Sentences with phrase «first goal of your policy»

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The two conservative senators this week expressed deep concern that MacManus was too close to Clinton during her tenure, doesn't share Trump's «America First» agenda and other conservative foreign - policy goals, and, as one of Clinton's closest advisers, was deeply involved in the State Department's initial response to the Benghazi attack.

In my view, the first policy goal of providing savings opportunities for lower - income Canadians is legitimate, but it has largely been achieved with the existing contribution limits.

Specific policies include the 30 - 50 Plan to Fight Poverty, which is committed to reducing the number of people living below the poverty line by 30 percent and the number of children by 50 percent; an Affordable Housing Plan; pursing the long - term goal of a national high - quality, universal, community - based, early education and child care system; increasing the Guaranteed Income Supplement by $ 600 per year for low - income seniors; and creating a new relationship with Canada's First Nation, Inuit and Métis peoples, including re-instating the Kelowna Accord.

At the launch of the initiative, President Barack Obama signed a Presidential Memorandum creating the first - ever Task Force on Childhood Obesity to conduct a review of every single program and policy relating to child nutrition and physical activity and develop a national action plan to maximize federal resources and set concrete benchmarks toward the First Lady's national first - ever Task Force on Childhood Obesity to conduct a review of every single program and policy relating to child nutrition and physical activity and develop a national action plan to maximize federal resources and set concrete benchmarks toward the First Lady's national First Lady's national goal.

The launch at the House of Commons on 15 November of the first UK - wide World Breastfeeding Trends Initiative (WBTi) report on infant feeding policies and programmes gave some clues to which «stepping stones» along a family's feeding journey are missing, where families are struggling to meet their own breastfeeding goals.

The Government has put in place legislation which requires any future Government to reach this first goal however this analysis and subsequent figures from Policy Exchange's report: Warmer Homes — Improving fuel poverty and energy efficiency policy in the UK highlights current resources are less than half of what is required to meet this target, let alone a more ambitious timePolicy Exchange's report: Warmer Homes — Improving fuel poverty and energy efficiency policy in the UK highlights current resources are less than half of what is required to meet this target, let alone a more ambitious timepolicy in the UK highlights current resources are less than half of what is required to meet this target, let alone a more ambitious timeframe.

Meanwhile, UCSF will become the first University of California campus in the system to mandate deposition, although the goal is to pass a similar policy for all ten of its campuses.

The government's goal is to reach 1200, which is a doubling of the 600 Ph.D. s in place when the policy was first formulated about 4 years ago.

But the first Reliable Replacement Warhead — and Complex 2030 behind it — is not designed with that goal in mind and, in the absence of policy statements from the current administration, it remains unclear what the role for nuclear weapons — old or new — in the U.S. might be.

EPA administrater Carol Browner said: «The success of these first auctions proves that utilities and the public are taking emission trading seriously and that a market - based approach to environmental policy can succeed in meeting the dual goals of environmental protection and economic growth.

First, you published an article on a topic that entails conflicting priorities in setting goals for public good, policy constraints in achieving these goals, the science of learning, distribution of wealth, and doubtless other complexities that I'm too exhausted to identify and enumerate.

Entering the Ed School both as an aspiring teacher and as someone with little knowledge of education as a whole, my goals were to acquire a repertoire of skills that would allow me to leave HGSE with a solid foundation in preparation my first year in the classroom and to gain as much knowledge about current issues, policies, and trends in education as possible.

The success of the six national education goals, many educators and policy analysts maintain, hinges to a great degree on the first: ensuring that, by the year 2000, all children enter school ready to learn.

For the first time in the history of American public education, federal education policy set clear goals for improving student achievement in reading and mathematics, and finally focused attention on using data in measuring teacher quality.

