Sentences with phrase «makes policy pronouncements»

Scientific societies have no business making policy pronouncements in general, and certainly not when the science is controversial.

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«I think from the administration's point of view, this is an opportunity to make a very major pronouncement on its foreign policy and its European policy,» said Alexander Vershbow, a former U.S. ambassador to Russia and a former deputy secretary general of NATO.

Such public parables must undergird all of the policies, programs, pronouncements, speeches, resolutions, action plans, studies and reports that we make on the limits of natural resources and the unjust distribution of economic costs and benefits.

Like school officials, the majority of pastors in mainline denominations have done little apart from making general policy pronouncements.

Picture this, we don't come out of the gate firing on all cylinders, Wenger speaks of how there wasn't enough time for the first - teamers to build chemistry, several key players aren't even playing because of Wenger's utterly ridiculous policy regarding players who played in the Confed Cup or the under21s and the boo - birds have returned in full flight... if these things were to happen, which is quite possible considering the Groundhog Day mentality of this club, how long do you think it will take for Wenger to recant his earlier statements regarding Europa... I would suggest that it's these sorts of comments from Wenger which are often his undoing... why would any manager worth his weight in salt make such a definitive statement before the season has even started... why would any manager who fashions himself an educated man make such pronouncements before even knowing what his starting 11 will be come Friday, let alone on September 1st... why would any manager who has a tenuous relationship with a great many supporters offer up such a potentially contentious talking point considering how many times his own words have come back to bite him in the ass... I think he does this because he doesn't care what you or I think, in fact he's more than slightly infuriated by the very idea of having to answer to the likes of you and me... that might have been acceptable during his formative years in charge, when the fans were rewarded with an scintillating brand of football and success felt like a forgone conclusion, but this new Wenger led team barely resembles that team of ore... whereas in times past we relished a few words from our seemingly cerebral manager, in recent times those words have been replaced by a myriad of excuses, a plethora of infuriating stories about who he could have signed but didn't and what can only be construed as outright fabrications... it's kind of funny that when we want some answers, like during the whole contract debacle of last season, we can't get an intelligent word out of him, but when we just what him to show his managerial acumen through his actions, we can't seem to get him to shut - up... I beg you to prove me wrong Arsene

The paper also chides the Buffalo businessman for being less than detailed oriented when making grand policy pronouncements and says he's «given to insensitivities that would divide New Yorkers.»

Maybe, maybe... if you could hold other factors constant, such as the courses I teach, the number of students I teach, the curriculum, the technology and other resources, all the other teachers and all of their courses, the administrative policies, the school's schedule, school transportation, extra-curricular activities and field - trips that affect instructional time... if you haven't worked in a school, if you haven't administered the tests and watched the students» eyes glaze over as they go through a meaningless exercise with no consequences for them... then you simply do not understand this issue as well as you need to in order to make pronouncements about it.

350limit did not say to resort to magic rather than science, only that the authors have been blinded by the latter... I would refine that to refer to certain elements of scientific culture that tend toward extreme conservatism in making pronouncements or urging action — this isn't science, it's sociology, and the comments about «influencing policy» and «a particular political outcome» are also not science, or scientific.

The question that remains then, is, how come all this emphasis on «science» — calls to put «science» at the heart of policy - making and information provided to the public — hasn't been able to change the quality of the pronouncements made by the likes of Stern and the Guardian?

And remember that governments are not scientists, that there are not total experts in this area (as has been pointed out above), and that reasonable people have to sort out (if they are advising governments) how to make sense of all this, or (if they are citizens) how they should regard government pronouncements and intended policies — because we are all affected.

Committees shall neither make public policy pronouncements nor exceed prescribed powers and responsibilities.