Sentences with phrase «mean policy problem»

«What the B.C. Liberals call a communications problem, people with disabilities and their families are calling a mean policy problem.»

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This means he is prepared to be more forgiving in terms of past credit problems, will accept income volatility among the self - employed, and will ease onerous requirements to produce bank records from other countries when it comes to writing mortgage insurance policies for immigrants.

When we do not know what a policy is meant to accomplish, I find it useful to work backwards and think of potential problems where the proposed policy makes sense as a solution.

Last point: as I stress in the WaPo piece, the inflation target is too low — at 2 %, it invokes possible zero - lower - bound problems the next time we hit a downturn, and especially with a... um... difficult Congress (meaning adequate countercyclical fiscal policy may well not be forthcoming), that's a really serious problem.

Doing so means making religious agenda (s) part of the political policy infrastructure, which brings a new set of problems.

The problem of the church's moral and intellectual record was aggravated, in the Roman Catholic context, by the hierarchy's inability to admit to serious error in official policy (infallibility means never having to say you're sorry!).

The latest Republican health care idea could mean going back to a time when people with medical problems were charged much higher premiums for individual policies, experts say.

The problem is that translating these abstract, widely accepted economic principles into actual concrete policy basically means turning against the country's exporting class, the very people who have been driving — and profiting handsomely from — China's economic emergence.

Progressive meaning that New York's political leaders view the policies of the state as «cutting edge» in its responses to society's problems.

So too the largely futile but well meaning «early» and «supporting problem families» interventions (marriage disadvantage reduction policies).

Thus, not just the absence of a common policy but also much of existing policies is part of the problem: Many migrants are now forced to use illegal means if they want to access Europe at all.

Such evidence indicates that the problem is historically deep - seated, which means that it is highly unlikely that devolution in its present form will give the city region of Manchester the financial resources, administrative capability and policy imagination to manage these genuinely structural problems.

If he survives his formidable intellectual skills will mean his environmental policies could become a massive political problem for Cameron but his immediate future rests in the hands of the Essex police.

Despite the current problems of the Coalition it is certainly true that the PM's alliance with the Liberal Democrats has meant the Cameroonians at the head of the Conservative Party have been able to pursue their policies on tax, renewable energy, Europe and crime that would have been much harder if Brady, Carswell, Davis, Redwood and other members of the Conservative mainstream had held the balance of power.

The problem, Joseph says, is that providing access through publishers» websites means that text and data mining across articles will be hindered by different journal policies and formats.

Spillane argues that problems in implementing education policy are due primarily to insufficient attention to the «sense - making» needs of educators, by which he means the ability of teachers and administrators to understand the task assigned to them.

In education policy, advocates of this approach view it as means to remedy problems inherent to state - run schooling.

Meaning, within hours of each other, Education Secretary Duncan said the President believes that «No teacher should have to teach to the test,» while the Governor of Connecticut, who said he has no problems with teaching to the test as long as the scores go up, is named chair of the committee developing education policy for governors and their states.

This means that if you are looking for a no exam policy and United home were to come up with the best rates, we would have no problems recommending them to you as an option for your coverage.

If either spouse is not committed to careful money management, it could actually cause more problems than the first - to - die policy was meant to solve in the first place.

Most policies exclude existing medical conditions, meaning you're unlikely to be covered for any medical problems you've had in the past.

This means that if you wait a few days and the problem continues, your landlord's policy might not pay out for the building and your policy might not pay out for the damage to your personal property.

When we do not know what a policy is meant to accomplish, I find it useful to work backwards and think of potential problems where the proposed policy makes sense as a solution.

Ethics are a problem there — I was treated abysmally myself contrary to its own ethics policies (which seem to mean nothing at all!).

Thinking about the problem in terms of temperature increase for a doubling of atmospheric CO2 (which we will probably exceed with current policies and energy trends), even studies that reinforce the skeptical narrative of low mean climate sensitivity leaves some chance of warming greatly exceeding international goals and historical boundaries (say a 5 percent chance of warming exceeding 4 °C).

