Sentences with phrase «for common sense measures»

«Rainwater Harvesting for Drylands and Beyond» by Brad Lancaster should be required reading for anyone living in an arid locale for common sense measures that anyone can enact on a home scale.

«Dan Donovan has proposed a pension fund reform agenda, which calls for common sense measures to increase the integrity of the pension fund, prevent fraud and increase transparency.»

«On multiple occasions, they have expressed their support for this common sense measure that could create thousands of jobs and raise hundreds of millions for schools and hospitals without raising taxes,» Rabinowitz said.

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In the end, most of this is common sense with a little law thrown in for good measure.

WHILE many are concerned the year 2000 New Year's Eve celebrations will provide an opportune time for domestic burglary, the best preventative measure is common sense, says WA Police Department's Inspector Fordham.

Following various mass shootings, «we have waited for our grief to turn into action and see our nation adopt common - sense measures that would help prevent firearms from getting into the wrong hands,» he wrote.

And this is the problem: the measures he proposes would and could only be enforced at the cost of massive violations of human rights, and by dismantling the fragile but promising structures of technological know - how, international law, trade, and communication by which we are building up a still - feeble sense of what it means to be a single humanity on a single globe, under God and responsible for a common world.

Chemical safety reform is not a Democratic or Republican issue, it is a common - sense issue and I look forward to building bipartisan support for this measure.»

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Murphy held a round - table talk earlier this week on gun legislation and has repeatedly called for enacting what he calls common sense gun safety measures.

«Including e-cigarettes in New York's Clean Indoor Air Law is a common sense measure that will protect the health of our children and our hospitality workers,» said Julie Hart, New York Government Relations Director for the American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network.

«Anti-Semites, racists, and far - right conspiracy theorists have for years opposed common - sense gun control measures by invoking the name of Adolf Hitler.

What's truly distasteful is that when Todd Kaminsky was running for the assembly, he pledged to block the passage of common sense legislation requiring equal pay for women unless a radical measure was first passed jeopardizing women's health by allowing non doctors to perform abortions,» his spokesman said.

«Calls to arm our teachers are merely a distraction from urgently needed, common sense gun safety measures, increased funding for mental health services, and funding for hardening technology for our schools,» Kaminsky said.

Pre-Campaign Community Service / Activism: Worked extensively with Family of Woodstock, Rip Van Winkle Council of Boy Scouts of America, establishing Ulster County Habitat for Humanity, Ralph Darmstadt Homeless Shelter, Ulster County Board of Health and Ulster County Human Rights Commission, Caring Hands Soup Kitchen Board Member, Midtown Rising Board Member, Teacher at Woodbourne Prison, part of Rising Hope Program Platform At a Glance Economy: Supports farming subsidies, job creation through infrastructure investments in rural broadband and sustainable technology, in favor of strong unions Healthcare: Medicare for All Women's Rights: Pro-choice, supports fully funding Planned Parenthood, birth control to be paid for employer, supports equal pay for equal work Racial Justice: Will work to prevent discrimination of all kind Immigration: Supports comprehensive immigration reform that includes path to citizenship for undocumented immigrants Foreign Policy: Supports increased pressure on North Korea but not military intervention Environment: Supports measures to stall climate change and create green jobs LGBTQ: Supports anti-discrimination of all people Gun Control: Will not take NRA money, supports common sense gun control and against Faso's vote to allow the mentally disabled to obtain firearms

«Elise Stefanik refuses to support a common sense measure that would ensure millionaires and billionaires don't play a lower effective tax rate than the people that work for them, than their middle class employees.»

So hopefully, this common sense measure that everyone would benefit from, would be one of the highest priorities for this Congress.»

It does mean that no matter which type of site you choose, you have to practice some common sense safety measures, such as not giving out any personal information and not assuming you know anything about the other person until you've been in contact for a long time.

It's time that policy caught up to common sense and put proficiency - rates - as - school - measures out of their misery once and for all.

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Washington Gov. Jay Inslee is reiterating his call for state lawmakers to pass a series of what he calls «common sense» gun control measures.

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Ensuring that dogs, cats, or other more exotic pets are protected from theft requires some common sense measures that must become routine for pet owners.

Common sense tells me that if a pet food is measured against human food standards for ingredients, production methods, storage, and delivery, then I know it's good enough for my pets.

Learn how to integrate more insulation, airtightness strategies, strategically placed windows, and other common - sense measures to reduce the heating demand required for your next project by 80 %.

There is not much joy for these people in urging common sense measures to forfend readily perceptible hazards, since these don't confer that frisson of «priestly knowledge» that catastrophists find especially rewarding.

Being safe with what you install on your phone has a lot to do with common sense, but for those times when app developers go the extra mile to be sneaky and deceptive, it's nice to know that Google's security measures are getting stronger and smarter.

There are no pre-implementation materials to measure organizational or provider readiness for Common Sense Parenting (CSP).