Sentences with phrase «if systems of choice»

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«Most, if not all, entities, if faced with the choice of having access to the U.S. financial system or doing business with North Korea, are going to make the obvious choice,» Cha added.

In «Comparing Nest Eggs: How CPP Reform Affects Retirement Choices,» authors Alexandre Laurin, Kevin Milligan and Tammy Schirle find that once the interaction of these age - based CPP adjustments with the tax system is taken into account, some lower - income Canadians will still have financial incentive to retire early, because they face penalties if they don't.

If the political system of democracy and economic system of capitalism both emphasize freedom, isn't a «Culture of Choice» the necessary result?

Regardless of your beliefs and views, is it not tasteless for CNN to run this as their lead story on Easter morning??? Americans are appalled by anything done to insult Islam believers, so why is this felt to be appropriate??? There is nothing wrong with the article, but its timing makes it a poor and inflammatory choice of journalism, and would be taken as «persecution» if was directed toward any other belief system.

You clearly have no notion of how our justice system operates if you think it's a valid choice to kill people who have otherwise shown to have committed no crime.

Except that if you were able to be honest with yourself you would realize that 1) if anyone is making that choice, and you are right about the ends, they are making it while depreived of fill knowledge and 2) «Free will» is a nonsensical construct invented to justify such a system without having to think too hard.

If the left insists on the liberal interpretation of our constitutional and political institutions in an uncompromising effort to defend the ever - expanding role of the state to secure the practical liberty of individuals, the right defends the free - market system and uncompromisingly rejects any restraint on the unfettered economic choices of individuals.

We have come to believe that a system allowing parents a choice among schools, if properly organized by an aggressive central administration, can release energies that only diversity makes available, without sacrificing accountability for the effective education of every child.

Deschamps has not recalled Karim Benzema to his squad so if he is to continue with the same sort of system we have seen in the build up to and during Euro 2016 then Giroud will probably be his first choice to play through the middle.

If all of us make the right choices together then we can make a big impact, which will help change our country's food system for the better.

All in all the Cybex Agis M - 3 Travel system is an amazing choice if you're looking for a top of line luxury car seat stroller system.

While originally designed for jogging, this stroller is now the choice of a wider range of parents, who turn to this stroller for greater stability (three - wheel base) and smooth travel over rough terrain (large air - filled tires, lockable front swivel wheels and quality suspension systems)-- even if that rough terrain is just uneven pavement!

In areas where the patient's choice has a profound effect on outcome, random comparisons eliminating choice will give unreliable estimates of true differences.14 Therefore, in the Netherlands, where choosing between home or hospital birth is an integral feature of the system, randomised controlled trials between home birth and hospital birth would not produce generalisable results even if it were possible to mount such trials.

Although, if you don't have a Phil & Teds system you will need to check whether it fits your pram and you won't find a choice of funky patterns and colourways to choose from with this seat.

A key requirement of democracy is equal protection of all stakeholders - i.e., if at some point there is a completely fair vote of 2/3 population preferring the choices advocated and implemented by party A; and 1/3 preferring the choices of party B - then a system must ensure that the minority gets adequate protections and fair treatment; so that while at this moment country gets steered to choice A, the minority doesn't get punished in any way for saying that in their opinion choice B might be best; and if some of the original voters change their mind, the choice B can still be known even if the governing clique that was elected on the idea of A wants to continue with A forever.

Leaving aside some MPs who support it out of self - interest (because they think it would benefit their party, or because AV would enable them to claim majority support from their constituents — Peter Hain is an obvious example) hardly anyone would actually pick AV as the best system if they had a free choice in the matter.

In this system, everyone votes for their choice of a candidate and the top two candidates enter a second round, even if one candidate gets a majority in the first round.

Considering that the choice of voting system to the most powerful legislature in the country is of fundamental importance to the very fabric of society, I believe that, if there is anything close to a majority of the electorate in favour of changing the voting system, whether that be to PR or not, then the question must be put to the electorate.

Third, if minor parties are worried about how winner - take - all, single - member - district elections encourage voters to vote for lesser evils rather than their first choice, we want to work with them for a real solution to that problem: a system of proportional representation,» LaVenia said.

Surely you don't think it's fair for there to be bias in the system, even if it is towards your party of choice?

This is a great choice if you're looking for something simple to replace the speakers that came in your car from the factory or if you're just starting to build your first system and don't want to invest a whole lot of money just yet.

In lieu of the fact that there would be a desire to explore this system a robotic probe would be the first choice to make a reconnaissance and to determine if there exists anything in the system, such as I hypothesized.

