Sentences with phrase «involved at the policy»

The Federation values the opportunity to be involved at the policy level, not just in the implementation of policy, but it has some serious concerns about the process in this case.

Not exact matches

There's no one universal model for these policies, but they generally involve one of two things: a requirement that developers either make a certain percentage of their housing units available at below - market rates, or that has them pay a fee into a fund for affordable housing.

Citing recent student movement protests, some of which involved 1960s style sit - ins at Harvard and the University of Massachusetts Amherst that motivated official review of the school's investment policies, she pointed to Yale.

High - profile donors from tech and Hollywood are funding a law group at Georgetown to fight for the Constitution, especially when it involves directly undermining President Trump's policies.

For the past two years, OPEC's pump - at - will policies have flooded the market with cheap supply, causing economic pain for producers with higher cash costs, including those involved in fracking, the Canadian oil sands and deepwater drilling.

Cambridge Analytica has filed insolvency proceedings just weeks after it was embroiled at the center of a political scandal involving Facebook's data protection policies, the 2016 US general election of President Trump and the ethics of online advertising.

If your organization is interested in getting involved with the STEM Education Policy Forum, please email us at [email protected].

At SLCG, he provided economic consulting to law firms involved in complex securities litigation and technical assistance on market structure, regulatory policy, and risk management issues to domestic and international securities regulators and market participants.

It involves policies that can be traced at least as far back as the «American System» of the early 19th Century, and it has been implemented in various forms by many different countries around the world during the past 100 or even 200 years.

«We are pleased to see the Obama administration will not cause harm to citizens and states by shutting these businesses down, and hope this will lead to an expansion of sensible policies related to marijuana, such as allowing these businesses access to banking, and taxing them at a fair rate,» said Aaron Smith, executive director of the National Cannabis Industry Association, a Washington, D.C. - based trade group that represents what it says are the thousands of firms involved in marijuana production and sales.

«By being involved at all levels of government, she helps advance the public policy agenda for retailers, their employees and customers in her community.»

Throughout his time at Leith Wheeler, he has been involved with Institutional clients in a variety of different functions including communicating investment strategy, education and working extensively on investment policy statements, monitoring and constraints.

Cambridge Analytica has filed insolvency proceedings just weeks after it was embroiled at the center of a political scandal involving Facebook's data protection policies, the 2016...

Regarding the path ahead for ECB policy, it seems likely adjustments to the central bank's bond - purchasing program will be discussed by policymakers at meetings in coming months, given the technical difficulties and political risks involved.

«Unfortunately, had they not kept monetary policy unnecessarily tight two years ago (as was pointed out to them at the time), perhaps we wouldn't today be left wondering if our central banker's plan for youth unemployment involves flagrant violations of the Employment Standards Act,» wrote Mike Moffatt, a well - known Canadian economist, dodgeball aficionado, and Pokemon Go enthusiast.

Alignment of government policy is particularly crucial, as inconsistency between government policies inhibits investment and raises the cost of capital.235 Once the overall strategic direction is set, a range of methods and instruments are available to mainstream climate at the project level.236 This needs to happen at the technical assessment stage, where technological and process options and alternatives are considered that will achieve the project aim; at the economic assessment stage, which involves measuring net impacts of the project on welfare; and at the financial assessment stage, where costs and revenues of the project are assessed.237

To clarify this issue the authors compare the involvements of rescuers with non-rescuers in relation to four situational variables: 1) information about Nazi policy toward Jews and comprehension of need; 2) the particular risks involved in providing help; 3) the material resources at their disposal; and 4) the presence of a precipitating event.

Only at this level of authority can the Important broadcast policy issues which are involved in satellite broadcasting be appropriately resolved in policy for the Commission.

Hasker, pointing out that this would involve deception on God's part, expresses shock at my apparent failure to recognize, with him and Descartes, that it would be «impossible for God to engage in a policy of massive deception.

At the very least, as Amy Black points out in «For the Sake of the Children» (a 1995 contribution to the Crossroads Monograph Series on Faith and Public Policy), there are public - justice issues involved.

Whether one deems this cluster of questions the third part of an expanded just war tradition or an extension of «right intention,» one of the classic deontological ad bellum criteria, this is obviously an area in which considerable criticism of the Iraq War has been focused» whether the issue at hand involves the scandals at Abu Ghraib prison, interrogation methods, de-Baathification policies, counterinsurgency strategies and tactics, or the provisions of the new Iraqi constitution with respect to religious freedom and the role of Islamic law in post-Saddam Iraq.

Mr Casella, one of founder Filippo's three sons involved in the business, said it was difficult for the government to intervene but it needed to look at the nation's taxation regime and industrial relations policies.

