Sentences with phrase «by bureaucrats for»

The data we collect and provide on millions of homes is the product of Realtor labour and I am furious that data is given away by bureaucrats for free to hundreds of other entities with no remuneration.

Not exact matches

Just think of a meek and agreeable mother becoming fierce when a hospital bureaucrat gets in the way of care for her sick child, or an introvert moved to protest and organize by some injustice in the world.

Solyndra was a disastrous investment for the U.S. government, pushed through by executive order over the reservations of bureaucrats.

Lots of little gems in this book, including the fact that a spouse must be married at least nine months before being eligible for survivor benefits (unless the death is ruled «accidental» by a faceless panel of S.S. bureaucrats).

Rep. Ann Wagner, R - Mo., noted in her prepared Wednesday floor remarks that «the administration calls it the «fiduciary rule,» but it is really just Obamacare for Americans» savings accounts, and another power grab by Washington bureaucrats to control our retirement savings.

That includes taking real responsibility for the politicized bullying by his bureaucrats and admitting that he himself had gone way beyond the bounds of our constitutional system by creating the perception that it was somehow being «on the dark side» or outside the law to be his political opponent.

While the unemployment rate remains stuck above 9 percent, a class of bureaucrats at the National Labor Relations Board is threatening hundreds of jobs by suing an American employer for politically motivated reasons.

The believers and the sympathizers who expected inspiring personalities at key positions in the Church were disappointed by a procession of tired bureaucrats who lacked the magnanimity, vision, and creativity necessary to prepare the Church for the coming decade.

Parents should be the primary decision makers on what is best for their children's educational futures and not penalized by state and federal bureaucrats,» said Tedisco, a former public school special education teacher.

Bishop and President Obama's plan threatens to deny treatment for seniors in Medicare by allowing bureaucrats interfere with their doctors.

Instead, Liu — who political pundits believe wants to run for elected office again — claims the litigation is all about «reforming a system» at the Board that «has been broken» by «out - of - control bureaucrats and unaccountable Board members.»

The use of the «Post Code Lottery «is only to draw attention to the fact that people are placed in n invidious position to one or another extent, for many its amounts to a # 10,000 one time tax based on the roll of a dice and that a mile away others avoid the axe only heightens the sense of injustice OK Personally I am unconvinced by the minor sub theme of localism which has after all been tested to destruction by the likes of Enver Hodge and Hit Man Hatton but this is a very different context but is it not possible to have localism for some things, planning for example, and not others... why yes I think that might actually be possible even for dim witted bureaucrats.

As mayor of London, he relied heavily on a team of competent deputies and advisers to run the show, while he dashed from photo shoot to photo shoot, cheerfully taking credit for the hard work done by City Hall's army of bureaucrats.

While those serving on the committees have the power to select winners and losers in the race for grants, the real power to direct research is political and is wielded by the bureaucrats who create the programmes, allocate budgets, appoint the committees and impose the rules of the funding game.

Until recently, there was little love lost between researchers and the E.U. Scientists have long bemoaned Europe's Framework Programmes for their focus on applied research, the forced collaboration between many labs and companies across the continent, the crippling bureaucracy, and what many see as too much meddling by politicians and bureaucrats in Brussels (Science, 8 December 2006).

In various city towers, bureaucrats are pondering to whom and when they should gift hundreds of millions of dollars, perhaps even billions, by the stroke People are buying bigger televisions than ever before, but getting a poorer viewing experience because many modern TVs are simply too large for our living

Set against a backdrop of London torn apart by violence, the film follows one of the champions of Earth's survival: Theo (Academy Award nominee Clive Owen), a disillusioned ex-activist turned bureaucrat, who faces his own demons and must protect the planet's last remaining hope for a future generation.

He's described, by the bureaucrats at the lab, as an «asset»: an amphibious creature (Doug Jones) captured from the sea and cruelly tethered, with deep round eyes, a manlike (if scaly) physique and an uncanny talent for empathy.

Entombing one of the most interesting lives in American history, this garbled look at the first director of the FBI can't decide if it wants to be a by - the - numbers biopic or a Citizen Kane for power - hungry bureaucrats.

One - time activist turned government bureaucrat Theo (Clive Owen) is kidnapped by his ex-partner Julian (Julianne Moore) and her comrades from a rebel outfit called Fish, which fights for the rights of Britain's vast refugee population.

Clever bureaucrats can also tell the difference but they are bound by the rules for dispersing rewards and sanctions and so are forced into encouraging a race to the bottom.

When I became involved in education reform more than two decades ago, the movement was about empowering parents to make choices for their own children rather than having choices made for them by well - meaning but distant bureaucrats and professionals.

In essence, the NJDOE bureaucrats set the SAT benchmark to the one used by some of the most competitive public universities — thus students must be college - ready for the Top 20 colleges, not the remaining 4,400.

It's good for kids that teachers are respected and empowered and not micromanaged by bureaucrats that have never set foot in their classroom, (who have) never met their kids.

He added: «They are run by teachers, not local bureaucrats or Westminster politicians, and are free to set their own curriculum, decide how they spend their money and employ who they think are the best people for the job.

