Sentences with phrase «politics than the policy»

«He seems more concerned with politics than policy.

Although the measure was more about politics than policy — it was designed to raise the Hollywood actor's stature in advance of a future run for governor — the ballot initiative did reflect Schwarzenegger's sincere interest in inner - city schools, dozens of which he had toured during work for his nonprofit foundation, the Inner - City Games.

The second state language status is also ruled out to Maghi, Bhojpuri, Angika and Maithali by CM as this issue is more inclined to politics than policy matter and decisions are also taken keeping in mind the facts & figures of speakers.

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But rather than politics, Darby, in a Dec. 3 report, wrote it's the country's monetary policy — the Bank of Thailand surprised analysts with an interest rate cut last month to boost growth — that «ought to be setting the alarm bells ringing in investors ears.»

In total, they will invest a historic $ 400 million in the politics and policy arm of the network, 60 percent more resources than they've ever spent during a cycle.

But even though Davis follows politics more closely than most entrepreneurs, he still works too many hours to pay much attention to Washington policy debates.

The Congress is more about ideology than policy, but it still charts the future direction for China and offers a glimpse into its opaque politics.

To this day, I am more interested in policy than politics.

Discomfort with the authoritarian drift of politics and policymaking in Eastern Europe, and the consequences of Russia's aggressive foreign policy, more than offset fresh commitments to South Africa and Saudi Arabia Equity Funds.

You cut through the modern politics and hand waving and what you have is that for at LEAST 200 years and probably more (longer than we've been around as a country) Christians were «held in contempt» to the point that for about 10 of those years several emperors pursued active policies of extermination (that's what the «actually persecuting» statement refers to - think holocaust type policies) that included some of the worst type of tortures known to humanity.

The revolution in government presaged by an activist population policy would thus seem to be based less in politics per se than in «science,» for in the final analysis it is the field of learning known as «population studies» that provides population policy with its raison d'etre.

The sacred politics of the soul are more important than the secular politics of policies, parties, and nations.

The more than thirty articles in Will China Democratize were written by scholars in political science, astrophysics, business, law, public policy, politics, government, history, sociology, communications, and literary criticism.

There is a need now more than ever to develop a means for doing religious social ethics which emphasizes the goal - orientation aspect of politics as a corrective to stress on the coercive - power factor in determining social policy.

The party policy and actions often override the teachings of Jesus because party politics are of more importance to them than the understanding of the word of God.

The Constitution of India formulated by the founding fathers of India's nation - state, has clearly laid down both in its Preamble and in its Directive Principles of State Policy, that politics and economics are instruments of social objectives rather than the reverse.

But simply making up numbers to argue for a policy change is much worse than politics as usual, and that's what these two leaders of the pro-choice movement admitted that the movement had done to get abortion legalized.

It seems pretty clear though that 12 weeks should just be the beginning of what's considered an acceptable amount of leave: a 2013 study published in the Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law found that women who return to work earlier than six months after giving birth are more likely to develop PPD than those who were able to spend more time at home.

If you check out some of his archived posts, you'll understand why: besides criticizing Administration policy, he was less than diplomatic all around — and in politics, there are usually consequences when you piss people off unnecessarily.

In a clear rebuttal of Astorino's view that the business community should be more forceful in pushing back against policies from Albany detrimental to job growth, Cuomo said he's never seen them «more engaged» than ever with state politics.

It's hard to get people interested in politics when it's about choosing between candidates rather than actual policies.

In the UK, the tendency has been for Labour to shift from movement politics to consumer politics - a focus group of eight people sipping wine in Kettering having more weight than policies developed within the party and decided by conference.

David Beetham, The Werritty affair shows that now, more than ever, we need a statutory register for lobbyists, British Politics and Policy at LSE, 27 October 2011.

But here I am just arguing the politics of it, rather than the merits of the policy.

Stuart Wilks - Heeg, 224 large donations from less than 60 sources funded 2/5 of all spending by the top 3 parties across a decade, British Politics and Policy at LSE, 30 November 2010.

Alexander, who participated — alongside Clegg, Cameron, and Osborne — in the «quad» meetings where coalition policy was hammered out, was less interested in the politics of the issue than the economic impact; he believed it was a necessary step to reduce the deficit.

