National governments' foot-dragging has raised the profile of local initiatives.
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Plus its own foot-dragging on shutting down far right extremists.
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Foot-dragging by President Donald Trump's administration has not helped matters.
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H., called "needless foot-dragging" on the project by Trump's Treasury Department.
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Foot-dragging by Pentagon officials has also been blamed for slowing transfers.
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But the federal government's foot-dragging did not start during this administration.
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This fatal foot-dragging, and the accompanying wave of price controls, must end.
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The UN committee notes this progress but laments foot-dragging on other issues.
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"This Court will not tolerate further foot dragging," Judge Mark E. Walker wrote.
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There will always be squabbling, showboating and foot-dragging in the upper chamber.
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But the slow pace of change has prompted accusations of government foot-dragging.
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An emotional man, he sometimes wept in frustration with the government's foot dragging.
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" A Republican president "doesn't mean we won't see foot-dragging from some in Congress.
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So did Google after quickly reversing its own foot dragging on the Pixel line.
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And they should snap back as soon as any foot-dragging or deception emerges.
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The IRS said that budget constraints and foot dragging by Facebook delayed the investigation.
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Frustration that the foot dragging by the Department of Justice should not be tolerated.
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Since coming to power in May 2017, Macron has chaffed at German foot-dragging.
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There is little evidence that the foot-dragging stems from a single government policy.
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Its political foot-dragging was in stark contrast to impassioned pleas coming from campaigners.
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To critics like Senator Tom Carper, Democrat of Delaware, that sounds like foot-dragging.
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It pulled its bid after Tronc's foot-dragging and its own prospects began to turn.
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So after weeks of tech industry foot-dragging, how did this all happen so fast?
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He is also right that foot-dragging by the federal bureaucracy could pose a roadblock.
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Critics have accused Mr. Mandelblit of foot-dragging in the cases concerning the prime minister.
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In an election year, the GOP foot-dragging could become a political liability (The Hill).
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Decades of climate change foot-dragging are finally giving way to public demands for action.
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Her foot-dragging over far-reaching reforms to the euro zone has frustrated the energetic Macron.
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The doc goes on to say if the foot-dragging persists, the case could be dismissed.
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New austerity has drawn brickbats from the opposition, which has accused Tsipras of costly foot-dragging.
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Finally, WADA's foot-dragging has raised serious questions about the agency's willingness to do its job.
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This foot-dragging has been called unconstitutional, undemocratic, a desperate ploy to hang on to power.
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Regulatory foot-dragging is not the only reason that excessive pay and its negative effects persist.
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He is charged with cleaning up that sport, and sees governmental foot-dragging everywhere he looks.
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American officials have grown tired of what they see as China's foot-dragging in fulfilling its promises.
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A week ago, House Democrats booed Sanders during a tense meeting that focused on his foot-dragging.
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You can see the foot-dragging and years of struggle just reading the board resolution approving .amazon.
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Why should you get the glass slipper when you were foot-dragging on my glass-shattering moment?
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On the Saudi side, there was frustration with Russia's foot-dragging and relatively slim contributions to cuts.
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Anti-Swiss sentiment is on the rise in the EU, as well, over perceived Swiss foot-dragging.
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Fiscal foot-dragging has partly been possible because the central bank has been doing the hard work.
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Still, it's shocking that advisers as astute as Larry Kudlow would be surprised at China's foot-dragging.
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Foot-dragging by Pentagon officials has also been blamed for slowing repatriation and transfers to third countries.
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Earlier this year Qualcomm abandoned a bid for NXP, a Dutch firm, after foot-dragging by Chinese regulators.
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The government has been accused of foot dragging and ambiguity over the legality of Uber in the city.
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Perhaps his foot-dragging was an expression of doubt, too: Could any book live up to his reputation?
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A court ruling in March gave it little choice, after years of foot-dragging because of local opposition.
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But in March, Shelton, feeling exasperated by what she considered foot-dragging, publicly criticized the Polish fencing federation.
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"The foot-dragging on Russian sanctions has gone on long enough," said Ryan Nickel, a spokesman for Shaheen.
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Whitman Knapp, the commission's chairman, concluded that Mayor Lindsay could not "escape responsibility" for the department's foot-dragging.
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However, a growing number of countries were using the U.S. withdrawal from the Paris agreement to justify foot-dragging.
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At least some of them have accepted his foot-dragging as a mark of respect for his late father.
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Albeit, so far these 'progress' reports have mostly boiled down to calls for less foot-dragging and more action.
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A favourite excuse for foot-dragging is that onerous regulation risks "carbon leakage" to countries with laxer emissions rules.
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The place, dubbed "Belcha" in the foreign press, serves as a symbol for Poland's foot-dragging on carbon emissions.
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" Fried fears the federal foot-dragging is because the FDA still sees cannabis and even CBD as "voodoo medicine.
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A senior member of ZANU-PF told Reuters the party wanted Mugabe out, and would not tolerate foot-dragging.
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Jones's representatives made efforts to place her story in mainstream newspapers, only to be frustrated by foot-dragging journalists.
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No other federal department is as dependent on political appointees, meaning State is uniquely affected by such foot-dragging.
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Yet after foot-dragging for a decade on bad loans and capital-raising, their balance-sheets are in decent shape.
