Sentences with phrase «act on criticism»

And he argues that it helps young people absorb and act on criticism, overcome setbacks and meet frustration and obstacles with renewed determination.

Not exact matches

Drugmakers have come under withering criticism for soaring prices in the U.S., including by Trump, though he has yet to act on a promise to contain them.

The Labor Department first proposed an expanded fiduciary definition under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act, or ERISA, in 2010, but withdrew the proposal the following year amid broad criticism that it would impose onerous restrictions on the industry that would cause financial professionals to abandon the retirement space, leaving low and moderate - income Americans in the lurch.

Criticism of Consumer Financial Protection Bureau acting director Mick Mulvaney's recent comments to a banking group has largely focused on his advocating a pay - to - play system for interest groups to access government officials.

I know this will draw criticism, but I say if it weren't for all the faithful people of all good religions doing good acts, helping the poor, clothing drives, and on and on, this world would be in a lot worse shape than if just your average aetheist were in charge of helping those who suffer.

If, said Mr. Chicken, «for every criticism of the Pope you wished to make online, you were to pay for the privilege by first performing an act of real charity for someone in secret (for you can not be certain that the comment you planned on making is such), then we would have a holier Church and a lot more gentle comments.»

For example, people reading this exchange with a view to assessing the validity of Madden's criticisms of my position and the soundness of my rebuttal are acting on one of practical reason's per se nota first principles» namely, that intellectual understanding of matters such as those under discussion is something worth having and expending time and effort to achieve.

While my criticism may hinge to some extent on the awkwardness and inadequacies of language, nevertheless asserting that being is prior to acting and doing in the context of this discussion and the language of «possessing a «self» suggests a substantial self one can possess.

One of the standard criticisms of virtue ethics is that it is weak when dealing with issues in applied ethics, in contrast to deontology or utilitarianism, and this because virtue theorists focus on good or bad agents rather than right or wrong acts.

Modleski concludes: «By working on a variety of fronts for the survival and empowerment of women, feminist criticism performs an escape act dedicated to freeing women from all male captivity narratives, whether these be found in literature, criticism, or theory.»

Most of the other acts of interpretation that are going on in our midst are cryptic and therefore not honest, not available, and not open to criticism.

(2) The second criticism concerns Leclerc's insistence that in acting on each other substances produce qualities that are not contained in them separately.

This is the first year in which Liberty Media has been able to act, and the changes that have been brought in early on have been met with some harsh criticism.

We hear those criticisms clearly and have and are, committed to acting on them.

IDC spokesman Eric Soufer responded to Stewart - Cousin's criticism by noting that three years ago she didn't believe a floor vote should be held on the Reproductive Health Act without it gaining the necessary support.

The vote does not compel EU member states to act but it does increase pressure on Riyadh, in the wake of criticism from the UN and growing international alarm over civilian casualties in Yemen.

There has been a lot of criticism recently of Governor Cuomo's calls for the elimination of the Wilson Pakula Act — the law that gives party bosses the power to let candidates from other parties run on their ballot lines.

«My criticism was anchored on Section 171 (1) of the Constitution, which has empowered the President to appoint any person to hold or act in the office of the head of any extra-ministerial department of the Federal Government.

The letter read in part, «My attention has been drawn to the well publicised resolution of the Senate, summoning me to appear before it to justify my criticism of the illegal call on President Muhammadu Buhari to sack Mr. Ibrahim Magu, the acting Chairman of the EFCC.

The PACAC chairman said his criticism was anchored on Section 171 (1) of the Constitution, which empowered the President to appoint any person to hold or act as head of any extra-ministerial department.

His last report on police overtime, for example, drew scathing criticism from acting Police Commissioner Thomas Krumpter, who questioned Maragos» competence and motives.

She also took pains to suggest the Council could act as a useful check on the mayor, as if anticipating criticism about her ties to Mr. de Blasio.

With fairly cursory critical discussions, perpetual plot synopses, and adjective - driven lauding («an acidulous commentary on class» or «a masterclass in film acting,» to name a couple) in place of detail - driven social criticism, Forshaw has placed himself between a Brighton Rock (1947) and a Kill List (2011), casting his historical net too wide for anything more than introductory textual assessment.

While Hank Azaria's work on The Simpsons as Apu has come under criticism as of late, his involvement in Brockmire — as both a foul - mouthed and poetic baseball announcer seeking redemption — proved that his acting chops are equally memorable in live - action fare.

When James Franco appeared on Tuesday's Late Show, host Stephen Colbert took the opportunity to address recent criticisms of the star, including social media posts which imply he committed acts of sexual misconduct.

Bertrand Bonello's Saint Laurent, Robert Redford profile, Olivier Assayas's Clouds of Sils Maria, John Boorman, Kent Jones on acting and film criticism, our annual Grosses Gloss, a set report from Apichatpong Weerasethakul's Cemetery of Splendour, Peter Strickland's Guilty Pleasures, Noah Baumbach's While We're Young

Special section on 54th New York Film Festival, including Maren Ade's Toni Erdmann, Ava DuVernay's The 13th, Barry Jenkins's Moonlight, Bertrand Tavernier's My Journey Through French Cinema, Pedro Almodóvar's Julieta; American movie acting, film criticism in the age of social media, Kirsten Johnson's Cameraperson, Charles Burnett's To Sleep with Anger, Kleber Mendonça Filho's Aquarius

Fierce criticism followed, until Nash announced via a blog that all academies would be expected to create «parent councils», stating that the move would ensure schools «not only listen to parents, but also act on their views and feedback».

