Sentences with phrase «policy discussion rather»

I agree that it's more likely to have the flavor of a public policy discussion rather than a drafting discussion.

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The government seems more intent with not providing the public with information, rather than engaging Canadians in discussion on critical policy issues.

For some reason the Minister seems more intent with not providing the public with information, rather than engaging Canadians in discussion on critical policy issues.

The government seems more intent with not providing the public with information, rather than engaging the public in discussion on critical policy issues.

There he says, one, that the shift from the concept of «the State's role as providers of equal opportunities to every citizen» to that of providing education, health and other social services «to those who can afford to pay» is a U-turn in public policy which «has been made surreptitiously by administrative action without public discussion and legislative sanction»; two, that the total commercialization of social sectors is «alien even to free market societies»; and three, that «the ready acceptance of self - financing concept in social sectors alien even to free - market societies is the end result of gradual disenchantment with the Kerala Model of Development», which has been emphasizing the social dimension rather than the economic, but that it is quite false to present the situation as calling for a choice between social development and economic growth.

It seemed a rather important hospital policy to neglect mentioning through eight months of prenatal visits and in - depth discussions with one's doctor, but even more confusing was that no one could tell me why.

The key factors for bringing about that discussion are that Palestinians realise that statehood is only attainable by negotiation, borders must be agreed upon, changes on the ground must support policies rather than work against them, and the wider region must play a role.

Moreover, strength and stability were presented as features of a person rather than specific policies, therefore, attention was deflected away from policy discussion towards faith in a leader.

Childress argued that science policy discussions could even be bolstered by the inclusion of evangelical voices, and that it is important that evangelicals» ideas be tested and scrutinized by the public rather than just ignored.

Coleman's analysis, while flawed, positively transformed education policy discussions so that today they focus on school outcomes rather than school inputs.

Rather than requiring parents to «trigger» a restrictive, damaging set of reforms or shop around among wildly divergent charter schools, PAA supports the kind of empowerment which involves parents authentically at the ground level and in district -, state -, and nationwide policy discussions about how to improve schools.

The switch once the fight has shifted from adoption to implementation creates the impression that these folks make whatever argument they think will help them prevail in the current debate rather than relying on principle, evidence, and intellectually serious policy discussion.

... the teacher unions are finally being treated as the special interest group they are rather than as credible players in the discussion over the merits of various education policies.

As discussion about the Benefits system and policy most often ends up over-heated we'd rather keep that on the Discussion Tdiscussion about the Benefits system and policy most often ends up over-heated we'd rather keep that on the Discussion TDiscussion Time board.

If you'd rather have the blueprints scenario, you'd better get over whatever it was that installed a man who promised right up front and out in the open to banish «planning and thinking» from Washington for two full terms as America's president, and your allergy to a taste for intellectual rigor in discussions of public policy.

I found all of that, including some rather policy oriented discussions, entirely appropriate.

I realise this sort of discussion could go off - topic quite easily and I'd really rather go over the meta - argument about whether there are any anti-AGW policies which we should be «happy» about regardless of whether AGW is real or not, I just wanted to point out how weak I think this statement is.

... On the road to climate progress, what we truly need are venues where there can be respectful, crosscutting discussion of science, policy and politics that challenges assumptions and widens the menu of options available to policymakers rather than narrowing them.

Recognizing those limits, rather than ignoring them, will lead to a more sober and ultimately more productive discussion of climate change and climate policies.

On the road to climate progress, what we truly need are venues where there can be respectful, cross-cutting discussion of science, policy and politics that challenges assumptions and widens the menu of options available to policymakers rather than narrowing them.

This would ensure that stakeholder discussions and resulting policies serve to eradicate, rather than exacerbate, socio - economic vulnerability to a changing climate.

However, in the case of the Copenhagen Consensus on Climate Change, we think that Bjorn Lomborg and his distinguished economists have muddled rather than clarified discussion of climate policy options, for at least three reasons.

[/ note] In fact, the pattern of academic publishing rather better supports the contrary view, that perhaps, very widespread academic discussion of adaptation may have supported and enabled climate deniers and vested interests to resist effective mitigation policy in the US and many other countries.

In this style of «networked» knowledge journalism, Revkin combines his experience and authority as a veteran science journalist with the interactive tools of blogging, providing a «crosscutting discussion of science, policy and politics that challenges assumptions among partisans on all sides and widens the menu of options available to policymakers rather than narrowing them to just a few,» notes Nisbet.

Although the metaphysical proposition — or rather complete denial of metaphysics — of memetics and discussion about it seems like so much philosowaffle, ideas about the constitution of the human mind inform a great deal of policy - making and politics.

The fusion of the two roles has often been defended as ensuring that the Attorney General has a voice at the cabinet table in discussions of public policy but that seems to support the cabinet status of the Attorney General rather than its combination with another ministerial portfolio such as Justice.

That's no fun, at least if you think discussion and debate, rather than dollars and cents, should drive policy creation.

As indicated in my previous discussions of State and Commonwealth policies, their preference for negotiation over litigation is the first step in ensuring that native title agreements can be directed to the broader policy goal of addressing the economic and social development of the native title claim group rather than the demands of the legal system.

As indicated in my discussion of State and Territory policies (96) a preference for negotiation over litigation provides an invaluable opportunity for governments and traditional owner groups to ensure that native title agreements respond to policies directed to the economic and social development of the native title claim group rather than to the demands of the legal system.