Sentences with phrase «on policy agendas»

This issue is just emerging on policy agendas.

The media could help by putting the issue of breastfeeding on policy agendas and by framing breastfeeding as healthy...

We believe upgrades to growth forecasts and greater clarity on the policy agenda of U.S. President - elect Donald Trump could help stir more investor hunger for risk.

Provide input on a policy agenda of reforms that could help to support increased innovation in this field

This is a very useful work of reference, especially at a time when parental leave is high on the policy agenda, and provides fascinating insights into how a wide range of countries are tackling these, and related, issues.

League President Marcia Bystryn explains that the assessment is based on its policy agenda issued in January.

As the political upheaval from several investigations into possible wrongdoing swirled around him, New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio tried to focus on his policy agenda Monday.

At the beginning of the last decade, before concerns about the nation's graduation rate ascended to prominence on the policy agenda, only about two - thirds of U.S. public school students were finishing high school with a regular diploma.

Alas, she says, it «is not in the cards, at least in the near term... unless the current protests in New York City and elsewhere... [put] income inequality back on the policy agenda.»

«Such a policy thrust is not in the cards, at least in the near term... unless the current protests in New York City and elsewhere... [put] income inequality back on the policy agenda.»

Quality Counts 2012, the 16th edition of Education Week's annual examination of issues and challenges facing America's public schools, takes aim at topics high on the policy agenda, from the White House and Congress down to the level of local school boards and chambers of commerce: the nation's international standing in education, and lessons to be drawn from high - performing countries.

Sensing the nation's changing mood, political leaders placed reading high on the policy agenda.

The electronic conference «Urban agriculture on the policy agenda» was jointly organised by RUAF and the Food and Agricultue Organisation of the United Nations (FAO, Rome).

However, the inescapable truth of the matter is clear: Political cowardice has played a key part in Parliament's intransigence, and the only way the issue was going to get back on the policy agenda was for another case to reach the Supreme Court.

Not exact matches

«We believe AI technology will become a priority on the government's agenda, and we expect further national / regional policy and funding support on AI to follow,» the bank said in a report titled «China's Rise in Artificial Intelligence.»

The key bit, I think, is the tweeting and off - the - cuff but on - the - record musings, which symbolizes a president who can not stop himself from thwarting his own policy agenda.

A middle - class policy agenda that over-focuses on income may miss opportunities to improve the quality of life for middle - class Canadians.

But markets in those days were significantly concerned by an administration unable to address its policy agenda, bogged down as it was with problems that had taken on a life of their own, and a Congress preoccupied with the issue.

The main outcome of Habitat III was that UN nation states agreed on the New Urban Agenda (NUA): a non-binding document, which will guide policies over the next 20 years with the goal of making cities safer, resilient and sustainable and their amenities more inclusive.

In addition to mortgage insurance, it also issues mortgage - backed securities and pursues a variety of social policy agendas at the behest of Ottawa, such as disseminating information on regional housing markets, improving access to affordable housing and encouraging energy efficiency in new homes.

Republican leaders have significant differences on what the party's policy agenda will entail for 2018 after securing a major legislative victory in overhauling the federal tax code with a law that included a blow to the Affordable Care Act.

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Treasury yields resume a steady climb higher on Wednesday as fretting about the threat of an economically disruptive trade war between the U.S. and China subsided, and takes a back seat to the concerns about rising interest rates and coming labor - market data, which could inform the Federal Reserve's policy agenda.

Harper's first winning campaign in 2006 focused on just five top priorities, and he thereafter kept his policy agenda tightly restrained.

But perhaps his most successful policy agenda has been based on the fear that Canadians have of budget deficits and debt.

In short the need for actions and policies on many fronts has never been so great — yet the political comprehension and agenda is bankrupt of the will deal with the most salient matters facing the human condition.

As recently as six months ago, many investors expected the dollar to continue its rally of the past few years based on stronger economic growth, via Trump's agenda items, and tighter monetary policy by the Federal Reserve.

As a result, deepened fragmentation on economic policies — particularly fiscal policy — will feed the European agenda with tension in the coming year.

