Sentences with phrase «on economic grounds»

From the perspective of Britain the picture can look bleak, but the reality is that renewables are going to win out on economic grounds, even ignoring their environmental advantages.

Many people opposed this idea — mainly on economic grounds.

in addition to showing that they have no personal, proprietary or pecuniary interest in the litigation that would justify the proceedings on economic grounds, the plaintiffs must show that it would not have been possible to effectively pursue the litigation in question with private funding

The termination of the treaties on economic grounds would therefore require the current situation to change for the much better or for the much worse.

Direct discrimination can only be objectively justified under one of the Treaty categories that recognise legitimate objective differences between nationals and non-nationals and can not be based on economic grounds (352/85 Bond van Adverteerders [1988] ECR 2085 para 34).

You can make arguments on economic grounds, but then you shouldn't be arguing with us at RealClimate, since we're by no means economics experts.

That shift will in turn unlock government policy and public opinion because the previous resistance to action argued on economic grounds, will reverse to favour action on economic grounds.

Yet the economic advantages of a carbon tax are so manifest that it is still possible, once the fiscal cliff negotiations are finished and talks turn to a truly transformative tax reform deal, that leaders in Congress will begin to reconsider it, especially it if is marketed on economic grounds.

First of all, I spent much of the 1980s testifying at state public utility commissions against new nuclear power plants on economic grounds only.

Without these giveways, including things such as military forces to patrol the oil lanes in the Gulf, alternate technologies will become instantly attractive on economic grounds.

I am a great supporter of onshore wind but have misgivings over offshore wind, tide and wave energy, at least in the short term, on economic grounds.

This is a sick and insane activity, and can not even be justified on economic grounds.

The City's school system has begun to accept this idea, but still resists a widespread move to small schools on economic grounds.

This was cancelled on economic grounds before Chernobyl exploded.

We joined on economic grounds when the political consequences were vastly more important.

In addition to its potential to afford some degree of racial justice, marijuana legalization might also make sense on economic grounds.

Meadway, and others like him, support independence on economic grounds as well - but Scots might find it curious that they were expected to go through the severe challenges of secession partly so that the ensuing chaos in Westminster would give English radicals an opening, while denying the US an extra hanger - on the next time the White House goes to war.

Even with WWI, or even more so with Iraq I, where stronger cases can be for the importance of U.S. economic motivation, it becomes very hard to distinguish the «we must not let Germany control Europe» or «Iraq control the Gulf» - type argument made on geostrategic grounds, from the same argument made on economic grounds.

But he said moving to meet climate targets is becoming more affordable because while policy is still important the energy market is transforming so fast that «market forces have taken over», market forces around wind and solar power and batteries «are just accelerating regardless of what anyone else does» and decisions by companies like AGL Energy to close their Liddell coal power station «are being made on economic grounds».

But the net - benefit test gives Canadians a false impression that the government is able to distinguish, on economic grounds, investments that will turn out well from those that won't — a concept Canadians would recognize as bizarre if applied to domestic firms.

The conclusion of his analysis is that completely eliminating the deficit, which has been the government's objective since 2010, was never really necessary, at least not on economic grounds.

Not exact matches

On purely utilitarian grounds, it is desirable to have a higher proportion of economic growth going to low and middle - income Canadians, so long as the policies to get us there do not reduce the growth rate of the economy.

There is no justification for introducing income splitting on social or economic grounds, certainly not in the current economic environment.

A new study into tax - free savings accounts says there is no justification «on either economic or equity grounds» for doubling the contribution limit without conditions.

I believe that man is, by nature, an exile and will never be self - sufficient or complete on this earth; that his chances of happiness and virtue, here, remain more or less constant through the centuries and, generally speaking, are not much affected by the political and economic conditions in which he lives; that the balance of good and ill tends to revert to a norm; that sudden changes of physical condition are usually ill, and are advocated by the wrong people for the wrong reasons; that the intellectual communists of today have personal, irrelevant grounds for their antagonism to society, which they are trying to exploit.

Thomas Lincoln, who favored the Separate Baptist Church, apparently opposed slavery on both religious and economic grounds.

