Sentences with phrase «something policy people»

It's not something policy people, let alone lay people, are comfortable talking about.

Not exact matches

Changes to superannuation policy played a role in the significantly reduced majority for the Turnbull government at the July 2 election, but if you look a little deeper you find something far more interesting — the government can't afford its retirement policies, and some retired people can't afford to live.

Microsoft, for example, has reduced itself to heckling Google with two campaigns: «Scroogled,» about the alleged evils of Google's e-mail advertising policy (something that consumers have met with a shrug ever since Gmail's introduction nearly a decade ago); and the «Bing It On Challenge,» in which people on the street pick the search results they like best (which apes the old Pepsi Challenge — a campaign that defined Pepsi by what it isn't, and thus condemned it to being Coke's bridesmaid forever).

But this suggests that Megan is onto something - people can force cities to change their recycling policy but continually putting the wrong types of plastic into the recycling.

Many people will still think of «Keynesian» fiscal policy as something like that.

The open approach to policy development is something that will better reflect the wishes of the most important people in the political equation; Albertans.

He intelligently applies such truisms to various marketing and public policy issues, but they are in service to his larger point: forget the formation of character and persuading people about whether something is true» the way to get things done is to condition behavior.

I would much rather have a person who believes in things that have evidence writing and / or voting on my fiscal policies then someone who believes in something due to faith and has no evidence.

Something says to me that the person being complained about carrying out the investigation into the complaint is not a helpful «policy».

Cares enormously about children in resettlement camps, who must drink water to fill their stomachs because there is no food; he cares about shivering women at Nyanga whose flimsy plastic shelters are being destroyed by police; He cares that the influx control system together with Bantunization are destroying black family life not accidentally but by deliberate government policy; He cares that people die mysteriously in detention; He cares that something horrible is happening in this country when a man will often mow down his family before turning the gun on himself; He cares that life seems so dirt cheap (cited in Maimela 1986:43).

They were also blind to the reality that, while people might have been unhappy about elements of Obama's foreign policy and would be willing to trade up to something better, most swing voters would, if faced with a constrained choice, prefer the mistakes of Obama to the mistakes of George W. Bush.

We're going to have to learn to listen and to consider how our actions, our policies, our laws affect all peoples — something that is not easy to do.

Nothing like one underachiever blowing smoke up the ass of another... we know that Ozil has some incredible technical gifts, but to be considered the best you have to bring more than just assists to the table... for me, a top player has to possess a more well - rounded game, which doesn't mean they need to be a beast on both ends of the pitch, but they must have the ability to take their game to another level when it matters most... although he amassed some record - like stats early on, it set the bar too high, so when people expected him to duplicate those numbers each year the pressure seemed to get the best of our soft - spoken star... obviously that's not an excuse for what has happened in the meantime, but it's important to make note of a few things: (1) his best year was a transition year for many of the traditionally dominant teams in the EPL, so that clearly made the numbers appear better than they actually were and (2) Wenger's system, or lack thereof, didn't do him any favours; by playing him out of position and by not acquiring world - class striker and / or right - side forward that would best fit an Ozil - centered offensive scheme certainly hurt his chances to repeat his earlier peformances, (3) the loss of Cazorla, who took a lot of pressure off Ozil in the midfield and was highly efficient when it came to getting him the ball in space, negatively impacted his effectiveness and (4) he likewise missed a good chunk of games and frankly never looked himself when he eventually returned to the field... overall the Ozil experiment has had mixed reviews and rightfully so, but I do have some empathy for the man because he has always carried himself the same way, whether for Real or the German National team, yet he has only suffered any lengthy down periods with Arsenal... to me that goes directly to this club's inability to surround him with the necessary players to succeed, especially for someone who is a pass first type of player; as such, this simply highlights our club's ineffective and antiquated transfer policies... frankly I'm disappointed in both Ozil and our management team for not stepping up when it counted because they had a chance to do something special, but they didn't have it in them... there is no one that better exemplifies our recent history than Ozil, brief moments of greatness undercut by long periods of disappointing play, only made worse by his mopey posturing like a younger slightly less awkward Wenger... what a terribly waste

«The old man is policy,» says a man who has been close to the family, and the boys readily agree that they all talk to him every day, by phone or in person, and that if he rules against something they won't do it.

«After the government have used its policy to brush them up from nothing to something; instead of giving opportunity to other people, they are taking Nigerian jobs to foreign countries through the shooting of music videos abroad.

All the media want is a juicy headline, because most people would rather read something scandalous than wade through policy.

You can spot it instantly: the person saying something they don't believe in because of the party line, or pretending a previous policy didn't exist the second their leader U-turns on it.

More controversially, they also cover material relating to government policy formulation (including the background information on which decisions were based) and anything else which «would in the reasonable opinion of a qualified person be likely to prejudice the effect conduct of public affairs» - something again left undefined in the Act.

«He has continually fought for economic and racial justice for all working people in New York, and used his prosecutorial powers to resist against the Trump Administration's cruel policies, something which benefits all New Yorkers and many people beyond our state.»

The reaction of voters would be to recognise again that the Lib Dems were «the only ones that are telling it straight», and even if they might not agree with the policy «people felt that told them something about the Lib Dems.»

