Sentences with phrase «popular policies of»

One of the most popular policies of insurance companies is to provide discount for multiple policyholders.

Welfare reform remains one of the most popular policies of the government.

What's not clear is whether WestJet will eventually abandon its popular policy of not «overselling» flights now that it's offering travellers who pay extra for more flexibility to change their itinerary.

We learnt the Lib Dems had a not very popular policy of letting illegal immigrants, who had got away with it for 10 years, stay here legally.

Not exact matches

While Merkel's Facebook page has 2.4 million followers, the posts aren't very personal, and some of the site's most popular comments slam her for her refugee policy.

Popular dissatisfaction with austerity measures could compromise the effectiveness of austerity policies.

Occupy Wall Street made popular the idea of a country divided between the 99 % and the 1 %, but its really the chief executives of the nation's biggest businesses that are pulling away in the income race and leaving everyone else behind, according to a new report from the Economic Policy Institute.

In his job as an activist at the Center for Popular Democracy, Barkan led a successful effort to get Fed officials thinking more about low - income Americans as they conduct monetary policy, often arguing against interest rate hikes in the face of high underemployment and weak wage growth.

The policy is a popular one for the Conservative base because it's most helpful for traditional one - income families, where one spouse, usually the mother, stays home to take care of the children.

And what besides zealotry would lead him to tear up a policy that is widely popular with the American public who, understandably, are wary of increasing the power of companies like Comcast?

In China, many of the most popular American social media platforms are either banned or significantly adjust their strategies to cope with that country's policies.

Wink, which also makes a popular home hub, avoided commenting on Clapper's comments, and said of its security policies that it conducts «outreach to the «white hat» security researcher community, and regular independent security analysis.»

The IMF cites a number of risks to their optimistic outlook for the next two years, risks that are more concerning for the medium term (2020 and beyond), including geopolitical strains, a sudden and severe tightening of monetary policies, waning popular support for global economic integration, and a move toward protectionist trade policies that would impact global trade.

But while the total number of U.S. life insurance policies — bought by both private citizens and employers — is shrinking, standard life plans are still among the most popular form of coverage purchased.

As the debate has taken on a decidedly Asia focus, with some recent studies and popular media coverage pointing to investors from Asia as one of the drivers of Vancouver's soaring housing prices, the Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada (APF Canada) has written a background document aggregating the available facts, outlining similar challenges in other jurisdictions, and raising the question: Is public policy required?

Popular support abroad is developing to back governments creating a set of rules able to prevent U.S. exporters from benefiting from a currency instability caused by America's own fiscal, financial and military policies.

Talk of economic collapse in the popular media could itself cause stocks to sell off, undermine analyst's recommendations, and force politicians to admit their policies aren't working.

As I argued in a recent speech, simple policy rules, including the most popular versions of the Taylor Rule, understate the degree of monetary support that may be required to achieve a given set of economic objectives in a post-financial crisis world.

Checking out the price of various auto insurance policies is often a popular way of comparing policies.

Although it was popular overall, a number of interesting sources indicate that this policy may actually cause staff to take less time off than usual, which has detrimental effects on their well - being.

Countertrade was very popular in the centrally planned economies of the former Soviet bloc because the governments of the region were chronically short of hard currency and were therefore committed to a policy of promoting exports.

Kidnap and Ransom Insurance This is nothing fun to think about, but as of late kidnap and ransom insurance policies have become popular.

Bitcoin has become a popular alternative option that brings more safety and less cost to people and businesses, according to a new white paper by the Chamber of Digital Commerce and the Georgetwon Center for Financial Markets and Policy at the McDonough School of Business.

One of Google's less popular but definitely encouraging corporate policies has been their hard stance against pornography.

It wasn't like Mitt Romney was offering a popular set of alternative policies.

Progressive legal theorists exploited this doctrinal disjunction to argue that the justices» opposition to economic reforms was fundamentally ideological and thus illegitimate: «If the public's evolving attitude towards liquor and lotteries had been sufficient to justify a rethinking of economic rights and federalism constraints, the argument went, then what else but the subjective policy preferences of the justices themselves could explain the Court's stubborn resistance to other, broadly popular forms of «social» legislation?»

