Sentences with phrase «political control of the system»

In addition, the Koret Task Force claims that the commission «was either too obtuse or too naïve to take on the basic functioning and political control of the system itself.»

Second, the commission was either too obtuse or too naïve to take on the basic functioning and political control of the system itself.

Not exact matches

Because our political system requires majority control to rule, the rise of two predominant parties is an inevitable result.

Among the factors that could cause actual results to differ materially are the following: (1) worldwide economic, political, and capital markets conditions and other factors beyond the Company's control, including natural and other disasters or climate change affecting the operations of the Company or its customers and suppliers; (2) the Company's credit ratings and its cost of capital; (3) competitive conditions and customer preferences; (4) foreign currency exchange rates and fluctuations in those rates; (5) the timing and market acceptance of new product offerings; (6) the availability and cost of purchased components, compounds, raw materials and energy (including oil and natural gas and their derivatives) due to shortages, increased demand or supply interruptions (including those caused by natural and other disasters and other events); (7) the impact of acquisitions, strategic alliances, divestitures, and other unusual events resulting from portfolio management actions and other evolving business strategies, and possible organizational restructuring; (8) generating fewer productivity improvements than estimated; (9) unanticipated problems or delays with the phased implementation of a global enterprise resource planning (ERP) system, or security breaches and other disruptions to the Company's information technology infrastructure; (10) financial market risks that may affect the Company's funding obligations under defined benefit pension and postretirement plans; and (11) legal proceedings, including significant developments that could occur in the legal and regulatory proceedings described in the Company's Annual Report on Form 10 - K for the year ended Dec. 31, 2017, and any subsequent quarterly reports on Form 10 - Q (the «Reports»).

«Crypto Valley was initiated by Johann Gevers after identifying Switzerland with its decentralized, citizen - controlled political system, its centuries - old culture of individual rights, innovation, and entrepreneurship, its neutrality, stability, and business - friendly environment... for building the new generation of decentralized technologies.»

An empire, he contends, is a nation ambitious to exercise control over the political and economic systems of other nations — and the international order itself — to the end of preserving, promoting and advancing its own interests.

It is also a paradigmatic political system that makes its (male) power plausible through control of the word.

It is a totalitarianlike system designed to control the hearts and minds, the economic life, and the political destiny of people.

Many also address problems tangential to ethics: social structures, political organization and control, economic systems, the ethos and the world view of the people, theological interpretations of moral issues and much more.

In about a decade of seemingly unrelated social and political events, thousands stopped attending church and the government took control of the education and health system from the Roman Catholic Church and its «spent Catholicism,» as Martel puts it.

The liberation viewpoint stressed pulling control over the natural resources of poor countries out from under Western power so that the developmental process could continue under autonomous, socialist political systems.

This opens the door to control of the political system by special interests that can devote time and money to buying influence, and the realization that this is occurring intensifies the alienation of the grassroots.

Unless that technological, industrial establishment is radically controlled — thereby effecting a transformation of vast areas of our political, economic and social life — the culture has a very good chance of destroying itself through increasingly inadequate supplies, through endless conflicts for those ever scantier materials, and through the systems of control and authority necessary to cope with each of these dangers.

Thus, on a system where time is money, the sound - bite, slogan, or jingle is the preferred unit of political meaning; on a system where central control is paramount, interminable speeches from the maximum leader are preferred.

Indeed, the ability of a small clique in political party apparatuses to determine who runs for office, coupled with proportional representation systems that allow for the concentration of power in the hands of a few, has led to tight control of who gets elected.

Its political system is actually similar to ancient Roman Republic's system: a small group of elites, rather than just one dictator, controls the entire country.

Otherwise, we have to change the social economic and political system controlling all areas of development in the country.

«Every 10 minutes there's going to be another TV advertisement — Americans for America, Concerned Citizens for America — and they're going to be deluged with ads and political propaganda from all sorts of ways and I think they're going to say the system is out of control,» Cuomo said.

«People are going to be deluged with money and ads and political propaganda from all sorts of ways, and I think they're going to say the system is out of control,» he said.

Despite word that there was a «framework» deal that included a one - year extension of mayoral control of the NYC school system, pension forfeiture and regulation / oversight of independent expenditures in the political system, it's apparently not quite soup.

Were they to give up gun control, you'd likely see some of the rural and semirural industrial workers and farmers leave the party for third parties and / or simply stop being involved in the political system.

Instead, Liu — who political pundits believe wants to run for elected office again — claims the litigation is all about «reforming a system» at the Board that «has been broken» by «out - of - control bureaucrats and unaccountable Board members.»

It's unclear, though, whether there's enough political pressure, especially during an election year, to convince the Republican - controlled Senate to approve the $ 1.25 per hour raise and create a system of automatic future increases tied to other economic changes.

The eventual aim of the mainstream republican movement is a referendum that results in reunification, which they will be able to propose if they ever gain political control under the current system.

What the opponents say: «What Prop 1 does is take a bad situation and make it even worse by locking a system of political party control into our constitution,» said Susan Lerner, executive director of Common Cause, another good - government group that has done battle with Citizens Union over the proposition.

It's definitely got elements of social and political subtext, especially as it captures the strange world of the Dominican «baseball academies,» where that nation's raw talent is nurtured for North American harvest in a sort of plantation system controlled by Major League Baseball teams.

According to them, modern democratic systems meet four basic criteria: 1) executive and legislatures are chosen through open, free, and fair elections; 2) universal suffrage; 3) protection of political rights and civil liberties; and 4) elected authorities possess real authority to govern (not subject to tutelary control by another unelected group).

