Sentences with phrase «policy judgments in»

In sum, I questions the assertion that federal judges «should not make policy judgments» at sentencing because: (1) such judgments seem inevitable and are clearly made by prosecutors in every criminal case, and (2) a fair reading of the text of 3553 (a) suggests that Congress has ordered federal judges to make individualized policy judgments in each and every sentencing.

«It is time for the NRC to employ sound science and common - sense policy judgments in its decision - making process.»

Not exact matches

Savvy leaders like Apple's Eddy Cue are willing to correct errors in judgment when contractors like Taylor Swift draw attention to unfair corporate policies.

That means each policy decision demands more judgment than in the past.

Political values are important in antitrust, but political pressure on government enforcers undercuts their ability to make professional judgments about enforcement policy.

In January, a spokesperson said that staffers accepting payment from authorities to inform on customers «would violate company policy,» calling it «purely poor individual judgment.»

This review included a discussion with management and the independent auditor of the quality (not merely the acceptability) of the Company's accounting principles, the reasonableness of significant estimates and judgments, and the disclosures in the Company's consolidated financial statements, including the disclosures related to critical accounting policies.

That element of judgment in weighing financial stability considerations, including the implications of our own actions, is central to our risk - management approach to monetary policy.

That uncertainty necessarily adds to the normally substantial degree of uncertainty we face in making monetary policy judgments.

There was also a lapse of judgment on part of Mr. Saxena as claimed in one of the announcements, that he had been online when the private keys were extracted for the BTG distribution process and saving in plain text format which went against the written policies of safety and security of operations.

«We trust highly trained educators to use their professional judgment to make decisions in the best interests of children, particularly given that this policy applies to children as young as five years of age,» Kenney said in a press conference on November 2.

The quality of the Bank's judgments on monetary policy will reflect, in part, the experience and competence of its officers.

They can say that they are acting in a constitutional spirit, exercising the kind of judgment that is appropriate to the legislature in foreign policy, and no more.

They should do so even if they think that the President's policy will prove ineffective, do no good, waste money, or entail unforeseen risks; they should do so even if they think he has gotten the nation into this situation by blunders, fecklessness, arrogance, or naiveté; and they should so even if, and especially, if they have no confidence in his judgment.

10) Catholics, in seeking to form their judgment as to whether the death penalty is to be supported as a general policy, or in a given situation, should be attentive to the guidance of the pope and the bishops.

Then there came the Clinton years, the years when America took something of a holiday from history» and from serious thought about the relation between ideals and realities, moral norms and prudential judgments, in formulating and executing foreign policy.

And the trouble with the traditional pictures of hell is not that they recall the wrath of God and the reality of a final judgment, but that they forget the ingredient of mercy in all God's judgment, and allow the human wish for revenge to dictate the divine policy toward sinners.

The ACOG's own previous policy positions imply a very different understanding of the nature, scope, and claims of conscientious judgment, including the judgment that a proposed treatment is not in the best interest of the patient.

As in Shakespeare's «strange eventful history,» they end up adopting a policy that is sans repentance, sans conversion, sans forbearance, sans prudential judgment, sans forgiveness, sans almost everything one might have hoped for from bishops of the Church of Jesus Christ.

As a result of the Review and Renewal, CCHD's assessment of each organization now also depends as a matter of fixed policy on the careful pastoral judgment of each local Bishop in his own diocese: no organization is funded without the local Bishop's signature.

Naturally some of Novak's book has been superseded by events, such as Communism's defeat in Eastern Europe and the former USSR, liberation theology's virtual collapse throughout the Catholic world, and the rise of new generations of bishops and priests who know that economic policy is largely a matter of prudential judgment for the laity.

F. TXBC reserves the right to decline or prohibit any advertisement, which, in its judgment, is inappropriate, contrary to, or inconsistent with its purposes or this policy.

The University of Rochester and embattled professor Florian Jaeger both exercised poor judgment but ultimately followed most policies and laws regarding sexual harassment, U.S. Attorney Mary Jo White said in a widely anticipated report that largely vindicated the university's actions before and after the matter became public.

David Cameron lacked judgment in holding the referendum, but also to blame for the result was the lack of Labour leadership in promoting a vigorous campaign to expose the distortions and lies the Tories were using to blame Europe for the policies they had instigated, which had damaged schools, hospitals, social services and housing needs.

We are, however, looking at the key point in the judgment, and drawing up proposals that will remove the blanket retention policy.

In my judgment these decisions can only be made by those with close knowledge of both the roles and the multiple choices and preferences and capabilities of individuals as well as the Party's general policy direction and policy cohesion.

However, she added that there was no change in policy yet, and she would wait to see if the Iranians put «any meat on the bones» before passing further judgment.

«We don't feel that we are able to feed in properly, we don't feel that we have any effect on policy judgments, we don't feel that policy is being made properly and we don't feel that there is any understanding of what we could do.»

The strategic judgment must be, that while he is unlikely to hit his chosen target of reducing net migration levels to «tens of thousands» by 2015, his policies will have made enough of a dent that voters will feel that, in contrast to the other two parties, at least the Conservatives tried.

«We have worked hard to strengthen our policies concerning sexual harassment and to create a safe working environment, but while we fully thought we were acting in the interests of the victims and their desire for confidentiality, our errors in judgment resulted in the opposite effect,» said Silver.

