Sentences with phrase «only policy opinions»

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We are adult third culture «kids» who have spent all of our developmental years abroad... and then returned to our HOME country, where we must endure the commonplace ignorance and poorly educated adults who lack any interest in foreign policy and base all their opinions on what only goes on in their own backyard... Please give your head a good shake and crack open a book every little now and then!

I give generously to charities, but only to the ones whose policies and opinions I agree with.

Yet analysis of international opinion polls shows that with only three exceptions majorities in all countries polled have opposed the policy of the US and UK governments.

In my opinion Wenger 3 - 4 season ago had everything in team only lacked a striker now he has striker lacks mid field warrior as santi and Rosicky are out, although he bought xhaka but he is not the one to replace santi or Rosicky.why the hell he can't build a team with all elements and his transfer policy well every one knows.This season is really frustrating.

I disagree with u ryan the playwrs we got from southampton hve been so inconsistant and u then you say origi ings etc were bought at a steal and will be worth more in time to come so u agree with fsg policy buy potential and once they become better players sell them for a profit sorry but thats my opinion we need to hold on to the better players than compliment them with other great players fsg have turned liverpool into a selling club to fill there bck pockets this was never the liverpool way and now because of this fsg policy is the reason were mid table klopp needs to be given the funds he needs to change things only then can we judge him i just hope he is given the chance before he decides to walk YNWA

As A Journey stumbles to the end with increasingly assertive broadsides about foreign policy, it reads as if Blair is channeling Edmund Burke from 1774: «Your representative owes you, not his industry only, but his judgment; and he betrays, instead of serving you, if he sacrifices it to your opinion.»

Interestingly, for a third group of participants who were given only a perfunctory summary of the policy and no information about the distribution of benefits, opinion became even more favourable toward the HMID and other regressive policies than for the control group who were given no information at all.

«It is difficult to see how a policy of allowing only religious speakers to contribute, with unquestioned statements and positions, some of which stray very closely to the line of political opinions, does not contravene the BBC's guidelines for impartiality.»

Public opinion is only ever likely to be on the side of reform in the midst of a scandal, which is pretty much the worst time to be making a major policy reform.

Thirty - five percent oppose the direction of energy policy in the United States, while 45 percent lack an opinion and only 17 percent support the direction.

The report concedes that politicians may in the end reject the opinions of scientific advisers and long - established scientific advisory councils (SACs): «Scientific evidence is only one factor — albeit a very important one — in policy decisions.»

QUINN: So NOAA's policy is part of this Administration's and NOAA's leadership's effort to create transparency in the government and one thing that is outlined in the policy is that scientists can communicate their research to the public and that scientists can not only communicate their research, but they can also communicate their opinions to the public and I think that's a very important aspect of the policy.

If I've accepted a product, I will offer my honest opinion only and disclose that I received a product sample courtesy of your company, aligning with my disclosure policy and the FTC guidelines.

«I only vaguely remember being surveyed and definitely not being asked for my opinion or input in making any decisions on policy in my other schools.

Baumgartner and Jones argued that policy generally changes only incrementally, until some event, such as change in the party control of government or sizable shifts in public opinion, lead to large policy alterations.

It seems self evident that the only changes in policy that have ever occurred in the area of «human and environmental well being» have been driven by public opinion / grassroots organizing.

This is the only thing I'd like to say about religion, and I don't think it's too far off the rails: Any strategy for communicating the science to the public — let alone any strategy for promoting policy measures — needs to carefully analyze different segments of public opinion and look for ways they can be won over to your point of view, rather than needlessly alienated from it.

A non-incremental policy shift on the scale with welfare reform, health care, or immigration reform, not only requires the mobilization of massive financial resources, as Greens accomplished in 2009 - 10, but also the mass mobilization of public opinion.

With its editorial, The Case for a Carbon Tax, the New York Times joins the growing community of opinion leaders, policy experts and, yes, elected officials who not only recognize the power of carbon taxes to quickly and equitably reduce emissions but also sense the emergence of a political critical mass that can enact fees into law.