A bitter and political school funding showdown in Canada left control of that nation's largest school system — Toronto — and two others in the hands of the Ontario provincial government when classes started last week.

And their revised strategy of operating public schools under contract with public school districts was flawed by an underestimation of the political resistance they would face and their inability to control costs or quality within the public system.

«In addition, in some countries, mental health professionals were part of the system used to control and oppress political dissidents» (Menon et al. 2002, p. 40), and therefore refugees might find it difficult to trust therapists here.

This would be the «modus operandi» of the structure of planning and control that can streamline operations and ensure good governance of the scientific and technological, economic, social, environmental and political and moral systems of a country.

The NJEA and their champions in the Legislature can not allow the one sector of the public education system that is showing achievement, promise, and hope for students and families to flourish if it can not be controlled by them, so they exert political pressure to stifle the success of charter public schools.

Risk - taking charter school operator Steve Barr is launching an effort through which parents would wrest political control of the L.A. school system from unions, school bureaucrats and other entrenched interests.

Self - interest No. 3: New Front in the War on Unions — Today, unions are one of the last — and, unfortunately, weakening — obstacles to corporations» having complete control of the American political system.

Corporate education «reformers»» self - interest, by contrast, means advocating for policies that help private corporations profit off of public schools, diverting public attention from an anti-poverty economic agenda, and busting unions that prevent total oligarchical control of America's political system.

Worse, the best political spin that the reformers could come up with was that after privatizing virtually the entire education system in New Orleans, and giving the corporate education movement total control of the city, the «average composite score on the ACT for students in the Recovery School District (RSD) New Orleans rose by» less than half a percentage point.

He wanted to talk about political influence and big - money funders through the lens of two reform - oriented school systems — New Orleans (suggesting that teacher layoffs could be blamed on TFA and not Hurricane Katrina) and Chicago (pointing to school closings and mayoral control, as if either of those two policies had anything to do with TFA).

In a recent interview with New America Media, Mike Kirst discussed the legal and political history of California's current education finance system and how Governor Jerry Brown's proposed Local Control Funding Formula (LCFF) can more equitably allocate state funding to districts and allow them the flexibility they need to meet rising expectations of college - readiness.

«After years of political control over our exams system, schools must be given greater freedom to offer the qualifications employers and universities demand, and that properly prepare pupils for life, work and further study,» he said.

Caro anatomizes the genius for political strategy and tactics by which, in an institution that had made the seniority system all - powerful for a century and more, Johnson became Majority Leader after only a single term — the youngest and greatest Senate Leader in our history; how he manipulated the Senate's hallowed rules and customs and the weaknesses and strengths of his colleagues to change the «unchangeable» Senate from a loose confederation of sovereign senators to a whirring legislative machine under his own iron - fisted control.

The Oceanian province of Airstrip One is a world of perpetual war, omnipresent government surveillance, and public mind control, dictated by a political system euphemistically named English Socialism (Ingsoc) under the control of a privileged Inner Party elite that persecutes all individualism and independent thinking as thoughtcrimes.

People inevitably remember the fall of the Berlin Wall, which heralded the dissolution of the Soviet Union — even though Tiananmen Square came first (just months earlier, in Jun - 1989), basically forcing an acceleration of China's rural - urban migration & its transition to a capitalist economy (thereby relegating communism to a mere system of political control).

A debate to modify this and other reforms, especially the one which granted control of the Higher Education System by the government, was practically passed with consensus by the multi-partisan National Assembly on August 4, 2010, but vetoed by President Rafael Correa, who wanted to keep the law strictly as it was originally redacted by his political party and SENPLADES (National Secretary of Planning and Development).

Here players will control everything from political movements in a Galactic Senate, control multiple systems and trade routes with their guild or rise in every way they can to Emperor of their own star system and earn the right to vote on everything from game mechanics to future additions.

In it, we take control of Karan S'jet's ancestor, Rachel and learn more about Kharak's political system before construction of the mothership was even planned.

She has campaigned to stop jail expansion; confront police violence; reveal prosecutorial misconduct; bring visibility to women prisoners, political prisoners, and people confined to control units; interrupt gender discrimination and bias within prisons, policing, and sentencing; challenge the human rights abuses of prisoners, former prisoners and their family members, and experiment with decarceration models for shrinking the system.

As Edward Abbey pointed out two decades ago, «It should be clear to everyone by now that crude numerical growth does not solve our chronic problems of unemployment, welfare, crime, traffic, filth, noise, squalor, the pollution of our air, the corruption of our politics, the debasement of the school system (hardly worthy of the name «education»), and the general loss of popular control over the political process — where money, not people, is now the determining factor.»

This senseless name calling of the scientists on both sides of the political fence, and infighting over the details of the amount of the sensitivity of the climate will soon come to an end, as the experiment on the Earth is continued with out any possible controls by the IPCC policy makers, who only want it to proceed as is, with ADDITIONAL FUNDS taken from taxes paid by the developed world, to hasten to transfer of wealth to the third world, while weakening the Western government systems through self imposed bankruptcy.

In the current U.S. political environment, a cap - and - trade system is unlikely to result in a sufficiently high market price for CO2 (around $ 30 per ton) in the early years of a carbon control regime to assure that all coal plant developers adopt CCS systems.

Main Entry: so · cial · ism Pronunciation: \ ˈsō - shə - ˌli - zəm \ Function: noun Date: 1837 1: any of various economic and political theories advocating collective or governmental ownership and administration of the means of production and distribution of goods 2 a: a system of society or group living in which there is no private property b: a system or condition of society in which the means of production are owned and controlled by the state 3: a stage of society in Marxist theory transitional between capitalism and communism and distinguished by unequal distribution of goods and pay according to work done.