Sentences with phrase «as the top issue»

More than four out of 10 GOP voters (42 percent) listed security as their top issue in Morning Consult's most recent poll, compared with 20 percent of Democrats and 26 percent of independents.

As reported in NFIB's Jobs Report on Thursday, labor quality remains as the top issue facing small business owners, with 89 percent of those hiring or trying to hire reporting few or no qualified applicants.

Battles over priorities in a huge governmentwide spending bill are essentially settled, leaving a scaled - back plan for President Donald Trump's border wall and a huge rail project that pits Trump against Capitol Hill's most powerful Democrat as the top issues to be solved.

These feats in a year where the economy was seen as the top issue should have been the discourse of all the Democratic candidates.

Even as the economy and jobs consistently rank as top issues in the presidential race, many evangelical Iowans say they're weighing the personal faith of the candidates and that they still care about social issues and honoring the country's Judeo - Christian heritage.

They also favored reducing health care costs, with 60 percent of Protestants and 53 percent of Catholics viewing it as a top issue.

Packaging professionals who responded to a recent DuPont survey identified the need for solutions that improve package sustainability, reduce waste / cost and improve performance as the top issues facing the industry.

Food packaging developments, sustainability and packaging design trends lead as top issues so far this year, as we review the five most popular articles based on page views for January 2018.

But at the same time, most voters list pocketbook - related matters as top issues for state government: 44 percent believe education should be the top issue, followed by taxes at 39 percent and jobs at 31 percent.

In a subsequent statement, Cuomo said he wanted to inject the issue as a top issue in the budget talks.

Both list state workers and the environment as top issues.

Thirty - four percent said traffic problems would be the biggest negative impact from casinos, and 27 percent view a potential increase in crime as the top issue.

At debates, forums and fairs, and in television ads and mailers, Curran, a Democrat, and Martins, a Republican, frequently have presented ethics reform as their top issue — a response to recent corruption scandals involving top state, county and town officials from Nassau.

18 pecent of voters say that gun shows at the Westchester County Center as their top issue, with 13 percent citing jobs and the local economy, 10 percent citing affordable housing, and 7 percent choosing the impending closure of the Indian Point Energy Center.

At least one election in the next decade will have Medicare as its top issue.

Nearly 40 % of respondents named uncertainty as the top issue with their power mix — leading the second - place option by 19 percentage points — and that result was consistent by utility type, size and region.

Around one in nine people (11 per cent) put climate change as a top issue.

That said, among people managers, nearly half (47 %) indicated negative workplace culture as the top issue in the workplace.

While the national average is 47 %, the number of people managers across the country that identified negative workplace culture as the top issue varies with 58 % in Alberta, 49 % in British Columbia, the territories and Ontario, 48 % in Manitoba and Saskatchewan, 47 % in the Atlantic and 36 % in Quebec.

«In an era of heightened corporate transparency, greater workforce mobility, and severe skills shortages, culture, engagement, and retention have emerged as top issues for business leaders.»

Not exact matches

Disappointing as this may sound, the lack of women at the top is not the biggest issue here — it's merely a symptom of something far more insidious: unconscious bias against women.

Manufacturers do a pretty good job of addressing this issue as is the case with each of the blankets we chose as our top picks.

While top - down channels are used to communicate vision and strategy in order to get policies and processes aligned with them, bottom - up processes are necessary too, in order for leaders to be aware of the issues faced at the lower levels, as well as to measure the impact of the policies and practices implemented.

Trump's top Cabinet officials, too, have characterized illegal border - crossing as a particularly critical issue requiring immediate attention.

On top of this are regional health concerns, such as pollution and tropical diseases, and human rights issues.

This one from McMaster University via Coursera is focused more on career issues, and the topics covered sound like a top hits list of common work questions: «Mindshift teaches you essentials such as how to get the most out of online learning and MOOCs, how to seek out and work with mentors, the secrets to avoiding career ruts (and catastrophes) and general ruts in life, and insights such as the value of selective ignorance over general competence.»

As a consequence, Top Gear will not be broadcast this Saturday and the BBC is conducting an investigation into the issue.

I thought this was a great pitch: I was sure there would be interest from my prospect in hearing from a «top expert» but in fact nobody saw leadership as their issue.

Speed of service, always an issue for chains, has recently been a top concern for fast - food franchises as wait times have reportedly lengthened across the board.

