Sentences with phrase «despite rhetoric»

What these concerns indicate is that despite the rhetoric of «practical reconciliation» it is difficult to see that redressing Indigenous disadvantage has been elevated to a sufficient level of priority, through the establishment of clear commitments and timeframes to do all that is necessary to achieve reductions in the level of disadvantage faced by Indigenous people.

Despite the rhetoric of «mutual obligation'to the extent that governmental power is underwritten by a «social contract», the contract involves citizens giving up a small degree of their absolute personal freedom in exchange for the protection of the state.

Despite the rhetoric regarding the benefit of SNHV, this is the first trial in Australia to test, at scale, the benefit and cost - benefit of an intervention programme that is delivered within the context of an existing (and therefore sustainable) universal health service system.

In many ways, the event was evidence that, despite the rhetoric about divisions in the community, ethereum remains oddly united in the face of obstacles.

Despite the rhetoric of Mexico's digital future being just around the corner, telecommunication's reform initiatives lack the social and educational investment needed.

Despite the rhetoric of the mainstream «financial gurus,» there are definitely times when whole life is better than term life insurance.

Despite rhetoric about energy independence and climate stabilization, the fact is that vehicle sales, oil consumption, and carbon dioxide emissions are continuing to soar.

Despite his rhetoric, Pruitt showed his true commitment to cleaning up the most polluted communities in the nation when he picked his friend and former banker, Albert «Kell» Kelly, to run the Superfund Task Force.

In the US, despite their rhetoric, they also have embarked on various levels and scale to reduce their emissions, and indeed there is China with its delicate balancing act.

This example brings us all the way back to the start of my essay, and the central problem for advocates of aggressive emissions abatement advocates: despite the rhetoric, the projected damages from global warming just don't appear to justify the costs of the proposed remedy.

Despite the rhetoric, the best available estimate of the damage we face from unconstrained global warming is not «global destruction,» but is instead costs on the order of 3 percent of global GDP in a much wealthier world well over a hundred years from now.

«Hourly wages are not higher than in the U.S., despite the rhetoric of some politicians that our wages have somehow priced us out of international competitiveness,» said Jim Stanford.

Despite the rhetoric of wealthy backers (like hedge - fund billionaire Daniel Loeb, who just raised $ 35 million for the Success Academy charter chain), the charter industry has a mixed record of student achievement and a reputation tainted by a string of scandals — hardly a record that justifies the massive expansion.

Despite their rhetoric, not only are most of Connecticut's charter schools actually increasing racial isolation, they are naively or knowingly overlooking key factors in their ongoing claims that they provide better educational outcomes.

Despite the rhetoric, there are better options for our economy and country.

Despite rhetoric to the contrary, «Most regular classroom teachers make few, if any, provisions for talented students» (U. S. Department of Education, 1993, p. 2) Furthermore, the trend toward using heterogeneous cooperative learning groups in contemporary classrooms may lend itself to the exploitation of highly gifted children, especially in settings where group grades are given or where no homogeneous groupings are allowed (Robinson, 1990).

It is clear, from polling data to waiting lists for charter school in large cities, that despite the rhetoric and debates, parents want more high - quality education options for their children.

Despite the rhetoric, this is not about helping low - income children succeed academically or about «failing» schools.

Despite their rhetoric, the special interest of the unions is themselves.

Despite rhetoric espousing this vote as nothing more than additional time for consideration, it appears that TPS does indeed see utility in joining the charter school movement.

Despite the rhetoric of the left, more money does not improve education performance.

Despite their rhetoric expressing concern about the role that standardized tests play in our education system, politicians persist in valuing these tests almost exclusively when it comes to accountability — not only for schools, as has been the case since the inception of No Child Left Behind, but for teachers as well, with a national push to include the results of these tests in teacher evaluations.

Despite their rhetoric, most small - school staffs clearly value content to some degree.

Despite the rhetoric of it being the «civil rights movement of our time,» education reform has in fact been a centrist project for at least twenty - five years.

