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To qualify, the U.K. government would have to agree to a number of provisions designed to protect privacy and fundamental rights, and a U.K. order would have to comply with UK law, this agreement would release American companies from conflicting legal obligations in clearly and carefully defined circumstances. It would help one of our oldest and closest allies perform high-priority criminal investigations that keep its citizens safe -- and many of which, in our age of transnational crime and terrorism, also further American interests.

Attorney General Loretta Lynch

Found on CNN
8 years ago

The risk is rising that shipping banks will have to boost provisions and that the number of non-performing loans will rise.

Alexander Hendricks

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

We are seeing this quarter a lot of downgrades in the oil and gas space, an increase in delinquencies. Our expectation would be to see increased loan loss provisions on a go-forward basis.

Chief Risk Officer Laura Dottori-Attanasio

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

We are encouraged that the Trans-Pacific Partnership sets a new bar for ocean conservation measures in a trade agreement by including specific provisions to encourage sustainable fisheries management, fight illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing, protect sharks and other key marine species, and eliminate harmful fishing subsidies.

Margaret Spring

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

I'm amused when I hear people who claim to be strict interpreters of the Constitution suddenly reading into it a whole series of provisions that are not there, the Constitution is pretty clear about what is supposed to happen now.

President Barack Obama on Tuesday

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

There is much to be commended in the draft Bill, but the Home Office (interior ministry) has a significant amount of further work to do before parliament can be confident that the provisions have been fully thought through.

Paul Murphy

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

We'll do it according to the constitutional provisions.

Tauk Tun

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

The world is watching especially those destination countries whose demand drives the trade — Viet Nam and China. There is an urgent need to implement the full provisions of the measures agreed by CITES Parties and to close those cross-border markets in Viet Nam that service Chinese consumers, failure to do so means the future outlook for Africa’s rhinos remains very bleak.

Tom Milliken

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

Any plan to further reform our financial system must include strong provisions to tackle risks in the 'shadow banking' sector, which remains a critical source of potential instability in our economy, unfortunately, Sen. Sanders has so far taken a hands-off approach to some of the riskiest institutions and activities in our economy, which were among the biggest culprits during the 2008 crisis.

Gary Gensler

Found on CNN
8 years ago

Any plan to further reform our financial system must include strong provisions to tackle risks in the ‘shadow banking’ sector, which remains a critical source of instability in our economy.

Gary Gensler

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

I'm not wild about everything in it, i'm sure that's true for everybody. But it is a budget that, as I insisted, invests in our military and our middle class without ideological provisions that would have weakened Wall Street reform or rules on big polluters.

President Barack Obama

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

I'm not wild about everything in it, i'm sure that's true for everybody. But it is a budget that, as I insisted, invests in our military and our middle class without ideological provisions that would have weakened Wall Street reform or rules on big polluters.

Barack Obama

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Helping U.S. oilproducers’ cause is the fact that other Republican policy priorities areabsolute non-starters for the Democrats, while the Democratsgenerally don’t like the idea of lifting the ban, they don’t view oil exportsas extraordinarily harmful and thus it makes perfect ‘trade bait’ for provisions they want in the budget and tax bills.

Peter Cohn

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

There is little question that (the clawbacks) are a patent attempt to revise the provisions of the constitution, legislation and contracts without justification or required process.

Nader Tavakoli

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

The government is of the opinion that the Commission does not convincingly demonstrate that the tax authority deviated from the statutory provisions. It follows that there is no state aid involved.

The Dutch Finance Ministry

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

States are responsible for implementing the provisions of the Clean Air Act, they will eventually have to put plans in place to show how they can come into compliance with violations of the ozone standard.

Jeffrey Olson

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

The rules will spin a complex web of provisions and requirements for compliance. I fear that many traps for the unwary are hidden in the regulations, creating potential nightmares for small business owners that fail to place regulatory compliance at the top of their business plans, such burdens will spook many small businesses from pursuing crowdfunding as a viable path to raising capital.

Commissioner Michael S. Piwowar

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

The 6.5 billion (euros) apply to the recall, i can only speculate about any further provisions. Should there be a change in sales volumes, we would react rapidly.

Matthias Mueller

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

If the administration complains about the provisions on Guantanamo, then it's their fault because they never came forward with a plan.

John McCain

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

I actually do agree with those two provisions, and I think Obamacare remains an abomination, and let me tell you why. First of all, I think no one should be denied health care because of pre-existing conditions. And I think there are many more efficient ways we could have dealt with this other than Obamacare.

Carly Fiorina

Found on CNN
8 years ago

Now there is a requirement for people to take responsibility, which you know most people have insurance, so do you agree with the mandate idea? That is a Republican idea, came out of the Heritage Foundation, one of our co-hosts, Newt Gingrich, was behind it. And the ban on preexisting conditions? Do you agree with those two provisions?

Stephanie Cutter

Found on CNN
8 years ago

We are talking about long-term investments and commitments and at the moment it looks as if further provisions are being justified without companies having any idea of how to generate the financial means to cover them.

Michael Bormann

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

If the utilities need to increase provisions, chances for a capital hike increase, as long as you don't know that you don't have to raise equity, these stocks can go anywhere.

Oscar Tijs

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

It will also include tough new customs provisions and rules of origin to help us combat illegal transshipment, including of seafood, and identify food safety risks before they get to our shores.

Matthew McAlvanah

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

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