Sentences with phrase «political direction»

This funding promise sets a clear political direction of travel - making a priority of more free schools and paving the way for a new generation of grammar schools.

Civil servants have many talents, but helping to provide political direction for policy - essential for any Government - is not among them.

One would think that it would dominate the ideological and political direction of Canadian real estate agent thinking across the country.

If foreigners can't hold secure title — or there's a legitimate risk that a change in political direction could restrict or revoke foreign property ownership — buyers should look elsewhere.

A key event at the Conference was a ministerial round table on a shared vision on long - term cooperative action on climate change, where Ministers gave political direction on how to move together towards an agreed outcome in Copenhagen.

«These announcements break the silence on political directions for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander issues in this election campaign.

They are, to varying degrees, frum, but they do not wear black hats and black coats and take political direction, in blocs, from rabbis.

But for that to stick, Brown would need to have changed his political style, and opened up a real conversation about political directions.

For five decades after the war, every time Britain or the US changed governments, the other nation moved in the same political direction at the next election.

American Protestants need not fear that Catholics will usually throw their great weight as a religious community in the same political direction.

A popular political direction which favors a big government dedicated to upholding democratic ideals like liberty and equality is social democracy.

Dr Hong Bui from the Southampton Business School says: «Our research suggests public sector managers do not have to spend scarce resources helping their employees to become used to a new political direction, as any such effect is relatively short - lived.

With opposition to abortion often playing out in voting for candidates — at least in part — based on their reproductive stances, and efforts to fight abortion often playing out in courtrooms and legislation, the pro-life movement has taken on a distinctly political direction.

It should teach people the knowledge (economy, sociology, history etc.) they need to decide for themselves what political direction is best for them and the media competency to evaluate trustworthiness of information.

4) Τhe counter-revolution in the USSR did not result from an imperialist military intervention, but rather from within and from the top, as a result of the opportunist mutation of the C.P and the corresponding political direction of Soviet power.

«The reality is we can not be detained by something that takes us in an unhelpful political direction.»

«All who believe in social justice, in equality and in democracy and are concerned about the future of our children and young people will recognise the need for a change of political direction after the 2015 General Election.»

«Britain's political landscape has shifted, with people starting to identify their values and political direction through the prism of leave and remain, cutting across traditional left and right,» he said.

Precisely because energy is the lifeblood of the modern economy — the «master resource» that affects the production and use of all other resources — energy markets are often thought of as «different» and thus deserving of special political direction.

In a «Free - Society» (ZERO Abdication Society) it is the role of the Consumer to dictate political direction — We vote with our dollars.

According to Article 15 (1) TEU, «The European Council shall provide the Union with the necessary impetus for its development and shall define the general political directions and priorities thereof.

As war became more likely, however, Tenskwatawa's brother, Tecumseh, began to give the movement a more explicit political direction.

But Bordeleau signalled he is awaiting political direction from Parliament and the Ontario attorney general.

«Sometimes, you have to give political direction to some of these agencies.

Then it will be a matter of time for APC to realize that an average Igbo person is independent minded and very prudent when it comes to taking political directions.

He also repeated his criticism of the single currency, signaling that the party, if it forms part of a coalition government which could do, might be openly critical of the euro zone's political direction at a national level.

If the US presidential election abolishes the electoral college, would this mean that extremist voters (someone who fanatically supports a specific political direction and will vote whoever supports it the most) play more of a role in the election?

Meanwhile, as Cathy Cohen has written, «Many of us continue to search for a new political direction and agenda, one that... seeks to transform the basic fabric and hierarchies that allow systems of oppression to persist and operate efficiently.»

After some early, desultory efforts, Martin found his footing and reeled out a handful of budgets built around themes such as deficit fighting, education, innovation and tax reduction that set the country on sound fiscal footing and gave it political direction and policy focus for the better part of a decade.

It's hard to tell how many do this — I know of a few politically engaged Liberals who periodically hold Tory membership cards too — but it's a fact of life for those of other political stripes in a one - party province like Alberta: the political direction of the province is decided at the PC leadership conventions, not in general elections.

Parliament needs to include some ideas: the parties must find their political direction and new MPs must have independent thoughts

We might be unsure of the political directions of the parties now, but it would be good to associate new politics with a higher level of thoughtful debate.

Parliament needs to include some ideas: the parties must find their political direction and new MPs...

With the left gleefully mocking the party's downfall, there seems to be little understanding of the fact that Lib Dem influence in government - on NHS reforms, Europe, prisoners» rights, the BBC budget, child detention, Rupert Murdoch and civil liberties - is in their political direction.

But it has been patchy and depends on the political direction of each regional director for a union and who is agitating in each constituency.»

in Gove's current environment role (just as when he assaulted comprehensive education as education secretary), he has shown it is possible to set the agenda and be full of energy, verve and political direction.

David Cameron and Ed Miliband are being forced to make a decision about the political direction in which they want to take their parties.

The message is clear: we need a complete change of political direction.

The Minister must provide the political direction for this work.

But the subtle shift in the political and media narrative that is already evident will sit easily with many voters» current angst about the nascent economic recovery and the country's political direction.

Our troops have fought bravely throughout the conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan but their political direction has been consistently poor.

He was the only Liberal Democrat MP to vote against the Maastricht Treaty in 1992 and was a critic of Liberal Democratic leader Charles Kennedy, having called into question his «political direction» and «leadership skills».