Sentences with phrase «accepted budget practices»

James Parrott of the labor - backed Fiscal Policy Institute criticized Cuomo for attempting to cast widely accepted budget practices in a criminal light.

Not exact matches

Once we begin to think of our faith in terms of largeness instead of largess; once we begin to think of our faith in terms of measurable success or significant achievements or community stature or statistically significant gains or business models or congregational models or appropriate budget processes or cash flow direction or generally accepted accounting practices or independent audits or administrative requirements or procedural transparency or proper leadership roles or managerial responsibilities and boundaries or membership trends or effective organizational structures or current and accurate and relevant identity / purpose / vision / mission statements or strategic and tactical plans or valid and useful performance metrics — at that point, we have become money changers and temple authorities, we have deformed from a community into an industry that requires exclusionary individualism.

Once we begin to think of our faith in terms of largeness instead of largess or in terms of measurable success or significant achievements or community stature or statistically significant gains or business models or congregational models or appropriate budget processes or cash flow direction or generally accepted accounting practices or independent audits or administrative requirements or managerial transparency or proper leadership roles and boundaries or membership trends or effective organizational structures or a current and accurate vision statement — at that point, we have become the money changers — we have lost our faith and deserve to be driven away for we are neither living nor sharing the Good News.

Tim Perhaps, I should have added to my last comment that I accept that I am not in a position to put forward alternative figures (partly because I consider that there is a lack of accurate empirical data on a number of aspects that affect the budget) but in general, I consider that the use of average figures is not simply an over simplification of the system but more significantly it disguises and distorts what is in practice going on thereby leading to a failure to properly understand how the system works as a whole.

On a related note, YLAL hopes that the Treasury has come to accept that criminal legal aid practices can not absorb the losses from further cuts to the criminal budget.