Sentences with phrase «important than any government»

But then, Danny you do make a point that fixing baseball might be more important than the government supporting breastfeeding.

In modern times it has become fashionable to say that the individual is more important than any government or state.

In The New York Times Magazine's 2008 Earth Day issue, Michael Pollan argued that climate change was at bottom a crisis of lifestyle and personal character — «the sum of countless little everyday choices» — and suggested that individual actions, such as planting backyard gardens, might ultimately be more important than government action to repair the environment.

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The U.S. wind and solar industries employ over 300,000 people, making clean energy an important political constituency that is about five times bigger than the coal sector for jobs, thanks to years of rapid growth fueled by government incentives and declines in the cost of their technologies.

But as political scientist Francis Fukuyama has shown in his research on how democracies function, it's often much more important to pay attention to bureaucrats than politicians when evaluating how well governments function.

For one, political instability has made maintaining employment in the oil industry more important than keeping government revenues from oil sales high.

«I think we've always thought that it's important to have a positive relationships with local government, rather than taking a confrontational kind of stance,» Blecharczyk said in an interview with CNBC's Julia Boorstin that aired Tuesday on «Squawk on the Street» after Airbnb was named the No. 1 company on the 2017 CNBC Disruptor 50 list.

In the same way that the Internet spent more than two decades in academic and government settings before its use became commercial, the Media Lab believes that a similar gestation could be important for blockchain, too — so it can become secure and reliable enough for mainstream use.

With an expansion of for - profit prisons on the horizon, it is more important than ever that the government restructure contracts with the private prison industry to boost performance and change incentives.

With governments scrambling to find new sources of revenue to pay for important social objectives such as health care and education expect to see the idea raised in Parliament sooner rather than later.

Nothing is more important to advancing freedom in the global economy and the liberties of the world's peoples than is breaking up the powerful cartel of businesses and governments in the U.S. and E.U. which have created and administer those rules for the world they have established to serve their own interests.

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The 2015 budget will still be the Harper government's most important budget but for completely different reasons than expected in October.

Unless the federal government believes that it is more important to steadily reduce the debt ratio (to 20, 15, 10, or zero per cent), rather than dealing with other critical policy issues, then the federal government will soon have to start running deficits.

«It is more important than ever to re-energize the national dialogue surrounding the nation's armed forces to inspire and influence business, government, nonprofit leaders and the general public to get involved,» said former Secretary of Defense Robert Gates.

Similarly important are the returns that bond investors are willing to accept in financing governments, which is generally seen as a less risky proposition than loaning money to commerce.

Another important factor is also in the picture: the huge annual government deficit of more than a trillion dollars that must be funded every year.

CONCLUSION: While this topic was not covered on TSLA's 1Q18 conference call last night (our analysis on this call will be published shortly), given Autopilot is among the main key drivers of TSLA's current valuation, and the «Autopilot was found by the U.S. government to reduce crash rates by as much as 40 %» line has been used by TSLA time - and - time again, we feel this development could prove more important than the company's earnings conference call yesterday.

For the first time since 2001, someone other than Hugh MacDonald will serve as chair of the important Public Accounts Committee, which has ability to scrutinize government spending.

Yet rather than taking this opportunity to run these banks as public utilities and lower their charges for credit - card services — or most important of all, to stop their lending to speculators and gamblers — governments left these banks operating as part of the «casino capitalism» that has become their business plan.

over whether Bitcoin is more or less important than its underlying tech, Consensus 2016 saw keynote addresses and panel discussions on applications for blockchain or distributed ledger technology in cross-border payments, smart contracts, government, security, identity, the Internet of Things, and all different kinds of clearing and settlement.

Despite a lingering argument over whether Bitcoin is more or less important than its underlying tech, Consensus 2016 saw keynote addresses and panel discussions on applications for blockchain or distributed ledger technology in cross-border payments, smart contracts, government, security, identity, the Internet of Things, and all different kinds of clearing and settlement.

I said that the government (comprised of many people) at the urging of a significant portion of the population (comprised of even more people) made the decision that the care of indicidual citizens is more important than absolute corporate freedom.

