Sentences with phrase «positions on issues»

All ghg emissions targets are implicitly a positions on the carbon budget issue and the equity and justice issue, yet policy makers rarely discuss their implicit positions on these issues and the US media is largely not covering the budget and justice issues implicit in any US policy on climate change.

Therefore, spotting ethical issues raised by carbon cap and trade regimes may be practically valuable despite the inability on some issues to determine unambiguously what ethics demands, if spotting the ethical questions leads to eliminating from consideration some positions on these issues that fail to pass minimum ethical scrutiny.

It is especially odd that Stern does not heed Dan Kahan's criticisms of the «deficit model,» where Kahan argues that the public takes positions on issues through cultural and value lenses, not scientific information.

do not agree with your positions on issues, you know how to make a rational argument.

The Sierra Club Voter Education Fund's Real Republicans project seeks to educate voters about the records of the 2012 GOP presidential candidates by highlighting their extreme positions on public health and other issues of critical importance to the American people and encourage the public to find out more about the candidates and their positions on these issues.

Ability to professionally advocate Best Friends Animal Society positions on issues.

Here's my question: Do authors want to be represented by agents who fire off contentious public comments of this kind when they disagree with other publishing figures» positions on issues?

Unions have deployed massive expenditures on debatable matters related to education policy and state spending, and taken positions on issues that have nothing to do with public education, such as The Affordable Care Act.

And as a result, the two unions find themselves taking positions on issues such as dismissing laggard and criminally culpable teachers that are contradictory to their proclamations about professionalism — and do little for either teachers or the children they serve.

It also includes links to further information so readers can delve more deeply into the candidates» positions on the issues they care about.

But it has also faced difficult decisions about whether to endorse candidates when their positions on some issues contrast sharply with the views of donors to the group, according to Joe Williams, DFER's executive director.

Saying he's honored to have been approached, Albert declined to lay out his positions on issues such as the A-F grading system or the Common Core.

This is the sixth in a series of articles exploring the critical policy challenges that the next governor and Legislature will face, as well as their positions on these issues.

But like any organization with 300,000 members, some teachers disagree with the CTA's positions on issues and a few, like Liz Sanders, an English teacher who happens to be a local bargaining leader, are willing to speak out.

He then said to the 400 of us, «Now, consider your current positions on these issues.

Now, to his credit, Joel's positions on these issues evolved over time, and he eventually came to embrace the thinking of scholars like Don Hirsch: Content matters!

But the fact that all data is being acquired before searches take place makes a mockery of UK and US government positions on issues like data protection, says King.

Wilson says a two - person race will also mean a chance to flesh out positions on issues like immigration and energy policy.

Cruz's December rise stumbled in January amid attacks concentrated on his positions on issues like immigration; 23 percent support him in the new poll.

But she was not well known outside of western New York, and some Democrats were unsettled by her past positions on issues like gun control — when in Congress, she earned an «A» rating from the National Rifle Association — and immigration.

Some of the donors who have urged Mr. Ford to consider a run expressed alarm as Ms. Gillibrand, who as a congresswoman represented a conservative upstate district, has abandoned some of her previous positions on issues like gun control and immigration as she prepares to run statewide.

LHG: Would you favor BDCC taking positions on issues confronting our City and State and nation such as affordable housing, immigration, police accountability.

Secondly, what are their positions on issues that affect you as a Westchester resident?

«Someone who does good work, has good positions on the issues.»

Maffei said the ads were less effective in Onondaga County, where he and Buerkle live, because voters were more familiar with both candidates and their positions on the issues.

Louisa Fletcher - Pacheco, lead organizer of the Working Families Party of Western New York, said the party was attracted to McMurray's positions on issues «that matter to working people in America today.»

Legislator Grant continued to advocate for her positions on issues including a national search for a new Buffalo Police Commissioner to replace Daniel Derenda.

The poll found that many NY - 19 voters hadn't even heard of Eldridge, while others supported Gibson despite positions on issues like the minimum wage and higher taxes on the rich that hewed more closely to the Democratic Party line.

Per the Chamber: «The ads will highlight candidates» positions on issues critical to economic growth and job creation, like domestic energy production, health care and government spending.»

«They will steer clear of publicly campaigning with President Obama and Speaker Pelosi, distance themselves from the Democratic agenda, and attempt to co-opt Republican positions on the issues.»

But the things that make Ms. Malliotakis appealing are «her youth, her strong, clear, known positions on issues.»

«If the union leadership believes that promoting my positions on these issues will help in their cause, more power to them,» Johnson said.

... [H] is positions on the issues is secondary to the question of whether his politics are helping the working class act for itself or subsume itself under the big business interests in charge of the Democratic Party.

Throughout the race, the Democratic candidates fought hard to distinguish themselves from each other — almost all of them have lived in the neighborhood for decades, have served on the local Community Board and share similar positions on issues like affordable housing, keeping small businesses strong and quality - of - life issues.

Republican NYC mayoral candidate Nicole Malliotakis» appeal as a child of immigrants is the root of her political career, yet it may be compromised by her conservative voting record and positions on issues that directly affect many of those same people.

Below is a collection of links to the candidates» positions on those issues as well as past coverage of debates, finances and other topics throughout the campaign.

«I believe that my positions on the issues are where the voters stand.»

Whatever his positions on the issues compared to Obama, the 2014 Republican gubernatorial nominee must be (ever so slightly) better than out - going Deval Patrick, and significantly more so than Attorney General Martha Coakley.

The release also informs us that this advertising launch is the Chamber's third campaign in the 2012 cycle and is part of the organization's largest voter education and grassroots mobilization effort in its 100 year history, aimed at highlighting candidates» positions on issues critical to the American recovery.

He also had made public statements during a 2012 run as a Republican for U.S. Senate, in which he staked out conservative positions on issues such as abortion, climate change and same - sex marriage.

Holland has struggled to win support, but DeFrancisco and his allies say he is a sharper critic — he lit into Cuomo during his own announcement in January — and pooh - pooh Molinaro for being coy with his candidacy and his positions on issues.

Onondaga County Executive Joanie Mahoney — a Miner foe and a Republican — suggested that Miner's positions on issues like sanctuary cities are part of a run for higher office.

She's taken strong, philosophical positions on issues mainly unaffected by her office, such as declaring Syracuse a sanctuary city and supporting driver's licenses for undocumented immigrants.

He doesn't have finely honed positions on issues; he'd like to abolish parts of the Affordable Care Act, abolish most of the U.S. Department of Education and give younger people another choice for retirement savings besides Social Security.

Positioning himself as the anti-Bloomberg and true progressive in the race, de Blasio attacked his opponents over their positions on issues like stop - and - frisk, even as they accused him of holding positions that were essentially identical.

A viewer could be forgiven for not recognizing that entity as the political arm of the statewide teachers» union, New York State United Teachers: the advertisement, which criticizes Mr. Hanna for his positions on issues like hydraulic fracturing, women's health issues and gun control, never mentions education.

Combined with his changing stance on congestion pricing (he voted in favor in the Council, but now claims to oppose it) this position raises questions as to whether his positions on the issues are driven by principles or the desire to be returned to office for a third term.

The union considers two things above all others, Mulgrew said, when choosing whom to support in a particular race: «What are their positions on our issues as a union?»

As if anticipating that attack, Cuomo released a 250 - page book listing his positions on issues of the day, including a strong defense of charter schools and the use of student - performance data in assessing teachers.

«I have taken strong positions on issues that have been very controversial, and worked with people on both sides of those issues to achieve reform and to achieve growth,» she said.