Sentences with phrase «than other policy makers»

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Colorado and Washington are using taxes and regulation to channel pot entrepreneurship more productively than other states, where policy makers are wasting resources trying to stop it, and, consequently, driving it underground.

IBFAN's Code Documentation Centre in Malaysia has provided International Code training for more than 300 government policy - makers and others in Africa, the Americas, Asia, Europe, and the Western Pacific; has produced training materials, including the Model Law, to assist governments in translating the International Code into national law.

In other words, when applied to maternity care, The Precautionary Principle states that when a practice, action, or policy may raise threats of harm to mother, baby, or family, the burden of proof that it will result in more good than harm falls on those who wish to adopt it — the policy maker, caregiver, or administrator, not on the pregnant person.

Josef Decosas of the Canadian International Development Agency believes that policy makers must focus on overall health in developing countries, rather than malaria, or AIDS, or TB, or any other single disease.

And he has done so at the particular intersection of science with public policy environment and the human condition where public and policy - maker confusion about the realities is more dangerous for the future of society than on any other science - and - policy question excepting, possibly, the dangers from weapons of mass destruction.

Even if we ignore the fact that most portfolio managers, regulators, and other policy makers rely on the level of test scores (rather than gains) to gauge quality, math and reading achievement results are not particularly reliable indicators of whether teachers, schools, and programs are improving later - life outcomes for students.

Policy makers must listen to young people by following the Youth Power Agenda and other proposals like it that can pave a new national model for school safety, centered on support like guidance counselors, support services, and restorative justice, rather than criminalization.

Quantification of Climate System Responses: On equilibrium climate sensitivity, several delegations, including Australia, the Netherlands and others, noted that the message that the lower limit of the assessed «likely» range of climate sensitivity is less than the 2 °C in the AR4 can be confusing to policy makers and suggested noting it is the same as in previous assessments.

Other measures related to the 1973 embargo, such as price controls and rationing, were eliminated decades ago, as policy makers realized that they impeded, rather than aided, American energy security.

Application of scientific rather than risk - based norms in communicating climate change uncertainty has also made it easier for policy - makers and other actors to downplay relevant future climate risks (Stern et al 2016, Ebi et al 2016).

So climate models are much more complex than other models being discussed here, and their projections are not being used for deterministic decision making by major policy makers.

On the other hand, perhaps a quantitative count is better than nothing at all, so that the policy and law - makers at least need to show that they have given some thought to these matters.

Advocates, reporters, and other interested observers can influence policy makers to conduct the next crime debate on the basis of cold reality rather than colorful rhetoric.