Sentences with phrase «policy area like»

The profit motive simply does not suit a complex and expensive policy area like prison and rehabilitation.

Not exact matches

On Nov. 20, the city planning committee agreed to change the official plan so that additional drive - thrus could not be located in «special policy areas,» like the historic downtown, unless the company submits an urban design study that satisfies the overall plan.

Should there be regulation of foreign ownership in residential real estate or should we avoid regulation in this area and if the answer is to regulate what should the policies look like if enacted?

Agents also said the change could spur some innovation in the disability income market and one area companies may push further into is to bundle disability insurance with other forms of coverage like long - term care in a hybrid policy.

Industry executives are scrutinizing the new administration's policies in key areas like border taxes and government - sponsored enterprises.

Labour lost because they: a) broke manifold electoral promises b) lied shamelessly to the people and parliament c) engaged in industrial - scale corruption and lame cover - up d) wilfully enraged their newest supporters e) eschewed democracy at every opportunity f) treated the electorate like idiots g) alienated a vast constituency of voters with strong personal interest in the well - being of our servicemen h) inherited the most benign of economies and recklessly maxed out the public debt i) devoted inordinate time and effort to policies based on immature class war antics j) engaged in open internal dissent while being too cowardly to take any definitive action k) offered a wholly negative electoral campaign Unless confidence is restored in these areas, Labour will continue to be despised.

«For years, dog whistle press releases have spewed from the Home Office like summer wedding confetti, leaving this important area of public policy in disarray.»

«Imagine, for example, tailored advertisements created for individual «swing voters» (selected automatically through profiling), pointing out a party's positive steps in the policy areas that are most likely to interest them (also selected automatically), omitting those areas where party policy doesn't fit, and couching it in a language appropriate to the individual's ethnic, educational, cultural and linguistic background, illustrated with a few appropriate news TV clips, and playing background music exactly to the individual's taste and voiced over by an actor that profiling reveals that individual likes?

I fought to change those policies in areas like welfare reform and policing, as did Mike Bloomberg.

Today, State Assemblymember Brian Kavanagh and State Senator Daniel Squadron released the following statement in response to the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD)'s decision that changes to the Section 8 Small Area Fair Market Rent (SAFMR) policy — which could have had severe unintended consequences for NYC Section 8 tenants — will not apply to cities with low vacancy rates, like NYC.

In an address to the Institute for Public Policy Research think tank in London, she called for a federal UK founded on a «new Act of Union» that included repatriating to Scotland the EU's powers in areas like fisheries, farming and employment rights.

The 2020 sees itself as a policy - focused group that can help complement groups like the 301, who concentrate more on election - winning strategies and tactics to win seats in urban areas, the North, etc..

Other policy areas, like law and order, could be tailored more carefully to blue collar priorities.

In a congressional district that encompasses cash - strapped, potentially gas - rich Sullivan County, New York City's watershed, eco-sensitive communities like Woodstock and various rural areas on the east side of the Hudson River, incumbent U.S. Rep. Chris Gibson and challenger Sean Eldridge are on the campaign trail seeking to define their own, and their opponent's, positions on climate change, energy policy and perhaps most critically fracking.

This is based on the controversial policy of «constructive opposition» - cooperating with the Government on areas of agreement, like constitutional reform and, as announced last week, a common European foreign and security policy, and opposing it on others.

It has hobbled the ability of the Democratic Party, which technically won a majority in the state Senate in 2012 and 2016 (Republicans won the majority in 2014), to push for progressive policies in areas like health care, voting reform, reproductive rights, and immigration.

By the time he was replaced by Grayling, they seemed to have completely lost interest in it, or simply to have forsaken it in the name of other policy areas, like free school meals, where they thought there were more votes.

Pakistan's «tribal areas» which are the source of many bombings like the West Bank and Gaza Strip in Israel which is home to many bombers when this was a common occurrence in Israel, are both only weakly under the control of the central national government's authority, but it is much more practicable for Israel to wall off the areas that it does not fully control (which was the single most important policy decision that led to fewer bombings in Israel) than it is to do so in Pakistan.

Labour's awkward compromise in this area makes it look like they can't decide, while Labour voters especially applaud the Tory approach to a get tough policy on welfare — they are often the people who see abuse of the system at first hand, and for them, fairness is about stamping on scroungers and shirkers.

«We already have a very good coalition agreement... we were able to look at the difficult areas of policy and agree those first, things like Europe and immigration and taxes, we have already done the heavy lifting,» Mr Cameron told the BBC's Andrew Marr Show.

In an analysis that will dismay senior Blairites in the party, the report suggests the Conservatives are too right - wing on crime, immigration and welfare — all areas where polling suggests the public would like to see even tougher policies.

