Sentences with phrase «of the levers of»

He has near total control of the levers of that community.

He also raised concerns with Democratic control of all levers of state government.

McCain himself has begun to raise the specter of unified Democratic control of all levers of government; at a speech this morning in Cleveland, McCain condemned the «spending spree» that Obama, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (Nev.) and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (Calif.)-- a group he called a «dangerous threesome» — would take the country on if elected.

Never far from the action was Mr. Cuomo himself, making the most of the levers of power at his disposal and operating behind closed doors in ways that sometimes appeared at odds with his public statements.

If reformers understand that they do not have concentrated interests on their side, they should prefer decentralizing control so that it's hard even for the unions to seize all of the levers of power in one fell swoop.

«One of the levers of change is to have really strong leaders in the schools, and we didn't have the in - house capacity to recruit and train the best principals.

However, there is that two - sentenced statement above that stands out in my mind, the thrust of which seems to suggest to me at least that even Johnson thinks that the importance of «professionalism and education» have taken a back - seat in importance in favour of the levers of technology, and therefore just about anyone can work those levers.

Chris's article is a very telling expose» regarding the left - wing socialistic attitude of our so - called «mixed economy» bureaucratically dominated governments (via deputy ministers and top - tier there - forever lifetime mandarins who are the real operators of the levers of power from behind the scenes through their influential arguments that overpower the elected know - nothing M.P.'s / M.L.A.'s).

Not exact matches

And whenever Facebook moves the levers of its news feed algorithm, you can almost hear that shaky ground shifting underneath almost every news outlet, since so many of them rely increasingly on Facebook for their livelihood.

Instead, the crucial levers would be productivity (keeping the cost of shipping each carload in check through smart investments to increase the average speed, length, and reliability of trains) and pricing (ensuring that rates consistently rose far faster than costs).

Changing this rate is a kind of lever that the Federal Reserve can pull to make things happen in the economy.

Otherwise ardent free market capitalists, they remain strangely convinced that China's socialist brain trust is capable of correctly pulling all the levers of its massive economy to keep it on a path to prosperity.

It's extraordinary that a large cohort of experts advocate shrinking the doctor supply as lever for lowering costs.

There is still nothing like that visceral feeling of levering a cork out of a tasty bottle of wine.

Because Slack hasn't yet reached the point where it has tens of thousands of workers on its books, «[i] t is relatively easy for us to move the lever a small bit right now to make a significant change in our trajectory,» CEO Stewart Butterfield and HR chief Anne Toth write in a blog post disclosing the numbers.

And in any of these scenarios, Bitcoin's decentralized nature means there are few if any levers regulators (or anyone else) can pull to put a floor under a Bitcoin implosion.

Examining modern campaign politics, the open - source movement and some of the few recent bright spots in the traditional music business, Benkler isolates a handful of «design levers» — «elements of successful cooperative human systems that we can employ to motivate [people]... to contribute to the collective effort rather than exclusively pursue their own interests (at the expense of those of the group).»

Self - righteous indignation at the alleged wrongs of those who hold the levers of power can be a delicious indulgence.

«Entrepreneurs, especially in the tech world, have a lot of levers they can use to attract investors,» he says.

Just in terms of the economics, European nations have given up one of their main levers in responding to crises (monetary policy), without getting any of the transfers that fiscal union would have brought.

Or C) To lever Russian natural gas out of Europe's energy market in order to let U.S. gas in?

Content and messaging created by influencers isn't yet held to that lever of scrutiny and is seen as more organic, even when #ad #sponsored is included.

«The reaction we've gotten over the last few days as I've met with investors is they love the fact that you're getting a pure play infrastructure, cloud - levered, [internet - of - things]- levered company that really takes care of all the interconnections within the cloud and to the edge.»

These include currency - hedged ETFs, triple - levered ETFs based on commodities, unconstrained bond funds with short positions betting against U.S. Treasurys, private equity funds, emerging market debt instruments, historically less - liquid bank loan funds, and all manner of actively managed strategies packaged in supposedly easy to buy and sell wrappers.

