Sentences with word «localism»
Localism refers to a focus on promoting and supporting local communities and businesses, with an emphasis on local control and decision-making. It is a way of valuing and prioritizing the unique characteristics and needs of a particular place, fostering a sense of community and promoting sustainable practices. Full definition
An increasingly popular idea in the spirit of the government's new Localism bill, which aims to encourage members of a community to volunteer in the provision of services, is for school playgrounds to be opened for use at the weekends and after school.
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Playing to the gallery and incensed by hysterical Daily Mail headlines about Christianity being «under attack», Pickles announced that the «general power of competence» in his new Localism Act would «effectively reverse» the high court's ruling on council prayers.
Our social heterogeneity and long tradition of localism in determining curriculum has produced a different approach: we start with standards, next we develop assessments, and then teachers, schools, and districts decide what content to teach our students, with varying support and guidance from their states.
If we really believe in localism, then we must embrace devolution.
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Her evidence also supports the increasingly high - profile localism agenda in the UK.
Ed Miliband joins a long line of politicians who have talked the talk on localism, but ultimately refused to let go when they entered power.
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But the parties will have to balance their calls for localism with moves to retain central control to prevent nimbyism.
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An English parliament is in keeping with localism, pushing power closer to the people and if given real power, it would be a voice for English people who are disenfranchised under the status quo.
In 2012, she co-curated the exhibition Radical Localism: Art, Media and Culture from Pueblo Nuevo's Mexicali Rose at Artists Space with Richard Birkett and Marco Vera.
In the book, they reflect deeply on the evolving nature of the wine industry and how technology and the «tug - of - war between localism and tourism» have changed the business.
As the Trojan horse incidents underline, rhetoric about localism continues to mask the increasing centralisation of power.
The kind of localism advocated by the Tories is closely linked to the right - wing Lib Dem policies seen in the «Orange Book», but the language remains very much Tory.
All three of Westminster's mainstream parties are likely to take further steps towards localism in their 2015 election manifestos, but radical promises towards significant devolution of power remain improbable.
James is fond of destinguishing between «political libertarians» and «cultural libertarians», and the more that I read the ongoing kerfuffle over localism that has spread from PoMoCon and FPR to First Thoughts and Daniel McCarthy, the more I think a similar distinction....
Let me raise just one: if localism means anything, is it right not to allow them local discretion over planning practice on, say, ground floor home extensions?
The authors of a new report from localism thinktank New Local Government Network explain their thinking when it comes to council back - office savings:
This nationalist discourse — Bob White declaring that he would «wrap the fucking flag» around himself to fight for union jobs — contrasted with an American localism that was ineffective in marshalling political support to stem the tide of rust.
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That same year he co-wrote «Direct Democracy», a publication calling for increased localism and constitutional reform, and in 2008 he wrote «The Plan» with Daniel Hannan, enhancing his reputation as one of the party's brightest young thinkers.
As someone who is attracted to Chesterton's creative localism and his critiques of modernity (I once called Orthodoxy the most important book for the twenty - first century and write at....
Rather, these questions seem to me they would be at the core of a contentful localism where that was not being advocated simply as a front for a minimal state agenda, which is probably the motivation of some Conservative localists but I would imagine rather fewer LibDems.
This is why I co-authored with Mats Persson a pamphlet for Open Europe published yesterday called The Case for European Localism, which lays out the reasons to repatriate powers, and suggests some options for doing so.
Labour's leader in the House of Lords, Baroness Royall of Blaisdon, says that more localism in Scotland can help «thwart the threat of nationalism».
Is this what localism has become?
Future responses to «catastrophic» events may be undermined by the coalition's localism drive, a government adviser has told politics.co.uk.
That is called localism....
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«It also means a stronger local life might balance out us cosmopolitans (like Deneen, who jets all over the place evangelizing localism).»
The revolution Norman started was all too quickly co-opted and commercialized — a problem that a healthy dose of Chestertonian localism might have helped avoid.
As the initiative of the unity movement has shifted from centralized international and national bureaucracies to grass - roots localism, so there has emerged as well a new enthusiasm for the local approach in and to postsecondary education.
A couple of readers suggested that I drop the pointy headed Strauss stuff and comment on the trendy localism posts of the Porchers, the (First) Thingers, and all that.
I believe I wrote that parade up last year, so I won't do it again — except to say it combines genuine patriotism, high technology, solid prosperity, quirky localism, and evangelical....
However, while government centralization is prone to corruption, localism often expresses itself as pure rejection.
We must remember, as well, that the Christian tradition carries within itself, not only the seeds of counter-cosmopolitan localism, but of political universalism, as exemplified in Dante Aligheri's De Monarchia, but even in the old Holy Roman Empire, which claimed some form of preeminence within western Christendom.
Localism relies on local knowledge and experience.
The character of design has its own attitude toward localism, with less of a systematic approach typically seen in most quickserve models,» said Jesse MacDougall, senior project manager at ICRAVE.
«The coalition is using the Orwellian language of 1984 to promote localism as the panacea of all ills, when, in reality, it is a grim cuts agenda being imposed from Whitehall.»
Nor is Labour frontbenchers Andy Burnham and Luciana Berger expressing interest in Osborne's Greater Manchester and Merseyside Metro mayors silencing grumbling on their own benches in Parliament or dissident Tories concerned the centralisation of influence will weaken genuine localism.
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As I say I am not sure which dog I have in this fight, the question of federal preemption is a general national one, on THAT I favor localism, — as a default, not always
But then, so did David Cameron's «Big Society», and the coalition government's broader localism agenda.
To this end, we must build a new political and economic localism.