Sentences with phrase «policy positions at»

Advocating for policy positions at the national level that will reduce home ownership barriers facing the APA community.

The selected candidate will be required to represent and promote RACR and its policy positions at industry forums and networking events, work to influence policy directions in the community sector, contribute to government consultation meetings and processes.

And her website says she was a «policy maker» who worked in «key policy positions at the State Department.»

The best recent representation of Sachs's views is the paper he and others co-authored with James E. Hansen, the longtime NASA climate scientist who now has a climate policy position at Columbia, in which they build on Hansen's longstanding call for a rising price on carbon.

As discussed in Chapter 3 the policy position at federal Government level has been to apply and reinforce this increasingly narrow judicial interpretation of native title, including opposing in the courts, recognition of native title (for example sea rights) and subjecting agreements recognising native title to critical scrutiny even where such agreements are based on consent.

Not exact matches

Elaine Maag, a senior research associate at the Tax Policy Center, thinks that Ivanka's position likely changed as she became more educated on the issue and realized that the child tax credit reaches many more families than a child care credit could.

«If this misguided policy is not reversed,» the authors wrote, «America is at risk of losing its leadership position in one of its most important sectors, one that will shape the world in the twenty - first century.

Elon Musk took to Twitter ahead of a meeting at the White House yesterday to explain his position on the President's Strategic & Policy Forum.

At the time that Democrats began paying for the research, Mr. Trump was in the process of clinching the Republican presidential nomination, and Ms. Clinton's allies were scrambling to figure out how to run against a candidate who had already weathered attacks from Republican rivals about his shifting policy positions, his character and his business record.

The domestic currency on Wednesday ended steady at 66.66 as currency traders avoided taking any positions ahead of the much - awaited FOMC policy decision and US jobs report.

Prior to joining BlackRock, she was a senior official at the International Monetary Fund (IMF), where she worked for 15 years in a range of positions related to economic analysis, policy making and global governance.

Howard McCurdy, a space policy expert at American University, said of Musk: «If he's not in the lead, he's well positioned for the finish.»

Our public sector management policies and principles are world - renowned and have allowed Canada to leverage our position to remain at the forefront of the global public management agenda - perhaps so much so that the Chinese needed to dig a little deeper to understand what we were doing?

She also found a position as an online English teacher at Education First, a policy and consulting agency focused on educational issues.

Prior to joining the Council, Brian was an economist and policy analyst in the federal government with positions at the Department of Finance, Global Affairs Canada, the Treasury Board Secretariat and the Privy Council Office.

I differ also from the various middle positions, which hold that there are some good things in this culture (like greater freedom for the individual), but that these come at the expense of certain dangers (like a weakening of the sense of citizenship), so that one's best policy is to find the ideal point of trade - off between advantages and costs.

Ehud Barak's insouciant assurance that he can procure an acceptable peace with the Arabs on his own terms has shown itself, at least to date, to be a most imprudent policy» which is why his position as leader of the nation is, as I write, seriously in question.

This is not to say that we can not come to impassioned, principled positions about how to vote, particularly when dealing with issues as important as sexual assault, bigotry, racism, responsible foreign policy, religious liberty, and the dignity of human life at every stage in its development.

To give a concrete example of this distinction, in the July - August 1967 edition of The Reformed Journal Smedes stated his position forcefully that America's presence in Vietnam was immoral on Biblical grounds (cf. Moody Monthly and Christianity Today, which remained at least tacit supporters of government policy throughout the war).

In fact, the government really has no communication policy in the sense of a position arrived at though elected representatives or referendums.

At the same time, Huckabee's support for the FairTax and his identity politics cultural positioning repulses the key «somewhat conservative» voters who value policy prudence and electability.

Over at Cato, Julian Sanchez has written a post about how the aftermath of healthcare reform could reveal faultlines in existing political coalitions and trigger realignment: There's no intrinsic commonality between, say, «left» positions on taxation, foreign policy, and reproductive....

The fad is that the economically developed countries are in a better position than others to take the advantage of globalization and at the same item dictate policies and guidelines to increase their bargaining power.

Jack joins the association following her position as director of regulatory and international affairs at the American Frozen Food Institute (AFFI), where she was responsible for navigating the intersection of science and policy and the promotion of global harmonization of standards to ensure trade equity for frozen foods.

Previous to the CSWA and Fetzer positions, Thrupp served as Life Scientist & Policy Specialist at U.S. EPA Region 9, consultant to both Robert Mondavi Winery and the Funders Agricultural Working Group, and Director of Sustainable Agriculture at World Resources Institute.

Tanya comes to the position with a strong background in competition, energy and economics policy and regulation having worked in various roles at the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission.

His rotational policy does not work (ozil should stay at 10) 5) not enough set piece training 6) he is unwilling to overspend when we are short in a specific position (dm) sometimes a successful season requires overspending.

