Sentences with phrase «policy arm of»

As the public policy arm of the nation's largest representative Orthodox Jewish organization «representing nearly 1,000 congregations nationwide «OU Advocacy works to promote Jewish values and protect Jewish interests in the public square.

«This money is mandated for services for pregnant teens and women - violence prevention, vocational training,» said Carrie Gordon Earll, a spokeswoman for CitizenLink, the public policy arm of the evangelical group Focus on the Family.

The group of bishops addresses many needs of the church, from how to handle changes in the liturgy to acting as the public policy arm of the church.

Richard Land, head of the public policy arm of the Southern Baptist Convention, criticized First Baptist's action.

Amid signs of stronger economic growth and a pick - up in inflation, as well as easier financial conditions, the Federal Open Market Committee, the policy arm of the U.S. central bank, is expected to raise its key federal funds rate in March by a quarter percentage point to a target range of 0.75 % to 1.00 %, says Ellen Zentner, Morgan Stanley's Chief U.S. Economist.

In total, they will invest a historic $ 400 million in the politics and policy arm of the network, 60 percent more resources than they've ever spent during a cycle.

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If she were to write the Democrats» autopsy for 2016 - and she'll have a hand in it as one of the newly elected co-chairs of the House Democrats» policy and messaging arm - she says her message would be to «not only talk about jobs and the economy, but do something about it.»

«A range of policy choices skewed the market in favor of diesel, whereas in the rest of the world this didn't happen,» says Greg Archer, who heads the Clean Vehicles arm of Transport & Environment, a nongovernmental organization based in Brussels.

Five members of the armed forces earlier this month sued Trump and his top military brass seeking to halt the reversal of the transgender policy put in place by the Obama administration.

McCain, who is the chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee and served in the US Navy for 23 years, said Trump's statement was «unclear» and it served as «yet another example of why major policy announcements should not be made via Twitter.»

«Each day that passes without implementing the final piece of this important policy harms our military readiness and restricts the Armed Forces» ability to recruit the best and the brightest,» said Peters, a Marine veteran.

The recent news that Warren will join the Senate Armed Services Committee in January has stoked speculation that she is looking to bolster her foreign policy and national security credentials in advance of a presidential run.

The Trump administration is holding talks on providing nuclear technology to Saudi Arabia — a move that critics say could upend decades of U.S. policy and lead to an arms race in the Middle East.

In tough language, the letter contends that such a policy undermines the entire life sciences community and sends a devastating message to immigrants who would otherwise bring their talents to the United States, and was signed by some heavy hitters, including Alnylam CEO John Maraganore and Ron Cohen, the chairman of biotech's biggest trade group and lobbying arm.

While privacy policies were originally intended to be a protection mechanism for consumers, they have turned into «ownership policies,» said Nico Sell, CEO of the Wickr Foundation, the non-profit arm of a company that bills itself as the world's most trusted messenger site.

As part of the Michigan legislation, the law will establish the Michigan Council on Future Mobility, an arm of Michigan's Department of Transportation, to recommend policies setting industry standards.

As a legislative policy arm, WIPP identifies important trends and opportunities and provides a collaborative model for the public and private sectors to increase the economic power of women - owned businesses.

The fed funds rate is set by the Federal Open Market Committee — the policy - making arm of the Fed led by Federal Reserve Board chair.

The sixth, and most extensive, form of co-operation is where individual countries cede control over an arm of policy to an international body, which conducts that policy in pursuit of a collective goal.

The Chairman leads the Board in setting the SFC's overall direction, policies and strategies and in monitoring the performance of the executive arm in fulfilling the objectives, policies and strategies set by the Board.

Broward County Commissioner Michael Udine said of the many things victims» families are angry about — the shooter's ruthlessness, the response by the armed deputy assigned to the school, the failure of the FBI and BSO in preventing the attack despite specific warnings and red flags, past missteps by the Broward school district and Florida's child - welfare agency, gun policies — the handling of families and the notification process «is down the list.»

If things are so good, why continue flexing the manipulative arms of policy and government?

«Don't ask, don't tell» will be dismantled as the policy of our armed forces.

Ridiculing Obama's efforts to engage the international community, Huckabee said, «There was once a time when our foreign policy was, «Walk softly and carry a big stick»... Our new policy is, walk softly and carry a great big olive branch, or maybe even a bag of Stay Puft marshmallows so that when we build around the campfire we can sing «Kumbaya» and have a lovely time holding arms and talking about how well we're getting on.»

At the level of international policy, it is desirable to fire up the arms race and to create nuclear confrontation with the Soviet Union, because that activity may make things worse and thereby hasten the end.

They concede that even their conditional acceptance of nuclear deterrence may reinforce a policy of arms buildup, and they know that historically deterrence has not «set in motion substantial processes of disarmament.»

Dr. Russell Moore (no relation to Beth Moore) is president of the Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission, the Southern Baptist Convention's public policy arm.

In resisting Communist advances in Greece and Turkey, a much - scorned and widely underestimated American president announced in 1947 that it now «must be the policy of the United States to support free peoples who are resisting attempted subjugation by armed minorities or outside pressures....

The first few moments I dimly recall, the thermometer being stuck into my mouth, the gray band being wrapped around my arm to take blood pressure, and the series of annoying questions being asked about my health insurance policy (which I thankfully reassured myself, even in that debilitated state, would very soon be a thing of the past).