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Japanese officials deny they are foot-dragging on trade negotiations, but some experts said playing for time could be useful.
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So the reason for this meeting, the changing story, and the foot-dragging on disclosure are all going to matter.
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The foot-dragging by local officials adds another element of uncertainty to what already promises to be a volatile election.
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" In the planning stages of the commissioning process, Mr. Sellars said, "there was some foot-dragging from other co-producers.
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Mr. Seeger disputes claims by lawyers who accuse the N.F.L. of foot-dragging and trying to reduce payments to players.
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Others contend Trump's own silence and foot-dragging on the issue has only emboldened senators to publicly break with him.
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Khalid Al Rumaihi, head of Bahrain's Economic Development Board, blames institutional foot-dragging and a lack of infrastructure and venture capital.
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And after six months the migrants become the responsibility of their new host state, giving a strong incentive for foot-dragging.
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The new letter finds Microsoft frustrated at regulatory foot-dragging, instead placing the burden on tech regulation on the companies themselves.
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But the leadership, too, is frustrated with the slow progress made and the foot-dragging by local business and government officials.
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China has publicly blamed North Korean foot-dragging: in North Korea, the bridge ends in an empty field, connected to nothing.
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After three decades of foot-dragging, it seemed that meaningful employment and wage protections for American workers were finally within reach.
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"I hope in the end we come to success, but I think nobody should be surprised by foot-dragging," Blunt said.
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Because VC's efforts to reform—after investors were outed for abusing their power over founders—are foot-dragging, bare-minimum motions.
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The group charged that while "Washington was foot-dragging," Gideon struck a deal for millions of dollars in relief to Mainers.
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Saran, however, said he thought the more serious obstacle to rapid expansion of clean energy was foot dragging by the world's bankers.
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After four and a half years of bureaucratic foot-dragging, led by Directors Brennan and Clapper, we finally have the answer: none.
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Mr. Xi's new title is meant to reinforce his authority to push through policies in the face of doubts and foot dragging.
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In addition to Nissan's foot-dragging on the Fiat Chrysler deal, he has also batted away overtures to merge Nissan and Renault.
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What we ended up with was a boring, foot-dragging half-season that felt more like a eight-hour setup than a narrative.
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And its foot-dragging on all of the bigger issues that need tackling, in effect, means the war will continue to drag on.
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Macarimbor, along with her neighbors, left on foot, dragging her painful, swollen ankles slowly along the 553 kilometer (10 mile) road to safety.
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"No other federal department is as dependent on political appointees, meaning State is uniquely affected by such foot-dragging," the editorial board added.
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After a bumpy start, and with occasional foot dragging on the government's part, more than 2,000 children have been reunited with their parents.
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And one measure of Pruitt's foot-dragging that emerged earlier this year is how much money EPA has been collecting from polluters lately.
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"Too often, the Trump administration resorts to foot dragging when it comes to holding foreign powers accountable, particularly Russia," Shaheen told CNN Wednesday.
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Privatisation has been a priority of Greece's bailouts since 2010, but political foot-dragging and a highly unionised public sector workforce have slowed progress.
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Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has accused the United States of foot-dragging following the official implementation in January of the nuclear deal.
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"Past foot-dragging means we won't celebrate until these promises are executed," Gibbs said, calling the opening in the electronic payments market "mainly symbolic".
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Not only is the S.E.C.'s foot-dragging preventing IEX from becoming an exchange, now it may let an established exchange copy IEX technology.
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The EC also said it would be monitoring platforms' efforts — warning that it wants to see "real progress", not more "excuses" and "foot-dragging".
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Israeli officials say the Trump administration has started showing signs of nervousness about what it sees as foot-dragging by Netanyahu on the issue.
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These local efforts to boost the earning power of low-wage workers have come in response to foot-dragging on wage policy in state legislatures.
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Sometimes he served as a foil for Mr. Beame, fending off politically potent supplicants and accusing semi-independent agencies of foot-dragging in imposing economies.
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So Republican foot-dragging on CHIP, like opposition to Medicaid expansion and the demand for work requirements, isn't about the money, it's about the cruelty.
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Opinion Columnist A peculiar chapter in the 2200 presidential race ended Monday, when Bernie Sanders, after months of foot-dragging, finally released his tax returns.
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But the capital and the country slowed to a crawl, with passengers trying to reach the airport on foot, dragging their luggage down a highway.
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Some analysts believe that continual delays in shipments and other U.S. foot dragging may have led to Pyongyang's decision to develop a secret enrichment program.
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Mr. Netanyahu's critics on the left have accused Mr. Mandelblit of foot-dragging, questioning whether he has the stomach to turn on his former boss.
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In Europe, this is more likely to take the form of foot-dragging than the sort of unabashed political pressure seen in the United States.
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The move followed the EU not extending stock market equivalence to Switzerland after Brussels grew frustrated with Swiss foot-dragging over the long-discussed agreement.
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It recalls the pain of 2014, when the EU briefly slapped tariffs on its exports, such as cut flowers, and is frustrated by Tanzanian foot-dragging.
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The convertible console is precisely the success the company needed after a few years in the wilderness following the Wii U flop and smartphone foot-dragging.
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Our bill would avert bureaucratic foot-dragging by requiring that all reviews by the Department of Commerce be acted upon within 60 days of written notification.
