Sentences with phrase «large public policy»

As the largest public policy association for California wine, and the only group representing the industry at the state, federal and international levels, Wine Institute's Officers, Board of Directors and professional staff work to create an environment where the wine community can flourish and contribute in a positive fashion to our nation, state and local communities.

Peter headed up the economic practices in two «big four» advisory consulting firms and was a Partner in one of Canberra's largest public policy advisory firms where he specialised in industry and international trade policy development and regulation.

They can exert some influence at home, but the larger public policy choices that impact them are made by adults.

This trend provides opportunities for advocacy organizations engaging in these larger public policy conversations to become live video broadcasters, and add their live video — and voices — to the public and media's news consumption.

«The problems may not simply be with who runs the [Water Authority] but may require a larger public policy discussion about the utility of an authority at all.

«It's rare you get the opportunity to make the larger public policy arguments in front of a judge on that type of case.

That's why this is really part of a larger public policy discussion, which is sort of what Bradley was getting at.

We are so proud to celebrate their expertise and engagement in our largest public policy forum ever - and want to especially thank the state team leads for their incredible leadership and support!

We are proud to celebrate the commitment, expertise, and engagement of our members and Affiliates who joined us in Washington, D.C. from March 4 - 6 for our largest Public Policy Forum ever!

Not exact matches

I asked, «Now that the company is public and has grown so large, has the policy changed?»

The Congress faces an array of policy choices as it confronts the challenges posed by the amount of federal debt held by the public — which has more than doubled relative to the size of the economy since 2007 — and the prospect of continued growth in that debt over the coming decades if the large annual budget deficits projected under current law come to pass.

Some assets, however, may no longer serve a public policy purpose and are of particular interest to, for example, Ontario's large pension plans as good long - term investments.

Yesterday I blogged about rental housing in Yellowknife, over at the Northern Public Affairs web site. Specifically, I blogged about a recent announcement by the city's largest for - profit landlord that it plans to «tighten» its policies vis - a-vis renting to recipients of «income assistance» (which, in most parts of Canada, is known generically as social assistance).

As we argued on numerous occasions, the budget needs to be much more explicit on the proposed policy initiatives; providing sufficient detail and background information for Parliamentary assessment and for a better understanding by the public at large.

The Connected Health Conference is the largest and most diverse gathering of public sector and health and technology industry leaders working at the intersection of innovative product and service development, research, business and policy throughout the world.

But for some black racial justice activists, organizers, and public figures, the reaction to the students of Stoneman Douglas has also led to another truth: Organizing around Black Lives Matter and the larger Movement for Black Lives, another youth - led movement demanding policy change in the wake of trauma, was not and has not been as readily embraced.

This scenario would increase the efficiency of wholesale payment systems, and has few drawbacks for the public at large or for policy makers, although banks could be hit due to higher competition with non-bank payment institutions.

Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, elected late last year on promises to revive the world's third - largest economy, has implemented a policy mix of increased public spending and aggressive monetary easing.

The Ethics and Public Policy Center in Washington, D.C., with which I am pleased to be affiliated, was founded in the 1970s in large measure to combat the perception that an intellectually and morally impoverished understanding of the dominant American religious traditions had rendered those traditions useless, or (as in the lamentable presidency of Jimmy Carter) worse than useless in guiding Americans» thinking about a sensible and responsible foreign pPolicy Center in Washington, D.C., with which I am pleased to be affiliated, was founded in the 1970s in large measure to combat the perception that an intellectually and morally impoverished understanding of the dominant American religious traditions had rendered those traditions useless, or (as in the lamentable presidency of Jimmy Carter) worse than useless in guiding Americans» thinking about a sensible and responsible foreign policypolicy.

Russell D. Moore serves as the eighth president of the Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission of the Southern Baptist Convention, the moral and public policy agency of the nation's largest Protestant denomination.

As the gap between the rich and the rest of the population grows, economic policy increasingly caters to the interests of the elite, while public services for the population at large - above all, public education - are starved of resources.

Russell Moore is president of the Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission of the Southern Baptist Convention, the moral and public policy agency of the nation's largest Protestant denomination.

He intelligently applies such truisms to various marketing and public policy issues, but they are in service to his larger point: forget the formation of character and persuading people about whether something is true» the way to get things done is to condition behavior.

