Sentences with phrase «issue of public policy»

This is an important issue of public policy and we should be able to have an honest discourse on it.

Religious people honestly disagree on many issues of public policy, and to pretend otherwise is neither realistic nor honest.

That basic theological affirmation does not settle many complex issues of public policy, but it does provide an essential framework for grappling with them.

Nothing terribly vile there, but such things are the antithesis of what our legal system is about — important, frequently life - altering matters as well as critical issues of public policy.

Thus from the beginning, ECT addressed both theological matters still dividing Catholics and evangelicals as well as issues of public policy and the common good.

I also made clear that while I won't be participating in the Forum, BlackRock will continue to engage on issues of public policy with governments at all levels and around the world.

«Individual legislators rarely if ever even attempted to exercise the traditional prerogatives that we expect of congressional legislators: voicing serious dissent, pushing an individual legislative agenda, conducting open hearings on contentious issues of public policy,» he wrote.

When small news outlets simultaneously publish articles on broad topics such as jobs, the environment or immigration, the stories can prompt people to talk more about such major issues of public policy and politics, according to a study published in the November 10 issue of Science.

The renewed vigor with which Southern Baptists are engaging issues of public policy also draws on a distinctively Reformed critique of culture.

First, as I argued at some length in Evangelical Catholicism, the Church must discipline its public witness by resisting the temptation to comment on virtually every contested issue of public policy and by focusing primary attention on two key issues: the life issues and religious freedom.

The city's court filings admit that Rosen has clients with business before the city and say that the 1,500 pages of emails released cover those communications except those in which «Jonathan Rosen or BerlinRosen employees are consulting with the Mayor's staff or the Mayor on issues of public policy in furtherance of the Mayor's policy agenda.»

In the equity - based litigation of the 1970s and 1980s, researchers investigated and courts intervened in deep - seated education - finance issues of public policy significance, such as school funding schemes that exacerbated existing socioeconomic disparities.

The Centre places a particular emphasis on issues of public policy concerning peace, migration and immigration, health, environment, international trade and investment, poverty and vulnerable groups.

Lawsuit abuse isn't merely a nagging issue of public policy, but rather an infectious disease spreading throughout California, and destroying the jobs and lives it -LSB-...]

Advocacy Clinics: advocate for a cause or raise issues of public policy, i.e.: Victoria's Environmental Law Clinic, Ottawa's Public Interest Clinic.

The decision, however, highlights the paradox of our federal government responding to an important issue of public policy by adopting legislation (the Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act) that mandates compliance with rules governing the collection, use, and disclosure of personal information, but at the same time not equipping the privacy commissioner with powers to enforce compliance or punish violators.

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The organization describes itself as «D.C.'s premier institute dedicated to applying the Judeo - Christian moral tradition to critical issues of public policy.»

Judicial Power's account: Despite clear Strasbourg case law upholding legislation that bans assisted suicide, a majority in the Supreme Court were willing in principle to go beyond Strasbourg and to tell Parliament that the law on this contentious issue of public policy was contrary to Convention rights and should be reconsidered.

«This contortion of the Governor's long - recognized constitutional authority lacks a basis in law and must be recognized for what it truly is — a political maneuver to frustrate the Governor's efforts in convening the Legislature to address politically unpopular, yet critically important issues of public policy.»

Finally, the Law Library collects selected publications from Maryland community and research organizations whose studies and reports provide an analysis of major issues of public policy and law.

This issue of public policy relates to the duties of the human race as stewards of the gifts of creation, including scientific and technological gifts.

Ryan is also actively involved in connecting his research to issues of public policy, complementing academic study with positions in policy, diplomacy, microfinance, and development.

Those statements seem pretty speculative (and contradictory) and don't at all address the issue of public policy.

One clue comes from the journal's co-publisher, the Ethics and Public Policy Center (EPPC), «dedicated to applying the Judeo - Christian moral tradition to critical issues of public policy.»

In other words, as far as New York City's exclusive Harvard Club is concerned, when it comes to important issues of public policy and the apparent widespread abuse of children who attend Success Charter Schools, ensuring that the truth is told is of little to no concern.

«I can say I am approaching this case not as an issue of public policy but as a set of specific facts that need to be discovered, examined and carefully weighed,» she says.

People are just not knowledgeable about politics, political institutions, or issues of public policy.