Sentences with phrase «rather less government»

Unfortunately, the solution to corruption in politics (i.e., government) is not more Gospel but rather less government.

Not exact matches

While he would have liked to have seen more investor - specific changes — «it's always nice to have more rather than less,» he says — he thinks it's unlikely we'll see any reductions in capital gain taxes or major increases in TFSA room until at least 2015, when the government says it can balance the budget by.

In essence, if correct, this means there is less price risk in government debt securities than corporate fixed income issues, and therefore the extra 10 % should largely be made up of government bonds rather than corporates and preferred shares.

Private mortgage insurance, which applies to conventional loans, might be more or less expensive than the FHA's mortgage insurance and is supplied by a financial institution rather than the government.

I advise my scientific colleagues and students to become more political rather than less so, because it is impossible to separate science from politics when government funding is a primary factor for promotion and tenure in academia.

Hard just war theory reverses these emphases, replacing them with the following: a presumption against injustice and disorder rather than against war; an assumption that war is tragic but inevitable in a fallen world and that war is a necessary task of government; a tendency to trust the U.S. government and its claims of need for military action; an emphasis on just war theory as a tool to aid policymakers and military personnel in their decisions; an inclination to distrust the efficacy of international treaties and to downplay the value of international actors and perspectives; a less stringent or differently oriented application of some just war criteria; and no sense of common ground with Christian pacifists.

As part of its Less Is More campaign, Greenpeace is now calling on governments to stop promoting meat and dairy - focused policies and instead support growing crops for humans, rather than to feed animals.

At Silver's trial jurors were told they could convict based on «any action under color of official authority» by Silver, but the 2d Circuit said the Supreme Court ruling required a «formal exercise of government power,» rather than lesser acts like just making a phone call or having a meeting.

Rather, it anticipated increased efficiency and less overlap in government services.

A fact they would rather you forgot when they lecture the Government on a rise of less than 10 % under the Coalition.

In government he worked closely with George Osborne to ensure that, in this era of austerity, this long - term investment in our nation's future got extra funding rather than less.

We are very certain that he will not perform any less in this appointment, rather his impact will be greatly felt by the government and the people of Nigeria.»

Is there any evidence then that the election of Select Committee chairs has brought in a different kind of parliamentarian — younger, less biddable, more rebellious, representing parliament rather than government, and focused on scrutiny rather than climbing the ministerial ladder?

More generally, our previous research has also found little evidence that the 2010 reforms had increased parliamentarians» engagement with the committee system in terms of attendance or turnover, nor that they had encouraged a new breed of parliamentarian (e.g. younger, less biddable, more rebellious, representing Parliament rather than government, and focused on scrutiny rather than climbing the ministerial ladder (see here, here and here)-RRB-.

Also, the biggest liberal concerns about Islamist practices and abuses involve matters that can only be implemented with majority control of the government (e.g. excessive use of corporal punishment in the criminal justice system), but which are much less harmful to non-Muslims, at least, when Muslims can only enforce their ideologies on co-religionists and can only do so via institutions of civil society rather than institutions of coercive government control.

The reason it is still rather unlikely (less than a one in three chance)- there could be a majority government.

It does become a problem if it is an indication of soft support for Labour, if the government become less unpopular once they have a better economy behind them, if minor parties establish themselves as alternative recipients of anti-government votes or if during an election campaign it becomes more of a choice between two alternatives, rather than a judgement on the incumbent.

The agreement finally reached on the local government pension scheme after the government made significant concessions has rather less to do with official generosity than fear about the consequences if the scheme were so eviscerated that hundreds of thousands of local government workers might decide there was no point in continuing to contribute to it since, if they walked away, they would still get the same amount of money in retirement from means - tested income support.

It's not less government that is needed, but rather making the existing government responsive and transparent.

Now looking at the government's call for some departments to estimate the impact of forty per cent cuts - could that possibly be the hot water to make us much more amenable to the rather less scorching prospect of twenty five per cent cuts?

Cameron would never be as crudely unsubtle, but in his equivalent pre-election conference address he launched an indiscriminate attack on «big government», blaming the state for more or less everything including the financial crisis when even most of those on the right admit too little government rather than too much was the cause.

Instead of moving ahead with a government - built Ares - 1 rocket with a capsule on top called the Orion, Augustine and Edward Crawley, a Massachusetts Institute of Technology engineer and panel member, said that NASA instead might rope in private industry for a joint effort to build a less ambitious vehicle that could be ready by 2016 — rather than 2017 or later than Ares is likely to fly.

Last year, heeding calls for «local control» of education decisions and less invasive interventions in underperforming schools, Congress passed the Every Student Succeeds Act, granting states and local school boards, rather than the federal government, broad latitude in determining how to rate the performance of schools and how to intervene when performance lags.

The government has announced plans for major GCSE reform which will see exams sat at the end of two - year courses, rather than in modules throughout, as well as an increase in extended questions and less internal assessment.

Testing pupils at the beginning of key stage 2, rather than at the end, is seen as less burdensome, and the government also claims it will allow teachers to identify which pupils need extra support to reach their end - of - primary target.

But if you'd rather get bigger paychecks throughout the year, ask your payroll manager to help you change your withholding allowances so that the government withholds less money in taxes.

So rather than seeing social security as a favour from the Government, perhaps understand it's an entitlement contributed to in the good times, and repaid when you've less cash.

«What I want to emphasise, which I think is still less than fully looked at, is just what we are going to have to do in Parliament in government over the next period to actually make sure the legislational and regulatory arrangements we've got support the new transition rather than impede it.

Often justified largely on the basis of junk science they have come up with such wonderful policy prescriptions as using only unreliable sources of energy because they are «sustainable,» keeping natural resources in the ground rather than using them to meet human needs, having government tell manufacturers what requirements their products must meet to use less energy rather than encouraging manufacturers to meet the needs of their customers, all in the name of «energy efficiency,» substituting government dictates for market solutions on any issue related to energy use, and teaching school children junk science that happens to meet «environmentalists» ideological beliefs in hopes of perpetuating these beliefs to future generations even though they do not conform to the scientific method, the basis of science.

The convergence that I observe in climate science is far more on what statist solutions must be imposed via bigger government, and less personal liberty rather than on an accurate model of the climate system.

Rather than discuss any regrets over the Massey Upper Big Branch Mine Disaster, Blankenship used the speaking event to discuss the need for less federal government regulation, among other topics.

If the government was to recognise that change away from fossil fuels must come, if it was to accept that change and encourage it rather than resisting it, the transition would come with much less pain: environmental, emotional and financial.

Where, perhaps, government in the past has been too blinkered, has been by trying simply to squeeze more from the system for the same cost (or less, when factoring in the lack of inflationary increases) rather than addressing whether services are procured in the right way and properly understanding the drivers for rising costs (the latter when their own research has shown that government is itself a driver through legislation, the growing number of offences and the associated demand for legal aid).

Private mortgage insurance, which applies to conventional loans, might be more or less expensive than the FHA's mortgage insurance and is supplied by a financial institution rather than the government.

Private mortgage insurance, which applies to conventional loans, might be more or less expensive than the FHA's mortgage insurance and is supplied by a financial institution rather than the government.