Sentences with phrase «argue against policies»

But taken together, who would dare argue against policies for reducing that figure?

Buchholz also argues against policies like France's 35 - hour cap on the workweek, conceived to promote a better quality of life among its citizens.

But the DOJ and ED err in arguing against the policies on the basis of «disparate impact,» a phrase with a legal history that, when applied to schools, imputes race - conscious behavior on the part of school administrators.

Their opponents were put in the uncomfortable position of arguing against a policy that seemingly would improve the education of low - income students.

And if you are arguing that expert consensus is unimportant, why is consensus one of the most frequent primary «skeptic» claims presented to argue against policy changes?

Not exact matches

• Brittany Laughlin of Lattice VC argues against zero - tolerance policies because, she writes, the bar to report misconduct is currently too high, and we should give people a chance to fix their mistakes:

Bolton, who is regarded as a foreign policy super-hawk, had previously argued for preemptive strikes against North Korea.

«It is hard to argue against that, that we should treat each other equally, that's our trade policy.»

In his job as an activist at the Center for Popular Democracy, Barkan led a successful effort to get Fed officials thinking more about low - income Americans as they conduct monetary policy, often arguing against interest rate hikes in the face of high underemployment and weak wage growth.

Arguing against will be Patrice Lee, and director of outreach at Generation Opportunity, a limited - government activist and policy network for millennials, and Matt Welch, editor - in - chief of the libertarian magazine Reason.

If your company can pull it off, thanks to depth of talent and strength of culture, then an unlimited vacation policy is hard to argue against.

Exxon has argued against all the other shareholder proposals as well, including a «policy to explicitly prohibit discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity»; a policy articulating Exxon's «respect for and commitment to the human right to water»; «a report discussing possible long term risks to the company's finances and operations posed by the environmental, social and economic challenges associated with the oil sands»; a report of «known and potential environmental impacts» and «policy options» to address the impacts of the company's «fracturing operations»; a report of recommendations on how Exxon can become an «environmentally sustainable energy company»; and adoption of «quantitative goals... for reducing total greenhouse gas emissions.»

Some argue that monetary policy should «lean against» incipient asset bubbles.

The right policy in the near term should be tilting as hard as possible against recession as argued in the first blog in this series.

However, tech industry representatives have come out against the tariffs, arguing that tariffs are an inappropriate strategy to address the legitimate problem of China's trade policies because they are likely to harm US workers and consumers.

Be that as it may, the point of this talk is to argue against the proposition that a particular type of demand management policy was responsible for growth achieved over a couple of decades.

In George Marshall's State Department Policy Planning Council, Niebuhr argued that humanity's sinfulness made necessary political strategies that balanced power against power.

He argued against the evils of slavery with eloquence, but his policy agenda was modest and aimed at the swing voters of the Midwest.

Supporters of a change in the current DOD policy argue that just as blacks and women experienced discrimination in the past, so too are homosexuals discriminated against today by being excluded from military service.

If I were choosing recent books in this area which most deserve to be read outside the country, I would start with Oliver O'Donovan's political theology in The Desire of the Nations; John Milbank's critique of the social sciences in Theology and Social Theory; Timothy Gorringe's provocative political reading of Karl Barth in Karl Barth: Against Hegemony; Peter Sedgwick's The Market Economy and Christian Ethics; Michael Banner's Christian Ethics and Contemporary Moral Problems; Duncan Forrester's Christian Justice and Public Policy; and Timothy Jenkins's Religion in Everyday Life: An Ethnographic Approach, which argues with a dense interweaving of theory and empirical study for a social anthropological approach to English religion which has learned much from theology.

Arguing against the motion is Charles Benbrook, a research professor at the Center for Sustaining Agriculture and Natural Resources at Washington State University and program leader of Measure to Manage: Farm and Food Diagnostics for Sustainability and Health, and Margaret Mellon, a science policy consultant in the areas of antibiotics, genetic engineering and sustainable agriculture.

Arguing against the motion was Charles Benbrook, a research professor at the Center for Sustaining Agriculture and Natural Resources at Washington State University and program leader of Measure to Manage: Farm and Food Diagnostics for Sustainability and Health, and Margaret Mellon, a science policy consultant in the areas of antibiotics, genetic engineering and sustainable agriculture.

It is hard to argue against the fact that countries are influenced in their strategic thinking and security policies by historical narratives of their respective national «cultures», which have sources in history, a shared sense of identity, folklore and cultural heritage.

All this - and the unprecedented (in my memory) sight of Labour arguing against the Tories on economic policy while being backed — to all intents and purposes - by the CBI, Institute of Directors AND the TUC.