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Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has accused the United States of foot-dragging following the official implementation in January of a nuclear deal with major powers.
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But like dieting and exercise, it is easy to put off, causing foot-dragging among stock and fund holders who miss out on a tax break.
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"This was a long-running problem, and Israel finally got fed up with their foot-dragging," the official said of the step, taken two weeks ago.
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But frustration with foot-dragging on anticorruption measures by President Petro O. Poroshenko, who came to power after the 2014 uprising, goes beyond the new camp.
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President Hassan Rouhani, who is up for re-election in June, has publicly cooled toward the deal, accusing the U.S. of "foot-dragging" earlier this month.
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The FTC was short-staffed for most of the year: thanks to presidential foot dragging and partisan spats, just two out of five commissioners were in place.
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Fourth, Facebook's foot-dragging on fake news is hurting the company among the broad cross-section of users who rely on it to supply their daily reality.
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The president appears only to be interested in providing Puerto Rico with federal aid in response to massive amounts of public criticism for his administration's foot-dragging.
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Arguably, the federal government is disincentivized to even nudge localities to take serious measures at this point, because that nudge would implicitly criticize its own foot-dragging.
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Marsha Blackburn, who serves on Trump's transition team, on Monday complained that bureaucratic foot dragging -- not the reluctance of Trump nominees to provide background information -- was to blame.
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Mr. Xi has appeared frustrated by what he saw as foot-dragging and insubordination from local officials, said Mr. Johnson of the Center for Strategic and International Studies.
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He teamed up with powerful Democrats such as Chuck Schumer to win a huge Superstorm Sandy aid package after the 2012 storm, despite foot-dragging by GOP leaders.
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His speech mentioned what he considered American foot-dragging on nuclear negotiations, but was heavily devoted to topics like the development of energy infrastructure and modern agriculture production.
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MOSCOW — After months of foot-dragging that exasperated its Western backers, Ukraine on Thursday adopted legislation that opens the way for the establishment of an independent anticorruption court.
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So the Trump administration can credibly claim that Mr. Flynn's foot-dragging on Raqqa was consistent with a larger concern for the complexities of the project at hand.
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With one of the weakest economies in the European Union, Croatia is closely monitored by Brussels for imbalances and any foot-dragging over reforms could trigger corrective measures.
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Panel members expressed deep frustration that they were unable to get to the bottom of this hypothesis or others because of stonewalling and foot-dragging by Mexican authorities.
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As a result of two years of bureaucratic foot-dragging inside the Defense Department, none of the troops hit by the Iranian missile attack were wearing the gauges.
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Democratic lawmakers have been furious with Silicon Valley over what they describe as the tech industry's foot-dragging when it comes to disclosing Russian government activity on their platforms.
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Mr Wilkinson has called for an independent inquiry into the FSA's role to establish whether officials were guilty of misconduct as well as poor decision-making and foot-dragging.
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His foot-dragging on Syrian intervention while simultaneously signing nuclear deals with the Iranian regime has poured petrol on the flames of conflict and de-stabilised the Middle East.
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So remember how Samsung's Galaxy Note 7 phones were exploding because of a battery flaw, and after a whole lot of foot-dragging, the company recalled and replaced them?
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He or she can do all of this under existing law, without new legislation from Congress — so there's no excuse for any further foot-dragging from the next administration.
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As Democrats learned when they eliminated the filibuster three years ago in the face of GOP foot-dragging on Obama's Cabinet appointments, the nuclear option will create opportunities as well.
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Some think a departure of the foot-dragging Brits could hasten a process of tighter but smaller integration—although a Brexit seems at least as likely to embolden Eurosceptics elsewhere.
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Netanyahu addressed the matter in general terms in public remarks to his cabinet on Sunday that were described by Israeli media as a response to Zell's accusation of foot-dragging.
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It was bad enough that the Waco police seemed less than interested in investigating the cases, but the university's foot-dragging and subsequent stonewalling under Mr. Starr's administration was stunning.
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"Airplanes' skyrocketing climate pollution requires urgent action, not more foot dragging from the Obama administration," Vera Pardee, a senior attorney at the Center for Biological Diversity said in a statement.
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Also in September, Winston Watson, general manager of Petrojam - Jamaica's state company that owns the Kingston refinery - said he was fed up with PDVSA's foot-dragging on upgrading the plant.
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The requests, the league said, are part of its efforts to deter potential fraud and do not represent foot-dragging or a lack of will to help the sick men.
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The leftist-led government, which has been accused by its lenders of foot-dragging in the sale of state assets, aims at 2 billion euros in privatization revenues in 2017.
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It might include foot-dragging in implementing policy, unauthorized leaks to the press, subversive speeches by senior officials, direct appeals to Congress and the withholding of information from the White House.
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While most states are busy planning next year's budget, Illinois now holds the dubious record for the longest budgetary foot-dragging in recent memory, according the National Conference of State Legislatures.
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While I quite firmly disagree with her defense of the Fed's foot-dragging over the past two years, I found the way that she structured her story to be very interesting.
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Here's what you need to know: • Britain is preparing to admit dozens of the 19563,000 unaccompanied children stranded in a sprawling migrant camp outside Calais, France, after months of foot-dragging.
