Sentences with phrase «as public inquiries»

It is focused on appeals and judicial reviews brought under various statutes, as well as public inquiries and other cases touching on important municipal law issues.

The boss of wealth manager AMP quit Friday, as a public inquiry into the financial sector Down Under heats up.

Not exact matches

THE Australian Competition and Consumer Commission will next week hold public hearings in Perth and Albany as part of its national inquiry to determine whether there is a need for retail price control arrangements to continue to apply to Telstra after Ju

As part of his inquiry, Paulsen helped create a public event, bringing together a container company manager, architects, art students, city planners and regulatory officials to brainstorm solutions in a design charette that drew wider media coverage.

The original decree was made as a settlement to an inquiry at the time into how Facebook — then just a startup but growing wildly fast — «deceived consumers by telling them they could keep their information on Facebook private, and then repeatedly allowing it to be shared and made public,» and it arose specifically in relation to how third - party apps were able to use and access this data.

As a third case of doctor intimidation was made public, opposition MLAs continued their chorus calls for a full public inquiry.

But, as a 2015 investigation by Pro Publica and National Public Radio and subsequent Congressional inquiries have confirmed, the Red Cross has screwed up billions of dollars in major disaster situations of recent vintage.

Former Archbishop of Canterbury George Carey resigned as honorary assistant bishop in the Diocese of Oxford after the public inquiry into child sex abuse last year heard he delayed a «proper investigation» into Ball's crimes for two decades by failing to pass information to police.

In response to the Rhetoric Society of America's inquiry — what are Pope Benedict's reasons for positioning the Catholic Church as an essential link between enterprise and justice, and as a significant voice in the public discussion of globalization — I suggest a «spiritual....

That a congregation is constituted by publicly enacting a more universally practiced worship that generates a distinctive social form implies study of that public form: What are the social, cultural, and political locations of congregations of Christians and how do those locations shape congregations» social form today (synchronic inquiry); what have been the characteristic social, cultural, and political locations of congregations historically and how have those locations shaped congregations» social forms (diachronic study); in what ways do congregations engage in the public arena as one type of institutionalized center of power among others?

While respecting the universal principles of the Church, the Christian by his own conscience and his own inquiry, which is a duty incumbent on him as an individual, has to seek for the concrete prescription by which he will shape his own life and endeavour to contribute to determining the actual form taken by public life.

Can we reconceive theological education in such a way that (1) it clearly pertains to the totality of human life, in the public sphere as well as the private, because it bears on all of our powers; (2) it is adequate to genuine pluralism, both of the «Christian thing» and of the worlds in which the «Christian thing» is lived, by avoiding naiveté about historical and cultural conditioning without lapsing into relativism; (3) it can be the unifying overarching goal of theological education without requiring the tacit assumption that there is a universal structure or essence to education in general, or theological inquiry in particular, which inescapably denies genuine pluralism by claiming to be the universal common denominator to which everything may be reduced as variations on a theme; and (4) it can retrieve the strengths of both the «Athens» and the «Berlin» types of excellent schooling, without unintentionally subordinating one to the other?

We will devote our attention to these teachings, in private study and inquiry as well as public instruction.

There was no climactic change of direction such as Karl Barth's, but he moved in response to intellectual inquiries and public events.

Much as the Study of Theological Education in the United States and Canada, directed by H. Richard Niebuhr in the 1950s, became an influential inquiry into the nature of the church and its ministry, so the Danforth study, ostensibly of campus ministries, became an important resource for exploring the necessary relation of religious faith, social ethics and public - policy formulation.

As I understand it, this committee room is a place for public inquiry by the Judiciary Committee into my qualifications for the federal bench.

This act is not an instant accomplishment, taking place in the secret chambers of the heart, but, as the inquiry suggests, a lifelong public commitment.

«The Government supports this recommendation as a long term reform option, further to its response to the Productivity Commission's Public Infrastructure inquiry report.

An inquiry into what had happened at Bradford and Heysel — as well as a riot at Birmingham City's St Andrews stadium in which a 15 - year - old boy died — led by leading judge Oliver Popplewell resulted in new, wide - ranging public order powers for police.

As well as the usual evidence - taking sessions, the committee will also hold a series of public meetings as part of its inquiry and is likely to publish a series of reports to help inform the government of the public's viewAs well as the usual evidence - taking sessions, the committee will also hold a series of public meetings as part of its inquiry and is likely to publish a series of reports to help inform the government of the public's viewas the usual evidence - taking sessions, the committee will also hold a series of public meetings as part of its inquiry and is likely to publish a series of reports to help inform the government of the public's viewas part of its inquiry and is likely to publish a series of reports to help inform the government of the public's views.

«As the prime minister has made clear, he is committed to establishing rigorous public inquiries to make sure this never happens in our country again.»

These activities include speaking, writing, lecturing, appearing before a public inquiry, sitting as a commissioner in a public inquiry, etc..

Cuomo's handling of the Moreland Commission to Investigate Public Corruption, as well as the decision to shut down the commission last year, is part of an ongoing inquiry by the U.S. attorney's office.

interested enough in finding out what the Commission had discovered that he has launched an inquiry, in part, to get to the bottom of whether «investigations potentially significant to the public interest have been bargained away as part of the negotiated arrangement between legislative and executive leaders,» as he wrote in a letter to the Commission's members on April 3 — a reference to the ethics deal struck between the governor and the Legislature as part of their budget agreement at the end of March, which coincided with Cuomo's announcement that he was shutting down the Commission.

