Sentences with phrase «big role in government»

Not exact matches

Electricity generated by solar panels and windmills has played a bigger role in the energy mix in recent years as the federal government and states seek to reduce heat - trapping gases through ambitious climate goals.

Munoz: I understand that the US government has a big role [in the dispute] and we hope that the US administration understands the facts behind it and the effect on jobs.

Governments will need to have a much bigger role in helping people whose jobs are disappearing because of technology, said the mayor of Atlanta.

That is because neither Clinton will occupy a prominent role in government in the immediate future — curtailing the willingness of at least some big donors to try and curry favor with the foundation by writing large checks.

The role of city governments in implementing the NUA was one of the big issues discussed at Habitat III.

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.

Ottawa is making a bold push to have business play a bigger role in funding government social

Tariffs played a big role in funding the government in the days before income taxes.

He adds that the opportunities now available to these kids could help them become government or community leaders, and that perhaps they'll play an even bigger role in the eventual eradication of the system that once enslaved them.

I laughed and wholeheartedly agreed with her — if you haven't been back to the post, be sure to go through the comments section where some pretty big questions are being debated about the proper role of government in our lives.

Aside from modest federal savings and an end to the federal government's biggest role in the public financing of sports stadiums, repealing the exemption could also affect how cities and states approach public funding for such facilities, economists said.

«I think that when you look around today and see many shared concerns and challenges left unaddressed, it makes you consider the role you have in fixing things in government, be it appointed or elected, city or state, big or small.»

«As an African - American I'm a big believer in upward mobility and that the government has a big role, a proactive role in advancing that upward mobility,» said Peebles.

The PM said the next few months would be «critical» and urged the Afghan government to take a bigger role in taking on the Taliban.

Ian Taylor is president of the oil trader Vitol, the world's biggest oil dealer, which is hoping to play a major role in the future of the Libyan oil industry under the new government.

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.

That role should soon be getting bigger: The U.S. government is pushing for a 100 percent increase in renewable energy by 2012.

NEWSOME: One of the most obvious roles for the private sector is that the big data giants like Microsoft and Amazon and Google have data handling, data storage, data curating, data access, and data analysis techniques that are far in advance of what's available in universities and in government laboratories.

Q: Does government regulation play a big role in the investment decisions you make?

With Tron: Legacy «s Garret Hedlund in final talks to star as Kaneda, the gang leader, and Kristen Stewart offered the role of Ky Reed, a woman who is part of an underground movement to expose the government for turning orphans into living weapons (she also may possess some abilities herself), the big question now is who will play Tetsuo, the young man whose latent powers will release the powerful being known as Akira?

Conservatives saw Singapore as a free - market success story, but Lee Kuan Yew's government played a big role in the economy.

Rob Corddry has landed his first starring role, a part in «Project A,» an action comedy from Ben Stiller's production company about a man trained by the U.S. government as a Cold War experiment to become the world's biggest jerk.

The role oil and our need for it plays in every level of government; why we have (and may always have) wars and violence because of it; and that some companies are just too big to face consequences, while others doing the same or less will be brought down to «set an example.»

To gauge public views on this subject, we asked half of our respondents to indicate which level of government should play the biggest role in three areas: 1) setting educational standards for what students should know; 2) deciding whether or not a school is failing; and 3) deciding how to fix failing schools.

A plurality of the public think state governments should play the biggest role in each of these areas (45 %, 49 %, and 48 %, respectively).

We asked the other half of our respondents to give their best guess as to which level of government actually does play the biggest role in these areas.

A majority of the public also thinks that state governments do in fact play the biggest role in each of these policy areas.

The report by the National Center for Improving Science Education, a research «mini-center» funded by the U.S. Education Department, calls for a bigger role by the government in conducting research on needed science knowledge and skills, developing new forms of assessment in the field, and training science educators.

One big benefit of the ECS report is that it gives us another way to look at these types of disputes: Each upsets the state government's constitutional role in schooling.

For the past three decades, public school accountability had generally been heading in one direction: toward common standards, standardized tests, and a bigger role for the federal government in shaping how states gauge student performance and improve schools.

Even so, teachers called for the federal government to take on an even bigger role in education, saying they desired the federal government to provide 35 percent of all funding.

But schools becoming academies is only one chapter of a much bigger story told in the white paper about how we create the infrastructure that allows a self - improving school - led system to flourish: what role government should play in that system, when we should offer you support and when we should get out of the way.

The government plans to spend # 50 million a year expanding existing grammar schools and also hopes to allow other schools to select based on ability, while also introducing a raft of measures to make it easier for new faith schools to open, and force universities and private schools to play a bigger role in the running of local schools.

Around # 50 million a year is expected to be spent on the expansion plans while the government will also introduce new measures making it easier for new faith schools to open, and force universities and private schools to play a bigger role in the running of local schools.

Yet, a teacher (usually a government employee) should be superman / woman to make all children succeed ie: take a VERY big role in a child's life.

As a new citizen, Winchester also notes something that is far more controversial than it used to be: the important role of big government in forging e pluribus into unum.

NAIROBI, Kenya — I'm halfway through a weeklong visit to this vibrant, polluted, hopeful and divided city, running discussions on several topics at a big United Nations conference clarifying the role of science, business and, of course, governments in achieving the 17 Sustainable Development Goals the world's nations adopted last year.

While we probably have to do one or both of those things, I believe the governments of the world are going to have to play a much bigger role than the so - called «free market» in making this happen.

Today, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's government, which had promised a «rethink» of Japan's post-Fukushima pledge to close all of the country's nuclear power plants, released a draft of a new energy plan which calls nuclear power an «important baseload electricity source» for the country, though it's vague on how big of a role nuclear will play in the country's energy load in the future.

And when the hands of Big Government play a part in molding the consensus, or in this case Big Global Government, the peer - to - peer review network and the undermedia will play the unavoidable role of getting to the truth — a truth desperately needed when crafting policy that will affect every living human and their offspring.

It leapt from the pages of a scientific journal to the posters and slides of the transnational summits, to official government pamphlets selling the Kyoto Protocol, to a starring role on the big screen in an Oscar winning movie [An Inconvenient Truth], to the classrooms of every schoolhouse in the western world.»

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The North American leaders are not necessarily against these types of measures, but it would likely require bigger government and a larger role in channeling the direction of the free market, something some lobbyists would strongly oppose.

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».

«Sovereign wealth funds have been a big part of the market over the past five years and [their role is] increasing,» he said, citing Japan's Government Pension Investment Fund, which expressed interest in growing real estate allocation.

And because local governments impose their own property taxes, the town or city where you live can play a big role in your tax liability.