Sentences with phrase «by public history»

Without telling a literal story of places and people, Struth's subtle photographs reveal how personal feelings of anger, love, fear, faith, and doubt are shaped by public history.

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By the time the public comment period had ended for proposed rule changes to net neutrality 10 days ago, the Federal Communications Commission logged close to 800,000 responses, making it the most commented - upon rule change in the agency's history.

What we're looking at is the inevitable result of that history expressed through public opinion, and influenced by racialized ideas on crime and criminality.

MONTREAL — Bombardier is implementing one of the deepest job cuts in its history by eliminating 7,000 positions — including more than a third in Canada — though it took pains Wednesday to instead train the public spotlight on a large CSeries plane order with Air Canada.

«Ensuring America's Health: The Public Creation of the Corporate Health Care System is an important history of how US health care came to be dominated by the private insurance industry.

The company hopes to raise $ 5 billion in an initial public offering later this spring, which will make it by far the largest Internet IPO in history.

They look at business - to - business data submitted by suppliers, historical payment history, public records, and industry data to create what they call, «a more complete» business profile.

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Part 1: Combined stock repurchases by U.S. public companies have reached record levels, a Reuters analysis finds, but as the recent history of such iconic businesses as Hewlett - Packard and IBM suggests, showering cash on shareholders may exact a long - term toll.

The leaders of Animal Farm maintain thought control by obscuring the facts with smokescreens, rewriting history, creating conspiracy theories about pending attacks, faking victims, slander, scapegoating, murdering opposition, outrageous public works projects to keep the animals busy, and through a large group of useful idiots — sheep — that spread their message unthinkingly and distract dissenters.

Specifically, Defendants made false and / or misleading statements and / or failed to disclose that: (i) the Company was engaged in predatory lending practices that saddled subprime borrowers and / or those with poor or limited credit histories with high - interest rate debt that they could not repay; (ii) many of the Company's customers were using Qudian - provided loans to repay their existing loans, thereby inflating the Company's revenues and active borrower numbers and increasing the likelihood of defaults; (iii) the Company was providing online loans to college students despite a governmental ban on the practice; (iv) the Company was engaged overly aggressive and improper collection practices; (v) the Company had understated the number of its non-performing loans in the Registration Statement and Prospectus; (vi) because of the Company's improper lending, underwriting and collection practices it was subject to a heightened risk of adverse actions by Chinese regulators; (vii) the Company's largest sales platform and strategic partner, Alipay, and Ant Financial, could unilaterally cap the APR for loans provided by Qudian; (viii) the Company had failed to implement necessary safeguards to protect customer data; (ix) data for nearly one million Company customers had been leaked for sale to the black market, including names, addresses, phone numbers, loan information, accounts and, in some cases, passwords to CHIS, the state - backed higher - education qualification verification institution in China, subjecting the Company to undisclosed risks of penalties and financial and reputational harm; and (x) as a result of the foregoing, Qudian's public statements were materially false and misleading at all relevant times.

The historic properties managed by the Public Buildings Service represent the work of historic and prominent architects that are valued for significance in art, architecture, archeology, culture, engineering, and American history.

The findings mark the first public reports by government authorities into what caused some of the dozens of blazes that erupted Oct. 8 and became the deadliest and most destructive wildfires in California history.

StartEngine aims to revolutionize the startup business model by helping individuals invest in private companies on a public platform, now viable for the first time in history, thereby helping entrepreneurs achieve their dreams.

On most of the public network, any anonymous individual can become an active participant, broadcast and propagate transactions, and view the full history of all previous transactions made by all participants on the network.

It was the first public evidence of the project that had gradually taken shape in my mind during the preceding years: to work out on the level of systematic theology the ancient Israelitic view of reality as a history of God's interaction with his creation, as I had internalized it from the exegesis of my teacher Gerhard von Rad, after I had discovered how to extend it to the New Testament by way of Jewish eschatology and its developments in Jesus» message and history.

Catharine Beecher, sister of Harriet Beecher Stowe and Henry Ward Beecher, argued against women's suffrage on the grounds that «women could influence public affairs very satisfactorily without recourse to the ballot box, by the simple expedient of influencing the opinions and outlook of those who did have the vote — their husbands and sons» (Reay Tannahill, Sex in History, [Stein & Day], 1980, p. 389).

In the vast medley of private and public actions and political and economic decisions, in the enormous and incomprehensible complexity of the history of men, some decisions and works finally accomplish the intention of God, or are at least chosen and adopted by him.

The effort of Gruntvig and his school to whip up the national pride of Denmark by recalling it to the Nordic sagas and its glorious history, Kierkegaard felt to be so much public flattery and a violent poison to the real individual need of the soul.

In their view, books stressing contingency «offer a way forward, beyond the «old political history» and the new «social and cultural history» by a reunion of process and event,» In other words, what Individual people did — perhaps especially people who filled leading public posts — may be as genuinely significant as the ordinary forces acting upon ordinary people.

It seems twisted to me that in refusing to recite the pledge in public places, I can be judged by people who clearly have much less knowledge than I regarding the history of the pledge.

