Sentences with phrase «give political weight»

Moe recognizes that public opinion on education represents a powerful resource that savvy advocates of policy reform can potentially tap to give political weight to their arguments.

To get a Labour majority government, given the political weight of liberalised conservatism in southern England, you need the English north, the industrial Midlands, most of Wales and most of Scotland.

You allude to the apparent paradox of class / nationalism when you say «To get a Labour majority government, given the political weight of liberalised conservatism in southern England, you need the English north, the industrial Midlands, most of Wales and most of Scotland».

Not exact matches

Whilst we would prefer live exports end immediately and also supportive of the Greens» bill which calls for the immediate cessation of the trade, we have chosen to give our full support to the independents» bill, which holds the greatest political weight, and hope for a permanent ban on the live export trade.

Political economists, indeed, will not give it this rank; but whether we regard it as joke or earnest, it is not the less true, that, of two countries, with an equal amount of population, we may declare with positive certainty, that the wealthiest and most highly civilized is that which consumes the greatest weight of soap.

Third, you rate the questions importance (this ensures superficial questions such as your favorited ice cream flavour is not given the same weight as something like political and religious beliefs).

The prospect of Steven Spielberg doing an Abraham Lincoln biopic threatens a return to the earnest «give us free» slave narrative of Amistad, but the brilliance of Lincoln comes from how much weight it gives to the horse - trading and arm - twisting it takes to achieve political goals.

The sometimes - political nature enhances the overall emphasis of the film, giving it the weight necessary to be a cautionary tale underneath, while on the surface, the action is inventive, harrowing and quite riveting, even during the quieter moments.

The deep tension within these images, namely the ways in which art and politics collide and reify, gives this exhibition a powerful and timely political weight.

Climate change itself isn't a scientific phenomonen, its a compendium of poisonous, authoritarian political idiocies taped to a loose stool of pseudo-science to give it a little extra weight when it's thrown around the room.

Can't I be weight the probabilities of each — especially given that CO2 emissions are inextricably linked to environmental impact such as particulate matter and geo - political impact such spending billions to keep oil flowing and enriching oppressive regimes while doing so?

Meanwhile, the weight given to different parts of the strategy will help reveal which of the competing political priorities behind the energy union has won out.

What you have just written David tells me that the underlying root cause of the problem is the «precautionary principle» itself: IOW the notion that a remotely possible but highly unlikely and uncertain catastrophic outcome must be given heavy weighting in the political decision - making process, simply because the posited impact is so devastating.

After the restructuring, RWE will own even larger shares of conventional generation in Germany, which gives this company more market power and political weight when discussing the future of energy production in Germany

In fact it's gives even more weight to grassroots action: More than ever pressure needs to be put on governments (wherever you happen to live) to enact strong national emissions targets, based in science not political expediency.

And the court also gave weight to the evidence of the council's monitoring officer, Richard Frankland, that «in his view no political advantage was to be gained by any political party if the application was determined prior to the elections... having regard to his statutory duty and his knowledge of the scheme and of Council affairs»».

Given the fact that work in this field has advanced already in bits and pieces, Lee could be seen throwing his political weight for bringing forth such legislative solutions which could regulate the space notably.