Sentences with phrase «over policies like»

Stay loyal over policies like cuts to local school budgets and they risk losing next time around.

Not exact matches

And it's a shift in the Liberals» approach to economic policy, which had become encumbered over the past decade by vacuous buzzwords like «champion sectors» and «innovation gateways» (Both found on a single - page in the 2011 election platform).

Internet entrepreneur Cody Brown makes a compelling case that the inability of Facebook (and Twitter, YouTube, Reddit, etc.) to enact consistent and enforceable policies around things like fake news and inflammatory speech arises from their foundational decision to treat users all over the world as a single audience.

«Unfortunately, for the many vulnerable House Republicans that Paul Ryan is abandoning, his historically unpopular and failed policies will hang over their reelections like a dark cloud,» Law added.

«There are elements that are very critical for the euro zone and the EU 27 (members of the EU excluding Britain), elements which have to be addressed quickly and they've been kept unresolved over the last two or three years — things like the banking union and budgetary resources... And fiscal policy,» he said.

Zuckerberg edged closest to taking a controversial stand, perhaps, when he argued that Millennials should identify with globalism over nationalism, encouraging policies like free trade.

As Facebook evolved from a closed, Harvard - only network with no ads to a giant corporation with $ 40 billion in advertising revenue and huge subsidiaries like Instagram and WhatsApp, its privacy policy has also shifted — over and over.

Like all small businesses, they have seen ups and downs over the past year, buffeted by major changes in tax policy and, more recently, great uncertainty around trade policy.

When business folks do engage on public policy, it tends to directly involve their bottom line, like the recent feud between the big telecommunication companies and Harper over foreign ownership rules.

«Over the coming years, energy producers must recognize that demand - side management policies in developed countries like the United States are going to be an influential trend acting on their businesses.»

The Economic Policy Institute has constructed more comprehensive estimates and finds that the 60 - day delay would cost retirement savers» IRAs $ 181 million this year and $ 3.7 billion over the next 30 years — and this estimate is still an undercount because it does not include other subjects of potential conflicted advice, like 401 (k) s.

While policy doves like Rosengren currently hold sway over Chairman Ben Bernanke and the majority of Fed policymakers, minutes from last month's policy meeting suggest the quantitative easing program could draw to a close by year end, earlier than some economists had expected.

But what I liked best about the book is how it engages with what I see as one of the most important and difficult social - policy questions of our time: How do we unstack the deck and, at the same time, get people to take ownership over improving their own lives and communities even when they reasonably believe that the deck is stacked against them?

Some of you know where this is going... I am a stickler over operational realities because articles like this don't discuss the important details about policy.

The following year, Facebook outraged civil liberties groups with a new privacy policy that gave people less control over their what they could do with their data and made sensitive information like profile pictures, locations, and friend lists publicly available.

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».

Yet for us to expect that the results of our current innovation policies and investments will miraculously spur new companies and significant economic growth is, as many people like to say, the definition of insanity: doing the same thing over and over again, and expecting a different result.

But over the last few years (since 2008), I think there's been a pretty dramatic growth in what we'd call Tea Party politics in that set — extreme conservatism that goes beyond hands off fiscal and regulatory policy, the kind of feverish mindset in which you could write with a straight face that progressives might be building toward some sort of mass wealth confiscation or internment or even extermination for the likes of Tom Perkins.

Startup Genome touts Santiago as «an example of how policy makers can help to kick start a startup ecosystem,» with initiatives like Startup Chile attracting entrepreneurs from all over the world.

The monetary policy debate over whether rule - like behavior is preferable to pure discretion dates back at least to Henry Simons in 1936.1 More recently, in their Nobel Prize - winning work, Finn Kydland and Ed Prescott demonstrated that a credible commitment by policymakers to behave in a systematic rule - like manner leads to better outcomes than discretion.2 Since then, numerous papers using a variety of models have investigated the benefits of rule - like behavior in monetary policy and found that there are indeed significant benefits.

Google, meanwhile, uses its information to offer tailored content — like more relevant search results and ads — and has been in a long running battle with a French regulator over its privacy policies.

The most important policy priority with respect to the Fed is protecting it from stone age monetary ideas like a return to the gold standard, or turning policymaking over to a formula, or removing the dual mandate commanding the Fed to worry about unemployment as well as inflation.

At a time like this, where many life insurers, particularly ones facing credit risks, and those having variable policies, where profitability has declined along with the stock market, the surcharges could have kicked additional life insurers over the edge, and who knows how big the cascade would have been.

Which is exactly what Basis plans to do — despite, it would seem, such control over the supply of a cryptocurrency causing perception problems for companies like Ripple, and attracting ire from certain quarters of the cryptocurrency community that instinctively shuns such interventionist policies.

because the religious lobbyists garner ridiculous influence over public policy, especially education, and we're a little concerned that our kids are going to be taught silly crap like the planet is 6000 years old.

