Sentences with phrase «political challenges at hand»

A carbon tax — harnessing markets to do the job rather than regulators — addresses both the environmental and political challenges at hand.

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Without a doubt, I was convinced, he will look at this new flat world, where Americans must compete with people not from their own community or state but from all over the planet, and declare our patchwork education system — with its 50 sets of academic standards and tests — no longer up to the challenges at hand and say that the time has come for rigorous national standards and tests, political obstacles be damned.