Sentences with phrase «policy agendas at»

In addition to mortgage insurance, it also issues mortgage - backed securities and pursues a variety of social policy agendas at the behest of Ottawa, such as disseminating information on regional housing markets, improving access to affordable housing and encouraging energy efficiency in new homes.

Setting out his foreign policy agenda at this year's Labour conference, the foreign secretary David Miliband also signalled a break from Tony Blair's liberal interventionism.

Not exact matches

The core focus of the president's domestic policy agenda has been to expand opportunity for all Americans because America is at its best when we are fielding a full team.

Pollsters and political strategists in both parties are predicting that Republicans will lose their majority in the US House this fall, jeopardizing President Donald Trump's policy agenda and putting him at a higher risk of impeachment.

December 2002 (769 kb PDF file): Research summaries on IMF conditionality and country ownership of reforms and on public policies and the Millennium Development Goals; country / area study: Hong Kong SAR; summaries of conferences on challenges to central banking from globalized financial systems and on globalization in historical perspective; agenda of Third Annual IMF Research Conference; summary of September 2002 World Economic Outlook; visiting scholars at the IMF; contents of latest issue of IMF Staff Papers, other IMF research publications.

«Financial stability» has been the guiding mantra at the top of the national policy agenda over the past year or so.

«Given that Canada's foreign policy has put gender equity issues prominently at the top of its agenda, obviously this is something we wanted to highlight here: That you have a Canadian company actively undermining those rights abroad by facilitating censorship in countries where those rights aren't respected or recognized,» Ron Deibert, director of Citizen Lab, told me over the phone.

«By being involved at all levels of government, she helps advance the public policy agenda for retailers, their employees and customers in her community.»

Our public sector management policies and principles are world - renowned and have allowed Canada to leverage our position to remain at the forefront of the global public management agenda - perhaps so much so that the Chinese needed to dig a little deeper to understand what we were doing?

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.

«The main problem with entropy uncertainty models is that they are used to justify the notion that there's room to push agendas to the limit line of the outer edge of the envelope that supports the policy maker's cognitive bias,» opines Dennis Santiago, Senior Managing Director for Compliance and Analytics at Total Bank Solutions.

The game changing election of Donald Trump to President of the United States and the competitiveness implications for Canadian carbon pricing policies should be at the top of the agenda when First Ministers meet in December.

One article said the Republicans mastered «post truth politics» when they realized their rhetoric doesn't have to bear any relation to their policy agenda so they talk about cutting the deficit while at the same time driving up the deficit by slashing taxes on the rich and launching unfunded wars.

But while the former Democratic Congressman from Massachusetts is sharply critical of U.S. human rights policy (especially as conducted by Republican Administrations), he shows less concern about UN agencies, and none at all about the financing, motives, and agendas of the very mixed bag of interest groups known as NGOs.

It might well be queried why these schemes continue to be promoted in pharmacies and schools.They are not cheap to run and, in an environment where resources are particularly scarce, there seem to be only two explanations: either policy makers are simply ignorant of the evidence or there is an ideological agenda at work.

Now this doesn't mean that the Republicans should do NOTHING on immigration, but it does mean that their economic agenda should focus on issues that would help people in the two middle quartiles (and the last quartile) get what Reihan Salam called «the basics of a dignified middle - class life — affordable high - quality medical care, education, and housing» With that in mind, here is a partial (and I'm not sure totally compatible) list of policies that Republicans should be looking at:

He argued against the evils of slavery with eloquence, but his policy agenda was modest and aimed at the swing voters of the Midwest.

This is precisely why abortion advocates expend such vast efforts at international meetings pushing for abortion policies that do in fact seek to subvert the democratic process by foisting an a priori abortion agenda on nations around the world.

In this light the new US administration's policy concerning these rights, articulated at the beginning of the recent Gay Pride month provides a politically significant boost to the UN's current gender agenda (see appendix).

His moral rhetoric flows more directly from the economic than the religious right, as do the items at the top of his policy agenda.

They have been phenomenally successful at getting their agenda on the record and they are trying to have their beliefs incorporated in public policy.

As increasingly more Nordic consumers continue to choose organic over conventional foods, and cities across Scandinavia (like Copenhagen, for example) continue to put organic food at the top of their policy agendas (and on their public - sector kitchen menus), so those numbers will rise.

This is a very useful work of reference, especially at a time when parental leave is high on the policy agenda, and provides fascinating insights into how a wide range of countries are tackling these, and related, issues.

The Liberal Democrats are gearing up to launch an anti-libel agenda at the next general election, with an amendment to a policy motion on civil liberties being proposed to conference today by Richard Dawkins.

