Sentences with phrase «major area of policy»

Labour negotiators were unwilling to move on any of the issues where we had different views on major areas of policy.

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The Canadian economy benefitted from a recovery in the US and the emergence of China as a major global economy There is a lot at stake and Canada will not be immune to the consequences if policy makers in the EURO area and the U.S. fail to take decisive action.
The term Great Firewall, then, should be seen as encompassing policy areas well beyond the extensive censorship system, to include forced technology transfer, forced partnership with Chinese partners, ever more sophisticated theft of intellectual property, demands that internet data be «secure and controllable,» legislation allowing government officials to demand access to software source code, and denial of access for major internet platform companies such as Google, Amazon, and Facebook.
Closing tax loopholes appears to be the only area of major accord, where the latest policies are very much aligned to managers» concerns for greater fairness in the tax system.
Pressure is mounting on the government to make swift and decisive decisions over areas of major transport policy
Findings also showed it as an empirically and conceptually innovative, diverse, vibrant discipline that in many areas sets the intellectual agenda The UK publishes more than its share of major disciplinary journals; bibliometric indicators reveal international primacy both in volume and citation impact; and a large number of the seminal publications (books as well as articles) continue to have a UK origin UK human geography is radically interdisciplinary and with the spatial turn in the humanities and social sciences has become an exporter of ideas and faculty to other disciplines There was confidence that research in human geography had substantial impact on policy and practice and would successfully meet the challenges of the current impact agenda
Yet, if anything, the indispensability of this text lies in the fact that five years after the first coalition government was formed since the Second World War, a wide variety of esteemed experts from Whitehall, Parliament, academia and think tanks have given their professional and intriguing assessments of the «Coalition effect» across all major policy areas.
When lamenting the impasse from the major political parties on issues such the support for welfare or opposition to the rampant march of privatisation, the Green party rarely seems to warrant a mention — despite the fact that these policy areas are now deeply embedded in the party's psyche.
William Hague's disposition towards carrying the foreign policy brief into government would of course be the major factor in whether the top job in that area would be open to him, but another factor to consider is that in a Shadow Cabinet desperately lacking in experience of government Trimble's heavyweight status and experience as First Minister of Northern Ireland would bring some much - needed gravitas to the team.
First, the administration should initiate a more open, transparent and systematic public - private policy process in each major area of sustainable development.
Rita Colwell is Distinguished University Professor Emerita at the University of Maryland and served as Director of the National Science Foundation (NSF) from 1998 to 2004, where her policy approach enabled the NSF to establish support for major initiatives in many areas, including nanotechnology, biocomplexity, and information technology.
American leadership in global technological advances and scientific research, and the dynamism of our companies and universities in these areas, is a major source of our economic, foreign policy, and national security strength.
Juliet was raised in the Bay Area and has a double major in Animal Physiology and Neuroscience and Public Policy from the University of California, San Diego.
About Blog Asian Journal of Political Science publishes in major areas of political science, including comparative politics, political thought, international relations, public policy, and public administration, with specific reference to Asian regions and countries.
About Blog Asian Journal of Political Science publishes in major areas of political science, including comparative politics, political thought, international relations, public policy, and public administration, with specific reference to Asian regions and countries.
I would, therefore, ask Hanushek and Lindseth to stop tilting at windmills and to join with me in instituting a dialogue in major areas in which we do agree, like the fact that courts can and should hold states and school districts accountable for better performance, and that «school funding policies must recognize the underlying heterogeneity of students and their educational challenges and ensure that all schools have the means to succeed» (Hanushek and Lindseth, Schoolhouses, Courthouses, and Statehouses, page 218).
For the Technology Leaders section of Technology Counts 2006, the Editorial Projects in Education Research Center collected data on 14 indicators covering three major areas of state technology policy and practice: access, use, and capacity.
A few major areas I hope will receive attention during reauthorization are college / workplace readiness, including the promotion of more rigorous standards; greater accountability at the secondary level; more sophisticated policy and greater accountability for improving teacher effectiveness, particularly at the late elementary and secondary levels; a broadening of attention to math and science as well as to history; and refinements in AYP to focus greater attention and improvement on the persistently failing schools by offering real choices to parents of students stuck in such schools.
