The DPJ's pledge on taking office was to make policy decisions itself and ensure bureaucrats acted on those.
Yet with dwindling authority Mr Abe will continue to find it difficult to make tough policy decisions--such as whether to raise consumption tax.
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"But the educated people are the people who make the policy decisions and have the most influence, so I think it is significant, " said Zorkic.
Is he the kind of person who can make governmental policy decisions without always thinking maybe in the back of his mind on his own political future?
She said it was not for her commission to say there were "some types of money that's desirable in politics and there are some types that are not", or to make "policy decisions".
The Obama administration filed a brief in the case supporting the Pentagon officials, saying that holding such officials liable for developments in the future could affect their ability to make appropriate policy decisions.
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But we are not going to make bad policy decisions through the artificial lens of hoping something is bipartisan, because in the end the test will be whether or not we have rules in place that prevent this from ever happening again.
Congress and the American people deserve to know what's in the documents so we can make informed decisions about tobacco policy.
Local people and business leaders will make future decisions on transport policy in the capital through a special forum set up by Edinburgh City Council.
Policy decisions within Europe could make the euro more volatile still.
However, a senior manager told inspectors that agency chiefs were unaware that these cases were not being dealt with and staff could make decisions without waiting for new policy.
And what we have said is that the President would use all of that information to make decisions going forward on our offshore policy.
"The changes will provide a more timely insight into the (Fed's) outlook, will help households and businesses better understand and anticipate how our policy decisions respond to incoming information and will enhance our accountability for the decisions we make, " the Fed chief said in a speech to a conference on monetary policy at the Cato Institute.
One proposal would subject the Fed's monetary-policy decisions to congressional audit while another would make the presidents of the 12 semi-autonomous regional reserve banks politically more accountable.
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You don't spend a lot of time looking at the polls or listening to the chatter, and good decisions and good policy often tend to make for good politics in the long term.
Finally, given the importance of economic data in driving economic policy and in helping households and businesses to make sound decisions, this year's Economic Report of the President continues the tradition of highlighting areas where economic data have improved or could improve further.
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How can we better equip ourselves to make better decisions both in the voting booth and in public policy?
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The report also casts doubt on the policy of personal health budgets, which provide cash for people to make their own decisions about NHS care.
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As the most serious challenge to Europe since the end of WWII, the actual policy decisions that result will likely be too little and too late to make a difference.
The DMK pullout will now make the government more dependent on such outside parties, limiting its room to push through key policy decisions.
"When it comes to policy decisions that affect everyone's health, it's actions, not words, that make a difference, " she says.
Paul Ryan when he submitted his budget counted what they call OCO savings in his budget because these -- this is the result -- any other policy decision you make is a choice about how much money to spend, and that's what these decisions are.
Tone matters more in foreign affairs than any other area of policy, but the fact remains that, so far, the administration has not yet had to make any hard decisions, such as whether to deploy force, or which new weapons system to buy or sell.
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