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Scientific and economic reasoning is an adequate way to frame the climate problem — but it is by no means the only way, says Matthew Nisbet, a communication and policy specialist at Northeastern University in Boston, Massachusetts.

Growing out of Vietnam War protests on college campuses across the nation in the 1960s, UCS» founding document states it was formed to «initiate a critical and continuing examination of governmental policy in areas where science and technology are of actual or potential significance» and to «devise means for turning research applications away from the present emphasis on military technology toward the solution of pressing environmental and social problems.»

Goodwill isn't enough to stop climate change, and history is littered with well - meaning policies that turned out to be unhelpful, or even worse than the problems they were meant to address.

It also means contributing to the wider analysis of the problem — through research and technology and through engagement in the search for the best public policy mechanisms, the actions which can produce the right solutions for the long - term common interest.

That doesn't mean that this problem doesn't exist in the «climate science community» as such, but it's still true that the climate science community, if liberated from its institutionalized semi-political arrangements, remains more meritocratic than these policy and political institutions linked to the climate.

«Believing that man - made climate change exists, as I do, does not necessarily mean that you think that it is rapid or a serious problem or that the policies to address it will actually do anything or that you are willing to pay the costs of those policies.»

The statement suggests a potential for a type of problem with markets (PS don't interpret this to mean that I am against markets; overall I think they're good to have, just not good to refuse sensible regulation and some other public policies / programs.

The company's apparent policy of avoiding conflict with individuals means that the courts can not grapple with the problem, but what could happen if Google refused to back down when confronted by individuals?

This is a cheap add - on to your policy that means that your own insurance policy limits will kick in if there is a problem with the insurance from the at - fault driver.

I am advising firms with Lemma policies whose turnover exceeding # 1m means that they have no protection from the Financial Services Compensation Scheme, and the problems are real.

Maher said: «This is by no means academic, as my firm is currently advising partners in firms which have closed who face substantial property - related claims, and there are ex-partners who are having problems replacing run - off cover following the disclaimer of enterprise policies.

To illustrate the problem with accusing judges of bias, given the term's various meanings, the article focuses on recent federal litigation over NYC police stop - and - frisk policy in which (1) the district judge found «implicit bias» in police practices based on accumulated evidence and expert analysis, (2) the Second Circuit found that the district judge engaged in disqualifying judicial bias because of her comments in a prior related lawsuit and in the media, and (3) critics accused the Second Circuit of bias in making decisions that were hard to justify on either procedural or substantive grounds.

A potential problem is that judges will think that implementing the SYSTEM»S policies means rigidly following the guideline rules.

As a means to prevent problems, clients often ask us to review new company practices and procedures and draft and implement policies to protect them against exposure to class litigation.

Teething problems The policy development underlying the tribunal reforms has by no means been without difficulty.

People who have a serious health problem may receive a policy with a «graded death benefit,» which means the coverage amount increases over time and your beneficiaries won't receive the full face value if you die within the first few years of the policy.

This means that if you have health problems, and a mortgage debt to deal with, it may be in your best interest to buy a mortgage life insurance policy.

The problem is, most types of life insurance require a medical exam before the policy is issued, and that could mean weeks added to the application process.

If either spouse is not committed to careful money management, it could actually cause more problems than the first - to - die policy was meant to solve in the first place.

The HO - 2, which is less comprehensive, is a «named - peril» policy, meaning it covers a specific list of problems.

This means that if an insured person has health problems during the course of the term policy coverage they will not be left without coverage after the term ends.

Which means for the time being, those who own life insurance and are approaching the maturity age of their life insurance policy really do face the potentially «taxing» problem of outliving their insurance coverage, and being impacted by the resulting taxable event of receiving the policy's proceeds as a living distribution!

In many cases, pet insurance policies are non-lifetime plans, which means that if a claim had been made for a specific illness or injury in one year, the same problem would be ineligible for further claims in the future.

By mitigating against risks from inclement weather, auto theft, health problems and the like with tailored insurance policies, you can more comfortably go about your business — whether that means serving as a docent at the Pasadena Historical Museum or shipping goods vis — vis the Houston Ship Channel.