Sentences with phrase «weak policy»

The signatories of this letter warn against the potential for trade agreements like NAFTA to restrict Canada's ability to enforce its own environmental regulations, maintain labour standards, and keep jobs and pollution from leaking to other states with weaker policies.

However, under FTSE4Good criteria, Nestlé is assessed against its own weaker policies and it weakened them further in July 2010 prior to entering the FTSE4Good Index in March 2011.

As Jeffery D. Sachs argues in this month's issue of Scientific American, the failure to play a more active role is policy proposals — namely in health care and climate change control — has created weak policies and a suspicious American public.

The federal government's keenly awaited review of Australia's climate policies continues a longstanding bipartisan traditional of weak policy development in this area.

The Dirty Dozen — which I originally named in 2006 and updated in 2009 — are the people who have most effectively denied the science of climate change, lied about its implications, lobbied to water down laws, or provided cover for weak policy.

Yes, but Labor isn't that committed on this issue and would much rather negotiate with the LibNats to make weaker policy than negotiate with the Greens to make it stronger.

It's also important to keep in mind that while you want employees to be safe and stay home if they need to, you need to protect your business from employees gaming the system under a weak policy — and staying home because of a few flurries.

Its weak policy enforcement left the door open to exploitation of data users gave third - party apps, deepening the perception that Facebook doesn't care about privacy.

FTSE4Good assesses companies against their own stated policies, rather than the baby milk marketing requirements they should follow, so the weaker the policies are, the better for Nestlé.

After the end of a week in which Labour leader Ed Miliband attempted another re-launch, his shadow chancellor shamelessly trashed the weak policy position that had sustained it for eighteen months.

Vermont scores below average in teacher quality, losing points for its lack of alternative - route programs for teachers and its weak policies related to...

They think they can control an entire economy through the weak policy lever of affecting the views of people have for calculating what interest rates they should use to capitalize the values of assets.

I see the FOMC tightening, and then abandoning the tightening early, and reverting to a weak policy, accepting more inflation for the sake of growth in the real economy, and leniency to banks that are facing tough market conditions.

While still far from perfect, the new statement is much stronger than its previous iteration, which more closely mirrored the weak policy of the American Veterinary Medical Association.

No country should be allowed to adopt a weak policy either intentionally or by accident.

As an aside, I'm wondering if there might have been a bit of a Machiavellian plan in this policy process: Either to bring in a strong policy and get it watered down by SIGs, opposition, etc, or, (2) start with a weak policy and bump it up in response to criticism?

We will have weaker policies than we'd like to see, but much stronger than we've ever seen before.

Its weak policy enforcement left the door open to exploitation of data users gave third - party apps, deepening the perception that Facebook doesn't care about privacy.