Sentences with phrase «in public policy decisions»

In Auckland, Joel has taken a leading role in public policy decisions influencing transport, urban form and development, waterfront development and much more.

In our society where youth is glorified and the best way of growing old is seen as staying young, there is a danger that the interests of older people are ignored, both in public policy decisions and in the making of legal policy and developing of legal policy.

«It's bad enough that climate alarmists have actively sought to keep those who disagree with the «dangerous manmade climate change» thesis from publishing or speaking on the subject, or having a role in public policy decisions, it's far worse when they seek to prosecute climate chaos skeptics,» says Paul Driessen.

However, anyone who thinks reality, logic, and common sense do or should play an essential role in public policy decisions has an abysmal understanding of how the Washington, D.C., Swamp operates.

NYSABE involves parents of ELL / bilingual learners in the process of schooling and in public policy decisions that affect them and their children.

We can ensure that the best scientific data and technologies are used in public policy decisions by maintaining our free and open society and press and by drawing on the best available public and private sector resources.

He was awarded a Fulbright and numerous other awards for his research, and participates actively in public policy decisions in Chile.

Our purpose is to advance the use of the best available evidence in public policy decisions on alcohol.

A statement from Conflicts of Interest Coalition, endorsed by 145 national, regional and international organizations, calls for the development of a Code of Conduct in public policy decision - making to safeguard against conflicts of interest.

I know this is so Pollyanna, but I love the public getting involved and these agencies listening, because what often happens in public policy decision - making is what I call the «dad» approach of decision making.

Not exact matches

While his standing among troops has likely been burnished by some of his policies — like boosting spending and reducing executive - branch input in battlefield decision - making — he has faced public criticism on some initiatives, like raising the budget and expanding US involvement in Afghanistan.

In an interview, Tal agrees the data that is made public, such as home sales, starts, prices and household debt is useful, but says is not sufficient for Canadians or policy - makers to make decisions that are fully - informed.

«[A] most every kind of public policy decision [today is] made as a matter of a cost - benefit ratio,» governance advocate Robert A. G. Monks, explained in a 2008 interview published on the website Social Funds.

«In opening up Board of Trustee meetings to public review, Duke gives its community a chance to weigh in on significant policy decisions,» the group wrote in their manifestIn opening up Board of Trustee meetings to public review, Duke gives its community a chance to weigh in on significant policy decisions,» the group wrote in their manifestin on significant policy decisions,» the group wrote in their manifestin their manifesto.

Canada managed the financial storm of 2008 better than others because we anticipated risks and acted proactively with public policy foresight, responsible oversight of our financial industry, and better decisions and performance by financial service providers and our clients than was the case in other countries.

The New York City area, with its many interest rate - sensitive industries, has prospered when decision - makers in the public and private sectors could have confidence that the Federal Reserve was committed to a rigorous set of policies that promoted price stability, in a growth - oriented economic environment.

[8] While the details of the RBA Board's decision had been made public in a press release at the time of changes in monetary policy, they had not been made public when the stance of monetary policy was left unchanged.

OTTAWA — Jim Balsillie warns that provisions tucked into the Trans - Pacific Partnership could cost Canada hundreds of billions of dollars — and eventually make signing it the worst public policy decision in the country's history.

It restates the Bank's approach to making monetary policy decisions within the framework of a medium - term inflation target, in way that supports sustainable economic growth and serves the public interest.

VICTORIA — A plan to cut chemotherapy services for cancer patients in Nanaimo that was reversed only after public outcry shows B.C. Liberal cuts are leading to bad policy decisions that will hurt patients, say New Democrats.

CNN: Health secretary addresses health care, religious freedom in protested graduation speech In an anticipated and controversial address Friday, Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius delivered a speech that blended inspirational messages to graduates with a discussion of public policy's tough decisions, including health care and honoring religious freedoin protested graduation speech In an anticipated and controversial address Friday, Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius delivered a speech that blended inspirational messages to graduates with a discussion of public policy's tough decisions, including health care and honoring religious freedoIn an anticipated and controversial address Friday, Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius delivered a speech that blended inspirational messages to graduates with a discussion of public policy's tough decisions, including health care and honoring religious freedom.

If interpreted expansively they can involve huge areas of life and put numerous public policy decisions in the hands of judges.

Conservatives are deeply aggrieved by Supreme Court decisions in the past 30 years that have struck down laws against abortion, laws on homosexuality and certain laws and policies promoting religion in the public square.

The virtue of socialism, it is argued, is that it does away with such irresponsible authority, and forces those who make economic policy to appeal to the electorate and to justify their decisions in terms of the public good.

In a statement Tuesday, the Archdiocese of Washington called the decision unfortunate and even charged that the Public Policy Institute was supporting a «radical redefining of ministry.»