«We're going to have a strategy in place that does something the previous home secretary set out last week when she made a statement to parliament — to ensure that we have an immigration policy that is fair, it treats people with respect, and with decency,» he said.

Alexander said the Lib Dems put forward ideas for changing the controversial welfare policy last September and «people shouldn't be surprised it is something the Liberal Democrats have been thinking about».

Could that be something to do with the Lib Dems» role in ushering these people into power, keeping them there, and buying wholeheartedly into the fiction that the crash was caused by Labour overspending and that austerity was the only economic policy option?

People who get there are going to open their app and think, you know, maybe it's something the local government's doing,» said Josh Gold, Uber's NY policy director.

A quick Google search on Labour and Ed Miliband policies produced these results: - On Welfare - • Ed Miliband sets out plans to cut benefits for young jobless • Ed Miliband to promise Labour cap on welfare spending • Miliband admits public anger at «something for nothing culture» • Labour leader pledges to match Tory plan to cut welfare bill On Immigration - • Ed Miliband's nod to Ukip: We understand people's fears on immigration • Ed Miliband: it's not prejudiced to be concerned about immigration • Labour leader tries to reach out to Ukip voters • LABOUR leader Ed Miliband pledged to tackle the issue of immigration

«So, telling a pollster that the phenomenon isn't happening may reflect something about a person's general policy preferences, not just their level of certainty that the global climate is changing.»

Something like a whirlwind in person, Radford cuts through the pre-lunch crowd at a swank Denver bar, where he spots me at a table chatting with his ingénue from The Merchant of Venice, Lynn Collins, and makes a beeline, hand extended in a gesture unaffected enough to shed a little light on how unspoken he's been about his film, United States foreign policy, and actors.

This short blurb by Checker Finn is terrific; the first - person narrative is compelling, and for history buffs and those fascinated by the intersection of politics and policy, it offers something special.

Some advocates and policy analysts said that Mr. Klein was a transformative force, turning the city's public education system into something that people who had given up on it could believe in again.

Most people have a clear sense that something is very wrong, but framing their objections in specific policy terms is much harder.

Return policies are there for a reason: because people might just dislike something after buying it.

In the shaping of legislation and public policies, there is a large place for efforts to «calculate» or predict, from the findings of all appropriate social - scientific research and analysis, the probable effects of alternative policies or measures upon the happiness or welfare of the people generally, and of different groups among them; and to choose the policies most likely to be conducive to something like (in the ambiguous Benthamite phrase) «the greatest happiness of the greatest number.»

Term life insurance is often considered the most popular form of insurance for people who want to put a prepared financial plan into place to shelter their family members in case something unexpected happens to the policy holder.

The vast majority of those comments are left by people angry about something to do with a claim — often, that has more to do with their choice of coverage or the fact that they didn't read the policy before they had a loss.

Something to keep in mind is that the policy considers certain items to be «high - risk,» and caps coverage of these items at $ 1,000 per person.

If the person at the time of taking TIP (Term Insurance policy) doesn't smoke and paid premium for non smoking, but later assume that he becomes a chain smoker, will that policy is still valid when something happens him because of his smoking.

In other words, it's not something they would be doing to your policy alone, but to a class of people.

Many people just assume that their policy will reimburse them for all of their damages if something happens, only to find out that they weren't covered at all, when it's too late!

It might be worth taking out a life insurance policy on that person or finding out a way to ensure that you'll be covered if something happens to them.

In other cases, people decide to do something about it to get money back out of the policy.

Some people looking for renters insurance under $ 50 are looking for a cheap policy because they look at it as something their landlord is forcing them to buy.

@ 31 — It's not that people are entitled it's just that most retailers offer a 14 - 30 day price protection policy and it's definitely something that Sony should implement into the PSN.

Livity is something of an unusual agency, combining client work with an open doors policy that sees young people from around its base in Brixton, South London, come into the space to be mentored, use its facilities, and in turn help with some coveted youthful perspective for their seniors.

However Trump he is quite good at keeping the message simple and concise, where Hilary Clinton became lost in policy details at times, to the extent that it was hard to get a simple picture of her 5 main prioities, something for people to grab hold of.

Instead, you'll see something in between the world sought by «climate hawks,» the term proposed by David Roberts of Grist as the label for aggressive campaigners pursuing policies that live up to the picture delineated by science, and the contrasting world of free marketeers and industrialists who speak breezily of climate uncertainty as a reason to relax and let spreading wealth give people the leisure to start to care for the environment and the money and technology to do something to clean it up.

It is a pity that Roe and Baker did not say something as clear as that in their article because it leaves their work open to abuse by people trying to undermine the momentum for major policy changes.

«In a very cynical way, it's a triumph for science because at last we have stabilized something --- namely the estimates for the carrying capacity of the planet, namely below 1 billion people,» said Dr. Schellnhuber, who has advised German Chancellor Angela Merkel on climate policy and is a visiting professor at Oxford.

If you people want a lasting legacy, something meaningful; get on with the people's business and do something that will make this country the envy of the world, create a sound energy policy / plan.

I fear as many have said before, and it will be way, WAY too late by then, only when some natural calamity hits here in the US, something that wipes out millions of people, will these idiot, deranged narcissistic policy makers start mandating change.

Beforehand, some people wondered how such a diverse group would agree about something as tricky as an energy policy.