Sentences with phrase «which national governments»

This is particularly true for planet - scale problems like human - driven climate change, in which national governments tend to put national interests ahead of planet - scale interests.

While it may seem odd to attribute great power to so ineffectual an organization, the right regards the UN as the instrument through which national governments will be destroyed, enabling the Antichrist to gain control of the world.

Both schemes show a desire for climate action in the US at the sub-national level which the national government has so far struggled to match.

Last week, Greece hired three major banks — BNP Paribas, Deutsche Bank, and HSBC — and Cleary Gottlieb to advise it on the planned bond swap, which the national government hopes to complete this month.

Not exact matches

He said that part of his administration — over which he officially has no authority after it was taken over by the Spanish national government — will now function from Brussels, the centre of the European Union.

The Eritrean government, which fiercely espoused national independence and self - reliance, would own just 40 % of the joint venture, known as the Bisha Mining Share Co. (BMSC)-- Nevsun would hold the rest.

Federal Finance Minister Jim Flaherty first commissioned his own study, authored by University of Calgary tax - policy expert Jack Mintz, then in March initiated a public consultation process, by which time talk of a government - run supplemental pension plan, whether regional or national, began to fade.

If Trump's past comments about a ban on Muslims don't weigh heavily on the judges» perceptions of his motivations, the speed with which the order was drafted and rolled out — largely bypassing the government's traditional national - security apparatus — and the extent to which it has been altered since may give courts reason enough to wonder whether an «ulterior motive» was at play, Stock said.

If you add up the GDP figures issued by the provinces, the sum is 10 % higher than the figure ultimately issued by the national government, which in itself is tweaked to hit politicized targets.

This could mean companies that would traditionally fall outside the guidelines — like Vale SA, which is publicly traded but partly owned by the Brazilian government, or China's Huawai, which is privately owned but closely associated with its national government — would suddenly be branded as SOEs.

NADC is coordinating Wednesday's third annual Small - Business Lending and Investment Summit, which will draw about 150 attendees, including leaders from International Franchise Association, National Small Business Association, National Association of Government Guaranteed Lenders and Small Business Investor Alliance.

ANALYSIS: Politics and business never mix well, which is something the state government is about to discover with news that former Nationals WA leader Brendon Grylls is eyeing a return to his party's top job.

But in most of South Korea those functions have been limited by the government, which is technically still at war with North Korea, for national security reasons.

«Although the Government points to the fact that Congress and the Executive identified the seven countries named in the Executive Order as countries of concern in 2015 and 2016, the Government has not offered any evidence or even an explanation of how the national security concerns that justified those designations, which triggered visa requirements, can be extrapolated to justify an urgent need for the Executive Order to be immediately reinstated,» the judges wrote.

The regional legislature voted on October 14 to oppose the deal, which means Belgium's national government can not approve it either.

Industry Minister Tony Clement has set off a firestorm of controversy with the government's decision to ax the mandatory long - form census from Statistics Canada, which caused the head of the national polling agency to resign in protest.

The development could bring an abrupt end to the high - stakes legal showdown which has become a lightning rod for a broader debate on data privacy in the United States, which was inflamed by revelations in 2013 from former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden about the U.S. government's massive surveillance programs.

The state government's asset sales campaign has hit a major snag today, with state Nationals leader Terry Redman announcing the party would not support the sale of Fremantle Ports, which had been forecast to raise $ 2 billion.

Clapper, the former Director of National Intelligence, described in his opening remarks the process by which the intelligence community concluded in January that «the Russian government pursued a multi-faceted influence campaign in the run - up to the election, including aggressive use of cyber capabilities.»

By the end of 2015, the homicide rate in Guerrero reached 56.5 per 100,000 residents, which was four times the national average of 14.07 killings per 100,000 people, according to state - level data gathered by the Mexican government.

Gavin de Becker and Associates owns and operates The Private Suite, which means the same national security services that have protected US government officials, business executives, and prominent families oversee these exclusive accommodations at LAX, one of the country's busiest airports.

A question I had for the company is: how do governments and national banks feel about local currencies... which of course mean that actual fiat government currencies would be used less.

«We're not wearing our Ottawa stakeholder hats, we're looking at this from a national perspective,» said Chris Smillie, senior adviser on government relations for the AFL - CIO's Canadian chapter, which represents the country's building trade unions.

Consider the old downtown, a once - stagnant area located eight miles away, which is dominated by large national company headquarters, hotels, and government offices.

But there are some mortgage professionals who argue that the catalyst for a national reaction has already arrived by way of the federal government, which deliberately cooled the market by tightening mortgage regulations.

