Sentences with phrase «government as the instrument»

Berlinerblau makes a mistake, common among many secularists and some Christians, in assuming that a person who takes his or her religion seriously must thereby regard government as an instrument of proselytization and salvation.

We need also the government as the instrument of good order and justice.

Not exact matches

The government may review a cursory blueprint of the monetary instrument as soon as January 2018.

Regional integration groups — of which there are many — serve as instruments for these governments to gain more clout that they can use in international affairs.

Prentice cited the federal loan guarantee for Newfoundland's Lower Churchill River hydroelectric project as «a wise instrument of industrial policy,» and called for governments to «expedite the regulatory and environmental approval processes for megaprojects.»

Total Chinese investment in the US will be unchanged, but its form would differ as investment in risky instruments decline and investment in US government bonds rise by the same amount.»

«There is therefore no government mechanism to guarantee the value of currency instruments known as virtual currencies,» the bank said.

When market conditions favor wider diversification in the view of Hussman Strategic Advisors, Inc., the Fund's investment manager, the Fund may invest up to 30 % of its net assets in securities outside of the U.S. fixed - income market, such as utility and other energy - related stocks, precious metals and mining stocks, shares of real estate investment trusts («REITs»), shares of exchange - traded funds («ETFs») and other similar instruments, and foreign government debt securities, including debt issued by governments of emerging market countries.

For a number of years, concerns had been expressed about the underpricing of risk in a range of financial instruments and the associated search for yield as investors sought higher returns in non-standard financial products as the yield on more standard products such as government bonds was deemed to be inadequate.

This report identifies the policy instruments at the disposal of local governments based on central government policy framework, and presents a few successful and replicable case studies and international experiences as reference for China's future development in promoting green bonds.

The money market mutual fund is a global network of financiers and other investors trading the short - term debt instruments, known as bonds, corporations, and Government Issue to meet these short - term commitments.

Alignment of government policy is particularly crucial, as inconsistency between government policies inhibits investment and raises the cost of capital.235 Once the overall strategic direction is set, a range of methods and instruments are available to mainstream climate at the project level.236 This needs to happen at the technical assessment stage, where technological and process options and alternatives are considered that will achieve the project aim; at the economic assessment stage, which involves measuring net impacts of the project on welfare; and at the financial assessment stage, where costs and revenues of the project are assessed.237

As Christ reforms people, they are called upon to work with everyone else to create or reform the societal instruments that meet our basic needs — first among these is government.

Such developments within academic disciplines are highly significant in a society in which the social sciences are viewed as instruments for the clarification, support and advancement of the government's philosophy and policies.

Not surprisingly, many politicians have run for office opposed to the government as though it were a foreign power, not an instrument of national purpose.

We act as though our government is headed by King George III, a foreign power, not an instrument of national purpose.

But it is not true when government functions as the instrument of cooperation in the community, often the national community.

While it may seem odd to attribute great power to so ineffectual an organization, the right regards the UN as the instrument through which national governments will be destroyed, enabling the Antichrist to gain control of the world.

You get the Obama administration's contraceptive / abortifacient mandate on steroids and a full - scale legal assault by Clinton Administration 3.0 on the capacity of religious institutions to be themselves as they understand themselves to be: communities of religious conviction with a right to their own moral integrity, not mere instruments for delivering whatever the government deems to be a public service or a public good.

But if endowments are conceived solely as instruments, rather than equal partners with the state in pursuit of the public good, then the classic principle of private association in liberal democracies has been lost, for instrumentality implies that government alone is the public good's ultimate arbiter.

They used the Church to reinforce their power, but they left to it many of its former functions, and so, while employing it as an instrument of government, honored it and preserved it fairly intact.

Governments also have addressed harmful drinking as one of the risk factors for non-communicable diseases (NCDs) through instruments such as the WHO Global Action Plan on NCDs and the UN Political Declaration on the Prevention and Control of NCDs.

In doing so, the Federal Government always pursued the goal of reaching a compromise proposal that builds on tried and tested foundations, whilst also providing answers to the specific new challenges of the globally booming organic sector since it regards the safeguarding of a clear, appropriate and reliable EU legal framework as a key instrument in efforts to promote organic agriculture.

Some governments argue against legally binding instruments, claiming that non-binding intiatives such as the UN Global Compact and the OECD Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises can address these concerns.

There is no binding mechanism at the global level to hold corporations accountable for violating these measures (although there are instruments such as the Convention on the Rights of the Child that give them weight in international law and are being used to remind governments of their responsibilities, and there have also been some attempts at European Union level to hold corporations to account for activities in third countries, with little success due to lack of satisfactory reporting mechanism).

As a human rights instrument, the International Code provides governments with a very specific set of policies to benefit a particular target population; in this case pregnant women and new mothers.

