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Tensions between advocates of different policy solutions will lead to a demand for a greater political say.
Its advocates argued that efficiency required adopting a comprehensive Value Added Tax.
If they do not move quickly enough, there is a broad cohort of whistleblowers, unions, consumer advocates, and others to give them the needed push, serving as a system of checks and balances.
Once again, advocates of free mobility for destabilizing short-term capital flows are being proven wrong.
Then, in 2002, animal welfare advocates put a proposal to ban sow stalls on the ballot in Florida.
But none of these steps, taken alone or together, can bring about the ends that their often well-intentioned advocates seek.
With 260 million children not in school worldwide, education needs more champions to match the enthusiasm of advocates in, say, the global-health and environmental movements.
He advocates local decision-making whenever possible and effective, but also supports national and European-level decision-making where this is appropriate; the key is that processes should be flexible and enable citizen participation.
Their vague wording allows them to be applied in a selective and arbitrary manner, and press-freedom advocates that seek to challenge the status quo are coming under increased scrutiny.
A free, or as its postcommunist advocates prefer to call it, a "not paid for" education, means education in schools and universities owned by the state (but not in private schools).
But human rights and the rule of law began to re-emerge as a theme of Western policy, especially in the wake of the Helsinki Conference on European Security and Cooperation and its use by the administration of US President Jimmy Carter, as well as by numerous non-governmental advocates protesting the treatment of Soviet dissidents.
But fear not, claim advocates of unconventional monetary policy.
The problem is that advocates of reducing the greenhouse effect by promoting bio-fuels production have not made clear where the land will come from.
By then, the technology’s advocates promise, biological sequestration will be joined by programs that capture emissions as they are released or pull them out of the air to be pumped into deep subterranean shafts – out of sight and out of mind.
Even the technology’s advocates concede that their computer models predict that it will have a strong negative impact on tropical and subtropical regions.
Advocates of this so-called “freeze for freeze” approach say that such a tradeoff is only fair: the North cannot be expected to suspend its efforts to strengthen its defensive capabilities if the US and South Korea are pursuing supposedly hostile military cooperation in its near-abroad.
The French socialists inexplicably became advocates of freeing up controls on international capital movements.
In fact, Western-style governance no longer looks like the gold standard its advocates long proclaimed it to be.
Inspired by the events taking place in Charlottesville, advocates have emerged in Britain seeking to pull Admiral Nelson off his famous column on Trafalgar Square in London, because the British naval hero supported the slave trade.
Although animal advocates implored Ratzinger to reiterate his views on animal welfare after he became Pope, he never did so.
When growth is weak, people ask incredulously how climate policy advocates could consider making things worse.
In 1996, a series of lawsuits forced tobacco companies to release millions of internal documents, which confirmed what public-health advocates and policymakers had long suspected: as early as the 1950s, the industry knew that nicotine was addictive and that cigarettes caused cancer.
With Big Tobacco out of the picture, and armed with evidence of the real effects of tobacco consumption, health advocates were finally able to compel their governments to act.
As an alliance of human-rights groups, environmental activists, and corporate-accountability advocates already is demanding, we must kick the industry out of the policymaking process altogether.
So those of us who still wish to be flag-waving advocates for international capital mobility are reduced to two arguments.
Little wonder that, once most Israelis accepted this narrative, the “peace process” became a repulsive, discredited expression, and its advocates on the left came to be perceived at best as innocents detached from the real world.
Advocates of EMU argue that adoption of a single currency will have many positive effects, both at the micro and the macro level.
Advocates suggest – rightfully, I think – that scarce tax dollars should be spent only on programs that “work.”
Extending the length of the school day and the academic year – a key priority of “accountability” advocates – might positively affect children’s achievement while simultaneously providing parents with badly needed additional childcare.
Unfortunately, advocates of aggressive policing have no interest in breaking the cycle of violence, and they have dismissed evidence-based public policies that could transform lives throughout the region.
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