Sentences with phrase «significant role for government»

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And while Buffett does praise America's market system for rewarding success, he also seems to back the government's role in determining the «distribution of a significant portion of the bounty.»

It is also noteworthy that women played very significant roles in the struggle for self - government; mounting campaign platforms alongside their male counterparts and organizing women.

It must, however, be difficult for serving officers to understand how the most recent «significant» change, which included performance and role pay, supported by national and local Government and Chief Officers through the PNB, now appears to fail to find any support in those three bodies.

«I think it's a really important committee and I think it can play a significant role in improving the effectiveness of government and the value for money that we get for taxpayers.

The committee supports an ongoing significant federal role but also supports important roles for state and local governments.

Whilst the last few years have seen a significant change in the role of the local education authority (LEA), successive governments have still seen fit to ensure the responsibility for school place planning still rests with the local authority.

In the latter years of the 20th century, the federal government not only became far more involved in civil rights, surveillance of behavior and misbehavior on educational sites, and financing of education for the less wealthy; in conjunction with the governors of many states, the federal government also played a significant role in testing of students, evaluation of progress toward national educational goals, and even support for the creation and evaluation of curricula and pedagogical approaches, both live and online.

Re: the US News article on top about ESSA: Chairwoman Foxx is right about the role of the federal government in America's K - 12 education system; and families can continue to pressure educrats like Mr Botel by opting out, wherever and whenever possible, from their local state schools until the federal government gives up on the continuing mistake of its annual testing requirement in two subjects only, which has produced no significant improvement in American education for 15 years now, but has cost us in lost opportunities, including time and energy that might have been devoted to non-tested subjects, including those in the broader curricula represented by the International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme, which requires assessment — including but not limited to external final exams — in six subjects distributed over at least five fields, an assessment approach that has been imitated by the world's leading educational jurisdictions, but is being discouraged by the ignorant Luddites in the the U.S. ED.

There are many dimensions of action affecting this moment in time — a renewed focus and emerging consensus regarding the kinds of learning outcomes essential for success in today's globally connected world; significant efforts to promote innovation affecting all facets of education, particularly regarding new teaching and learning strategies and opportunities; and a renewed focus on key elements of necessary systemic change, in which the roles of the federal government, the states, school systems and schools are better aligned and more coherently understood.

It seems likely that the government would continue to play a significant role in working with lenders and communities in support of affordable housing and home loans, but the administration is suggesting changes that could make home loans less affordable for first time buyers with little cash and moderate income families currently depending on FHA for buying homes or refinancing existing mortgage loans.

As head of the nation's largest city, de Blasio is throwing significant weight behind a movement by local governments to directly target fossil fuel companies for the role their products play in fueling global warming.

Although the authors claim that the cost of wind energy is now competitive with coalówithout considering the impact of current and significant federal and state government subsidiesóthe authors argue for a very significant federal and state government role in supporting wind energy development in the U.S..

I said recently to the GLS Administrative Law conference that the role of government lawyers is a constitutionally significant one providing, as we do, risk - based advice which circumscribes the legitimate basis for government action.

Among the most significant changes from the existing framework are a new «public interest» test, greater government involvement in the early planning phase of proposed projects and a potentially significant role for regulators in certain types of review panel assessments.

Should the role of directly providing services be properly left to the province of the government, a National Indigenous Representative Body could still play a significant and important role in program delivery by setting priorities for program delivery, contributing to planning processes and monitoring government service delivery.

The role of ICCs in respect of Indigenous - specific programs is clear enough, although there are significant issues with the workability of this model of service delivery and coordination.Gray and Sanders note, for example, the view held by heads of government departments that ICCs present «some very significant governance and skill challenges».

In 3 days, the workshop participants have made significant progress in identifying the principles to guide the creation of a new national representative body for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples and in identifying its key roles and functions, representativeness and relationship to government.

In December 2007, the new Australian Government has identified economic development as a significant factor which «lies at the heart of efforts to improve the lives of Indigenous Australians» and «supports Indigenous peoples using their lands for economic development».31 This policy direction will play a significant role in Australia meeting the objectives of Article 1 of the Declaration on the Right to Development: 32

An enhanced national structure and role for ATSIC, including the ability to issue directions, could provide greater accountability of governments in building on the findings of these significant monitoring processes.