In March, advocate general Yves Bot issued a preliminary judgment limiting patents involving embryonic stem cells, on the basis that they «would be contrary to ethics and public policy» (see «European Court of Justice rejects stem - cell patents»).

In my judgment, that kind of leadership will require a comprehensive and sustained effort from both our public and private sectors — including a robust investment in education (especially the STEM fields), a federal commitment to research and development, a renewed emphasis on next generation manufacturing, translating federally funded breakthroughs to commercial applications in the private sector, an immigration policy that enables us to recruit and retain the best and brightest scientists from around the world, and appropriate tax, regulatory, and legal policIn my judgment, that kind of leadership will require a comprehensive and sustained effort from both our public and private sectors — including a robust investment in education (especially the STEM fields), a federal commitment to research and development, a renewed emphasis on next generation manufacturing, translating federally funded breakthroughs to commercial applications in the private sector, an immigration policy that enables us to recruit and retain the best and brightest scientists from around the world, and appropriate tax, regulatory, and legal policin education (especially the STEM fields), a federal commitment to research and development, a renewed emphasis on next generation manufacturing, translating federally funded breakthroughs to commercial applications in the private sector, an immigration policy that enables us to recruit and retain the best and brightest scientists from around the world, and appropriate tax, regulatory, and legal policin the private sector, an immigration policy that enables us to recruit and retain the best and brightest scientists from around the world, and appropriate tax, regulatory, and legal policy.

This is not to deny that at a time when there has been dramatic progress in nuclear science and technology, some questions require periodic re-examination; the criteria by which judgments on energy policy should be made are constantly changing.

This lack of basic knowledge and confidence means that people are uncertain of the facts and the issues at stake, so that how the subject is framed makes an enormous difference in shaping judgments about policy preferences.

September 28, 2012 • An oddity of presidential politics is that candidates and their campaigns spend nearly all their time telling voters how superior they are to their rivals in virtually every area: the wisdom of their policy proposals; the soundness of their judgments — everything, really.

Finally, I must mention several «honorable mentions» — people with sky - high Klout scores who tweet about education — but who (in my judgment) don't tweet primarily about k - 12 education policy.

We allow for a one - year delay for the judgment to take effect because we assume that any changes in policy made as a result of the decision will be reflected in the next year's budget, at the earliest.

Also, in recent decades schools have moved away from disciplinary practices that rely on the judgment, discretion, and action of professional educators and have turned instead to reliance on school security guards, uniformed police, technical surveillance, security apparatus, and zero - tolerance policies.

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They will breathe the air of careful thinking and acquire a greater understanding of the genuine difficulty of making sound, informed judgments in education policy.

The policies that were criticized were those that increased attention to academic outcomes at the expense of children's exploration, discovery, and play; methods that focused on large group activities and completion of one - dimensional worksheets and workbooks in place of actual engagement with concrete objects and naturally occurring experiences of the world; and directives that emphasized the use of group - administered, computer - scored, multiple - choice achievement tests in order to determine a child's starting place in school rather than assessments that rely on active child engagement, teacher judgment, and clinical opinion.

Learn what the research says about how to develop expertise in this genre of writing — building an understanding of (persuasive) schema; developing stronger writing prompts for the 3 argument types (fact - based, judgment - based, policy - based); and teaching students how to find and use the most relevant evidence (text, data, etc.) needed to support each argument / opinion type.

«The court cites no legal authority for any of its breathtakingly sweeping orders requiring the State to, in effect, change numerous key educational policies so that they will be, in the trial court's judgment, «rationally, substantially, and verifiably» connected with educational need,» it says.

While most ongoing sensemaking occurs through individual reflection, when teachers feel that their legitimacy is threatened (as when faced with a policy that they believe stifles their creativity, takes their autonomy away, or threatens their professional judgment), they are more likely to engage in collective sense - making.

Although many aspects of the validity of performance assessments besides their relationship to external criteria are important to consider (see Baker, O'Neil, & Linn, 1993; Frederiksen & Collins, 1989; Linn, Baker & Dunbar, 1991), a design that demonstrates evidence for the validity of curriculum - embedded performance assessment and the trustworthiness of teacher judgments is a key ingredient in demonstrating to practitioners and policy makers the accuracy and practicality of their use.

And if you are found liable, your renters insurance in Harrisburg takes care of that judgment up to the policy limits, which usually start at $ 100,000 of coverage and can go up further from there according to your particular needs.

The reason for the change lies with a settlement the major credit bureaus made in 2015 with 31 state attorneys general, where the bureaus agreed to adopt more stringent policies with regard to credit reporting and the amount of information needed to link tax liens and civil judgments to individuals.

In conclusion, I do not believe you can accurately state whether gold is undervalued or overvalued - you must make judgments based on what you think about the future of the market and of monetary policy, but there are too many variables to be accurate consistently.

Umbrella and excess liability policies provide the additional protection you need in case a judgment against you exceeds the liability limits of your existing auto, home, or other insurance policies.

In 2005 the company won a lawsuit against National Union Fire Insurance relating to its director's and officers» insurance policy and was awarded a $ 32.1 million judgment by the US District Court.