"The other thing that was talked about before the election is that Cameron signed a letter with Clegg and Miliband committing to phasing out the unabated use of coal.
Among the proposals, which have clearly gone some way to easing some nationalist concerns, are plans to allow ex-paramilitary prisoners to sit on district policing partership boards, the closure of the Gough barracks interrogation centre, the phasing out of the full time reserve force and cutting the number of special branch officers by 50%.
Conscious that Scotland's economic footing was now far weaker, Sturgeon said she would make no decision on staging a second referendum until next year's Holyrood elections and instead suggested the SNP was now in favour of gradually phasing in full fiscal independence within the UK over the next decade.
"We'll need careful and disciplined phasing of our ambition to expand services – be it improved cancer care, mental health, primary care, seven-day services – all of which we want to do," he said.
The DLA Piper report recommended a "wide ranging and comprehensive review" of kafala with a view to abolishing or phasing out "certain aspects" of the system and prioritising freedom of movement and the rights of workers.
Poultry chiefs insist they have done much to clean up their act, including the phasing-out of growth-promoting antibiotics.
Seattle, the first big US city to pass a $15 minimum wage last year, began phasing in higher wages – in a planned decade-long transition – this month.
A "phasing out" of the current programme, announced by the government, could take many years, he added.
Finland, one of the insufferable overachievers of the education world, is now phasing out handwriting classes in favour of keyboard skills.
This resolution effectively calls on the group to set out a timeframe for a transition to becoming a non-carbon energy group, phasing out fossil fuels.
Phasing these out would be the equivalent of saving 100bn tonnes of carbon dioxide by 2050, and could cut warming by a further 0.5C.
