Sentences with phrase «top down government»

Environmental management involves the strategic deployment of methods and technologies across landscapes, industries and infrastructure — and for implementation requires a different — bottom up — approach than top down government regulation that is failing both business and the environment.

This project researches new approaches and innovative solutions to student disengagement using grass roots partnerships rather than top down government interventions.

We can not wait for slow as molasses top down government regulation.

Not exact matches

Other top government officials, like foreign minister Nikos Kotzias, have worked to water down the threat of further sanctions against Russia as well.

Aluminum prices rose sharply in the first quarter than a year earlier as output fell in top producer China, where the government has shut down some aluminum capacity.

Take it from me having a plan saved my business when an overzealous government regulator closed down my sole supplier of our top selling product and told the press that the product was unsafe.

Its task would be less to design and implement top - down solutions than to solicit, support, evaluate, and scale up innovative strategies by tapping into ideas developed by state and local governments, businesses, and non-profit institutions.

Consulting first for the Tsarist government, and later for the Soviets, Palchinsky was a persistent and clear - sighted critic of top - down economic planning and inefficient megaprojects like the Lenin Dam.

As a result, bilateral ties between the two countries have become highly personalized with Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese President Xi Jinping directing government commissions, sitting officials, and heads of state corporations to develop financial and trade deals — most of which are large - scale, top - down investments of Chinese money into key sectors of the Russian economy.

The trade groups hired Eugene Scalia, a former top lawyer at the Labor Department who has a strong record of getting courts to strike down government regulations.

It is a concept that AFFECTED GOVERNMENT POLICY, and caused various regulations on businesses, wages, and banks to be removed and restrictions to be loosened so that the top tiers of the US economy could really gain more and kick the trickle - down effect into overdrive.

A Chinese care worker says the Government's torn down a cross from the top of a church attached to a...

Many NGOs and church groups have worked at community development projects, but governments and global agencies have engaged in top - down development, such as huge dams, destructive of community.

Unlike their Scottish brethren, who developed an organization from the top down, the American Presbyterians, like the American government, was built from the bottom up.

It would be a far more effective way to see if you're right than to use government to impose a top - down, one - size - fits - all orthodoxy and effectively outlaw what real scientists call a control group.

But instead of dealing with these issues, the government is pursuing a top down re-organisation of education that has no basis in evidence to support it.

As democratised solar energy takes off in California, Germany and Spain, the government has signed us up to decades of expensive, top - down nuclear power

Cuomo's new chief of staff, Maria Comella, a lifelong Republican and former top aide to NJ Gov. Chris Christie, has immediately become one of state government's highest paid staffers, pulling down $ 175,000 a year.

The main efforts of governments continues to focus too on a top - down structure of climate governance, guided by a «targets and timetables» approach that mirrors the Montreal model.

In both health and education, Brown continued the Blair governments» pattern of top - down reorganisation of hospitals and schools, and the increasing use of private sector finance and organisations to deliver services.

Dr Billings said: «The government have marched the Campaign for Truth and Justice to the top of the hill only to march them down again.

Unfortunately, I think that's kind of inevitable - any system that requires a centrally planned economy over multiple communities is going to favor a very rigid top - down form of government, which lends itself to authoritarian rule.

One of the core architects of Mayor Bill de Blasio's affordable housing plan announced her intention to step down from city government today — making her the third top city administrator do so since December.

Our report shows that while we don't need a further top - down reorganisation or a full merging of services, we do we need any incoming Government to deliver a fairer funding settlement for counties, reform the Better Care Fund, overhaul the NHS tariff system and focus on workforce integration.

Left - wing is big government and right - wing is small government, because in our society the government is more or less the only institution under some democratic control, so if power is transferred from a democratically controlled government to uncontrolled corporations, power becomes more top - down; if power resides with a democratically controlled government, power becomes more egalitarian.

In opposition, Labour will say, Cameron vowed not to introduce a top - down reorganisation and then in government did precisely that.

