Sentences with phrase «better than our political»

And it's an economic view of liberty that leads us to believe that, because economic policy can manufacture productivity better than political liberty can facilitate it, we should pour our energies into shaping and implementing economic policies.

His hair is better than his political positions that way.

We can not settle for doing the same things better than our political opponents.

Would be better than a political or military solution, albeit the natural progression would obviously lead to political and military actions.

The one thing the political left knows how to do far better than the political right is to throw a party.

And just as importantly, I think it is worth at least asking whether we are right to think that judicial remedies are always better than political ones.

Not exact matches

Once again, this unique meeting will welcome the best - known hedge fund managers, as well as more than 100 of the largest global investors, along with illustrious political and economic commentators, appearing in engaging and insightful panels moderated by II and CNBC editors.

I also believe it would have been better had the president started with infrastructure, which has bipartisan support, rather than tackling a political divisive and technically complicated issue like healthcare.»

But as political scientist Francis Fukuyama has shown in his research on how democracies function, it's often much more important to pay attention to bureaucrats than politicians when evaluating how well governments function.

He infamously created the well - known commercial which attacked Obama for being more a global celebrity than a political leader.

It should be clear by now to Andrew Forrest that his campaign for a political inquiry into the iron ore industry has done the company he runs, Fortescue Metals Group, more harm than good — and might even have stirred up trouble for another local billionaire, Gina Rinehart.

The Netflix political drama House of Cards earned an Emmy nomination for best drama series Thursday, marking the first time a program that aired online rather than over traditional television received a nomination.

(In 2011, Cenovus Energy let on that output from two of its in situ oilsands projects could meet the standard, which mandates that crude oil imported to the state have lower wells - to - wheels emissions than the average of all crudes sold in the U.S.) «Yes, I think that's feasible,» says George Hoberg, a political scientist at the University of British Columbia who specializes in environmental conflict.

The political mayhem could well spook investors just as much, or even more, than an actual default would.

And the reality is they are way better than the vast majority of political operatives.

«For more than four years, the government of Ecuador has offered to cooperate in facilitating the questioning of Julian Assange in the Ecuadorian embassy in London, as well as proposing other political and legal measures, in order to reach a satisfactory solution for all parties involved in the legal case against Julian Assange, to end the unnecessary delays in the process and to ensure full and effective legal protection, Ecuador said in a statement, Press Association reported.

On today's episode, I talk to Tom Webster, Vice President of Strategy and Marketing for Edison Research, the organization behind exit polling for national elections in the U.S.. For more than two decades, Tom has conducted political polling for some of the most contentious elections in U.S. history, as well as market research for some of the top companies across the nation.

But factors other than political ones were at play as well, including a big (5 percent) drop in shares of defense behemoth United Technologies after it announced plans to buy another company for what some analysts deemed an exorbitant price.

This would show that the Conservative government could be trusted to manage the fiscal affairs of the government better than any other political party.

Do you have the imagination, capacity, and the policy independence, to put together a policy agenda that is better both in policy and political terms, than simply rubber - stamping some misguided and out of date 2011 election promises?

The current monthly results, along with the surprising better - than - expected economic growth for the second quarter of 2014, strongly suggest that the federal government will post a surplus in 2014 - 15, one year ahead of their political commitment to balance the budget in 2015 - 16.

Well before the end of Chinese president Xi Jinping's first term, political experts had already begun speculating that he was planning to stay in power for longer than the 10 - year limit accepted by previous leaders.

As Mueller digs into CA's political ties, and Facebook promises to restructure itself to better handle the maelstrom of problems that formed through its platform and factored into the election results, both companies are experiencing an intense amount of scrutiny, from more eyes than ever before.

Such risks and uncertainties include, but are not limited to: our ability to achieve our financial, strategic and operational plans or initiatives; our ability to predict and manage medical costs and price effectively and develop and maintain good relationships with physicians, hospitals and other health care providers; the impact of modifications to our operations and processes; our ability to identify potential strategic acquisitions or transactions and realize the expected benefits of such transactions, including with respect to the Merger; the substantial level of government regulation over our business and the potential effects of new laws or regulations or changes in existing laws or regulations; the outcome of litigation, regulatory audits, investigations, actions and / or guaranty fund assessments; uncertainties surrounding participation in government - sponsored programs such as Medicare; the effectiveness and security of our information technology and other business systems; unfavorable industry, economic or political conditions, including foreign currency movements; acts of war, terrorism, natural disasters or pandemics; our ability to obtain shareholder or regulatory approvals required for the Merger or the requirement to accept conditions that could reduce the anticipated benefits of the Merger as a condition to obtaining regulatory approvals; a longer time than anticipated to consummate the proposed Merger; problems regarding the successful integration of the businesses of Express Scripts and Cigna; unexpected costs regarding the proposed Merger; diversion of management's attention from ongoing business operations and opportunities during the pendency of the Merger; potential litigation associated with the proposed Merger; the ability to retain key personnel; the availability of financing, including relating to the proposed Merger; effects on the businesses as a result of uncertainty surrounding the proposed Merger; as well as more specific risks and uncertainties discussed in our most recent report on Form 10 - K and subsequent reports on Forms 10 - Q and 8 - K available on the Investor Relations section of www.cigna.com as well as on Express Scripts» most recent report on Form 10 - K and subsequent reports on Forms 10 - Q and 8 - K available on the Investor Relations section of www.express-scripts.com.