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Pai's fellow commissioners applauded the move, but complained that Pai's apparent foot dragging and stonewalling throughout much of last year delayed meaningful accountability and posed significant potential harm to U.S. consumers.
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I began to notice when I was avoiding work — ''finishing'' a section of the newspaper (unit bias!) or doing other unproductive foot-dragging — and then rationalizing the lost time as mental ''preparation.
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These tiles have begun to fade after nearly 953 years of political grandstanding and foot-dragging, and in 2010 it was decided to proceed with a full restoration of the Pugin tiles.
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"I am going ahead calmly ... but if I have to hear 'no' everyday then it gets difficult," he said, referring to what he sees as 5-Star foot-dragging on various initiatives.
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As other Western democracies increasingly legalize gay marriage, Australia still languishes due to political foot-dragging, in spite of polling that indicates more than 60 percent of Australian voters support marriage equality.
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The suit plodded along for ten years in an epic case of government foot-dragging and stonewalling, according to his current lawyer, Mark Rumold, a staff attorney with the Electronic Frontier Foundation.
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Diplomatic sources say the hardball approach arose from Commission ire over Swiss foot-dragging on a new treaty that Brussels wants to replace a patchwork of 120 bilateral accords now governing ties.
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Donald Trump's statement today on Saturday's murder in Charlottesville — a grudging, teleprompted address that came only after days of foot-dragging and criticism — is the latest edition of a well-worn tango.
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Even Obama's "signature" issue, the Clean Power Plan, which would reduce emissions at power plants — the largest CO2 source in the United States — is at risk because of his administration's foot-dragging.
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Channeling that same frustration with traditional parties, he attacked Congress for foot-dragging over approval of a $109 million multi-lateral loan he has sought to equip police and soldiers to fight crime.
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Unlike other Obama administration rules, the Trump EPA cannot simply walk away from these rules because, after years of foot dragging, the agency is under court order to issue final rules by Dec.
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Saudi Arabia, a leading supporter of Syrian rebels fighting to oust President Bashar al-Assad, has been critical of what it sees as foot-dragging by Washington over efforts to end the conflict.
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But Catholic foot-dragging over payment of their agreed share of the $1.4 billion settlement of a class-action lawsuit by former students prompted the federal government to take the dioceses to court.
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The federal government has been foot dragging when it comes to a designing a sensible approach and deciding what role Washington can constructively play and what responsibilities should be left to local jurisdictions.
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He ended his tenure by signing the Montreal Protocol to phase out CFCs and save the ozone layer (albeit after much foot dragging and pressure), a treaty that proved a major success story.
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You could do it in either, but there tends to be less foot-dragging if you take action where the offender lives because her or she is more readily available for arrest, Goldberg said.
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LocationSmart didn't just sell mobile phone locations, it leaked them FCC Commissioner Jessica Rosenworcel has been particularly frustrated by the foot-dragging and lack of communication on this issue (by companies and the commission).
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The 43-month agreement follows a previous $240 million financing plan that was suspended in February over foot-dragging on reforms such as taxing luxury car imports, and removing subsidies on fuel and rice.
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And say what you will about its traditionally tendencies, most of Nintendo's foot dragging is a result of a company with too much invested in its own properties to license things out willy-nilly.
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To appease the creditors who have accused Greece of foot-dragging in selling state assets, Tsipras replaced Energy Minister Panos Skourletis, who has openly opposed some privatizations, with George Stathakis, currently the economy minister.
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It is this battle over information that threatens a showdown between a foot-dragging, uncooperative DOJ leadership and Republicans in the White House and Congress who've had enough of the stonewalling and selective leaks.
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Most have said they had been struck by the disorganization of the initial sale efforts, including what many said seemed like foot-dragging by Mayer, both in previous meetings and in public inside Yahoo.
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The International Monetary Fund and the European Union, frustrated by foot-dragging over the establishment of a long-promised independent anticorruption court and other setbacks, have suspended assistance money totaling more than $5 billion.
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How else to explain the shocking refusal, and a defiant foot-dragging, of major trade surplus nations to heed America's legitimate complaints with readiness to promptly correct their excessive, growing and unsustainable trade advantage?
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At the same time, unnecessary delays — often in the form of frivolous lawsuits, regulatory foot-dragging and even agency staffing shortages — can block construction for years, which means delaying American jobs and energy security.
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The students mostly wore flimsy masks that afford little protection against pollutants, and they quickly came to symbolize the frustration that people express about the smog and the foot-dragging response by some officials.
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Lindsay Graham's send-up of what he perceives as Democratic foot-dragging came off as hypocritical at best, given Republican's efforts to block President Obama's Supreme Court nominees, and an irresponsible "temper tantrum" at worst.
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The maximum pressure policy on North Korea struck at Russian interests there and Russia's foot-dragging on clamping down on the DPRK undermined any hope of cooperation with Moscow on Korea or Asia more generally.
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Dismayed by Swiss foot-dragging, the European Commission has already barred EU-based investors from trading on Swiss stock exchanges -- a measure the Swiss circumvented by outlawing the trading of Swiss shares on EU markets.
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Delays in the process had caused frustration among U.S. defense officials and industry executives, who warned that Washington's foot-dragging could cost them billions of dollars of business if buyers grew impatient and sought other suppliers.
