Agency
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The Department of Petroleum Resources (DPR), the regulatory
agency
for the oil industry, has dismissed these claims, vowing to impose hefty fines on companies that flout the deadline.
These economies will benefit from increased monetary-policy
agency
and flexibility.
And the UK has a national regulatory
agency
for IVF, whereas the US has a patchwork of state regulations (or a lack thereof).
In March, China established its own international development
agency.
The latest round has focused on the alleged activities of the Pakistani military’s powerful intelligence agency, Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI), in the United States.
The Jalaluddin Haqqani group, which was allowed to base itself in a sanctuary in Pakistan’s North Waziristan tribal agency, was one such ally that Pakistan’s government thought could be used to further its interests in Afghanistan.
Not all languages make this distinction, but in English, to refer to “the cow that escaped” seems to deny the animal’s
agency.
If no viable solution is found, no
agency
or individual will be willing to serve as the receiver in ordinary bankruptcy cases.
Similarly, not a single governmental
agency
has deemed 2,4-D a carcinogen.
TUI, the world’s largest travel
agency
and tour operator, feels threatened by TripAdvisor.
In view of Greece’s deceptive behavior, Eurostat, the EU’s statistical agency, declared that its Greek counterpart and the supreme Greek supervisory authority had “deliberately falsified” the data.
Indeed, as a matter of principle, it is not clear why monetary policy and fiscal policy should be treated so differently, with one completely delegated to a bureaucratic
agency
and the other completely discretionary and in the hand of politicians.
The secretary general must re-equip the
agency
to adapt to the needs of the post-Cold War world.
As China’s Xinhua news
agency
enthusiastically reported: “From Kamchatka to Kaliningrad, and from Chechnya to Chukotka, more than 2.5 million net surfers registered to view live streaming from at least 188,000 webcams installed in more than 94,000 polling stations on Russian territory.”
But, while the scientific community – including academic and professional institutions,
agency
heads, managers, and editors – is often reluctant to handle cases of misconduct rigorously, the reputation of science as a whole is at stake, not just that of a person, institution, journal, or national science entity.
As a result, the global influence that the US derives through its donor agency, USAID, or through United Nations agencies will probably decline, as will America’s already-battered global reputation.
In 1933, through the Tennessee Valley Authority Act, the United States established an
agency
whose purpose was to build hydroelectric dams on the Tennessee River.
Last month, the National Institutes of Health, the US government
agency
responsible for biomedical research, approved a report recommending the cancelation of the majority of NIH-funded projects involving invasive biomedical research on chimpanzees.
Few Americans realize that the Iranian Revolution came a quarter-century after the CIA and Britain’s intelligence
agency
MI6 conspired in 1953 to overthrow the country’s democratically elected government and install a police state under the Shah of Iran, to preserve Anglo-American control over Iran’s oil, which was threatened by nationalization.
It should go without saying that outsourcing national-security policy to an adrenaline-fueled
agency
that will not be held accountable for its decisions to use force cannot end well.
Although it is sometimes difficult to distinguish the drivers of displacement, data from the United Nations refugee
agency
show that at least half of those trying to reach Europe from North Africa are fleeing from war and persecution.
It has been argued that the IMF should take a more narrow financial focus, not seek to be a supranational welfare
agency.
In his campaign, Obama called for tough new standards for cyber security and physical resilience of critical infrastructure, and promised to appoint a national cyber adviser who will report directly to him and be responsible for developing policy and coordinating federal
agency
efforts.
The major rating
agency
Standard & Poor’s is integrating climate risks into its sovereign-credit analysis.
There, the government, whose statistical
agency
puts annual inflation at 10%, is punishing private-sector economists who release much higher estimates – typically around 25% – with heavy fines.
For starters, it has withdrawn funding from the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), the UN
agency
that provides reproductive health-care and family-planning services for refugees and other women affected by humanitarian crises.
If small businesses could expand beyond the village square, they could drive their countries' growth better than any aid
agency.
Last but not least, the IMF, as the multilateral
agency
charged with maintaining global financial stability, ought to be providing more leadership.
This could be seen to challenge our notions of personhood and moral
agency.
The SEC was once a great and powerful independent
agency.
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