Sentences with phrase «point agenda for»

Read more on the poll here, and download CDP and ITPI's 11 - point agenda for charter school reform here.

About a month after the election, he unveiled his road map for implementing a far - reaching ten - point agenda for virtual schools and online coursework.

With modernisation and diversification of agriculture being a key component of the NPP's 4 - Point Agenda for the development of Ghana, I wish to assure our farmers and fisherfolk that the blessing of oil will not distract an Akufo - Addo - led NPP government from making the agricultural sector more sophisticated, more productive and more efficient.

With modernisation and diversification of agriculture being a key component of the NPP's 4 - Point Agenda for the development of Ghana, I wish to assure our farmers and fisherfolk that the blessing of oil will not distract an Akufo - Addo - led NPP government from growing the agricultural sector and making it more modern, more efficient and therefore, more productive.

Dinallo also announced a six - point agenda for investigating public corruption, which includes stringent new disclosure requirements for charities (like, say, the Bronx - based Soundview, which Cuomo says Espada looted of more than $ 14 million), using the Tweed Law to investigate the misuse of public funds, and pursuing election law violations under the existing Executive Law.

His five - point agenda for post-fundamentalist evangelicalism included: (1) clarification of the philosophical implications of biblical theism, (2) Christian engagement with the pressing social issues of the day as well as concern for individual salvation, (3) refusal to divide over secondary matters such as the details of biblical prophecy, (4) openness to the possibility of a biblically faithful ecumenicity, and (5) the development of a truly biblical theology that took into consideration the whole sweep of salvation history.

In tune with this global rhetoric, the United Front Government in its Common Minimum Program made eradication of poverty as its main emphasis along with a seven - point agenda for ensuring safe drinking water, primary education for all, primary health care, housing, food security, road networks and mid-day meals to be implemented by A.D. 2000.

Not exact matches

The meeting leader is responsible for ensuring the execution of the agenda, point by point, and keeping each segment within the determined time constraints.

When seated he leans forward when he gets to a big point the way we do when we are fired up, and he is great at breaking complex information into the magical 3s: Three points provide a verbal agenda, making it easy for everyone to follow and remember.

Still, Whitman pointed out the possibility for pushback to Pruitt's anti-conservation agenda from hunters and ranchers within the GOP's base, and possibly the more moderate Republicans she has had conversations with in Congress (Whitman declined to name those politicians).

Their agreement on a free - trade pact timed with the G20 meeting in Germany can be as substantive as it is symbolic, raising the key question of whether it might serve as a turning point for the United States as the Trump administration decides on its future trade agenda.

I am sure it is true and that is my point here I was commenting on the compassion of a person, not their religion, and momoya had to reveal his / her real agenda that has not pupose here, as I was not talking religion I was talking about compassion and the desire for one individual to help another.

Our job isn't to score points for a side, push an agenda or to re-size the Bible to fit our personal views.

In most cases they have overcome both political fragmentation and government overload by replacing their old governmental bureaucracies with an innovative and effective form of governance: coalitions (composed of business, government, nonprofits, universities, neighborhood and minority associations, and religious groups) that develop a cooperative agenda to improve the city and that assume many of the city government's traditional functions (economic development, long - term planning, educational reform, even care of the homeless), and that also operate like political parties of yore (providing the point of access for new groups and a public realm for discourse, debate, and negotiation concerning matters of the common good).

Insistence on the importance of that point for theological education is one of the major contributions of the Mud Flower Collective to the agenda of the debate about what makes theological education theological.

Your point is, I believe, that true love does not manipulate for its own agenda or purpose.

Nobody theologizes aimlessly; as in all one's mental life, one thinks for a purpose and to a point - though agendas are sometimes hidden!

the fifth: women are narcissistic propagandists for protesting misogynist violence okay, the closest I've seen to this is when matt posts about the inconsistencies of many, many liberal agendas, the points out that certain groups have ideas which, logically, are completely opposed

Gadamer, of how the inspired text, which we question in order to find its meaning and relevance, questions, criticizes, challenges and changes us in the process -» Some who today raise the proper question, whether there are not culturally relative elements in Paul's teaching about role relationships (an the material has to be thought through from this standpoint), seem to proceed improperly in doing so; for in effect they take current secular views about the sexes as fixed points, and work to bring Scripture into line with them - an agenda that at a stroke turns the study of sacred theology into a venture in secular ideology.

Anyway, I had no political agenda or goal in publishing this... I had no idea it was going to be a political point for the Republicans in 2014.

At some future point the theological agenda must include the laying of foundations for a reconciliation of opposing camps.

This is, possibly, the most vexing issue raised by an agenda - setting book that will be the starting point of discussion and debate for years to come.

The beginning point for this is for Black Americans and other oppressed minority groups to set their own agenda of liberation.

It should be emphasized that to say this is not thereby to invalidate any particular claims made on behalf of the liberal agenda for the society — just as one does not invalidate a political program simply by pointing Out that it may benefit the business community.

One point on their agenda, is for DSM - 6 to revoke the «exemption» that religious and spiritual beliefs have, when diagnosing «mental illness».

The limitations of house worship come at the point of its potential for isolation of a comfortable elitist group that resists any impinging agenda from the outside.

Annoying as Duncan Castles may be for his relentlessly pro-Mourinho agenda, he has a point here in that Wenger probably won't get the same kind of stick as the Special One here despite clearly also «parking the bus» in a big game.

