Sentences with phrase «own policy aims»

I'm not arguing that policies aimed at increasing productivity are misguided.

«There is some truth to that, because [in] Toronto for example, there is limitation as to where you can build low rise construction,» he said, referring to green belt policies aimed at limiting urban sprawl.

The non-profit advocates for laws and policies aimed at protecting children, provides legal representation to child victims, and offers community events, parenting classes, and counseling to support families across the Bay Area.

A set of policies aimed at middle class growth does not require us to reject the widely accepted understanding that the supply side of the economy determines long - run growth.

The latter suggestion goes against decades of US policy aimed at preventing the spread of nuclear weapons, and in Japan's case, decades of anti-nuclear sentiment.

This reality, combined with the fact that just 10 % of the labor force is now employed in manufacturing, means that there is plenty of electoral support for policies aimed at increasing trade.

There is room here for activist public policy aimed at assisting people as soon as they become unemployed — including very fast interventions to have resumés updated, interview skills improved and much shorter - duration job training programs (rather than ones that last months or years).

Ironically, this is exactly the opposite of what the policies aim to achieve.»

The change represents yet another way that Sessions, who served as a federal prosecutor at the height of the drug war in Mobile, Alabama, has reversed Obama - era criminal justice policies aimed at easing overcrowding in federal prisons and rethinking of how drug criminals are prosecuted and sentenced.

Facebook's new privacy policy aims to explain the data it gathers on users more clearly, but doesn't actually change what it collects and shares.

We also modelled a number of existing and proposed federal and provincial policies aimed at helping Canadians save energy.

It's important to recognize, though, that policies aimed at stimulating demand might be able to help a lot.

Fed interest rate policy aims to keep inflation at reasonable levels and uses the PPI as a guide when setting interest rate policy.

As a result, monetary policies aimed at restraining credit growth overall might end up being too tight for some regions, leading to accelerating bankruptcies, and too loose for others, fueling out - of - control credit growth.

We will see how serious Germany is about recent suggestions that it plans policies aimed at increasing domestic demand.

But there's little question that better statistics — if this is indeed the issue — would greatly improve our policy aim.

The United States could certainly benefit from a more effective trade policy aimed at reducing barriers to trade through well - thought - out and forceful negotiations and taking actions that are consistent with global trade rules.

The Trump administration, for example, wants not just to force a contraction in the trade deficit but has also proposed policies aimed at increasing U.S. investment, partly by making investment more profitable (cutting corporate taxes and rebuilding American infrastructure) and partly by increasing savings (cutting taxes on the very wealthy).

The United States has a long history of public policies aimed at reducing inequality.

Wisely, neither made it a U.S. policy aim to «fix» the trade imbalance.

The National Monetary Commission's longest volumes were on the great German industrial banks, and Republican policy aimed at bringing banking into the industrial era, to provide long - term funding after the model of German and other Central European banks.

In regard to democratic reform, the Party promises a wide range of policies aimed at improving accountability, transparency, and citizen participation.

NAHB Chairman Granger MacDonald chalks up the incredible improvement in optimism to «new policies aimed at providing regulatory relief to the business community.»

For example, the government could take advantage of the cultural competency of these returnees by utilizing them as consultants when designing policy aimed at attracting tourists.

The eventual goal is to manage monetary policy aiming for a yield curve that has a low positive slope, allowing the banks to make a little money, but not a lot.

Their plan makes a commitment to early, preventative, and accessible care but does not propose any policies aimed at achieving these goals.

Government needs a more practical, less academic social policy aimed at the deficiencies of public authority» law enforcement, school standards, and work requirements» that the research itself suggests are central to poverty today.

Few can deny that the rising crime rate and abuse of drugs are related to the destruction of rural and urban communities that are the direct result of economic policies aimed at the one goal of increasing production.

But I will not be pushed into considerations of individual circumstances when what concerns me is a matter of policy aimed at keeping sex creative.

Tackling the Issue: The Plastic Strategy Earlier this year, UK Prime Minister, Theresa May announced a war on plastic waste, with proposed policies aimed at eliminating all avoidable plastic waste within 25 years.

The policy aims to increase the amount of healthy, nutritious and locally grown food obtained and provided by the CAPSBC Food Bank, which provides emergency food to agencies throughout the county.

In the last twenty years, governments also have been gradually moving towards policies aiming at encouraging the links between organic agriculture and biodiversity conservation.

FI joins call for new deal for dads in election manifestos The Fatherhood Institute has joined a coalition of charities and trade unions, to call on the UK's political parties to include policies aimed at promoting involved fatherhood in their election manifestos.

Medical advances over the past decade, along with a national emphasis on raising awareness about concussions, have enabled sport organizations, including the IHSA, to draft or revise rules and policies aimed at player safety in all sports that reflect this growing body of information.

These findings suggest that policies aiming to increase voluntary participation in public service provision are likely to be more successful in some areas than others.

The decision is a vivid example of MSF's political engagement, this time in reaction to EU policies aiming to deter immigration.

Guido wrote: «Red Len McCluskey is driving a secret policy aiming to build up a # 30million war chest to fund Unite's «struggle for Labour's soul».

Increase domestic energy production and thus supply; which was intentionally decreased by Obama administration policy aimed at reducing carbon energy sources.

In addition to policies aimed at increasing the age at which workerscan retire and encouraging private pensions (central planks of pension reforms in many other countries), the Nordic countries have for several years been focusing on adjustments to the way their pension systems are funded.

Many fail to realise that the UK has driven multiple progressive policies aimed at improving the health of the population, whether plain packaging for cigarettes, minimum pricing units for alcohol, or the most recent sugar tax.

The effect is small, but statistically significant, making it important to consider in policies aimed at increasing female representation in politics.

He cautioned against the tendency of the agencies and institution taking entrenched positions on initiatives and policies aimed making the ports more efficient.

As an example, any policy aimed at preserving Generation's Me - me - me (aka Baby Boomers) Social Security is wildly popular right now because the Baby Boomers who benefit from it (at the expense of the next generations) comprise the majority of population, and those who will be harmed by it aren't realizing it till it will be their time to retire 20 - 40 years from now.

Mr. Speaker, this year, we have restored macroeconomic stability, which is protecting the value of money in the pockets of ordinary Ghanaians and giving businesses the predictability space to plan and invest, thereby sowing the seeds for economicgrowth and jobs creation.The broad agenda for next year is to translate the stability achieved into shared growth with aggressive policies aimed at creating moreopportunities for jobs.

Britain can not pretend to hold all the cards in the Syrian conflict but a clear strategic policy aimed at halting violence based on a commitment to the twin diplomatic - humanitarian track puts us on the good side of a bad conflict.

We will present a progressive alternative with concrete policies aimed at rebuilding our communities.

Instead of developing policies aimed at making immigration work for the country as a whole, however, the response of the Westminster political class over recent years has been to debate caps on immigration and give credence to the philosophical position that immigrants are a drain on society instead of net contributors.

Proposed policies aim to reduce net migration mainly by limiting three types of migration inflows non-EU nationals — work, study and family — and by increasing outflows by making it more difficult for non-EU nationals to gain the right to reside permanently in the UK.

He was demoted to chief whip and succeed by Morgan, who appears to have largely stuck to Gove's policy aims — but without the combative style.

The 2020 «is trying to do the longer - term thinking... setting out a compelling, radical and progressive vision of where conservatism is going», and its key policy aim is to find the answer to the question: «What would the country look like after a successful majority Conservative government» - i.e. in 2020.