Sentences with phrase «focus of political»

Seventy - one percent of Americans think that affordable housing should be a main focus of the political parties»...

That's where the focus of the political debate about waste products should be.

Given the change in demand, and the muted outlook for new capacity, there is also expected to be a wholesale review of network requirements — the issue that has become the focus of political debate this week since Prime Minister Julia Gillard chose to sheet the blame on state government, and finally foreshadowed some action on controlling the unfettered investment in new capacity.

In these uncertain times, environmental and climate policies are not a key focus of political discussions in Brazil.

It would be wrong to claim that debate around «Silk» has engendered excited debate amongst the electorate, but it certainly has been a focus of the political class.

«Indian Point is clearly the focus of political pressure.»

This had been the focus of their political engagement against the July Monarchy in the 1840s during the «campagne des banquets».

In this discussion, power — a central focus of political and IR scholarship — deserves close attention and neuroscience has some importance lessons to teach us.

Characteristically, the focus of both political and religious attention is on the single figure of the ruler, often identified as a divine king.

Thus the antecedent field of the Reform Bill passage is about two years long, or from the accession of the Duke of Wellington as prime minister in the Spring of 1828 (when the issue of Reform was first broached) to the first meeting of parliament after the elections of summer, 1830, when Reform became the focus of political conflict.

In 2012, Chick - fil - A became the focus of a political maelstrom because of its donations to anti-LGBT groups.

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He's now 76 years old and still focused on purging the parasite - driven illness from the two countries, Ethiopia and Chad, where transmission persists — a task to which he's bringing both a mastery of public health and a lifetime's worth of understanding political intransigence and apathy.

She is a graduate of the London School of Economics - Peking University double MSc in International Affairs, where she studied history and political economy with a focus on US - China trade disputes.

At a time when the U.K. is negotiating its future trade relationship with the European Union (EU) as it prepares to leave the 28 - country economic and political bloc, focus is being placed on whether the U.K. could stay in some sort of customs union.

He also is one of the founders of FWD.us, a lobbying group of powerful silicon valley entrepreneurs focused on many political matters, such as immigration and education reform.

The Geneva Process is the present focus of making political progress,» the official added.

Much of this coverage focuses too much on the political rhetoric at the expense of the people who actually perform the work of financial regulation; the ones who will be the best and last line of defense against another financial crisis.

All this explains why big political campaigns are increasingly focusing on their own partisans, instead of trying to win over undecideds.

After some early, desultory efforts, Martin found his footing and reeled out a handful of budgets built around themes such as deficit fighting, education, innovation and tax reduction that set the country on sound fiscal footing and gave it political direction and policy focus for the better part of a decade.

The show will focus on the heightened influence of the online right - wing figures to subtly and overtly influence the political discourse.

They are confident that their power to focus 24 hours a day will overcome technological and political barriers, and surpass the old guard of existing competitors.

But at some of the steps, he made mistakes because he was excessively focused on protecting the political reputation of the FBI and the Department of Justice.

It blames most of the positive coverage on the tendency to cover political campaigns like a horse race, rather than focusing on the issues.

President Trump kicks off a big push for tax reform in Missouri on Wednesday, bringing renewed focus to one of the key political battles shaping up this fall.

«It needs to be much more focused and less involved with the political and financial interests of the Clintons, and more focused on all the things it's actually accomplishing.»

If Trump doesn't win this election, we can see whether he's a true political believer, focused on his goals, or whether he moves on to some new role that's a departure from his stated goals but still keeps him at the center of attention.

But M&A activity is expected to pick up in coming months as China's political situation firms up, although the focus could fall outside of the US.

Some of the others: lack of political will, and the system's focus on treatment, rather than prevention.

Perks include an executive speaker series (past guests include Clive Beddoe of WestJet) and leadership development workshops focused on topics such as diversity and political savvy.

At the same time, a political discourse that is overly focused on the external causes of misfortune can make people feel like the deck is stacked against them, so why even try?

A spokeswoman for the GOP's convention organisation told Politico: «We are working with a variety of major tech partners who are focused on being part of the American political process.»

What began as a small, focused Enbridge campaign with northern First Nations grew into a political juggernaut that arguably contributed to the Harper government's 2015 defeat, after the pro-tanker Conservative party lost more votes in B.C. than in the rest of the country combined.

Our team at Truth In Media is committed to providing quality content focusing on issues that impact humanity, featuring a number of fearless journalists sharing their expertise with a diverse audience that honors genuine and compelling reporting that transcends political, social and geographic boundaries.

We focused on the core elements of a political data science program, as we explained at public events, in media interviews, and on our website.

The ability to swiftly react in real - time, draft focused creative, place ads in front of the right voters, and measure the impact of the ads made MAN1 an elite and influential political action committee.

Considering Japan's aging population (people over 60 constitute more than a quarter of the population), the political landscape has turned into one in which political candidates focus solely on the elderly demographic.

The biggest benefit of such focus is that it keeps us out of the political and geopolitical arena — the areas which, for some investors, have been a tough wall of worry to climb.

He focuses on delivering asset allocation strategies and analysis of the overall macroeconomic and political landscape as defined by fundamentals, market sentiment and technical developments in the charts.

Corporate political activity accounts for 26 percent of all ESG resolutions, with slightly more than half of them focusing on pressuring companies to increase disclosure of how companies lobby elected officials and regulators and insight into the reasons behind the lobbying.

Investors have filed a record number of shareholder proposals on ESG issues this year, with a focus on climate change and corporate political activity, according to the As You Sow shareholder advocacy group.

In focus groups arranged to test messages for the 2014 midterms, these voters responded to calls for building a new wall to block the entry of illegal immigrants, to reforms intended to «drain the swamp» of Washington's entrenched political community and to thinly veiled forms of racism toward African Americans called «race realism,» he recounted.

My research focuses on the politics of trade and what prompts political leaders to impose restrictions like tariffs.

A succession of minority governments had left policy - making in Canada focused heavily on Canadian domestic politics, necessary for political survival.

... the focus will shift to the political conventions coming up at the end of August.

The documents show Ailes to be an engaged, brilliant, and often catty adviser with an obsessive, almost evangelical focus on the power of television to manipulate people for political purposes.

«It took a critical mass of innovation, commercial viability, and political will to make Alberta's oilsands the focus of Ottawa's energy policy,» they say.

For example, while a young entrepreneur will be more focused on political risk, client entertainment, ease of access and cost of living, a family or retired couple will have very different needs.

In fact, Grillo's party, founded only in 2009, focused less on euroskepticism than on a blanket rejection of the established Italian political elite and its way of doing politics.

Looking back at the visit, it stands in stark contrast to Modi's recent meetings with leaders of the United States, Germany and France, where we saw both political focus and media attention on climate change and clean energy.

Instead of spending the past six months educating the public over what is at issue with the Troika, Syriza focused on playing political rope - a-dope to demonstrate how firmly the ECB and EC were committed to austerity.