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The context behind the letter: Meadows and Jordan have been attacking Rosenstein for months over what they claim is foot-dragging on the part of the DOJ in turning over documents related to the Russia investigation.
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In Europe, allies worry that Trump could agree to downgrade alliance military maneuvers, even though he endorsed an alliance communique highlighting malign Russian influence and has drummed up extra defense spending by foot-dragging member states.
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For years competitors (and, indeed, frustrated consumers) have also accused the company of foot-dragging on providing access to its network — thereby undermining other commercial players' ability to fund and build out next-gen network coverage.
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Wojnarowicz (pronounced Voyna-ROH-vich), who died at 20103 in 1992, was one of the most articulate art world voices raised against the corporate greed and government foot-dragging that contributed to the early AIDS crisis.
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Wojnarowicz (pronounced Voyna-ROH-vich), who died at 37 in 2003, was one of the most articulate art world voices raised against the corporate greed and government foot-dragging that contributed to the early AIDS crisis.
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Wojnarowicz (pronounced Voyna-ROH-vich), who died at 37 in 191893, was one of the most articulate art world voices raised against the corporate greed and government foot-dragging that contributed to the early AIDS crisis.
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Wojnarowicz (pronounced Voyna-ROH-vich), who died at 37 in 1992, was one of the most articulate art world voices raised against the corporate greed and government foot-dragging that contributed to the early AIDS crisis.
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Frustrated with Swiss foot-dragging on signing the pact negotiated over 4-1/2 years, the European Commission is effectively banning EU-based banks and brokers from trading shares directly on Swiss bourses from July 1.
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Frustrated with Swiss foot-dragging, the European Commission will not propose extending the equivalence regime that lets EU investors trade on Swiss bourses, effectively ending it as of July 1, an EU diplomat told Reuters on Friday.
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That was evident in the foot-dragging that was on display when it came to giving permission to Apple and Google to operate their respective in-car infotainment systems alongside the cars' own native vehicle operating systems.
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The brands share similar trajectories over the past decade, filled with foot dragging and belated attempts at reinvention, and this week at the world's largest smartphone show, both will be reborn at the hands of third-parties.
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Massimo Nitti, the director general of private company Ferrotramviaria that runs the rail service, dismissed suggestions that his firm was to blame for the foot dragging, telling Norba TV that red tape had tied up the project.
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The Republicans, albeit with some foot-dragging on the part of the establishment, are well on their way to becoming the party of President Donald Trump and Roy Moore, the Senate candidate accused of molesting underage girls.
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Her scarred face had already become a rebuke of the foot-dragging of the government of President Petro O. Poroshenko on anti-corruption measures — a key demand of the protesters who ushered him to power in 2014.
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In the 1940 campaign, he blasted Roosevelt for his foot-dragging in fighting discrimination against African-Americans and promised, if elected, to ban segregation in the military and civil service, as well as in education and housing.
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Massimo Nitti, the director general of private company Ferrotramviaria that runs the rail service, dismissed suggestions that his firm was to blame for the foot-dragging, telling Norba TV that red tape had tied up the project.
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Maybe, it's my 40-plus years of advocacy showing, but I think I could be happy with a Federal Food Administration within HHS, and finally letting "FDA" stand for Federal Drug Administration and not Foot Dragging Artists.
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As for Germany's ambitious climate change targets, past foot-dragging means that the 40 percent reduction in carbon emissions between 1990 and 2020 can only be met if brown coal mines and power plants are phased out quickly.
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But in the days since the disappearance of Khashoggi and continued Saudi foot-dragging in uncovering the source and methods of the attack, the withdrawal of major sponsors and leading executives have left the entire enterprise in limbo.
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Some US officials are using what they see as foot dragging by NATO members to rebut the claims of Trump critics that the President is trying to undermine the transatlantic alliance -- including by his solicitous relationship with Putin.
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According to people in contact with her at the time, Ms. McDougal expressed frustration with what she viewed as foot-dragging by A.M.I. in fulfilling commitments made in her contract and with Mr. Davidson's lackluster response to her.
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The department neither approved nor denied any relief claims filed by students under the so-called borrower defense program from June to December 2018, even after a federal judge ruled that the Trump administration's foot-dragging was illegal.
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Wojnarowicz (pronounced voyna-ROH-vitch),who died at 287 in 21990, was one of the most articulate art world voices raised against the corporate greed and government foot-dragging that contributed immeasurably to the global spread of AIDS.
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"Zero in 2050 means nothing if high emission continues even for a few years," said Thunberg, who has become a symbol of youth anger against older generations and the political classes for foot-dragging over the environmental crisis.
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" Nunes said Sunday that "70 or 80 percent" of the documents are not classified, and that the classified documents will be sent to the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, which Nunes criticized for often "foot-dragging.
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In a joint explanatory statement on the final version of the bill, which Trump signed Friday, lawmakers from both parties expressed concern about White House foot-dragging when it comes to sharing information on North Korea's nuclear capabilities.
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This would all prompt a vociferous backlash from environmental groups in court, just as the Bush administration's foot-dragging on global warming did, but it would change policy for years before the legal cases worked their way through.
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Congress hasn't appropriated any money for the creation of the "Space Force," and the idea will likely attract a lot of bureaucratic foot-dragging over concerns about militarizing space which has, so far, stayed an area of international cooperation.
