Sentences with phrase «of policies aimed»

Thus, any benefits of policies aimed improving child well - being by encouraging and enhancing parental marriage are likely to be modest at best.»

Thus, this is the best body of evidence to date concerning how low - income adolescents fare as a result of policies aimed at increasing their parents» employment.

It would simply require the implementation of policies aimed at rewarding such carbon sequestration practices on land reclaimed from the highly destructive livestock agriculture sector.

There are wide political divides over the consequences of policies aimed at climate change that hold even among those who agree that the Earth has been warming.

However, Republicans across all generations are largely in agreement over the consequences of policies aimed at reducing climate change.

The irony is that most of these «greedy capitalists» have jumped aboard the global warming gravy train and that most of these policies aimed at reducing fossil fuel use, are in fact enviromentally destructive.

A wide range of policies aimed at increasing conservation, efficiency, and reducing emissions is vital, but carbon prices and regulations alone will not create new, clean and affordable energy systems soon enough or at the scale needed.

So we've pursued a series of policies aimed at encouraging the rise of innovative as well as more cost - effective clean energy technologies that can help America and developing nations reduce greenhouse gases, reduce our dependence on oil, and keep our economies vibrant and strong for decades to come.

«Building wealth» means adopting a comprehensive set of policies aimed at increasing your wealth.

The first days of the charter movement might serve as the starting point of confrontation but the issues today include a variety of policies aimed at shaking up the status quo such as teacher evaluations, school choice, parent rights and interventions of struggling schools.

She also studies the effects of policies aimed at improving teaching.

School choice reforms, which comprise a broad category of policies aimed at improving public education through the introduction of market forces that may stimulate customer choice and competition between schools, have grown particularly popular since the 1990s.

The focus will be on the impact of policies aimed at reducing suspensions.

Lower rates of asthma and other health problems are frequently cited as benefits of policies aimed at cutting carbon emissions from sources like power plants and vehicles, because these policies also lead to reductions in other harmful types of air pollution.

Yet plans to tackle automobile emissions remain in their infancy outside California, which has implemented an economywide cap - and - trade program and a host of policies aimed at curbing carbon from cars and trucks.

The WEP, launched last month by its two founders, writer and comedian Sandi Toksvig and journalist Catherine Mayer, today announced a series of policies aimed at ensuring women in the UK «are free and equal».

In regard to democratic reform, the Party promises a wide range of policies aimed at improving accountability, transparency, and citizen participation.

A set of policies aimed at middle class growth does not require us to reject the widely accepted understanding that the supply side of the economy determines long - run growth.

But I will not be pushed into considerations of individual circumstances when what concerns me is a matter of policy aimed at keeping sex creative.

The about - turn in Lib Dem policy follows hot on the heels of the sacrifice of the policy aim to abolish tuition fees, which caused significant discontent in the party.

One of policy aims of the draft Bill is to prevent a company being able to stay at arms length from corruption by using a subsidiary or commercial agent who operates outside the UK.

Even if both types of policies aim to provide protection and coverage in the event of vehicular accidents, there are still differences that make them distinct from one another.

But file and use or not, insurers also can raise rates on certain types of business depending on the sort of policy they aim to write.

Not exact matches

Gail McGowan, the Department of Consumer Employment and Protection associate director of Policy and Education, said WorkSafe aimed to focus on the prevention of workplace injury and the education of employers and employees.

«It seemed as if Bank of Canada policy was solely aimed at bringing the Toronto housing market into control,» Porter says.

At Stage 3 (Stage 4 for Riccò and Guerci), the IDC is responsible for managing the laying out of policies and practices that aim to improve gender balance.

The situation is analogous to health care policy in the years before Obamacare, when, in the absence of a federal consensus, Massachusetts pioneered its own law aimed at reforming health insurance (which later became a model for the Affordable Care Act).

They direct and administer the development of health care and social policies, and oversee programs aimed at improving the health and social welfare of individuals and communities.

May 2 - The Trump administration has invited a group of U.S. senators to the White House early next week to discuss biofuels policy, the latest in a series of such meetings aimed at helping refiners cope with the Renewable Fuel Standard, according to two sources familiar with the matter.

Their aim is to create a single digital market that would bring together the varying internet policies of the 28 countries.

The U.S. has taken a number of policy approaches aimed at increasing the country's innovation output, from boosting STEM education programs to offering tax incentives on R&D research.

But the policy mix aimed at ending nearly two decades of deflation and dubbed «Abenomics» is already boosting corporate morale.

The latter suggestion goes against decades of US policy aimed at preventing the spread of nuclear weapons, and in Japan's case, decades of anti-nuclear sentiment.

This reality, combined with the fact that just 10 % of the labor force is now employed in manufacturing, means that there is plenty of electoral support for policies aimed at increasing trade.

The Washington Post reported Thursday that PropOrNot and the nonpartisan Foreign Policy Research Institute both attribute the flood of so - called fake news, or hoax and misleading headlines, during the 2016 election to an elaborate Russian propaganda campaign aimed at sowing distrust in the American political system and undermining public consensus.

Ironically, this is exactly the opposite of what the policies aim to achieve.»

The Journal reports the main aim isn't to build up Trump's policy bonafides, but «educate voters on the records of Rubio and potentially Chris Christie since they are on the move in New Hampshire.»

Still, Dimon also took aim at several of Trump's policies and promises, warning of the dangers of scrapping longstanding trade agreements and of cracking down on immigration, although he did so without explicitly criticizing the President.

His public remarks at a coding event aimed at girls, first reported by The Verge, come after a week of controversy sparked by an internal memo written by a Google employee criticising the Californian tech company's diversity policy and arguing biology may be behind the gender divide in tech.

The challenge in prompting change — broadening the classic definition of «infrastructure,» and investing in initiatives aimed at adapting to a turbulent planet — is heightened by partisan divisions over climate policy and development.

The change represents yet another way that Sessions, who served as a federal prosecutor at the height of the drug war in Mobile, Alabama, has reversed Obama - era criminal justice policies aimed at easing overcrowding in federal prisons and rethinking of how drug criminals are prosecuted and sentenced.

A spokesman said in a statement: «At Twitter we've launched more than 30 policy and product changes over the past 18 months, all with the aim of making our platform safer.

The global demonstration, planned in the wake of the Women's March on Washington, is aimed at countering the «mischaracterization of science as a partisan issue» — see climate change, vaccines, and GMOs — and the dubious policy that has arisen as a result.

We also modelled a number of existing and proposed federal and provincial policies aimed at helping Canadians save energy.

The speech makes clear that the Bank's monetary policy frameworks centres around a flexible inflation target that aims to deliver an average rate of inflation of between 2 - 3 per cent over time and in a way that best serves the public interest.

Last year, the federal government announced it would develop a policy that aims to cut more carbon pollution than any other in the Pan-Canadian Framework on Clean Growth and Climate Change, by promoting the production and use of cleaner fuels in vehicles, buildings and industry.

Throughout the year we host a number of forums aimed at moving the dial on emerging areas of public policy.

The bilingual code aims to help family businesses set governance structures in the form of rules, policies, and procedures.

It is responsible for monetary policy, decisions aimed at promoting a sound and stable financial system, and the strategic direction of the Bank.

As a result, monetary policies aimed at restraining credit growth overall might end up being too tight for some regions, leading to accelerating bankruptcies, and too loose for others, fueling out - of - control credit growth.