Sentences with phrase «many policy discussions»

But companies are still feeling the pinch of the massive glut of oil worldwide, which has brought down markets and remains a major policy discussion among international producers.

And though policy discussions often center around tax incentives and streamlining, any entrepreneur will almost certainly disagree.

Stephen Gordon has pointed out here on Econowatch that many tax policy discussions of late have involved hiking taxes that are perceived to be paid by someone else (the rich; corporations).

In a statement, the Strategic and Policy Forum members said they «believe the debate over Forum participation has become a distraction from our well - intentioned and sincere desire to aid vital policy discussions on how to improve the lives of everyday Americans.»

Better still, Jacobson's blueprint started to inform policy discussions, with serious people taking the idea of 100 percent renewables pretty seriously.

It is a one - of - a-kind event, a mixture of unalloyed commerce, high - minded do - gooderism, and brass - tacks policy discussions, attended by corporate bigwigs, journalists, academics, non-governmental organizations, and top government officials.

It's difficult to have a calm immigration policy discussion following President Donald Trump's Jan. 27 executive order, which banned migrants from seven Muslim - majority countries.

The point to remember is that the public policy discussion we are having now is about fairness.

He was thrilled to participate in policy discussions at think tanks, according to former executives, but less interested in digging into the nitty - gritty of a troubled unit.

Moreover, the federal government wasn't making its evaluation results public — missing opportunities to inform federal and state Medicaid policy discussions.»

Pointedly, the IMF presaged its findings with a note saying they had «not been agreed with the other parties in the policy discussions» hinting at the dissent they would find in Brussels, Berlin and Frankfurt.

«The debate over forum participation has become a distraction from our well - intentioned and sincere desire to aid vital policy discussions on how to improve the lives of everyday Americans.»

The European Crowdfunding Network is a professional network promoting adequate transparency, (self) regulation and governance while offering a combined voice in policy discussion and public opinion building.

Significantly, it said its assessment had «not been agreed with the other parties in the policy discussions» — an admission that the fund is at odds with its troika partners, the European commission and the European Central Bank — over the need for debt relief.

To explain, this is a fairly structured affair, with the mechanics of the business policy discussion determined months in advance.

Consultant JLT suggests plans de-risk following monetary policy discussions, regulator warnings.

Most observers would like that the government to acknowledge the contributions of the Parliamentary Budget Office to policy discussion and debate.

In order to facilitate informed policy discussion on this important issue, UBC's Asia Pacific Dispute Resolution (APDR) project hosted a Policy Roundtable in Vancouver April 20, 2016 in collaboration with the Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada.

By bringing the right people together, and working collaboratively to inform both the industry and policy discussions, DCIIA seeks to serve as an unbiased, informed resource in support of the defined contribution community.

After January's impressive gains, equity returns reversed course in February and March to end the quarter slightly negative as inflation, trade policy discussions, and a selloff in the technology sector spooked investors.

Fed officials will meet on November 1, 2016, for one of their regularly scheduled policy discussions.

With trade tariffs a regular public policy discussion topic these days, understanding the basics behind how much the U.S. and

The prime minister's acknowledgment of Slovenia's advancements in blockchain technology is a welcome move toward wider policy discussions within a rapidly expanding industry.

In the first several months of the administration, Navarro quickly developed a reputation as an aggressive debater and played a substantial role in trade policy discussions.

Mulcair, who until recently had mostly ignored the Liberal leader, has gone so far as to compare Trudeau to short - lived prime minister Kim Campbell, who once infamously said elections weren't the time for serious policy discussions.

And she navigates the multilayered policy discussion of «the underclass» as adroitly as she guides her lumbering Ford past the sootstained, monotonous yellow buildings.

For better or worse, the elaborate investigation of, for instance, the connections between St. Paul's teaching on justification and the criminal justice system will be totally inaccessible» and, if accessible, implausible» to anyone within hailing distance of policy discussions about crime and punishment.

Shouting matches on television, and policy discussions viewed as games to be won or lost, set the standard for discussion.

Now that they're playing catchup, Biola and fellow CCCU schools like Azusa Pacific University (APU) realize the importance of such proactive policy discussions.

I find civil religion motifs in Reston's focus on «the American Dream,» in his belief that the precepts of the Republic's founding documents were political affirmations of certain religious concepts, in his belief in America's unique moral role in world affairs — and in his concern for injecting morality into public - policy discussions.

Wine Institute and CAWG developed the report to provide an understanding of the industry's contributions to the California and U.S. economies for use in public policy discussions with state and federal legislators and other key officials.

Despite smallholder agriculture now taking center stage in international food security policy discussions there is a strong push within the CFS for promoting chemical agriculture and GMO's as the solution for smallholders despite the high suitability and affordability of organic agriculture for smallholders.

A standard practice in our industry is to engage in public policy discussions that are or have the potential to impact our business.

But beyond those concrete suggestions, my larger aspiration for this book is that it might provide us with a set of guiding principles to propel forward the public - policy discussions and debates that we need to have now.

The studies of Dweck, Duckworth, and others support conservative claims that individual character should be an important part of policy discussions about poverty.

The very fact that we need such a definition, the very fact that social scientists need to work so hard to be included in policy discussions to the same extent as, say, economists (held in high esteem as being infallible, such as they are these days, naturally...), could be symptomatic of something deeper than social scientists being bad lobbyists.

We've got everyone from George Osborne to Armando Iannucci and everything from surveys and election night guides to policy discussions and anonymous campaigning stories.

BASC's membership of FACE, the federation of European shooting and hunting associations, will continue and BASC will continue to have a voice in European policy discussions which may affect shooting and conservation in the UK.

In the advocacy world, most outreach efforts involve one or more of three basic goals: trying to affect government legislation and / or regulation, trying to build a base of supporters for long - term fundraising and / or grassroots action, and trying to influence the broader public policy discussion.

There was ample substantive policy discussion at this morning's Crain's NY Business debate between the five men vying for the GOP line in the NYC mayor's race, but that was largely overshadowed by a verbal tiff between the moderator, Crain's columnist Greg David, and former MTA Chairman Joe Lhota, who took offense when David referred to his former boss, Rudy Giuliani, as a «jerk.»

The foundation also highlights the increasing number of working people who live in poverty, a fact often obscured in policy discussions and shows such as Benefits Street.

I met Marc Plattner yesterday, who edits the Journal of Democracy and is a veteran of both academic and policy discussions around issues of democracy and democratization.

If you are trying to have valid policy discussions here you should strive to avoid misleading claims of unprovable correlation.

With three co-authors (two of them, including H Peyton Young of the Oxford University Department of Economics, being the solvers of the apportionment problem) I recently wrote a British Academy pamphlet to help guide policy discussion on the bill.

The engagement of citizens in the early stages of policy discussion and formulation should become the new norm — possibly, by extending our concept of democracy beyond the trustee, and even beyond the delegate model, to a more direct form that makes innovative use of new technologies.

Our latest policy discussion paper again encourages members to reflect on more issues of particular relevance to younger voters — this time, the environment.

We'd love to hear from you — and your idea could inspire a future policy discussion on this website!

«This administration has taken the position that outside employees with no responsibility to taxpayers and no restraints on conduct can engage in policy discussions that are secret.

I undertook to write a policy discussion document that could ignite debate around...

Moreover, strength and stability were presented as features of a person rather than specific policies, therefore, attention was deflected away from policy discussion towards faith in a leader.