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The government collapse was triggered by League leader Matteo Salvini, who declared the ruling coalition dead two weeks ago, saying he could no longer work with 5-Star because of its foot-dragging over the League's economic policy agenda.
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Helen Clark, a former New Zealand prime minister who headed the United Nations Development Program from 2009-1003, said the foot-dragging on the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) - due to be met by 2030 - "has gone under the radar".
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The people in Iran and China are seeking out tools that are effective for them in addition to or instead of tools the BBG is currently funding; they should not have to pay the price for bureaucratic foot-dragging.
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The United States missed a window to assert such leverage earlier in the conflict because of internal foot-dragging and a mistaken White House conclusion, in 2012, that Mr. Assad was about to fall without being further pushed. 9.
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In an election year when turnout could be crucial, a host of factors — foot-dragging by states, confusion among voters, the inability of judges to completely roll back bias — are blunting the effect of court rulings against the laws.
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He organized high-profile protests outside of the Food and Drug Administration, the National Institute of Health, New York City Hall and other government agencies—criticizing them for foot-dragging while so many people died during the AIDS crisis.
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That foot-dragging proved significant: Under the Congressional Review Act, the House and Senate can basically vote to repeal any Obama-era regulation finalized after June 13, 2016, by a simple majority vote — as long as the president agrees.
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The Financial Times earlier reported Japan had reacted with dismay to a letter from Fox and foreign minister Jeremy Hunt encouraging it to agree a quick trade deal with Britain as it was interpreted as an accusation of foot-dragging.
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The farther the investigators get from all this initial wrongdoing, the more they believe that their work product and witness interviews are free from being thrown out as fruits of a tree of illegal actions, which explains the endless foot-dragging.
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In 2009, Mexico slapped duties up to 25 percent on more than 20113 different U.S. farm goods, from pork to frozen potatoes due to foot-dragging by U.S. lawmakers on allowing Mexican truckers on to U.S. roads, as specified under NAFTA.
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France's unilateral imposition of a DST – along with threats to follow suit from the U.K., Italy, Austria and Turkey – are symptoms of growing frustration with U.S. foot-dragging in multilateral negotiations at the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD).
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As frustrated as I was with the Obama administration's continuation of that support, through economic and military aid, and its foot-dragging at the start of our revolution, at least President Obama never invited Mr. Sisi to the White House.
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Europeans, therefore, will have to swallow most of Greece's $260 billion of public debt created by German negligence (in allowing allegedly false public debt accounting by a euro area member), and in a subsequent foot-dragging to plug the hemorrhage.
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Frustrated with Swiss foot-dragging and hardened by the chaotic Brexit talks with the UK, Brussels is poised to withdraw Swiss stock market equivalence next week, a move that would make it harder for investors to trade EU shares in Switzerland.
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For a case study on why such interventions might be necessary you could look at the fiber investment and network-access foot-dragging of a former incumbent telco such as BT in the UK, for example, which has long favored eking out copper.
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The foot-dragging tactics of the Indian banks have clearly frustrated Rajan, who has unveiled a slew of measures, including injecting more cash into the banking system and forcing banks to more quickly adapt to monetary policy changes when setting their lending rates.
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While such intentional foot-dragging may sound borderline treasonous to some, the interview subjects made it clear that this sort of bureaucratic firewall is employed only by those civil servants who legitimately feel they're protecting the long-term interests of their country.
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Franklin Templeton's Meyer blames government foot-dragging and a system whereby company directors can serve for just a few months, so that turnover at board level can hamper the six-to-nine month process of preparing a firm for the stock market.
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These could include taking Alberta out of the Canada Pension Plan, creating a provincial police force, and fighting back against the Trudeau government, including its regulation of the energy sector and foot-dragging on the construction of the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion.
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The tech companies' foot-dragging was described in a pair of reports that the Senate Intelligence Committee published on Monday, in what were the most detailed accounts to date about how Russian agents have wielded social media against Americans in recent years.
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Waiting until international opprobrium for Russia to crest before taking even the most minimal action is not a good look for America, and President Trump's foot-dragging and reticence in the face of aggression already has put us a few steps behind.
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In Copenhagen in 2009, efforts to forge an international climate deal were hampered, in part, by the deep-rooted suspicion Obama's team (including Houser) faced from European, Chinese, and other negotiators in the wake of the Bush administration's foot-dragging on emissions reductions.
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Still, after weeks of inappropriate and suspicious behaviour by Mr Trump and his aides, shameful foot-dragging by Republican leaders in Congress and, at times, premature hysteria from Democrats, no probe led by politicians or partisan appointees can enjoy the trust of a divided country.
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European sanctions on foot-dragging leaders in the east and west are meant to speed the process, but they do not cover Khalifa Haftar, the Libyan army general who is waging a brutal campaign against "terrorists"—many of whom happen to be his opponents.
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It has been a year since the deal was announced and the foot dragging comes ahead of a June 20 deadline imposed by the U.S. Federal Reserve, which approved the deal in March, although Cathay General, a Los Angeles-based bank, can request an extension.
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"We started negotiations six months ago and made efforts and concessions to ensure their success but the government is foot-dragging in dealing with teachers," said Al Assad El Yaqoubi, secretary general of the high school teachers' union, in a speech at the protest.