The Revolution of 1989 in east and central Europe» a world - historical series of events ignited by moral passion, informed by moral conviction, sustained by deft and morally sophisticated politics, and supported by a resolute demonstration that the Soviet Union could not compete with the United States in a serious arms race» raised further questions about classic foreign - policy realism and its narrow focus on «hard power» as the analytic prism for understanding both the dynamics of world politics and the exigencies of American foreign policy.

As of now (hours after the president's tweet), the official defense.gov website says, «Transgender Service members may serve openly, and they can no longer be discharged or otherwise separated from the military solely for being transgender individuals» and «This policy was crafted through a comprehensive and inclusive process that included the leadership of the Armed Services, medical and personnel experts across the Department, transgender Service members, outside medical experts, advocacy groups, and the RAND Corporation.»

Major General Tim Cross is an Ex-President of the Armed Forces Christian Union and told Premier it's unlikely we'll see any major change in policy.

Meanwhile, there was among the powerful TV evangelists and other evangelicals great support for the arms buildup and an ardent embrace of the warlike policies of the Reagan and Bush administrations and even of the military adventures of Colonel Oliver North and his colleagues in «the Enterprise.

The judge wrote: «There is another justification for the policy of excluding homosexuals from service in the United States Armed Forces... [F] ar and away the highest risk category for those who are HIV - positive, a population who will with a high degree of medical certainty one day contract AIDS, is homosexual men.»

It was about equally characteristic of the Spanish, the Portuguese, the Russian, and the Dutch possessions — those in which the policy of autocratic control by the secular arm was most marked.

Over the course of three seasons, the crew also questioned American Imperialism when the crew arms a group of vulnerable primitive aliens with flintlock rifles, possibly sparking generations of conflict, and one cast member even references botched foreign policy «of the early 20th century.»

Violence, whether in the form of crime in the streets, the arms race, or economic or foreign policy, has important sexual aspects.

«Wayne State — an arm of the Michigan State government — makes the remarkable claim that it violates university policies for InterVarsity Christian Fellowship to choose only Christian leaders rather than Jewish, Muslim or atheist ones,» says the lawsuit, filed by lawyers with Becket, a religious nonprofit.

Rallied by World Relief, the humanitarian arm of the National Association of Evangelicals (NAE), the group took out another full - page ad in the newspaper to bring up multiple concerns related to immigration policy in 2018.

Perusing the index of Origins, the weekly publication of representative documents and speeches compiled by Catholic News Service, our imaginary historian will note, for example, the following initiatives undertaken at the national, diocesan and parish levels in 1994 - 95: providing alternatives to abortion; staffing adoption agencies; conducting adult education courses; addressing African American Catholics» pastoral needs; funding programs to prevent alcohol abuse; implementing a new policy on altar servers and guidelines for the Anointing of the Sick; lobbying for arms control; eliminating asbestos in public housing; supporting the activities of the Association of Catholic Colleges and Universities (227 strong); challenging atheism in American society; establishing base communities (also known as small faith communities); providing aid to war victims in Bosnia; conducting Catholic research in bioethics; publicizing the new Catechism of the Catholic Church; battling child abuse; strengthening the relationship between church and labor unions; and deepening the structures and expressions of collegiality in the local and diocesan church.

The trustee committee of the Southern Baptist Convention's Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission announced two reprimands on Friday for Richard Land, who leads public policy efforts for the Southern Baptists, according to the official press arm.

A single - arm evaluation of a policy utilizing monthly sales volume and revenue data provided by the contracted vendor during baseline, machine conversion and post-conversion time periods.

• Martina Navratilova, on her decision to not take out a Lloyd's of London insurance policy on her left arm: «They wanted an arm and a leg for it.»

«For eight years, the Republican Bush / Cheney agenda allowed Wall Street to run amok, stretched our armed forces to the limit, undermined a secure retirement by allowing employers to weaken pension protections, and promoted some of the most anti-woman health policies in recent memory,» Lancman said

Of course, this type of behaviour is no worse than the foreign policy followed by the UK, which sells arms to human rights abusers in the Middle East and elsewhere in the worlOf course, this type of behaviour is no worse than the foreign policy followed by the UK, which sells arms to human rights abusers in the Middle East and elsewhere in the worlof behaviour is no worse than the foreign policy followed by the UK, which sells arms to human rights abusers in the Middle East and elsewhere in the world.

We were touching on a whole series of policy strands related to the entire armed forces community - not just the serving community, but veterans too.»

Indian and Pakistani nuclear arms were developed for reasons of self - defense, and they demonstrate this by maintaining a «No First Use» policy.

As one analyst put it, «armed groups are very effective at «being» armed groups and rather poor when it comes to the process of engagement» (Program on Humanitarian Policy and Conflict Research, Harvard University, 2007).

As a result of this policy, we now see people struggling to make ends meet, forced into the ever - willing arms of payday loan companies who, on the face of it appear to be offering help and financial security.

Another group, Catholics For Independent Action, transferred $ 250,000 on April 6 to New Yorkers For A Balanced Albany, the political action committee arm of StudentsFirstNY, a grassroots organization that has pushed for education reform policies and charter school support.