If the team is not performing well it is a factor of a couple of things, sure the manager plays a big part (transfer windows policy, tactics) but the players also have to perform to the level required at Arsenal: sure we could have better players at certain positions but talent we're not lacking across the field.

He also served in numerous positions at the U.S. Department of Labor, culminating as Chief of Staff in the Employment Standards Administration where he coordinated legislative, regulatory, communications, and policy development.

Powerful junk food companies purchase «sustaining partnerships» from the American Society for Nutrition, gaining access to the nation's leading nutrition researchers at their annual meetings, and in their policy positions.

At the time of writing Congress was the dominant party in India, and it was believed to occupy the policy - space which attracts the median voter (and thus, it is the optimal position to occupy).

http://www.thespec.com/news/local/article/516156 — no-bellyflops-mission-accomplished-in-debate The base positions aren't new: Duceppe has long been a critic of multiculturalism, arguing for a strongly integrationist policy for Canadian immigrants (aka «new Canadians») in francophone Quebec, which is somewhat at odds with the long - standing approach that stresses diversity over assimilation.

As Cuomo increasingly seeks to position himself at the national level, potentially with an eye on a future White House run, by embracing a host of liberal policy proposals, look for the Senate Democrats and their allies to keep up the «we could accomplish so much more together» drumbeat, even though at this point it's pretty much a done deal that the Republicans and the IDC have renewed their power - sharing relationship.

In addition to this, he is Lecturer in Policy and Sociology at Birmingham Aston University (UK), holds a PostDoctoral Research Fellow position at the Basque Foundation for Science, Ikerbasque (Spain) and is Lecturer and Senior Researcher at the University of Mondragon Unibertsitatea, a part of the Mondragon Co-operative Corporation Group based in the Basque Country (Spain).

At the same time, we want our users to be part of the effort, to know what we're saying and why, and to help us refine and improve our policy positions and advocacy strategies.

Zellnor then went to Cornell Law School where he served as student body president, an editor on the Cornell Journal of Law and Public Policy, a constitutional law instructor in prison, and as a Pro Bono Scholar — a position that allowed him to take the New York Bar early and spend his last semester working full - time at Justice 360, a criminal justice reform organization.

Now the election is over, foreign policy must once gain take up a broad position at the heart of the UK policy nexus after some months with a low profile in public debate.

The oratorical flourish at the end of the debate on Syria was the most vivid example of defiance, but it was also Hilary who used a Today programme interview soon after Corbyn had been elected to politely insist that Labour policy was in favour of renewing trident and then to appear once again to express his support for the right of police to «shoot to kill», in both cases against the publicly declared position of his leader.

Instead of developing policies aimed at making immigration work for the country as a whole, however, the response of the Westminster political class over recent years has been to debate caps on immigration and give credence to the philosophical position that immigrants are a drain on society instead of net contributors.

As such they pursue and have a history of implementing policies that strike at the social position of our constituencies — a rookie error the Tories are careful never to make.

Once you have done your own little bit, as you have done for months now, to damage the Corbyn campaign, by your constant nitpicking of his competence and leadership skills and policy development shortcomings, and regular defence of the «soft Left» who have so blatantly failed to support him all year, from a supposed position on the Left (so much more effective in the current battle for the dominant narrative than criticism coming openly from the Labour right), will you too finally, (sorrowfully and with much hand - wringing») declare for Owen Smith at the opening of voting, David?

At a forum marked mostly by stump speeches and rote policy positions, Blackwell's closing remarks seemed to take some people by surprise.

Whilst not resiling from a LibDem position Laws is perceptive and judicious when looking at policies and personalities.

«Until they recognize that their policy positions are not in line with voters of this country, and until they start running candidates that are respected by the voters of their district, they run the very real risk of continuing to fall from the already... historically low level they're at.»

Can I firstly completely support David Pavett's reply to John Penney.Indeed I find it amazing that someone (John) with a sophisticated understanding of the policies Labour needs to develop has no understanding at all of how to get Labour in a position to implement those policies.Indeed you fall at the first hurdle, by accepting that Labour can not win in 2020 following a major split.

Another issue is some of Cuomo's center - to - center - right policy talk on fiscal issues - although he had progressive points at other turns in his speech at the convention and in his 240 - page policy position book.

Mixed messages from the Coalition government around schools policy are not only confusing, but also raise deeper questions about whether they have a firm position on schooling at all.

Three of the five Democrats running — Mariella Smith, Mark Nash and Elvis Pigott — spoke about themselves and some of their policy positions Wednesday night at the Hillsborough County's LGBTA Democratic Caucus» monthly meeting

However, outside of that limited period, there is plenty of evidence of the ERG taking positions at odds with government policy: it has repeatedly made statements which conflict with the government's position, both since the EU referendum, and before it.

The only concrete policy from his leadership campaign - to pull the party out of the EPP - is looking increasingly misguided, while most other positioning seems to revolve around finding something the Tories backed at the last election and opposing it.