Sentences with phrase «make policy choices»

We can and must do better: we can make policy choices to lift more families into economic stability.»

At the risk of appearing «appallingly ignorant or naive,» it is not at all clear to me that judges must or should make policy choices at sentencing.

I'm curious: for those individuals who say that judges «shouldn't make policy choices at sentencing,» what do you thinks motivates this thinking?

Plus, many crops are planted that are not food crops, so society will need to make policy choices between food versus income crops (e.g. coffee, tea) or energy crops.

We need to make policy choices based less on moral self - regard and more on attention to real - world results.

To make policy choices that keep that production at less efficient rather than newer, cleaner and more efficient plants is not helping the environment in the least.

The administration talks tough about TBTF, but has made very clear they aren't willing to make policy choices to do anything to proactively break them up.

Blending and Braiding Early Childhood Program Funding Streams Toolkit The toolkit is designed to provide state advocates and policymakers with strategies, tools, resources and options to make policy choices that facilitate the blending and braiding of funding streams to improve access to and length of children's participation in full - workday, full - year, high - quality early learning programs that benefit vulnerable young children and working families.

And although all but a handful of states operated under a waiver as of the 2015 --- 16 school year, the enactment of ESSA meant that all ESEA waivers expired in August 2016.50 Under waivers, states were empowered to make policy choices altering how accountability works for schools.

All of the reports on genome editing call for robust public debate, but the simple fact is that embryo research has proven highly divisive and resistant to consensus, and it is far from clear how to know when there is enough thoughtful deliberation to make policy choices.

«The (Fed policy - setting) committee needs to make policy choices that will lead to more great years like 2014,» Minneapolis Fed President Narayana Kocherlakota said in remarks prepared for delivery in Helena, Montana, citing the dramatic improvement in the U.S. labor market last year.

Each state should consider the demographic composition of its own districts in making its policy choices, not only about minimum n - size, but also about how districts can combine data to increase the number of students included.

We clearly have to take actions on many levels, but you can ruminate on the morality of the following postion: Assuming that hurricane damage in the US is driven by settlement of the Gulf Coast, the US might make a policy choice to emphasize adaptation (the cost of resettlement would be astronomical (> 10 ^ Kyoto).

The roundtable discussion questioned whether this creates a defensible division between legal functions / institutional actors, or are the actual lines between them more amorphous — e.g., between making policy choices (which she assigns to the legislative branch) and implementing and administering those choices (which she assigns to the administrative branch)?

That means education and decision support tools while they're researching, unbiased advice when they're making policy choices, and an easy - to - use flow when they're ready to buy.

Before making any policy choice, you should always weigh the advantages and disadvantages of each alternative.

Although referring to the text of s 223 as the basis for its decision, the majority in Yorta Yorta made a policy choice, although not expressly, in favour of a restricted entitlement to a determination of native title.

Not exact matches

«It's vital that we hear directly from the workers who are on the frontlines of this shift so that we have the objective data and analysis we need to make informed policy choices.»

Staff will make choices on accounting policies for making estimates, and you need to understand how and why they do so, and to detect potential manipulation.

Those who take the «mommy track» might make far different choices living somewhere with policies and a business culture supportive of working parents, such as Sweden or Canada.

Is it still reasonable to assume that monetary policy should simply react to fiscal policy, even if the choices of politicians make the inflation and financial stability goals of central banks more difficult to achieve?

But before making any technology choices, it's important to craft an information disaster - recovery plan — a formal written policy that's part of a comprehensive company - wide business - continuity strategy.

Gambling the recovery over another war of choice makes no sense, even from a foreign policy point of view.

The assets that, until recently, made her look like the obvious choice to succeed Bernanke — being a Fed veteran, having intimate knowledge of QE and forward guidance, a well - known stance on monetary policy and a scholarly focus on unemployment — now seem like weapons to fight the battle of yesteryear.

States can set up insurance exchanges, and if done well, he says, these exchanges will keep the number of policy choices to a manageable level and they will force insurers to present information about their policies in ways that make comparisons easy.

«Call it pessimism if you like, but you better be prepared for how policy choices now being made will be harmful to what you are doing.»

