Sentences with phrase «by wonks»

It is an eternal verity of politics that any new policy is met by wonks explaining why other policies would have been better.

Every phrase and comma of the Summary is argued and approved by the Intergovernmental Panel, which is comprised about 2 % by scientists and 98 % by wonks and functionaries.

It's fantastic, and should be read widely by wonks and teachers, young and old, and everyone in between.

(And this isn't just a cause trumpeted by wonks and reform junkies.

Online dating service OkCupid, considered by some wonks to possess the most progressive and sophisticated algorithm among todays dating.

Parties mustn't be led by wonks, lecturers and think - tanks.»

«Her performance brought to life a subject that is too often dominated by wonks, journalists and politicians within the Westminster bubble.

My father, citing an argument raised by wonk - in - arms, the Rockefeller Institute's Bob Ward, said the real question is whether extender bills are true budget bills, which the Legislature clearly does NOT have the power to amend, or something else entirely.

Not exact matches

Committing resources to addressing these issues would be greatly appreciated by the policy wonk community.

Policy wonks were likely disappointed by last night's Ontario leaders» debate.

While political and foreign policy wonks will understand that Trump isn't necessarily going to end the deal by sending the issue to Congress, broadly speaking it will be read by the American public and the international community as him trying to deliver on his promise to scrap or improve the pact.

A term coined by Michele Wucker, an American policy wonk, it refers to a «highly probable, high impact yet neglected threat: kin to both elephant in the room and the improbable and unforeseeable black swan.»

I got on this idea today after reading a post by Brad Johnson (@climatebrad) originally at his site, The Wonk Room, -LSB-...]

Wonk, with respect... prostate or colon cancer is not something you can get by the choices in your life in the same way as choosing to go to bed with a guy.

Those ubiquitous network news stories about the «common people» whose lives are destroyed by out - of - touch policy wonks inside the Beltway do not meet any reasonable criteria for the appropriate political use of emotion and narrative particularity.

Mr Mitter may disappoint military wonks hoping for a blow - by - blow account of every skirmish.

The Poozer Politics Podcast features interviews by David Lombardo with newsmakers, journalists, policy wonks and recovering journalists.

In an event anticipated among local wonks, Syracuse Mayor Stephanie Miner (a liberal Democrat) teamed with Onondaga County Comptroller Bob Antonacci (a Conservative Republican) to argue against the metropolitan government plan proposed by the community group Consensus.

Of course, the tapes could just be read and the results be transmitted by phone, but this would necessarily combine old technology with new technology, and thus not satisfy the hardcore computer wonks such as what you seem to be out there, and would not reflect an official result from what is considered the more reliable source, ie, the memory card.

Who's Running in The 2017 NYC Primary Elections by Jerry Skurnik (July 18, 2017) Politics wonk and election consultant, Jerry Skurnick tells us «Who's Running in The 2017 NYC Primary Elections» and which Bronx Democrats filed petition signatures with NYC -LSB-...]

Plans were bound to have been made by pointy headed wonks in backrooms somewhere.

One of the many aspects of state energy law understood almost exclusively by policy wonks, energy performance contracts allow municipalities to enter into long - term agreements — running up to 35 years — for projects specifically designed to reduce energy consumption and costs.

Policy wonk: Schneiderman's Fall Was Inevitable Only someone who hasn't followed Eric Schneiderman's career should be shocked by his scandal - scarred resignation as New York attorney general, contends City Journal's Seth...

These are admittedly pretty funny, since there are only four members of the Bristol team (a fifth was knocked over by a bus) and the leader is a preening wonk named Watts, played by the splendidly named Benedict Cumberbatch (William Pitt in the recent «Amazing Grace»).

(Perhaps not so strange when you consider that the key demographic slavered over by studio wonks has shifted from the pre-adolescent boys of the mid -»80s to post-Titanic pre-adolescent girls.)