They can lead us to uncritical cheerleading, to the politics of «lesser evilism», and putting - up while shutting - up, rather than making nuanced arguments, offering critical support, or demanding policies that are not yet on the table.

Real life v politics What has always concerned me are how issues affect people's daily lives rather than the actual making of the policy.

Hello, Bill Richardson has better foreign policy credentials than anyone in modern Democratic politics!

Given the national attention to politics following the 2016 presidential election, however, Latimer said, voters this year will pay more attention to policy than to personality.

As Muslims have come to become more than an insignificant share of the left wing coalition in many parts of Western Europe and North America, despite the left wing not many any real policy concessions to attract them, members of left wing parties have come to have more interpersonal contact with Muslims which has led to reduced fear and increased mutual understanding, and political leaders in left wing parties have felt it politic and appropriate to refrain from emphasizing policies and issues that actively antagonize a not insignificant share of their coalition even when (if push came to shove) they might be uneasy with some of the political and social views of this part of their coalition.

«So far [Cameron's] foreign policy is little more than a projection of his domestic politics, especially his need to keep his party behind him going into the election.

«I think one of the things you'll see at our conference, I think the signature tune of the conference, if you like, is an enormous confidence that as a result of the political situation that we face and the distinctive policies we have, that we have a huge opportunity as a party to elect more Lib Dem MPs than we ever have before and to really change the future of British politics.

With fewer than 100 days to go until Election Day, Indy Politics talks with John Ketzenberger of the Indiana Fiscal Policy Institute about the state...

He said Conservative austerity had brought about a «nasty, divisive politics» in some parts of the country that blamed problems on immigrants rather than the Government's policies.

«To weaken and undermine the governor beyond the weakness that already exists to me doesn't serve the interest of our state, doesn't serve the interest of our country and I would just focus a lot more on policy than politics if I were leading the county today,» Pataki said.

Like the PDP, many members of the NPN were primarily businessmen in politics, rather than individuals focused on politics, policy and development!

I have always been more interested in policy, politics and economics than my peers and contemporaries, so I paid very close attention to events.

Other studies have also suggested politics has more to do with attitudes toward climate policy than with economics.

Studying rules from the three categories will help you come away with a better understanding of how company policy and politics impact life in a company and why, on occasion, it is better to circumvent rules than to follow them.

It's a deeply affecting film that touches on race and international politics in a way that's far more interesting and insightful than any of its predecessors by far, as one of its central themes is the idea of Wakanda's isolationist policy — it exists for its people, and it protects its people, but what of the people outside its borders?

Everyone knows that teacher unions matter in education politics and policies, a reality that is never more evident than at election time.

«Two things more than anything surprised me: first of all, the willingness of schools to support one another, even in a policy context that emphasizes competition; and second, the extent to which politics was such a massive barrier to the creation of a context within which such collaborations can grow.»

Rotherham is the author or co-author of more than 150 published articles, book chapters, papers, and op - eds about education policy and politics and is the author or editor of four books on educational policy.

He has covered California politics and public policy for more than 20 years.

«The president is so wildly unpopular among Democrats that his support for some of these policies — which we've been working on for literally decades — had made the politics of supporting school choice much harder than it needs to be,» said Derrell Bradford, the vice president of 50Can.

The theme, Presidential Politics and Education Policy, explored the evolution of the role of the president and the federal government in education policy through 24 sessions with more than 50 spePolicy, explored the evolution of the role of the president and the federal government in education policy through 24 sessions with more than 50 spepolicy through 24 sessions with more than 50 speakers.

In doing so, they posit an entirely different approach than the tweaks exercised by current NYC Mayor Bill de... Continue reading Politics vs. Policy: The «Urgent Moral» Case for Dramatic School Intervention

Of course, the proponents of corporate education reform have been riding high for more than two decades thanks to the policies and politics of Presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama, both of whom used their time in office to promote charter schools and the broader corporate reform agenda.

Even the generally conservative (when it comes to sexual politics or postcolonial consciousness) Pompidou (Paris) put on its one survey show of women, «Elles» in 2012, although it is hard to see this as anything other than tokenism when feminism is side - lined from «business as usual» rather than integrated centrally into ongoing institutional strategy and policy.