Frank Mauro, executive director emeritus of the Fiscal Policy Institute and a onetime secretary of the Assembly Ways and Means Committee, argued against Proposal One, writing at the time that it would have made the state budget process «even more of a mess than it has been in many recent years.»

Trump had been publicly discussing ending the agreement, so one could argue that Kerry may have broken the spirit of the law, (or you could argue that he was simply acting as a lobbyist and 100 % legally because the meeting was regarding existing policy), but even if you take the argument that he deliberately went against what Trump was proposing as a likely outcome, Kerry didn't violate the Logan act because it was still policy at the time.

Ed Balls was leading the charge against setting a timetable while also arguing that we needed to prioritise policies that deliver growth.

According to some accounts, Nick Brown had tears in his eyes as the chancellor told him to back top - up fees - a policy he had argued passionately against just a year earlier.

Opponents argue that the policies run against the available evidence.

In speaking engagements, and increasingly on television, he prosecuted his strategy to subvert the status quo by donning a suit and, in perfect and impossible - to - argue - against rhetoric, spouted the sort of radical ideology — pointing out the causal chain between U.S. foreign policy and terrorism — that would have landed anyone else in talk - show purgatory.

The Welsh secretary previously argued its «whites - only» membership policy was currently being changed following an aborted court case against it by the Equalities and Human Rights Commission (ECHR), but that while it was not reformed, it remained an illegal group.

The party's MPs had to vote with Labour against the policy or «forfeit the right to call themselves a progressive political party,» he argued.

In a letter to TIME's editor, the United Spinal Association asked the magazine to remove Uber CEO Travis Kalanick from consideration from its list of contenders for 2015 Person of the Year, arguing that the companies policies discriminate against disabled riders.

«David hasn't thought through his policy and neither has Nick if he's going to argue against us because it's the right thing to do.»

They might argue for or against a bill or government policy under consideration.

She and Assemblyman Ron Castorina Jr. filed a suit against the city over its policy of deleting application data gathered when people apply for IDNYC identification cards, arguing it poses a safety risk if the information is destroyed.

Acting Solicitor General Neal Kumar Katyal argued in the government motion that the justices should reject a request by the Log Cabin Republicans to reinstate a federal judge's injunction against the «don't ask, don't tell» policy.

The Cuomo administration has argued against the bill, saying it would turn away business leaders who are volunteering to help guide state policy.

Most of the chamber's Republicans voted against the bill, arguing that the policies increased standardized testing and gave too much power to the Board of Regents in implementing the new evaluation system.

The amicus brief argues that the DOJ denying sanctuary cities the Edward Byrne Memorial Justice Assistance Grant, a prominent federal funding source for local enfacement agencies, is against federal law, seizes local control in public safety policy and «poses serious challenges for local governments.»

The home secretary's plans for a «snoopers» charter» goes against the coalition agreement and Tory pre-election policy, argues the director of Big Brother Watch

The article argues that Cuomo has put forth policies and speeches that position him well against Pres. Donald Trump in 2020, but author David Freedlander also tells WBEN that «There is certainly a vocal segment of the Democratic Party that can't stand the guy,» citing his ambition and a shift toward conservatism shortly after he was elected governor.

Meghan Heintz of More New York, a group that advocates for policies that increase housing supply in the city, argued at the hearing that the tech hub was a boon to residents of nearby neighborhoods, and warned against the consequences of prohibitively restrictive zoning.

Locating the origins of maximum sustainable yield in efforts to protect U.S. commercial fisheries against their competitors, Finley argues that the collapse of world fisheries does not illustrate the tragedy of the commons but stems from deliberate governmental and international policy.

Some of Good Kill justifies Niccol's decision to argue against a major foreign - policy issue via a fiction feature.

• Epstein says the DOJ and ED err when arguing against disciplinary policies on the basis of «disparate impact,» a phrase with a legal history that, «when applied to schools, imputes race - conscious behavior on the part of school administrators.»

Lee and Shaw, both former attorneys, argued that the race - conscious admissions policy of the University of Texas does not unfairly discriminate against white applicants.»

Rather than detaching from or merely arguing against state accountability policies, Superintendent Wauters met with state leaders to talk about the importance of having state assessments and accountability measures aligned with the new state focus.

By arguing against implementing Common Core, movement conservatives opposed to the standards are implicitly supporting the continuation of policies and practices that both condemn the futures of at least 121 children every hour to despair and waste the $ 591 billion taxpayers devote to American public education.

The schools minister Nick Gibb, a fan of PISA, has recently argued in favour of more teacher - led instruction, but school leaders have warned against using «limited» international studies to inform assessment policy.