5 As long as global climate policy is supposed to be based on the precautionary principle, this is the only justifiable course of action in my opinion.

The only thing worse for the policy - maker than finding out the experts now have a different opinion is to learn they've had the different opinion for the last six months and never said anything.

It harms not only the scientific process, but also the process of public opinion formation and policy configuration.

For example, in science only experts are supposed to have strong opinions, while in policy everyone is expected to pick a side.

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We can only hope that The Post «s editorial board will also reach a reasonable conclusion about their editorial policy: that they should adopt a practice of ensuring their opinion pieces on climate are factual and not misleading, with the operative assumption that the world's scientists actually are right about the subjects that they have spent their lives studying.

According to a new poll by Republican polling firm Public Opinion Strategies, 79 % of Republicans and independents who identify as conservative (the only groups polled) support the expansion of clean energy and policies to encourage such growth.

«In our opinion, the experience of the recent failure of the frontal assault on climate policy — the implausibly straight driveway from the present to a magically decarbonised future — suggests that a more indirect yet encompassing approach via the attainment of different objectives which bring contingent benefits is, indeed, the only one that is likely to be materially (in contrast to rhetorically) successful.

First, you write, «Whatever flaws or ambiguities exist in the paper, the use of the letters as source materials for any comparison can not purely be a test of agreement with the IPCC (as we stated above — you could agree with every word in the IPCC report and still not want to do anything about emissions), but must be a test of someone's opinion about what to do about it... Thus the only way in my mind to interpret a comparison of signers is a categorization by policy direction, not understanding or agreement on the science.

Over 90 % of it is science; only the last few slides are about his personal opinion re policy, where he's always careful to explicitly point out that it's his personal opinion (as opposed to science).

The documents were submitted directly to the arbitrator of the matter and only the very narrow point of that the respondent was given an opinion as to the legality of their actions and or policy were in compliance with Human Rights legislation.

Today's opinion was written by Justice Antonin Scalia, who reasoned that the Jackson rule provided only marginal policy benefits while posing «substantial costs to the truth - seeking process and the criminal justice system.»

As President Donald Tusk has said: «In my opinion, the only real alternative to a «hard Brexit» is «no Brexit» (speech at European Policy Centre conference on 13 October 2016).

Standard forms make sense only for situations that are highly repetitive, such as consumer transactions, or that require a high degree of consistency, such as legal opinions, which are controlled by firm policies.

You will also need to document your condition with a medical opinion from a licensed health care provider which says that you are not only disabled but that your disability prevents you from performing the type of work that falls within the insurance policy's definition of disabled.

At Sentencing Law and Policy, Douglas Berman says the most interesting aspect of the ruling may be the voting pattern, with Justice Samuel Alito writing the majority opinion and Justice Clarence Thomas writing the dissent, joined only by Justice Antonin Scalia.

Leading up to the conclusion of the first new generation of trade agreements, the Commission decided it did not get enough with its extensive foot in the door in international investment policy and claimed the entirety of these investment chapters as EU - only in its request for an Opinion.

Since 2003, the relevant regulatory authority for both television and radio has become the Office of Communications (Ofcom), and perhaps for the avoidance of doubt the basic rule receives further elaboration in CA 2003, s 321 (3), which provides that political objects include not only promoting political parties and influencing election outcomes, but also «influencing public opinion» and «influencing the policies or decisions of governments, whether in the United Kingdom or elsewhere».

The argument that permanent life insurance is for your whole life while while term life policy is only for the life of the term is actually irrelevant in our opinion.

I am not promoting any of the insurance policy here, but just sharing my personal view only which may or may not match with your opinion.

I was following a conversation in another blog a few days ago and one guy's opinion was that term life insurance isn't worth the paper it's written on because, according to him, only 1.7 % of term life insurance policies ever pay an actual claim.