Since 1,700 top scientists issued a dramatic warning 25 years ago about humanity pushing the Earth beyond its capacity to sustain life as we know it, we've managed to stabilize one of the things that was worrying them: the depletion of the ozone layer.

Finally, even if you're resolved to stay on top of this issue, it could take several months, as some merchants are reporting that the chip readers are on back order, and credit card providers aren't issuing chip cards all at once.

As a CPA one of the top issues I see every year is when entrepreneurs get tripped up different kinds of taxes.

The party said Abrahams had agreed to stand aside as shadow work and pensions secretary while an «employment issue» is investigated by the top of the party.

This will ensure you're on top of the milestones and can fix issues as they come up without wasting days or weeks.

Increasingly, entrepreneurs need to provide health insurance as a means of staying competitive, an issue that should be top of mind as we celebrate National Small Business Week.

But as opposing experts (and a small army of writers) feud over the issue here in the United States, across the pond several top universities are eliminating the underlying logic of the argument by creating programs to help budding business owners get their start - up dreams off the ground — while they get their degrees.

Typically used to explain away someone's poor behavior, like the top salesperson who treats people badly or the great engineer who is rude during meetings, the loose translation of this statement is, «Even though it's my job as a boss to address this issue, and I wouldn't let anyone else behave that way, I don't feel like dealing with it.»

Ipsos Reid senior vice-president John Wright said the numbers are no surprise, but should not be interpreted as a sign that Canadians put environmental issues at the top of their list of priorities.

According to Jean Martin and Conrad Schmidt in «How to Keep Your Top Talent,» «As part of its Key Talent Programs, HP offers high potentials the opportunity to attend closed - door briefings on important strategic issues, work in teams to help resolve them, and discuss their final recommendations with senior leaders at the company.»

Steve said «this honour really belongs to CCGG as a whole and is based on what everyone involved with CCGG has done in the last 10 years to bring the majority voting issue to light in Canada and to keep it top of mind with federal and provincial governments, the TSX, directors and the press».

We know a lot from various kinds of evidence: a) the experience of the real estate sector, where recent studies by Macdonald Realty and Re / Max have confirmed the dominance of foreign buyers at the top end of the market especially, as stated for years by individual realtors (accounts often denigrated as «anecdotal»); b) there is the digging of several investigative journalists, and most notably by Ian Young of the South China Morning Post who has boldly and effectively raised issues native journalists have sometimes shied from; c) academic work, including the books by Katharyne Mitchell (2004) Beyond the Neoliberal Line and David Ley Millionaire Migrants (2011).

A paper co-authored by University of Ottawa Professor Michael Wolfson, one of Canada's top researchers on income and equality issues, said there was much debate of Ottawa's new program this year allowing some income splitting for couples with children, but most people don't realize income splitting has long existed for thousands of professionals such as doctors and lawyers who have been able to funnel their incomes through private companies they create to hold their income.

As of 2014, these funds represented $ 578 billion in assets, making diversity / EEO one of the top 10 environmental, social and governance (ESG) issues being considered by institutional investors.3

That has been the top worry of advisors and their partners for a number of years, as reflected in our annual Broker - Dealer Presidents» Poll (look for those findings in the June issue), and in TD Ameritrade's annual sentiment survey of its affiliated RIAs for five straight years, as honoree Skip Schweiss told me.

The seeming collapse of the trade agreement between Canada and the European Union (CETA) has created obvious disappointment for International Trade Minister Chrystia Freeland and the entire Canadian government, which made the deal as its top trade issue.

The book does not discuss at length issues such as widespread poverty and income inequality, which, despite improvements in recent years, continue to top the list of problems in Latin America.

You have to figure out how to ship everything to your backers as well as stay on top of any issues that arise.

The new notes contain the same world - leading security features as the new $ 5 note that we issued last September, including the clear top - to - bottom window, and the tactile feature so that it can be recognised by vision - impaired members of the community.

There are some non-financial issues with being in equities in late retirement — although there's a case to be made that staying on top of this helps retain intellectual facilities a bit if we look at Warren Buffet and his dreadful diet, looking at the state some people get into as they get older I'm not sure they should be licensed to drive an equity portfolio unless they can sit on their hands and let that nice Mr Vanguard sort out the rebalancing shenanigans...

Furthermore, if so inclined, one could even study our free archive of past newsletter issues over the years to see that similar defensive action was taken at the right time with most other market tops as well.