Today Arsenal were involved in a remarkable U-turn from recent policy and have been reported to have been negotiating new deals with the players who are just about still at the club.

FI joins call for new deal for dads in election manifestos The Fatherhood Institute has joined a coalition of charities and trade unions, to call on the UK's political parties to include policies aimed at promoting involved fatherhood in their election manifestos.

It's far from definitive,» said Anne Barnhill, who studies food policy at University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia but was not involved with the new research.

He added further changes to the law would be introduced next year which would require the public sector to involve disabled people at every step of their policy - making processes.

All sectors involved in developing and policies and programmes to deliver on fuel poverty targets should attend including representatives from local government and RSLs; central government; the energy industry; Green Deal installer organisations; health agencies; voluntary and not for profit agencies at a national and local level.

At the same time, City organisations began to introduce policies of corporate social responsibility to involve their staff in social and educational projects.

Staff at the famous department store's restaurants are involved with a dispute with the company over its tips policy.

He also emphasized quality of healthcare and financing as critical aspects of UHC, stressing that government at all levels must be involved in driving the policy to success.

The union has been heavily involved in policy battles at the state Capitol over the past year, weighing on the fight against both the soda tax and wine - in - grocery stores (both dead for the time being).

The Police Department's current policy is to release some footage on a case - by - case basis at the commissioner's discretion, and it has done so in three police - involved shootings.

Lord Mandelson and Lord Myners both declare senior roles at an organisation involved in shaping public policy and regulation on behalf of third - party clients here in the UK.

Dr Tony Whitehead, Director of Policy at the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET), said: «The large investment and long timescales involved in all types of energy generation need consistent, long - term energy policies.

Interfaith dialogue is at the core of the Centre's work and involves actively promoting conversations among Nigeria's faith communities, as well as between leaders in faith and public policy.

Look at Europe where everyone stopped the WW2 blame games decades ago in favor of international cooperation... until recently where Greece started it again because Germany became too involved in their internal economy policies.

She also encouraged people concerned with the dramatic shift in environmental policies at the federal level to get involved with the national midterm elections this November.

Even when Labour conferences «made policy», making it from resolutions into NEC statements, the party programme, the manifesto and then what a Labour Government actually did involved complex inter-actions at every stage.

On Saturday, Theatre for an Oppressed NYC hosts three workshops starting at 11 a.m., including «legislative theatre» on how to participate in the legislative process; «participatory budgeting,» where participants can learn to get involved in spending public money in their neighborhoods; and «Take Action: from Ideas to Public Policy,» learn how ideas become law in NYC, and how to can help the policy ideas becomPolicy,» learn how ideas become law in NYC, and how to can help the policy ideas becompolicy ideas become law.

Part of the answer to that involves stripping out all the excuses about a «fabricated» antisemitism issue, media smears, ignorant voters and Blairites etc before looking at what's left — the party's policies, presentation, public image and leadership.

«The last thing we need is to have some politician or judge getting involved with setting policy,» Bloomberg said at an unrelated news conference Monday.

The meeting prompted the political director, Bill Stepien, to call an official at the main political group supporting Mr. Trump, America First Policies, to say its counsel should be involved at future gatherings.

We need closer links with Labour local councillors, a more coordinated way of discussing policy across the UK involving members in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland and we need to look again at local structures to ensure we learn from the many vibrant and growing constituency parties across the country.

«Scientists are involved with the Internet and develop innovations that affect how the Internet is used,» said Darcy Gentleman, manager of public policy communications at the American Chemical Society, after the talk.

An early experience while a postdoc at UC Davis spurred me to get involved in developing postdoc policies.

Foster urged ambassadors interested in getting involved in public policy at a local, state or national level to pursue that route, saying scientists and those with technical backgrounds can have a positive impact at any level.

«The planetary boundaries framework is not a useful guide for policy or environmental management in any concrete sense, as it does not capture the challenges involved in most of the environmental problems it lists,» argues geographer Linus Blomqvist, policy associate at the institute's Conservation Program and co-author of the review.

This study takes a step toward addressing that question, Aldo Geuna, a professor of economic policy at the University of Torino in Italy who was not involved in the work, writes in an email to Science Careers.

Obama also promised that ideology will no longer be involved in driving scientific decision — an obvious jab at the policies of the Bush administration.

«Given the risks involved with alcohol use, strengthening effective alcohol policies could help prevent homicides,» said Timothy Naimi, MD, the study's lead author who is a physician in general internal medicine at BMC and researcher at BMC's Grayken Center for Addiction Medicine.