Sentences with phrase «important issue in this country»

«The belief that corruption is the important issue in the country is shared only by the minority living in urban areas and towns who have been beneficiaries of economic liberalization policies mandated by western countries.

Further, the Separation of Church and State is a very important issue in this country right now.

If education weren't the most urgent and important issue in this country, we might consider waiting to take action.

Not exact matches

«We agree with you that access to food is an important issue for the country, and we share your goal of improving that access,» Huseman said in the letter.

«The Windrush scandal has rightly shone a light on an important issue for our country,» Rudd said in a resignation letter to May.

In countries with relatively generous data caps or unlimited access to data or where speed is used for billing as opposed to the amount of data it is not an issue or becomes less important over time.

Over the weekend, Saudi King Salman issued a whole raft of Royal decrees implementing huge changes in the make - up of the country's most important officials.

Clinton exceeded Obama's performance among people in those states who said the economy was the most important issue facing the country — but was badly outperformed by Trump among those who wanted to see a president who «can bring change.»

Although TPP is often seen as another in a line of treaties aimed at liberalizing trade further, a more important goal may have been to «raise the bar» on trade, and to set up a body of rules, including on environmental and labor issues, with which to create pressure for countries like China to comply.

The most important labor debate in the country right now isn't the minimum wage issue that President Obama spent so much time on in his SOTU speech this week.

The foreign debt continues to be an issue and new voices have began to sound the need to look for ways to face it; (ii) At the national level two questions are concentrating increasing attention: one is the reassessment of the necessary role of the state to correct the distortions of a runaway market (currently discussed in Europe and in the discussions about the role the initiatives of «an active state has played in the economic development of Asian countries); the other is the need for a «participative democracy over against a purely representative formal democracy: in this sense the need to strengthen civil society with its intermediate organizations becomes an important concern; (iii) the struggle for collective and personal identity in a society in which forced immigration, dehumanizing conditions in urban marginal situations, and foreign cultural aggression and massification in many forms produce a degrading type of poverty where communal, family and personal identity are eroded and even destroyed.

Besides covering important pharma, biotech and healthcare events in the country, the publication also brings out country specific special issues on Sri Lanka, Pakistan, Singapore, UAE, Russia, China etc with tremendous success in terms of editorial contents and advertisements.

It was also important to realise that when helping in developing countries, the issues that they face may be similar in nature but are in fact very different, and can not be fixed with a standard solution; each issue needs to be considered individually.

With up to 42 % of food being wasted in some countries, this is an important issue to be tackled for a food secure world.

Biodiversity issues based on measurable performance are more and more important as a basis for subsidies and, at least in some countries, for consumer decisions for buying organic products.

Dr. Fisher believes that dispassionate, rigorous study of birth across all settings is more important than ever given disparities in women's access to trained and licensed care providers, current and future physician workforce issues, rising costs of health care, and unacceptably high rates of adverse outcomes for mothers and infants in the U.S. compared to other industrialized countries.

Longer duration of exclusive breastfeeding is especially important in countries where clean water, healthy food and healthcare are more of an issue, but ALL babies benefit the longer that mom continues to provide her milk.

It's an important health issue, and if, by hosting directions like these, I can increase the number of breastfed infants in this country (and beyond), then I feel I'm doing a service.

«While I expect this fight to continue, it is my hope the administration can put this destructive chapter behind them and focus on solving our country's important issues, including funding infrastructure, creating jobs for working - class Americans, and developing a meaningful urban agenda to tackle the serious challenges facing America's cities,» said Syracuse Mayor Stephanie Miner in a statement.

To understand how a demagogue such as Castro became the leading contender in Costa Rica's upcoming election, it is important to look at the issues that preoccupied the country in 2017:

Understanding just what's going on in these failed middle income countries is an important question in contemporary political economy, and it's something that I'll be researching more closely with a colleague over this summer; look out for a new paper on these issues later in the year...

«Therefore, in the interest of complete transparency on the single most important issue of the day for most Americans, we ask that you join us for an open discussion so that we can begin to change a process that has not only polarized this Capitol building but this country as well.»

And virtually no one in the poll ranked campaign financing as the most important issue facing the country.

The fact is that the European Union issue is more important than any of that, because it's about the decision of whether you want your laws made in Brussels and that march towards ever - closer union, or whether you want our country to make its own laws, our politicians to make the laws in this country, for us to be able to determine our immigration policy, to decide how we're spending our public money.

