Sentences with phrase «control over their institutions»

First, they shouldn't build centralized institutions for controlling education because inevitably the unions and their allies will gain control over those institutions and use them to promote their own interests.
Students and faculty should have more control over their institutions.

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Proposed board reforms to Canada's deposit - taking institutions and insurance companies under the new guidelines include: appointing directors with relevant financial services experience; more board control over enterprise risk; enhanced director training, self - assessment and external reviews; and certain powers that allow boards to better direct and monitor management.
Through a system of interlocking memberships on the boards of companies he had reorganized or influenced, Morgan and his banking house achieved a top - heavy concentration of control over some of the nation's leading corporations and financial institutions.
As the actions of Chase bank and other financial institutions have clearly demonstrated over the years, those who control the size and growth rate of fiat money can not be trusted to do the right thing.
While the Federal Reserve has no control over it, the prime interest rate is usually pegged to the federal funds rate (or the rate at which banks and credit unions lend funds to other financial institutions through overnight transactions).
The Federal Reserve has control over the federal funds rate, which is the interest rate used when financial institutions conduct trades with each other.
For those who do not know, the European Commission is the executive body of the EU, in charge with legislative initiative, budget management and control over other EU institutions.
Another Washington - based Catholic operative, John Gehring, e-mailed reporters over the weekend to knock the bishops for criticizing President Barack Obama, even after his administration revised its contraception rule Friday to mandate that insurers - not Catholic institutions - pay for birth control coverage.
I've had a couple of traumatic, triggering experiences this week which have had me thinking again about just how much I struggle against institutions, so - called authority figures, and what I perceive to be (or are) obnoxious agents trying to exert «control» over my freedom of expression and thought and behaviors.
There is no globalisation of political regulation, state or democratic institutions which provide guarantees and exert control over decisions affecting the various regions and populations of the world, in the general interest of the world at large.
Economism is still tightening its control over all the major institutions of society.
No longer is it something that someone «made up» or has control over; rather, it is a feature of the outside world — a set of creeds, rituals, and institutions — that confronts the individual with authority of its own.
When the state holds powerful control over the religious hierarchy and other public institutions, popular religion may become a nursery for political opposition.
Too often the debate between a Bernard of Clairvaux and a Peter Abelard is read in terms of the latter's so - called heterodoxy when it was just as much about Bernard's progressive vision of a church disentangled from the control of secular princes over against Abelard's more conservative view of an ordered relation of patronage and rule between secular rulers and sacred institutions.
By this I mean that they have less control over their lives, less latitude in decision - making, and less influence over political, educational, and economic institutions which impinge upon their lives, than is the case with people in the middle classes.
Though its main protagonist is a man (Chadwick Boseman), the movie introduces us to something that had yet to be reflected in film: a political system wherein men and women have joint control over political institutions.
And hardly anyone truly believes that present institutions have control over the collective consequences of The Big Economy.8
Despite formal separation of church and state, the effect of this arrangement over time has been to covertly control religious leaders by making it appear that the institutions they lead are the bulwark of democracy.
The issue of religious liberty has been a hot one recently, especially over a pending White House mandate that free birth control be offered to employees at certain religious institutions.
As the architects of this secular society well knew, it could be built only by wresting from the Church control over two basic social institutions: marriage and the education of the young.
The church should have control over technology both in ideas and institutions.
One might also point to the secularization of contemporary society, which itself has many facets: the separation of political and educational institutions from the church, the autonomy of the intellectual disciplines, the dominance of this - worldly over otherworldly interests, the confidence in man's ability to control his own destiny without divine assistance.
Then we can focus on what we have control over i.e. our feelings, our thoughts, our conduct then if we have control over these then we determine whether we are humanized or not — not anyone else or any institution.
The administration was still doing damage control over a U.S. Department of Health and Human Services policy that forces religious schools and institutions that offer employee health insurance to cover FDA - approved contraceptives.
At this point the legacy of liberal dominance gives progressives control over many important institutions — media, foundations, universities — and they are quite willing to use this control to ruthlessly exclude conservatives.
But after World War II, the Court began to insert itself into what James Madison called the «internal» objects of state governments, particularly the culture - forming institutions, including education, religion, marriage, and government's domestic control over matters of life and death.
The dispute was over an $ 8 million tax abatement, with the Masons contending that the state constitution forbids such aid to an institution controlled by a religious body.
The first period witnessed to the struggle of the Church for its survival as an institution against government's attempts to gain control over it.
Though Scotland's Futuresuggests otherwise, it is likely that a corollary of this is that a great deal of financial regulation will also be undertaken at the British level: if the Bank of England is to act as lender of last resort, it will also want to have some control over financial regulations that mitigate the risks run by Scottish institutions.
