Sentences with phrase «of policy pronouncements»

As the 2015 election approaches the details of policy pronouncements become every more important.

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The timing of the piece was serendipitous: Prime Minister Abe's election in late November was accompanied by bold policy pronouncements aimed at stimulating growth and reflation.

«I think from the administration's point of view, this is an opportunity to make a very major pronouncement on its foreign policy and its European policy,» said Alexander Vershbow, a former U.S. ambassador to Russia and a former deputy secretary general of NATO.

 Mr. Poloz himself bent over backwards in his last Monetary Policy Report to not use that term — even though the Bank's own numbers (projecting negative GDP growth for both the first and second quarters of 2015) suggested a recession was indeed already underway. Instead, public officials are normally sanguine and rose - coloured in their public pronouncements, hoping to incrementally shift consumer confidence with their cheeriness, and thus spark more spending. [A ridiculous extreme of this approach was provided when George Bush blithely encouraged Americans to go shopping in the days after the 9 - 11 terrorist attacks.]

Even those who gravitate toward harsh criticism of the Iraq War and of Bush - era American foreign policy do not avail themselves, except in the occasional rhetorical flourish, of the pronouncements of religious authorities.

Clergy will sit on denominational committees, read denominational publications, worry about the policies and public pronouncements of their denominations, and look to denominational networks for new jobs and promotions.

Such public parables must undergird all of the policies, programs, pronouncements, speeches, resolutions, action plans, studies and reports that we make on the limits of natural resources and the unjust distribution of economic costs and benefits.

For Soviet leaders and high officials President Reagan's decision to use bellicose language was and is a political fact that amounts to a policy pronouncement (New York Review of Books [February 16, 1984]-RRB-.

Like school officials, the majority of pastors in mainline denominations have done little apart from making general policy pronouncements.

Picture this, we don't come out of the gate firing on all cylinders, Wenger speaks of how there wasn't enough time for the first - teamers to build chemistry, several key players aren't even playing because of Wenger's utterly ridiculous policy regarding players who played in the Confed Cup or the under21s and the boo - birds have returned in full flight... if these things were to happen, which is quite possible considering the Groundhog Day mentality of this club, how long do you think it will take for Wenger to recant his earlier statements regarding Europa... I would suggest that it's these sorts of comments from Wenger which are often his undoing... why would any manager worth his weight in salt make such a definitive statement before the season has even started... why would any manager who fashions himself an educated man make such pronouncements before even knowing what his starting 11 will be come Friday, let alone on September 1st... why would any manager who has a tenuous relationship with a great many supporters offer up such a potentially contentious talking point considering how many times his own words have come back to bite him in the ass... I think he does this because he doesn't care what you or I think, in fact he's more than slightly infuriated by the very idea of having to answer to the likes of you and me... that might have been acceptable during his formative years in charge, when the fans were rewarded with an scintillating brand of football and success felt like a forgone conclusion, but this new Wenger led team barely resembles that team of ore... whereas in times past we relished a few words from our seemingly cerebral manager, in recent times those words have been replaced by a myriad of excuses, a plethora of infuriating stories about who he could have signed but didn't and what can only be construed as outright fabrications... it's kind of funny that when we want some answers, like during the whole contract debacle of last season, we can't get an intelligent word out of him, but when we just what him to show his managerial acumen through his actions, we can't seem to get him to shut - up... I beg you to prove me wrong Arsene

The media has been reporting extensively on what the Southern Poverty Law Center's Teaching Tolerance project has dubbed the «Trump Effect»: the fear and anxiety which the President - elect's campaign rhetoric - and his policy pronouncements, especially regarding immigrants and Muslims - appears to be engendering among Latino, Hispanic, African - American, and Muslim children, immigrant children, and children of immigrants, and the bullying, intimidation, slurs, and threats which appear to be increasingly directed at them.

There's no unqualified adulation of pronouncements by the hierarchy with no votes to choose between alternative policies — the hallmark of Conservative Party conferences.

The Macron and El - Khomri laws from the present government, that he inspired, give an idea of his future policies, as do his recent pronouncements in favour of reducing the current wealth taxes without committing to an increase in inheritance taxes.

Matthew Heineman: I think one of my goals with the film is really to put a human face to this issue which has largely been relegated to headlines and stats and policy pronouncements.

Critical pedagogue Ira Shor defines critical pedagogy as: «Habits of thought, reading, writing, and speaking which go beneath surface meaning, first impressions, dominant myths, official pronouncements, traditional clichés, received wisdom, and mere opinions, to understand the deep meaning, root causes, social context, ideology, and personal consequences of any action, event, object, process, organization, experience, text, subject matter, policy, mass media, or discourse.»

Maybe, maybe... if you could hold other factors constant, such as the courses I teach, the number of students I teach, the curriculum, the technology and other resources, all the other teachers and all of their courses, the administrative policies, the school's schedule, school transportation, extra-curricular activities and field - trips that affect instructional time... if you haven't worked in a school, if you haven't administered the tests and watched the students» eyes glaze over as they go through a meaningless exercise with no consequences for them... then you simply do not understand this issue as well as you need to in order to make pronouncements about it.

350limit did not say to resort to magic rather than science, only that the authors have been blinded by the latter... I would refine that to refer to certain elements of scientific culture that tend toward extreme conservatism in making pronouncements or urging action — this isn't science, it's sociology, and the comments about «influencing policy» and «a particular political outcome» are also not science, or scientific.

Peter Gleick's pronouncements can be better understood with an adder: [in the service of climate alarmism and policy activism].

Low - cost gas and wind generation is clobbering coal in the Midwest as elsewhere in the U.S. Regardless of new federal government policy pronouncements aimed at rescuing coal, low - emissions sources are likely to prevail in MISO's view.

The question that remains then, is, how come all this emphasis on «science» — calls to put «science» at the heart of policy - making and information provided to the public — hasn't been able to change the quality of the pronouncements made by the likes of Stern and the Guardian?

And remember that governments are not scientists, that there are not total experts in this area (as has been pointed out above), and that reasonable people have to sort out (if they are advising governments) how to make sense of all this, or (if they are citizens) how they should regard government pronouncements and intended policies — because we are all affected.

For those who have been paying attention to UN activities, policies, programs, and pronouncements in general, and those related to UN climate - change blatherings in particular, the Figueres admission is shocking only insofar that it is so seldom we are treated to such candid confessions by those who mean to rule us and who mean to re-engineer the lives of everyone on the planet.

This body, which eventually included representatives of nearly all the world's governments, argued out what the scientists» pronouncements really meant for policy - makers.

Obama has been president a little over 24 hours, and already executive orders and policy pronouncements have come streaming out of his office.

No judicial pronouncement on morality or policy warrants the sacrifice of fair adjudication and the rule of law.