«There are many important issues facing our country and I have no desire for anything to divert my party - or indeed the media - from concentrating on those vital challenges,» Mr Tiefenbrun said in a statement.

«On the important issue of getting more women into public life... this is fantastically important for our country because we will not represent or govern our country properly unless we have more women at every level in our public life and in our politics,» he said.

«Congresswoman Maloney's role in job creation initiatives and other issues important to the lives and well - being all working people are vital to the future prosperity of our country.

It is important to remember that the two countries come at this issue from completely different perspectives — for the UK, in addition to practical budgetary considerations, the contribution to the EU budget carries great symbolic resonance, while in Germany it is seen as an unwelcome distraction given the wider problems within the eurozone.

Climate change - the issue David Cameron described a year ago as «one of the most serious threats that this country and this world faces» and on which all three leaders signed an important pledge as recently as February — has been studiously avoided in this campaign.

However, it is important to at least start to process of a constructive dialogue on the issues which will shape the European debate in both countries in the immediate future.

My polling has found that Tory voters are twice as likely as Labour voters, and UKIP voters three times as likely, to say that defending Britain's interests in Europe is one of the most important issues facing the country.

The issue of the environment and climate change is very important, because of its impact on many countries in the Commonwealth.

The Chairman of INEC, Prof. Mahmud Yakubu, who commended the role of the CSOs in elections, said that the meeting was important to discuss issues considered pertinent to the development of democracy in the country.

«At this point in time, with all of the social issues going on in this country, I think it's more important that we get people involved in this process who know the everyday struggles of the people who inhabit this great district,» Gordon said.

Cable, who had repeated run - ins with Osborne when the two were ministers in the coalition government, said his presence underlined how important he believed the issue was for the future of the country.

Evidence from media reports and CSOs, including police arrests, suggest the high involvement of Chinese in the activities, but according to the Chinese mission in the country, its [Chinese] government attaches great important to the illegal mining issue and is firmly against the involvement of Chinese in illegal mining in Ghana.

«Hosting Speaker Boehner provides an opportunity to discuss with one of the most important leaders in our country issues like expanding economic opportunities both in Indian County and Central New York, investing in public priorities and improving education and civil rights protections,» Barkin said without offering specific details.

«I will be happy to share our programs and expertise with any commission dedicated to this important issue and my hope is that our practices will be adopted throughout the State, as they have been in a number of jurisdictions across the country,» he said.

This is an important public health issue even in the wealthiest of countries and more research is required into better treatments, better implementation of the tools we already have, and ongoing surveillance of the problem.

«The important issue is imagining all the ways in which cultures created by multiple source countries rather than few source countries differ,» says Niedenthal, whose work is funded by the National Science Foundation.

Inorganic arsenic is naturally present at high levels in the groundwater of many countries, creating an important public health issue affecting millions of people.

Yang says statistics at the time confirmed the issue's importance to the American public, but she wanted to examine the variance between what's important to a news consumer and what's personally relevant in terms of that same person being affected, or the country being affected.

At the moment, however, she, like many of her colleagues, is focused on another issue: figuring out ways to make sure «the people of our country understand how important the public investment in science is.»

It's important to realize, also, that the health effects of nutritional deficiencies are not only something that affect people in Africa, India and Afghanistan; it's also a serious issue in industrialized countries like the U.S.

We know that when you're a Greek living in another country, safety is a important issue, especially when meeting new people online.

The economic issues are important, but ultimately women in the old Soviet Bloc realize that they will probably be happier, safer, and more economically secure if they marry a decent guy from the West rather than looking for a guy in their own country.

«Even in this political season, it is important to remember that the fate and direction of public education in this country should not be a partisan issue,» he said in a written statement.

«The 1990 Institute is a beacon of light that informs and educates people in both the US and China, allowing progress on the important issues that affect societies in both countries.

«Polling shows that education is the most important issue to our country — how our children get educated — and it ends up being very little in terms of what the candidates actually talk about,» Brown told CBS News.

Last week I had the pleasure of attending the National Association of State Boards of Education Annual Conference, where State Board of Education Members from around the country gathered to discuss important education policy issues, build relationships with other policymakers from around the country, and learn about emerging education issues confronting students in Washington and around the country.