Sentences with phrase «group policies like»

With group policies like these, individual underwriting isn't necessary.

Not exact matches

As well, if we truly believed that minimum wage policy is an effective tool for moderating the business cycle, groups like CUPE and CCPA would advocate reducing the minimum wage during booms.

The latter is an option that is being exercised by groups like the Canadian American Business Council, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, the Business Council of Canada and the Canadian Chamber of Commerce which are all engaging the three governments involved to shape the negotiations and the policies that follow.

The following year, Facebook outraged civil liberties groups with a new privacy policy that gave people less control over their what they could do with their data and made sensitive information like profile pictures, locations, and friend lists publicly available.

Importantly, none of these groups could point to federal government dysfunction on climate policy to defend their own inaction, he said, because the wild rhetoric of government dissidents like Craig Kelly does not reflect mainstream government policy for the nation to meet its Paris commitments for a 26 - 28 per cent reduction in carbon emissions by 2030.

But given that several individual racial justice groups, as well as larger collectives like the Movement for Black Lives and the police - reform oriented Campaign Zero initiative, have all come out with various policy agendas targeting specific issues, this doesn't really hold up.

It looks like to me that the committee made the policy not the christian base group.

Groups like Clergy for a New Drug Policy seek to reform the enforcement laws to get to the root of real problems like addiction and poverty, instead of just locking up millions of people, turning them into felons for life.

However, Ginsburg gave some hope to CLS, which had argued that Hastings officials had selectively enforced its «all comers» policy, allowing organizations like the Latino group La Raza, but not CLS, to have rules restricting its membership.

Westerners may feel like they are superior to other groups but rarely make it policy that they are better by nature of their choice.

The point is to create a shared vocabulary and a shared understanding of policy and the political environment that will allow future candidates to talk to this group without sounding like space aliens.

His main point: it looks like interest - group politics, and thus gives license for bad liberal and statist - Republican tax policy incentives when the political winds shift.

Women, like blacks and members of other oppressed groups, must break their inner bondage and gain self - esteem if they are to use fully their potential in collective efforts to change the systems of injustice (discriminatory laws, pay scales, admissions policies to professional schools, among others).

So, basically, freedom of association and / or freedom of religion do not allow groups like CLS to be exempt from an «all - comers» policy.

But to say that I and my family should be lumped in with groups like Campings or the Westboro Baptist Church as many atheist groups proclaim daily is as to say Democrats and Republicans are identical in political policy

From Johnson's perspective, pro-life activists and policy groups spend too much time bickering over details like whether to protest using graphic signs depicting photos of aborted babies.

A useful parallel can be drawn between policies that encourage education and the work of groups like Habitat for Humanity, where the «sweat equity» of family members, combined with the personal and financial involvement of others, provides better housing for many.

Research shows that a majority of global consumers, and especially Millennials, support companies that are committed to minimizing environmental impacts and that prioritize sustainable approaches to operations.2 To share more about its water initiatives, Fetzer Vineyards developed a new page on its website containing facts about agricultural water use and details about the company's water policy support. Visit fetzer.com/water for more on Fetzer Vineyards» water initiatives, including its adoption of BioFiltro's BIDA ® treatment system and its support for water conservation research and advocacy through collaborations with groups like the Beverage Industry Environmental Roundtable (BIER) and Ceres» Connect the Drops, both of which were commended for their water policy efforts at the White House Water Summit on Building a Sustainable Water Future in the United States on March 22, 2016.

Visit fetzer.com/waterfor more on Fetzer Vineyards» water initiatives, including its adoption of BioFiltro's BIDA ® treatment system and its support for water conservation research and advocacy through collaborations with groups like the Beverage Industry Environmental Roundtable (BIER) and Ceres» Connect the Drops, both of which were commended for their water policy efforts at the White House Water Summit on Building a Sustainable Water Future in the United States on March 22, 2016.

Breastfeeding advocacy groups like the National Alliance for Breastfeeding Advocacy (NABA) are working to encourage the United States to adopt similar policies.

This isn't to say that there is no place for a crash course, but many crash courses, particularly those in large group settings or taught by hospitals are not childbirth classes in the true sense of the word, but more like glorified hospital tours, which also have their place for learning about hospital policies.

Instead it suggests two points: first, policy - makers are increasingly concerned about the mushrooming of al - Qaeda - like groups across Syria, which implicates a scenario of long - term internal and cross-border instability; second, it is an attempt to deligitimise Western strategy in Syria by focusing on the openly violent, sectarian and fanatic elements.

Like environmental and gender equality lobby groups, MSF's ethic of refusal has one goal whichever government is implicated, that of influencing policy according to its philosophical beliefs.

At the very least the proposed changes in Greater Manchester — which obviously go a lot wider than the system of government — have all the hall marks of a policy being made on - the - hoof, behind closed doors, by small groups of like - minded people — just the sort of ingredients identified by King and Crewe which lead to monumental blunders.

It says the government would have to make it «the central aim of all its economic policies» and identify what it looks like in terms of employment rates for specific groups, more sustainable welfare provision and public services and a greater focus on job creation.

