Sentences with phrase «asked public impact»

A coalition of Rhode Island mayors, including Cumberland's then - Mayor Daniel McKee (now RI's Lt. Gov.), asked Public Impact and Martin West (then at Brown University) to analyze the state of public education in the Ocean State and in the five - town region surrounding Cumberland, which is north of Providence.

In 2009, a bi-partisan group of urban and suburban municipal leaders asked Public Impact to study Rhode Island's K - 12 funding system.

Not exact matches

He also asked for people to pray for the safety of Christians during the festive period: «In Egypt the public holiday is Friday... so Friday is a very busy day so they've obviously chosen Friday for maximum impact.

Given the profile and the foreseeable impact of the event, and given the quality of the opposing speakers, we may ask, were the Catholic parties who did volunteer to stand up for Christ in public given any support, coaching or preparation before the event?

Oxford University Sport is committed to reducing our impact on the environment and congestion in and around Oxford, therefore, where possible, ask members and visitors to make use of public transport.

DEEMs diminish the role of elected councils and relegate councillors to asking questions and scrutiny that have little impact on a DEEM and scant public impact.

Asked for the PM's assessment of the impact of today's strikes, the spokesman responded that Cameron would say «any disruption any user of public services experiences is wrong».

Labour MP Diane Abbott asks David Cameron about the impact on public confidence of delays over public inquiries.

First and most obviously is the argument that after the expenses scandal, and new questions being asked about politicians» pay, it's highly doubtful whether the public would approve of their tax revenues going towards political parties, especially in the amounts needed to make an impact.

Former Hudson Valley Democratic Congressman Maurice Hinchey, in his first major public appearance since retiring from office in January, says he just penned a letter to New York Governor Andrew Cuomo asking him to wait for the results of a study from the Environmental Protection Agency on the impacts of fracking before deciding whether to allow high - volume hydraulic fracturing in the state.

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

Picente has asked the Oneida County Board of Legislators to commit $ 500,000 to address the public works projects within the municipalities that were severely impacted by the storm water runoff or flooding from their waterways or bodies of water.

Niagara Falls Mayor Paul Dyster asked state environmental regulators in November 2013 for a study to determine the public health impacts of air pollution in and around Niagara Falls.

Asked what the next government should do in the event that it has to find more money than it expects, 30 per cent said it should increase taxes more than planned «in order to limit the impact on public services», but 55 per cent preferred to «reduce spending more than planned, in order NOT to increases taxes further».

As it is, it seems to place all its impact upon asking the question, Would any of our power corporations really take such a great risk with public safety in order to save money?

To see where the public stands, we asked questions about visa programs for highly specialized workers, federal aid to school districts impacted by immigration, and the desirability of instructing immigrants and students with limited English proficiency in their native language.

When asked whether teachers unions have a generally positive or negative effect on the nation's public schools, 33 percent of the public gives a negative response, virtually unchanged from the 31 percent and 33 percent who perceived a negative impact in 2009 and 2010, respectively (see Figure 1).

The state, along with the Louisiana Association of Public Charter Schools and various other charter schools, had asked the judge to put the 1st Circuit ruling on hold, warning that the ruling will dramatically impact more than 16,000 charter school students and thousands of teachers, administrators and other staff.

Specifically, the GAO has been asked to examine changes in student racial isolation or integration over time, including shifts caused by school closures or consolidations; state and local policies that affect attendance areas or admissions, including open enrollment in public charter schools; voluntary policies intended to increase integration; and the impact of racial and socioeconomic isolation in public education.

«You are now being asked to vote on these amendments today, with no chance for the public to understand or for school districts to weigh in on the harmful impact of what you are voting on,» Cheatham wrote in a Feb. 4 letter to lawmakers.

When Publishing Perspectives asks Tellander about his view on how his services could impact audiobook lending services from public libraries, he concedes that library availability is a double - edged sword to services like Storytel.

When the time comes to submit legislation, we need everyone to contact their legislators asking for their support of the Bill — and to give examples of how you impact public safety.

I was asked by Andrew Revkin, based on this paper, to discuss the likely impact for An Inconvenient Truth on wider audiences and also the possible effects on public opinion from the type of elite debate (especially online) that was escalating over the columns by Will at the Washington Post, a debate consistent with more general patterns of polarizing and reinforcing elite driven controversy that I had addressed in the paper.

Public Library of Science (screencapture):... In 1993, the editor of the widely read medical journal The Lancet asked Paul to organize a series of articles on the impact of climate change on health.

The city asked the court to require the companies to abate the nuisance by funding a climate adaptation program to build sea walls and other infrastructure necessary to protect public and private property from sea level rise and other climate impacts.»

So we're asking Skeptical Science readers to be part of our project by helping us raise the $ 1,600 to publish our paper measuring the level of consensus in the peer - reviewed literature, in a high impact journal that is free to the public.

Besser, who met with the president yesterday at Howard University's Health Sciences Simulation Lab, asked the president why people should care about the impact of climate change on public health when there are so many other pressing health problems.

While difficult to say in the abstract, what is clear is that asking Aboriginal title holders to bear a disproportionate adverse impact on their land for the benefit of the greater Canadian public will not meet this test.

The answer is yes, unless of course the Crown: engages in the high level of consultation and accommodation required for proven Aboriginal title; demonstrates a substantial and compelling legislative objective that furthers the goals of reconciliation from both the Aboriginal and broader public perspective; demonstrates that future generations of the community holding Aboriginal title will not be substantially deprived of the benefit of the land; and, shows that the incursion is necessary to achieve the government goals, has a minimal impairment and does not ask the Aboriginal title holders to bear disproportionate adverse impact.

The court will be asked to clarify the law of public interest standing in an administrative context and more specifically whether individuals must be directly impacted by a practice or policy to be permitted to have their complaint heard by the oversight agency.

In a legal battle over Internet music storage that could impact innovation and free expression on the Internet EFF Public Knowledge and other public interest groups asked a federal judge in an amicus brief to protect the «safe harbor» rules for online content in EMI v. MP3Public Knowledge and other public interest groups asked a federal judge in an amicus brief to protect the «safe harbor» rules for online content in EMI v. MP3public interest groups asked a federal judge in an amicus brief to protect the «safe harbor» rules for online content in EMI v. MP3Tunes.

The senator also asked the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) to consider the collection and use of personal information for political advertising as part of its public inquiry into the impact of digital platforms on media and advertising markets in Australia.

TfL's spokesman has clearly become accustomed to being grilled by journalists on this topic, and points to comments made by UK information commissioner, Elizabeth Denham, last month who, when asked about the trial at a local government oversight meeting, described it as «a really good example of a public body coming forward with a plan, a new initiative, consulting us deeply and doing a proper privacy impact assessment».