Sentences with phrase «from policy discussions»

This site is about the science and Steve, for his purposes, smartly keeps away from policy discussions.

«The fact that an opinion is religiously based is no reason to exclude it from policy discussions,» he said, «but neither is it reason to patronize it.»

Labour says Matt Hancock should recuse himself from policy discussions about Evening Standard after his former boss was appointed editor

Tom Watson, the Labour deputy leader and shadow culture secretary, wrote to Hancock asking him to recuse himself from any policy discussions about the Evening Standard or its commercial interests given his history of working as Osborne's chief of staff.

Moreover, strength and stability were presented as features of a person rather than specific policies, therefore, attention was deflected away from policy discussion towards faith in a leader.

Not exact matches

For those seeking a discussion of taxes and trade policy, hope vanished with a question from John Cruickshank, publisher of the Toronto Star, who interviewed Trudeau onstage.

In a statement, the Strategic and Policy Forum members said they «believe the debate over Forum participation has become a distraction from our well - intentioned and sincere desire to aid vital policy discussions on how to improve the lives of everyday Americans.&Policy Forum members said they «believe the debate over Forum participation has become a distraction from our well - intentioned and sincere desire to aid vital policy discussions on how to improve the lives of everyday Americans.&policy discussions on how to improve the lives of everyday Americans.»

Much of the discussion surrounding the current debacle has concentrated on shifting away from a reliance on temporary workers and instead bolstering immigration policies.

It's difficult to have a calm immigration policy discussion following President Donald Trump's Jan. 27 executive order, which banned migrants from seven Muslim - majority countries.

Fisher faced resistance from Democrats during her confirmation over her alleged participation in discussions about policies at the detention facility in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

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A China - based business source with knowledge of discussion among senior European officials said there had been a «clear effort» by the U.S. government over the past six months to introduce a coordinated approach to Chinese industrial policy, but that Trump's proposed metals tariffs under section 232 of the Trade Expansion Act of 1962 had undermined support from Europe.

In discussions and in the company newsletter he informed people that the company's new policy was to require light work from any injured employee who could handle it.

«The debate over forum participation has become a distraction from our well - intentioned and sincere desire to aid vital policy discussions on how to improve the lives of everyday Americans.»

The Alberta government's showpiece bill this fall explicitly prohibits schools from telling parents their children have joined a peer support club for LGBT students, and clarifies that existing notification policies about discussions of sexuality and religion don't go beyond class lessons.

This discussion suggests that any adaptation of monetary policy to financial stability objectives is, to say the least, far from straightforward.

As Bloomberg highlights, Russia's absence from discussions in Vienna is creating complications for OPEC members that insist on participation of non-members in supply cutbacks with one day to go before OPEC ministers meet to decide policy.

The briefing arose from comprehensive discussion on public policy issues related to «informal STEM education,» -LSB-...]

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We intend the discussion of our financial condition and results of operations that follows to provide information that will assist in understanding our Combined and Condensed Combined Financial Statements, the changes in certain key items in those financial statements from period to period, and the primary factors that accounted for those changes, as well as how certain accounting principles, policies and estimates affect our Combined and Condensed Combined Financial Statements.

One forum for this type of discussion is the April 2013 Pacific Energy Summit, co-sponsored by the Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada (APF Canada) and the U.S. - based National Bureau of Asian Research, that will bring together private sector, government and policy leaders from a number of Asian countries, as well as the United States and Canada, to discuss how to forge trans - Pacific co-operation for this new energy era.

TALKING THE TALK Aside from their discussion over the stance of monetary policy, officials likely continued to debate fine - tuning their communications strategy by adopting numerical thresholds for economic variables that would guide the central bank's unconventional stimulus.

Canada 2020 partnered with the Centre for American Progress, Policy Network, and Volta Italia to bring over 300 progressives from over 25 countries together for 3 days of discussion.

This is a larger discussion than feasible here, but, in addition to US policy decisions throughout the second half of the 20th century, I would guess that there is yet some effect from the end of WWII and the need / desire for the US to get the rest of the world back on it's feet.

The NATO essay points again to the fact that, whether the issue under discussion is welfare policy or foreign policy, what we consistently find in the work of Irving Kristol is a consideration of public life and governing from the standpoint of the individual soul» and, by the same token, a consideration of the need to foster the right kinds of virtues in individual souls in order for the most desirable regimes to be successful.

The discussion, moderated by Amy Sullivan of TIME Magazine, ranged from income inequality to energy policy.

you are wanting policies dictated WITHOUT allowing other beliefs (different from yours) to have a seat at the table (i.e., you want to affect public discourse & obviously care about my private beliefs enough to want to bar them from the discussion).