Their applications are now online, ready to be sliced and diced by any willing wonk.

And at a time when many policy wonks and politicians assert that any policy is flawed, even discriminatory and unjust, if it doesn't solve all the problems posed by the worst imaginable case (homeless disabled kid, addicted single parent, limited English), she shows that it's genuinely possible to devise policies and programs that alter the life prospects of thousands of very needy kids.

Wonks love the frisson of danger from embracing an idea that their ideological allies don't like, whether they are conservatives committed to states» rights or liberals troubled by inflexible standards.

And while we wonks will continue to squabble over the minutiae of how these ratings are determined, in every state they are dominated by student achievement.

States do an uneven job of flagging troubled schools, but even the most self - impressed Beltway wonk should by now recognize that Washington is no better at this task.

A Study of Cumulative Advantage in the Educational Career,» by Notre Dame sociologist Megan Andrew, published Sept. 26, 2014, in the journal Social Forces is an empirically solid analysis that adds more weight to those who say retention — what education wonks call repeating a grade — is ultimately harmful.

They won't let their schools be taken over by beaurocratic wonks.

Education policy wonks and observers are so pessimistic, they've declared it will never be updated, though it's already seven years overdue for a rewrite and considered broken by those on the left and the right.

Today's speech by U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan on reauthorizing the No Child Left Behind Act, along with the entire circus over the latest efforts to pass a new version of the federal education law, have certainly garnered plenty of attention from Beltway school reformers and other policy wonks.

Although few policymakers and wonks are talking about it, a small but growing number of schools are attempting to boost the achievement of low - income students by shifting enrollment to place more low - income students in mixed - income schools.

[2] In its fifth anniversary stomping of the hotel carpet — held this week in New York — #DBW14 was again led by longtime publishing wonk Mike Shatzkin as a show the business built.

(Note for wonks: I estimated the mean reversion level (which is very close to the historic mean, no surprise) by regressing the one - day lagged Old VIX on the Old VIX itself.

«Wizards, Wonders, and Wonks,» color illustrations photographed by Catherine Opie, New York Times Magazine, September 28, 1997.

Not judging by a host of upcoming exhibitions that could set a policy wonk's cold heart on fire.

Brad Johnson, who writes the Wonk Room blog for the Center for American Progress Action Fund, challenged me to clarify my stance on things, pointing to a post by his colleague Joe Romm concluding that «human civilization is on the precipice» and asking if I agreed.

Thus what we maths wonks call the proportionate change in CO2 concentration if [Australia's multi-party climate change committee] got its way would be 505.826 divided by 506, or 0.9997.

Known as a policy wonk, Campbell was profoundly affected by the 2006 Stern Review, which warned that 20 per cent of global gross domestic product (GDP) could be lost by climate inaction.

Because the policy wonks and alarmists are proposing shoving said porcupine up our arses to save us from death by grape.

Energy wonks will gather in New York City on April 3 for the third annual Sustainable Energy for All (SE4All) forum to discuss progress on SDG7, whose aim is «By 2030, [to] ensure universal access to affordable, reliable and modern energy services.»

So do numerous energy wonks, including two researchers who penned a 2009 cover story in Scientific American asserting that «wind, water, and solar technologies can provide 100 percent of the world's energy» by 2030.

China's demand that industrialized countries cut emissions 40 % by 2020 is not being taken seriously by anonymous policy wonks.

Attached to the NWF email is a paper called The Wonk Room by Lee Fang of the Centre for American Progress Action Fund.

How is it that activists and policy wonks like me can get the message across to civil society that their governments will have no interest in doing anything until something gets shoved down their throat by the people who elect them?

Climate wonks would recognize the charts and graphs that university professors and policy think - tank experts shared showing how our planet is being affected by carbon pollution, where the tipping point is for our climate, and how much the Keystone XL pipeline will make our climate crisis worse.

Nothing done to any scientist by any other group of scientists or policy wonks even comes close.