Sentences with phrase «policy advocates»

It is the dominant position in the church, and it supports the type of policies advocated by most politicians in both parties.

Sounds like it could be a very interesting tool in the hands of health policy advocates for both physicians and patients, yes?

The first thing that should be emphasized is that a number of policies advocated by parties in this election are not new.

A carbon price is perhaps the most important of the technology - neutral policies advocated in this piece.

Drug policy advocates urged state lawmakers to approve legislation creating «supervised consumption sites» for opioid addicts to safely — and legally — shoot up.

Hence we reverse the proper relation of the political to the economic spheres, regarding the function of government to promote policies advocated by economists without bringing wider values into view.

Research shows that there is a huge gap in people's behavior, and with any new policies advocating far - reaching effects, people would need tools to change their behavior.

He is an aggressive policy advocate even though his organization is supposed to be policy neutral.

The one other exception about not pushing for an outcome is when you're a hired gun for policy advocates instead of policy - makers.

And that, I think, is the real lesson here: climate scientists who act as policy advocates lose scientific credibility.

She has been a technology policy advocate for over a decade.

Set up beverage assigned beverage cart with appropriate number and types of beverages and snacks according to policies advocated by the facility.

Finally there were policy advocates for immediate dramatic governmental action.

But it is up to the rest of us to consider what light the fact of his misrepresentation sheds on the merits of policies he advocates.

Feldman is an experienced association executive and public policy advocate with more than 20 years in the field.

Encourage and empower recognition of potential school nutrition leaders to become public policy advocates at the local, state, and national level;

Eddie also facilitated meetings for policy advocates with Administration officials on a range of legislative and regulatory initiatives such as PlaNYC 2030 (NYC's environmental sustainability plan, which has become an international model for large cities) and Mayoral Executive Order 120 of 2008, which for the first time called for all City agencies to make services and documents available to immigrant New Yorkers in the top six languages spoken in the City.

The National PTA engaged SoundOut in designing a program focused on engaging high school and college students as education policy advocates.

The Youth Affairs Council of Victoria, or YACVic, is the peak body and leading policy advocate on young people's issues in Victoria, including education.

Nicola Edwards of California Food Policy Advocates says parents need to be central to any solution.

At the May NAR Legislative meetings, NAR adopted policy advocating for a five - member commission structure to lead the CFPB, but reports indicate the Administration is unlikely to pursue such a structural change given that Congress must enact legislation to do this and the many hurdles such a proposal will face for passage.

But the fiscal conservatives and the strong foreign - policy advocates don't have that power either, and without at least a good percentage of social conservatives to form the third leg of the Reagan coalition, no candidate has much chance of winning the Republican nomination.

For example, the Coalition for Evidence - Based Policy advocated for the reauthorization of funding for home visiting programs in 2014.

In the past I've attended conferences geared solely toward policy advocates, but what was so notable about «Healthy Food Fuels Hungry Minds» was the wide range of perspectives it offered.

Republican strength in this year's House and Senate races could hurt the party's presidential chances by stalling the changes in style and policy advocated after Mitt Romney's defeat in the 2012 presidential campaign.

Might he not pay more attention to the economic and social policies they advocate that could moderate the harsh effects of single parenthood or the economic consequences of divorce?

Funded by an Australian Research Council Discovery grant, the project team has analysed 4,000 news and policy items and conducted interviews with more than 50 public servants, journalists and Indigenous policy advocates.

The nonprofit policy advocate Coin Center, meanwhile, posted a handy tracker that compares digital currency policies across different states to that of New York.

But we continue to make personal rectitude the standard of fitness for politicians, rather than the actual policies they advocate — and the interests that shape their priorities.

Still, many economists and public policy advocates argue that in states where minimum wage is higher than the federal mandate, the economies fare better than in states where businesses stick to the federal minimum wage, which is currently not indexed to inflation and hence forces some workers to live below poverty level.

As to Ms. Pierce, she'll join the ranks of self - loathing regulators who will speechify about some Ayn Rand fantasyland of benign barons,» Bart Naylor, financial policy advocate for Public Citizen, wrote me in an email.

The list is represented as «the position of the bishops» to provide guidance for 148 dioceses and for Catholic policy advocates at every level of government across the country.

In 2012 the AAPD through the Council on Government Affairs developed a state Public Policy Advocate initiative in order to strengthen and coordinate advocacy efforts by our state chapters.

However, U.S. policy advocates usually adopt a narrower definition for actions taken under the U.S. flag.

ALBANY — Drug policy advocates urged state lawmakers Monday to approve legislation creating «supervised consumption sites» for opioid addicts to safely shoot up.

«Christmas came early for many of the Capitol's most powerful,» said Phillip Ung, author of the report and outgoing policy advocate for California Common Cause.

Drug policy advocates hailed the vote as a victory, although it is unclear whether or not Cuomo would sign such legislation.

Even though some nutrition policies advocate consumption of low - glycemic index foods and even promote food labeling with glycemic index values, the independent benefits of glycemic index, and its effect on risk factors for cardiovascular disease and diabetes, are not well understood, according to background information in the article.

Brinton talks about his journey from nuclear engineer to science policy advocate.