Sentence examples for legislation performance from inspiring English sources

According to the legislation, performance measurement reporting requirements for Medicare managed care are authorized to promote quality improvement.

In the UK, a range of infection prevention and control policies have been introduced to help tackle the problem, including legislation, performance targets and clinical guidelines.

The legislation sets performance goals for the agency, including deadlines that would reduce the time it takes for new products to reach the market.

The European Union has introduced new legislation setting performance standards for light commercial vehicles; Indonesia has enacted a presidential decree which imposes a moratorium on awarding any new forestry concessions; and Australia has just passed a Clean Energy Act which includes a long-debated emissions trading scheme, as well as bringing in a new carbon tax to become law in 2012.

The ministry is drafting legislation for performance-related pay, and to let it move bad teachers to different jobs in the public sector.Not so fastOpposition to the ministry's plans comes from several quarters.

A spokeswoman for the Department for Education said officials were still looking at child performance legislation.

As reported in the scientific literature and mentioned in building energy performance legislation, the thermal inertia of the opaque building envelope can have a significant positive impact on the reduction of summer indoor overheating, of space cooling peak load and of electricity consumption.

In April, she wrote U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan saying she would freeze the state's targets for proficiency -- a move flouting the requirements of No Child Left Behind, the landmark federal education legislation that sets performance benchmarks for public schools across the country.

Just as lame-duck governments may be required to respond to national emergencies--which they did, even after the Twentieth Amendment, during both the Second World War and the Korean War--there are reasons to distinguish Congress's enactment of new legislation from its performance of routine administrative functions.

The mass media law was widely condemned by journalists, and the legislation on artistic performances has already drawn the ire of cultural figures.

Many events have been canceled as a result of the legislation -- including performances by Bruce Sprinsteen, Demi Lovato, Nick Jonas and Pearl Jam -- putting a strain on North Carolina's tourism industry.