On a side note, I couldn't help but think 2 predominant thoughts when watching the game against Bournemouth on the weekend: (1) Wenger is still willing to put his own personal agenda ahead of the team's best interests when it comes to team selection, which luckily for us didn't cost us the 3 points this time and (2) if Eddie Howe is earmarked to be the successor we are in deep trouble because he's simply a poor man's version of our present manager, as he's tactically inept and has an even worse road record.

We should not take them for granted, but still be confident going to the stadium of light with victory high on the gunners agenda, and 3 precious points!

However, due to a certain someone opening their deluded French mouth days before the game and feeling the need to point out our supposed weaknesses, I highly doubt being trounced three - nil in a semi-competitive fixture at Wembley Stadium with silverware up for grabs was high on their agenda.

Jose Mourinho's declaration that # 300 million was «not enough» to spend in the market in order to compete with a Manchester City side who «buy full - backs for the price of strikers» placed transfer fees on the agenda this week, even before Liverpool's head - spinning outlay on Virgil van Dijk ensured it remained the talking point.

For my single point agenda (reduction in war activities, even if temporary) I figured Trump was the better candidate.

«Anybody who wants to be interviewed for our line and wants to fill out a questionnaire, we're open, we're going to consider everybody,» said the chairwoman, Susan Zimet, before pointing to the governor's «Women's Equality Agenda,» pieces of which have been passed and which Cuomo is trying to expand.

Koppell had been pushing for a more progressive agenda including a higher minimum wage and public financing of campaigns, passage of the Dream Act, which would allow students in the country illegally access to state financial aid, along with all 10 points of the Women's Equality Agenda, which includes a contentious abortion agenda including a higher minimum wage and public financing of campaigns, passage of the Dream Act, which would allow students in the country illegally access to state financial aid, along with all 10 points of the Women's Equality Agenda, which includes a contentious abortion Agenda, which includes a contentious abortion plank.

«While some of our members have differed in the past on some of the specific issues in the New NY Agenda, the Executive Committee unanimously takes this position because we understand and accept Andrew's point that this is a pivotal moment in the history of this state, similar to the 1975 New York City fiscal crisis, when leaders in the labor, civic, business and political arena must put aside their individual agendas for the good of the entire state.»

The Chancellor answered 96 questions in total, so it allowed a large window of opportunity for backbenchers to raise questions or points sceptical of the government's economic agenda - backbenchers could have urged the Chancellor to pursue fiscal consolidation more vigorously, or pressed for a more pro-growth direction, and so on.

The campaign of Levy's primary GOP rival, former Rep. Rick Lazio, responded by pointing to Lazio's own policy agenda released last week, which included a call for stricter Medicaid means testing and greater investigatory powers for the state to reduce fraud and abuse.

«Presently there is peace in the Niger Delta region; the cease fire which was announced and sustained by all the militant groups last year after the intervention of PANDEF was to give the government a peaceful atmosphere for dialogue and subsequent implementation PANDEF 16 - point agenda, rather than extending the NDDC board to create crisis in the Niger Delta.

The Women's Equality Agenda is a ten - point plan that deals with several women's issues, including a call for equal pay, the end of sexual harassment in workplaces and the strengthening of human sex trafficking laws.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo is finally releasing legislation for his 10 - point women's agenda.

Throughout his controversial use of The Campaign for One New York, de Blasio repeatedly pointed to it being in support of an agenda, rather than a candidate (so not technically a Super Pac).

They respected our point of view,» he said, before adding, «I think the Pride Agenda has a very small window for stepping back into this conversation.»

De Blasio on Tuesday will present a 13 - point «Progressive Agenda» at the U.S. Capitol, calling for measures he's implemented or promoted in the city he governs.

He wants strictly to control his interactions with the press and ensure that his media availability serves his agenda, except for about fifteen minutes per week where he will take a handful of «off - topic» questions: that's what he calls them, as though they are «impertinent» or «beside the point.»

The thinking is that passage of GENDA could give a much needed progressive win to IDC Leader Jeff Klein & Co. at a time when the breakaway Democratic conference is under intense pressure from the left for (so far) failing to force a vote on some of Gov. Andrew Cuomo's top agenda items, including the all - inclusive 10 - point Women's Equality Act and the campaign finance reform bill.

In yet another sign allies of Senate Democrats will be using the 10 - point women's agenda this fall as a political bludgeon against Republican candidates, Planned Parenthood Advocates of New York are blasting GOP hopeful Rich Funke for comments made on the key abortion provision in the measure.

Issues over women's rights and reproductive health are at the forefront of this political campaign season in state legislative races as Gov. Andrew Cuomo makes a statewide call for the passage of the 10 - point women's agenda and with it Republican opposition to a plank aimed at strengthening abortion rights.

The move was a particularly damaging one for the Conservatives, who had pointed to the Labour - run council's support for the agenda as proof that the Big Society could work across party lines.

Now that Albany is officially in the post-budget session phase, NARAL Pro-Choice New York is making a renewed push for the 10 - point women's agenda that stalled in the Legislature last year.

This sounds a lot like Cuomo's explanation during the last legislative session on why he wasn't able to land a deal on all 10 points of his Women's Equality Agenda — including the abortion rights plank, which the Senate Republicans staunchly refused to allow onto the floor for a vote.