Sentences with phrase «big government ideas»

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While credit risk might seem like a bad idea with the U.S. economy still weak and the rest of the world looking equally uncertain, high - yield bonds do offer bigger returns than government and investment - grade bonds.

Big Idea: How technology can improve civic life by simplifying and streamlining the delivery of municipal and state government services through open data, better procurement procedures and open - source apps.

«Bankism is the idea that big banks are in control of the economy and not the free markets, trade, product development or business,» says Gerald Celente, founder and director of TRI, a Kingston, N.Y., company that consults with governments and businesses.

«A government - supported ICO would give more people a bigger stake in the future of our country and provide not just investment, but also more expertise and ideas to help us grow exponentially,» Korjus said in a blog post on Monday.

Ottawa is making a bold push to have business play a bigger role in funding government social programs — asking Canada's corporate and charities sector to submit ideas that could ultimately form part of the 2013 budget.

So we have a paradox: because of our aversion to the idea of big government, our president can deny the idea that there is an American Empire at the very moment when we are asserting absolute military domination of the globe.

The re-creation of Israel has been a big help, even to those who object to some of the present government's ideas.

A religion that gets all up in everyone's business, but then seems to get upset at the idea of a big government getting all up in their business seems a little hypocritical.

If you prefer to eat real food instead of chemically - altered versions of real food, it's probably a good idea NOT to listen to government agencies influenced by «Big Food» lobbying groups.

So far, the project is a big book of grand ideas, without detailed plans, fleshed - out financing or the approval of several other government...

Ms Hunt added: «Lord Browne and the government must look seriously at the idea of taxing big business for the substantial benefits it gains from a plentiful supply of graduates and using that money to expand, rather than reduce, opportunity to study.»

To recap, there are three big ideas underpinning the concept, according to government speeches and documents: first, a focus on enabling civic action; second, a focus on»em powering communities»; and, third, the opening up of public services, allowing a wider range of organisations (private and voluntary) to deliver services.

These gurus» ideas, especially in the Blair and Cameron periods, are used ephemerally when in Opposition and summarily dropped when entering government (i.e. Blair barely invoked the philosophy of the Third Way after 1999 and Cameron is yet to talk about the Big Society in 2012).

More than three quarters of all voters, including a clear majority of those who intend to vote Labour on Thursday, think the last Labour government «must accept a large part of the blame» for Britain's economic problems; Mr Miliband is unlikely to succeed in his campaign to persuade the electorate that this idea is a «big lie» put about by the coalition.

Term limits and outside income bans for lawmakers are silly ideas, according to former LG Richard Ravitch, but public financing of elections, a system designed to take the big money out of politics, would be «key» to any ethical reforms of state government.

The idea is to offer bigger pensions to government workers eligible for early retirement, to make up for salaries that are (get this!)

And it has been noted that Johnson's headline grabbing and overtly populist call comes as Tory MPs including Nicholas Soames and Ed Vaizey have been publicly voicing concern about the direction of the government and calling for big ideas.

Miliband was a genuine intellectual candidate, with some big, important ideas for how government could function.

Ironically, the comptroller, the man who adds up the plusses and minuses at the end of the day, was nowhere in the loop when one of the bigger ideas in county / city / school government was rolled out the same week by County Exec Mike Hein.

David Cameron will relaunch his big idea, the Big Society, in a keynote speech on Monday amid growing fears in the Conservative Party that it has started to backfire on the Governmebig idea, the Big Society, in a keynote speech on Monday amid growing fears in the Conservative Party that it has started to backfire on the GovernmeBig Society, in a keynote speech on Monday amid growing fears in the Conservative Party that it has started to backfire on the Government.

Many of the Government's so - called big ideas — his central pitch at the 2010 election — have also fallen by the wayside.

This was entitled Invitation to Join the Government of Britain and was designed to illustrate the «big society» idea of handing power to people to set up schools and sack police chiefs.

Both Cuomo and Biden take a keen interest in massive, big - picture ideas and the power of government getting behind them.

«The idea is to find out before we get into government which Shadow Ministers are capable of controlling a major department and a big budget — and which ones are not.»

While insisting that state's economic challenges required employee givebacks, the administration ignored all union ideas, big and small for saving money and improving government operations.

