Sentences with phrase «concerned with an agenda»

I believe she was negligent and more concerned with an agenda than the outcome.

I knew the center sponsoring this was just as much concerned with their agenda,» he said.

Seward responded, «I would say, I'm more concerned with the agenda that's pursued rather than with where a leader is from.»

Not exact matches

But markets in those days were significantly concerned by an administration unable to address its policy agenda, bogged down as it was with problems that had taken on a life of their own, and a Congress preoccupied with the issue.

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.»

Beyond these concerns, of course, we still need to fix problems that have been with us for some time during the crisis: unacceptably high unemployment, especially among young people; high levels of debt in many countries; and the need to complete the financial reform agenda.

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.

«Today's announcement shows the Finance Minister and his department have heard the concerns of CCI members and are committed to ensuring this legislation aligns positively with the government's innovation agenda and in particular the global growth of Canadian tech companies,» said Benjamin Bergen, executive director of the Council of Canadian Innovators.

These responsibilities include: (i) fostering processes that allow the Board to function independently of management and encouraging open and effective communication between the Board and management of the Company; (ii) providing input to the Chairman on behalf of the independent Directors with respect to Board agendas; (iii) presiding at all meetings of the Board at which the Chairman is not present, as well as regularly scheduled executive sessions of independent Directors; (iv) in the case of a conflict of interest involving a Director, if appropriate, asking the conflicted Director to leave the room during discussion concerning such matter and, if appropriate, asking such Director to recuse him or herself from voting on the relevant matter; (v) communicating with the Chairman and the CEO, as appropriate, regarding meetings of the independent Directors and resources and information necessary for the Board to effectively carry out its duties and responsibilities; (vi) serving as liaison between the Chairman and the independent Directors; (vii) being available to Directors who have concerns that can not be addressed through the Chairman; (viii) having the authority to call meetings of the independent Directors; and (ix) performing other functions as may reasonably be requested by the Board or the Chairman.

It goes without saying that I agree with Pete's center - right agenda below, with its mend them, don't end them approach to our minimalist entitlements and its due concern for doing everything that can be done to sustain our nongovernmental intermediary institutions (which, of course can be choked by too much or the wrong kind of government).

In most cases they have overcome both political fragmentation and government overload by replacing their old governmental bureaucracies with an innovative and effective form of governance: coalitions (composed of business, government, nonprofits, universities, neighborhood and minority associations, and religious groups) that develop a cooperative agenda to improve the city and that assume many of the city government's traditional functions (economic development, long - term planning, educational reform, even care of the homeless), and that also operate like political parties of yore (providing the point of access for new groups and a public realm for discourse, debate, and negotiation concerning matters of the common good).

I consider myself a devout Christian, but I and my wife are far more concerned with social justice involving the needs of the poor, underprivileged and «least of these», to quote Jesus again, than we are with following the conservative Christian agenda.

These concerns suggest the counter question and its ecclesial overtones in Protestant theology today: Have we so allowed the world, with its question of suffering and its plea for hope, to set the church's agenda that the very identity of Christian faith and validity of the church are imperiled?

Huckabee has to combine his instinctive understanding of the struggles of people at or under the median, with an agenda for addressing those concerns.

Thus, an activist socioeconomic and political agenda for theology concerned itself solely with the activity of God in the world; it ignored the intracommunity celebration of Christian liturgical activity, which nurtured and sustained the Christian community on its journey toward a full celebration of life.

Truly laughable, and obviously an agenda that has nothing to do with your concern for women.

His five - point agenda for post-fundamentalist evangelicalism included: (1) clarification of the philosophical implications of biblical theism, (2) Christian engagement with the pressing social issues of the day as well as concern for individual salvation, (3) refusal to divide over secondary matters such as the details of biblical prophecy, (4) openness to the possibility of a biblically faithful ecumenicity, and (5) the development of a truly biblical theology that took into consideration the whole sweep of salvation history.

According to Buhari, «Nigeria advises that we proceed cautiously with the integration agenda, taking into consideration the above concerns and the lessons currently unfolding in the European Union.

Labour's criticisms appear more general at present, with Mr Alexander expressing concern that the government's wider spending cuts agenda will limit the number of jobs being created in the next few years.

