Sentences with phrase «the economic justification»

Also in the Post, Terence Corcoran wonders whether Corn Cob Bob — the friendly spokesmascot for the Canadian Renewable Fuels Association — will survive its ongoing battle with the C.D. Howe Institute, which recently released a report questioning the environmental and economic justifications for corn ethanol subsidies.

Sorry, attempt of economic justification of USSR collapse are useless, it was not economy in normal sense - rather big communal living - with certain equal member to be more equal than others.

The coalition's housing benefit changes are being hit by scathing criticism from MPs, in a report questioning the fundamental economic justification for the reforms.

This should include formalised working with code system operators to share investment in infrastructure so that pooled demand can create economic justification for fibre provision to remote areas.»

So where do you get the economic justification for it?»

This is not the time to increase the suffering of the common man in Nigeria NO MATTER THE ECONOMIC JUSTIFICATION!!!

«Above all, we wanted to know whether it is better to provide economic justifications, such as the positive effects of climate policy on technological innovation and the labour market, and personal aspects like protection of our health, rather than to focus on conveying scientific facts and the risks of climate change.»

The right - leaning R Street Institute released a report this week that found no economic justification for financially supporting reactors that have been disadvantaged by cheap natural gas, state clean energy programs and federal tax incentives for wind.

There is no economic justification for the different outcomes, RRSP vs. TFSA.

It was therefore encouraging when in a major speech in June 2013, the Scottish cabinet secretary for culture Fiona Hyslop veered away from the economic justification for the arts that Westminster holds to, saying «We actively support the case for public subsidy of the arts.

Thus, there is an economic justification for vesting wildfire suppression responsibilities in large - scale public agencies that can overcome these coordination costs.

Since co-ops have lobbied for exemption from carbon controls (i.e., the Lieberman / Warner Energy Security Act of 2007), their emissions could be cost - free, making an economic justification for investment in unrequired cleanup unlikely at best.

We learned the economic justifications for inaction are greatly exaggerated, short - termist, and confuse fossil fuel interests with the public interest.

Jobs creation alone does not give economic justification to the underlying activity.

It's all he has, since there is no scientific justification for gullible warming nor any economic justification for attempting to combat the imaginary problem.

This mandate lacks economic justification and appears to be technically unreachable: the savings mandate is double the most optimistic projection of energy - efficiency potential in the state.

The economic justification for Australia's carbon price — be it a fixed or floating — stems from one of various IAMs conducted here and abroad.

Thus, the rule's entire economic justification hinges on an educated guess about how much climate damage is caused by methane.

However, while I recognise the current ideological and political objectives to limit GHG emissions form energy use, there does not seem to be a rational economic justification for GHG abatement.

As discussed in my new book, Environmentalism Gone Mad, available from the book website, there is simply no scientific or economic justification for remaking the world's energy generation and delivery systems to reduce CO2 emissions.

Some workshop participants also referenced a NOAA / NESDIS - commissioned analysis of the potential economic benefits of the GOES - R ABI and HES instruments, 32 which supported the economic justification for a HES - like capability.

Essentially, there would be no economic justification for owning a vehicle that is not in use 95 % of the time (and requires an expensive parking space).

To date, the economic justification for ATC Reform has largely focused on anticipated benefits to commercial airlines and the customers they serve.

If common sense or legality doesn't move the needle, there's also an economic justification in not trusting celebrity - endorsed ICOs.

The report concludes there is a «clear economic justification for government action to reduce Indigenous disadvantage» based on a reduction in the burden of disease and an improvement in the ability of Indigenous Australians to contribute to and share economic prosperity.

Not exact matches

There is no justification for introducing income splitting on social or economic grounds, certainly not in the current economic environment.

These should be compared to the private sector average economic forecasts, with justifications provided for notable differences.

On some level, it should be no surprise that Trump's steel and aluminum tariffs don't advance any coherent economic goal because the legal authority he invoked as justification has nothing to do with economics.

There was justification for some of this — economic data was supportive of risk assets and the new US administration is still promising a raft of measures that may support corporate earnings (at least in the short term).

