taken steps

But in companies that have not taken steps to save water, about a third is often wasted.

The United States is not a party to the agreement, but President Barack Obama said the U. S. has taken steps to reduce emissions.

He said the San Francisco-based bank has already taken steps such as a freezing new hiring and posting jobs internally.

But neither has taken steps to seriously prepare for a strong Volcker Rule where their market-making activities could be seriously impacted.

He said the Chamber had taken steps to prevent future attacks, such as barring employees from taking electronic devices to China.

Indeed, over the last few years Facebook has taken steps to improve the security of its platform in several ways.

Fine says the Justice Department has taken steps to ensure that political considerations are no longer used to screen applicants.

Since 2008, Alibaba has taken steps to move from its original focus on annual membership payments to a more complex, flexible fee menu.

Mexico, a vocal advocate of migrants' rights in the United States, has taken steps to reduce risks for migrants within its own borders.

Officials of the U. S. Army Corps of Engineers have taken steps to protect the city by diverting water around it.

He has also taken steps to help the war veterans, who were the victims of pitiful neglect.

To meet these latter criticisms, however, OMB has recently taken steps to bolster the procedural regularity of its processes.

Low-income customers shop at Target too, but the company has taken steps to differentiate itself.

Farmers at Larsha have taken steps to protect against fires that break out in forests and peat bogs every year in Nizhny Novgorod .

Some cities, including Beijing and Shenzhen, have gone further and taken steps to stimulate demand from foreigners and for luxury homes.

A number of governments around the world have taken steps to avoid being placed on the blacklist.

And it has taken steps to limit exports in a number of materials, often in a bid to attract more manufacturing to China.

China has taken steps in recent months to safeguard the legal rights of those who run afoul of the authorities.

Wen acknowledged that "the unemployment issue is a very serious one, " but said China had taken steps to stimulate the economy.

But it's only recently that the legal system has recognized -- and taken steps to mitigate -- the problem of eyewitness misidentification.

Bahrain has taken steps to improve its business and investment climate with the objective of further attracting foreign direct investment.

Online Impostors: A few states have taken steps to outlaw impostors who pose as others online.

Many government and non-profit organizations have taken steps to enhance the preservation and conservation of natural resources.

Intel said it has also taken steps to prevent existing Android apps from being incompatible or slow on its chips.

Facebook said it previously has 'taken steps . . . to significantly limit Rapleaf's ability to use any Facebook-related data. '

A number of hospitals have re-evaluated long-standing practices and taken steps to minimize transfusions.

To avoid public discontent, many Asian governments have taken steps to make sure their citizens have enough rice.

Regulators have taken steps that include tightening lending and putting tougher restrictions on buying homes.

The Nagaland State Government has even taken steps to embrace Korean culture: it hosts an annual Indian-Korean cultural festival.

APEC members have in recent years launched a number of initiatives and taken steps to tackle climate change, and progress has been made.

The Reserve Bank of India (RBI), in sync with government, has taken steps, like tightening of monetary policy, to rein in rising prices.

In recent years the country has taken steps to introduce modern communications technologies, but has typically done so cautiously.

Bahrain, Oman and Qatar, in particular, have taken steps to allow greater participation in public policy, notes the report.

Issuance has jumped as officials in Beijing have tried to tamp down lending and have taken steps to calm its voluble stock market.

But Beijing, which has already taken steps to prick the housing bubble, appears in no hurry to encourage reckless spending.

For one thing, Beijing has already taken steps to ensure banks have enough ballast for the choppy waters ahead.

We have taken steps to improve our packing and are confident that our future shipments will give you entire satisfaction.

Mr Ito said Honda had "taken steps" to remedy its problems in China, but did not give details.

Some have also taken steps to warn users to only agree to authorization if they recognize the application requesting access.

Whether a reasonable person would have foreseen harm by the circumstances and would have taken steps to prevent it.

Robust loan growth, meanwhile, is slowing as Beijing has taken steps to stave off economic overheating.

Beijing has taken steps to encourage greater use of the renminbi in international trade, seeking to reduce its dependence on the US dollar.

The Obama administration has already taken steps to tackle America's flagging scientific lead.

Both banks have taken steps to close business units that are clearly proprietary in nature.

Hunan authorities have taken steps to contain the outbreak, culling close to 53, 000 other birds, Xinhua reported.

Most Near East and African countries have already taken steps to improve their food safety systems.

Alice Nah, however, has taken steps to protect trafficked people forced into labor in Malaysia.

With inflation running above its comfort zone, Beijing has taken steps to cool the economy.

GDB has taken steps to restructure in the past two years and runs a credit card operation which is turning a small profit.

California lawmakers have taken steps to heighten protections for women. A bill by Sen.

Facebook already has taken steps to avoid breaching the current rules.

Esquire and GQ have taken steps toward charging for digital content, offering iPhone versions of their magazines for $2. 99 for each issue.

Apple has now taken steps to address the furore over the new phone.

Other countries have taken steps to keep people from withdrawing money from banks.

Even more schools have taken steps to reduce debt among their neediest students.

And the Chinese government has, to its credit, taken steps to better enforce intellectual property.

We have also taken steps to introduce even greater flexibility in the use of existing industrial buildings.

'China has taken steps to enhance exchange-rate flexibility, ' Mr.

Othernationscountries have taken steps to keep people from withdrawing money from banks.

Some governments have taken steps to block or spy on their communications.

The government had taken steps on environment protection and that brought to many parks and public green space.

China has already taken steps to curb lending, raising banks' required reserve ratio twice in the past month.

The HKMC has itself taken steps in three particular areas to facilitate development of the retail bond market.

Some rich countries have already taken steps in that direction.

China has taken steps in recent years to improve HIV prevention.

They said Rongping has taken steps to rectify the problem since 2001 and discharge levels are now within government standards.

The authorities have also taken steps to rein in bank lending.

It is the second time in three months that China has taken steps to slow the pace of its economic expansion.

Police in Fujian Province have taken steps in 19 villages to prevent illegal emigration this year, Xinhua reported.

Several countries have taken steps to curtail the outbreak, such as banning cucumber imports and removing the vegetables from sale.

The Chinese government has taken steps to deal with these problems.

He has taken steps to run a restaurant.

What has really changed is that we have taken steps to know more about applicants.

The raise isn't the first time Google has taken steps to retain employees.

The government has taken steps to try to cool China's fast-growing economy in order to curtail inflation.

Have you taken steps to pass on your wealth?

Meanwhile, other governments have taken steps to offer the medicine to their citizens living in Japan too.

Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar has taken steps to address this problem;

Sure, Mr. Medvedev has taken steps such as preventing government ministers from running state-owned companies;