Sentences with phrase «decisions about their country»

Romney WILL listen to them when making decisions about our country and the world.

We need to keep investing in the research so that when the Education Council makes its decision about the country's move to online assessment, we are ready to go.

Most admitted they knew little about energy, and were worried that their fellow citizens would make big decisions about their country's future without expert help.

Dysfunctional or under - resourced PBCs jeopardise the capacity of native title holders to exercise their rights and make informed decisions about their country.

Not exact matches

He talks about hosting roundtables across the country, bringing together disparate groups that would otherwise never communicate with each other: «That's the job of government, to consult, to offer lots of opportunity for a discussion, and then to make a decision that we believe to be in the national interest.»

«There's a casual carelessness from American government officials about the impact of their decisions on people outside of their country,» he says.

It's also a good time to think about American history — namely, the people who made the decision to break away from the Mother Country and found a new system.

Billionaire medical magnate George Yancopoulos, the co-founder of Regeneron Pharmaceuticals (regn), told Bloomberg that it's time for the country to «make some decisions about what to invest in,» arguing for more emphasis on health and less on tech development.

Facebook may reach one - quarter of the world's population and have the revenues of a small country, but it's still, after all, a private - sector enterprise, not constrained by the First Amendment in any decisions it makes about speech limits.

However, Liss, who has worked with Warhols for more than a decade, appraising works for the Art Gallery of Ontario and other museums across the country, thinks collectors should be concerned about the foundation's decision this year to cease its authentication business.

About 40 countries, including the United States, have indicated officially that they expect China to abide by the ruling, by Poling's count, so China would presumably lose political capital with those nations if it continued to act in opposition to any tribunal decisions.

If the financial connection to China, a country whose government typically opposes transparency and political dissent, seems problematic, Hwang isn't concerned: «If anything, we are informing the public about upcoming changes in laws as well as the decision makers behind it, emboldening affected parties to act up and speak up if necessary,» he said.

Testing is about to start in Mexico and Canada and our local contacts are constantly scouting the markets and the local decision makers in their home countries.

The decision about how to adjust the discount rate depends on whether investors believe that additional infrastructure spending will increase the country's potential growth rate, or instead that it will simply increase economic activity at the expense of higher debt.

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No doubt we should be cautious about reading too much into a comparison between resource project decisions governed by different statutory regimes in countries separated by half the globe.

Daniels said her decision to speak out about Trump has meant more business as she tours the country with her strip club routine.

Trudeau met Thursday in Ottawa with Portuguese Prime Minister Antonio Costa, who told their joint news conference about his country's decision in 2000 to decriminalize illicit drugs, and how that has helped to mitigate their addiction problems.

I welcome this opportunity to talk about prospects for banks in Australia, a topic of possibly more than usual interest to many of you following the Government's recent decisions to further open up banking in this country.

When he spoke about it years ago, in 2013, another president was facing the decision of how to respond to a chemical - weapons attack in the country.

They make decisions about the direction our country should take based on something that is by their own admission subjective, personal, and not founded on reason, or even good sense.

Not sure about the majority, but if more people made rational decisions then we would have a better shot at making this country better for more people, yes.

Ireland's recent decision to approve same - sex marriage, by popular referendum, has left the country's Catholic reputation in ruins.Of course, this shift didn't come about overnight — secularization has been in the works for some time — but the vote reinforces the feeling of a dramatic break with Ireland's Catholic heritage, and a step into an uncertain future.

And spectacles like last night's three - hour test of human willpower only underscore a big problem: Traditional news outlets have made presidential debates — arguably our country's most important televised forum and exchange of ideas — into mind - numbingly boring talk - a-thons, where a bunch of rich, powerful people needle each other for hours about past career decisions while dodging any question of substance.

But not for it being used to make decisions about how the country or individuals should manage others who don't believe.

The story of Sodom in Genesis 18 was about violence and domination, the same type of event that takes place in prisons and occupied countries, but it was NOT the reason for God's decision to destroy the city, and to use this story as a basis for prejudice against ho mose xuality in general is like comparing ra pe to marriage.

The decision came a day after Parker met with Houston pastors (including Chris Seay, who wrote about the subpoenas for Leadership Journal), as well as clergy leaders from across the country who have defended the subpoenaed pastors» religious freedom.

Running a country should be about making practical decisions based on the facts, not turning the doctrine of your faith in to laws.

«Consumers across the country are making better decisions about what they put in their body,» says Matt Sheehan, president and CEO of Primo Water Corporation.

The decision comes at an especially awkward time for Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull, who will visit China this week with about 1000 Australian businesspeople to promote trade between the two countries.

