Sentences with phrase «greater political understanding»

Instead of advocating legislative change which might address those problems, the report favours a less radical approach, recommending prosecutorial guidance or greater political understanding.

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A strengthened and more independent Parliamentary Budget Office would promote greater understanding of complex budget issues; it would force the government to defend its economic and budget forecasts; it would promote a straightforward and more understandable and open budget process; it would promote accountability by commenting on the government's projections and analysis; finally, by being nonpartisan, it would provide research to all political parties.

A strengthened (more resources), and more independent (report to Parliament) PBO would promote greater understanding of complex budget issues; it would strengthen credibility by encouraging simplification and forcing the government to defend its economic and budget forecasts; it would improve the budget process by promoting a straightforward and more understandable and open process; it would promote accountability by commenting on the government's projections and analysis; finally, by being nonpartisan it would provide analysis and research to all political parties.

And he cites Steven Cohen who wrote that, by the early 1980s, most «American Jews had been raised with the understanding that liberalism or political radicalism constituted the very essence of Judaism, that all the rest — the rituals, liturgy, communal organizations — were outdated, vestigial trappings for a religion with a great moral message embodied in liberalism.»

At this time, when the people are moved by a strong urge for social equality and economic and political justice, there is a great need for a country - wide agency to look after their religious needs and to guide them to an understanding of the principles of Islam.

Fundamentally, they constitute an understanding about how blacks should respond to the great philosophical and political problems created by our history of degradation, more recently followed by our unequal citizenship.

Such an oversimplification ignores the biographical, religious and political realities running through the history of Christian missions during the «great century» and long before, as missionaries have, in the name of Jesus, striven to understand and learned to respect the particularities of the cultures to which they have come.

As I have argued in these pages and elsewhere, the «presumption,» by detaching the just war way of thinking from its proper political context» the right use of sovereign public authority toward the end of tranquillitas ordinis, or peace» tends to invert the structure of classic just war analysis and turn it into a thin casuistry, giving priority consideration to necessarily contingent in bello judgments (proportionality of means, discrimination or noncombatant immunity) over what were always understood to be the prior ad bellum questions («prior» in that, inter alia, we can have a greater degree of moral clarity about them).

The journal is a quarterly published by the National Endowment for Democracy (1101 15th St NW, Suite 200, Washington, D.C 20005) and should be of great interest to people trying to understand political and cultural changes in today's world.

So to understand the curious political situation of modern America and our political parties, one must pay great attention to how abortion shaped (and continues to shape) electoral realities.

And there is good reason for this, apocalypticism is inevitably subversive, and perhaps the most purely subversive force in history, all of the great political revolutions in modernity have been apocalyptic revolutions, and even the advent of both Christianity and Islam can be understood as the consequence of apocalypticism.

It is one of the great contributions of Professor Niebuhr's book to demonstrate through the analysis of historic phenomena the fallacy of this approach to historic understanding and political action.

In that context we can understand the bicentennial epigram written by Harry Jaffa, one of the few political scientists who continues the great tradition today: «In 1776 the United States was so to speak nothing; but it promised to become everything.

Only in this connection can we understand how a society that seems, if one considers its articulate and self - conscious classes, so intensely ideological can show such low rates of political and ideological knowledge and involvement when compared with other modern societies.15 The gap between intellectuals and masses, between conscious ideology and popular feeling, is probably greater than in most Western countries.

But they can live with their Catholic neighbors in the hope that greater mutual understanding and the sharing of moral and political purposes may become possible.

Providing individuals with the requisite understanding of their place in our contemporary, globalized world and giving them the autonomy to have greater control over their own lives should figure high on our list of enshrined social and political rights.

Greater clarity would have the merit of helping to manage public expectations and market reactions during transitional periods, and would provide political actors with a clear understanding of the rules and restrictions that are in effect.

It effectively introduces a framework for understanding how leaders choose to respond to the pressure to liberalize their political systems, covering the recent history of African politics and providing great detail on the return of multiparty politics in Africa since the early 1990s.

For me, that offers one of the key perspectives on understanding societies, and it is a way of thinking about politics that shifts it away from the great theories and abstractions of political philosophers, who often can not speak with reference to everyday life.

It was data analytics firm Cambridge Analytica that led me to understanding Robert Mercer's role in all this; in the great disruption of the political landscape on two continents; his strategic and coordinated attack on the mainstream media and its replacement with an alternative online network.

He is open - minded and wants to understand what their greatest concerns are before jusmps around like many of these clowns pushing the party political agenda.

«The best way to defend democracy is to promote greater understanding among the political class.

«My right hon. friend will understand and probably appreciate the irony that the more successful he is in delivering a negotiation that meets the mutual interests of ourselves and the 27, the greater the political challenge for the 27, as it will be seen as rewarding the United Kingdom for Brexit.

Forty - nine per cent of Mumsnet users said they would vote for a party with greater female representation and 63 % said they thought having more women in top political jobs meant they would have a greater understanding of their concerns.

«There is too great an interest, I think, in (the Cuomo administration) to make a headline, to score political points, to leverage people against one another in order to score a win instead of truly understanding the kind of change that needs to happen in order to grow the economy, keep New Yorkers here and make the state more affordable and improve everybody's quality of life,» Molinaro said.

«For example, there's no political polarization on climate change with greater understanding of the greenhouse mechanism that drives global warming,» he wrote in an email.

simply, talkative, noisy, straigh t, political minded, understanding, responsib le, caring, thoughtful, loving and have a great sense of humor

Beyond being one of our greatest filmmakers, he's also one of our most self - aware, and understands that he's crossing the streams a little: He shoots this political drama like a long - lost Indiana Jones movie.

With greater exposure to subjects such as anthropology, political science, world history, and world literature — among other topics — students develop a deeper understanding of global issues.

Greater understanding of the processes involved in different political systems across the world.

By studying and living in the United Kingdom (or any other country), you'll get a greater understanding of the political and social structure and how everyday citizens feel about it.

The Museum's mission promotes a greater understanding and appreciation of the artistic, cultural, and political implications of the image in our world today.

It must never be forgotten that political and economic activity is only effective when it is understood as a prudential activity, guided by a perennial concept of justice and constantly conscious of the fact that, above and beyond our plans and programs, we are dealing with real men and women who live, struggle and suffer, and are often forced to live in great poverty, deprived of all rights.

We are heartened that despite the domestic and international political challenges that have limited actions to address climate change, the year brought broader recognition and acceptance of the science of climate change along with a greater understanding of its likely costs.

• Political polarization is greatest among the Republicans and Democrats who are most confident that they understand this issue.

Legal claims brought against a Sovereign State or its instrumentalities by a foreign investor under a bilateral or multilateral investment treaty, or a contract or a domestic investment law, require a legal team of the highest international caliber: with great expertise in international law, a deep understanding of the civil and common law systems, extensive experience in the various fora and rules under which claims are raised, an enhanced capability to analyze complex facts and industries, broad language abilities, and sensitivity to political and cultural issues in the various regions of the world.

Metcalf believes games will play a greater role in political discourse, as politicians begin to understand their power, and as a new generation of game - savvy leaders come to power.

Anyone living in the Chicago area understands the challenges great schools like Lane Tech are encountering due to political dysfunction and economic hardship.

The ongoing uncertainties in Russia and the CIS have halted some infrastructure projects, with many employers postponing projects and recruitment campaigns until they have a greater understanding of how the political situation will be resolved.