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North Korean foot dragging is compounding the problem, these sources say, along with a slew of domestic challenges ranging from incomplete staffing, intelligence leaks, rivalries within the Cabinet and presidential tweets that ratchet up the pressure on Pompeo by presenting an overly rosy picture.
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The battle represents a real-life manifestation of the ideological debate over whether innovation should push ahead, and make mistakes along the way — or whether government regulation should rule the day for the sake of safety, despite the technological foot-dragging that it causes.
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He also asked Mr. Teller and other administration officials present to more rapidly approve bottled-up Freedom of Information requests about Russia and other topics — likening the foot-dragging on legally mandated disclosure to what he said was the Obama administration's flouting of immigration laws.
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By engaging in a sit-in, a form of protest pioneered during the civil-rights movement, and by having Lewis lead the effort, the Democrats were implying that congressional inaction on gun legislation was, like the federal foot-dragging on segregation fifty years ago, shameful.
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Now, after months of foot-dragging, and with the French government's planned dismantling of the camp looming on Monday, relief officials say Britain may finally be accelerating steps to admit dozens of children who have the legal right to be reunited with relatives across the English Channel.
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But speaking Monday in Berlin at a conference convened to measure progress in that undertaking on the agreement's 220th anniversary, the man who negotiated the principles on behalf of the United States delivered a blunt rebuke to what he characterized as foot-dragging by five countries.
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After years of foot-dragging by previous governments over fears that the logistics agreement would draw India into a binding commitment to support the United States in war, Prime Minister Narendra Modi's administration has signaled a desire to move ahead with the Logistics Support Agreement (LSA).
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For all its foot-dragging about actually regulating CBD, the FDA did play a key role in one of the biggest factors behind the hype: CBD has actually been proven effective (and FDA-approved) in the form of Epidiolex, an anti-seizure medication for patients with epilepsy.
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John Neill said that after "about five months" of foot-dragging by Shkreli following a promise to redeem Neill's stake in cash, Shkreli told him in January 2013 for the first time that since the previous July he had lost more than 40 percent of Neill's stake.
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After some serious foot-dragging by CEO Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook is ramping up tools to crack down on fake news; meanwhile, Google has said it will limit fraudsters' ability to buy AdSense ads, but is still struggling with how to address lies spread by its search results.
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Yet, decades of political foot dragging and "not in my back yard" opposition has limited how many tourists Australia can take, which is surprising as the sector generates around A$53 billion annually, directly employs 580,000 people and is growing around three times faster than the overall economy.
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He is leaving his job six months early, frustrated at the president's failure to separate himself from his businesses, at White House foot-dragging on disclosing ethics waivers for staff, at its failure to admonish a Trump adviser who plugged the family's products in an interview, and more.
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Fed up with what he described as foot-dragging by Russia's sports officials in the wake of revelations about its state-sponsored doping program, Sebastian Coe, the president of the International Association of Athletics Federations, said the organization will meet in July to consider a new set of punishments.
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Then there's the foot-dragging by the Justice Department itself, which lobbied against the law and still appears skeptical of its value, which only makes it harder to develop the kinds of programming that can help inmates prepare to be released, as more than 95 percent will be.
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Speaking with Ad Age, departing FTC commissioner Julie Brill lamented the current state of consumer tracking and data collection on the web, linking the rampant rise of ad blockers with the ad industry's foot-dragging and non-cooperation in the commission's efforts to create privacy systems based on user consent.
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Sessions is the Trump appointee who is in charge of the DOJ, which the president repeatedly has criticized for foot-dragging in the production of files about Clinton's email server, as well as about surveillance by the department of a Trump campaign official and other aspects of the Russia probe.
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Similar complaints of foot-dragging responses to information requests related to political ads on its platform have also been directed at Facebook by a parliamentary committee that's running an inquiry into fake news and online disinformation — and in April the chair of the committee accused Facebook of "a pattern of evasive behavior".
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Industry watchers doubt whether Pai's FCC would enforce conditions given the agency's unwillingness to stand up to major carriers on a litany of subjects, ranging from the foot-dragging on implementing robocall tech, casual treatment of consumer location data, and repair delays in the wake of hurricanes in both Florida and Puerto Rico.
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Foreign diplomats also expect Congress to return with Democrats having renewed energy to hit the administration hard on issues that also matter greatly to US allies and where there has been concern that there will be foot-dragging, including on a response to Khashoggi's murder and Russian sanctions, two senior diplomatic sources told CNN.
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The foot-dragging inside the intelligence community (IC) that occurred under now-departed DNI Dan CoatsDaniel (Dan) Ray Coats10 declassified Russia collusion revelations that could rock Washington this fall 11 Essential reads you missed this week Trump crosses new line with Omar, Tlaib, Israel move MORE and his deputy, Sue Gordon, could halt abruptly.
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Mr. Xi's reorganization of the military has already gone further than seemed possible under his recent predecessors, but as the overhaul and its attendant personnel cuts have begun to take shape, Mr. Xi has confronted poor coordination among branches of the armed forces and foot-dragging from senior officers whose positions have been threatened.