The Islamist terror threat will doubtlessly feed the nationalist and anti-immigrant parties agenda, and put Schengen on the front line as nationalists consider that the open - border policy enables terrorists to commute freely within groups of refugees coming from Syria.

Justin Trudeau and the Liberal Party of Canada have been preparing the ground for a policy agenda focused on the problems of the middle class.

By following this approach we would broaden innovation policy from a longstanding, almost singular, focus on R&D to a more challenging, but more rewarding, multi-faceted micro-economic agenda.

Retired as Economic Advisor to the Prime Minister of India, he has rich experience in implementation of economic policies and monitoring of the special economic agenda of the Cabinet on behalf of the Prime Minister «s Office.

One article said the Republicans mastered «post truth politics» when they realized their rhetoric doesn't have to bear any relation to their policy agenda so they talk about cutting the deficit while at the same time driving up the deficit by slashing taxes on the rich and launching unfunded wars.

All participated in a symposium on «Canada's Trade Policy Agenda: Looking Ahead» organized by the School of Public Policy of the University of Calgary in conjunction with CIGI and the University of Ottawa in Ottawa on November 17, 2017.

But just because the media moves on or U.S. foreign policy agendas might shift, this is our home, these are our people, and this is our neighborhood and we have to stay committed.

The need to address poverty's basic causes, including the unhealthy concentration of America's land and resources in the hands of so few owners — who have tended to misappropriate land values — ought to be high on our religious and public policy agendas.

What I don't get is, being critical of Zionistic policies, agenda or people is quickly labeled as «anti-semitic» and is even considered illegal in countries like Germany, yet a bigoted person like Geert Wilders (who has not once consulted any expect or scholar on Islam) can make a video which literally embodies everything that hate, racism, and ignorance is about, and yet get away with it where the court recognizes it as «denigrating» but not «illegal»!?

Since September 11, President Bush has placed much of his domestic policy agenda on hold.

Trump's faith, «bigot - baiting» in Bakersfield, and the dehumanizing policies of Amnesty International are all on the agenda.

Now this doesn't mean that the Republicans should do NOTHING on immigration, but it does mean that their economic agenda should focus on issues that would help people in the two middle quartiles (and the last quartile) get what Reihan Salam called «the basics of a dignified middle - class life — affordable high - quality medical care, education, and housing» With that in mind, here is a partial (and I'm not sure totally compatible) list of policies that Republicans should be looking at:

This is precisely why abortion advocates expend such vast efforts at international meetings pushing for abortion policies that do in fact seek to subvert the democratic process by foisting an a priori abortion agenda on nations around the world.

Russia promises to loom large on the foreign policy agenda in the year ahead.

With such an intellectual heritage within the church, it is no wonder that helping to formulate business ethics policies and ministry to the corporate world has been low on the agendas of many churches and church professionals.

Instead of working to achieve consensus on contested theological and moral issues, legislatively driven agendas are designed to end debates by reducing the issue to two sides and then enacting one side into church policy and ecclesiastical law.

They have been phenomenally successful at getting their agenda on the record and they are trying to have their beliefs incorporated in public policy.

Topics will include how President Trump's agenda will affect your business, the congressional agenda for 2017 and discussion on policy issues of interest to the food and beverage industry.

As increasingly more Nordic consumers continue to choose organic over conventional foods, and cities across Scandinavia (like Copenhagen, for example) continue to put organic food at the top of their policy agendas (and on their public - sector kitchen menus), so those numbers will rise.

The policy sets out a comprehensive agenda for national co-ordinated action on waste across six areas, and marks a fundamental shift in the approach to waste management and resource recovery.

He also spoke with senior researchers and staff from the Regional Australia Institute about the role of the regions on the national policy agenda and where core issues like labour force demands and decentralisation fit into the overall economic picture.

David Lammy's report for the Labour Party policy review This report for the Labour's Party's policy review, written by David Lammy MP, presses the agenda forward on paternity leave, calling for adequate pay levels and independent leave rights, paid antenatal appointments and part time leave and pay.