There he says, one, that the shift from the concept of «the State's role as providers of equal opportunities to every citizen» to that of providing education, health and other social services «to those who can afford to pay» is a U-turn in public policy which «has been made surreptitiously by administrative action without public discussion and legislative sanction»; two, that the total commercialization of social sectors is «alien even to free market societies»; and three, that «the ready acceptance of self - financing concept in social sectors alien even to free - market societies is the end result of gradual disenchantment with the Kerala Model of Development», which has been emphasizing the social dimension rather than the economic, but that it is quite false to present the situation as calling for a choice between social development and economic growth.

In 1959 it was suggested that «there remain three principles of democratic procedure to which free church polity must give serious thought» — that is, free discussion, no exclusion from national office except on the basis of creed or ability, and legislation and policy - making executed in accord with methods of representative government (Authority and Power in the Free Church Tradition, by P. M. Harrison [Southern Illinois University Press, 1971], p. 162).

Having criticised the club's transfer policy and claiming that he's been shut out of discussions over new signings, there's clear anger from the Italian at the failure to build on last season's title win.

For each interest disclosed to the President of the Board of Directors, the Chair will determine whether to: (a) take no action; (b) assure full disclosure to the Board of Directors and other individuals covered by this policy; (c) ask the person to recuse him / herself from participation in related discussions or decisions within the association; (d) ask the person to resign from his or her position in the association; (e) if resignation is refused, to initiate procedures for removal of that person from that position.

I do wish I saw more input from fathers in the parenting blog - o - sphere and in our discussions of public policy for parents and families.

Our district doesn't have a policy regarding food, and because we suffer from so many major deal issues being inner city, low social economic, as well as a negative district balance, layoffs, and pay cuts, getting a food discussion going isn't even on the radar.

Since then, the school has secured a $ 4,600 grant from Lowe's Toolbox for Education program to expand the garden to seven beds and hosted a sold - out Farm to School roundtable discussion to discuss school policies and encourage community involvement.

We've got everyone from George Osborne to Armando Iannucci and everything from surveys and election night guides to policy discussions and anonymous campaigning stories.

In the end, however, the mayor's testimony and exchanges with lawmakers from both parties was largely cordial and amounted to a lengthy discussion on education policy issues facing New York City.

Another Twitter - inspired idea from Thursday's CAP / Internet Advocacy Roundtable discussion: when Alan Rosenblatt talked about Tweeting to «influence the influentials,» he didn't just mention policymakers, the press and policy professionals.

We'd love to hear from you — and your idea could inspire a future policy discussion on this website!

This enabled the Labour leader to move the national economic debate from dry discussions about deficits on to the impact of coalition policies on ordinary, hard - working families squeezed by rising prices.

We've seen this sort of criticism of policy and political decisions coming from pundits and bloggers for years, but now a large enough group of online political professionals is writing in public that the degree and level of discussion of online strategy is astonishing this far in advance of anything resembling an election.

It is not a dining club, unlike some Parliamentary groupings, but operates as more of a policy and strategy discussion forum, with guest speakers (including Mark Littlewood of the IEA and John Cridland of the CBI), and, more regularly, members of the 2020 discuss ideas drawn from their areas of expertise from their careers before Parliament.

He will be joined by President Martha Pollack, Senator Gillibrand, and others for a panel discussion, «Sexual Harassment at Work: Policy, Practice, and Law» March 19th from 2:30 to 4 pm at the Statler Auditorium.

I recently had a discussion with someone from the Fabian society to discuss a document I had written on Labour policy processes.

«For too long the voices of certain groups have been absent from discussions on important state policies.

The battle has potential consequences for New Yorkers as discussions will begin soon over a $ 150 billion - plus state budget and an array of policy issues, from immigration and funding for legal services for the poor to whether to legalize ride - hailing upstate or permit physicians to assist terminal patients end their lives.

Indeed, it is because of our reputation for research that experts often get asked to contribute to policy discussions — on everything from mental health to European minority languages.

There was no discussion of foreign policy worth talking about, no discussion of counter terrorism policy, protecting America from attack, defence issues.

As the week gets going we're watching as discussions continue around the mayor's rezoning policies, which have been seeing some significant pushback from community and borough boards.

Away from the discussion of tougher criminal penalties for rioters and the immediate issue of police numbers I want to suggest two long - term policy changes that will help address society's deeper problems.

The President added that discussion on migrations and refugees can not be complete without also including discussion about the nature of African economies, as it is only such a comprehensive discussion, which leads to appropriate policies, that will enable satisfactory solutions to be found to the crises of refugees and migration, especially from the African continent.