At the same time, the bishops, like everyone else who has a part to play in the contest over law and public policy, can not determine the partisan alignments of that contest.

From Johnson's perspective, pro-life activists and policy groups spend too much time bickering over details like whether to protest using graphic signs depicting photos of aborted babies.

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.

Beijing: A further tightening of regulations imposed by Chinese authorities on foreign goods purchased over the internet has reinforced fears the policy honeymoon which has richly benefited the likes of Bellamy's Organic infant formula and Blackmores vitamins has ended.

I like Arsene but his transfer policy, particularly over the past 2 summers is inexplicable.

Though Sir Alex Ferguson is looking to build for the future and has tended to opt for a youthful transfer policy over the past couple of years, he has set his sights on Huntelaar to add to the likes of Wayne Rooney, Javier Hernandez and Danny Welbeck in his striking armoury.

Wenger's policy has been a failure overpaying players like Theo, Mertesaker, Giroud, who all make over 100 k pw closer to Ozil and Alexis salary which is a joke.

The party may very well not represent many of their views (those ~ 20 % libertarians are among the examples you list, who largely disagree with Republicans on social issues like gay marriage - yet, they tend to vote Republican, over other issues like fiscal policy)

Over the last several months, Cuomo has been critical of Trump's policies on immigration and the tax law approved in December that caps state and local tax deductions at $ 10,000 — a move seen as hindering high - tax states like New York.

Everyone is currently hoping that the new policies being rolled out over the next few months will provide the party with the bump - start it needs to look like a credible political force again.

«Imagine, for example, tailored advertisements created for individual «swing voters» (selected automatically through profiling), pointing out a party's positive steps in the policy areas that are most likely to interest them (also selected automatically), omitting those areas where party policy doesn't fit, and couching it in a language appropriate to the individual's ethnic, educational, cultural and linguistic background, illustrated with a few appropriate news TV clips, and playing background music exactly to the individual's taste and voiced over by an actor that profiling reveals that individual likes?

-- Vote against the finance bill after listening to the people's concerns over issues like the 10p tax rate (assuming the bill remains talking about retrospective taxation)-- Recognise the much bulkier and more vast argument against 42 days legislation and support the rebellion against this legislation rather than supporting the PR men and the policy writers to the hilt regardless of the realities of the situation.

«Speaking more generally, this looks to us like a clear example of a wider policy by the Church of England to slowly gain influence and control over former community schools that are now Academies — initially by affiliating with them, before slowly increasing the religious nature of school life.

It is the EU that has a final veto over any policy proposed by the UK or Scotland; indeed, each of the remaining 27 member states (and even subordinate parliaments like the parliament of Wallonia) can block proposed changes to the status quo, and the status quo once Article 50 is triggered next week is a fixed negotiating period, which ends in 2019.

It worked out beautifully: the Mayor won and Mr. Linares, who was term - limited out of his Council seat in 2001, got a plum sinecure that enabled him to make fact - finding trips to the Caribbean as often as he liked, to walk in parades, and to speak sonorously about Federal immigration policies that he had no power over.

Obviously, there has been much talk about the political fight that Cuomo and Silver are likely to have over budget cuts, and controversial fiscal policies like a property tax cap.

«Like many progressives, I disagreed strongly with the Governor's economic policies over the last four years.

Governor Andrew Cuomo has repeatedly threatened to hold up the state budget over ethics reform and other issues, like education policy.

Though Mayor Michael Bloomberg had warned of great chaos if the law was not renewed, his allies on the Board of Education kept his policies in place and the law was eventually renewed, with tweaks like giving the Independent Budget Office more oversight over spending.

First, push to adopt the policy recommendations from Citizens Union's 2013 report on political clubs to curb excess influence over institutions like the Democratic County Committee.

Mr. Espaillat's campaign hasn't been as policy heavy as the paper would like, but expect ethnic considerations to win out over Mr. Williams by a nose, with Mr. Rangel remaining a dark horse contender.

Trump will be slapped around frequently (like he was in last weeks foreign policy speech) and this thing will be over by Labor Day.

The left has long agitated for members to have more say both over policy and through mechanisms like mandatory reselections of councillors and MPs.

He seemed to almost dare legislators who are balking over education and health care cuts and key policy issues like prison closures and the med - mal cap to challenge him to a game of budget chicken.

We have to set out our stall on what we believe in, why we think we've got the best policies for the country and I honestly think the minute you start looking like you're either conceding defeat or you're interested in backroom deals in smoke - filled room over things you've got no control over, you lose the essence of what the election is about.»