Sentences with phrase «economic grounds as»

Meadway, and others like him, support independence on economic grounds as well - but Scots might find it curious that they were expected to go through the severe challenges of secession partly so that the ensuing chaos in Westminster would give English radicals an opening, while denying the US an extra hanger - on the next time the White House goes to war.

Not exact matches

On purely utilitarian grounds, it is desirable to have a higher proportion of economic growth going to low and middle - income Canadians, so long as the policies to get us there do not reduce the growth rate of the economy.

But the net - benefit test gives Canadians a false impression that the government is able to distinguish, on economic grounds, investments that will turn out well from those that won't — a concept Canadians would recognize as bizarre if applied to domestic firms.

DO listen to your own voice or the Church on social, political and economic issues, and allow people to justify their views on explicitly religious grounds if they want, as long as it's your religion with a monotheistic male deity.

Polk's notion of God emphasizes features drawn from Whitehead's consequent nature of God, whereas Pannenberg appeals to the unity of the immanent and economic Trinity as grounds for denying that there is ultimately development in God.

The notion that firms seek to maximize profits is a cornerstone of economic analysis (and a sound one, as most firms do behave this way), but it begs the question what firms ought to do, based on ethical and moral grounds.

However, the economic cost of caring for those labeled as having a low quality of life is frequently noted by euthanasia advocates and asserted as grounds for healthcare rationing and the withdrawal of wanted life support.

The Thames Estuary Airport proposal, then described as being at «Cliffe» (in the constituency which I now represent), was ruled out on both environment and economic grounds, but the Labour government recommended a second runway at Stansted in 2011 - 12, a third runway at Heathrow in 2015 - 20 and, eventually, a second runway at Gatwick in the mid-2020s.

Tourism dollars and jobs, along with events at the Erie County Fair & Exposition grounds — including the fair — and Burgerfest were cited as big economic drivers.

The campaign for a $ 15 an hour minimum wage in New York is being fought on emotional grounds - as a tool to fight poverty, to fix income inequality and to ensure a «living wage» for people on the lowest rungs of the economic ladder.

According to him, industrial parks will help the country bridge infrastructure gaps, develop targeted sectors, economies of scale and can also be used as testing grounds for broader economic reform initiatives.

«Artificial transmutation», as it is known, was tried in Britain in the late 1970s and rejected on economic and safety grounds.

The dictionary defines feminism as «the advocacy of women's rights on the grounds of political, social, and economic equality to men.»

Without these giveways, including things such as military forces to patrol the oil lanes in the Gulf, alternate technologies will become instantly attractive on economic grounds.

This agency would also need to include financial analysts who can help with justifying school safety on economic as well as moral grounds.

It comes as the Trump administration is moving to reverse actions taken at the end of the Obama administration to review the coal leasing program on climate and economic grounds.

In 1981, my Harvard colleague, political scientist Steven Kelman surveyed Congressional staff members, and found that support and opposition to market - based environmental policy instruments was based largely on ideological grounds: Republicans, who supported the concept of economic - incentive approaches, offered as a reason the assertion that «the free market works,» or «less government intervention» is desirable, without any real awareness or understanding of the economic arguments for market - based programs.

Conclusion The voting public is right to reject climate - change denialism — on scientific, economic, legal, and moral grounds — as the ideology of «gleeful yahoos who are destroying the planet, and mindless oafs who abet them.»

The evidence for this widespread failure to understand the practical significance of seeing climate change as a moral issue includes the almost universal failure of the press or advocates of climate change policies to ask those governments, businesses, organizations, or individuals who oppose national climate change policies on the grounds of national economic cost alone whether they deny that in addition to national economic interest nations must comply with their obligations, duties, and responsibilities to prevent harm to millions of poor, vulnerable people around the world.

The evidence for this widespread failure to understand the practical significance of seeing climate change as a moral issue includes the almost universal failure of the press or advocates of climate change policies to ask businesses, organizations, or individuals who oppose national climate change policies on the grounds of economic cost alone, whether they deny that, in addition to economic interests, nations must comply with their obligations, duties, and responsibilities to prevent harm to millions of poor, vulnerable people around the world.

Governments — and industry — have tended to resist steps such as a switch to renewable resources and greater care for the remaining forests, on the grounds that change on such a scale imposes economic costs.

While it has long been known that cost - effective energy efficiency measures are beneficial to economic welfare and therefore worth pursuing on grounds other than climate change mitigation, the magnitude of rebound effects and their implications for the utility of energy efficiency as a climate change mitigation strategy remain contested.

Panel member Gordon Maynard of Maynard Kischer Stojicevic in Vancouver said broadly speaking, there are four paths for being accepted into Canada as an immigrant: economic, in which the selection is skill - based; family reunification; asylum; and humanitarian and compassionate grounds.

In Florida, when someone has been injured in any type of accident, there may be grounds to pursue both financial (economic) as well as non-economic damages.

As the country's economic crisis deepens, some states have abandoned capital punishment and others are considering doing so, primarily on pragmatic grounds...

«It is questionable whether such a policy would stand up at a tribunal as economic factors alone may not be strong enough grounds to justify it and such a broad - brush approach may not be seen as proportionate,» he says.

These include: (i) state executive and / or legislative branches, on the grounds that they are regulating not attorney conduct but consumer services and corporate structures, (ii) federal agencies, such as the FTC, on the grounds that they are regulating not attorney conduct but restrictions on competition, and (iii) the executive and / or the legislative branches of the federal government, on the grounds that they are regulating not attorney conduct but trade and commerce, economic policy and the protection of human rights.

Although agreeing in the result, Justice Deschamps» reasons argued that «[t] o redress economic inequality, it would be more faithful to the design of the Charter to open the door to the recognition of more analogous grounds under s. 15, as L'Heureux - Dubé J. proposed in Dunmore.»

Loyola provided TWU a more compelling grounds to claim interference with religion.TWU claimed that the inability to have their graduates accredited in Ontario would result in the inability of the university to operate a law school, as they would effectively be shut out of Canada's largest economic market.

(6) Before taking a relevant decision on the grounds of public policy or public security in relation to a person who is resident in the UK, the decision - maker must take account of considerations such as the age, state of health, family and economic situation of the person, the person's length of residence in the UK, the person's social and cultural integration into the UK and the extent of the person's links with his country of origin.»

Our education and economic institutions are structured as proving grounds.