The Study will monitor the pulse of the charter school movement, addressing research and policy questions in three major areas:
In 1972, eminent Harvard statistics professor Frederick Mosteller and Daniel Patrick Moynihan wrote that the Coleman Report had «turned understanding of a major area of social policy upside down as perhaps no comparable event in the history of social science.»
Kansas scores above the national average on three of the four major areas of state policy graded in Quality Counts.
Major areas cited in the research are declining enrollment, higher shares of special education students and drops in state funding — which, the study notes, policy makers control.
As American students continue to lag in key areas and drop - out rates in major cities remain at unacceptable levels, it's clear that the policies of the past have failed.
He is a Past President of a major provincial TESOL chapter in South Korea and has served at executive level in national and international TESOL organisations, with particular specialisation in the areas of leadership, policy, strategy, innovation and the teaching of English to young and teenage learners.
ASCD and more than 25 other major education organizations, representing a wide array of subject areas, are promoting consensus recommendations for how federal education policy can better support subject disciplines beyond reading, math, and science.
This publication chronicles the life experiences of students with disabilities who were educated after passage of major legislative protections and suggests five key areas for the focus of future disability legislation, policies, and initiatives.
The foundation's education program pursues this endgame through three major program areas: support for vouchers, both publicly and privately funded; support for charter school start - ups to encourage and enable the rapid growth of the sector; and public policy advocacy, to ensure that the road is clear for expansion with minimal regulatory interference.
This legislation, modeled after the pet travel policies of several major airlines, would require pets to be transported in approved pet kennels that can be stowed as carry - on baggage or, where available, transported in temperature - controlled cargo areas to protect pet health.
About Blog Asian Journal of Political Science publishes in major areas of political science, including comparative politics, political thought, international relations, public policy, and public administration, with specific reference to Asian regions and countries.
The goal of the Energy Policy Act of 1992 was to replace 30 percent of U.S. transportation - related petroleum consumption with alternative - fuel vehicles by 2010, and the Act requires that at least 75 percent of vehicles purchased annually by federal agencies in major metropolitan areas be alternative - fuel vehicles.
«Climate policy will play a major role in the campaign in specific (local) areas,» the policy director of the National Republican Congressional Committee, Jordan Davis, told the National Journal in explaining how it will argue against President Obama's national climate plan in a handful of coal districts.
CAMPBELL: The difficulty in talking about the big cases, I look at the little cases, and part of my concern is that where you may see some of the court decisions that become problematic for the areas in which you are involved because, think of the companies, and they may be reasonable size but not huge, that don't have an in - house IT person, don't have an in - house counsel and maybe cloud computing for servers, and they have got a major piece of litigation and they don't have a policy.
The analysis is also intended to assist the public in understanding the general economic ramifications of a regulation, both in the aggregate as well as the major policy areas of a regulation and how they are likely to affect the major industries or sectors of the economy covered by it.
Given the vast array of institutions affected by this regulation and the considerable variation in practices, the Department sought to identify the «typical» current practice for each of the major policy areas and estimate the cost of change resulting from the regulation.
Whether it's a baseball that flies through the window or a tree that falls through your roof, property damage is major area of coverage you'll gain with a home insurance policy.
If there is ever a major disaster in the Southaven area of Mississippi, you will be able to rely on your renters insurance policy to replace all of your things without having to spend too much money.
When you are purchasing your automobile insurance policy, keep in mind the six major areas of coverage.
Renters insurance liability is probably the more overlooked of the two major areas of protection included in a policy.
One of the major areas to pay attention to in the fine print on your auto insurance policy are any specific dates or deadlines to file paperwork, claims and the like.
About Blog Asian Journal of Political Science publishes in major areas of political science, including comparative politics, political thought, international relations, public policy, and public administration, with specific reference to Asian regions and countries.
About Blog Asian Journal of Political Science publishes in major areas of political science, including comparative politics, political thought, international relations, public policy, and public administration, with specific reference to Asian regions and countries.
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