Sentences with phrase «one's political commitment»

High levels of political commitment to education has led to both public and private investment.

When done well which it is most of the time — it links religious and political commitments in a way that enhances democracy, social justice and American religious life.

We are all encouraged by current political commitments that aim to «end deforestation» or «halt natural forest loss» in the next decade.

This by no means implies the absence of economists whose humanitarian and political commitments lead them to be concerned about the distribution of wealth.

In any case, political commitments reveal something about the people holding them even when they give little insight into the world.

There is significant political commitment to addressing trafficking - it even appears as a priority in the coalition agreement.

I remain confident it will get done this fall... His offer to come testify is the easiest political commitment to make, but the time for hearings is past.

The clear international political commitment to preventing child and family separation highlighted earlier in this article requires means of measuring progress in implementation in that regard.

There is disagreement between on us on quite a number of fronts, including on our fundamental political commitments.

A three - year preparatory process culminates in one week of sessions, debates and cultural activities, where all stakeholders with an interest in water issues come together to push for strong political commitment for a greater priority to be given to appropriate water management strategies.

«Fitch judges the government's fiscal consolidation plans to be credible, reflecting the strong political commitment and institutional capacity.

Large capital investments in the Third World on the part of multinational business will increasingly require political commitments from the host nation — and such commitments are most easily secured in such rightist dictatorships as Brazil and Chile.

We rarely associate the Independent Group, much less Pop art, with political commitment, yet politics has been a persistent concern of Richard Hamilton's work for fifty years.

Weber knew that during his own lifetime, his severe intellectualism did not hold sway in public affairs, and he warned of the growing desire for prophecy and political commitment among young students.

Sustaining Political Commitment Historically, political leaders in the US have been indispensible supporters of AIDS vaccine development.

UNICEF and WHO are leading a Global Breastfeeding Collective to increase political commitment for breastfeeding — one of the smartest investments a country can make.

The pact was neither a treaty subject to Senate approval nor a legally binding executive agreement, but a non-binding political commitment between the two countries noted by the United Nations Security Council.

The ICLEI Resilient Cities Congress 1 June 2013 featured for the first time a special one - day food systems forum for urban stakeholders to come together to discuss and put into action the implementation of resilient food systems within cities around the world and to generate heightened awareness and strengthened political commitment in local governments in order to create resilient urban food systems.

Although its choices are not binding they are seen as representing political commitments and are an important part of Britain's interaction with Europe, the report notes.

A convergence of interests, after long negotiations and historic compromises, led to the UN General Assembly deciding to convene the «UN Conference on Sustainable Development» (UNCSD or Rio +20) with the objective «to secure renewed political commitment for sustainable development, assessing the progress to date and the remaining gaps in the implementation of the outcomes of the major summits on sustainable development and addressing new and emerging challenges».

Gaines continues to employ the tropes of objective systems such as mapping to bear witness to moments of deep political commitment.

However, it would require a major refocusing of fiscal policy, with a clear political commitment and hard rules in order to be successful.

Breastfeeding on the worldwide agenda: Findings from a landscape analysis on political commitment for programmes to protect, promote and support breastfeeding

Someone who asserted that American history is unimaginable without political commitments rooted in faith — though some tried to imagine it.

The aim is to secure political commitment before negotiations begin in Bali in December.

While political commitment to social mobility and diversity may ebb and flow, the underlying importance of having a legal profession representative of our society, remains constant.

The assets on oil companies» balance sheets, which are factored into the companies» share prices, include reserves they may one day have to write off, given global political commitments to cap emissions, trends toward energy efficiency, popular climate change outcry, and a glut of energy supply.

Interest in long - term investments or supplier arrangements are bound to be higher if the economic relationship is stabilized and facilitated by a modern, overarching trade and economic framework that creates trust and signifies political commitment.

In Asia, success is more likely to come to those foreign companies whose governments show political commitment to the region's future, including its security, and are not just there for economic gain.

But, for a media culture without such political commitments, this second depression has interest chiefly through the filter of élite experience.

The solution is an equally radical form of strategic flexibility on the part of the Church, which must stand detached from all subsidiary political commitments, willing to enter into flexible alliances of convenience with any of the parties, institutions, and groups that jostle under the canopy of the liberal imperium.

It is about how to make a living, who will work when and where, whether to have children, who will care for the children, how to relate to in - laws, how to relate to the community and how to organize political commitments.

Conservatives mock radical college professors and celebrities who pop off about politics, but those (sometimes ridiculous) lefties are actually making an effort to reach that vast muddle of Americans who don't already have firm political commitments.

This is problematic because the broad classification at the beginning of the work functions to implicate everyone who happens to share select conservative political commitments in what happened with Bob Jones.

The idea of transcendence has also influenced the democratic political commitments of most Christian socialists.

Global Breastfeeding Advocacy Initiative — UNICEF and WHO are leading a global partnership to galvanize political commitment and investments to increase breastfeeding rates.

He is currently particularly interested in how to defend egalitarian political commitments in a realistic but philosophically respectable way.

«Scots expect a greater say in what they spend and how they are taxed to pay for it and there is now broad political commitment to the devolution of greater powers to Scotland.

«Our baseline fiscal forecasts reflect political commitment to deficit reduction and the role of the IMF programme as a policy anchor.

If other parties in Scotland, don't even understand the political process at work (as speeches at the Lab Conference would suggest) and folk elsewhere sneer at a staggering level of political commitment here, then this is a very disunited kingdom.

«[I] n spite of his personal political commitment to openness,» the reviewers write, «Delfanti elegantly dismisses dominant narratives that portray open science (in particular, open biology) as an up - to - date version of the traditional Mertonian norms now endangered by corporate neoliberalism.