Sentences with phrase «concerned about your agenda»

Its report said: «There is mounting evidence that many EU - focused think - tanks are heavily funded by corporations and this raises serious concerns about their agenda and their independence.»

You have to be concerned about their agenda, even though they have no interest at all in yours.

If you're running off at the mouth about something, customers can tell you're more concerned about your agenda than theirs.

Not exact matches

Domestic policy & politics concerns: In addition to geopolitical circumstances, there is great uncertainty about President Trump's domestic economic agenda.

Treasury yields resume a steady climb higher on Wednesday as fretting about the threat of an economically disruptive trade war between the U.S. and China subsided, and takes a back seat to the concerns about rising interest rates and coming labor - market data, which could inform the Federal Reserve's policy agenda.

Even though Harper is pursuing an economic agenda to build trade and investment with the Chinese, he won't shy away from raising concerns about the rule of law, good governance and democracy, said the source, saying the prime minister would represent «values that define us as Canadians.»

The guiding considerations of an effective U.S. strategy for addressing China's inroads in Europe should be to 1) include Europe in its own thinking and considerations about China, 2) avoid adopting contradictory economic policies that target European allies rather than China, 3) work with Europe to shape and advance a proactive, joint transatlantic agenda to address shared concerns about China.

But while the former Democratic Congressman from Massachusetts is sharply critical of U.S. human rights policy (especially as conducted by Republican Administrations), he shows less concern about UN agencies, and none at all about the financing, motives, and agendas of the very mixed bag of interest groups known as NGOs.

Without irreverence or irresponsibility, liberals are also able to retain their sense of humor, even about these «values / goals / priorities / agendas» concerning which they can be so serious and intense.

How scientists ultimately handle the evolution controversy in all its aspects may provide a clue as to whether they are authentically concerned about scientific integrity or whether they merely wish to advance their respective philosophical agendas, be they naturalistic or theistic.

Do you really think that your agenda is what black community, as a whole, is concerned about?

And you wonder why people are concerned about the radical right wing fundamentalist agenda, which includes the Mormons...?

If health truly is what people are so concerned about whenever they're out, enforcing their breastfeeding agenda on every mom who will turn and lend an ear, then what about the health of new moms everywhere?

As Keynes foresaw in the 1920s, the debate about progressive capitalism concerns the «agenda» and «non-agenda» of government.

The prime minister has addressed growing concerns about his «big society» agenda head - on in an article for a Sunday newspaper.

Meanwhile, the governor continues to look to local governments to reduce spending and help lower property taxes, but Monroe County Executive Cheryl Dinolfo says she's concerned about how much Cuomo's agenda will cost.

«We have a major concern with the governor's agenda for the next four years with the Working Families Party, talking about minimum wage, talking about a progressive Senate.»

Ologbondiyan said, «It is shocking that on the face of the colossal failure of governance leading to hunger and starvation, ethnic division, bloodletting and killings in our land, Mr. President is more concerned about a selfish agenda of foisting himself on a people who have become despondent of his leadership.

Pre-empting the meeting's agenda, councilors expressed concerns about how police handled the situation.

ALBANY — State Senate Independent Democratic Conference leader Jeff Klein has signed on to a framework to reunify that chamber's Democrats proffered by Gov. Andrew Cuomo's team, just hours after telling POLITICO and other news outlets that he had concerns about a policy agenda.

All these prattling is about getting at Nigeria concerning their gay agenda.

Meanwhile former shadow Foreign Office Minister Stephen Doughty MP pledged to raise the matter with the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority (IPSA), and the Parliamentary Standards Commissioner, stating: «These further revelations about the shadowy ERG and their influence over the government in pushing an ultra hard Brexit agenda, in conflict with official government policy, are deeply concerning.

Dr Peter Carter, the RCN's general secretary, expressed some support for the principle of the decentralising agenda - but also deep concerns about the timing and scale of planned changes.

«In an era when our nation is increasingly concerned about the spread of fake news, it is unacceptable that a media conglomerate like Sinclair would force our trusted local news anchors to push a one - sided political agenda, valuing partisan politics over informing the American public,» Rhodes said.

McDiarmid, who also starred in Spooks, Sleepy Hollow and last year's blockbuster The Lost City of Z, has pointed to the parallels between 1968 and now with concerns about immigration high on the political agenda.