May's decision to sweep out most of Cameron and Osborne's ministerial allies along with their policy agenda means there are a lot of disgruntled faces behind her at PMQs.

While I do not — repeat, do not — condone the mean - spirited comments leveled against them, you must grant that the anger is quite understandable after two years of a constant drumbeat of attack and hate directed at our President personally, as well as his policies, and at the people who support them, including even people in the Republican Party itself who do not march in robotic lockstep with the extreme right teabagging 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.

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.

«In Suffolk County, the Working Families Party may have stood for some sound policies at one time, but as a whole, over the last few years, the Party's agenda has morphed into a radical, left - wing platform,» Levy spokesman Josh Hills said.

We are committed to pursuing this agenda of inclusive growth by implementing strategies, policies, and programmes to grow our economy and promote the creation of good jobs at a much faster pace than ever before.

What's interesting about the current [economic] situation is that no one could sit around a table and say, «Well, I really think those Tories have sketched out a clear shape and understanding of the modern world, that they've defined a policy agenda that's got rigour and drive at its heart.»

I do think that previous generations of Liberals who promoted the «Ownership for all» agenda — great Liberals like Elliot Dodds — would have been flabbergasted at the Lib Dem policy on this.

The SNP assert that in Alexander's case, given that his enthusiastic implementation of George Osborne's austerity agenda at the Treasury is so damaging to his reputation, Ashcroft's policy could actually do him a favour.

Romania's foreign policy agenda in the country is, at this moment, under severe pressure.

The former MTA chairman outlined his education agenda at a policy forum with his fellow candidates at the Central Synagogue on the East Side Tuesday night, where the sharp differences between the Democratic and Republican candidates were on full display.

There is frustration among some Labour policy leaders at Miliband's reluctance to embrace more of the report, designed to show how the left set out a redistributionist agenda in the post-crash world.

As the party prepares to sign off on key policy points at its spring conference this weekend, an attempt will be made to seize the political agenda and set the terms of debate.

The release, explaining the decision was reached unanimously by the group's two component boards of directors, stated, «The Boards» decision comes on the heels of securing the Pride Agenda's top remaining policy priority ---- protecting transgender New Yorkers from discrimination in housing, employment, credit, education, and public accommodations ---- in the form of new regulations announced in partnership with Governor Andrew M. Cuomo at the organization's Fall Dinner on October 22, 2015.»

What really struck me was how feminised the Labour policy agenda has become, and what powerful evidence it provides for the shift in perspective that comes from having a significant body of women at the top of the party.

The session, at Spackenkill High School, was filled with parents and teachers opposed to King's policy agenda, including the state's rush to the Common Core standards, high - stakes Common Core tests and teacher and principal evaluations tied to those tests.

New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman has quickly become one of President Donald Trump's leading opponents, using the levers of his office to litigate against Trump's policies, and has put New York at the forefront of efforts to resist the new Republican administration's agenda.

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.

Speaking to Citi Business News in Copenhagen, at a reception by her office to welcome four Ghanaian journalists on a press trip at the invitation of the Danish Government, Her Excellency Mrs. Amerley Ollenu Awua - Asamoa, said Government's policy of diaspora engagement is aimed at attracting Ghana's high quality manpower to help bring home the needed investment to drive the government's industrialization agenda.

At 2:15 p.m., Florid Gov. Jeb Bush, a GOP presidential candidate, will participate in a moderated conversation with Washington Post Editorial Page Editor Fred Hiatt to discuss his foreign policy agenda, Harold Pratt House, 58 East 68th St., Manhattan.

«The sentiment of the Big Society is to be encouraged and, certainly, the government have put decentralisation at the heart of domestic policy agenda.

At 10 a.m., AARP, the Asian American Federation, Hispanic Federation, NAACP and Urban League join Tony Award - winning actress Priscilla Lopez, Senator Jesse Hamilton and Assembly Members Marcos Crespo and Yuh - Line Niou for launch of policy solutions agenda to address disparities in health, economic security and livability that are hurting New York state's communities of color; City University of New York Graduate Center, 365 Fifth Avenue, Manhattan.

Torsten Bell was at the forefront of Miliband's policy agenda throughout the last parliament.

Yet we need to see it do more to support politics on the backbenches and an extended role for shaping Conservative policies at the next election, helping to deliver a Conservative majority in 2015 and dominating the Parliamentary agenda.»

«Bold and savage» spending cuts are on the agenda and some cherished Liberal Democrats policies are at risk at the start of the party's annual conference.

But as Mr. Cuomo lays out his agenda this month in a whirlwind of policy announcements, he has avoided any mention of a federal corruption case that rocked his administration last year even as he was touting the economic - development initiative at the heart of the case.