Sentences with phrase «proper role for government»

Overcoming these persistent market failures to help advance a portfolio of advanced energy technologies and provide the secure, affordable, and healthy energy needed to fuel the economy is clearly in the national interest, and is the proper role for government energy and innovation programs.

The proper role for government is to protect individual freedom and liberty, through the Bill of Rights and our Constitution.

Though from a «principles» perspective I can at least recognize «national security» as a proper role for the government (though I often find the specific decisions to be quite objectionable, counterproductive, and unnecessary).

The critics argue the allocation of these funds is the proper role for government.

Not exact matches

It is the proper role of government not to intervene in family life, but to make possible a healthy, strong and productive life for all families.

If Campolo has now decided to abandon such unhelpful rhetoric and instead engage his fellow Christians in discussion about the proper role of government» for instance, with Michael Novak on economics or with Maggie Gallagher on marriage» then I will look forward to it.

Reasonable people can disagree about the proper role of government in feeding children, but Miller isn't looking for intellectually honest debate.

We can go back and forth all day about parenting philosophies, but at the end of the day, that whole «proper role of government» question boils down to this — if you want the government imposing upon the free interactions of others to serve your preferences, at the very least, it's incumbent upon you to prove that the government action (in this case the classroom environment) is the independent variable that deterministically thwarts your goals for your child.

«Beyond infrastructure», Krauthammer dictates, «the conservative sees the proper role of government as providing not European - style universal entitlements but a firm safety net... those too young or too old, too mentally or physically impaired, to provide for themselves.»

Mr Norman believes Mr Cameron's call for the government to trust people to look after themselves, and a new emphasis on the work of the voluntary and independent sector, has tapped into a new debate about the proper role of government.

She was nevertheless promoted by Gordon Brown to her first proper Cabinet role as Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government (having previously been «Labour Party Chair»).

«I do believe there is a proper role for the federal government in research,» Mulvaney replied, particularly in areas where the private sector is not likely to support research.

Locke's and John Stuart Mill's arguments for individual autonomy retain power today, but in the 20th century Dewey and others, influenced by Hegel and other German thinkers, put forward an arresting claim: that the proper education of children requires a role for government so large that it would have shocked their liberal predecessors.

«We talked in broader terms of education funding and the need for attracting teachers and what to do about inner city schools, as well as the proper role of federal government.

Image credit: Transport for London London's transportation authority tries fashion design In the US this might awaken the age - old debate about the proper role of government, but back over in «socialist» Europe, Transport for London (TfL), the authority

A larger group of opponents in Congress worried about the proper role of government and the costs of combating climate change, particularly given the lack of commitments for action by the large emerging economies of China, India, Brazil, Korea, South Africa, and Mexico.

Those who want the government to tell people (usually other people) how to live and those who think the proper role is for the people to tell the government how to govern.