Sentences with phrase «modest policy gains»

It's all been about the long game: aligning with marginally acceptable candidates who'd deliver at least modest policy gains, and using those victories to build the institutional power that would permit the WFP to someday push for more — and, logic suggests, turn push into shove.

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Uncertainty about the U.S. presidential race in the near term may produce periods of volatility for the U.S. dollar, yet RBC maintains that the U.S. currency will post modest gains against the Euro, Canadian dollar and sterling as markets look for a U.S. Federal Reserve policy rate increase in the first half of 2017.

Congressional Democrats reaped modest gains in last week's hard - fought elections, which some observers here say could step up pressure for a more centrist, bipartisan approach to federal education policy on Capitol Hill next year, regardless of which candidate ultimately wins the White House.

There could be modest gains: Republicans would have more leeway to hammer on President Barack Obama's education policies, which they see as aggressive federal overreach.

A 2011 meta - analysis study of more than 30 studies (including the oft - cited 2011 Friedman Foundation Report) by the Center for Education Policy found that «the empirical evidence on vouchers is inconclusive and further found that any gains in student achievement are modest if they exist at all» (amicus brief, Schwartz v. López, 2016).

Like other city leaders, Roberts did not resist the urge to tie Detroit students» modest gains to policy changes.

The money sitting in your policy is gaining modest interest but it is safe from the ebbs and flow of the markets.