It is a uniquely modern question prompted by the dovetailing of Apple's new technology, which uses a fingerprint - based Touch ID to unlock the latest iPhone, and the heightened focus on government intrusion and surveillance of emails and communications, as demonstrated by the National Security Agency scandal.

The decision to introduce legislation to legalize cannabis, which the government hopes to have in place in July, has placed pressure on the government to establish national rules for workplace drug testing.

The hands - on approach has led to tensions with the Italian government, which considers TIM of strategic national importance.

However, all but two of the strikes in Libya took place under the aegis of Operation Odyssey Lightning, the US air operation which enabled Libyan Government of National Accord forces to recapture Sirte.

The closest is probably the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, which is responsible for the day - to - day tasks of government weather forecasting.

An independent evaluation of the revised version of DARE has not been conducted, which has kept it off the National Registry of Evidence - based Programs and Practices, the federal government's database of drug prevention programs that work.

In 2014, the government set up a subsidy program called China's National Integrated Circuits Industry Investment Fund which is aiming to raise at least RMB 150 billion for its second fund vehicle, according to Bloomberg.

The amount of debt that is projected under the extended baseline would reduce national saving and income in the long term; increase the government's interest costs, putting more pressure on the rest of the budget; limit lawmakers» ability to respond to unforeseen events; and increase the likelihood of a fiscal crisis, an occurrence in which investors become unwilling to finance a government's borrowing unless they are compensated with very high interest rates.

Instead, most of the credit seems to go to the European Central Bank, which in late December under its new president, Mario Draghi, quietly began providing emergency loans to European banks — hundreds of billions of dollars of almost interest - free capital that the banks have used to come to the rescue of their national governments.

Today, our federal and provincial governments are in the throes of crafting a national climate plan, which they've said will come into effect in early 2017.

B.C.'s new NDP government is trying to block expansion of the Trans Mountain in court by arguing that Ottawa failed to evaluate the project's risks to the marine environment, which B.C. says is a breach of its obligation to consider the national interest.

To keep prices low and hence national economies competitive, governments were to undertake society's largest spending programs: basic infrastructure such as transportation, power production, communications — all of which happen to be natural monopolies as well.

This is the national context in which B.C. Premier Christy Clark approaches the promised June delivery date on her government's Climate Leadership Plan.

The general government sector — which consists of national, state and local governments — had a net foreign currency asset position equivalent to around 3 per cent of GDP as at the end of March 2013, before taking into account the use of derivatives for hedging purposes (Table 2).

Many of the names of the R.G.A.'s corporate donors would be expected: Allen Richardson, a government affairs manager at Koch Companies Public Sector; Randy Kozuch and Erika Scheffer, political affairs executives at the National Rifle Association; Bill Miller, the chief lobbyist at the Business Roundtable, which represents the chief executives of the largest companies; and Bill Guidera, the senior vice president of Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation.

The government's «Made in China 2025» plan, which seeks to upgrade national capabilities in electric cars, robotics, semiconductors and other advanced industries, is a big factor behind the spiraling trade tensions with the United States.

Instead, programs like the federal government's National Flood Insurance Program, which helps homeowners pay for damage from floods, ends up encouraging people to rebuild in areas that are likely to get flooded again.

The Federal Reserve is independent from politics and the national government but is subject to oversight by Congress, which has set our dual mandate to promote maximum sustainable employment and price stability.

But as NISA's website notes, Australia's government is in caretaker mode pending the outcome of the July 2 federal election, in which a Liberal / National coalition led by Turnbull faces the Labor party led by Bill Shorten.

In 2005, then - Prime Minister Paul Martin tasked National Revenue Minister John McCallum with a government - wide expenditure review, which resulted in $ 3 billion in booked annual savings within four years.

By midday Tuesday Mr. Snowden himself, in a Twitter message from his exile in Moscow, declared that «circumstantial evidence and conventional wisdom indicates Russian responsibility» for publication, which he interpreted as a warning shot to the American government in case it was thinking of imposing sanctions against Russia in the cybertheft of documents from the Democratic National Committee.

The data set — which you represent — is usually held by large private companies, public organizations, and the national government.

By: Martin Creamer 4th October 2017 The majority call by the Joburg Indaba for the government to replace Mineral Resources Minister Mosebenzi Zwane with a new Minister would be communicated to the African National Congress (ANC), which was committed to facilitating an enabling environment for the South African mining industry, ANC... →

However, Akamai felt «reason for optimism» as the Philippine government has plans to build a national broadband network, which will be used to run online government services and connect rural areas to the Internet.

Hours before funding for the government expires, Trump said on Twitter that he was weighing a veto «based on the fact that the 800,000 plus DACA recipients have been totally abandoned by the Democrats (not even mentioned in Bill) and the BORDER WALL, which is desperately needed for our National Defense, is not fully funded.»