WHEREAS, the so - called «reform» initiatives of Students First, rely on destructive anti-educator policies that do nothing for students but blame educators and their unions for the ills of society, make testing the goal of education, shatter communities by closing their public schools, and see public schools as potential profit centers and children as measureable commodities; and

But as departments have begun to release first, second, and third drafts of accountability plans to gather more feedback, constituents are inevitably split on policy decisions regarding statewide goals, testing and accountability systems.

Well - designed accountability policy, on its own, does four things well: first, it requires participants to believe that all students can learn and succeed; second, it measures the academic progress of all students over time; third, it highlights gaps between different groups of students (be they racial, geographic, socio - economic, special education and gifted students, or English language proficiency); and fourth, it assigns consequences for not meeting goals around student progress.

Before I talk about the yearlong statewide listening tour and what it has meant for our policies and programs, let me first note how we grounded the discussions in how our kids are doing in school, how well they are performing, and what our goals are for their future given the demands of the 21st century economy.

Students Matter is determined to ensure «that the policies embodied in the California Code of Education place the interests of students first and promote the goal of having an effective teacher in every classroom»

If you have a good adviser and you've been a good client, you already have in place an Investment Policy Statement (IPS) that should remind you of why you invest in the markets in the first place, and what your long term goals are.

Bernanke, Ben S., «A Century of U.S. Central Banking: Goals, Frameworks, Accountability,» Speech given at «The First 100 Years of the Federal Reserve: The Policy Record, Lessons Learned, and Prospects for the Future,» a conference sponsored by the National Bureau of Economic Research, Cambridge, MA, July 10, 2013.

Such ambitions are lofty but not the first time water efficiency goals has been made official policy; in 2007, it set the target of reducing «water intensity» by 20 % for the five year period ending 2010.

LONDON, NEW YORK March 8 — Fossil fuel companies risk wasting $ 1.6 trillion of expenditure by 2025 if they base their business on emissions policies already announced by governments instead of international climate goals, Carbon Tracker warns in a report released today, that models the IEA's 1.75 C scenario for the first time.

The goal of this campaign, which began around the time of the first Kyoto Protocol negotiations, was to assemble a group of like - minded «free - market» think tanks and pseudo-science experts that would call into question the scientific research on climate change, create doubt in the minds of the public and politicians, and effectively delay the introduction of clean energy policies in the United States and elsewhere.

If an administration that has claimed the goal of a nuclear weapons free world refuses to commit to a last resort nuclear deflection strategy [as opposed to first resort], it portends poorly for the policy.

That is no surprise at first, as to oppose an EU policy a divergence of the goals is a must.

The first principle of Goldratt's Theory of Constraints is that the primary goal of every business function — every department, every workflow, every system, every process, and every policy — is the same: to earn revenue for the business.

The first goal of your insurance policy is to give your family the money that they need to pay off your bills.

The first goal of your life insurance policy is to give your family the money that they need to pay off those bills and debts that they would be responsible for.

If your policy lapses (for any type of policy), you'll not only face potential rate increases if you reapply, but you'll also no longer be eligible to receive the death benefit, which is the whole goal of life insurance in the first place.

To discover best - fitted Term insurance plans the first thing you must do is prepare a checklist of your financial goals and benefits that you would like to obtain from your life insurance policy.

The first goal of the driving school s \ is to help you to learn how to drive safely; the secondary goal is get the most of the driver's license application; and the third objective is get discount from the insurance policy.

As indicated in my previous discussions of State and Commonwealth policies, their preference for negotiation over litigation is the first step in ensuring that native title agreements can be directed to the broader policy goal of addressing the economic and social development of the native title claim group rather than the demands of the legal system.

The Annie E. Casey Foundation's new KIDS COUNT policy report, The First Eight Years: Giving Kids a Foundation for Lifetime Success, sends a clear message that to meet the needs of kids, we need to focus on three goals: Supporting parents as they care for their children.

The first goal of the National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Education Policy (AEP) provides clear direction for Indigenous involvement in education decision - making.

We continue to strengthen the links between evidence, knowledge, practice and policy in support of the public health goals of First Nations, Inuit and Métis peoples.