No matter your political position, it's important to stay informed on the policies that will affect your small business, so that come Election Day, you can make the right choice for you.

And since on trade policy he has decided for once to try to actually govern the country rather than outsource the work to congressional Republicans, he will need to make some difficult choices.

So if you want a permanent life insurance policy that lets you make your own investment choices within your policy, consider variable universal life insurance (VUL).

Some organizations prefer a strictly mandated policy that deeply restricts traveler choices and punishes noncompliance, while others take a softer - handed approach, allowing travelers more latitude to make decisions that will benefit them and the organization.

Carbon pricing works because it sends a policy signal that directly affects behaviour, rewarding those who make choices that reduce carbon pollution.

Anyway, it'll be on policy choices that the Trudeau Government stands or falls with Canadian voters, regardless of the effort of the Conservatives to make couture an issue, and while there's plenty to criticize in the Liberal policy book, taken as a package Canadians don't yet seem that dissatisfied with what they're getting.

After each of its eight meetings, the Federal Reserve makes a press release known as the «FOMC Statement» which summarize the central banker's policy choices.

If I can choose to break one I can choose to wear a condom so the spread of aids is not the fault of the policy but in fact the behavior of the people and the choices they make.

It is also not true that governments know what is best or that they always make the correct choice (or even the correct policy).

As an atheist I think it's important to know if your candidate picks his nose and eats the boogers, not that it makes any policy difference, but it is a charachetr difference, and if the candidate promotes his faith which includes baptizing dead jews whether out of guilt or love, I want to know about it so I can make an informed character choice on who I give my vote to.

Westerners may feel like they are superior to other groups but rarely make it policy that they are better by nature of their choice.

These policies and procedures are not designed to augment common belief and ways of living but to insure that individuals have maximum opportunity to make their own choices about these matters.

«They love it because it unifies people and it seems less political than when they have to make tough policy choices as head of government or brazenly political choices as head of party.»

There he says, one, that the shift from the concept of «the State's role as providers of equal opportunities to every citizen» to that of providing education, health and other social services «to those who can afford to pay» is a U-turn in public policy which «has been made surreptitiously by administrative action without public discussion and legislative sanction»; two, that the total commercialization of social sectors is «alien even to free market societies»; and three, that «the ready acceptance of self - financing concept in social sectors alien even to free - market societies is the end result of gradual disenchantment with the Kerala Model of Development», which has been emphasizing the social dimension rather than the economic, but that it is quite false to present the situation as calling for a choice between social development and economic growth.

The formulas are by now well known: In an age of sound bites and spin doctors, we are unable to make real choices between policy alternatives.

Borrowing from the new secular ethic of «compassionate death,» even the Catholic Health Association now publishes articles encouraging «futility policies» for hospital ethics committees that enable them to force the withdrawal of treatment from patients or families who do not make the «right» choice.

Although the ACCC said the legal action follows a complaint from the Obesity Policy Coalition on toddler foods which make health claims but are made mostly from fruit juice concentrate, consumer advocacy group CHOICE also reported on one of the Shreadz products produced by Heinz in May 2016.

Sustainable chocolate is as much about governments creating an enabling policy environment and enforcing legislation, NGOs creating awareness and consumers making sustainable choices, as it is about industry commitment and investment.

Founded in 1908, GMA has a primary focus on product safety, science - based public policies and industry initiatives that seek to empower people with the tools and information they need to make informed choices and lead healthier lives.

«It can be difficult for people who want to buy authentic Indigenous art and souvenirs to make informed decisions and support Indigenous artists and communities,» says CHOICE head of campaigns and policy Sarah Agar.

Unassisted birthing was and is the best choice for me but it makes me angry that women are feeling like they have little choice but to go that route because of hospital policies (for instance, my local hospital has a No VBAC policy and I would have had to have a c - section despite the fact that I had 4 successful VBACS already... and yup, insurance would have definitely covered the c - section costs, no doubt!)

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

Quite frankly, as a new dad of a formula - fed infant (by our own educated choice), these policies make my blood boil, for the following reasons:

I agree with Professor Zhou that the U.S. needs better family policies, but as I wrote in my letter to the editor: «her focus on promoting policies for mothers who pursue full - time careers leaves out mothers as well as fathers who make other choices.