Sentences with phrase «issue was on the agenda»

The U.S. - Canada softwood lumber trade dispute, housing finance reform and tax - related housing issues were on the agenda when NAHB Senior Officers recently met with Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin in Washington, D.C.

«We wanted to make sure that this issue was on the agenda now, not at the last minute or later on in the year,» he said.

The issue was on the agenda at last week's Community Board 3 transportation sub-committee meeting, but no parents showed up to speak on behalf of the proposal.

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP)-- Education issues are on the agenda in Albany as state Assembly lawmakers hold another in a series of public hearings on Gov. Andrew Cuomo's budget proposals.

Scholarship about the relationship between policy leadership and complex social change presents three main images.241 A technical policy perspective is found in most policy analysis texts; it is generally associated with rational choice models.242 Policy leaders should, according to this perspective, focus on rational choices to be made once a policy issue is on the agenda.

Alex Caputo Pearl, president of UTLA, says the issue is on the agenda tomorrow as part of the first mediated session between the two sides.

The issue is on the agenda.

Not exact matches

The President issued a new call on Congress to pass an ambitious legislative agenda to help small businesses, but some wonder whether it's just hot air.

«The future is foreign markets, so the last thing you want to do if you are a coal company is to give up a U.S. seat in the international climate discussions and let the Europeans control the agenda,» said the official, who asked not to be named because he was not authorized to speak publicly on the issue.

But markets in those days were significantly concerned by an administration unable to address its policy agenda, bogged down as it was with problems that had taken on a life of their own, and a Congress preoccupied with the issue.

The debate, broadcast live from Las Vegas on MSNBC, was to focus on «Black - Brown issues,» but USHCC promised to wedge its agenda in among many competing agendas.

Clinton has said Sanders's emphasis on an anti-Wall Street agenda made him a one - issue candidate, and has questioned whether his proposals are politically viable in a gridlocked Washington.

Health and obesity issues weren't on their agendas,» said Sam Kass, a chef and former executive director of «Let's Move!»

Regular weekly meetings with standing agendas, for instance, give team members the chance to raise issues before they can fester, and to stay up to date on each other's plans so there are no surprises when, say, a certain promotion might be boosting sales — and the quantity of work on the warehouse floor.

With President Trump's visit to Poland on his way to the July 2017 G20 summit, energy and infrastructure issues will likely be on the agenda as he meets with the leaders of the Three Seas Initiative, a collection of Central and Eastern European states working to increase connections between the Baltic, Black, and Adriatic Seas.

Many of the issues currently on the agenda were laid out in the EU - China 2020 Strategic Agenda for Cooperation from 2014 and include two of China's priorities: the market economy status (still pending) and the potential for an EU - China investment agreement (under discusagenda were laid out in the EU - China 2020 Strategic Agenda for Cooperation from 2014 and include two of China's priorities: the market economy status (still pending) and the potential for an EU - China investment agreement (under discusAgenda for Cooperation from 2014 and include two of China's priorities: the market economy status (still pending) and the potential for an EU - China investment agreement (under discussion).

«If you continue just to add institution - by - institution guidelines, you will not create enough of an umbrella to protect anybody from the social consequences of a cyber event and, therefore, almost definitionally there will be one,» said Poloz, who expects the issue to feature prominently on the G7 agenda when Canada plays host next year.

Musk said that he specifically requested inclusion of discussion of the travel ban at the closed meeting, as the issue had not been included on the agenda originally.

Blockchain for good, harnessing AI, VR and robotics, tech addiction, restraining the net giants are just some of the issues on the agenda (including the ongoing Facebook and Cambridge Analytica debacle, with Facebook co-founder Chris Hughes in attendance).

That possibility was covered in the broadest sense in the risks section of the Medibank prospectus but to have this issue so firmly on the agenda six months later must be of concern to investors.

The issue agenda component is that the Republican strategy of across - the - board cuts on marginal tax rates (to pick one example) has limited appeal.

The number one issue is abortion on every agenda, yet this is an issue which is not stopped by legislation, it is stopped by attacking poverty, by increasing love for children, by accepting everything a sinner does — instead the goal is secular laws, shaming women with ultrasounds.

The Republicans have positioned themselves so that religious people vote for them on social issues, while they pursue an economic agenda that disadvantages me, and probably you, and leads to a nation in which prosperity is reserved for the very few.

Billy Graham and J. Willard Marriott (the Mormon hotel magnate) worked together closely to help Republicans like Nixon, and together were an early force in getting social issues on the party's agenda.

Now, if we all followed God's Holy standards for living, which are basically the Ten Commandments, we wouldn't be having this issue where each group of people wants to have representation no matter how safe or unsafe their agendas are on society.

