Sentences with phrase «over public policy»

Parties nominate presidential candidates as part of their competition and cooperation over public policy, and candidates chosen through that process wind up solidly committed to the party's agenda — and then find it difficult to betray that agenda even then they have want to.

They were the party of God, and a halo of sorts hovered over their public policy positions on «family values.»

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.

The phrase «public square» evokes images of the political arena with its partisan games and intense debates over public policy.

Fisman and his colleagues rightly assume that these students represent the new liberal meritocrats, the people likely to occupy important positions in government, exercise influence over public policy, and set the tone for establishment institutions.

Unchecked corporate cash in the form of political donations and lobbying expenditures has the power to exert undue influence over public policy and regulatory systems and threaten our democracy.

Not exact matches

Tightening of monetary policy meant to cool the housing market over the past year, combined with a wind - down in public works, has served to slow GDP growth into the single digits.

But what the prime minister must do first is engage the public in the debate over monetary policy.

The University of Calgary's School of Public Policy recently pointed out that Canadian corporations actually do more taking over than getting swallowed.

What will happen over the next few months leading up to the election will have far - reaching effects, not just for American public policy but for global leaders, business executives and foreign policy throughout the world.

In an era when Mark Zuckerberg can be called on the carpet by Senate investigators because of possible wrongdoing by Facebook over the Russian hacking scandal — and at a time when researchers are actively examining whether social media is psychologically, maybe even physically addictive — revenge porn as a public policy issue is on the ascent.

«It used to be that Silicon Valley had the attitude that Washington was inconvenient,» Vivek Wadhwa, an entrepreneur and researcher of public policy at Stanford Law School, says, but over the last few years Silicon Valley has reached a turning point, and that perspective has changed drastically.

Jill Hazelbaker — a former Google employee and Whetstone's deputy at Uber — is slated to take over as senior vice president of Global Public Policy and Communications.

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.

In a Public Policy Polling poll looking at a hypothetical election between the two, Johnson had 42 % support over Trump's 37 %.

Stephen Tapp, a former Bank of Canada economist who now is research director at the Institute for Research on Public Policy, reckons the reversal will cost 0.2 percentage points of gross domestic product annually over the longer term.

The conservative Koch network plans to spend between $ 300 million and $ 400 million to influence politics and public policy over the next two years, intensifying its nationwide efforts in the initial years of Donald Trump's presidency.

This circle would be easier to square if policy elites had performed better over the last 15 years, and could more credibly say that they had created the public institutions necessary for people to improve their own lives.

The Congress faces an array of policy choices as it confronts the challenges posed by the amount of federal debt held by the public — which has more than doubled relative to the size of the economy since 2007 — and the prospect of continued growth in that debt over the coming decades if the large annual budget deficits projected under current law come to pass.

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The three - year agreement between the state and Uber, an on - demand car service that lets users order cars through a mobile app, comes after lengthy public scrutiny over Uber's price surging policy.

The speech makes clear that the Bank's monetary policy frameworks centres around a flexible inflation target that aims to deliver an average rate of inflation of between 2 - 3 per cent over time and in a way that best serves the public interest.

Now it's interesting that Canada's international «Brand» has evolved over recent years to increasingly incorporate the attributes of a strong financial services sector and responsible forward thinking public policy.

Yesterday I blogged about rental housing in Yellowknife, over at the Northern Public Affairs web site. Specifically, I blogged about a recent announcement by the city's largest for - profit landlord that it plans to «tighten» its policies vis - a-vis renting to recipients of «income assistance» (which, in most parts of Canada, is known generically as social assistance).

Facebook has named a new head of U.S. public policy as the company deals with ongoing fallout from the Cambridge Analytica scandal and increasing pressure over privacy around the world.

Over the last six months, Coin Center — the independent, non-profit, public policy research and advocacy center based in Washington, DC — has been busy addressing blockchain's national security implications with the congressional Terrorism and Illicit Finance Subcommittee, spearheading the Blockchain Caucus on Capitol Hill, and moderating recent panels on legal strategy and regulatory developments and how they affect the crypto - space.

It is a budget that demonstrates the government's inability, or unwillingness, to engage in public discussion and debate over ideas and policy.

