Sentences with phrase «policies on any particular issue»

Not exact matches

«One of Ukip's policies is that if enough people want to change the law, on a particular moral issue, whether that's a left wing issue, whether that's a right wing issue, that they should be able to if they get enough signatures on a petition.»

Thus the particular historical exigencies and social possibilities in our own age will necessarily affect the ways in which these values are translated into norms on such issues as women's rights, sexual ethics, social justice, property rights, energy policy or ecological concerns.

Core focus is on consumer issues, although mention is made of prioritising «competition and consumer issues in highly concentrated sectors, in particular in the supermarket and fuel sectors» (nothing new here) and the policy states that some areas are always regarded as a priority, including «cartel conduct and anti-competitive agreements, and the misuse of market power».

Tabling oral and written questions has a similar effect, as pressure mounts on policy officials and special advisers in a department to find answers, and to consider why so many questions are being asked on a particular issue.

Yet this wave of protests is also curiously detached from issues of foreign policy, and in particular from the impact of the Israeli presence in the West Bank on the state's economy and on the distribution of its resources.

Expenditure is «controlled» if it is spending on election activities which «can reasonably be regarded as intended to influence voters to vote for or against political parties or categories of candidates including those parties and categories of candidates who support or do not support particular policies or issues».

Every element of the campaign's online presence should link to a recruitment form, and when possible individual «landing pages» should be tied to the source: for instance, a Google Ad about a candidate's policy on taxes should link to a page that both talks about the topic and that invites readers to join the campaign based on that particular issue.

Certainly, some voters will have been attracted by particular policy stances, and Nigel Farage is making an effort to appeal on a broader range of issues.

Our latest policy discussion paper again encourages members to reflect on more issues of particular relevance to younger voters — this time, the environment.

«Members who have high - profile elections coming up or just are really out front on a particular issue are now feeling like they may be targets,» said Kristin Nicholson, a veteran Democratic chief of staff who last month organized a letter signed by more than 1,500 former aides urging an overhaul of Congress» harassment policies.

A more important aspect of the reshuffle is where it puts the Shadow Cabinet on policy issues and on the economy and class issues in particular.

OSTP brings in scientists to assist both with general policy issues and, at times, on particular questions.

Instead, he wants to set up a European Political Strategy Centre, starting 1 January 2015, that will focus on economic and social issues, sustainable development, foreign policy, institutional policy, and communications, with a particular emphasis on foresight studies, the president told reporters here on 5 November.

In particular, as a fellow from 1998 - 2000, he organized and attended meetings, helped write parts of agency documents, and gave science and policy advice on air quality issues and on international activities of the EPA.

She has done extensive research and policy development on environmental health issues, with a particular emphasis on early - life development.

Examples include sending a letter to a government official or the media on a policy matter, joining other societies in signing such a letter, issuing Action Alerts to the membership, or thanking policy makers for taking some particular action.

Because so much of her nomination hearing focused on questions of her family's political contributions or particular facets of K - 12 policy, we still don't know where she stands on key higher education issues, like Pell Grants, student loans, or for - profit colleges.

If students are investigating an issue — say, immigration policy — the problem is deciding where they stand on it and how to communicate their views to a particular audience in a video.

The package included a «Dear Colleague» letter, issued jointly by DOE and DOJ, warning against intentional racial discrimination but also stating that schools unlawfully discriminate even «if a policy is neutral on its face — meaning that the policy itself does not mention race — and is administered in an evenhanded manner but has a disparate impact, i.e., a disproportionate and unjustified effect on students of a particular race.»

He consults and leads project teams on a wide range of education policy and school management issues, with a particular focus on school turnarounds and charter school quality and growth.

The National Education Policy Center has issued a series of papers on online learning, questioning, in particular, the effectiveness of online charter schools.

Because of the vast academic requirements placed on schools, and teachers in particular, many educators feel like they simply don't have the time to involve students deeply in their own learning, let alone in the broader issues of their school — like climate, governance, or policy.

Why some policies in question are marked as ineligible while others are eligible can be answered by the issuing company or its legal or tax department, and not on this forum where which particular policies are being discussed is not even specified by the OP.

These policy briefs on student loan issues highlight issues of particular concern to low - income student borrowers.

All employees are fully informed about the Company policies and perspectives on sustainability and also educated about the environmentally sensitive issues related to their particular area.

Moreover, on issues such as climate change or evolution, scientists and their organizations are often distracted by over-estimating the size and influence of these groups and by thinking that the goal of communication is to convince these particular publics to accept expert interpretations or proposed policy actions.

I did agree that the issue has become something of an identity badge for political partisans of various stripes, and noted that the conflation of the science with particular policy choices appears to have contributed to the kinds of divisions seen on the science now:

Of course, similar issues have arisen when government scientists, most notably James E. Hansen of NASA, have become campaigners for particular policies on emissions and critics of those with other views or agendas.