The very fact that the government felt compelled to launch one at all shows that housing is rising up the agenda, and causing real concerns among MPs already nervous about their seats following the planned boundary changes.

Trump pushed back on concerns about a lack of nominees for key positions at the State Department, arguing it wouldn't affect his agenda.

The localism agenda, which encourages the transfer of decision - making power from central to local government and, even further, to communities, is seen by those in government as an antidote to concerns about a lack of communication between decision - makers and those directly affected by their decisions.

Watching de Blasio and Quinn, in particular, demonstrate their detailed knowledge about homeless LGBT youth and preventing sero - conversion among gay men proved that our community's concerns are at the top of the agenda in the Democratic mayoral primary contest.

«That was another great illustration that the bill is not about transparency — it's about what is politically expedient to move industry's agenda forward,» says Yogin Kothari, a representative with the Center for Science and Democracy at the Union of Concerned Scientists.

Create space at the end of your next yoga practice to sit in quiet contemplation, free of agenda or nagging concerns about what needs to happen next.

At the beginning of the last decade, before concerns about the nation's graduation rate ascended to prominence on the policy agenda, only about two - thirds of U.S. public school students were finishing high school with a regular diploma.

Recycling is high on the agenda for the schools - which both belong to Focus - Trust, a charitable multi-academy trust based in the North West of England — with Thornhill receiving a shout out from local MP Paula Sherriff during Prime Minister's Question Time after she received a letter from students concerned about the UK's reliance on Fossil Fuels; an issue the MP said that, if tackled, would support the sustainable future of the green economy.

Wrapping these ideologically charged reforms into an expert national «consensus,» though, forces those who have concerns about these strategies to look askance at the SEL agenda — when it might instead make clear that there's room in the SEL coalition for those with diverse views on school discipline and instructional practice.

Concerns about this disparity eventually led to the passage of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 — a law that took the equality agenda of the Great Society and projected it onto America's K - 12 schools.

Should we ignore motivation and make common cause when possible, or should we be concerned about the larger agendas of our allies?

Unions have voiced concerns about some aspects of the Obama administration's national education agenda over the past two years.

State accountability systems focus attention and resources on low performance and remediation, but in many school districts across the country district leaders are as much concerned, if not more, about sustaining good performance and about establishing agendas for student learning beyond proficiency scores on standardized tests.

Those concerned about the future of public education should not be fooled: the agenda of these players is about privatization and market - based reform.

The content and tone of the Statement to the Commissioner and the communication surrounding the development of this document make it very clear that while some school superintendents» support «reform efforts» and others raises serious concerns about particular elements of the reform agenda, there is broad - based opposition about the way Commissioner Pryor and his leadership team have been operating.

State leaders sympathetic to those seeking «higher» standards and more common expectations are also confronted with legitimate concerns about slippery slopes toward federal control, a lack of vetting, and hidden agendas.

As high school principals, we are deeply concerned about the direction of the Regents reform agenda, especially in regard to evaluating teachers using test scores.

Recently, Carmen L. Lopez, a retired Superior Court judge, raised a series of concerns about Excel Bridgeport, a corporate funded education advocacy group that has been actively pushing an «education reform» agenda.

In response to the growing public concern about the Common Core, the Common Core Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium (SBAC) testing scheme, and the inappropriate and unfair use of standardized test scores when evaluating Connecticut's public school teachers, a growing number of state representatives and state senators are stepping forward and introducing legislation that would stop, or at least slow down, the damaging Corporate Education Reform Industry's agenda that is undermining public education in Connecticut.

While concerns have been raised about the ability of readers with a political agenda to «block» legitimate news by flagging it as hoax - worthy content, other sources have said it's about time users had steps to take to help prevent comedic attempts from being misconstrued as factual content.

I am concerned about what their ultimate agenda may be, based on the way they run their former core business.

«At the same time, I do have a genuine concern about ideologues pushing their agenda on uninterested game studios.»

But this has been the game all along — the people who want simple indicators get agreement in one friendly forum and then they move up the agenda, step by step, in other forums until other countries relent or forget or the text gets inserted into some paragraph where countries are less concerned about their disagreement (e.g., paragraph 4).

1 This concern was later reflected in reports and proposals which have contributed to debate about the post-2015 development agenda.

The origins and consequences of democratic citizens» policy agendas: A study of popular concern about global warming.