The Deputy Head of Macroeconomic Research Unit, Ministry of Finance, Dr. Millicent deGraft - Johnson who spoke on the governments short to medium - term development programme said it was aimed at providing opportunities for growth and job creation through the private sector, and had developed concrete reform actions to tackle key challenges to private investment such as ensuring macroeconomic stability and debt sustainability, improving the ease of doing business and enhancing access to affordable and long - term financing and de-risking instruments.

Nonetheless it is used as a blunt instrument in bludgeoning the current Polish government for political gain.

«This could be used as an instrument for the people, that is, the citizens of Erie County, to improve the framework of their county government,» said Commission Member Kenneth Farrell.

The comments will be treated as a de-facto admittance of defeat for the government, which has no legal instruments at hand to force publishers into its regulator.

«The National Assembly already have an agreement with the Acting President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, Professor Yemi Osinbajo, that if for example, the Private Finance Initiative does not materialize to provide the needed funds for the completion of the Lagos - Ibadan Expressway, just as in other areas where government has issues with the budget, the instruments of virement and supplementary budget can be used.

Mills moved the office of the president back to the Osu Castle and later changed the sign in front of the building back to its original name, claiming that the previous government had not used a Legislative Instrument to effect the change as required by law.

Viewed thus, the Strathclyde model amounts to a triple - whammy: it would permit the Government, just as it can at present, to shield parts of it legislative proposals from the full scrutiny that primary legislation attracts; it would substantially undermine the already lesser scrutiny to which statutory instruments are subject; and it would incentivise greater reliance upon statutory instruments as distinct from primary legislation in order to exploit the significantly weaker scrutiny regime applicable to the former.

«The Government agrees with Lord Strathclyde's conclusion that on statutory instruments, as with primary legislation, the will of the elected House should prevail,» she told peers in a statement this lunchtime.

CSA, as a federal government agency, is contributing the Meteorological Instrument Package (MET) to NASA for incorporation into the Phoenix mission.

Some of the most difficult obstacles to this collaboration arose in the West, as Hammond and Oppenheimer sought government permission to ship their instruments to the DPRK, and university administrators debated signing a memorandum of understanding with the North Koreans.

The model was developed recently by the US government's National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) to make use of new sea and wind data collected from instruments moored across the Pacific as part of the international Tropical Ocean / Global Atmosphere (TOGA) research programme.

«The opportunity for these projects to use significant time on the world's best scientific instruments is occurring in part because of the limitations in government funding for these facilities,» Worden says, noting that flat or shrinking NASA and National Science Foundation budgets for astronomy have left the Parkes and Green Bank radio telescopes — as well as many other observatories — scrambling for new sources of financial support.

Progressives in America have always viewed those mediating institutions that stand between the individual and the government with suspicion, seeing them as instruments of division, prejudice, and selfishness or as power centers lacking in democratic legitimacy.

Included in the PowerPoint: Government Government Macro Policies (AS Level) a) Types of Policy: fiscal policy, monetary policy and supply side policy - instruments of each policy b) Policies to correct balance of payments disequilibrium - assessment of the effectiveness of fiscal monetary and supply side policies to correct a balance of payments disequilibrium - expenditure - reducing and expenditure - switching c) Policies to correct inflation and deflation - assessment of the effectiveness of fiscal, monetary and supply side policies to correct inflation and deflation This PowerPoint is best used when using worksheets and activities to help reinforce the ideas talked about.

A new way forward This will require new thinking by Music Services and new skills will have to be learned on fund raising, approaching businesses and individuals as well as working closely with new partners to deliver the government's vision of «enabling all children in England from all backgrounds to have the opportunity to learn a musical instrument and sing and progress to their level of excellence.»

As an instrument of government, Ofsted fulfils these needs and is able to successfully justify it's own existence through the compliance of those whom it claims to support.

Accordingly, borrowers will be required to covenant in the credit agreement to provide ongoing financial and project information not only during construction, but so long as any Bureau credit instrument is outstanding and / or until any debt obligation to the Federal Government is fully repaid.

Debt funds are the mutual funds which invest in different types of fixed income instruments such as Government Bonds, Corporate Bonds, Money Market instruments, Treasury bills etc..

The special - issue securities are, therefore, just as safe as U.S. Savings Bonds or other financial instruments of the Federal government.

Debt funds invest in fixed income instruments such as Corporate and Government bonds, are lower - risk investment options for those looking for better interest rates than their bank's savings accounts / fixed deposits.

Monthly Income Plan or the MIP is basically a debt - oriented hybrid mutual fund where nearly three - fourth of the corpus is invested in debt instruments such as debentures, government securities, and the likes.

Such schemes generally invest in fixed income securities such as bonds, corporate debentures, Government securities and money market instruments.

Securities firms, commercial banks, corporations, pension funds, state and local governments, and mutual and money market funds use the repo market as a safe haven for cash investment and as a flexible alternative to bank deposits and money market instruments such as CDs and commercial paper.

WDTI, which has gathered $ 248 million in assets since January, invests in a mix of commodity - and currency - linked products as well as in U.S. government securities and money market instruments.