Sentences with phrase «policy initiatives end»

Not exact matches

The US Federal Reserve (Fed) looks likely to tighten monetary policy further, as inflation and unemployment move closer to its targets — underlining the strength of the domestic economy — but, while awaiting more substance on policy initiatives, we remain cautious about predictions of an end to the pattern of modest US growth seen in recent years.

Theological nuances aside, Pastor Bernard seems to have always been on the less supportive end of the spectrum but joined the president's advisory board anyway, hoping to be «a minority voice at the table to help influence policy, ideas, and initiatives.»

Instead of subsidising formula companies to boost exports or attract investment, allowing them to influence health and nutrition policies or involving them as partners in education initiatives, governments should ensure all inappropriate marketing is ended, and invest in policies to ensure mothers get the support they need to breastfeed and care for their babies.

Mr Grieve also signalled that the Conservatives would have a New Year policy drive aimed at ending the «conveyor belt to crime», praising initiatives championed by the former party leader Iain Duncan Smith to target children at risk of falling into delinquency before they enter school.

To that end, Ms. Mark - Viverito kept the goals of the initiative — which will eventually make both policy and budgetary recommendations to help women in areas ranging from health to self - sufficiency — relatively open - ended, saying she wanted to hear more from women and girls on the ground.

Among the policies were initiatives which would effectively end the criminalisation of drug users and brand the war on drugs a failure.

Having served at the head of the Democrat - controlled Assembly for over a decade, Silver's rule was iron - fisted and opaque - he could end a political career on a whim, kill a major policy initiative with a quiet grumble, and maneuver millions of dollars in state cash to recipients of his choice.

At the end of the meeting, there was a commitment from the Secretary to continue a dialogue with Wastewatch, with a follow - up meeting to discuss the specifics identified in the proposed Policy initiative.

A five - year - long, bottom - up initiative scrutinising the way in which we «make policy» and allow scientific evidence and stakeholder opinion to influence it ends in Manchester in the margins of ESOF 2016.

While the national discourse focuses on the merits of school choice initiatives in their own right and for their own sakes, as leaders of state and local education systems, as educators of diverse regional, political, and professional backgrounds, we believe that these policies are better thought of as means to critical ends, and that the goal of these and other education policies should be, above all else, the enhancement of skills for America's youngest generation and expanded opportunity for children to thrive as adults.

«It seems extraordinary that money was there for an unnecessary policy initiative, but suddenly not available for children, families and schools that are currently not even just managing to make ends meet.»

At the end of its first year in 2010 the initiative produced a framework and rationale, along with a website which provides examples of policies, accounts of practice, stories, videos and more.

As passivehouseplus.ie reported at the time, Dublin City Council voted at the end of May to retain a policy in the draft city development plan requiring the passive house standard or equivalent for all new buildings in the city, in an early sign that Dún Laoghaire - Rathdown's initiative could serve to inspire others.

That would also include institutional initiatives such as carbon taxes or permitting plans, policies of divestment from fossil fuel investments, direct political pressure, and the ending of fossil fuel subsidies around the world.

The suit is a direct result of the «Women on Wall Street Project,» an initiative embraced by the National Council for Women's Organizations in the wake of its initiative to end the male - only membership policy of the private Augusta National Golf Club.

After interest has been expressed in seeing this policy spread to other areas of federal research funding, such as education, it appears that Elsevier, the leading corporate publisher of scholarly journals, and other publishers have pushed for the Research Works Act to put an end to such initiatives (judging by Elsevier's campaign support for the bipartisan sponsors of the bill, as Peter Suber documents in a website devoted to the bill).

Dworsky is the Principal Investigator (PI) for an implementation evaluation of a home visiting pilot program for pregnant and parenting youth in foster care and a coinvestigator for Voices of Youth Count, a national research and policy initiative focused on ending youth homelessness.