Groups like Diabetes UK are calling for the provision of emotional and psychological support as an integral part of a diabetes care package, and for the package to be part of an overarching policy that will put an end to the post code lottery.

«As many of you know, I ran a public interest group that worked for many of the Giuliani policies that turned this city around — like the crackdown on porn shops and squeegee men — and I don't want to turn back the clock.»

Of course, even if you can economize a specific policy on scale (e.g. negotiating medical costs visavi Obamacare, in theory), that still runs smack into the other downsides of having a federal policy, both # 1 (you impose Obamacare on ~ 50 % of the country that hates it by force); and # 3 (if Obamacare is a bad policy, there's no way to easily tell because it's not like we have a duplicate USA that doesn't run Obamacare and serves as a control group for an experiment).

The black communities will be horrified when Blair's economic policies not only slam into the poorest people in Britain but also create a base for a new rise of racism and fascist groups like the BNP.

The 2020 sees itself as a policy - focused group that can help complement groups like the 301, who concentrate more on election - winning strategies and tactics to win seats in urban areas, the North, etc..

At the time, this was largely seen as a favor to business groups who felt stung by Cuomo's tax policy and hoped it would be a way to get their voices heard on changes they liked.

John Denham, the Skills Secretary, will tell a rally tomorrow: «We have got into a terrible mess by counterposing ideals like individual aspiration, or choice in public services, with the virtues of social solidarity and collective strength... trying to tailor individual policies to different groups of voters is a political dead end.

Caroline Lucas, co-leader of the Green Party, described these findings as «very concerning»: «This group is pushing for dangerous policies like the mass deregulation of farming, and ministers should not be funding it.

He is shown standing at 1 World Trade Center and in recent weeks has sought to assert his foreign policy credentials by pledging an aggressive posture on terrorist groups like ISIS.

David Cameron said today's survey by the Policy Exchange showing more than a third of young Muslims would like to live under sharia law, and 13 per cent support groups like al - Qaida, proved the failings of treating each community as distinct.

Energy policy also dominated the discussion at the Capitol on Monday as groups like the Business Council and lawmakers urged the Cuomo Administration for regulatory reform on pipeline projects.

A decade ago, labor groups and Democratic elected officials staunchly opposed the expansion of big - box retailers like Walmart into New York City given the company's anti-union policies.

Peer - to - peer car - sharing service Getaround is stepping up advocacy for legislation that would allow it and companies like it to purchase group insurance policies, thereby allowing such companies to operate in New York.

«This governor has fancied himself as a sort of fiscal hawk but willing to deal with other issues from a more moderate or liberal perspective,» said Blair Horner, the executive director of New York Public Interest Research Group, citing Mr. Cuomo's conservative - minded moves, like the property tax cap, and his more progressive policies, like same - sex marriage.

New York Immigration Coalition (NYIC): An umbrella policy and advocacy organization of more than 200 immigrant and refugee rights groups across New York State, NYIC has fought alongside the UFT for a more just and humane immigration policy and against anti-immigrant legislation like Arizona's SB 1070.

Then there is Mr. Klein's group, which has pushed for liberal policies like paid family leave and the $ 15 minimum wage, but has worked with Republicans for several years.

The yacht exemption, along with a sales tax break for those who own private airplanes, was quickly pounced on by liberal watchdog groups like the Fiscal Policy Institute and Senate Democrats, including Minority Leader Andrea Stewart - Cousins.

Actually, out - of - mosque preaching by groups like ex-Muhajiroun extremists, sheer ignorance of the basic teachings of Islam, online fantasy, our interventionist foreign policy and some concerns about MI5's dealing with Muslim extremists come high in the list.

The group successfully bolstered the governor's policy proposals through millions of dollars of advertising buys that provided a counter to the perennially - high spending of interests like public employee unions during budget negotiations.

According to Elliott's slides, this movement includes the Taxpayers» Alliance and other officially non-partisan groups like MigrationWatch and the Countryside Alliance, centre - right charitable thinktanks including the Centre for Social Justice and Policy Exchange, activist groups like ConservativeHome, and Ukip as well as the Conservative party.

With community groups still spurning Cuomo despite his attempt to strongarm Democratic unity and win WFP support, the New York political world entered something of a parallel universe in which the governor and his allies act like Cuomo has always been a champion of party unity and that the primary fight is about anything but progressive policy failures due to years of a sanctioned Democratic split.

For all those years in the early 2000s, legions of Brownites (back in the days when such a grouping existed) didn't give a second thought to tricky details like an alternative policy programme.

Like Nevada, support for legalization in Arizona comes primarily from various businesses working in the medical marijuana industry and from reform groups such as the Marijuana Policy Project.

Flanagan, a 57 - year - old trade - directory publisher who once had aspirations of running for office, is now a study in conservative grassroots activism, illustrating both the way in which Tea Party groups can figure into policy fights even in a liberal state like New York, and how they maximize the influence they have with public officials.

One area that he will not instruct it to examine will be the issue of outside nonprofit groups created to take donations to support an elected official's policies, like the Campaign for One New York, which was created for Mr. de Blasio, and whose efforts were later examined by state and federal investigators.