Sentences with phrase «limited government role»

In his 2011 State of the Union Address, President Obama called for a direct but limited government role in advancing technology innovation, drawing on case studies popularized by Breakthrough's report Where Good Technologies Come From.

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The Harper government has dismantled one of the world's top aquatic and fishery libraries as part of its agenda to reduce government as well as limit the role of environmental science in policy decision - making.

International trade laws limit the type of help governments can provide to companies, but the role of the Chinese government is particularly opaque, said Mark Wu, a professor of law at Harvard and a former United States trade negotiator in the administration of President George W. Bush.

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Maybe, or maybe he too is caught up in a great and as yet undecided civic debate on the role and limits of government in questions of debt, taxes, public spending, entitlements, and tax codes.

Now, I believe that government can and should play a positive, active and limited role in society.

The rallying point for the Republican Party and its factions from Paul to the Tea Party, is that there is little actual need for government, so its role should be as limited as possible.

In general, those who follow an originalist philosophy of legal interpretation tend to view the legal role of the federal government in a more limited manner than those who do not.

As agreed with the Nigerian and Swiss governments, the Bank's role was limited to carrying out an ex-post analysis on their use with a particular focus on their contribution to the NEEDS.»

This question should be expanded to include the role of federalism and states right's generally as beneficial to liberty, self - governance and limited government that put important checks on potentially despotic and far away central governments.

The idea that Parliament is sovereign is in contrast to, for example, the US, where the role and powers of Congress are explicitly limited: Article I Section 8 lists the powers that Congress does have, while the 10th Amendment makes it clear that any and all powers not delegated explicitly or implicitly to Congress or another branch of the US government «are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.»

Let me once again state that the role of the CBN as banker to the Federal Government is to do exactly what we have done and within the limits specified by law.

Justice secretary Jack Straw has launched a consultation on the government's role in appointment judges, asking whether ministers should weald more influence or have their input further limited.

As someone who works in a company that places official restrictions on political donations due to various regulations, it seems possible to me that similar restrictions may have played a role; however, I'm completely unfamiliar with whether any political donation limits exist in government positions that this individual held.

The race pits two incumbents who see a limited role for city government against a pair of political newcomers with broader visions for what the council can do to improve residents» lives.

As someone who has famously proclaimed, «I am the government,» Gov. Andrew Cuomo must find the governor's limited role in the state's schools particularly galling.

The Attorney General, Gloria Akuffo, and defence lawyers in the trial of some former government appointees for their roles in a supposed $ 6 million fraudulent deal between the National Communication Authority (NCA) and Infraloks Development Limited (IDL), argued in court today [Tuesday], about the number of days the case should be heard in a week.

The federal government has a limited but important role to play regarding the Internet.

But it satisfies both defenders of the Court of Justice's supreme authority, such as the European Parliament, and those who want to limit its role, including some businesses and the United Kingdom's conservative government.

As a self - proclaimed «climate leader» the UK government has a critical role to play in closing the «emissions gap» — the gap between the current global trajectory of greenhouse gas emissions and the actions necessary to limit warming to 1.5 ˚C and «well below» 2 ˚C (and hence reduce the risks of disaster), they write.

As a self - proclaimed «climate leader» the UK government has a critical role to play in closing the»em issions gap» — the gap between the current global trajectory of greenhouse gas emissions and the actions necessary to limit warming to 1.5?

These constraints stem from state government's role in education policymaking, limits on available resources, and tensions within progressivism itself.

[1] Moe has since made a strong case for a mixed system in which government's role is strictly limited and choice and entrepreneurship are emphasized.

For six years, the Obama administration, breaking with generations of practice, gave every indication that it saw few limits to the role of the federal government in primary and secondary schooling.

The existence of such a mandate is an unusual departure in American constitutionalism - which has traditionally been focused on limiting government power, not creating obligations to provide a public service - and is a tribute to the central role of public education in American culture.

In my view, the federal government should have a limited role in advancing school choice through policy (military choice, the D.C. scholarship program, and choice for children attending BIE schools being among the few exceptions).

While networks, incubators, and franchising certainly have roles to play in expanding educational options, the role of government should be at limited as possible.