A new study into tax - free savings accounts says there is no justification «on either economic or equity grounds» for doubling the contribution limit without conditions.

During a boom, all sorts of justifications for the elevated level of economic activity will seem logical.

I think that the strength can be explained by the precarious global economic and monetary situations, but the point is that a knowledgeable and unbiased observer of the markets shouldn't be scratching his / her head or feeling the need to get creative when coming up with justifications for gold's current US$ price.

We pride ourselves, with considerable justification, on our record of economic growth.

A non-Marxian and more insidious justification for reliance on minimum wage legislation to achieve distribution equity is founded on a twisted interpretation of traditional scholastic teaching on economic justice.

The justification for this ignoring of the loss of resources and adding costs is that the GDP is a measure of market activity, not of economic welfare.

Was this author equally appalled about the prayer breakfast earlier this month, when President Obama tried to use biblical phrases like «for unto whom much is given, much shall be required» and «love thy neighbor as thyself» out of context as justification for his tax and economic policies?

But — and this is a huge qualifier — if that message of justification by God's undeserved love is preached apart from an unmasking of the actual power relations which have aggravated these feelings to the level of a social neurosis; if people are released from the rat race of upward mobility only privatistically, with no critique of the economic and social ideology that stimulates such desperate cravings; if people are liberated from a bad sense of themselves without any sense of mission to change the conditions that waste human beings in such a way, then justification by faith becomes a mystification of the actual power relations, and the Christian gospel is indeed the opiate of the masses.

He continued, «Thus, the creation of a free market, concealing economic and geographical borders, would erode the justification for using war as the quickest avenue to wealth and power, and lessen its appeal.

Those who prefer Britain's religious leaders to keep out of politics will be frustrated - but the wide - ranging problems which contributed to our current economic predicament are justification enough for the Church's intervention.

This creates the political justification for sharpened rhetoric on equality, while the policy rationale is contained in counteracting the tendencies to inequality involved with both globalisation and technological change, the great drivers of economic transformation in our times.

In one paragraph, they may quote the dangerous banalities of a particular politician, or the self - justification of a well - connected plutocrat; in the next, the fine points of how non-linearity in ecological impact assessments undermines current economic models.

The final version of WOTUS, which was released in 2015, came packaged with an economic analysis and a 408 - page technical report offering scientific justification for what streams and other water features were included or excluded from the regulation (Greenwire, Feb. 10).

Such justification would then most likely center on whether, under the introductory phrase of GATT Article XX, a US carbon duty, emission credit requirement or other regulation on imports is applied on a variable scale that takes account of local conditions in foreign countries, including their own efforts to fight global warming and the level of economic development in developing countries.

The only justification for the pervasive policy of trying to increase test scores is that future national economic success will go to the nations with the highest scores.

I realize that much has changed in the last few years — widespread economic hardship, cuts in state aid by both Democratic and Republican state governments, much slower than anticipated growth in property values,, the opportunity to cut staff compensation under the threat of union busting, dramatic cuts to the revenue limit base — but despite all of these changes, if you go back to the principles and the details of Partnership Plan used to sell the 2008 Operating Referendum (which passed overwhelmingly) I think you can find plenty of justification for increasing property taxes in order to achieve the mission of the district.

As this justification took root as a social, economic, and ethical doctrine, Spencer won numerous influential American disciples and allies, including industrialist Andrew Carnegie, clergyman Henry Ward Beecher, and political reformer Carl Schurz.

There is really no economic or financial justification for that as gold and fiat currencies have the value that is ascribed to each as a medium of exchange.

The structures that allowed social welfare programs, government support, and government intervention into corporate practice began to dissolve, as there seemed to be no political or philosophical justification for their expansion, especially under the economic crisis of the 1970s.

The invasion was an arbitrary military action inspired by a series of lies upon lies and gross manipulation of the media and therefore of the public; an act intended to consolidate American military and economic control of the Middle East masquerading — as a last resort — all other justifications having failed to justify themselves — as liberation.

Actions that have a primary justification in social and economic development — but with environmental benefits that emerge as a consequence.