These organizations should be cut off from defining public policy and the courts should be restricted in allowing their testimony, bias and words to define the courts decision.

The central thrusts of a reborn reform movement should be stockholder action to effect corporate decision - making, the mobilization of public influence on Congress, the development of improved rating systems, the encouragement of research to support policy - making, and the creation of support mechanisms to encourage and inform creative people working in the media industries.10.

The danger of the Bob Jones decision is that if the university can be forced to comply with public policy in order to retain its tax status, then all other nonprofit institutions — with churches listed first in the tax regulation — can be forced to do likewise.

Because someone's beliefs inevitably end up in their decision making, getting into public policy, teaching our children, politics, etc.... Witch burning would still be around if peoples beliefs were not challenged.

The public policy proposals put forth by Birch and Cobb are consonant with ones we have discussed in a previous chapter: «steady state» economics, simplified life styles, participation by all in the decisions that shape their futures, and the development of «appropriate» and ecologically sound technologies.

Bork surveys a long and depressing series of decisions - on free speech, pornography, contraception, abortion, sexual equality, etc. - in which the Supreme Court, claiming the authority of the Constitution, has taken public policy out of the hands of the people and their elected representatives.

He warns that by adding them to the well - publicized list of «fundamental rights and freedoms» which was accepted as public world law in the Universal Declaration of 1948 and its subsequent Conventions, we risk diluting the «true» rights and place them at the mercy of changing policy decisions.

Hence, the use of technology for good purposes runs into three tough problems at once: (1) balancing private wants and social needs; (2) harmonizing the plans made by individual experts with the decisions of the public as a whole; and (3) devising long - range policies in a political system which responds best to immediately felt needs, fears, and wants and which has a generally ill - informed electorate.

Insisting, in our public - policy decisions, on the importance of the connection between homosexual promiscuity and the transmission of AIDS is not an instance of heterosexual homophobia.

Policy - making in media regulation, particularly in the U.S. and to a large extent also in Australia, proceeds generally by forming, or at least undergirding, political decisions on the same «objective» and «scientific» basis developed for less ambiguous areas such as public engineering, economics, and regulation of public safety.

There is abundant evidence that Catholics in this country do sincerely believe in democracy and practice this belief, but I do not see how they themselves can deny that their polity poses a problem for democracy that is not posed by churches which make their decisions in regard to public policy by processes of open discussion in which both clergy and laymen share.

Additionally, although I don't at all doubt that nutrition policy makers are qualified to make decisions on the majority of guidelines regarding public health, I do question whether it is fair for them to decide what is and isn't achievable for the public in terms of food related behaviour, and to set the guidelines pertaining to this accordingly.

The hang up, though, is when we start talking public policy decisions that cost billions of dollars... I'm still searching spiritual / philosophical ways to deal with feelings about that, but it may just be the whole notion of «rendering to Caesar» and trying to live in my own realm, separating myself from the madness of the State.

«Comcast is a leader in providing parents the tools and the knowledge they need to make the right decisions about what members of their family should be able to see on their TV and online,» said Joe Waz, Senior Vice President for External Affairs and Public Policy Counsel at Comcast and FOSI board member.

«In making public policy decisions, we don't always get things to our liking all...

«A major policy decision by a public body to replace an airport with a park should not be made based on secret, incomplete information,» Brown said in his letter.

«In making public policy decisions, we don't always get things to our liking all the time,» said Councilman David Naftzger.

Some of the audience agreed that policymakers need to know whether a time - series used to inform public policy decisions «really is a series» in any meaningful sense.

Cuomo's counsel, Alphonso David, said the Rensselaer County sheriff's decision to participate in a federal program designed to catch undocumented immigrants in county jails — a first for New York occurring right in the governor's back yard — is «contrary to the public policy and values of our state.»

Rikki Dean primarily researches approaches to public participation in social policy decision - making.

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More controversially, they also cover material relating to government policy formulation (including the background information on which decisions were based) and anything else which «would in the reasonable opinion of a qualified person be likely to prejudice the effect conduct of public affairs» - something again left undefined in the Act.

This episode features Empire Center for Public Policy analyst Ken Girardin laying out his critique of the recently enacted Clean Energy Standard and the decision to subsidize nuclear power plants in upstate New York.

Quoting the official definition of records, Archives spokeswoman Antonia Valentine said an email is a record if it is created «in connection with the transaction of public business (and provides)... evidence of the organization, functions, policies, decisions, procedures, operations, or other activities (of an agency).»

Brown's thesis is a strong rebuttal to a commonly held point of view, arguing that a «strong» leader — defined as someone who «concentrates a lot of power in [their] hands, dominates both a wide swath of public policy and the political party to which [they] belong, and takes the big decisions» (p. 1)-- is ultimately an undesirable leader.