There is a crucial caveat though — Survation also asked what the top priority should be for the government — 31 % said immigration, 20 % the economy, 9 % jobs, 9 % public services, 6 % combating terrorism and down on 5 % constitutional reform.

The paper reported that Cuomo has told his top staff members that he plans on shutting down the government if the State Legislature failed to negotiate a budget by the April 1 deadline.

The Conservatives today attacked the government for imposing top down targets for house building - and then for failing to meet these targets.

Cuomo has said this is now his top priority — something for which he might even be willing to shut down the government if lawmakers don't accept his five - point plan to clean up Albany.

The removal of top - down government targets, the immigration cap and the creation of a mandatory referendum before any further powers can be transferred to Brussels were also flagged.

Top Senate Democrat Chuck Schumer said there's «very, very strong» sentiment among Democrats in the chamber to oppose GOP - drafted legislation to keep the government's doors open, which could indicate the chances are increasing that the government could shut down at midnight Friday.

The rest of the executive chamber was formally informed at a 6 P.M. general staff meeting, said one official who was present, where Richard Baum, the governor's top aide, made no mention of a resignation and urged his colleagues to keep their heads down and continue as best they could with the day - to - day work of state government.

«There is a troubling view taking hold that to set high standards and achieve good outcomes, we must rely on a closed, top - down model of government,» Stringer told the packed house at CUNY Graduate Center in Midtown.

They and GPs are concerned that the Government's top - down, one - size - fits - all imposition of polyclinics in London and in each primary care trust across the country will reduce access to their GP services and undermine the GP - patient relationship, which is at the heart of the successful delivery of health care.

Mr Lamb criticised the government for its top - down approach, «despite the fact that there was no proper business case and no clinical assessment of what was needed.

Top members of the state Senate Republican Majority and Democratic Minority predicted the latest state government scandal won't affect the battle for the control of the Senate, though the drumbeat of reform won't die down through Election Day.

A centralised, top - down approach to government imposes uniformity over diversity.

David Cameron said We must end the era of top - down, bossy, high - taxing and wasting government.

The state and federal governments say the process has been designed to avoid top - down decison - making.

Senior MPs have called on the government to explain an apparent spike in people being turned down for personal independence payment (PIP), which is a top - up benefit with two components related to the extra costs of daily living and limited mobility for disabled people.

Much of this stems from planning changes made by the last Administration, which is why we introduced the National Planning Policy Framework and abolished the last Government's top - down Regional Strategies through the Localism Act.

Rather than the top - down approach of the previous government, with government spending limits set by the Treasury, Osborne told MPs the coalition would bring together all parts of society for what he called the «greatest national challenge of our generation».

Both candidates refuse to cede significant control of local issues to local leaders in the outer boroughs, but de Blasio appears to favor a much more «rule from the top down» city government than Malliotakis.

Miliband's next question about the NHS claimed that Cameron was breaking a promise to stop top - down organisation; the PM retorted that the Government was not reorganising the bureaucracy but cutting it.

Forced by term limits to relinquish his 2nd District council seat, he decided to challenge the incumbent because, he said, she exercises «elitist, top - down government» and pays too little attention to the quality of life in city neighborhoods.

Common Core is a heavy - handed, top down, bureaucratic style program that invests the Federal Government in Washington with total control over childrens» education in all parts of the country.

«Any attempt to make local elections partisan must tread very cautiously in order not to polarize this country from top to down,» the former Local Government Minister cautioned.

JON SOPEL: I've got say I'm slightly confused Mr Lansley because we've invited you on this programme a number of times, you've told us that you know, the problem with the Health Service is all these government top - down targets and here you are, sitting here today and saying, and what we're going to do is to introduce a national screening programme, which is... (interjection)... why not leave it to the local Health Authority.

As with living organisms and ecosystems, the economy looks designed — so just as humans naturally deduce the existence of a top - down intelligent designer, humans also (understandably) infer that a top - down government designer is needed in nearly every aspect of the economy.