Sentences with phrase «policy agenda which»

Tim we are a broad tent of opinion in the conservative party and I think that David Cameron is trying to move towards a policy agenda which reflects that, and to say that it is a move towards the Libdems is a bit disingenuous.

The last reason is the government's policy agenda which is for the most part dull and uninspiring.

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The key bit, I think, is the tweeting and off - the - cuff but on - the - record musings, which symbolizes a president who can not stop himself from thwarting his own policy agenda.

The main outcome of Habitat III was that UN nation states agreed on the New Urban Agenda (NUA): a non-binding document, which will guide policies over the next 20 years with the goal of making cities safer, resilient and sustainable and their amenities more inclusive.

Treasury yields resume a steady climb higher on Wednesday as fretting about the threat of an economically disruptive trade war between the U.S. and China subsided, and takes a back seat to the concerns about rising interest rates and coming labor - market data, which could inform the Federal Reserve's policy agenda.

His calls for consideration of the emerging cryptospace are in step with the broader G20 agenda, which is to develop «policy responses» for «the emergence of new technologies.»

The point of the chart above is to illustrate that those with an agenda to ride the trend and look smart are correct when they state that the US stock market is not particularly over valued... if one shuts off one's brain and accepts policy (blue Monetary Base line, which is but one of several money supply measures) as being at all normal or healthy.

What I don't get is, being critical of Zionistic policies, agenda or people is quickly labeled as «anti-semitic» and is even considered illegal in countries like Germany, yet a bigoted person like Geert Wilders (who has not once consulted any expect or scholar on Islam) can make a video which literally embodies everything that hate, racism, and ignorance is about, and yet get away with it where the court recognizes it as «denigrating» but not «illegal»!?

Doing so means making religious agenda (s) part of the political policy infrastructure, which brings a new set of problems.

The most notable contribution of the Common Agricultural Policy of the European Union towards more environmentally sustainable systems has been the introduction of the agri - environment programmes in 1993, which now continue under Agenda 2000.

On the other, it offers corporations the chance to sponsor events and even sections of the newspaper, which has thrown up links with corporations such as Danone and organisations pushing a corporate agenda into health policy, such as GAIN and the Gates Foundation.

Investigators want to know if donors received preferential treatment from the city in exchange for contributions to the group, which was created to promote the mayor's policy agenda.

The Blue Labour agenda is set out in an ebook from 2011, The Labour Tradition and the Politics of Paradox (edited by Maurice Glasman, Jonathan Rutherford, Marc Stears and Stuart White), at the core of which is a powerful critique of Labour Party thought and policy since 1945.

It says: «We want to add a fourth pillar to what we do... This is the creation of a platform designed to build a new policy agenda for the centre ground together with the networks which link people up, and allow a reasonable and evidence based discussion of the future which avoids the plague of social media - led exchanges of abuse.

«This platform will have a policy unit which will draw on the best ideas and practical solutions, building partnerships with other organisations, in the public policy and private spheres, so that those in the frontline of politics have a bigger and better policy agenda to reflect upon; and a networking capability to join like - minded people up.

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.

They have lacked the appropriate party structures, leadership or explicit policy agendas to properly engage with the complex set of «English Questions», which have emerged in a post-devolution UK.

Without descending into the detail of policy appraisal or the delivery of operational targets — both things that my environmental audit committee will scrutinise — the best snapshot of effort will come from the big policy packages that define the government's agenda, and which have the greatest environmental impact.

The main reason Cuomo has such a huge campaign war chest: He doesn't have to spend money to promote his budget and policy agenda because the business community — through the Committee to Save NY, which dropped $ 12 million last year — does it for him.

Control of the agenda: all members of a state must possess the opportunity to direct the policies which are implemented by the state.

Investigators want to know if real estate developers and other donors received preferential treatment from the city in exchange for contributions to the group, which was created to promote the mayor's policy agenda.

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.

He needs to focus on bread and butter issues like jobs and mortgages and public services and, above all, to develop a clear route map to growth, and stop fixating on the agenda of a liberal clique around him and barmy policies such as Lords reform and gay marriage, which people either don't like or don't care about.

The Senate has for the last decade been an unpredictable force in state politics and the source of heavy spending by deep - pocketed benefactors and labor groups interested in seeing which party controls the chamber — underscoring the chamber's role in determining the outcome of everything from charter schools, to tax policy and the agenda of the mayor of the city of New York.

