Sentences with phrase «limited role of government»

Not exact matches

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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?

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

The Conservative government also announced plans to begin a review of the charity sector to limit groups» advocacy role following complaints from Harper that groups are receiving questionable «foreign money.»

In any case, those who do not divulge financial information to their members may be engaged in egregious behaviour but if one supports recognition of self - government, then, as I've said in earlier articles, the role of the federal government should be limited to «a policy of no - policy.»

It is, as the briefing notes affirm, a reference to the Government's desire — following the row over the House of Lords» refusal to approve secondary legislation on tax credits last year — to limit the Lords» role in this sphere.

In recognition of the limited role of the NIC, the Chair of the Council, Dr Gordon, has stated the need for effective consultation processes to minimise misunderstandings regarding land tenure issues and to receive broad ranging feedback.41 To date, such broad ranging consultation has not been conducted by the Commonwealth Government or the NIC on the land tenure principles.

A related concern is the limited role that the government is prepared to provide Indigenous peoples in setting the priorities for Indigenous communities and more broadly, the limited recognition that they are prepared to provide to the unique status of Indigenous Australians.