Consider how a unilateral withdrawal from the West Bank might be relevantly different from Gaza, undermining the claim that a post-occupation West Bank would become «another Gaza»: withdrawal might remove only the settlers, not the IDF; it might be concluded in stages; it might not involve abandoning control over smuggling routes; it could leave behind more robust political institutions; and it would take place at a higher level of prosperity than in Gaza.
It stretches from the more aristocratic strands, which maintain that liberal republics with representative government, the rule of law and the separation of powers, are a sufficient guard against domination; to the more democratic ones, which want genuine popular control over political institutions.
Over the past two decades, the government has proceeded to take over control of all state institutions and resources to maintain its hold onto poOver the past two decades, the government has proceeded to take over control of all state institutions and resources to maintain its hold onto poover control of all state institutions and resources to maintain its hold onto power.
Therefore, the notion «public interest» covers all the legitimate interests of the public, satisfaction of which is the essential prerequisite for exercising effective democratic control over governmental institutions
Demonstrators by the hundreds — both those in favor of same - sex marriage and those opposed — jammed the halls of the capital Monday as lawmakers continued to haggle over language that will protect religious institutions and garner enough support in the Republican - controlled Senate for the bill to pass.
The UK, Mr Farage said, had been «betrayed» by «a political class that had sold out to Brussels», resulting in the undermining of legal and political institutions and the loss of control over the country's borders.
Nelson's report corroborates a recently released study by the U.S. Department of Education that emphasizes the disproportionately high number of male S&E professors.10 The report also cites the salary advantage men of all racial groups enjoy over women.10 While the unadjusted salaries of African - American faculty members were lower than those of whites, when variables were controlled, the wage gap disappeared.10 However, the study cautions that the markedly lower numbers of tenured and working African - American faculty at doctoral institutions could obscure racially biased salary discrepancies.10
The film traces how the leader was able to skillfully manipulate both the societal institutions of the day as well as the powerful men who surrounded her in order to gain control over all of Russia.
Many students with mental health challenges can feel a lack of control or influence over their lives, especially when these students interact with institutions and systems of care.
It seems that Smarick — who is generally quite conservative — is embracing the progressives» preference for political control over mediating institutions that Yuval Levin has so insightfully described:
In 26 states (including 10 of the 12 states above), the initial decision by a local school board to deny a charter school application may be appealed to the state board of education or another institution, thus curbing school districts» control over the approval of charters even where school districts are given a role.
Linden Lab, the company behind Second Life, maintains a policy whereby Residents retain the IP rights to their creations, enabling businesses, nonprofit organizations, and educational institutions to re-create their assets without fear of losing control over them.
That sector deals with adults and, hence, has been less prone to regulation than K — 12 education, but it has nonetheless become increasingly subject to federal controls, including through accreditation and a Sword of Damocles — separation from student aid — hanging over institutions that, regardless of the mix of students they serve, do not meet federal performance metrics.
It states (in section 103b): «No provision of a program administered by the Secretary or by any other officer of the Department shall be construed to authorize the Secretary or any such officer to exercise any direction, supervision, or control over the curriculum, program of instruction, administration, or personnel of any educational institution, school, or school system, over any accrediting agency or association, or over the selection or content of library resources, textbooks, or other instructional materials by any educational institution or school system, except to the extent authorized by law.»
Control over these religious institutions would not be beneficial for either religious institutions or the government.
This difference of mechanical systems from the K - 12 market is likely because of the interest of these institutions in having centralized control over the HVAC systems, rather than choosing what might have been the lowest - cost system.
Sec. 1 - 225 and Sec. 1 - 200) states that «meetings of all public agencies shall be open to the public», and defines public agency as «including any committee of, or created by, any such office, subdivision, agency, department, institution, bureau, board, commission, authority or official», and defines «meeting» as «any hearing or other proceeding of a public agency... to discuss or act upon a matter over which the public agency has supervision control, jurisdiction or advisory power», nonetheless, the State Department of Education attempted to keep the «training session» for superintendents closed to the public, stating it «is not a venue for members of the general public to participate.»
From the get go, NCLB deferred to the states, saying «nothing contained in this Act shall be construed to authorize any department, agency, officer, or employee of the United States to exercise any direction, supervision, or control over the curriculum, program of instruction, administration, or personnel of any educational institution or school system.»
Today, government officials, along with leaders of corporations, foundations, universities, and other institutions, determine what all students «need» to know, and this becomes educational policy, expressed in standards, state - mandated textbooks, high stakes testing, and relentless control over teaching and learning.»
Severe storms at the USF Tampa campus pushed me off campus this afternoon, and I've used it in part to catch up on reading, such as Joy Ann Williamson - Lott's article «The Battle over Power, Control, and Academic Freedom at Southern Institutions of Higher Education, 1955 — 1965» ($ $) in last November's Journal of Southern History.
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