You listen to a LOT of bitching and you earn trust by being responsive to folks» concerns, promoting their agenda (s), learning to dovetail them with your own.

Ventura described both parties as «monsters that are out of control» who are concerned only with «their own agendas and their pork.»

After a decade of covering George Latimer without any comment or concern from Latimer suddenly I am no longer a journalist covering New Rochelle but attacked and belittled as a «conservative blogger... with an agenda.»

«I'm deeply concerned that this board will now be stocked with industry representatives who will rubber stamp the president's anti-environmental agenda,» Slaughter said.

«Concern has also been acknowledged over the agenda's impact on relations with Muslim communities and whether it unfairly stigmatises an entire community.»

«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.»

Cuomo in this morning's interview insisted he wasn't concerned with political insider debate over the ballot line and instead wanted to successfully push the women's agenda next year.

«At a time when city agencies and elected officials should be dedicated to keeping the people safe and informed, Mayor de Blasio is more concerned with lining up the rubber stamps for his progressive agenda — and he knows he won't find a more willing puppet than my opponent.»

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.

Appealing to the north of England, working class voters and ethnic minorities with an aspirational agenda was at the heart of this launch, with a focus on «bread and butter issues such as the cost of living,» as well as ensuring environmental problems aren't merely seen as a concern of the left.

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.

Somehow, this has been institutionalised; one agenda point on free schools and academies sees the «concerned» Lib Dem conference proposing to disagree with the coalition government.

Seizing on the issue adds a populist policy concern to the IDC's agenda in 2017 as the conference has faced criticism from mainline Democrats over their partnership with the Senate Republican conference.

At a time when commuting horrors erode our quality of life, it's unfathomable that our elected officials are more concerned with their personal agendas.

«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.

I am also concerned that the Administration continues to favor subsidies associated with its green energy agenda over basic research that helps keep America competitive.

Our research agenda includes advancing biomarker research, understanding why those under 50 are increasingly diagnosed with colon cancer, decreasing late - state diagnosis of high - risk populations, closing the referral gap for screening and diagnostic testing, and advancing long - term survivorship psychosocial concerns.

She later counsels with a clairvoyant (le voyant, Gérard Depardieu) who has his own agenda as far as Isabelle is concerned.

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.

The basic problem with the teacher professionalism agenda, as currently constructed, is that it rests on a shaky evidentiary and research base concerning its ability to boost student learning or to address either the quality or quantity challenges of the current teaching force.

Bersin is hopeful that the leadership fund in his and his wife's names will help address two key areas in the education sector with which he is deeply concerned: the equity agenda and the national competitiveness agenda.

The premise of Rethinking School Finance is that the financial issues raised by today's broad - scale education - reform strategies represent a school - finance agenda that is «dramatically different from the traditional concern with fiscal disparities across school districts within states.»

In any case, their concern for social justice has led them to question whether the bureaucracy's agenda is consistent with the needs of students.

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.

As far as the Digital Leaders are concerned, they already have a busy agenda for the rest of the year with a follow up training and development session on Google Apps and the possibility of working with a feeder primary school on their expo day among projects in the pipeline.

To argue that she has been even moderately successful with her approach, we would have to ignore the legitimate concerns of local and national charter reformers who know the city well, and ignore the possibility that Detroit charters are taking advantage of loose oversight by cherry - picking students, and ignore the very low test score growth in Detroit compared with other cities on the urban NAEP, and ignore the policy alternatives that seem to work better (for example, closing low - performing charter schools), and ignore the very low scores to which Detroit charters are being compared, and ignore the negative effects of virtual schools, and ignore the negative effects of the only statewide voucher programs that provide the best comparisons with DeVos's national agenda.

«Language arts became a discipline concerned with major universal themes, the human condition, exploring life experiences, and social agendas introduced through quality literature» (Gonzales & Grubb, 1997 p. 696).

Each January, ASCD releases a legislative agenda with recommendations concerning federal education policy in the United States.

With the new label of «equity assistance centers,» they can now provide technical assistance and training to support a broader set of concerns important to a school reform agenda rather than only to a school desegregation agenda.

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.