So while yes, mercy is a theme of recent popes, and there is of course great popular devotion to Divine Mercy, I haven't seen the concept used in discussions about church policy in quite this way before.

Acknowledging this, however, would call into question the revelation vouchsafed to another of the new environmentalism's ideological allies, the population - control movement: namely, that people are a pollutant» a pernicious idea, born of the earlier progressivist eugenics movement and brought to a popular boil in the Sixties by evidence - light propagandists like Paul Ehrlich, that continues to affect U.S. foreign - aid policy to this day.

He examines the way that apocalyptic thinking has structured popular attitudes toward nuclear war, Israel, Russia, American foreign policy, the growth of government, and whatever was regarded at the moment as the Antichrist.

On this view, policy should be much more closely tied to public opinion, or to direct popular decision, than to the judgment of legislative or bureaucratic elites.

This will tend to make him, or her, hostile to societies traditionally organized to favor heterosexuality and the family, and persuade him to advocate policies that seek not tolerance but the transformation of popular or traditional attitudes toward homosexuality.

The characterization of criminals as primarily victims of their environment, a notion that has become increasingly popular among public policy analysts and social critics since the 1950s, is the clearest example of the erosion of this belief.

More popular with both physicians and ethicists is the policy of «required request,» mandating that hospitals ask families about organ donation in every case of brain death.

Picking Rice makes the election somewhat less about the economy and somewhat more about the least popular parts of President George W. Bush's foreign policy record.

They were killed because they supported the liberating theology and dignity of the base Christian communities; they named social injustice, not communism or outside subversive influence, as the root cause of the crisis (revolution in their view was inevitable unless issues of poverty and social inequality were adequately addressed); they promoted a negotiated settlement to Salvador's civil war, including a significant role for the FMLN and other popular organizations; and, they named U.S. policy as a fundamental obstacle to peace in El Salvador.

Low wages... lack of healthcare... lack of promotions for hard and competent workers... lack of policies that don't rob consumers... the point being it is popular to say you are a Christian business but more Christian to really practice Christianiy.

The popular lack of interest in America for aiding poor countries is to me explained by the fact that ordinary Americans have seldom been appealed to in terms of moral decency and compassion for the sufferings of the poor masses in the underdeveloped countries but merely in terms of national policy interests.

But, ironically for both parties, Mussolini's securest basis of popular support came from his religious policy and derived from the Catholic church.

The Counter-Reformation in Italy has often been condemned for its political and cultural effects, for its final confirmation of absolutism as against any kind of popular sovereignty, and for the stultifying consequences of its cultural policy.

«Zubi's transfer policy has not been popular,» said Barcelona blog Barca Blaugranes about their director of football's firing, «and his talent evaluation skills were subpar.»

Bettina Lauf Forbes, co-founder of Best for Babes, a nonprofit re-branding perceptions of breastfeeding in the news, popular culture and policy, agrees.

Footage of educators, policy makers, and young people at the center of our film is complemented by a rich spectrum of individuals who are important to school lunch policy and administration but who are rarely included in popular discourse on the subject.

But a popular idea isn't necessarily an ethically good or economically optimal idea - many people have suffered or not done as well as they could have because of apparently popular policies.

Populism merely means the espousal of policies that achieve popular support.

BHA Chief Executive Andrew Copson commented, «The legalisation of humanist marriage fulfils the criteria of the governments own Family Test criteria, is Liberal Democrat party policy, and has wide popular support.

Silver didn't address any of Cuomo's policy positions, some of which seem to be a direct hit on the speaker and his colleagues — like the one that would require full disclosure of lawmakers» outside income, for example, or the lifting of the charter school cap (not popular with the teachers unions, who are close allies of the Assembly Democrats).

A real reformer of social policy as a minister, her memoir has been very popular in France and this edition has been supported by the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

(Moderate) taxation should be used as an enabler for implementation of popular policy.

Many of those who claim to be baffled by some Labour members» unwillingness to compromise on welfare wouldn't give way on other policies that might prove electorally popular.

Therefore, ideas matter in politics mainly in so far as they manage to mobilize popular support, since it is indispensable to shift the balance of power, to correct injustice, and, ultimately, to implement alternative policies.