Not because the BC Liberals won — political opponents have to accept that some times the other team had a superior campaign than your own, more ideas, a more effective leader or just did a better job.

Despite the backdrop of political and economic uncertainty, OPEC said that it anticipated world oil demand growth in 2016 to increase by 1.23 million barrels a day (mb / d) after a marginal upward revision, mainly to reflect better - than - expected economic data for the first half of the year.

The cuts in the GST / HST were done solely for political reasons, and in no way helped Canada weather the global economic downturn better than most other countries, as alleged by Mr. Boessenkool.

«That is a specific personnel matter than seems like it would be inappropriate...» Zuckerberg said before Cruz interrupted, pushing the CEO to exasperatedly respond, «Well then I can confirm that it was not because of a political view.»

News that Cambridge Analytica, a political data firm hired by President Trump's 2016 election campaign, gained access to private information on more than 50 million Facebook users has weighed not only on the shares of Facebook but on Alphabet as well.

Despite all the uproar surrounding our presidential candidates, changing your investment strategy based on your political beliefs is likely to do more harm than good.

During elections, all political parties try to «produce» numbers that show their proposed policies are better than the proposed policies of their opponents.

In the article, the MSM propagandist states such things as: 2017 has seen, according to his one time Goldman Sachs source, a «dramatic crash in [physical gold coin] demand,» that interest in gold coins is linked to «political conservatism, or anarcho - libertarianism» and «end of the world right wing sentiments,» that gold has been implicated in a «conspiracy to commit money laundering,» that gold is «financed by people in the narcotics trade,» that it comes from «illegal mines and drug dealers in Peru, Bolivia and Ecuador,» that «the federal authorities assume the NTR Metals [case] represented only a fraction of illegally sourced and financed gold,» that therefore the US attorney is broadly investigating the gold industry, that gold is «produced by exploited workers,» that «crude [gold] extraction techniques create serious and lasting environmental damage,» that gold plays an important part in «tax evasion,» that it is related to American gun sales, which the author abhors; that «drug dealers [use] gold imports as a way of laundering their proceeds,» and that «they came to realize that illegal gold [is] an intrinsically better business» than drug dealing; to name but a few of the aspersions cast against gold in the short article.

Despite continuing political turmoil and economic disruptions — many lingering from the 2013 Rana Plaza collapse that killed more than 400 Bangladeshi textile workers — the Bangladeshi economy fared well in 2014.

Elsewhere the Japanese Yen slipped 0.06 % to ¥ 109.11 against the Dollar at the time of writing, easing geo - political risk and better than expected PMI numbers out of China supporting market risk appetite through the session, leading to a pullback in demand for the safe havens.

In the aftermath of a global financial crisis that is shifting economic and political weight away from industrialized countries, the need for Canadian companies to truly go global — in investment as well as in trade — is more essential than ever.

Wildrose Leader Brian Jeanâ $ ™ s political fortunes during the Great Fire have worked out a whole lot better than those of predecessor Danielle Smith during the 2013 southern Alberta floodsâ $» even thoug...

But I think we are beginning to get into that kind of turning process where there are those broader issues, those that have tended to have assets, be they salaried pension holders or those that own property or other real assets, have tended to do better than the millennial generation and I think that we are seeing that in some elements of political protest.

Behlendorf says «the regulators there, like the political leaders, are former engineers... they understand scale better than regulators in other parts of the world», citing this as evidence that they will be among the leaders in this space.

This is a much larger political task than simply imposing tariffs, and is well beyond the scope of any proposals made either by President Trump or previous administrations.

Foreign investments can be riskier and more volatile than U.S. investments due to the adverse effects of currency exchange rates, differences in market structure and liquidity, as well as political and economic developments in foreign countries and regions (e.g., «Brexit»).

«It has been more than a decade since the commission has fully examined how best to regulate political spending on the Internet — an eternity in online years,» FEC commissioner Ellen Weintraub wrote in an Washington Post op - ed.

«I think Cambridge Analytica is a better marketing company than a targeting company,» one academic studying political microtargeting told The Verge this week.

But when you do a political rather than an economic or scientific calculus on that, it doesn't look very good.

Donors who want to shape the political environment would do more good running these kinds of advertizing campaigns than giving Karl Rove money to intervene against the ghost of Christine O'Donnell and run ineffective general election ads.

Such a path would be slower than I would like, but it seems like the best option we have given the current balance of political forces.

One is left amazed that the political system directed Johnson's energies toward good works, but also wary of the legacy he left, in which American politics would be dominated more than ever by publicists, soundbytes, and vast sums of money.

While the band was definitely in danger of being detained as political bargaining chips, you know damn well that those verbal threats of execution by the «high ranking members» were nothing more than just that.

I am no expert in Vatican politics, but I know better than to close my eyes to the fact that there are those who do not share the insight that Weigel attributes to John Paul II and to Benedict» the insight that Nielsen herself embraces» «that all social issues, including political and economic questions, are ultimately questions of the nature of the human person.»

Some observers have asked whether, for certain aspiring nations, China's political economy now serves as a better model than does democratic capitalism.

We always lament that we can not get the nations best and brightest to run for political office... surely there are Americans more qualified than Obama, more intelligent than GW Bush.