However, we have previously suggested that the long time scale required to issue more controversial technology assessments may work in favour of the advocates of new technologies by forcing the hand of policy-makers [ 15].
Clearly, the fate of Fannie and Freddie is in the hands of policy makers".
The costs of rebuilding and cleanup will put additional pressure on government finances in a country that is already highly indebted, further tying the hands of policy makers who have been struggling to revive an economy bogged down by deflation.
American conservatives argue that the presence of so many American soldiers and their dependents within artillery range of North Korea ties the hands of policy makers who want to keep open the option of bombing North Korea's nuclear facilities.
The largest corporate donation ever to STRI, the grant comes on the heels of $3 million raised last year for an endowment for forest research and a $5 million grant with Yale University to put forest science into the hands of policy makers.
Stated otherwise, the outcome is a set of policy options in the hands of policy makers and local communities, each of which is presented by the end point (future state) and the path (policies and policy measures) to that point, supporting thus more knowledgeable decisions from the available set of options, which are best suited to the particular attributes of the local community.
And it's money that should be in the hands of policy beneficiaries and their families.
This partly reflects the misunderstandings around chronic diseases (especially that they are completely freely acquired), the lack of evidence in the hands of policy makers, and the low capacity for policy development [ 143].
Current circumstances present this opportunity, and it is in the hands of policy-makers to make it happen.
By analysing the reasons nurses from India and the Philippines reported for leaving their countries and those that attracted them to the United Kingdom, this study has provided more evidence about factors important to nurses that in the hands of policy-makers can help health systems in developing countries to increase retention of this essential and often scarce resource.