Yet, at the same time, Republicans in Washington are embracing the worst elements of the teachers unions» national education agenda, by insisting that the federal government should have a limited, possibly nonexistent, role in school policy.

In the principles, the groups highlight the important and historic role the federal government has played during the 50 years since the ESEA was originally passed in promoting educational opportunity and protecting the rights and interests of students disadvantaged by discrimination, poverty, and other conditions that may limit their educational attainment.

GOP policy makers traditionally favor school choice and limiting the role of federal government in schools.

Put another way, does a commitment to limiting government's role in the education realm also require that schools refrain from seeking to form the character and worldview of their pupils?

«As a result, we are pleased to see that the latest version of the bill recognizes that the federal government's role is limited in this arena.»

But while some of the nation's most prominent education lobby groups are backing the bill, there is apprehension from others that lawmakers might have overreacted to political pressure to limit the role of the federal government — considerably weakening Washington's ability to step in if a state fails to address its most troubled schools.

The federal government's role in elementary and secondary education should be limited: It should work to create transparency so that parents can see how their local schools measure up; it should support policies that have a proven record; and it should make sure states can't ignore students who need extra help.

Re: the US News article on top about ESSA: Chairwoman Foxx is right about the role of the federal government in America's K - 12 education system; and families can continue to pressure educrats like Mr Botel by opting out, wherever and whenever possible, from their local state schools until the federal government gives up on the continuing mistake of its annual testing requirement in two subjects only, which has produced no significant improvement in American education for 15 years now, but has cost us in lost opportunities, including time and energy that might have been devoted to non-tested subjects, including those in the broader curricula represented by the International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme, which requires assessment — including but not limited to external final exams — in six subjects distributed over at least five fields, an assessment approach that has been imitated by the world's leading educational jurisdictions, but is being discouraged by the ignorant Luddites in the the U.S. ED.

, Chairwoman of the House Committee on Education and the Workforce, to talk about the federal government's role in education and express her support for Foxx's efforts to ensure that its influence is limited.

Please read our issue brief for more details about Common Core and NSBA's support for a limited role for the federal government.

I support a limited role of the federal government in education to facilitate the education of students who are significantly more expensive to educate, such as disabled students, English language learners, and students from very disadvantaged backgrounds.

The bill maintains a limited oversight role for the federal government — what Murray calls «guardrails» — that aims to ensure equal educational opportunities for disadvantaged students.

At the end of 2015, Congress passed NCLB's successor, the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA), which limits the federal government's role in shaping school accountability, and gives states considerably more discretion to craft their own plans.

DeVos» limited understanding of IDEA seems to presage a global ignorance of the role of the federal government in ensuring accountability for special needs kids, as well as other traditionally - disenfranchised groups like low - income students, students of color, and English - language learners.

The House's proposed bill focuses the privatization of the finance market — eliminate the government completing while the Senate's proposed bill wants the government to have a limited role to insure mortgage securities.

The FHFA plan to lower conforming loan limits is in line with the Obama administration's long - term goal of reducing government's role and having private capital take the lead in the mortgage market.

Not only that, Merkel's options for forming a coalition government have been severely limited because SPD intends to take the role of the opposition with its 153 seats.

Peter Cooper, in his charter, established a student government that would play an active role in the administration of Cooper Union and he mandated term limits so that the largest possible number of students could play an active role.

``... the company [Exxon Mobil], the world's largest oil and gas concern, has increased donations to Washington - based policy groups that, like Exxon itself, question the human role in global warming and argue that proposed government policies to limit carbon dioxide emissions associated with global warming are too heavy handed.

In Oklahoma, for example, participation is voluntary, and the government limits its role to certifying the companies that verify emission reductions and nurturing agreement on how to measure the types of GHG reduction projects likely to be pursued in the state — such as grassland management and climate - safe farming.

If the U.S. government thought NASA climate scientist James Hansen has been a thorn in its side, just wait until he quits his job and becomes a full - time activist ready to take a more active role in lawsuits challenging the federal and state governments over their failure to limit emissions.

It is called «carbon feed and dividend» (CF&D), or «revenue - neutral carbon tax,» because it limits government's role to bookkeeper instead of bank and regulator.

Government has a proactive and limited role to play that requires public investments and collaboration with the private sector.