We need new policies, regulatory frameworks, and institutions focused on four areas: creating market - based incentives to innovate and raise carbon productivity; addressing market failures that prevent abatement opportunities from being captured profitably; resolving issues of allocation and fairness, in particular between the developed and developing worlds and between industry sectors; and accelerating progress to avoid missing critical emissions targets.

The core of the issue that I worry most about, as do others, is that arguments for action on climate change that evoke only one particular vision of the future will reflect only the priorities and values of certain parties, rather than a broad, pragmatic set of choices designed to both effectively manage the problem of climate change and align a diversity of political interests in support of policy action.

He reports daily on a wide range of green business issues, with a particular focus on low carbon policy, economics and technology.

Although a broadly - based civil society organisation rather than a modern environmental pressure group the Union now focuses much of its programme around policy issues and promotional initiatives on the integration of climate and air pollution policies, including in particular its next World Congress (Cape Town, September 2013).

But they rarely have expertise in policy, nor the knowledge to balance what they think is required on a particular issue with alternative demands on resources.

Nor should the goal be to lobby for a particular set of policies or align with partisans on the issue.

Many CAGW proponents seek to have everything subordinated to that issue, to see policy imperatives primarily through their particular prism, most here — whether or not they think that CAGW is real and must be addressed — see sense in addressing a broad range of issues of short - term significance rather than focussing efforts on prospective long - term problems.

Integrity is an issue of particular importance at the science - policy interface, particularly when the scientific case is represented by a consensus that is largely based on expert opinion.

IMO it's not particularly sensible to frame the entire issue in terms of the small chance of «climate catastrophe» because then we risk having the rug abruptly pulled out from under our policies when someone proves that the catastrophe is less likely than was previously thought: — RRB - Also, arguing over the precise threshold probability for particular outcomes risks turning into angels - on - pins stuff.

In particular, transboundary scientific cooperation is needed to accurately assess regional climate change impacts on Himalayan glaciers and to fill knowledge gaps by providing scientific findings to the policy community based on the best scientific understanding of the issues (48, 44, 45).

In particular, the Committee on Science, Engineering, and Public Policy of the National Academy of Sciences, the National Academy of Engineering (NAE), and the Institute of Medicine (IOM) conducted a major consensus study on this issue, entitled Policy Implications of Greenhouse Warming (1991,1992).

Quantitative estimates of costs and benefits associated with particular policy options can inform responses, but such valuations face a myriad of issues, including the choice of which impacts to «internalize» within the economic valuation, the value of future versus present risk, and how to compare different types of impacts on a common scale (e.g. (Arrow et al. 2013; European Commission 1995; Johnson and Hope 2012; Muller et al. 2011; National Research Council 2010, hereafter NRC2010; Nordhaus and Boyer 2000)-RRB-.

I have disagreed with the Innovation Alliance on FRAND issues, but today it issued a press release relating to U.S. patent reform that I believe raises some legitimate concern over one particular aspects of the current patent policy debate.

The Centre places a particular emphasis on issues of public policy concerning peace, migration and immigration, health, environment, international trade and investment, poverty and vulnerable groups.

One of the core issues for the chemical industry on both sides of the Atlantic will be the extent to which TSCA reform (in particular the Frank R. Lautenberg Chemical Safety for the 21st Century Act amending the US Toxic Substances Control Act) will lead, or not, to a convergence of chemical policy with EU law in the future.

We advise public sector employers, service providers and Third Sector employers on public sector pension issues, with particular experience advising on the transfer of staff from the public sector, the Fair Deal on Staff Transfers policy and the associated allocation of risk.

He has a particular expertise in advising on policy coverage issues relating to EL, PL, Property and CAR policies and has extensive experience of non-disclosure and misrepresentation issues.

On the other hand, reasonableness is normally the governing standard where the question: (1) relates to the interpretation of the tribunal's enabling (or «home») statute or «statutes closely connected to its function, with which it will have particular familiarity»; (2) raises issues of fact, discretion or policy; or (3) involves inextricably intertwined legal and factual issues.

Her practice principally involves representing insurers in complex insurance disputes on a broad range of issues arising under primary and excess policies and reinsurance coverages, with particular emphasis on general liability coverage claims involving environmental and other long - tail liabilities, personal and advertising injury coverage and errors and omissions insurance and the «bad faith» issues arising from such disputes.

In other instances, however, they will be more focused on particular issues (rather than places) and will be seeking to advance a particular policy agenda in as many contexts as possible.

The length of time for the issue of a policy will vary depending on the number and nature of additional requirements for that particular case.

The insurance policy you will qualify for and what you will pay will be based on what your particular health issue or risk might be.