Sentences with phrase «pragmatic policies for»

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President Obama has promoted pragmatic and compassionate immigration policies, including support for the DREAM Act that would provide a path to citizenship through higher education or military service for young people who came to America as children.

The time is ripe for an exceptionally broad political coalition to work for a new federal housing policy reflecting what the bishops call «the American pragmatic tradition of reform.»

b) People believe politicians should be economists because more pragmatic economics policy means less chance for corruption.

Just an opinion: it would appear «repeal» was a better campaigning slogan for their target demographic, but «repair» is simply a more pragmatic policy.

Candidates on the Independence line do not have to take marching orders from political party bosses or follow tooth and nail a restrictive party platform insofar as policy positions and social issues are concerned, instead they are free to make conscious and pragmatic decisions as to what is best for their constituency.

James Scott, press & policy officer for BASC Scotland said: «We are pleased at the pragmatic approach being taken by the Scottish Government.

«We can not afford to lose your pragmatic policies, particularly the One - District - One - Factory and others that will create jobs for our teeming unemployed youth in our various electoral areas,» the statement added.

We can not afford to lose your pragmatic policies, particularly the One - District - One - Factory and others that will create jobs for our teeming unemployed youth in our various electoral areas.

Can't quite agree with your characterization of Lincoln - or Obama for that matter - as being impatient or divisive (unless I'm misreading you on that point); in both cases, I think they did about the best they could with recalcitrant opposition (obviously more severe in Lincoln's case) and that they correctly read their respective times in pushing certain policies through (and both were, in large part a mixture of idealism and pragmatism - too pragmatic for a lot of other idealists).

Taken together, these goals and policies represent the ASPCA's desire to chart a pragmatic path that holds shelters appropriately accountable for the substantial responsibilities that come with the job of sheltering animals.

Such a technocratic narrative will also tend to encourage technocratic solutions: geoengineering as a quick - fix for climate change, say, or the Anthropocene imagined as a pragmatic problem to be managed, such that «Anthropocene science» is translated smoothly into «Anthropocene policy» within existing structures of governance.

Over all, Obama's choices reflect his longstanding pattern of charting a pragmatic path reflecting the need for strong regulation, including of greenhouse gases (embodied in McCarthy), and the simultaneous need to advance responsible use of cleaner fossil fuels while also using policies and investments to advance non-polluting energy technologies for the long haul.

Importantly, planning for adaptation policies by coastal policy planners and decision - makers requires a pragmatic approach.

But, according to Nisbet, he can be faulted for offering «arguments for action on climate change that evoke a vision of the future that reflects his own values and priorities, rather than a broad, pragmatic set of choices designed to both effectively manage the problem and to align a diversity of political interests in support of policy action.»

The core of the issue that I worry most about, as do others, is that arguments for action on climate change that evoke only one particular vision of the future will reflect only the priorities and values of certain parties, rather than a broad, pragmatic set of choices designed to both effectively manage the problem of climate change and align a diversity of political interests in support of policy action.

The climate wars will no doubt continue between extremes on both sides, but that should not delay a far - larger set of pragmatic Americans from embracing policies and measures that attract widespread agreement, are adjustable over time, incremental in their implementation, and provide positive feedbacks for further action.

Where efforts to address climate change have for the last 20 years focused on reducing national emissions through sweeping policies, like cap and trade or carbon taxes, climate policy today has shifted decisively toward smaller bore, pragmatic policies that don't promise to eliminate the climate crisis in one fell swoop but do help us move our economy toward greater «decarbonization,» sector by sector and technology by technology.

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For pragmatic environmentalists Riley's Paradox describes a fundamental concern relative to climate change policy: Economic damage from man - made «climate change» is illusory whereas damage from man - made «policies» to fight the said change is real.

The Harvard Project on Climate Agreements identifies and communicates scientifically sound, economically sensible, and politically pragmatic public policy options for addressing global climate change.

Instead, and drawing upon his own profound analysis and experience of international environmental law, diplomacy and policy, Victor presents a convincing case for a pragmatic, incremental and credible approach to climate policy, in stark contrast to the idealistic, radical and incredible approach which has so feebly failed.

The goal of the Harvard Project on Climate Agreements, which was established in 2007, is to help identify and advance scientifically sound, economically sensible, and politically pragmatic public policy options for addressing global climate change.

Third, and bringing together normative and pragmatic angles, not only has the Canadian legal profession in general, and many of the provincial self - regulatory organizations more particularly, opened up a policy - making space for considering how to reformulate the future of legal services to improve access to justice, but also, the provincial self - regulators all have an implicit and, sometimes, as in the case of Ontario, an explicit duty to facilitate access to justice in their regulatory activities.

Harvey makes the point at K [277] that, although grounds were given for distinguishing the earlier decision «one is left with a strong impression that the limitation of retrospective access to pay protection policies owes as much to pragmatic considerations of practicability in the implementation of equal pay as to any clear issue of principle».

This report provides a nonpartisan, pragmatic guide for policymakers seeking science - based policies that benefit both vulnerable children and society as a whole.