Sentences with phrase «important than the policy»

The governor argued that the investigations were less important than the policy recommendations.

These market forces will ultimately prove more important than policy, international agreements, or the inertia of those with old ideas and trapped equity.

Not exact matches

A report released by the Global Public Policy Institute and the Mercator Institute for China Studies, both of which are based in Germany, said Europe's economic ties with China are more important than those it has with Russia, and the stakes associated with calling out Beijing are much higher.

It said in the policy statement that U.S. investment, the most important indicator of demand for Canadian exports, «is on a lower track than expected.»

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.

«Given the important public policy issues at stake, we have also asked the court to hold its hearing in open rather than behind closed doors.

If out - group hostility is more important to party identification than support for particular policies or ideologies, we may not actually place very many ideological demands...

A good strategy and policy are way more important than the money you put into your business.

Indeed, if balance sheet dynamics are more important and frictions around housing more powerful than we initially understood, then there should be strong payoff to policies that ease them.

Jeremy Moorhouse, senior analyst at Clean Energy Canada, said the following in response: «The Clean Fuel Standard is one of Canada's most important climate change policies, cutting more carbon pollution than any other measure in the Pan-Canadian Framework on Clean Growth and...

It is important to recognize in this regard that once the decline in neutral real rates is recognized policy is much less accommodative than is often supposed.

Orphanides: Communicating a systematic and clear policy strategy more important than publishing rate path or forward guidance #BoC2021 pic.twitter.com / yUEbUofiUR

This is important progress and has contributed to more prudent monetary policies than otherwise would have been made and the avoidance of a deflationary psychology taking hold particularly in Europe and Japan.

Take away: The meeting, coming after a new leadership in the Communist Party was installed last month, and as China marks the 40th anniversary of» reform and opening up» policies, could prove to be much more important than previous ones.

While we believe payrolls and average hourly earnings are both likely to miss consensus estimates, we think the employment report may be somewhat less important than usual for the monetary policy outlook, because 1) recent data have been firm so we have some room for a miss, 2) the August seasonal issue is now well known so even a somewhat larger miss may not significantly alter the staff view, and 3) there are several months between now and December to make up for any weakness in tomorrow's report.

Thus, I believe the Fed's articulation of a lower terminal policy rate in the longer run is much more important for the mortgage markets and for corporate capital expenditures financed through the debt markets than is a modest increase in short rates.

Whole life insurance policies are generally more expensive than alternatives, such as term life insurance, and the death benefit directly impacts that cost, so it's important to evaluate your family's needs before deciding to purchase.

When we talk about the Bank of Canada offsetting rather than accommodating changes in fiscal policy, it is important to understand that we are talking about changing the nominal interest rate relative to what it would have been otherwise without the fiscal policy change, and not relative to what the nominal rate was in the past.

That belief in God is more important than the character and policies of the person running shows that we have a long way to go as far as maturity and tolerance goes.

These difficulties don't make it any less important to speak for foreign policy prudence, and things might be even worse than they seem.

But the key to this view is that national greatness, of the sort you can obtain with the greatest policies, is more important than political liberty.

The sacred politics of the soul are more important than the secular politics of policies, parties, and nations.

Since the Council there has been a tendency to regard it as a more important reference point for policy than Fatima.

Finally, the topic of condom ads needs to be addressed, not because it is more important than (probably it is not even as important as) other public - policy questions such as mandatory AIDS testing or contact notification, but because it has provoked such extensive discussion among evangelicals.

Is this more important than economic policy or foreign policy?

Nothing like one underachiever blowing smoke up the ass of another... we know that Ozil has some incredible technical gifts, but to be considered the best you have to bring more than just assists to the table... for me, a top player has to possess a more well - rounded game, which doesn't mean they need to be a beast on both ends of the pitch, but they must have the ability to take their game to another level when it matters most... although he amassed some record - like stats early on, it set the bar too high, so when people expected him to duplicate those numbers each year the pressure seemed to get the best of our soft - spoken star... obviously that's not an excuse for what has happened in the meantime, but it's important to make note of a few things: (1) his best year was a transition year for many of the traditionally dominant teams in the EPL, so that clearly made the numbers appear better than they actually were and (2) Wenger's system, or lack thereof, didn't do him any favours; by playing him out of position and by not acquiring world - class striker and / or right - side forward that would best fit an Ozil - centered offensive scheme certainly hurt his chances to repeat his earlier peformances, (3) the loss of Cazorla, who took a lot of pressure off Ozil in the midfield and was highly efficient when it came to getting him the ball in space, negatively impacted his effectiveness and (4) he likewise missed a good chunk of games and frankly never looked himself when he eventually returned to the field... overall the Ozil experiment has had mixed reviews and rightfully so, but I do have some empathy for the man because he has always carried himself the same way, whether for Real or the German National team, yet he has only suffered any lengthy down periods with Arsenal... to me that goes directly to this club's inability to surround him with the necessary players to succeed, especially for someone who is a pass first type of player; as such, this simply highlights our club's ineffective and antiquated transfer policies... frankly I'm disappointed in both Ozil and our management team for not stepping up when it counted because they had a chance to do something special, but they didn't have it in them... there is no one that better exemplifies our recent history than Ozil, brief moments of greatness undercut by long periods of disappointing play, only made worse by his mopey posturing like a younger slightly less awkward Wenger... what a terribly waste

