Sentences with phrase «just by policymakers»

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«It would be a mistake to think it would be just contained to Greece,» he said, noting that policymakers had been wrongfooted in recent years by contagion from the sub-prime debt crisis.

The main question now is whether this transformation will be permanent, or, as has been promised by policymakers of late, just a temporary blip in the history of banking that could soon go away.

The IMF collected and compiled information about efforts by regulators and policymakers across the globe, but the organization seems just as uncertain as the rest of us regarding the future of cryptocurrencies and blockchain technology.

So by looking for these trends, policymakers might be able to assess just how well insurgencies were being contained — and what strategies seem to be keeping the rate of deadly attacks statistically low.

Yet the sense of relief does not last, for these islands of clarity are invariably surrounded by a broad sea of circumspection and equivocation that leave one adrift, wondering just how reliable they and similar assertions are, and just how policymakers might go about using this book to improve educational outcomes for minority children.

«Students that come to do a master's in education at Harvard are often motivated by principles - not just that they want to learn to be better policymakers or literacy coaches - they come because they have a passion about what education can do for people,» Levinson says.

The involvement by states in teacher employment issues is largely unknown, not just to the general public, but to policymakers themselves.

Just think: A teenager sitting in class follows a lesson formulated by her teacher and a curriculum written by distant policymakers.

• The RSD, conceived originally as a modest pilot program that had awarded turnaround charters for just four schools prior to Hurricane Katrina, was dramatically enlarged by Louisiana policymakers as a way to get public schools open after the ensuing floods, and was propelled by more than $ 20 million in federal charter school funding.

Perhaps now that the Every Student Succeeds Act has settled that fight by curtailing the federal role, and the Common Core State Standards are now just the state standards, policymakers can recognize that the common standards and assessments are not antithetical to states» rights after all.

In fact, local educators could do a lot to sidestep national policymakers by committing to do just three things this coming school year:

The latter part is more original stuff, as I (i) make the case for how China's clean energy push is in fact consistent with its overall economic reform, e.g. Scientific Development, reduction of excess industrial capacity, natural resource price reform, western development, boosting domestic consumption, and Going Out strategy; (ii) describe China's activities in innovation and R&D and its desire to create, not just produce, energy technologies of the 21st century; (iii) address criticisms that China's «indigenous innovation» policies are protectionist in nature by pointing out the myopia of such observations from a US (or EU for that matter) policymakers point of view; (iv) provide thoughts about what the proper U.S. policy response should be.

By applying the precautionary principle, the policymaker just tries to get rid of any responsibility as well as of this difficult risk analysis that is most of the time out of his competence.

When policymakers are still being told by experts today that the connection is somewhere between weak and tenuous, that would be just misleading them on the science.

Leif Svalgaard, Al Gore, the UN's IPCC et al. to demonstrate publicly how government science was corrupted by power - hungry policymakers, just as former President Eisenhower warned might happen in his farewell address of Jan 1961:

The clarity provided by this corrupt deal allows us to focus on what matters: using the March as a strategic retreat to develop our political, legal and organizing strategy to achieve victory — not just for Diablo Canyon, but all nuclear plants threatened by anti-nuclear organizations, corrupt unions, craven policymakers and short - term corporate executives.

Even just acknowledging more openly the incredible magnitude of the deep structural uncertainties that are involved in climate - change analysis — and explaining better to policymakers that the artificial crispness conveyed by conventional IAM - based CBAs [Integrated Assessment Model — Cost Benefit Analyses] here is especially and unusually misleading compared with more ordinary non-climate-change CBA situations — might go a long way toward elevating the level of public discourse concerning what to do about global warming.

More forecasting and critical evaluation, less dawdling on existing, well studied issues: that, in a nutshell, is the main recommendation made by a broad coalition of 35 scientists, environmentalists, journalists and policymakers, who were asked to put their collective brainpower together to draw up a list of the 25 future environmental threats that might arise in the U.K. up to 2050 (but could just as well apply to most countries around the world).

Just last September, an acoustic monitoring program was established by the Bioacoustics Research Program at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology in alliance with the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation for this very reason: to track whales» seasonal migration patterns and provide information to New York state policymakers who develop strategies and management plans to protect these threatened mammals.This listening system originated with the thirteen high - tech buoys deployed around Massachusetts Bay which sounds an alarm to ship captains warning them of the presence of whales so that they will reduce the sped of their vessels to 10 knots.