Despite the rhetoric dominating the national media, which gives the impression that our schools are struggling and that educator quality is to blame, 71 percent of parents give the school their oldest child attends an «A» or «B» (these numbers drop substantially when it comes to the national level, perhaps because of the media's rhetoric — a mere 18 percent give the nation's schools as a whole an «A» or a «B»).

In contrast, despite the rhetoric, nowadays everyone seems delighted to be there.

Heaney explained that, despite rhetoric to the contrary, refugees undergo more vigorous screening than others coming to America, a process that typically takes up to two years.

«Despite the rhetoric, that is who we represent.

It's the path that, despite his rhetoric, Ed Miliband prays the Coalition will tread.

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Despite the rhetoric of President Obama's «pivot,» U.S. Army and Marine Corps forces in the region will merely be restored to pre-Iraq-war levels — no new permanent deployments are being contemplated — while the overall U.S. defense budget is set to decline by $ 487 billion over the next 10 years.

The EU and the US have minimal leverage to shape events in Crimea, and despite the rhetoric, have no will to get overly involved in the multibillion dollar rescue of Ukraine.

And despite the rhetoric to the opposite - it is about the money.

Ukraine is in a dire economic situation, its treasury empty, and despite the rhetoric the level of loans from the EU or US will go nowhere near the many tens of billions of dollars required to stabilise the economy.

The history of adoption in Canada reveals that adoption has always been in the best interests of adoptive parents, this despite the rhetoric of «the best interests of the child» often cited in legislation.

First, he cites a study that states, despite the rhetoric of father's rights groups, more dads want to «assist in the parenting role after separation than take over as primary caregiver.»

Generally, despite the rhetoric, the assimilative process is primary and advances with successive generations.

Despite their rhetoric of pluralism and their deconstructionist ideologies, many in practice behave as though they held Enlightenment - like self - evident universal moral principles.

The problem of course is that, despite the rhetoric of pluralism, tolerance and dialogue, few secularists or gay rights activists are interested in staking out a reasonable compromise, or recognising the seriousness and rationality of Catholic objections.

Despite the rhetoric of both the Democratic and Republican parties heralding the U.S. as a republic of stockholders, Phillips observes that «middle - class families held (just) 2.8 percent of the total growth in stock market holdings between 1989 and 1998, but accounted for 38.7 percent of the rise in household debt.»

Despite the rhetoric of democracy there is a lack of transparency m discussions of officials with the IMF / WB authorities and their decisions regarding conditionalities often imposed on the debtor countries without clear exposure even to Parliament and its select committees, much less to the general public affected by them.

Finally, those who practice non-violent resistance recognize that despite the rhetoric of war, God is on the side of justice, not just for one party or another, but for all.

Despite the rhetoric of «privacy,» «women in control,» and «demedicalization,» there have been four office / clinic visits (in the ideal uncomplicated case), two ultrasound examinations, multiple blood tests, and strict medical supervision.

And if we add Hitler here (since he was not a Christian, despite his rhetoric and symbolism, but a pagan, as well as an equal opportunity murderer who murdered 2 million Christians), we can add another 11 - 13 million to this total.

«Despite the rhetoric of the Mexican government, there are not a lot of commercial options besides the United States market,» said Jerjes Aguirre Ochoa, a researcher at the University of Michoacan.

So despite the rhetoric and conventional wisdom, some pretty hefty tax increases which were not fully reversed until 1987 - 88.

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My answer to that question then was that, despite seven year's worth of rancorous rhetoric over Obamacare, a substantial core of GOP senators didn't truly want to be saddled with owning its replacement — particularly, an unpopular and inadequate one.

Despite European confusion about Trump's foreign policy and his «America First» rhetoric, Dutch Foreign Minister Stef Blok said it was «impressive to come here one night after being inaugurated.

With a smaller tax - cutting budget available, and with little revenue available from closing «special - interest loopholes» despite Trump's rhetoric, Republicans will have to choose among tax benefits for four groups:

Despite heightened rhetoric from Republicans, markets were more jittery in past years over a potential default.