And above all, instead of moving forward to a new economic vision, they are taking Britain straight back to the arrogant, big government - knows - best ideas that bankrupted our country the last time Labour were in power, in the 1970s.

In an exclusive interview with the Sunday Mirror in which he gives a candid personal insight into the PM and his prospects, he says: «He is a serious man with a big brain who has got very strong ideas about how people want to live their lives and how government should support them.»

Not sure I exactly see what the problem with nationalisation is, the idea that it's bureaucratic sounds like an echo of attacks on «big government» — which is basically an attack on democracy.

They also take a dim view of the idea of giving Washington a bigger role in an area that constitutionally is the province of state and local government, as well as any proposed growth in the federal bureaucracy.

The marine - reserve idea got a big boost in 2000, when President Clinton issued an executive order directing the federal government to set up a system of protected marine areas, analogous to the national parks on land.

The big government (s) at the time were still considering whether a preemptive nuclear first strike might be a good strategy (the idea that World War III could be won in a few days or a week and without a lot of collateral damage)-- or not.

Specifically, the new center will bring together a centralized group of all constituents within this area creating a multi-disciplinary interest group whereby industry, big pharma, physicians, scientists, government and regulatory agencies as well as other stakeholders can convene to share ideas, develop education offerings and advance the utilization of radionuclide therapy.

If this new idea for funding with money from big lotteries works well for the NSF and NIH, then it might later be expanded to include some of the other government science agencies.

When four outsiders saw what the big banks, media and government refused to, the global collapse of the economy, they had an idea: The Big Shobig banks, media and government refused to, the global collapse of the economy, they had an idea: The Big ShoBig Short.

Naturally, the discussion returned during the election campaign this year, with Labor promising $ 400 million for teaching scholarships aimed at encouraging recent STEM graduates to enter the education field.4 At the same time, Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull floated the idea of making maths and science a requirement for finishing high school, stating it was a «big priority» for the Government.

Former Shadow Education Secretary Lucy Powell has said that the teacher crisis is «one of the biggest issues facing our schools», calling on the government to ditch the «terrible idea» of increasing the number of grammar schools and focus on the real problem.

May has this weekend set out proposals for government intervention to stop what she called «burning injustices» happening across Britain, marking a departure from David Cameron's idea of a «big society».

Government is too big and too bureaucratic, and our goal as members is to promote ideas that rein in government overreach, give more money back to taxpayers and promote stable, growing Government is too big and too bureaucratic, and our goal as members is to promote ideas that rein in government overreach, give more money back to taxpayers and promote stable, growing government overreach, give more money back to taxpayers and promote stable, growing economies.

The big idea for controlling the cost of government worker pensions in Oregon is to have workers go back to making their 6 percent employee contribution to the state's pension system.

The government guidelines certainly support the idea you should not allow the big «F» to catch up with you.

The big government (s) at the time were still considering whether a preemptive nuclear first strike might be a good strategy (the idea that World War III could be won in a few days or a week and without a lot of collateral damage)-- or not.

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Best reminds me of our typical big government cronies, who all revel in the ribbon cutting ceremony, but who are never around to deal with the fallout from their failed ideas.

One big idea is for a 10 - year national advice and legal support fund to be set up by a future government and funded by the two lots of # 50m coming from that government and the second lot from other sources.

It is proposed that the money would come from central government and be administered by the Big Lottery Fund — the idea is that 90 % of the fund would be allocated to local authorities with the remaining 10 % going to national initiatives.

If you have any ideas as to convincing more than 20 Republicans to join the other side in restoring what many view as an encroachment of big government on the rights of private individuals (read: corporations), I'm sure Democratic leadership is all ears.

«We're employed by a billionaire who's panicking at the idea of a change of government and who wants to spend big to make sure that doesn't happen.»

As one of the government's biggest ideas, it's unlikely that people including legal practitioners will be able to forget that services such as Lamport Bassitt family mediation services exist altogether.

Mokak recently delivered the Cranlana Programme's 2016 Medicine & Society Oration — you can read it in full here or listen to it via Radio National's Big Ideas program — saying the absence of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people in the most senior roles in government is «disastrous for policy development and implementation because — largely — our perspectives are not at the table».