Meanwhile year - long exposes by newspapers such as the Sacramento Bee into the high cost of so - called pension spiking, or the practice of allowing teachers and bureaucrats nearing retirement to get double - digit pay raises in their final years of work in order to gain even fatter pensions, has also led to a state investigation, once again reminding families that they pay the price for 3,090 teachers (as of 2010) getting more than $ 100,000 annually in pension annuities.

They «buckled under the demands of education bureaucrats» by killing off what would be the first use in Texas of state funds for private - school tuition, he said in a written statement.

And PARCC's questions are designed by educators, not bureaucrats - 30 teachers review every test item for fairness and efficacy.

By placing school choice power directly in the hands of parents who know their children far better than any bureaucrat, real freedom comes when parents are able to shop education dollars for the very best academic program.

Parents should be the primary decision makers on what is best for their children's educational futures and not penalized by state and federal bureaucrats.

Rosenstock outsmarted the bureaucrats last year by joining a school district 150 miles away just for its special education funding.

The New Democratic Party is calling for a conflict of interest investigation into a series of CPA Canada social events attended by agency bureaucrats and accountants in 2014 and 2015.

And given PETA's endless resources, its army of wilfully blind supporters, dishonorable politicians like Bobby Orrock who are willing to do their bidding, incompetent and uncaring bureaucrats such as those who staff VDACS willing to look the other way, and a movement that legitimizes PETA's killing by praising Newkirk, that is — tragically for the animals — not likely to happen any time soon.

Inspired by our increasingly technocratic society designed by bureaucrats with malevolent accounting software, van Lieshout has proffered this sardonic ultimate solution for neoliberal states and corporations looking to colonize our eco-future.»

An analogy was more explicitly drawn by a writer in the Express: «Like EU bureaucrats in denial about Brexit, [curators] fail to acknowledge the disconnect between artists and their audience, blaming ignorance or prejudice for a lack of appreciation.»

== carpooling (by state, by city, by company) == bicycle commuters seeking safe «parking» == scheduled drop off points for e-waste == e-address for companies willing to collect used cooking oil == inventory of recycling regulations, by zip code == e-address of every environmental oversight bureaucrat == e-address of every congress critter... along with their voting record on applicable legislation == list current incentives of various utilities to turn in old applicances by consumers buying, newer more efficent applicances

The EU - funded CREATING project (Concepts to reduce environmental impact and attain optimal transport performance by inland navigation — bureaucrats probably ran out of fund when time came to find a «G» word to finish the clever acronym) along with BP have been working on creating cleaner ships for inland navigation.

· Bureaucrats employed by the national weather offices that comprise the UN World Meteorological Organization (WMO) chosen as the vehicle for controlling the IPCC.

As a bureaucrat in the Kennett Government he played a major role in stopping, for a time, the national adoption of energy performance standards for home appliances that had been agreed by all the states.

(h / t Tom Nelson) Let's face it, the American people are ready for a presidential candidate who demonstrates a strong appreciation for the empirical facts and who is not going to be bamboozled by the media elites nor the taxpayer funded, entrenched bureaucrats on major policy issues.

No, he said, and that was why he had taken care to anonymize the data and send them to a statistician, who had confirmed the obvious: since the same technique, applied to the same data, could produce precisely opposite results depending upon a careful choice of the endpoints for the multiple trend - lines that the IPCC's bureaucrats had superimposed on the perfectly correct graph of 150 years of temperature changes that the scientists had submitted, the technique must be defective and any results obtained by its use must be meaningless.

Often this is done «for the common good of the people», as imagined by the ruling politicians and bureaucrats, who are mistakenly convinced that they «know better» what's good for the people than the people themselves do.

«A glance across the Atlantic shows what could be in store for Britain, and what we have missed out on so far because of obstacles put in place by mendacious pressure groups and timid bureaucrats,» Ridley wrote.

A spokesman for Sen. McCain said the approach outlined by the EPA «would give a small, unelected group of bureaucrats unprecedented power to regulate broad swaths of our economy — effectively placing production, employment and investment decisions under government control.»

Sow doubt, make up statistics, call for an «open debate,» claim that you are being «silenced and ignored by the media and politicians,» claim that your opponents are just a «few bureaucrats and environmental activists,» not real scientists — those are the tactics that will be brought to bear in the coming months by the CCDs in their attempt to derail meaningful efforts to respond to global climate change.

The United Nations - IPCC reports have been misrepresented by the nonscientific IPCC bureaucrats in preparing the Summary - for - Policy - Makers.

There was no mention of climate justice, and when I did mention the problematic, unfair request of providing loans on interest to LDCs for loss and damage, I was quickly snubbed by a neatly manicured Swiss bureaucrat.

It was just «junk science,» they claimed, a «scare tactic» worked up for selfish purposes by power - seeking bureaucrats and radical environmentalists.

The IPCC routinely tells its scientists to revise their original studies to reflect Summaries for Policymakers written by politicians and bureaucrats.

While the bureaucrats in Washington have patted themselves on the back for requiring a fuel - efficiency standard of 35 miles per gallon by 2020, there are companies — heck, there are just regular people — building PHEVs that can double, even triple that.