Sentences with phrase «argue less government»

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Many governments, businesses and social organizations rely on the data, and opposition groups argue the Conservatives are attempting to influence future public policy decisions since low - income earners and immigrants will be less likely to fill out a voluntary form.

Moreover, inasmuch as the government had argued that Welsh's beliefs were less religious than Seeger's, the Court responded this «places undue emphasis on the registrant's interpretation of his own beliefs.

They argue that «debt - service payments force governments to reduce public health expenditures -LSB-... and show that] each additional $ 40,000 of health spending is associated with one less infant death» in Africa (p. 82).

Mayor Michael Bloomberg recently called on Albany to grant local governments control of the system, arguing that they could so a better job for less.

His main priority, some argue, should therefore be to appeal to previous Tory voters for whom the government's record has been less stoutly Conservative than they had hoped.

Mr Brookes argued that the UK's teaching workforce were likely a «neglected army» and called on the government to make the inspection system «less like a sword of Damocles».

A government welfare adviser has argued less than a third of the UK's 2.7 million incapacity benefit claimants are legitimate.

NOTE: here's an interesting thing... if # 1 is important for you as long term goal as far as «decent living for all» goal but not ideologically, libertarians would argue that their approach (less government control of economy) is MORE likely to lead to your goal than the opposite approach.

A report released Monday by the good - government group Citizens Union argued the current system for redistricting, dominated by the Democratic majority in the Assembly and Republicans who control the Senate, has led to less - competitive elections, reduced voter turnout and, over the past four election cycles, a 96 percent re-election rate for incumbents — who are returned to office by an average margin of victory of 61 percentage points.

As CalWatchdog.com's Chris Reed argued, «That is good news for those considering taking on public employee unions in 2016 with ballot measures putting limits on government pensions or scrapping state laws allowing teachers to receive lifetime tenure after less than two years on the job.»

Cuomo, during a radio interview Wednesday, flashed a little ego when he argued that his sky - high poll numbers are less about him personally and more about the renewed pride New Yorkers are taking in state government since he took office in January.

Good government groups have long argued the backroom special election process is less democratic.

I would argue that the government is a lot less doctrinaire than is sometimes presented.

However, it makes little sense to argue that an agency with a budget of $ 31 billion — more than the rest of the world's governments combined, and only slightly less, in real terms, than a few years before — is collapsing.

Making coastal development less attractive «Governments can make development in coastal areas less attractive by requiring development projects to internalize the risks of sea level rise and storms in coastal development planning and decision making,» the task force argues.

Yet Lindseth argues that the autocratic nature of the courts, which are generally less accountable to voters, is one of the chief reasons to reserve education policy matters for the elective branches of government.

Keyes argued for less government spending on the current system in favor of alternatives such as home - schooling, while Obama said spending money on schools was important but parents also need to play a greater role in their children's education.

Some budget experts argue that the government should use another form of accounting, called fair value, that generally makes government lending programs look less profitable.

It could be argued, in fact, that underestimating renewables has given governments more incentive to invest in them, not less.

(11/28/2011) If governments commit to an international program to save forests known as REDD +, deforestation could be nearly zero in less than a decade, argues the Living Forests Report from the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF).

I would argue that socialism is the greatest hoax / scam in world history... but the latest sales pitch for big government socialism is the need to save the world from «carbon pollution» — and now the slow economic growth inherent in socialism can be spun as good news — slow growth equals less «carbon pollution.»

WASHINGTON — As Congress gets to work this week on an economic stimulus plan, environmentalists are arguing that installing more wind and solar energy, making homes and government buildings less dependent on fossil fuels and expanding mass transit would be the best way to add jobs quickly and jolt the

But the environmental and other benefits would be triple the government investment in less than 15 years of operation, the company argues.

As I've argued before, once we are firmly headed in a particular direction, the pace at which we get there becomes less about specific government targets, and more about the sheer momentum of social and technological change.

Senator Alan Ferguson used a variant of this argument when arguing in Parliament against the adoption of the Rudd Government's Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme; he said that Australia is «responsible for less than 1 1/2 per cent of the world's emissions» and implied that since our contribution was so small there was no point in risking our economic well - being by reducing our greenhouse gas production.

While Mukasey never mentioned John Yoo or anyone else by name, he referred extensively to Harvard Law Prof. Jack Goldsmith and his «indispensable» book, The Terror Presidency, to argue that, in the aftermath of Sept. 11, government lawyers were under pressure to be less «risk - averse.»

«In the Thornburgh case the government argued that Roe v. Wade's tenuous constitutional moorings make the principle of stare decisis less than sacrosanct.

Yet, whether data retention obligations are also justifiable, more generally, to combat ordinary crime, or even in proceedings other than criminal proceedings, as the UK government argues in its submission before the CJEU, is much less obvious.

Many civil hearings could be held in secret, and although (as the Government argues anyway) more justice may be done, undoubtedly less will be seen to be done.

Truss's silence fed the sense that the government was «either hopeless at avoiding conflict or couldn't care less about the constitution», he argued.

By way of justification under section 1 of the Charter, the government seemed to argue that the provision could not have been less broadly than it was, and was therefore minimally impairing.

In the challenge, the First Nations Child and Family Caring Society and the Assembly of First Nations argue the federal government, which is responsible for funding social programs on reserves, is discriminating by spending 22 per cent less on child - welfare services than provincial governments provide for children who live off reserves.

In other words, writes T.R. Goldman in Inside the Alito Memo, in the «Thornburgh case the government argued that Roe v. Wade's tenuous constitutional moorings make the principle of stare decisis less than sacrosanct.»

Arguing for improved mental health care, Deutch was critical of state government, which he said spent less per capita on mental health than every other state.