Agency
in sentence
705 examples of Agency in a sentence
When a government
agency
imposes a rent ceiling, it prohibits landlords from charging more than a set amount.
For example, the government
agency
Uruguay XXI’s “finishing schools” initiative offers subsidies to export-oriented companies to train staff in specific skills, such as English, and help them to master new technologies.
For example, in Atlanta, Mayor Kasim Reed has launched a partnership between a local startup incubator, the city’s workforce development agency, and a coding school to provide young people with mentorship networks, through which they can develop financial literacy and critical thinking skills, while also learning how to write code.
According to the Turkish constitution, it is illegal for any agency, even the military, to try to overthrow a democratically elected government.
The Bank’s non-concessional lending agency, the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development, may well retain its rationale, especially because three-fourths of the world’s poor now reside in middle-income countries.
But there is reason to be optimistic: in Pakistan and Indonesia, encouraging examples show how partnerships among government, police, women’s groups, paralegals, and non-governmental organizations can work to strengthen women’s voice and agency, and thus their potential to contribute more fully to society.
In Indonesia, the government created a dedicated
agency
to protect and restore peatlands, bogs, and swamp-like ecosystems that have immense CO2 storage capabilities.
She is thus modeling a refusal to be a woman victim; by doing so, she is also modeling
agency
in relation to her own body and its “story.”
This initiative, originally presented by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft and the magazine Nature , proposes to create a pan-European funding
agency
to organize international competition in “hard” and “soft” basic science.
And, in any case, there are pitfalls to empowering a single
agency
to determine a drug’s value for an entire country.
Last year, Putin reorganized the RIA Novosti news agency, firing 40% of its staff, including its relatively independent management.
Congo’s Infinite WarHARARE – Some time ago, the head of the United Nations refugee agency, Antonio Guterres, said of the Democratic Republic of Congo: “Nobody in the outside world feels threatened, and so the international community is not really paying attention.”
It may sound strange, but from the point of view of a humanitarian relief agency, it is not important on whose territory civilians in need are, as long as there is access to them.
Only those militants who threaten Pakistan are targeted by the country’s rogue Inter-Services Intelligence
agency.
Illiteracy, limited land ownership, and restrictions on
agency
and mobility all conspire to reduce rural women’s access to farm financing.
At the CPC’s 19th National Congress last month, the Party endorsed the creation of a National Supervision Commission to consolidate and modernize the anti-graft agency, so that it will expand beyond Party members to cover all officials exercising public power at all levels.
For a good life, people need a degree of
agency
in their work.
To help people escape, human development strategies must consider how to bolster personal agency, aspiration, and self-efficacy – the belief in one’s ability to influence events that affect one’s life.
Russia had long viewed the thuggish force created by Pakistan’s rogue Inter-Services Intelligence
agency
as a major terrorist threat.
The Office of Budget Responsibility, the independent
agency
set up by Osborne to assess the government’s macroeconomic performance, has just concluded that austerity reduced GDP growth by 2% from 2010 to 2012, bringing the cumulative cost of austerity since 2010 to 5% of GDP.
Moreover, one government
agency
often has no idea what another is doing.
This includes providing Turkey and other “frontline” countries enough financial support to allow the refugees living there to work and send their children to school; creating a common EU asylum
agency
and border force; addressing the humanitarian chaos in Greece; and establishing common standards across the EU for receiving and integrating refugees.
With the help of a major
agency
that rates corporate social responsibility, we were able to provide investors with solid information – and an accountability process – about the portfolio’s direct impact on greenhouse-gas emissions.
And, indeed, Putin has been pretending to take the doping allegations seriously, even asking the Russian Olympic Committee to create an independent anti-doping
agency.
Instead, the network went on to perpetuate the outright lie that Britain’s intelligence-gathering agency, the Government Communications Headquarters (better known as GCHQ), had been tasked by President Barack Obama to spy on Trump during the campaign.
The current trend is for countries to consolidate their financial regulatory apparatus into a single agency, with Britain's Financial Services
Agency
(FSA) a leading example.
A promising financial instrument, capable of improving the efficiency of credit markets, is rejected; or the
agency'
s investigative and review procedures become stultified.
How can an
agency'
s procedures be reformed?
Most important, this multiple
agency
structure ensures regulatory competition - each
agency
generally wants to expand its domain of chartering and jurisdiction - that is generally beneficial for the financial system and for the health of the American economy.
Putin chose to elevate the equally mysterious Victor Zubkov, head of the Federal Financial Monitoring Service (also known as the “finance espionage” agency).
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