Last year, the Public Policy Forum interviewed over 2,000 Canadian employers about how they are integrating immigrants into the workforce.

It also must commit to cutting back pensions and public spending by enough to step up its NATO spending to finance the bombing and destabilization of Syria and the Near East, and over and above this, to accept the cost of supporting all the refugees caused by US policy and its foreign legion in the form of ISIS, Al quaeda and Al Nusra.

Over the objections of his aides and advisers — who urged him to focus on policy and the broader goals of his presidency — the new president issued a decree: He wanted a fiery public response, and he wanted it to come from his press secretary.

This is sound policy as far as it goes, but the question arises as to how to finance significant deficits over a period of time without unduly increasing the public debt burden.

Dr. Anna Biolik, Chief Executive Advisor and VP with the Allam Advisory Group is a former Canadian Ambassador and diplomat with over 30 years of public and private sectors experience in diplomacy, international commerce, trade policy, and international governmental affairs.

 Mr. Poloz himself bent over backwards in his last Monetary Policy Report to not use that term — even though the Bank's own numbers (projecting negative GDP growth for both the first and second quarters of 2015) suggested a recession was indeed already underway. Instead, public officials are normally sanguine and rose - coloured in their public pronouncements, hoping to incrementally shift consumer confidence with their cheeriness, and thus spark more spending. [A ridiculous extreme of this approach was provided when George Bush blithely encouraged Americans to go shopping in the days after the 9 - 11 terrorist attacks.]

Nor will they really denounce the policies that are leading the corporate interest to take precedence over the public interest.

The stakes of the answers are therefore high for implications in public policy, institutional practices, and deep cultural formation over time.

A shaky Chinese regime is likely to try and displace public discontents over the policy's impacts on the Chinese economy and Chinese society by chest - thumping in its immediate neighborhood; signs of this are already visible in the South China Sea.

The conflict is over the university's Public Policy Institute's invitation to Kathleen Sebelius, the U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services, to be its 2012 award ceremony speaker this weekend.

Tim Dieppe, Head of Public Policy at Christian Concern - which offers legal support to Christians who say they have been unfairly treated - said the results resonate «very much» for their experiences over the years.

«70 Acting on this belief, Wallis led his Sojourners community in over forty public actions during the first six months of 1977, protesting such issues as the use of torture, the proliferation of nuclear armaments, and the government's repressive housing policies.

The great debate is not over sentiment but justice, not over personal preference but public policy.

Hostility against pro-lifers seems now to have spilled over into a distrust of any group of citizens seeking to connect public policy with a transcendent moral order.

The public - policy leader for the largest US Protestant denomination isn't worried over Christians» loss of power.

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.

Supremacy of the «Master Race» in Germany, the «white man «s burden» in Africa and Asia, the «manifest destiny» of settlers over the Indians in America, the «evil empire» of the Soviet Union — these and other myths are powerfully motivate and support various public policies and actions today.

After all, it was through political and legal struggles over many years, and as a result of compromises, that other Western democracies recognized the pluralistic nature of a free society and adopted policies protecting the rights of parents and of educators to maintain and receive public funding for faith - based schools.

In many countries, it has more influence over public health policy than local leaders do.

Various parts or implications of this position are also finding their way into a variety of pastor - oriented journals, as can be seen in Cobb's arguments against free trade in Theology and Public Policy, [5] his exchanges with Dennis P. McCann in The Christian Century over NAFTA, [6] and his debates with Robin Klay in Perspectives over GATT.

Reduced to essentials, Shaw's contention is that Hecker and those of his «Americanist» cast of mind did represent an assimilationist current in U.S. Catholic thought — a tendency to bend over backwards to «fit into» American culture — that eventually made possible Ted Kennedy, Barbara Mikulski, Nancy Pelosi, and Joe Biden: cradle - Catholic politicians who support public policies that flatly contradict basic moral truths taught by the Church on the basis of reason and revelation, justify their votes in the name of «democracy» and «pluralism,» and are supported by a lot of fellow - Catholics in doing so.

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.

Established in 1934, the Wine Institute is the public policy advocacy group of over 1,100 California wineries and affiliated businesses that initiates and advocates state, federal and international public policy to enhance the environment for the responsible production, consumption and enjoyment of wine.