Sentences with phrase «massive policy failure»

Terence Corcoran: Ontario Liberals» huge green energy about - face shows renewables aren't so doable after all Financial Post Terence Corcoran 28 September 2016 One should never underestimate the ability of politicians to convert massive policy failure into a dazzling display of green concern for the welfare of voters.

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While many, factors contributed to the global financial crisis, the root cause was a massive failure of public policy and regulation in the U.S. residential real estate market.

In this particular instance it is not very difficult to imagine scenarios in the not - too - distant future in which there might occur resurgences of socialist policies and ideals: the failure of neo-capitalist regimes in developing societies and / or the formerly Communist countries in Europe to achieve economic take - off; the insight granted to sundry dictators and despots that, while socialism invariably immiserates the masses, it is a very good recipe for enriching those who claim to hold power as the vanguard of the masses; the «creeping socialism» (still an aptly descriptive term) brought on by massive government intervention in the economy in the name of some societal good, e.g., there could be an environmentalist road to socialism, or a feminist one, or one constructed (perhaps inadvertently) with some other building blocks of politically managed regulations and entitlements; or, last but not least, the actual restoration of socialism, by coup or by voting, in a number of countries, beginning with Russia.

Hasker, pointing out that this would involve deception on God's part, expresses shock at my apparent failure to recognize, with him and Descartes, that it would be «impossible for God to engage in a policy of massive deception.

Finally we have recorded significant policy and implementation failures that have translated to massive poverty in the land - failure to leverage oil and gas resources to create a robust, diversified economy; failure to modernize agriculture; failure to formulate and execute a successful industrial policy; and (deliberate?)

Dieter Dürand and Sven Titz write at Germany's flagship business weekly Wirtschaftswoche (English: Business Week) that it's high time for a new climate policy in the wake of the massive IPCC failures.