2nd sure Walcott has become a squad player and it doesn't look like it will change anytime soon!But even thought he is less important than he used to be thanks to some youth prospect finally stepping up (Ox) and our new transfer policy ($ $ $) he still has that pace and ability to score and create havoc after 1 to 1,5 year out your rusty but obviously if he's dead on a pay raise I wouldn't go as far as to say he's holding us ransom but it is too much considering he's current impact and importance to the squad... Sure we could argue that he will rediscover his form and give us 20 + goals a season and not sustain an injury anymore but how sure are we?

But beyond this important policy implication is a second implication in Jackson's study that is more relevant for our purposes: There is a more creative and potentially more useful way to measure noncognitive skills than what most researchers are currently focused on.

Many people made fun of Pence, some noted how damaging such a policy is to women who may be excluded from important situations and others said, hey, it's no different than the strict rules of other religious groups, such as fundamentalist Muslims and Orthodox Jews.

With a new administration and a new Congress, engaging in discussions with our elected representatives about school nutrition policies is more important than ever.

«We're pleased that they continue to say that fruits and vegetables in general are important,» said Robert Guenther, vice president of public policy for the United Fresh Fruit and Vegetable Association, who would like federal help with marketing produce rather than subsidies for growing it.

This suggests that actual immigration policy is less important than «how the tabloids report immigration policy».

The European Union's regional policy and multi-level arrangement of governance have provided an important instrumentarium, as well as likely platform, for such para-diplomatic activities on the basis of growing urban — especially metropolitan — consciousness as places «that matter» (more than the rest).

Particularly with a general election less than two years away, conference as the platform for presenting ourselves as a party of real democracy, as well as being passionate about policy, is really important.

Whether it would be a coalition, confidence - and - supply or some other kind of agreement is not addressed here; that is less important for policy than which parties are involved.

It's important to realise those press outlets are NEVER going to portray Labour as having anything other than an «open door policy».

As a professor at Fordham Law School, the author of important books on political and economic policy, a key figure in Howard Dean's 2004 presidential campaign, and a visionary organizer on behalf of banking and business reforms, she understands that the Democratic Party must move toward progressive populism in order to become more than a tepid alternative to Republican extremism.

As I suggested on Saturday, moderation of style is probably a lot more important than moderation of policy in reassuring the electorate (if reassurance is the goal).

In IR, National Interest is traditionally linked with what has been labeled by scholars as a billiard ball approach to foreign policy, in which the nation - state is defined and treated as a unitary actor, more important than the «cobweb» of national and transnational connections that others see to be important to an understanding of foreign policy.

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.

«I feel the policy is much more important than those perks,» May said.

And this history is important precisely because it demonstrates, as with the later «education, education, education» nonsense, how New Labour was, right from the very beginning, much more interested in importing salesmanship from abroad than in policy needs at home.

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.

«Lord Ashcroft sets out four tests that policies should pass if the Conservatives are to be electorally successful Main Tory grassroots see blue collar message as more important to Tory fortunes than Europe, crime or immigration»

Added Kassandra Frederique of the Drug Policy Alliance, «I think Marty Golden is reinforcing this idea that some lives are more important than others.

This is more than a mere numbers exercise; the state is making an important policy choice and it's the right one.

«Politicians have an important and legitimate interest in how health care is provided locally but too often act as a barrier, rather than facilitating the honest dialogue needed with the public,» deputy director of policy Candace Imison said.

«The budget should have one purpose and to go beyond the deadline when we're by law supposed to have a budget, that's more important than to have every policy issue that the governor or the Legislature wants.»

Possibly riding high on the relief — rather than out - and - out joy — of winning an important symbolic vote this morning when a motion was put to the conference hall on continuing the coalition's economic policies was carried, a debate where the Lib Dem leader himself summed up, he continued to push coalition strength and struggle over capitulating to his party's leftwing.

Pakistan's «tribal areas» which are the source of many bombings like the West Bank and Gaza Strip in Israel which is home to many bombers when this was a common occurrence in Israel, are both only weakly under the control of the central national government's authority, but it is much more practicable for Israel to wall off the areas that it does not fully control (which was the single most important policy decision that led to fewer bombings in Israel) than it is to do so in Pakistan.