Richard Land is the public policy chief for the Southern Baptist Convention, the country's largest evangelical denomination.

The public - policy leader for the largest US Protestant denomination isn't worried over Christians» loss of power.

It argued for the importance for public policy of what we called mediating structures — institutions standing between the individual and the large institutions of society.

«This has nothing to do with religion but with the fact that Romney is only recently pro-life and only recently able to articulate an argument against same - sex marriage,» said Richard Land, the public policy chief at the Southern Baptist Convention, the nation's largest evangelical denomination.

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.

Wine Institute is the largest advocacy and public policy association for California wine.

To provide information for public health or public policy purposes, a larger long - term trial targeting individuals with marginal vitamin A status is needed.

The scrutiny of the funding practices of large transnational food companies6, 7 has threatened the credibility of nutrition research and researchers.5 However, without empirical work examining the association of industry sponsorship with the results of nutrition research, researchers, policy makers, and the public have no way of quantifying and understanding the extent of industry influence on the data.

Although the policy game is a major source of illegal gambling profit, betting on sports is, perhaps, the largest in revenue and public interest.

But beyond those concrete suggestions, my larger aspiration for this book is that it might provide us with a set of guiding principles to propel forward the public - policy discussions and debates that we need to have now.

We unify evidence, policy and practice by working collaboratively across a large network of organisations involving governments, public services, the voluntary sector and families.

Georgia Health News surveyed the state's 20 largest public school systems about their lead testing policies and found many differences in how school systems evaluated their water quality.

And so Britain finds itself outside the EU on the basis of a competent communications operation - working off large - scale public concern about the prospect of continued membership - but without significant intellectual policy work on which to draw on.

The government is expected to defer activity such as «taking or announcing major policy decisions; entering into large / contentious procurement contracts or significant long - term commitments; and making some senior public appointments and approving Senior Civil Service appointments, provided that such postponement would not be detrimental to the national interest or wasteful of public money».

They gave their largest contribution of $ 15,000 to a public policy fund run by Citizen Action, one of the progressive groups who endorsed Nixon.

@jwodder: Homelessness and what to do about homelessness is current public policy issue in most large cities in the U.S.

We've seen this sort of criticism of policy and political decisions coming from pundits and bloggers for years, but now a large enough group of online political professionals is writing in public that the degree and level of discussion of online strategy is astonishing this far in advance of anything resembling an election.

Corbyn needs to create a strong, cohesive, loyal shadow cabinet to fight his corner and sell his policies to the party and the public at large.

New York State is using the best lessons from private practice and creating a large scale public policy initiative based on real data to determine investment and return.

The NASUWT, the largest teachers» union in the UK, has launched an advertising campaign aimed at parents and the public, highlighting the impact of the Conservative - driven Government education policy on children and young people.

A 1997 report by the Public Policy Institute, underwritten by the state's anti-tax Business Council, estimated that if HCRA were «ranked with state taxes that support New York's general fund, HCRA taxes would be the third largest business tax, or our state's second largest user tax.»

Commenting on Prime Minister Teresa May's speech to the Conservative Party Conference today, Chris Keates, General Secretary of the NASUWT, the largest teachers» union in the UK, said: «We welcome the fact that the Prime Minister clearly recognises that the education, social and economic policies of her predecessor have led to inequality across education and other public services.

Her comments on NY1 came as part of a larger public - relations push, in anticipation of the coming redirection of education policy in City Hall.

«opposed higher tax rates, wanted to privatise large parts of public service provision, opposed most government intervention in the economy, and was a liberal interventionist in foreign policy»

With Perez Williams out of the race, a field of three was gradually winnowed down to one, as local officials and other progressive organizations all rallied around Dana Balter, a professor of public policy and a leader of one of the largest local Indivisible chapters.

At this time, the specific policies regarding the body camera project have not been made available to the public or to the Syracuse Common Council, said Councilor - At - Large Jean Kessner.

E.J. McMahon, president of the Empire Center for Public Policy, a business - backed think tank, testified that there was no other state pushing for an increase so large, and said that the minimum hourly rate would climb from $ 9 to $ 15 in six years — a faster rate than previous hikes.