Sentences with phrase «towards ticking boxes»

There is a tendency towards ticking boxes in lesson planning.

Not exact matches

Not just New Labour's overwhelming desire to amass all sorts of information about the individual and New Labour's managerial model of how to govern but also, in particular, a steady shift away from «justice» and towards «control»: towards the arbitrary, unconstrained use of power through the regular invocation of states of exception (terror legislation and Iceland is in this category); the creation of catch - all legislation whose operational interpretation is at the whim of the police (photography, questioning individual police officers); government attempts to constrain the judiciary through tick - the - box sentencing guidelines, and at an individual level examples such as David Milliband's quite disgraceful prevarication over torture allegations.

While some of this is normal in a conference speech, here it veered towards the extreme: the gay vote, pro-Europe liberals, public service workers, boxes were being ticked for parcels of leftish voters in every other sentence.

Our antipathy towards electric cars is well documented, but if you really must have an electric car then the new Chevrolet Spark EV ticks boxes that most -LSB-...]

There's also a temptation for regulators to lean too far towards a box - ticking mentality.

In regulating both entities as well as individuals, the SRA has shifted its rules away from a proscriptive, «tick - the - box» approach towards «outcomes focused regulation» (OFR), described as an approach focused on the outcomes achieved rather than on the processes used to achieve them, and as a rejection as a «one size fits all» approach to regulation.

In regulating both entities as well as individuals, rules are shifting away from proscriptive, «tick - the - box» approach towards an «outcomes» approach, where the focus is on the outcomes achieved rather than on the processes used to achieve them.