If you want to improve your sleep and feel more rested, there are some practical ways to go about it — ways I call the «Levers of Sleep.»

The lack of cue lever bothered me while testing the Basic; though this wasn't a deal breaker, having one makes playing a track deep on one side of an album a lot easier.

When Chinese President Xi Jinping visited Trump in Florida earlier this month, Trump raised the possibility of using trade as a lever to coax China to do more.

Spoiler alert: much of «The Truth» is Strauss's journey from thinking that monogamy is stifling to discovering that it's nourishing for him, and the lever of the change — along with orgies, sex addiction therapy, and polyamory — is no longer parentalizing the women in his life.

Growth has been fueled by many of the key levers that King called out, including a 60 % increase in sales for «originals» and running footwear for the first half of the year.

Certainly lots of investor cash has helped lever valuations ever skyward.

What are its specific constraints to growth and its primary levers of growth?

But leaders of social - sector organizations have to get things done without the same levers of power available to leaders in the business sector.

In addition to pulling the levers of British monetary policy, Carney will have to remake the Bank of England's ossified culture.

This type of investing takes into consideration that individuals have many levers — investment portfolios, philanthropy and time and skills — at their disposal to effect change in the world.

«It is relatively easy for us to move the lever a small bit right now to make a significant change in our trajectory,» wrote CEO Stewart Butterfield and head of HR Anne Toth in a September blog post.

He sees Wall Street bankers now entrenched as the new American oligarchy, subtle but surprisingly brazen in their manipulation of political actors and the levers of government power.

It perfected the art of doling out taxpayer money to favoured sectors, and used the language of levers and buttons in its own budgets.

And since the Tech Bubble, we have seen unprecedented amounts of liquidity funneled into the capital markets, and highly - levered, credit - sensitive, smaller - cap and lower - quality stocks and sectors outperformed their more liquid, larger - cap, higher - quality counterparts.

After pulling numerous levers to cut costs and keep the business afloat, the company said last month that it is considering converting hundreds of its stores into a real estate investment trust.

With the onset of the financial crisis in 2008, the central bank pulled all levers possible to energize the economy.

There was a baby in the crib with lines running from its arms and legs that ran to a set of levers on the wall, and standing there was an evil - looking clown throwing the switches.»

And now that Donald Trump and a GOP Congress hostile to the law control the levers of power in Washington, some other insurers are feeling free to follow suit.

The EC has a specific lever to press the US on this point — in the form of the Privacy Shield arrangement which simplifies the process of authorizing personal data flows between the EU and the US by allowing companies to self - certify their adherence to a set of privacy principles.

While the Fed's zero interest rate policy has yet to lever much in the way of a domestic spending rebound, no one can doubt its ability to drop the value of its currency.

The Bank of Canada applied all its available levers to supply short - term liquidity to financial markets: interest rates were reduced to zero, and the Bank expanded its balance sheet by means of purchase and resale agreements.

But in the privacy of the voting booth, those same voters pulled the lever for his opponent.

«At this point, I am very confident that we now clearly understand and have our hands placed securely on the practical levers that we believe will enable us to continue to drive double - digit rates of unit and revenue growth for some time,» said Chip Perry, TrueCar's president and CEO, in a press release on Thursday.

RWJF, a $ 10 billion mothership for healthcare philanthropy, is pulling every lever it can to advance this goal — with grantmaking to fully realize the promise of universal coverage, improve the efficiency and quality of the U.S. healthcare system, look upstream to address the underlying causes of poor health, and pursue a wide range of efforts to help Americans eat better, move more, and lead healthier lives.

Yet we hear precious little outcry from the public or in the media, and this relative silence only encourages those controlling the levers of power to continue this development.»

The highly levered financial system is «like a truckload of nitroglycerin on a bumpy road,» Janus» Bill Gross warns.