Sentences with phrase «wide agreement on»

December 5, 2014, Lima, Peru: Technical negotiations during the first week of the climate talks in Lima (COP20) have mostly gone smoothly, but important negotiating - team level discussions on a handful of key issues need to conclude this week so that there is wide agreement on the range of options facing the Ministers as they arrive early next week to pick up the high - level negotiations.

These are all works in progress, and despite wide agreement on the importance of focusing on functional traits across ecosystems, there doesn't yet seem to be a clear definition of what a trait is.

One of his most convincing arguments was about EU - wide agreements on employment rights — including paid holidays, improved maternity and paternity leave and limits on working time.

«This report's findings should help support wider agreement on climate policy, where costs and equity of the cleanup burden between rich and poor are key issues.»

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The news of the buyout hit wide and fast, and it seemed out of touch that neither company's customer - facing social media assets mentioned the agreement, particularly given customer comments on Facebook.

This week U.S. negotiators party to the NAFTA talks floated the idea of a «sunset clause» that would wind down the continent - wide free - trade agreement within five years — unless the three countries involved can agree on the terms to extend it.

His involvement with the private lending industry includes advising on a wide range of matters, from providing specialized assistance with initial incorporations and organizations of MICs to assisting clients with private placement offerings, specifically the preparation of offering memoranda and subscription agreements.

Tiffany has experience advising a wide range of companies on formation, contracts, minutes, trademark, branding, employment, non-disclosure and non-compete agreements, licensing, and franchise related issues.

Some key parts of the agreement are the reduction (or elimination) of tariffs on a wide variety of goods and services, ranging from alcohol to beef and pork, and the creation of an investor - state dispute settlement mechanism.

Under ON RRP, the Federal Reserve sells securities currently held on the FED's $ 4.2 trillion balance sheet to a wide variety of counter parties with an agreement to buy it back on the next business day with interesON RRP, the Federal Reserve sells securities currently held on the FED's $ 4.2 trillion balance sheet to a wide variety of counter parties with an agreement to buy it back on the next business day with intereson the FED's $ 4.2 trillion balance sheet to a wide variety of counter parties with an agreement to buy it back on the next business day with intereson the next business day with interest.

According to a newly published report co-sponsored by the Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada, the Canada - ASEAN Business Council and the Business Council of Canada, a free trade agreement with ASEAN could generate between $ 4.8 - billion and $ 10.9 - billion in additional bilateral trade, benefiting a wide range of companies and many millions of workers on both sides of the Pacific.

Our attorneys counsel on virtually every type of intellectual property transaction, including negotiating and drafting numerous licenses and alliance agreements and handling a wide variety of matters that relate to the creation, use, licensing and transfer of information technologies.

For years, trade and justice activists have proposed renegotiating the North American Free Trade Agreement to address some of the deal's most damaging features: for example, by removing the anti-democratic investor - state dispute settlement provisions of Chapter 11, linking trade benefits to genuine protections for human and labour rights (all the more important given the deteriorating democratic situation in Mexico), and establishing a continent - wide strategy for auto investment and production. We were always told that renegotiating NAFTA was a pipe dream: it would not be possible to open the text and get all three countries on board with reforms, no matter how legitimate the concerns.

If we come to agreement on these issues as Wesleyans, is it appropriate to attempt to impose our agreement on the wider society through political processes?

Hence, despite the wide - ranging agreement between Whiteheadians and deep ecologists, despite the generous inclusion of Whitehead by Naess and Shepard, and despite the importance of working together on our shared agenda, it seems better to think of two separate communities concerned to reshape the modern Western attitude and behavior toward the natural world.

The exchanges are wide «ranging and candid in acknowledging both agreements and disagreements on questions such as the God of Israel and the Trinity, Christian responsibility for the Shoah, the meaning of covenant and election, differing views of redemption, and the relationship between the Hebrew Scriptures and the Christian Bible.

Coca - Cola Amatil announced the heads of agreement with The Coca - Cola Co on Thursday as managing director Alison Watkins released the outcome of a wide - ranging strategic review aimed at cutting costs and restoring sales and earnings growth while building a closer relationship with TCCC, its major shareholder and franchisor.

According to Marca, United and Barca have come to an agreement over a fee for the 27 - year - old wide - man, with the Premier League giants set to pay the Liga BBVA champions $ 30m plus potential add - ons of $ 2m.

Hotel Trades Council President Peter Ward announced yesterday, at a Radio City Music Hall membership meeting, that our Union successfully reached an early tentative agreement with the Hotel Association Bargaining Group on Friday, February 3, 2012 to renew our industry - wide Union contract which was scheduled to expire on June 30, 2012.

The UK government's plans take no account of the need to assess an operator with reference to the jurisdiction in which they are based, the quality of local regulation and the need for mutual agreement on a wide range of other regulatory matters, including anti money laundering, data protection, consumer protection, contract enforcement and payments protection.

In this respect, the UK is tied to wider international agreements on copyright and intellectual property such as the WIPO Copyright Treaty and the Agreement on Trade - Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS).

There is probably a wide degree of agreement in relation to the EU, in relation to the question on anti-austerity.»

The bill has been modified to try to quell concerns in the Assembly Democratic conference that prevented the measure from passing last year despite efforts by a former WNY Democratic senator, Bill Stachowski, to hold up a budget deal in hopes of getting an agreement on what morphed into a SUNY - wide proposal.

Nonetheless, the burden of compromise fell heaviest on the Liberal Democrats; and within the Programme for Government coalition agreement a significant number of their flagship policies were diluted (e.g. electoral reform), forestalled (e.g. House of Lords reform) or disregarded entirely (e.g. UK - wide federalism).