This is advocated on the grounds that greater efficiency creates economic growth.

’42 Indeed, women from all three continents, Africa, Asia and Latin America, say that «In the person and praxis of Jesus Christ, women of the three continents find the grounds of our liberation from all discrimination: sexual, racial, social, economic, political and religious... Christology is integrally linked with action on behalf of social justice and the defense of each person's right to life and to a more humane life.43 This means that Christology is about apartheid, sexual exploitation, poverty and oppression.

DO listen to your own voice or the Church on social, political and economic issues, and allow people to justify their views on explicitly religious grounds if they want, as long as it's your religion with a monotheistic male deity.

The notion that firms seek to maximize profits is a cornerstone of economic analysis (and a sound one, as most firms do behave this way), but it begs the question what firms ought to do, based on ethical and moral grounds.

Details of the Marxian, Nietzschian, and Freudian criticisms have since been revised, and even discredited, on economic, anthropological, or psychological grounds.

Important ideological conflicts emerged between capitalists and communists on grounds of economic theories and practices.

The NCAA denies athletes economic rights — getting paid, mainly, but also having agent representation — on the grounds that providing them would violate a mostly mythic «spirit of amateurism.»

Furthermore under Article 17 (2) `' No person shall be discriminated against on grounds of gender, race, colour, ethnic origin, religion, creed or social or economic status».

It is self evident to those of us on the social liberal wing of the Party that the policies of this Coalition are both unsound on economic and social grounds.

On these grounds, the report states that the economic benefit realized by creating these kinds of jobs is questionable.

The Thames Estuary Airport proposal, then described as being at «Cliffe» (in the constituency which I now represent), was ruled out on both environment and economic grounds, but the Labour government recommended a second runway at Stansted in 2011 - 12, a third runway at Heathrow in 2015 - 20 and, eventually, a second runway at Gatwick in the mid-2020s.

Cuomo consistently has defended the measure on the grounds that property taxes must be held in check for the sake of the state's economic health.

Even where schools do legally discriminate on religious grounds, this can lead to ethnic, socio - economic and religious segregation of pupils in practice and create wider problems for social cohesion and equality.

The old Farm Colony in Sea View is on the verge of undergoing a transformation that will turn the fenced - off, unkempt and vandalized grounds into Landmark Colony, a senior citizen community that will include approximately 300 units in a historic and environmentally friendly setting, according to the city's Economic Development Corporation (EDC).

Suswam, who is being prosecuted by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission before Justice Ahmed Mohammed of the same Abuja Division of the Federal High Court, was absent from court on health grounds on Tuesday, which had been scheduled for the continuation of his trial.

Agi had anchored his request to the Chief Judge on the grounds that it would be agonising for his Lamido and the other defendants to be subjected to the trial afresh when the prosecution, the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, had already called 18 witnesses before Justice Ademola's court.

The campaign for a $ 15 an hour minimum wage in New York is being fought on emotional grounds - as a tool to fight poverty, to fix income inequality and to ensure a «living wage» for people on the lowest rungs of the economic ladder.

Justice Archibong (now retired) had in a judgment delivered on April 2, 2012 struck out the 26 counts contained in a charge numbered FHC / L / 443C / 2013 filed by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission against Akingbola on the grounds that the prosecution was not diligent in the handling of the case.

«Artificial transmutation», as it is known, was tried in Britain in the late 1970s and rejected on economic and safety grounds.

It made its decision on economic, not moral, grounds.

They say that BST has met all the usual scientific requirements of safety and quality, and that a ban on political or economic grounds is unjustified.

The dictionary defines feminism as «the advocacy of women's rights on the grounds of political, social, and economic equality to men.»

St. Paul — Only weeks after going into effect this fall, Minnesota's «open enrollment» plan, which allows 11th - and 12th - grade students to take college courses with tuition paid by per - pupil state foundation aid, has come under sharp attack on economic and constitutional grounds.

Prominent geneticists, like Arthur Jensen at the University of California, Berkeley, have concluded on similar grounds that «compensatory education» — which aims to correct for social or economic disadvantages — is a losing bet.