Sentences with phrase «states and nation policy»

ALEC's Updating Net Metering Policies Resolution, discussed last week at its States and Nation Policy Summit in Washington, DC, would complement dirty utilities like Duke Energy that are working to make it more costly for people to feed their own solar power into the electrical grid.

At the ALEC 2010 States and Nation Policy Summit she presented «10 Questions State Legislators Should Ask About Higher Education.»

This year, the American Legislative Exchange Council «s winter meeting, which it calls the «States and Nation Policy Summit,» will be held in Scottsdale, Arizona, at the Westin Kierland Resort and Spa from December 2 - 4.

Not exact matches

«The GUIDES indicators that focus on some overall macroeconomic indicators,» Chisa recommends, plus «a few other topics that get you a lot of bang for the buck: British Colonialism, nations versus states, Dutch Disease (resource curse), Sovereign Wealth Fund, import substitution, current account balance, fiscal deficit, IMF austerity measures, and the «trilemma» of free - capital flows, independent monetary policy, and fixed exchange rates.»

The main outcome of Habitat III was that UN nation states agreed on the New Urban Agenda (NUA): a non-binding document, which will guide policies over the next 20 years with the goal of making cities safer, resilient and sustainable and their amenities more inclusive.

The concept is now incorporated into a United Nation resolution, and heralded by Chinese state media as an alternative to Donald Trump's «America First» policy.

Instead, unilaterally imposing a 19th century tariff policy is a sure way to alienate Washington's closest friends and ensure that other, less democratically - minded, states might become tomorrow's «greatest nation on earth.»

The UN Human Rights Committee, which regularly reviews whether states are living up to their obligations under the binding International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, today made more than a dozen recommendations for fundamental changes in Canadian law and policy in respect to the treatment of First Nations, Inuit and Métis peoples.

Corporate concerns were only inflamed by President Trump's Asia trip, which showcased his «America First» trade policy and left the United States isolated as 11 other nations agreed to new trade liberalization measures.

They, soon reinforced, we may hope, by a more clear - eyed U.S. policy, may succeed in recalling the United Nations to its former and more modest self — a necessary, if frequently irritating, instrument of sovereign states in search of cooperation without abdication.

Whether this was a reference to the United States in Iraq, or to the structural dominance of the Security Council in the U.N., or to the efforts of select nations to use the U.N. in imposing population and family policies opposed by the Holy See, Benedict did not say.

The «absolutists» separationizing of «church and state» may well be but a state proclamation and if so then our nation's Federalistic Republicanism might just supercede our wantonness to mix Christendom with Federalist Policies.

But the United States, and other stronger nations, preferred to have the meeting fail rather than openly discuss their hypocritical policies.

The «absolutists» separationizing of «church and state» may well be but a state proclamation and if so then our nation's Federalistic Republicanism might just supercede our wantonness to (NOT) mix Christendom with Federalist (REPUBLIC) Policies.

The «absolutists» separationizing of «church and state» may well be but a state proclamation and if so then our nation's Federalistic Republicanism might just supercede our wantonness to (NOT) mix Christendom with Federalist Policies.

Let us, therefore, speak plainly: The courts, sometimes abetted by, and almost always acquiesced in, federal and state executives and legislators, have imposed upon the nation immoral policies that pro-life Americans can not, in conscience, accept.

CalOPPA is the first state law in the nation to require commercial websites and online services to post a privacy policy.

With the emergence of the nation state, monetary systems and policies were developed based on the notion of a scarce money supply linked to gold and silver, the value of which was controlled by the nation.

Despite the euphoric rhetoric of its ambassador's speeches at the UN, the United States has blocked all efforts by uncommitted and socialist nations to bring the problems of organization and policy of communications satellites before that Committee, thus frustrating the Committee and the recommendations of the ITU.16.

It can, in other words, position itself as a pedagogue, upstream of the actual member state legislatures, declaring as a matter of Europe - wide policy what is or is not a human right, and «calling on» member states to bring their legislation into line with what are now the human rights norms that every civilized nation agrees on.

The unipolarist ideology by whatever name, adds a fourth party to the foreign - policy debate, which has otherwise involved 1) liberal internationalists, who seek world peace and stability by securing collective agreements from nation states to comply with international law; 2) realists, who seek to ensure a balance of power among competing regimes; and 3) principled anti-interventionists, who renounce the use of military force for all reasons besides self - defense.

From the seventeenth century, in reaction to these wars of religion, some politicians began to ignore moral constraints and to base their policies on reasons of state», which allowed a nation to deviate from the ethical norms required of the individual.

The Constitution of India formulated by the founding fathers of India's nation - state, has clearly laid down both in its Preamble and in its Directive Principles of State Policy, that politics and economics are instruments of social objectives rather than the revstate, has clearly laid down both in its Preamble and in its Directive Principles of State Policy, that politics and economics are instruments of social objectives rather than the revState Policy, that politics and economics are instruments of social objectives rather than the reverse.

Builders, based in Aledo, Texas, whose expressed goal is «to exert a positive influence in government, education, and the family by 1) educating the nation concerning the Godly foundation of our country; 2) providing information to federal, state and local officials as they develop public policies which reflect Biblical values; and 3) encouraging Christians to get involved in the civic arena.

«Vermont's mandatory GMO labeling law — Act 120 — is a costly and misguided measure that will set the nation on a path toward a 50 - state patchwork of GMO labeling policies that do nothing to advance the health and safety of consumers,» the Grocery Manufacturers Association said in a statement about the lawsuit.

