division of powers, that is that the Act can only apply to matters over which the federal government has legislative authority, is further supported by the specific reference in s. 13 (1) to communication «by means of the facilities of a telecommunication undertaking within the legislative authority of Parliament».

A limited number of Ontario employees, however, work in industries over which the federal government has jurisdiction, and consequently sets the law.

Some instances in which the federal government has jurisdiction over a criminal act include:

Drafted in 19th century England, the Constitution Act, 1867 (originally the British North America Act), divided the ability to pass laws into three categories: those over which the federal government would have exclusive power, those over which the provincial governments would have exclusive power, and just for fun, they included some areas over which both governments could have power.

As both the constitution and the relevant jurisprudence make plain, there are some industries over which the federal government has jurisdiction to pass laws concerning labour and employment standards.

by two law professors with a bent for political science and empirical research on the judiciary — suggests that if trends continue, Trump might fare no better than Obama, who had a win rate of 50.5 percent in cases in which the federal government was a party.

«In Canada, the Indian Act is the central tool by which the federal government rendered itself the authority, under s. 91 (24), to completely manage the affairs of Indians, thus making hundreds of thousands of Aboriginal people wards of the federal state.»

The AP has an interesting article about a little - known government operation under which the federal government grows marijuana, tests it, rolls it into cigarettes and mails these marijuana cigarettes (in tins of 300) out to a very select group of citizens.

Easterly's presentation, which is posted on his Indiana Dept. of Environmental Mgmt commissioner webpage, even offered a template state resolution that would burden EPA with conducting a number of unnecessary cost benefit analyses (which the federal government has done through the Social Cost of Carbon analysis) in the process of controlling GHG emissions.

The charter adds significant transparency to the process by which the federal government balances competing national security...

The reason is ethanol, which the federal government insists be blended into every gallon of motor fuel refined and sold in the United States.

• The Senate should include a program under which the federal government provides support for state - level climate change adaptation planning and implementation.

For decades, striking a balance between federal and state authority has been achieved under the legal theory of cooperative federalism, in which the federal government and individual states act as partners in drawing up and implementing policies.

Senator Reid's office posted a video of the signing ceremony at which the federal government accepted the easement, including an appearance by Senator Reid and Michael Heizer himself.

Certain municipal bonds are taxable because they are issued for purposes which the federal government deems not to provide a significant benefit to the public at large.

After its passage, the NVSLIA was merged into the HEA, which in title IV, part B, has both a direct Federal loan insurance component and a Federal reinsurance component, under which the Federal Government reimburses State and private non-profit loan guaranty agencies upon their payment of default claims.

A loan based on financial need for which the federal government generally pays the interest that accrues while the borrower is in an in - school, grace, or deferment status, and during certain period...

Today, FHA One to Four Family Mortgage Insurance is still an important tool through which the Federal Government expands home ownership opportunities for first time homebuyers and other borrowers who would not otherwise qualify for conventional loans on affordable terms, as well as for those who live in underserved areas where mortgages may be harder to get.

A loan based on financial need for which the federal government pays the interest that accrues while the borrower is in an in - school, grace, or deferment status.

Also, unlike a lending product such as some student loans in which the federal government may back the loan, no one is backing the loan you are taking out with a credit card every time you make a charge.

A loan based on financial need for which the federal government generally pays the interest that accrues while the borrower is in an in - school, grace, or deferment status, and during certain periods of repayment under certain income - driven repayment plans.

Most of the sales plunge was caused by the old 5000 model's unintended - acceleration problems, which the federal government blamed on driver error.

Since the passage of the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) last January, in which the federal government handed back to states the authority to decide whether to evaluate teachers with or without students» test scores, states have been dropping the value - added measure (VAM) or growth components (e.g., the Student Growth Percentiles (SGP) package) of their teacher evaluation systems, as formerly required by President Obama's Race to the Top initiative.

The two sub-groups of students who showed the most improvement in reading were students for which federal government intervention is the least justifiable: students who did not come from SINI schools and students who were in the top two - thirds of the test - score distribution when they entered the Program.

Infamously, that includes Head Start and Early Head Start, which the federal government's own studies have found to be largely impotent, and in the case of Early Head Start, potentially detrimental to some groups.

That backlash may well have hit a tipping point thanks to the Common Core, through which the federal government attempted to get states not just to have state curriculum standards and tests, but national standards and tests.

Those Republicans thought that someone who keeps insisting that states and local school districts should make education policy should not be overseeing a process in which the federal government tells states what to do.

• An amendment that would determine the extent to which the federal government should dictate state policies on bullying and harassment.

He noted that teacher evaluation is «the biggest factor that most policies get wrong... Teacher appraisal, even if you get it right — which the federal government doesn't do — is the wrong driver.

whether she could think of any circumstance in which the federal government should step in to stop federal dollars from going to private schools that discriminate against certain groups of students, DeVos did not directly answer.

The Trump - DeVos budget and the House Appropriation Committee bill raid student aid programs — including the federal Pell Grant reserve, which the federal government slowly established after an inadequate rainy day fund led to painful cuts56 to the program — by $ 3.9 billion and $ 3.3 billion, respectively.57 The Pell Grant is the fundamental building block of financial aid support for low - income students.

New Orleans is in the early stages of a construction spree both to build and renovate dozens of schools, and recently got news of an eye - popping settlement with the Federal Emergency Management Agency, or FEMA, under which the federal government is providing more than $ 1.8...

And in areas in which the federal government lacked either the license or capacity to shape local policy directly, executive branch officials used federally sponsored litigation as a tool to advance reform.

A loan based on financial need for which the federal government generally pays the interest that accrues while the borrower is in an in - school, grace, or deferment status, and during certain period...

The tests on which the federal government based its ratings were «dumb» — they assessed students» knowledge of information not their ability to think, solve problems, or write, and they only measured students within the confines of their grade level.

The comparability requirement in ESEA is the mechanism through which the federal government can ensure that the public education offered to poor students is at least as well resourced as that offered to their more affluent peers.

Girls did better than boys in every country tested, a result which Federal Government Education Minister Simon Birmingham said needs to be addressed.

WGU pushes that framework in all sorts of ways, not the least of which is that credit hours are the basis on which the federal government doles out student aid, not attainment of competencies.

It ran from November 1995 to February 1996 — during which the federal government shut down twice, and a major blizzard hit the East Coast.

But many of the conditions for which the federal government recommends screening are rare, which means they could affect 1 in 50,000 babies or fewer.

«Publishing the report of the investigation of the alleged padding of the 2016 budget, and prosecuting suspected perpetrators are absolutely important to avoid another padding, which the Federal Government can ill afford.»

The All Progressives Congress, APC, in Ekiti State, has called on the state governor, Ayodele Fayose, to stop trying to avoid the scrutiny of the Senate Committee on Local Governments in the disbursement of the bailout cash which the Federal Government approved for the state.