One area that he will not instruct it to examine will be the issue of outside nonprofit groups created to take donations to support an elected official's policies, like the Campaign for One New York, which was created for Mr. de Blasio, and whose efforts were later examined by state and federal investigators.

«In a very short time he has to absorb whole sets of very complex policy areas - complicated fields like health, housing and education which he has not had much to do with in recent years.»

While the Buffalo police is updating its policies and procedures to comply with the state program in areas like administration and property maintenance, changes to its training in the use of force and firearms will happen only once police move to their new headquarters over the summer.

De Blasio responded that he was «taking on the real estate industry and winning,» and pointed to policies like mandatory inclusionary housing (MIH), a city policy that requires developers to set aside affordable apartments in market - rate buildings in rezoned areas.

The paper doesn't provide policy recommendations, but Williams notes that areas that are currently less developed, like the Midwest, might consider land - use plans that preserve «habitat connectivity» so species can move.

But increasingly career choices take scientists not just away from academia but away from the bench altogether — into areas like science writing and editing, public relations, science policy, scientific program or grant management, science teaching, patent law, and venture capital.

Policies like NIH's could cause librarians to cancel subscriptions and «substantially weaken an area of our economy,» he argued.

«Like other schools whose premises include wooded areas, our policy when a child climbs a tree, is for staff to observe the situation from a distance so the child does not get distracted and fall,» Martin told the Mail.

This black - and - white storyline plays out in education, even as other sensitive areas of domestic public policy (like health care or environmental protection) prove far more comfortable with the role that for - profits play.

Preferred policy areas — like teacher quality, choice, chartering and merit pay — are agnostic to curricular content.

McDonald also runs her own company, Catalyst Education Consulting, allowing her to stay involved in all the diverse areas of education that interest her, from policy to research to curriculum design, as well as meet others who, like her, want to affect the education sector for the better.

I would, therefore, ask Hanushek and Lindseth to stop tilting at windmills and to join with me in instituting a dialogue in major areas in which we do agree, like the fact that courts can and should hold states and school districts accountable for better performance, and that «school funding policies must recognize the underlying heterogeneity of students and their educational challenges and ensure that all schools have the means to succeed» (Hanushek and Lindseth, Schoolhouses, Courthouses, and Statehouses, page 218).

Free from needless «big ticket» policy announcements significant progress has been made lately on areas like primary assessment.

Schools must consider a patchwork of local, state, and federal policies when determining their obligations to transgender students in areas like access to bathrooms and locker rooms.

In education reform, like other policy areas, analysts are busy trying to identify how to channel people's behavior in directions that we believe will improve their lives.

Like policy researchers, measurement researchers generally have not distinguished among different subject areas in their targets for study or in their conclusions and recommendations, even though Linn (1998)(a prominent measurement researcher) has found differences in student performance across subject areas and within subscales of the same subject area.

«People like to take international results like this and focus on high performers and pick out areas of policy that support the policies that they support,» he said.

Last month's report by the Education Policy Institute said there were six areas in England where parents would like new grammar schools and where creating them would benefit the wider school population.

Johnson, who works with schools in the Charlotte and surrounding areas, says other school districts like Cumberland County are exploring the idea of creating a specific policy and examining how current state and federal law address the topic.

Thernstrom argues that economic integration policies aren't possible in areas like Washington DC that have high concentrations of high - poverty schools.

Those aims sound like common sense, but districts do not commonly have policies in all of these areas.

Those sound like common sense, but it is not common for districts to have policies in all of these areas.

Like homeowners insurance, renters insurance has limits and exclusions within policies and endorsements and floaters enable renters to address areas where they might be vulnerable.

And, as I have said since the beginning of this move, given that the FOMC has been willing to use crude policy tools like the Fed funds rate to try to reflate areas where credit stress is high, they will overshoot.

The master policy covers the common areas you share with others in your building like the roof, basement, elevator, boiler and walkways for both liability and physical damage.

Items like storm - resistant roofing can also give locals a benefit in terms of home policy rates, since the area does get impacted by some types of storms.

In these areas, you will most like purchase added endorsements to your policy to cover the increased risk.

It stems from failed policy in all areas, and from delegating climate and energy policy to the likes of Dick Cheney and Lee Raymond.

A comprehensive policy will be needed — one with multiple reduction triggers (Downstream Cap and Trade as well as CO2 based CAFE standards for example), an expansive energy R&D policy (much like the one called for by Nordhaus and Shellenberg), and an adaptation plan for areas that will be critically effected by the warming predicted without any current reduction policy.