Between the intellectually schizophrenic claptrap on the No Child Left Behind Act from American Enterprise Institute scholar Rick Hess and Linda Darling - Hammond, Duke's Helen Ladd and Edward Fiske defense of the Poverty Myth of Education, and the otherwise thoughtful Whitney Tilson's misguided criticism of Republican and conservative school reformers, I am ready to head out on my vacation to relatively - sane American Ozarks, where I can be reminded once again that the Beltway is La - La Land without a tan.

What you do with that feedback is also up to you, and while there's no rule that you have to act on each and every piece of criticism, it's most important to at least focus on areas that multiple readers had issues with.

Specifically, the inspector general warned that certain provisions in the Promoting Real Opportunity, Success and Prosperity through Education Reform (PROSPER) Act may repeal regulations that hold colleges accountable for how they manage federal aid.In the report, the inspector general's criticisms focused on the bill's proposal to end the 90/10 rule, which currently caps for - profit schools» revenue from federal aid at...

You can't just hate on multiplats for artistic changes and then turn around and act like exclusives are exempt from such criticism.

@starchild «You can't just hate on multiplats for artistic changes and then turn around and act like exclusives are exempt from such criticism.»

Developers Slightly Mad Studios demonstrate an admirable lack of ego and resistance when it comes to absorbing and acting on past criticism.

The Musée du Quai Branly in Paris, where «The Color Line,» a major exhibition of art by African American artists and historical documents and publications is on view, has removed a children's hand out booklet after criticism about its reference to the «pleasant lives» of some slaves and claim that racial discrimination in the United States ended with the 1964 Civil Rights Act.

Or, alternatively, they cherry pick an opposing source that they can bully into acting out on camera, regardless of the quality of his criticism.

Besides the effect of outside pressure, Chinese officials were also motivated to act on climate by internal criticism over the country's poor air quality.

Why, none other than a former tobacco advertising guru; a «scientist» who has no acoustic training or qualifications; who is not a legally qualified medical practitioner; who was used to front up struggling Danish fan maker, Vesta's laughable Act on Facts campaign (see our post here); and who has received scathing criticism in Australia's Federal Parliament on more than one occasion (see our posts here and here).

The principal criticism should not be of the IPCC, but of governments, for failing to take up the findings and acting on them.

«White House Backs Off on Miers Scenario»: The AP provides a report that begins, «The White House on Friday backed off its earlier contention that then - White House Counsel Harriet Miers first raised the idea of firing U.S. attorneys — an act that led to a firestorm of criticism of Attorney General Alberto Gonzales.»

Although the FISC has only recently become the target of criticism, it was originally created in 1978 to act as a check on the power of the executive.

At the second reading of the Legal Aid and Advice Bill in 1948 (later the Legal Aid and Advice Act 1949), the Attorney General and former British Prosecutor at the Nuremburg Trials, Sir Hartley Shawcross, noted in relation to the need for reform that: «The existing arrangements were subject to the further criticism — and I think a serious one — that the scheme depended on the good will and charity of the legal profession.

On July 25, 2017, in response to criticism and concerns surrounding ICOs, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) released a report on its investigation into whether virtual coins or tokens may be securities in which it stated that «coins» in one prominent ICO were, in fact, investment contracts under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (48 StaOn July 25, 2017, in response to criticism and concerns surrounding ICOs, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) released a report on its investigation into whether virtual coins or tokens may be securities in which it stated that «coins» in one prominent ICO were, in fact, investment contracts under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (48 Staon its investigation into whether virtual coins or tokens may be securities in which it stated that «coins» in one prominent ICO were, in fact, investment contracts under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (48 Stat.

This requires working on counsel and arbitrators to perceive of themselves as being engaged in a process of public law adjudication that requires them to act in accordance with the expectations connected to such a role, most importantly to live up to the values of public law that fuel the criticism of investment law as privatizing global governance.

The Minister described s. 87 as a «big step forward» because the Family Relations Act, R.S.B.C. 1996, c. 128 [FRA] did not provide any guidance on setting a valuation date and there had been considerable criticism of the broad judicial discretion to determine the date: BC, Legislative Assembly, Official Report of Debates (Hansard), 39th Parl., 4th Sess., Vol.

Re Sompo Japan Insurance Inc: [2011] EWHC 260 (Ch) Acted with Martin Moore QC in obtaining the sanction of a scheme for the transfer of insurance business under Part VII of the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 in circumstances where the scheme was opposed on various grounds, including diminution of security for policyholders, alleged inadequacies in reserving policy, criticisms of the independent expert's report and lack of enforceability in other jurisdictions.

Lady Hale referred to the «bewildering complexity» of the safeguards in Cheshire West, a criticism echoed by the House of Lords Committee on the Mental Capacity Act 2005 in March 2014.

There had been some criticism of these provisions on the ground that they were unduly restrictive but to be set against this was the requirement that hospital staff acting in good faith and with reasonable care had to be protected.

But because this report's constructive criticisms seem to fall largely on deaf ears in Sacramento and in many courthouses around the state, this year's look at the West Coast's perennial Judicial Hellhole will pragmatically limit its focus to an armful of the state's civil injustices, including precedent - defying state supreme court decisions, the Private Attorneys General Act, Prop 65, food and beverage litigation, innovator liability, the California Environmental Quality Act's impact on affordable housing, courts» expansions of public nuisance law and natural disaster - chasing personal injury lawyers, among others.

It's ugly to read, but it also stands in stark counterpoint to a popular strain of Facebook criticism which holds that the company's «move fast and break things» ethos is driven by an executive team that acts without considering its effect on the broader world.