Sentences with phrase «competing agendas on»

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The debate, broadcast live from Las Vegas on MSNBC, was to focus on «Black - Brown issues,» but USHCC promised to wedge its agenda in among many competing agendas.

Canadian tech CEOs have called on the Federal Government to ensure their «innovation agenda» is targeted towards helping high - growth technology companies scale - up and compete in the global innovation race.

Jose Mourinho's declaration that # 300 million was «not enough» to spend in the market in order to compete with a Manchester City side who «buy full - backs for the price of strikers» placed transfer fees on the agenda this week, even before Liverpool's head - spinning outlay on Virgil van Dijk ensured it remained the talking point.

I think it's far worse than that, with shades of Gentile's corporatism); that it has continued the conversion of competing and / or divergent centres of power into a recursive bureaucratic autarchy, emptying out the wider polity of any sort of dialogue or dialectic, shades of Gentile again, and that socially and fiscally it has been profoundly regressive, continuing the marketisation of the severely wounded NHS and of education, also badly bleeding, treating school and university students as «product», not as people; adopting a broadly Powellite attitude to migrants (useful economic fodder, mustn't change the culture, «British jobs for British people»); devising the catastrophe of PFI / PPP within a broader neo-liberal agenda, and so on.

City Comptroller Scott Stringer laid out a handful of policy proposals in an address to the Association for a Better New York on Thursday, criticizing Mayor Bill de Blasio's efforts to expand affordable housing, and offering a competing agenda for the city that could serve as a prelude to a mayoral run in 2017.

Looking back fondly at his tenure on the science committee, Ehlers predicted that it would successfully move a reauthorization of the America COMPETES Act through the full House this year but that the chances of Senate passage depend on whether there is enough time on that body's already - full agenda.

Education, of course, must compete with other items on Obama's ambitious agenda, as well as with erupting crises that will inevitably distract the White House.

Science is rarely given top priority on a primary school agenda, but as a nation, if we are to compete on an international level, we must engage more people with science, writes Danielle Spencer.

Its signature Race to the Top program (RTT) asked states to compete for $ 4.35 billion in federal grants based on their commitment to implement a 19 - item reform agenda.

Other concerns included: «Too many demands on me from too many people, too many deadlines, not enough resources (human and other), trying to juggle competing agendas...»

We need to help them keep afloat — not have them filling out long applications to compete for grants based on a reform agenda that they're not able to pursue in this economy.»

In an afternoon general session, the 70 participants came together for a World Café (a hosted, interactive group dialogue) on common research alliance barriers such as competing timelines, varying agendas, and maintaining «mutualism» in the work.

The fact is that our industry is never short on complex dynamics and competing agendas — with raw foods being just one example among hundreds.

Civilization VI offers new ways to engage with your world: cities now physically expand across the map, active research in technology and culture unlocks new potential, and competing leaders will pursue their own agendas based on their historical traits as you race for one of five ways to achieve victory in the game.

Next on the agenda, of course — plankton / krill harvesting, directly competing with the whales.

The law societies that denied Trinity Western its accreditation, especially those that did it on the basis of referenda, put their members» political agenda ahead of the public interest in having reasonably - educated (as all concede Trinity Western's graduates will be) lawyers competing to provide legal services.

It will of course depend on how big a reform agenda Labor wants to develop and which of the competing vested interests it will need or want to take on to really address structural barriers — doctors, hospitals, states, the pharmaceutical industry, the private health sector — and whether it's up to a fight against the food and alcohol industries and «nanny state» critics on prevention.

Despite competing economic agendas, we must as a nation find the resources to maintain the momentum of existing efforts and build on the successes.