Sentences with phrase «as politicians cut»

But the win was also a hopeful sign for scientists who have watched from the sidelines in disbelief as politicians cut science funding and distorted research on evolution, stem cells and global warming.

Not exact matches

Blacktop politics are as old as the roads that led to Rome, but the time lag between a politician promising to improve public infrastructure and cutting the ribbon has grown longer — to years, and sometimes as much as a decade.

Republican businessman - turned - politician Donald Trump, who will be sworn in as U.S. president on Friday, has promised tax cuts, regulatory rollbacks and infrastructure spending that he says will boost economic growth.

Whle their contribution to helping these people should not be completely discounted, I find this questionable I do ot expect that pharm comanies do all of their work as «charity» but, I find it offensive that they consistently align themselves with lobgbyists and politicians who are would rather cut funding for programs like ADAP here in the US.

Jesus cutting budgets, as if he would be a politician... Absurd!

There are the photos, cut from magazines, of Di and Charles, Andrew and Fergie, favored by the fighter's mother, but there are pictures of Jamaican politicians as well, and the reggae records are piled high.

Deeply cut the Environmental Protection Fund (EPF), whose dollars go toward protecting our drinking water, open space and recycling; Close state parks and campgrounds and slash staffing levels at our environmental enforcement agencies; and Steal from the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI) Fund, which was set up to invest in our clean - energy economy, not serve as a piggy bank for politicians.»

With Labour politicians saying very little about the economy and tax beyond some somewhat exaggerated hand wringing about the Tories» promised # 6 billion cuts in non-frontline services, there is currently very little to distinguish them as a progressive party at all.

Joining them were politicians from high property - tax states such as New Jersey, Connecticut and California, creating a stumbling block for the new framework over the measure meant to help raise revenue for other tax cuts.

«But what I think it showed of Jeremy as a leader, a) this is a man who's very comfortable in his own skin, he's got a sense of humour and he can cut through to young voters in a way that very few politicians can, and that is something that you can't buy in politics.»

Excerpt: «For too long, Chris has watched as short - sighted politicians cut funding for the state police and other first responders.

But the politicians who dole out money aren't particularly interested in funding mathematicians because that isn't going to win any appreciable number of votes - but wasteful spending will lose votes, as will cuts to welfare, nutrition programs, education, etc..

Greatest short cut When he was there as military head of state, most of the politicians were sent to confront tribunals and tribunals jailed many of them for hundreds of years.

He continued in this «tough and tender» (his words again) vein when discussing the deficit reduction plan, landing the Lib Dems headlong into the government's strategy, rather than shying away and blaming all the unpopular cuts — as some Lib Dem politicians tend to do — on the Tories, resurrected as the «Nasty Party» by Vince Cable earlier today.

Politicians looking to cut costs in this age of austerity will increasingly see cloud computing as a way to slash rising computing bills for their departments.

The participants saw themselves as being potentially the worst affected by spending cuts, not least because they perceived politicians to take less notice of the views of young people than of those of older generations.

Lt. Gov. Kathy Hochul says this is bridging the gap for businesses and even politicians as it cuts down travel time.

Well another politician who stands by a minority (the wealthy) and not the majority (the working class) when over 72 % of the public agrees we should bring back the wealth tax so we don't have to lay off Goverment employees and cut back on services such as education fire fighters law enforcement then we are not living in a Democracy.

She added: «Many of the benefits of using fully trained police officers on the roads can not be counted as easily as speeding drivers caught on cameras, but we hope that finally politicians will recognise and address the damage that is being caused by cutting police officers out of the equation.»

As politicians, they know the polling evidence suggests people do not believe politicians will cut taxes, whatever they promise.

I've got to say, as someone who felt very awkward about the coalition, very difficult about working with the Conservatives, I would find it a lot easier to take if some of the announcements about necessary cuts weren't made by our politicians with quite so much relish... Please think about the tone you are using.

A Syracuse.com analysis of 2016 IRS tax return data shows the threatened cut of itemized tax deductions may not hurt most Onondaga County taxpayers as much as you've been told by New York politicians.

The field of SETI, which has at various points in its history received money through NASA, is an easy target for funding cuts, with some politicians deriding it as a wasteful hunt for «little green men.»

The annual Texas gathering of planetary scientists featured new research from across the solar system, as well as a good deal of anger directed at politicians looking to cut back on planetary exploration

But when people — whether politicians or that guy in your Facebook feed — say they want to cut science funding, they won't be speaking about science as a whole.

When politicians want to cut funding, he notes, they focus on specific controversial studies or areas — such as climate change, stem cells or genetically modified organisms.

Maine laboratories are finding unconventional ways to fund science and technology, touted by politicians and economists alike as a key economic and educational driver in the state, as the federal government again threatens to cut money for their work.

So if the idea of cutting these products out of your diet holds as much appeal as sitting through a politician's speech on fiscal spending, then why not consider a compromise.

Mary - Louise Parker pops up as a corrupt chief - of - staff to an American politician which veers off piste in a campy direction for one scene before returning to normal service, as if it had been cut in from a different spy movie altogether.

Politicians seizing on painless ways to cut the deficit reinforce this perception of massive spending, and Americans believe them: In surveys, they estimate that as much as one out of four dollars spent by the federal government goes to foreign governments.

It opens with the observation that New York's low success percentages for proficiency on the Big Test are simply «unacceptable» and therefore Cuomo will make sure that the cut scores are set at more acceptable levels as determined by educators and not politicians.

Which politician will emerge as the clear - cut favorite to win the Republican party nomination?

But as Artnet points out, the proposal is likely to face «fierce opposition» in Congress, where many politicians of both parties are highly critical of plans to cut arts funding.

This is provocative, even dangerous, stuff, given how the concept cuts against so many norms, particularly as economists and politicians have pushed for more spending as the route out of persistent economic troubles.

Now politicians are focusing on those benefits as they look for spending cuts.

Gore, in my view, is accurate on all the key conceptual issues, and does not make errors typical of many politicians, as, for example, the many politicians who claim a tax cut will more than make up for lost revenue by encouraging growth — now that is a fundamental conceptual error, and Gore does not have any of those.

Friends of the Earth Europe is calling on European politicians to act as an example, and to push for fast and fair emission cuts in line with science, and a renewable energy future that is community - orientated.

Robert's reference to Mrs Thatcher as a politician who opposed these tendencies is contradicted by her splashing out a billion pounds setting up the Hadley Centre, against her natural budget - cutting instincts.

In the glorious Blair years we had a lot of senior Labour politicians who had cut their political teeth in various protest movements such as CND & CCL & it seems to me that they never really realised the importance of the gulf they stepped over in going from activism to democratic government.

As a result, the likely outcome of the report's release will be more of the same: a welter of scary scenarios, followed by politicians promising huge carbon cuts and expensive policies that have virtually no impact on climate change.

Critics say: but look what happened with adaptation... climate campaigners treated it as taboo for years, for fear that politicians would use it as an excuse to delay emissions cuts, and now we are struggling to catch up with desperate needs for widespread adaptation.

It was meant as a handy sound - bite for politicians when formulating policies to cut back fossil fuel use.

Politicians use the poor economy as an excuse to cut funds and bypass the issue.

You may also get to rub shoulders with local politicians who would view attending your ribbon cutting ceremony as a welcome photo opportunity.