Sentences with phrase «political jurisdiction»

(Of course, the District of Columbia is among the bluest political jurisdictions in the country.)

Very often in human history, the people living under a particular political jurisdiction have shared a common vision of God and the good, and they have seen their polity as the highest institutional expression of that shared vision.

«With the spread of urban areas and the desire to protect certain pockets of land, it is becoming increasingly important for political jurisdictions to have the tools to be able to engage in more regional planning.

Serving niche markets, creating co-products, and hedging across political jurisdictions are ways to make demand for NETs robust to policy volatility.

projects in reliable political jurisdictions with a preponderance of heavy REE mineralization is at least a starting point.

One effect of the Protestant Reformation was that within a century, in northwest Europe, this sort of unity was gone; political jurisdictions contained within their citizenry not one community united by a shared vision of God and the good but a number of distinct such communities.

«Just the fact that they migrate between political jurisdictions complicates things,» says David Shiffman, a graduate student in ecosystem science and policy at the University of Miami.

As Eric Hanushek, Ludger Woessmann and I show in our book Endangering Prosperity: A Global View of the American School (publication date: September 3, 2013), the United States, with 32 percent of its students proficient in mathematics, comes in Number 32 among political jurisdictions that take the PISA test.

The charters can maintain autonomy — Perry cited the de-centralization of leadership to individual schools and communities as a positive aspect of reform --- but they should no longer be under the fractured state - level political jurisdictions that currently exist.

The goal of the Motor Carrier Safety Assistance Program is to ensure that the Secretary, States, local government agencies, and other political jurisdictions work in partnership to establish programs to improve motor carrier, commercial motor vehicle, and driver safety to support a safe and efficient surface transportation system by --

Decision - makers need to know how climate change will affect specific political jurisdictions, and, more importantly, what types of interventions will make a difference, over what time scales, at what costs, and to whose benefit — and whose detriment.

Certainly one of the most far - reaching actions ever taken by the government in dealing with ethnicity is the Justice Department's April 1976 ruling ordering multilingual elections in some 513 political jurisdictions in 30 states.

Within the confines of a political jurisdiction (a nation), commerce occurs under the terms set by the government.

«There's almost 70 percent of us that live in one political jurisdiction but work in another,» Murphy said.

For example, as you move to policy - and sectoral - scale activities, credits would be generated based on net deforestation rates over some political jurisdiction.

«Planning and decision - making for the location of wind turbines has been legally centralized in Toronto since 2009, and so local municipalities and their locally - elected councilors have had little to no influence in deciding whether a wind turbine or solar farm ought to be located within their political jurisdiction.