If we look at the enzymes in a baby's digestive system at the age of first foods, proteins and fats are a logical and much safer choice.

While quickly dumping a whole host of anabolic aminos into the system is great if you're not going to be eating for long periods of time, it's not a great choice for those time periods where you're basically fasting — such as when you sleep.

The take home message with all of this, is that if you have diabetes... especially type II, it is sincerely in your best interest to get off all the «white» refined foods and stick with the healthier choices of carbohydrates found in fruits and vegetables and whole grains as they are high in fiber as well as packed full of vitamins and minerals which will not only protect your system from long term damages associated with diabetes, but will also keep you younger and feeling more fabulous as part of an anti-aging program.

Most conventional doctors do not know, and this is where Naturopathic Doctors are the number one choice for thyroid care, as we get to the root to find out if something else is causing the thyroid to be out of balance, and restore health to all systems as an interdependent whole.

If a substantial part of your diet is fats, your body will have no choice but to use the aerobic system.

If it's not one thing, it's everything... but it IS everything and making the nourishing choices to support all systems is what you can do to get out of the fog.

Though you don't get much for your extra $ 20, the slight gameplay tweaks make the 360 version of MLB 2K6 the best choice if you've got both systems.

But if designed correctly, a system of choice that honored the convictions of educators (and other constituents) would take many of the most intractable issues off the table, especially those that touch us most closely - disagreement over curriculum, pedagogy, and standards of personal comportment.

And if so, according to this theory, the choice of media guru Cathie Black to run the system makes perfect sense.

You name it, if there's some sort of choice that people can make, there's probably at least one, if not more than one, rating system to help them decide.

Cars, colleges, neighborhoods, restaurants, you name it — if there's some sort of choice that people can make, there's probably a rating system to help them decide.

This superb short report by Lake and Schnaiberg on special education in NOLA shows how a system of choice and autonomous schools can, if wisely organized, offer improved services to high - need kids.

If you followed the above guidelines, you should feel very confident in your choice of Learning Management System software.

She would undo most if not all of the «structural» reforms that have been put in place in recent years — mayoral control, performance - based pay, charter laws and other choice schemes, reliance on entrepreneurship and market incentives, federal efforts to incentivize and prod the system to change in constructive directions, testing - and results - based accountability and more.

For example, if an extremely popular school joins the OneApp and many families rank that school first, the percentage of families receiving their first choice might fall even as the system's ability to match families to desirable schools improves.

Even if most of the private schools participating in a voucher program are religious, as long as some viable options exist within the public school system, the genuine choice requirement should be satisfied.

Surely there are risks associated with drawing private schools into public accountability systems, but empirical evidence shows that downsides can be mitigated if policymakers are smart about how they design results - based accountability in choice programs of this kind.

And as Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos settles into her new post, her unbridled support for school choice and vouchers has electrified debate once again over how — and if — such provisions should fit into an American school system that many see as deeply flawed.

So if the public - school analogy holds, the public option in health - care insurance won't create a system of choice and competition, as the White House claims; it will slowly — or not so slowly — give way to a (nearly) single - payer system.

Part of the point I was trying to make the other day, with my «More money to the parents» post, was that plenty of these parents, including poor parents, are a lot smarter than we — the system — gives them credit for and that if they had more choice (or the money to exercise those preferences) and fewer structural and institutional impediments to overcome, you'd see big changes in some of our slackard schools.

If the public - school analogy holds, the public option in health - care insurance won't create a system of choice and competition, as the White House claims; it will slowly — or not so slowly — give way to a (nearly) single - payer system.

«If you have choice without civil rights policies, it stratifies the system,» said Gary Orfield, the co-director of the Civil Rights Project at U.C.L.A., a research organization that recently published a study hailing the benefits of integrated schools.

If charter, district, state, and civic leaders in Detroit can pivot quickly from their various postures over the Free Press series and start addressing the very real problems that parents face in district - run and charter schools alike, they will have a good chance at building a vibrant system of choice for their city.

«I don't want to say it's an absolute, but I certainly think it would be easier if we had a vigorous school accountability system at the same time that we had a vigorous expansion of school choice.»

That kind of system — if it is truly against any form of expanded school choice options for every child, not just the affluent or the lucky — stands behind the disempowerment of that family and the academic suffering of that child.

It is as if Steve Perry was using Diane Ravitch's «The Death And Life Of The American School System: How Testing And Choice Are Undermining Education» as a play book to guide him.

Too often in U.S. schools, the only choice has seemed to be between zero accountability and a harsh, martinet - like system of control where people are told what to do and are punished if they don't follow orders.

If Americans are going to decide which level of government we want to run our education systems, the only realistic choice is the state.