Sentences with phrase «serious question policy»

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It raises serious questions about the Yellen Fed's commitment to transparency as well as its struggle to reach policy consensus.

«These findings raise serious questions about the policy needs for future pensionless cohorts, such as the adequacy of benefits from Old Age Security, the Guaranteed Income Supplement, and the Quebec and Canada pension plans,» the report states.

This is a serious economic policy question.

The Revolution of 1989 in east and central Europe» a world - historical series of events ignited by moral passion, informed by moral conviction, sustained by deft and morally sophisticated politics, and supported by a resolute demonstration that the Soviet Union could not compete with the United States in a serious arms race» raised further questions about classic foreign - policy realism and its narrow focus on «hard power» as the analytic prism for understanding both the dynamics of world politics and the exigencies of American foreign policy.

People are afraid of being considered soft on communism if they raise serious questions about national attitudes and policies in the Cold War.

Given the potential reverberating effects of divorce through a child's life, some divorce experts say that broken marriages have become a serious public policy question.

At its best, PMQs is an opportunity to ask genuinely important questions and expose serious flaws in government policy.

But if you are serious about making people believe that you can fix things and offer solutions and not platitudes, you need to do deep, critical thinking; you need to reach out to those pesky experts that know stuff and can help; and stress test the policy so you know you won't dissolve in to a shambles on the third question of any interview.

The Social Liberal Forum believes Nick Clegg's newly promulgated policy to rely on spending cuts raises serious questions.

This is a serious enough policy question; certainly the military and police are interested both in estimating, (and perhaps at budget or election time mis - estimating), crowd sizes.

«James Sheppard may be supported by one of the two Democratic political machines in our area, but there are serious unanswered questions about his past support of discriminatory policing policies, among other things.

The poll in question found 76 percent of voters felt the lack of transparency surrounding major policy deals on pension reform, redistricting, expansion of casino gambling and the DNA database was a «very serious» or «somewhat serious» problem.

There are also serious questions to be asked about Qatari foreign policy, with a growing number of MPs and commentators linking Qatari businessmen to the funding of Islamic State and terrorism across the Middle East.

«The IG's report confirms that Ms. Sugarman's office failed to secure the confidentiality of the memo, and raises serious questions about the BOE's management and policies,» the statement said.

The massive overspend will raise serious questions about the Department for Education's ability to control its budget and whether ministers are behaving responsibly in their enthusiasm for the policy.

The interview will focus on the forthcoming general election and the various policy pledges the Lib Dems will be seeking a mandate for, so there is a real opportunity for you to ask some serious questions of the party's leader.

«The IG's report confirms that Ms. Sugarman's office failed to secure the confidentiality of the memo, and raises serious questions about the BOE's management and policies,» Laurence Laufer said.

Indeed, even if he had asked for a donation - which he hotly denies - that would not have been against the law... If there is to be an inquiry, it should be into the far more serious question of whether Peter Mandelson allowed his friendship with Mr Deripaska to influence EU policy on aluminium tariffs?

A senior Labour source said: «This raises serious questions about Andrew Lansley's judgement and it is difficult to see how he can continue on in his role as shadow health secretary when it would appear that a private health care company is helping to fund the development of Tory healthy policy.

«The IG's report confirms that Ms. Sugarman's office failed to secure the confidentiality of the memo, and raises serious questions about the BOE's management and policies,» said attorney Laurence Laufer.

«New Yorkers have serious questions about the city's snow emergency policy and response,» Quinn said in a statement.

While the campaign finance board found that the fund didn't violate its rules, it criticized the mayor's handling of the nonprofit and said it raised serious policy questions.

«This raises serious questions about the underlying... policies.

They do, however, raise serious questions about the validity of climate models (which are, of course, used to predict future warming and are used to set public policy and sway public opinion) and how much we are actually warming.

Setting aside practical and policy questions about how to accomplish that goal, serious questions about the proper «aims of education» cited by Ogletree and Robinson remain unsettled.

In sum, and as the remainder of the testimony demonstrates, the lack of evidence on effective outcomes stemming from neo-voucher programs, over the course of several years and across states, raises serious questions about moving forward with these policies, particularly when our most underserved students are placed on the front line of the policy.

Since 2009, Pioneer has led the campaign against Common Core national education standards and federal control of K - 12 education policy, publishing a series of reports showing that the state's adoption of national standards weakens the quality of academic content in Massachusetts» classrooms, and raising serious questions about the legality and the costs of Common Core.

With such a long and varied list of potentially serious obstacles and an increasingly tight fiscal environment, we're faced with a difficult policy question: what cost - effective levers can colleges employ for boosting graduation rates?

First, the rhetoric of «it's for the kids» makes it easy for serious disagreements about policy or practice to devolve into name - calling and questions of motive.

«It's a very serious question about how much discomfort you're willing to have... to make your people free, or to make your point in policy.

Recent events raise many serious questions for a country whose economy and energy policy is hydropower - based:

But I think there is another serious assumption within the «if policies remain the same» questions.

The ARkStorm scenario raises serious questions about the ability of existing national, state, and local disaster policy to handle an event of this large magnitude.»

Then, he declared that he did not want to lead a party not serious about climate action, and questioned any policy that claimed to be cost - neutral.

«It... raises serious questions about the wisdom of imposing cap - and - trade or other policies that would cripple energy production and economic activity, in the name of preventing catastrophic climate change,» Soon told the executives in a 2009 email.

Both the basis and the content of official policies are open to serious question.

But the growing pace of this power shift should be a cause of major concern for Americans, and it should raise serious questions about our economic policies at the highest level.

[ND - GAIN] also show [s] that the most developed countries are not doing enough either, which raises serious public policy questions no matter how well - developed a national economy may be,» Hellmann said.

«The evidence in my paper is consistent with the hypothesis that the Sun causes climatic change in the Arctic -LSB-...] It invalidates the hypothesis that CO2 is a major cause of observed climate change — and raises serious questions about the wisdom of imposing cap - and - trade or other policies that would cripple energy production and economic activity, in the name of «preventing catastrophic climate change».»

Although AG Cruz Villalón was adamant that the Troika may still include the ECB when it supervises «simple» EFSF / ESM assistance, such as the case in Greece, there are serious arguments questioning the compatibility of the participation of the ECB in the making of economic policy with its mandate.

The submission that the issues which arise here were matters for the Executive or Legislature under Article 120 of the UAE Constitution because they concerned foreign affairs and questions of public policy (ordre public) or a matter for the UAE Supreme Court if there was any serious issue / doubt under the Constitution as to the organ which should determine such questions, falls away once it is seen that waiver of immunity is a question to be determined by the judiciary as part of the contractual and procedural law of the DIFC.

As a matter of policy, the law required an objective standard to screen claims: «[65]... Given the frequency with which everyday experiences cause transient distress, the multi-factorial causes of psychological upset, and the highly subjective nature of an individual's reaction to such stresses and strains, such claims involve serious questions of evidentiary rigour.»

No matter how long your life insurance policy lasts — ten, twenty, or thirty years — this is a serious question to consider.

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