Sentences with phrase «people question our policy»

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Your colleagues are the people you turn to when you've got questions about how things work, how best to navigate a particular company policy or procedure, how to make a connection with a member of their business or other networks, and much more.

But there no question of any EU «boots on the ground» in Libya, which has become a main launching point for people traffickers since being plunged into chaos with two rival governments and a significant number of Islamic State militants, EU foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini said last week.

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?

With economic prospects improving, people's thoughts naturally turn to the question «what next for monetary policy?»

Zuckerberg frequently mentioned the things that Facebook has already done post-Cambridge Analytica to fix its privacy policies, and by the end of the day, the questions were getting more and more repetitive as people ran out of new things to ask.

«Such social doctrine provides directions but, with few exceptions (for instance, the defense of innocent human life), does not provide directives of immediate applicability to policy questions on which people of good faith, guided by reason and conscience, can come to different conclusions.»

When questions arise about whether or not an individual should present themselves for communion, it is not the policy of the Archdiocese of Washington to publicly reprimand the person.

Acknowledging this, however, would call into question the revelation vouchsafed to another of the new environmentalism's ideological allies, the population - control movement: namely, that people are a pollutant» a pernicious idea, born of the earlier progressivist eugenics movement and brought to a popular boil in the Sixties by evidence - light propagandists like Paul Ehrlich, that continues to affect U.S. foreign - aid policy to this day.

This year, Hillary Clinton has better policy proposals to help improve the lives of women, children, and families than Donald Trump, whose pro-life convictions are lukewarm at best, and whose mass deportation plan would rip hundreds of thousands of families apart, whose contempt for Latinos, Muslims, refugees and people with disabilities would further marginalized the «least of these» among us, and whose support for torture and targeting civilians in war call into question whether Christians who support him are truly pro-life or simply anti-abortion.

If revisionists manage someday to recapture denominational offices and pulpits in large number, the churches will be less concerned to prescribe and implement theologically correct views and more interested in equipping people to do their own thinking about questions of economic policy.

People of integrity can disagree on precisely what policies are best, or are attainable, with respect to clearly moral questions in medicine and genetics.

A large percentage of the citizens of the world (including people within Europe) question neo-liberal policies.

There is an unspoken (sometimes spoken) policy in the church to turn your backs on people that decide to question church teachings.

We should ask whether government policies encourage people to stay in the labor market, to get married and to stay married — and we should make the answers to those questions a priority.

THE PEOPLE»S RESPONSIBILITY By grounding foreign policy analysis in wider considerations of political philosophy in his «The Morality of Self - Interest» (June / July 2010), David P. Goldman has performed a valuable service, but his treatment of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars raises further questions.

And, again despite your claim, there is zero question that most of the people who died under the regimes of Lenin, Stalin and Pol Pot (though somewhat less under Mao) died as the result of SPECIFICALLY anti-theist policies.

People are afraid of being considered soft on communism if they raise serious questions about national attitudes and policies in the Cold War.

On this question, the bishops have a long - standing and settled conviction — not unrelated to the immigrant history of Catholicism in this country — that a generous immigration policy is good for poor people seeking opportunity, good for America, and good for the Catholic Church.

The authors of the report say that people doing federal research on things like income, spending and health should also ask questions about happiness because of the more developed view it could lend to in setting policies to improve people's lives.

Such commitment in any but the simplest, thoroughly ascribed society must be to a «generalized symbolic medium,» not to specific norms.16 Given the integrative potential of such a generalized symbolic medium — of action to action, policy to policy, person to person — the question can be raised whether in a single society more than one such medium can exist.

Their argument is that, to put it in Lincoln's language, «if the policy of the government upon vital questions affecting the whole people is to be irrevocably fixed by decisions of the Supreme Court, the instant they are made in ordinary litigation between parties in personal actions, the people will have ceased to be their own rulers, having to that extent practically resigned their government into the hands of that eminent tribunal.»

At the same time, the candid citizen must confess that if the policy of the government upon vital questions affecting the whole people is to be irrevocably fixed by decisions of the Supreme Court, the instant they are made in ordinary litigation between parties in personal actions, the people will have ceased to be their own rulers, having to that extent practically resigned their government into the hands of that eminent tribunal.

The authors argue that instead of policies that just strengthen marriage — which more and more people are questioning, and rejecting, as a valid institution — we should be supporting all intimate relationships as well as enlarging the legal and social definitions of family to reflect the many types of families we have today.

Although people might question Macmillan's judgement and policies, on the domestic front, he talked of a «grand design», with attempts to co-ordinate measures to tackle unemployment, inflation, balance of payments, modernise industry, work with trade unions and promote class harmony.

Nour's background in technology and public policy not only makes her uniquely qualified to speak on these questions, but she was also on the street as the revolt happened, risking the consequences of standing up for her beliefs and the rights of her people.