As the largest public policy association for California wine, and the only group representing the industry at the state, federal and international levels, Wine Institute's Officers, Board of Directors and professional staff work to create an environment where the wine community can flourish and contribute in a positive fashion to our nation, state and local communities.

Our members have helped move forward paid Family Leave policies in cities, counties and states across the nation, have helped pass affordable childcare policies in red and blue states alike, have also helped advance sick day policies in over a dozen cities and states across the nation, as well.

Now, infant mental health associations from 17 states, including Alaska, across the nation have joined Michigan to form the League of States to support the growth of professionals» competencies from a practice and policy perspestates, including Alaska, across the nation have joined Michigan to form the League of States to support the growth of professionals» competencies from a practice and policy perspeStates to support the growth of professionals» competencies from a practice and policy perspective.

This finding underscoring the need for a comprehensive approach is supportive of the approach called for by the World Health Organization and the United Nations Children's Fund in the Global Strategy for Infant and Young Child Feeding, and by the United States Agency for International Development in its breastfeeding policy.

CSH programs have helped to establish policies and practices in states, districts, and schools across the nation, and will see continued success within the expanded Whole School, Whole Community, Whole Child (WSCC) model.

Overall, judging by the rapturous applause he received, Miliband was in sublime form: dynamic, incisive, intelligent (a man who can quote the 1648 Treaty of Westphalia and apply it to the current foreign policy debate between those who oppose liberal interventionism based on the principle of nation state sovereignty and those who support it based on the natural rights of individuals superseding that sovereignty certainly deserves this accolade) and even at times funny.

Indeed, many right - wing and extreme right political currents display a nationalist ideology valuing the nation - State and its identity against any sort of supranational institutions and policies.

The majority of today's nation states have adopted largely restrictive asylum policies whereby not everyone with a «well - founded fear of prosecution» and on sturdy legal grounds are granted asylum.

«Chief Obafemi Awolowo is one of the nation's nationalists, in which the Lagos State Government believes in his ideologies, policies and programme and as such will consider nothing too much to propagate his ideologies,» she said.

Since states are not nations and they still belong to the United States, they won't have their own foreign pstates are not nations and they still belong to the United States, they won't have their own foreign pStates, they won't have their own foreign policy.

«He is widely respected across the entire state, from Buffalo to Long Island and I can't think of a better friend or champion of effective and efficient government to have in my corner as I seek to reverse the Obama - Gillibrand policies that are destroying our nation's future.»

However, the party has also reiterated its belief in City Regions, a policy first mooted in the wake of the 2004 North - East regional assembly referendum defeat — stating that it will pass an «English Devolution Act» if elected into government, giving more powers to City and also County regions, and replacing the House of Lords with an elected Senate of the Nations and regions to work as a forum for regional representation.

The Iraq Resolution known as «AUTHORIZATION FOR USE OF MILITARY FORCE AGAINST IRAQ RESOLUTION OF 2002» cites national policy, a war on «terrorism», and United Nations Security Council Resolutions to justify authorization of military force against Iraq, but I am not aware of any document by which the United States has been legally bound by a declaration of war against Iraq as per the federal Constitution (Article 1, Section 8, Clause 11).

Nation states were clearly unable to solve certain problems on their own and therefore an effective European policy could count on what Eurocrats used to call a «permissive public consensus.»

«What is truly lamentable is that you continue your hyper - partisan attacks and do not actively seek to engage those with whom you have policy disagreements in a legitimate discussion on how we can improve the economy in our state and nation,» Faso wrote.

The Suffolk County Republican Committee works hard to advance the interests of taxpayers by reigning in out - of - control spending at the state level and lowering taxes in New York, which is already the highest taxed state in the nation thanks to the policies of politicians like Andrew Cuomo and Charles Schumer.

The classical definition of a nation state requires territory, population, a formal body that can impose taxes and government policy, and recognition by (some number) of sovereign states.

In the 1950s, at the height of the Cold War, Joseph Boakye Danquah, one of the revered founding fathers of our nation, stated, when defining the vision and policy of our party, that: «Our duty is to liberate the energies of the people for the growth of a property - owning democracy in this land, with a right to life, and freedom and justice as the principles to which the government and laws of the land should be dedicated to in order specifically to enrich the lives, property and liberty of each and every citizen.»

In IR, National Interest is traditionally linked with what has been labeled by scholars as a billiard ball approach to foreign policy, in which the nation - state is defined and treated as a unitary actor, more important than the «cobweb» of national and transnational connections that others see to be important to an understanding of foreign policy.

Dyster also said the official policy is to «hope for the best but prepare for the worst,» as it relates ongoing casino revenue dispute between Seneca Nations and New York State.

Like I told you earlier, former President Jonathan, a nice man from my own state, Bayelsa, was not doing well for Nigeria but the fact that he was from my state did not stop me and several enlightened Nigerians from my part of the country from criticising his policies and the way he was running our nation.

In his opening remarks, New York State Republican Chairman Edward Cox said New York State is the least business - friendly of all states in the nation and 11 years of policies under Democratic governors has worsened conditions and killed jobs.

New York state taxpayers are already subject to some of the highest state and local taxes in the nation as a result of the tax - and - spend policies that come out of Albany.

The education level of the state (and the nation) is central to a growing economy — and it is important to ensuring that citizens can adequately participate in the policy debates of their own democracy.

New York state is proposing new rules requiring banks and insurance companies to establish cybersecurity programs and designate an internal cybersecurity officer, in what Gov. Andrew Cuomo described as a «first - in - the - nation» move to codify cyber safety policies.