[21][22] A wider public inquiry, again led by Robert Francis, was launched in 2010 by his successor as Health Secretary, Andrew Lansley.

In July 2011, following the revelation that the News of the World had paid private investigators to hack into the phones of Milly Dowler, as well as the families of murder victims and deceased servicemen, Miliband called for News International chief executive Rebekah Brooks to resign, urged David Cameron to establish a public, judge - led inquiry into the scandal, and announced that he would force a Commons vote on whether to block the News International bid for a controlling stake in BSkyB.

The Leveson inquiry became a public court as it slowly emerged quite how close Hunt and his office had been to key figures at News Corp..

The prime minister David Cameron announced on 6 July 2011 that a public inquiry, known as the Leveson Inquiry, would look into phone hacking and police bribery by the News of the World, consider the wider culture and ethics of the British newspaper industry and that the Press Complaints Commission would be replaced «entirely».

As a result of this failure to «predict» the result, the Market Research Society held an inquiry into the reasons why the polls had been so much at variance with actual public opinion.

From 2001 - 2003, the Audit's then director, Stuart Weir, acted as special adviser to the Public Administration Select Committee during two inquiries which resulted in two significant reports on the «Quango state.

They have instigated a police investigation and a public inquiry into the tragedy (this won't prevent future tragedies such as this one happening again, but will be a deterrent for any misconduct).

More recently, Ms. Wiley was assigned to help craft the administration's legal response to the state and federal inquiries as well as to requests for the public disclosure of documents, notably emails between Mr. de Blasio and trusted advisers outside the administration.

Bharara also opened an inquiry into the governor's own «commission to investigate public corruption,» which, in his vintage Cuomo panache, he launched with as much self - congratulatory fanfare as possible.

These include departmental committees, such as those for Business Innovation & Skills (which carried out the questioning of Ashley and Green) or Culture, Media & Sport (which questioned Rupert Murdoch and others over phone hacking), as well as cross-cutting committees such as Public Accounts (the source of the Google inquiry on tax avoidance) and Science & Technology.

The Electoral Commission has not yet stated in public if it will widen its inquiries as the Conservatives have asked, but the Labour MP Cat Smith is being investigated over her election expenses return.

«The very fact that there are clear discrepancies between accounts of the operation of this case reinforces the requirement for an independent - not public - inquiry as an essential tool in improving our security services,» Mr Davis said.

It said: «The scope of the inquiry is to determine whether the Smith Institute is both established and operating as a charity advancing the education of the public in the field of study and research into the economy of the United Kingdom.»

The State Joint Commission on Public Ethics is also examining whether the Campaign for One New York violated lobbying rules by not registering as a lobbyist last year, according to multiple people familiar with the inquiry.

Labour MP Diane Abbott was cheered as she stood to ask about the impact on public confidence of delays over public inquiries.

De Blasio and the Campaign for One New York have been fighting a bitter public battle against the scope of JCOPE's inquiry, which the ethics commission began in 2015 to investigate whether or not the nonprofit had improperly failed to register as a lobbying entity that year.

An official internal inquiry into why the Lib Dems did so badly in this year's local elections has pointed the finger at advertising campaigns such as one which portrayed the politician as «Cleggzilla», trampling over public services.

We are polling all elected officials and those seeking public office as to their position on this important issue and we intend to keep the millions of Italian Americans residing in this state informed as to the result of our inquiry and make the community aware of who is supportive of the Italian American community and who will succumb to anti Italian sentiment.

Prusiner says that he persisted because he never found another problem as captivating as prions, but Dreger cites a number of researchers who, after bruising public disputes over unconventional conclusions, retreated to other, less inflammatory, lines of inquiry.

NYMC learned of the court documents as a result of an inquiry by ScienceInsider, and a public affairs representative said the school would look into the matter.

Barron and Darling - Hammond describe evidence - based approaches to support inquiry - based teaching in the classroom: (1) clear goals and guiding activities; (2) a variety of resources (e.g., museums, libraries, Internet, videos, lectures) and time for students to share, reflect, and apply resources, while debating over information discrepancies; (3) participation structures and classroom norms that increase the use of evidence and a culture of collaboration (i.e., framing debates as productive conflicts, using public performances); (4) formative assessments that provide opportunities for revision; and (5) summative assessments that are multidimensional and representative of professional practice.

Tackling a «problem,» for example, may not involve as much independent student inquiry, nor the creation of a complex product for presentation to a public audience.

Lenon appeared in front of MPs as part of an inquiry into the integrity of public exams, but was also asked about the help that private schools give to poorer pupils.

But they are nothing close to a comprehensive philosophy on which to base a lifetime of inquiry into something as complex as public education.

During her nine years as a 4th - and 5th - grade teacher in Oakland public schools she regularly engaged in collaborative, teacher - led inquiry with Mills Teacher Scholars.

At each inquiry session a volunteer serves as the «public learner»: a teacher or staff member who is willing to publicly share their thinking, their questions, and their student learning data.