The Bishops can be commended for making «fidelity to scripture» (para 1) more important than fitting in with society and Government.

Surely it is less important that a speech be optimistic or pessimistic, than that it be true to the realities of the moment, true to the capabilities of the government, and true to the responsibilities of the citizenry.

What started as an emergency action, however, has now become a way of life: the role of government in the economy is infinitely more important than that of the entrepreneur, whether corporate or individual.

A change in the meaning of truth or of justice is far more important than a change in the government of any given territory.

Aren't there ANY people in the world with the brains to do some of their OWN homework, rather than listening to governments and media who regard oil as more important than our own survival?

More important than our forward strategies for wars and infrastructure improvement and so many other things that, unlike this «issue», the government IS supposed to be responsible for?

The State's own constitution, the opinion then declared, «treats religious liberty as more important than the formation of government.»

The ability of ordinary people to participate in important decisions at this level is incomparably greater than their ability to participate in global government.

In the aftermath of this senseless attack, providing the new Libyan government with security assistance is more important than ever.

Is there any objective process that the government used to decide that the border controls were more important than other priorities?

Local government elections don't have any direct impact on each other and there is no consensus way to quantify the fact that an election in a small city, or a city with more seats on its council, may be less important than in a major city, or a seat with fewer seats on its council.

It is to May that many leaders now look to see how governments can shape an environment where the many genuinely feel they are more important than the few.

«I don't know what it says about our politics today but when you have fewer than 23 percent of registered democrats come out for what's arguably the most important office in city government it's a little perplexing,» said Morelle.

Aregbesola urged party members to ensure support for whoever the party chooses as its candidate for the next election adding that continuity of what his government had commenced seven years ago was more important to the state than anything else.

But for a senior mandarin to call in the police over a leak more associated The birds have flown Members of Parliament need to be protected from the executive with party point - scoring than national security, and then for the misuse of authority to be compounded by the Government, police, Speaker and Serjeant at Arms raises real and important concerns.

He tells Sunday Live he believes the Conservatives and Lib Dems will «cobble together» an agreement but that stable government is «much, much more important than some squabble over the voting system.»»

However, he also stressed «the important thing» is that new rules brought in under this government mean MPs» claims are now assessed by an independent body, rather than a committee of fellow MPs.

«It is critically important, now more than ever, to make sure government controls spending in light of the federal cap on deductions for state and local taxes,» Law said, referring to the $ 10,000 limit on deductions of local property taxes and state income taxes on federal returns.

In fact, both parties» immigration stances — Democrats» efforts to protect the so - called Dreamers and Trump's insistence on funding a border wall with Mexico — are viewed by voters as less important than keeping the government open.

First, our research shows that voters regard a government's choice to time the election strategically and for partisan benefit as significantly less important to their vote choice than the incumbent's policy performance and party leadership.

«In my view, there's no work that's more important in New York government today than this single - minded pursuit for the future of upstate.»

That's more saying it's important to avert a shutdown now than in September 2013, just before a budget fight over federal funding for some portions of the Affordable Care Act led to a partial government shutdown.

About 71 % say it's more important for Congress to approve a budget agreement that would avoid a government shutdown than to defund Planned Parenthood, 22 % say it's a bigger priority to eliminate the organization's federal funding.

She was asked to respond to critics who say government has more important jobs than the concert business.

«In the run up to the creation of this District Assembly that argument was made that it was economically viable, so it is important that we strengthen our efforts in generating revenue locally rather than blaming central government,» Mr. Ziedeng.

It's far from perfect but it is much more open scrutiny and debate than New Labour ever permitted, and when Labour is in government that will be important.

Speaking while reacting to a statement credited to Governor Wike where he asked the Ogoni to vote against Senator Abe as a matter of priority, at a groundbreaking rally organised by Khana Connected Friends at Bori Police Field, Bori in Khana Local Government Area, Abe queried why who would win Rivers South East Senatorial election was more important to Wike than who would win in his own Senatorial District, the Rivers East.