At the time, it was part of a civil rights agenda being set by the then Labour opposition, which included such things as the Human Right Act, and a (failed) «Ethical Foreign Policy» and was in stark contrast to the authoritarian approach of the then Conservative Government; Michael Howard's support for ID cards and Ken Clarke using PII Cetificates in the Matrix Churchill case spring to mind.

The Conservatives have become the first British party to launch a policy agenda on the internet today with a live webchat with David Cameron which can be accessed through politics.co.uk.

However, Northern Ireland secretary Peter Hain insisted it was now time to stop «navel - gazing» and get back to delivering the policy agenda on which Labour had only been elected 15 months ago.

The division, which brought to a head weeks of mounting tension over the Conservatives» Europe policy, saw the government defeat John Baron's amendment regretting the absence of an EU referendum bill from the coalition's legislative agenda by 277 votes to 130.

(Messina is also the national chairman for Organizing for Action, the spinoff of Obama's campaign operation, which advocates for the president's policy agenda.)

Combining his budget presentation and policy agenda could very well allow Cuomo to tightly connect his platform - which, based on history, could very well be passed in large part through the budget anyway.

Many have declared their support for the agenda which the government says is without a timeline, but hopes that it becomes a paradigm and an approach that will ensure the country is able to internally mobilize enough resources to finance its major policy and programs.

Those rising tensions were coupled with a conference agenda which included votes on economic policy, tax rates, energy, nuclear weapons and the dreaded tuition fees.

It marks a step towards the vision outlined by the AU in its Agenda 2063 policy document, which includes the abolition of visa requirements for all African citizens in all the continent's countries by 2018.

The problem is that it is not only Labour which will not push a trade union agenda but the trade unions themselves the leaders of which were prepared to do deals with Labour leaders to block anti-austerity policies at the recent NPF and therefore at Labour Conference too.

Along with fellow Lib Dems Nick Clegg and Chris Huhne, she is one of the authors of the famous «Orange Book», which sets out a more free market policy agenda for the party.

The Campaign for One New York, which de Blasio set up in 2013 to push his policy agenda, is linked to many of the scandals surrounding the mayor.

Governor Andrew Cuomo is set to deliver his 2018 State of the State address on Wednesday in Albany, at which he will outline his policy agenda for the year, his eighth as governor.

The budget address came almost two weeks after Cuomo's State of the State speech, at which he presented his 2018 policy agenda.

Acting on behalf of 17 people suing the publisher of the now - defunct News of the World and the Sun over alleged phone hacking, David Sherborne claimed on Monday there were documents, emails and meeting agendas that showed senior executives including Murdoch and Rebekah Brooks pursued an email deletion policy that removed «emails that could be unhelpful in future litigation in which News International could be a defendant».

Democrats launched on Monday a new policy agenda focused on the economy, which seeks to bridge gaps with voters amid polls showing most Americans don't know what the party stands for.

Pressure groups are particularly important to supporting the opposition, which has few policy experts to rival the civil service, and they also support government backbenchers in getting issues onto the agenda.

The stage was set for a serious interrogation of de Blasio's education agenda by the Senate Republicans who engineered the mayor's embarrassingly brief one - year extension last session, which guaranteed he would have to return to Albany frequently to defend his education policies.

She also contributed a chapter to the Orange Book, which set out a free market policy agenda for the party.

In the same year, he was a co-author of a policy pamphlet Direct Democracy: An Agenda For A New Model Party which included statements supporting denationalising the NHS and suggested replacing it with «universal insurance».

The disapproval of the Kingsbridge Armory project, which supporters say would have brought 2,200 jobs to the northern Bronx, not only set the Bloomberg administration's economic development agenda back, but it also assured some of the city's progressive circles that the council was ready to take up a broader living wage policy.

Rather than do what New York City now does, which is to set its educational policy by a political agenda, the commission could look at the research about what really works in schools»

The party's executive has put down a policy screed of their own (in such a last - minute fashion that it didn't make it into the conference agendas handed out to delegates) which takes precedence over the others.

Holgate and others gathered on 25 September for a conference addressing the role of non-governmental organizations in the Global Health Security Agenda (GHSA), which was held at the Milken Institute School of Public Health at George Washington University and co-sponsored by AAAS, the Nuclear Threat Initiative, CORDS: Connecting Organizations for Regional Disease Surveillance, the UPMC Center for Health Security, the Elizabeth R. Griffin Research Foundation and the CSIS Global Health Policy Center.

The congress, which wrapped up Saturday, is a place for the group to set its agenda and debate environmental policy.

The resolutions do not affect policy directly, but the group's members, which include 217 state and government agencies and more than 1,000 nongovernmental organizations, can use them to coordinate regional agendas.