We can now see how the two remaining issues on our agenda can each be addressed without undercutting the other.

The serious issue, as THE INSIDE HIGHER ED article on the governor says, is what should be the Republican agenda on higher education.

Academic theologians in the West may not put witchcraft high on the agenda, but it's the issue that hits ordinary African Christians full in the face.

Stories that define a community different from the world around us because of the way these stories shape our self - understanding, a community that may sometimes be wildly radical politically and on other issues seem conservative, but will not let anyone else's vision set its agenda.

The priest celibacy issue is the only item even on the agenda, but without female clergy, birth control and acceptance of gay relationships they haven't got a hope in the modern world.

Now this doesn't mean that the Republicans should do NOTHING on immigration, but it does mean that their economic agenda should focus on issues that would help people in the two middle quartiles (and the last quartile) get what Reihan Salam called «the basics of a dignified middle - class life — affordable high - quality medical care, education, and housing» With that in mind, here is a partial (and I'm not sure totally compatible) list of policies that Republicans should be looking at:

And just where are all the christians that come on here whining about how CNN has this complete atheist agenda on every article and never posts anything «on their side» of the issue?

But until those issues are placed effectively on the agenda - for - action by the population of that functional world - village we will wait in vain for the first effective steps toward a modest degree of world government.

Every midterm since 1994 has been highly nationalized by historic standards, a result not only of huge events — the first health care reform proposal (1994), the looming impeachment (1998), the 9 - 11 attack and the prospect of the Iraq War (2002), the Iraq War (2006), and now Obama's «change» agenda (2010)-- but also of sharpening party conflicts that draw clearer divisions on national issues.

The first step in improving the church's responsiveness to social issues, then, is to get them on its agenda.

Within many denominations there are growing numbers of organizations dedicated to pressing rival agendas on both religious issues and public affairs.

On the social - action agenda of mainline denominations today are sexual - justice issues regarding gender and sexual orientation.

Instead of working to achieve consensus on contested theological and moral issues, legislatively driven agendas are designed to end debates by reducing the issue to two sides and then enacting one side into church policy and ecclesiastical law.

Seldom are the complexities of energy issues seen in moral terms, and seldom does energy appear high on the church's ethical agenda, especially within the local congregation.

The military isn't exactly on the leading edge as crusaders for the liberal agenda on social issues and even though atheists are finally getting recognition and not just rejection in the overall community, there are still many in the military who think differently and won't reccomend this soldier for a higher rank.

It's a self - imposed regimen that we live under, and so at the very least the issue has to be put on the agenda.

An educated and worldly Muslim community leader like Rauf wants to build Muslim center close to ground zero, while the war and other thing is going, is this a common sense or decency have been exercise or just Muslims self - absorption and taking no responsibility of their own community conduct, they should not be crying like a spoil baby, when a ripple affect from their own conduct come back toward them (The Burning of Koran and fire attempt toward Muslim community were coming from his fake and insincere agenda on this building issue).

Obama has shown incredible courage in taking on this issue head - on AND has also shown that he can think on his own and has a moral center that is not held hostage by the agenda of religious interests.

There were deep divisions, but there was also a strong focus on worship, regular Bible study and an agenda that focused on the big issues of the world as well as the church, so that no one issue was seen as dominating the entire church.

But his excitement waned as the first keynote speaker focused almost exclusively on political issues, charging the audience to fight the «gay agenda,» painting the world, Justin says, «in simplistic «us» vs. «them» terms: We were the Christians.

«If elected, I pledge to be a «values voice» in Congress, and focus on issues that have largely been ignored; it is time to expand the values conversation and agenda, and once again make them the center of our country.

The founders of Black Lives Matter refute these 11 stated misconceptions about their movement; they ignore Black on Black crime, they're leaderless, they have no agenda, they're a one - issue movement (Police brutality), they don't respect their elders, they reject the Black Church, they don't care about Queer / Trans lives, they hate White people, they hate Police officers, politically speaking their focus should be the vote, and they're not actually a movement.

Even if one regrets the neglect or absence of a comprehensive agenda and the pursuit, instead, of single - issue and single - candidate concerns, and regrets even more the lack of a governing political philosophy, the times and issues are such that open debate must be welcomed on as broad a platform as possible.

Since there is a difference of opinion with fundamentalist churches on this issues we'll accuse them of being wolves in sheep clothing with hidden agendas.

A prolific writer on the theological, philosophical and ethical issues related to the faith - science debate, Jaki's work can safely be summarised as the intentional repudiation of the modern, secularist agenda which seeks to place science and Christian faith in radical, philosophical and historical opposition.