The 11 viticultural areas of Paso Robles demonstrate the diversity of Paso Robles Wine Country and provide information to consumers and trade about what is in the bottle, helping them make a better - informed buying decision.

«We're probably only supplying about 50 per cent of the demand,» Mr Jackson said of the decision to expand steadily in China, which is now Sanitarium Health Food Company's No. 1 export market for breakfast cereal out of 29 countries it sells into.

I'll admit that when I first took the decision, I still cared very much about what people think of me; and when people questioned my decision to give up my job at the bank and uproot from Singapore to live in a country whose language I couldn't speak, or where I didn't have a job waiting for me, I found myself fighting internally with these comments.

The MMQB talked to coaches and students from across the country about their decisions to stand or to kneel, their motivations, and the reactions they've gotten

If you can not make the protests you can go to the just giving crowd funding Chris butler website and donate to the organisers.They are doing a great job and for every pound donated one Gooner is matching it.As for yesterday Wenger playing Gibbs and keeping Ozil's and Giroud on for as long as he did was the same as playing Ramsey as a left winger with a damaged toe at old Trafford as far as bad decisions go and shows the man has to go.When is something going to be done about those spud fans who attack our lot before and after the game.If it had been Millwall the media would be all over it but because they are the media darlings it is not given the publicity it deserves.Spuds fans are the worst in the country.

much like when a country can't divulge highly classified information publicly for obvious economic and military reasons, a professional soccer organization must keep certain things in - house so they don't devalue a player, expose a weakness, provide info that could give an opposing club leverage in future negotiations and / or give them vital intel regarding a future match, but when dishonesty becomes the norm the relationship between cub and fan will surely deteriorate... in our particular case, our club has done an absolutely atrocious job when it comes to cultivating a healthy and honest relationship with the media or their fans, which has contributed greatly to our lack of success in the transfer market... along with poor decisions involving weekly wages, we can't ever seem to get true market value for most of our outgoing players and other teams seem to squeeze every last cent out of us when we are looking to buy; why wouldn't they, when you go to the table with such a openly desperate and dysfunctional team like ours, you have all the leverage; made even worse by the fact that who wouldn't want to see our incredibly arrogant and thrifty manager squirm during the process... the real issue at this club is respect, a word that appears to be entirely lost on those within our hierarchy... this is the starting point from which all great relationships between club and supporters form... this doesn't mean that a team can't make mistakes along the way, that's just human nature, it's about how they chose to deal with these situations that will determine if this relationship flourishes or devolves..

You will need to have Parental Responsibility in order for the court to recognise you as the child's father, and they'll have to do this before you can be involved in court decisions about their future, such as which school they go to, which country they live in, what their surname is etc..

It's best to learn all you can about prospective countries before you make your decision to adopt.

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Music Together is remarkably offered in 38 countries around the globe, spanning the United States to New Zealand, so there are literally thousands of satisfied parents with which to confer about your decision to enroll.

The authors emphasized that a better understanding of the role of nutritional status at birth in infant growth could help policy makers in developing countries to forge appropriate decisions about health programs.

We still want someone to make decisions about our national security and our dealings with other countries.

It's never easy to come to a decision about a significant expansion to a country's transport infrastructure.

European leaders have also explicitly mentioned their ability to influence member countries decisions (e.g. source about European migration agenda):

This article (Romanian) discusses about some ways of European politicians to influence political decisions in a member country.

Because everyone has to vote, the whole country may become more politically literate and they might actually learn what their positions on different issues are, allowing them to make very informed decisions about their choice.

It is not surprising, in a country with approximately half a million elected offices, where about 133 million people voted in 2008, and with ballots that can call on voters to make dozens of decisions, that the aggregate costs of campaigns and elections mounts.

The UN feels uneasy about being in the position of making decisions, in the place of a democratically elected leadership, which will then lead countries down a particular path.

He wondered why President Mahama, will veer into the gallery of issues he has little or no knowledge about; adding the decision to suspend National Chairman, Paul Awentami Afoko, was taken by the National Executive Committee (NEC) of the party when the NPP flagbearer was not even in the country.

«That this House notes that young people today grow up in an increasingly complex financial world requiring them to make difficult decisions for the future, often without the necessary level of financial literacy; believes that financial education will help address the national problem of irresponsible borrowing and personal insolvency and that teaching people about budgeting and personal finance will help equip the workforce with the necessary skills to succeed in business and drive forward economic growth; further believes that the country has a duty to equip its young people properly through education to make informed financial decisions; and calls on the Government to consider the provision of financial education as part of the current curriculum review.»