Sentences with phrase «focus policy areas»

The website describes our four work programs and focus policy areas, which include trade and investment; health systems; land use planning and infrastructure.

Not exact matches

The administration has other councils focused on other policy areas, such as developing a competitive income tax code and streamlining burdensome regulation.UTC strongly supports the goals of each of these advisory committees as a way of ensuring and enhancing America's growth in the decades to come.

A better policy focus on those areas has a better chance to dramatically alter poverty than the new math being peddled as scientific fact.

The consumer sector ETF, CHIQ, and the small - cap ETF HAO focus on areas that are to receive particular attention in government policies going forward.

The focus of my presentation was the emergence of homelessness in Canada as a pressing public policy area in the 1980s.

In trying to provide investors with information that «is not in the current stock price» and therefore giving them an «edge», many Wall Street, and independent investment research providers have begun focusing on such areas as «forensic» accounting, «channel checking», public policy analysis, «lie detection» on conference calls, data mining and «expert» networking.

The document focuses on three key policy areas: the economy, health care renewal, and the environment.

John Tus, vice president and treasurer, Honeywell International: For us the primary focus is on our investment area, where we have very conservative policies.

Whether one deems this cluster of questions the third part of an expanded just war tradition or an extension of «right intention,» one of the classic deontological ad bellum criteria, this is obviously an area in which considerable criticism of the Iraq War has been focused» whether the issue at hand involves the scandals at Abu Ghraib prison, interrogation methods, de-Baathification policies, counterinsurgency strategies and tactics, or the provisions of the new Iraqi constitution with respect to religious freedom and the role of Islamic law in post-Saddam Iraq.

«I guess you could call it a super focus on certain procedures and policies to find areas of opportunities.

Core focus is on consumer issues, although mention is made of prioritising «competition and consumer issues in highly concentrated sectors, in particular in the supermarket and fuel sectors» (nothing new here) and the policy states that some areas are always regarded as a priority, including «cartel conduct and anti-competitive agreements, and the misuse of market power».

They balance those needs through a, «focus on core areas of certification, conservation, social equity, policy, and the marketplace.»

This section divides the food system into focus areas (Production, Manufacturing, Retail / Food Service, Consumers and Donation, Recovery / Recycling, and Regulators / Policy Makers) and identifies opportunities and actions within each area.

Those nine areas are focused on agriculture (carbon farming), increasing energy efficiency, reducing food waste, eliminating commodity - driven deforestation, reducing the climate impact of packaging, advocating for responsible policies, committing to 100 percent renewable power, reducing short - lived climate pollutant emissions and transportation - related emissions.

My main area of research focuses on developing public policies that are effective in reducing the harms that result from excessive alcohol use.

For several years, Peter developed expertise in several areas of policy; but, his primary focus remained on making or improving the law, and usually with legislation designed to protect children and families.

He is also very well paid by private companies which are directly interested in the area of policy his parliamentary work focuses on.

The decision to focus upon attacking Obama's foreign policy record was perhaps unwise given that this is one area in which Obama enjoys relatively broad support and in which Romney has little experience — and given his recent debacles on the international stage, even less credibility.

Given that personality and style are no - go areas for Labour, the party's campaign is focusing on policy.

By focusing on these well - meaning policy areas, the Liberal Democrats are trying to distance themselves from the record of the most toxic policies implemented by the coalition government.

Boosting the profile of the party leaders and focusing on head and heart policy issues, by identifying the policy areas that stir the emotive and rational faculties of the UK electorate, will swing the outcome on 7th May.

So as we look ahead to the launch of manifestos, a keen focus on the most emotive policy areas, those that voters identify clear values with, will be key to winning both the head and heart vote.

More broadly, there was a feeling that policy decisions in all areas were being driven by an overriding focus on deficit reduction, perhaps to the detriment of the economy in general and other areas of national life.