We've proven we can come to an agreement on minimum wage and a wide variety of other things,» Flanagan said.

COP 22, which will be attended by representatives from 197 countries including world leaders, environment ministers, government officials as well as a wide range of representatives from civil society and the private sector, is the first meeting of State Parties since the entry into force of the landmark Paris Agreement on November 4, 2016.

The agreement gives DeepMind access to a wide range of healthcare data on the 1.6 million patients who pass through three London hospitals run by the Royal Free NHS Trust — Barnet, Chase Farm and the Royal Free — each year.

Some of the unresolved issues are highly contentious, so Kilpatrick sought input for the paper from a wide range of Lyme disease researchers and developed a consensus on areas of agreement.

The team compared the scattering coefficient obtained by their approach with the scattering coefficient measured on board the aircraft and found good agreement between the estimated and measured scattering coefficients for a wide range of observational conditions.

If we equate de facto ketogenic diets with high - protein diets (which is not always correct) then the risks proposed by critics of this type of dietary approach are essentially those of possible kidney damage due to high levels of nitrogen excretion during protein metabolism, which can cause an increase in glomerular pressure and hyperfiltration.12 There is not wide agreement between studies; however, some infer the possibility of renal damage from animal studies, 99, 100 whereas others, looking at both animal models, meta - analyses and human studies, propose that even high levels of protein in the diet do not damage renal function.101, 102 In subjects with intact renal function, higher dietary protein levels caused some functional and morphological adaptations without negative effects.103 There may actually be renal - related effects, but on blood pressure rather than morphological damage.

But on Monday, the company announced its retreat to a more conventional model, entering into a licensing agreement with respected beauty behemoth Coty as part of a wider strategic review of the Burberry business, aimed at improving operations and delivering # 100 million in cost savings by the end of fiscal 2019.

The obvious takeaway is that there is agreement on testing among a wide array of major players, including:

Food Fact: Nutritional researchers are in wide agreement that most Americans rely too heavily on red and processed meats as their primary sources of protein.

Launch of World Wide Views Global Citizen Consultation Results Report on Climate and Energy Strong Public Support for Political Leaders to Commit to Ambitious Climate Action Now The COP 21 Paris Agreement Needs to Open a Credible Path to Limit Global Warming to No More than 2 Degrees Celsius Citizens worldwide have given their leaders -LSB-...]

The agreement proposes to evaluate a teacher's effect on students» learning in part with an unusual mix of individual and school - wide data from such sources as state standardized tests, high school exit exams and district assessments, along with rates of high school graduation, attendance and suspensions.

There will need to be a shared understanding of where the school is going and agreement on the high expectations we have in terms of student attainment and of wider, exciting educational experiences.

(See also KPCC: LAUSD & UTLA Reach Agreement Granting Wider Autonomy to All Schools on Teacher Placement and Budgets, and LAT: Individual Los Angeles Schools Gain New Autonomy.)

«We should be working on things like tenure reform, where we got wide agreement from all the interested parties,» Greenwald said, «not on expanding on some ideological ground charter schools in areas that aren't served by them.»

FUSE's management agreements with public school systems gave it wide discretion over spending on salaries, rents, curriculum, equipment and other items.

The Federal Transit Administration (FTA) posts all competitive grant and cooperative agreement opportunities on Grants.gov, the comprehensive government - wide website for announcing competitive grant opportunities.

Chrysler chairman Lee Iacocca has linked his company to a third prestigious Italian automaker, signing an agreement with Fiat Auto SpA to sell Alfa Romeo sports cars through Chrysler - Plymouth dealers.Chrysler, which owns Lamborghini and has a share of Maserati, said the deal would enhance its image and give Fiat's Alfa Romeo wider distribution in the United States and Canada.However, some industry analysts and the president of the Chrysler - Plymouth dealer council predicted the 50 - 50 joint - venture agreement would have little direct impact on Chrysler's sales or its dealers.

This site, co-founded and maintained by award - winning author Victoria Strauss, is sponsored by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America and has a wide array of information on all forms of scams, ranging from vanity / subsidy publishers and literary agencies to red - flagged clauses and contractual agreements authors should steer clear of.

The new agreement leaves the door wide open for a company like CreateSpace to step in and open a local printing hub for print - on - demand books to be printed in Australia, or for an Australian printing company to offer a print - on - demand publishing service and leave D Publishing out of the deal.

BlackBerry Bold 9930 boasts the thinnest design and widest QWERTY on a BlackBerry smartphone for $ 249.99 (excluding taxes) with a new line or eligible upgrade and two - year service agreement.

BlackBerry Bold 9930 boasts the thinnest design and widest QWERTY on a BlackBerry smartphone for $ 249.99 (excluding taxes) with a new line or eligible pgrade and two - year service agreement.

If any one of your books are «wide» (sold on platforms other than Amazon), you can't put the box set into Select because part of the agreement is that none of the content can be sold anywhere other than Amazon.

No dispute concerning this Agreement or CRA's services to be resolved by binding arbitration or by any court may be joined with another lawsuit or other proceeding involving a dispute or any other person or entity, or resolved on a class - wide basis.

Tentacles on parade at the Monterey Bay Aquarium «Wow that is awesome», a wide - eyed kid blurts out to his friend who nods in agreement and adds «yeah pretty cool!»

As a result of this agreement, Travel Management Companies (TMC's) that use the Conferma solution will now have the ability to both book, settle and reconcile more hotel transactions by accessing the wide - ranging hotel content available on hotel.info.

A General Agreement on Climate Change (GACC) would consist of core agreements on allowable national contributions to global warming over time and would enable a wide range of other agreements on technology transfer, funding mechanisms and other issues as needed to accommodate the interests of nations.