Sentences with phrase «serious efforts of the government»

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«Private companies and institutions will be a crucial part of any serious effort to rewrite the social contract, because they can incubate ideas that government won't and experiment in ways that government can't.»

If any Christians are currently promoting a «gnostic split of soul and body,» it is those on the left who seem satisfied with social programs that feed the body but starve the soul and, even worse, turn a blind eye to growing efforts by the government to discriminate against faith - based charities that are serious about ministering to the whole person.

Serious efforts should likewise be made to secure for foreign service in government and commerce men and women who are capable and dedicated, who will inspire confidence, respect, and affection in the people among whom they sojourn, and who will identify sympathetically with these people in attitudes and way of life rather than create little outposts of the home country in a foreign land.

Eighty - nine percent of New Yorkers agree obesity is a somewhat serious or very serious problem among children and teenagers, but 54 percent feel government efforts to combat that problem accounts to too much «meddling» along the lines of a Nanny State.

Now, under Brown, with Harriet Harman's Equality Bill and the creation of the Government Equalities Office, a serious effort is being made to measure what is happening.

When asked if income inequality was serious in the city, 84 percent of those surveyed it was very or somewhat serious, with 66 percent saying the supported government efforts to try to reduce income inequality.

Other investigations spurred government efforts to clean up Scajaquada Creek and reverse a decision to open Gallagher Beach for swimming because of serious water pollution.

The government should give serious effort to finding other means of treating the drug users who fill Britain's prisons.

«Now, more than ever, we must step up our efforts to reduce the burden of this serious disease,» she said in a government news release.

In 1954, the Supreme Court in Brown v. Board of Education found legally segregated schools to be unconstitutional, but it was not until the legislative and executive branches put the full strength of the federal government behind desegregation efforts, by passing the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965, that serious progress was made in the South.

«What we need is a credible, constructive and collegiate school improvement strategy and a serious government - led effort to reduce inequality and the number of children living in poverty.»

There needs to be a serious effort and commitment from federal, state, and local governments, as well as coalitions of school personnel with community groups to ensure implementation, evaluation, and continued success of intercultural / multicultural education in schools in the United States and across cultures.

On a more serious note, Brunelli's cover note also makes very clear that, far from the «transparent,» «educational» organization ALEC now claims to be, ALEC told its funders a different story: «One hundred percent of our energy and effort goes into winning the public policy debate and championing a free market economy... [elipses original] a pro-business, pro-growth, pro-freedom, limited government agenda.»

Getting Our Priorities Right But rather than asking ourselves why we, or others, aren't doing all we can — we should look at what we are doing to limit our impact while we are living in a system that encourages the exact opposite, and imagine how much those efforts would be multiplied in a world where we paid the true cost of gasoline, where the coal industry was held responsible for its economically ruinous impacts, and where Governments got serious about supporting clean energy.

As one trade association representing the information technology sector explained,» [d] espite the Chinese government's serious effort to begin addressing the piracy of intellectual property, the protection of [intellectual property] remains our industry's chief concern in 2005.

Despite public and government efforts to reduce drunk driving and the accidents that it causes, this DWI attorney New Orleans knows that this problem remains a serious threat to our safety and the safety of our families.