The 2020 sees itself as a policy - focused group that can help complement groups like the 301, who concentrate more on election - winning strategies and tactics to win seats in urban areas, the North, etc..

The initial Labour reaction to the success of UKIP at attracting working class voters in many areas has focussed on the right policy response.

According to the acting president, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo, the focus will be on five broad areas namely: macroeconomic policy, economic diversification and growth drivers, competitiveness, social inclusion, employment and governance.

There is little detail about which areas of policy the Conservatives are likely to focus on however.

For Miliband, that means focusing on policy areas he is already favoured on.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo told reporters in the Utica area today that he is able to work with any sort of coalition in the state Senate, but he warned lawmakers that he wants to focus on policy, not politics.

Reclaim New York's website lists four general policy areas on which it focuses: affordability, education, jobs and economy, and government reform.

Indeed, Cuomo's focus seems not to be on the policy areas but on helping the middle - class — a group that he said Hillary Clinton forgot and, as a result, lost last year's presidential election.

This project and the two others in the City approved Wednesday fall under the ECIDA's «Adaptive Reuse» policy, which focuses on reinvestment in urban areas and existing buildings.

I would welcome the appointment of Eric Pickles as chairman of the party, as I think he is an excellent campaign strategist - but more importantly because it would get him away from areas of policy formation in the field of local government where I believe that, despite his apparent experience, he has been too focussed on areas which appeal to the tabloid newspapers and has not fought hard enough over important issues such as local government powers and planning.

In a study published recently in the journal Transport Policy, the researchers analyze the transportation plans of 18 metropolitan areas across the U.S. and Canada — from San Diego to Montreal — and find that many plans focus largely on local environmental and congestion - reduction goals.

In these economically challenging times, this research highlights a clear area of focus for policy makers where prioritisation of musculoskeletal disorders could result in longer term cost efficiencies,» said Dr Anjte Van Der Zee - Neuen of the Division of Rheumatology, Maastricht University, The Netherlands.

We also looked closely at whether policy stories focused on systemic causes of wildfire disasters, such as human development in fire - prone areas, or merely on symptoms of these problems, such as needing more slurry bombers for fighting fires.

Given the difficulty of impacting change in small stores, much of the policy focus has been on decreasing food deserts by increasing the number of supermarkets in these areas.

Her special areas of focus include U.N. policy, U.S. foreign policy and stories about how other nations are grappling with climate change.

The Secretary shall ensure that the geographic areas included in the demonstration program include dwelling units on Indian lands (as such term is defined in section 2601 of the Energy Policy Act of 1992 (25 U.S.C. 3501), to the extent that dwelling units on Indian land have the type of residential structures that are the focus of the demonstration program.

In addition to supporting the practice and policy needs of the NMAA and other areas of technologist advanced practice, this council is focused on nurturing and growing the NMAA, including effecting the necessary culture change to allow this designation to function properly.

The Tourism Master's Programme focuses on three key areas of expertise: tourism markets and market communication; tourism policy and business development and the strategic analysis of tourism destinations.

Focused education and experience in one area of public policy

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But one of our areas of focus would be on the district's social networking policies.

Governors are focusing much of their attention on two critical areas of education policy — high school and preschool — a 50 - state look at the nation's governors and their leadership on education over the past year shows.

«We knew that we would only want to focus on one or two policy issues within each of our four big policy areas.

Professor Dede's current research focuses on three areas: emerging technologies for learning and assessment, leadership in educational technology implementation, and effective policy for educational technology utilization.

HGSE's focus on operating at the nexus of practice, policy, and research serves as an excellent example of how effective one can be in any of these three areas.

The institute's focus is on improving achievement in core academic areas, not the «diverse academic, developmental, technology, social, behavioral, and transition needs of children with disabilities,» said Kim Musheno, a policy analyst with the Association...

The Urban Institute is a nonprofit, nonpartisan research organization that focuses on a variety of policy areas, including education.