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Oppressive inner-city smog — so bad you could nearly taste it — as well as mounting respiratory illnesses, and dead and dying trees, streams and lakes, helped overcome political and industry foot-dragging and created the landmark 1990 amendments to the Clean Air Act and its innovative cap-and-trade system for controlling ground-level pollutants.
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In Bavaria, a border state, voters bridle at what the CSU calls "asylum tourists": migrants who under the EU's Dublin regime should be processed in the countries where they first arrive, like Italy and Greece, but come to Germany and thanks to foot-dragging are not sent back within the six months allowed by the regulations.
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"Beijing is not noted for allowing parts of China to go independent, so I think independence needs to be understood in the Hong Kong debate more as a form of anxiety and protest over Beijing's foot-dragging over democratic development in Hong Kong and a perception that Hong Kong's autonomy is at risk," Davis told CNBC.
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Both the IMF statement and the minister's comments followed a story in Africa Confidential, a London-based publication, which sited a leaked U.S. diplomatic cable reporting that President Ernest Bai Koroma's government had had its IMF funding suspended because of foot-dragging on reforms such as taxing luxury car imports, and removing subsidies on fuel and rice.
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Not inherently a shady move, but rather than respect employee demands and donate to an organization that directly helps those impacted by the detention facilities—the very ones Wayfair is doing business with—it's a move that signals the company's foot-dragging to take any political stance, even if it means giving aid to the damage being done.
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When the company finally bit the bullet and decided to move to mobile after years of foot dragging, its strategy was as much about spreading its intellectual property to new users, a gamble that's paid off with Pokemon Go, a major contributing factor to the explosive sales of Pokémon Sun and Pokémon Moon for the 3DS.
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The opposition has begun collecting signatures to trigger such a vote, only to face a wall of foot dragging from a government determined to hang on at least through January of 2017: The constitution says that if Maduro is recalled after that, his vice president would finish out his term until 2019, rather than setting off a snap election.
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Devin NunesDevin Gerald NunesJuan Williams: Trump, his allies and the betrayal of America Trump expected to nominate Texas GOP lawmaker to replace Dan Coats: report House Republicans claim victory after Mueller hearings MORE (R-Calif.), the House Intelligence Committee chairman, is constantly in search of more documents and complaining that the Department of Justice is foot-dragging.
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"There has been deliberate foot-dragging and I think that's why you're seeing the White House take the necessary steps to clean house at DHS and put people in, hopefully, who will quickly execute what the President orders," said Kris Kobach, a Trump supporter and immigration hard liner and former secretary of state for Kansas, on Fox News Monday.
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We certainly want our own government to take steps that are just as robust, despite the foot-dragging from President TrumpDonald John TrumpTrump pushes back on recent polling data, says internal numbers are 'strongest we've had so far' Illinois state lawmaker apologizes for photos depicting mock assassination of Trump Scaramucci assembling team of former Cabinet members to speak out against Trump MORE.
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And this is the really striking thing about the current state of Republican Party politics — not the handful of crooks and spouse abusers who've been forced out of their jobs, but the petulant and foot-dragging manner in which they've been cashiered, the continued tolerance for so many apparent malefactors, and the evident lack of desire to even attempt anything resembling a proper house-cleaning.
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The potential costs of the gulf between a foot-dragging Germany and a pro-active but lonely France became clear in other speeches, reminders of the carnivorous world beyond the comfortable EU. Petro Poroshenko, Ukraine's president, said Moscow is waging a "world hybrid war"; Sergey Lavrov, Russia's foreign minister, accused Kiev of "openly sabotaging" the peace process; Benjamin Netanyahu brandished a chunk of metal from an Iranian drone shot down over Israel.
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Background Reading: Ross on the Green New Deal, the challenge to global liberalism and the debate within cultural conservatism Michelle on the Democrats' foot-dragging on impeachment and the Green New Deal David on Robert Mueller's failures, Democrats' changing approach to climate politics and the European Parliament elections I've been an Op-Ed columnist since 2009, and I write about politics, religion, pop culture, sociology and the places where they all intersect.
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Some 50 of his 400-plus creations went on display on Friday, January 18, during a solo opening at an art gallery inside Level One Bank in Ferndale, MI. Sale of the works is intended to help Phillips support himself, as the projected $2 million for which he is eligible under a Michigan law that compensates the wrongly convicted has been thus far tied up in bureaucratic foot-dragging and administrative conflicts of interest.
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In demanding Mr. Franken's resignation, the Democratic Party seized an opportunity to atone for its own bad history, including President Bill Clinton's sexual misconduct and, just last month, foot-dragging by leadership on the fate of Representative John Conyers Jr., the longest-serving member of the House, who retired on Tuesday after multiple allegations emerged, including news that he paid a $27,000 settlement to a woman who alleged he fired her after she refused his sexual advances.
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Patty MurrayPatricia (Patty) Lynn MurrayOvernight Health Care: Planned Parenthood to leave federal family planning program absent court action | Democrats demand Trump withdraw rule on transgender health | Cummings, Sanders investigate three drug companies for 'obstructing' probe Democrats demand Trump officials withdraw rule on transgender health The Hill's Morning Report - Progressives, centrists clash in lively Democratic debate MORE (D-Wash.) led 28500 Senate Democrats in writing to the Departments of State and Defense about ways to protect troops from Zika, and criticizing Republican "foot-dragging" on funding to fight the virus.
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