Sentences with phrase «done by bureaucrats»

Carbon taxes harness price signals to do the job presently done by bureaucrats.

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When horrified bureaucrats protested, the abbot declared that they were just doing their duty as Soviet citizens as required by the First Secretary.

I do hope that teachers will read this book as well as governors, those important people whose powers are being stolen in many Catholic maintained schools by local authority and - dare one say - diocesan bureaucrats.

I don't know about your country, but in mine, that particular word — «socialism» — was transformed long ago into just an ordinary truncheon used by certain cynical, parvenu bureaucrats to bludgeon their liberal - minded fellow citizens from morning until night, labeling them «enemies of socialism» and «antisocialist forces.

As mayor of London, he relied heavily on a team of competent deputies and advisers to run the show, while he dashed from photo shoot to photo shoot, cheerfully taking credit for the hard work done by City Hall's army of bureaucrats.

So basically, it's business as usual: a devious old bureaucrat out to punch Bourne's clock, the taciturn Euro - assassin (Vincent Cassel, wasted) hired to do it and an icy female agent enticed by Jason's masculine allure.

Today it seems weirdly prescient, what with the shadowy American bureaucrats getting rich by colluding with entrenched Russian power brokers who are doing whatever they can to stay on top.

I wholly agree with the premise that high school needs to be rethought, and that the work is best done by educators and entrepreneurs in real schools and communities, not by politicos, bureaucrats, well - fed consultants, or us self - impressed think tank types.

How do we, as teachers and educational leaders, condone putting our students through an assessment process that has been designed to ensure that 70 percent of the students taking the test will not meet the predetermined cut - score that has been set by the test company in consultation with political leaders and educational bureaucrats who are predominantly out - of - touch with both classroom instructional practice and how children learn?

Like most things overseen by bureaucrats, nothing will be done to remedy the situation until retail investors have been fleeced (again).

And given PETA's endless resources, its army of wilfully blind supporters, dishonorable politicians like Bobby Orrock who are willing to do their bidding, incompetent and uncaring bureaucrats such as those who staff VDACS willing to look the other way, and a movement that legitimizes PETA's killing by praising Newkirk, that is — tragically for the animals — not likely to happen any time soon.

A corollary might be that, even if the perpetrators are wearing eco-friendly luxury condoms, most citizens don't like getting screwed by elected officials and unelected bureaucrats.

It is impossible to be a scientist and a bureaucrat because by the definition of a bureaucrat you must do what you are told.

I propose a different scenario: What shall I say to my grandchildren when they ask me why I did nothing as every facet of daily life became assessed, inspected & regulated by eco bureaucrats?

Often this is done «for the common good of the people», as imagined by the ruling politicians and bureaucrats, who are mistakenly convinced that they «know better» what's good for the people than the people themselves do.

There was no mention of climate justice, and when I did mention the problematic, unfair request of providing loans on interest to LDCs for loss and damage, I was quickly snubbed by a neatly manicured Swiss bureaucrat.

Maurice Strong did the opposite by involving WMO bureaucrats in planning, implementation and production.

Sin is understood to be the best thing to tax, but taxing it is generally seen as impractical, due to sin being generally underground (driven there by laws, with taxes thus reduced to excises on alcohol and tobacco)... However, taxing Carbon is easy, even when Carbon use is regarded as sinful, because there is no chance of anyone covering it up in a big way... All that had to be done was to put a handle on it, on Carbon use as sinful, that bureaucrats could use, scientific proof, formulae, models, and all that, and surround them with minders, Environmental PR minders.

It will be run by a select group of billionaires who will call the shots by dangling membership in the power and money club in front of all those bureaucrats they want to do their bidding.

If we are talking about government grants, those grants are given out by bureaucrats who don't receive any grant money.

Joseph: If we are talking about government grants, those grants are given out by bureaucrats who don't receive any grant money.

Of course, I am even more convinced today than I was (after reviewing IPCC SPM 2007) 3 years ago (especially after all the recent revelations of shenanigans and «junk science» by the scientists and bureaucrats involved with IPCC) a) that humans are not destroying our planet with CO2 emissions and b) that we do not have the ability to make changes in our climate by reducing these emissions.

The government does not actively restrict the free expression of Indigenous culture; Aboriginal political organizations are recognized and funded; Aboriginal bands and Inuit organizations have taken over responsibility for some government program administration; residential schools and missionary teachers have given way to a mixed system of federal, provincial and Aboriginal / Inuit - run schools funded by Aboriginal Affairs and Northern Development (AANDC); and the paternalistic role of Aboriginal agents and bureaucrats has moved towards a technical and professional role.

The main problem, according to him, is that the old world generation, bureaucrats and bankers, just do not understand the scope of changes brought in by bitcoin.

Decision - making doesn't happen on the ground; it's all top - down made by bureaucrats and people who have no understanding, in some cases they don't even know where South Hedland is.

Whilst I am not a great fan of big government (especially the bureaucrats), I do realize that sometimes government needs to see the light and get its hands dirty by enacting legislation that protects its constituency from too many culturally indoctrinated sales hacks who populate most sales industries... including real estate sales.

I know; I worked within an Ontario Ministry of Housing mandated arm's - length - agency run by bureaucrats, and I did not fit in with the culture of «We know what is best for the peons out there.»

The trouble is that there are not near enough high quality registrants in the business to go around, and thus, the cheap crowd looks good by comparison... on the sruface This is the fault of CREA, OREA (Ontario), RECO (Ontario) and local boards, all populated by non-commissioned well - salaried bureaucrats who do not have their own feet in the water.

It should be staffed by ex Realtors who hate crooks, and not by bureaucrats without real estate sales experience who simply have another job to do for their salaries.