Sentences with phrase «way economic progress»

Twenty years ago I became convinced that one major source of the commitment to policies that often do more harm than good is the way economic progress is measured.

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As one of Michigan's leading corporate citizens, DTE Energy is a force for growth and prosperity in the 450 Michigan communities it serves in a variety of ways, including philanthropy, volunteerism and economic progress.

That summer I realized that the very ways in which «progress» was being made — e.g., dominant development policies as well as economic programs in the industrialized world — were all part of the total network of processes that were destroying the basis of human life on the planet.

If this is the one way in which progress can be made in meeting the economic needs and wants of people, then to shut the door on the billions who have not yet made the transition to abundance does indeed appear to be immoral!

The moral treason of the «conservative» leaders lies in the fact that they are hiding behind that camouflage: they do not have the courage to admit that the American way of life was capitalism, that that was the politico - economic system born and established in the United States, the system which, in one brief century, achieved a level of freedom, of progress, of prosperity, of human happiness, unmatched in all the other systems and centuries combined — and that that is the system which they are now allowing to perish by silent default.

Where theology has failed to take up the historical theme of promise, secular ways of thinking — such as Marxism or the dubious Western dream of indefinite economic progress — have often done so instead, thereby filling a need to which religion and theology have failed appropriately to respond.

Those who complained about what this did to the environment were always outsiders who seemed to be putting obstacles in the way of economic progress.

The three candidates who received the most votes for four - year village trustee terms are Patrick Melady, a business owner who is president of the Glen Ellyn Economic Development Corp.; Jay Strayer, a lawyer active in the United Way, Glenbard West High School and Partnership for Educational Progress; and John Kohnke, a lawyer and DuPage County special assistant state's attorney.

While there are still three outstanding Senate races, New York is facing difficult economic times and we must not allow the complications of political uncertainty to stand in the way of progress.

«Ongoing economic progress will also open the way for more jobs.

Republicans who will take command of the Senate and House as the 115th Congress convenes today have long been itching for a chance to do it their way, constantly grousing that President Obama and Congressional Democrats held back American progress and economic growth.

Klobuchar said at the Center for American Progress Ideas Conference that while anti-Trump enthusiasm could help fuel Democratic victories and the party needed to keep attacking Trump, «we need to move forward, and the way you move forward is emphasizing these economic issues and how people are getting screwed by all kinds of things.»

«If there's some ramifications to the way that something was sourced, I mean, I think there's a remedy that could be had that doesn't hold the progress of the community and the economic development hostage,» he said.

Howard Zemsky, the governor's economic development czar, told state legislators earlier this year that «every region has come a long way from what it was» and lauded what he termed «incredible progress.»

It also aims to elucidate the links between aging, longevity and radioresistance, and the ways in which research into enhancing human radioresistance could synergistically enable human healthspan extension, ultimately highlighting how ongoing research into the very well - funded sphere of aerospace research could galvinate progress in biomedical gerontology, a massively under - funded area of research despite the grave economic burden posed by demographic aging» said Franco Cortese, an author of the paper and Deputy Director of the Biogerontology Research Foundation.

Some progress has been made in the debate on ESCR indicators (38), but there is still a long way to go before these indicators become a tool that can effectively monitor the degree of compliance of social and economic rights by states.

Spurred by concerns about international competition, economic troubles, and a perceived stagnation or regression in student performance outlined by the now famous 1983 report, A Nation at Risk, the standards debate gained new life as politicians looked for ways to clarify goals, measure progress, and hold schools accountable.

While we still have a long way to go to combat social and economic inequality — and to address the effects of deindustrialization, globalization and automation — it's wrong not to acknowledge the real progress of the last eight years.

The White House packaged the event as a way to reinforce its message of tying educational progress to the nation's economic future.

Given persistent debt troubles, the deep divisions between haves and have nots, and wear and tear on the planet's living systems, there's much talk these days of new ways to define, gauge and nurture economic progress.

It is about the art and craft of consciously, consistently balancing economic, social and environmental concerns in such a way as to stimulate progress on all three.

At the meeting, former Secretary of State Madeleine K. Albright proposed an intermediate step through which rich countries could help speed the progress of poorer ones, creating new ways citizens can serve overseas to help foster freedom, economic development, and improve lives.

They can also be used to explore the ways climate - change impacts depend on changes in society, such as economic or population growth or progress in controlling diseases.

Why is it that revolutionary changes in our social / economic / political system are greeted with enthusiasm, as «progress», and yet the rather small increase on atmospheric [CO2], a byproduct of cheap transport and electricity that underpins our whole way of life, is treated as a disaster?

Our industry understands that an all - of - the - above energy approach is the best way to ensure the security of our country while encouraging economic growth and further climate progress.

Thus a theoretical problem that may emerge thousands of years into the future becomes an immediate danger that can only be dealt with now, and in the way preferred by the alarmist narrative: ceasing the industrial and economic progress that would afford those coastal communities a better way of life, as well as better protection from the elements.

Is GDP the best way to measure economic progress?

Standing in the way of climate policy that will be essential to this progress are models that estimate climate policy costs based on over-simplistic assumptions about current economic conditions.

While it is unfortunate that policy differences are characterized in this way, we will continue to advocate for policies that reduce emissions while enabling economic progress.

He listened to their ideas about identity and historical value as tools to boost economic progress, not hinder it — and this led him to value the silos in a new way.

We can make legal education work — in ways that are financially viable, socially responsible, and encouraging of humanity's social, economic, and political progress.