Sentences with phrase «serious questions about the policy»

«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.

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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.

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.

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.

«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.

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 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.

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.

«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.

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.

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.

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.

«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».»

A lot of people have serious questions about cancelling a car insurance policy.

Professor Stephen Leeder, Director of the Australian Health Policy Institute, writes: The recent Crikey article raising serious questions about the future of primary care is timely in view o...