In addition, the existence of marginalized communities in Western democratic societies, which stand as the pinnacle of the liberal democracy model, as well as some contested international policies of some democracies in recent history, have questioned the mythology of the liberal order in its current form as an aspiration of all peoples and the natural course of history.

Any investigation on their part would be for the purposes of determining either whether their policies have been violated (in which case the worst they would do is fired the person in question), or whether they should turn the case over to the DoJ.

According to Ipsos Mori, which has been asking voters the same question at every general election since the early 1980s, 2010 was the first year when as many people said they were voting on the character of the leader as much as they were on his party's policies.

This is a cross-party question of policy that addresses a felt need by LGBT people and religious freedom for minorities like Quakers, Unitarians and Liberal Jews, as well as for those, like the Roman Catholic Church and the Church of England, who disagree.

This question came from our site for people interested in governments, policies, and political processes.

Similarly western hemisphere countries have said some kind things to the decedents of indigenous people who faired poorly under previous policies, and revolutions have blamed deposed rulers for bad things, but I'm not sure that it is in the spirit of the question to count changes in government.

Egypt's people squirmed with embarrassment at the policies adopted toward Israel and the Palestinian question.

But if you are serious about making people believe that you can fix things and offer solutions and not platitudes, you need to do deep, critical thinking; you need to reach out to those pesky experts that know stuff and can help; and stress test the policy so you know you won't dissolve in to a shambles on the third question of any interview.

Third, the committee recommends «an impact assessment applied to every government policy, statutory instrument, and new bill, which asks the simple question: «what substantively will this do to build social capital, people power, and social entrepreneurs?»»

«For me the bigger question is in what public policy arena can I best serve the people,» Jeffries said.

Despite the improved appearance and effective performances, people do not forget that Corbyn and members of his core team have failed to answer basic questions about their policies in live interviews.

The first «World Conference on Untouchability» has prompted questions in the House of Commons and the House of Lords about government policy towards the global human rights problem of caste discrimination, which afflicts almost 250 million people in countries from Japan to Nigeria.

At Prime Minister's Questions David Cameron insisted there would be no climbdown over the plans despite claims the policy could drive 200,000 poor people out of the UK's cities.

The number of people sleeping in New York City homeless shelters has risen to nearly 60,000, according to an official city count released today, reviving questions about the effectiveness of Mayor Bill de Blasio's policies to combat homelessness.

Policies now coming under question include «deregulation; the dominance of finance over industry; allowing large private sector vested interests to flourish; government getting out of the way in the economy; the promise that the majority would always do well from an in - it - for - yourself, laissez faire, deregulated economy just isn't working for most working people».

«You claimed at Prime Minister's Questions today that «yesterday Labour announced — in an important announcement — that it is now their policy to put up taxes on middle income people».

On - topic question topics included the amount of HPD funding in this specific project, possible changes in City Planning Commission rules on building height, how many of the 20,000 units reported by the Mayor were new construction and how many were preservation work, how people can seek to live in the units being constructed at this specific project and a lawsuit challenging the City's community preference policy.

Capping some 30 years of comparative research, Wilensky addresses the question of what taxing, spending, and public policies mean for the well - being of people.

If scientists come forward with some compelling plans for what they could study and how that information might help people, it would have to be a constant back - and - forth discussion between the scientific community and the policy regulators of what can be practically enforced... The question is, after 14 days, is there another practical boundary that resets the line?

Yet the narrative of scientific discovery is placed in the context of «real problems affecting real people, without abandoning our concern for broader social policies and fundamental philosophical questions».

There's really no question about that,» says Jody Roberts, an environmental policy expert at the Chemical Heritage Foundation in Philadelphia, Pa. «I think that's where the frustration for some people is, that it needs to be happening faster.»

As the first people with HIV grow old, a new study from St. Michael's Hospital questions whether the health care system and other government policies are prepared to meet their complex medical and social needs.

Because the economic questions involved have received relatively little attention, I have been writing a nontechnical book for people who would like to see how market - based approaches could be used to formulate policy on climate change.

Director Dot Harris, Office of Economic Impact and Diversity at the Department of Energy, will be on the line with Dr. Rebecca Spyke - Keiser, Associate Deputy Administrator for Strategy and Policy at NASA; Jill Fuss, Scientist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Stephanie Stilson, Engineer at Kennedy Space Center and NASA Headquarters, and a class at Andrew Jackson Middle School in Titusville, Florida, to discuss ways to find role models for young people in STEM fields and answer questions from students and the general public about STEM careers.

S.J.Res.26 puts a simple question squarely before the Senate: Who shall make climate policy — lawmakers who must answer to the people at the ballot box or politically unaccountable bureaucrats, trial lawyers, and activist judges appointed for life?