Any society in history will need structures which balance enhancement of freedom and self - determination with checks on it by long - established legal and moral traditions of keeping power in the service of order and mutual responsibility, as well as creation of new structures of public morality.

They remind us of this point by citing part of recent history: when Rosa Parks went public with her pain and refused to ride in the back of the bus, she released energy, the energy to take a giant step in righting a great wrong and to lift many a burden.

The more than thirty articles in Will China Democratize were written by scholars in political science, astrophysics, business, law, public policy, politics, government, history, sociology, communications, and literary criticism.

Everywhere they will be a little flock, because mankind grows quicker than Christendom and because men will not be Christians by custom and tradition, through institutions and history, or because of the homogeneity of a social milieu and public opinion, but — leaving out of account the sacred flame of parental example and the intimate sphere of home, family and small groups — they will be Christians only because of their own act of faith attained in a difficult struggle and perpetually achieved anew.

Experience is always moulded by events, forces and symbolisms stemming from a variety of sources, including private and public histories, — competitive and cooperative inclinations, natural and socio - cultural imperatives.

Christianity began with one whose public career was so short, whose teachings were seemingly so casual and so conditioned by a particular view of history, and whose death was apparently due to such impractical idealism, that some scholars have held his connection with it to have been only a minor, even though possibly an essential, cause of its existence.

Bishop Azariah of Dornakal, in theologically justifying the rejection of the reserved minority communal electorate offered by Britain to the Christian community in India, spoke of how the acceptance of it would be «a direct blow to the nature of the church of Christ» at two points — one, it would force the church to function «like a religious sect, a community which seeks self - protection for the sake of its own loaves and fishes» which would prevent the fruitful exercise of the calling of the church to permeate the entire society across boundaries of caste, class, language and race, a calling which can be fulfilled only through its members living alongside fellow - Indians sharing in public life with a concern for Christian principles in it; and two, it would put the church's evangelistic programme in a bad light as «a direct move to transfer so many thousands of voters from the Hindu group to the Indian Christian group» (recorded by John Webster, Dalit Christians - A History).

While some evangelical supporters of homeschooling, private school, and charter school options are celebrating a school choice advocate's appointment to this all - important role (and a graduate of the evangelical liberal arts school, Calvin College, at that), other conservative Christian public school parents and advocates are disheartened by DeVos's limited personal history with our nation's public schools (she has mentored in public schools but not attended, taught, or sent children to public schools).

The RE syllabus is too often dictated by the needs of public examinations, but even within this some fine work could be done, and the Faith communicated for what it is: essential knowledge, rich and deep, that opens wide the whole of life's meaning and purpose and sets it in the context of centuries of God's revelation and 2,000 years of Church history that is thrilling to discover.

This allows us to face the challenges of our time soberly, neither despairing of the possibilities of justice in public life and thus withdrawing, nor seeking to take command of history by embarking on grandiose ideological projects that encourage us to assume godlike powers over human affairs.

By constantly reminding the world that salvation history is the interior, if you will, of world history, and that salvation history tells the world's story in its full depth and against its most ample horizon, the Church does the best service it can do for the world, including that part of the world we call «public life.»

During the course of the last two or three generations the theological curriculum has been «enriched» — like vitamin - impregnated bread — by the addition of a long series of short courses in sociology and social problems, rural and urban sociology, the theory of religious education, educational psychology, methods of religious education, psychology of religion, psychology of personality, psychology of counseling, methods of pastoral counseling, theory of missions, history of missions, methods of evangelism, theory and practice of worship, public speaking, church administration, et cetera, et cetera.

No matter what Vic or any of his Christian toadies think or feel or want, this matter has already been decided by a majority of public opinion and the religious bigots already know they are on the wrong side of history.

The River Foundation works to provide amenities and enhancements not funded by public monies; opportunities that will allow residents and tourists alike to enjoy the river's natural beauty, immerse themselves in its history and become thoughtful stewards of its future.

As the mother of triplet sons, one of whom was forced by a history of concussions to stop playing football before his junior year of high school, educating the public about concussions and the cumulative effect of subconcussive head impacts is something about which I care passionately and to which I have been deeply committed for the past sixteen years.

Public Speaking & Debate was requested by my social studies students a year ago as an extension of discussions we hold at the end of each year's History classes in a current events unit.

SUDDEN INFANT death syndrome (SIDS) is the sudden death of an infant, unexpected by history and unexplained by a thorough postmortem examination, including a complete autopsy, death scene investigation, andreview of the medical history.1 The decreased risk of SIDS associated with nonprone sleep positions led to the recommendation in 1992 by the American Academy of Pediatrics that infants be placed to sleep on the side or back.2 In 1994, the national public education campaign «Back to Sleep» was launched, and the supine position is now recommended.3 Sudden infant death syndrome rates in the United States have decreased by about 40 % as prone prevalence has decreased from 70 % in 1992 to 17 % in 1998.3,4

With a long and successful history of dairy promotion, these are readily accepted by the public.

Soon after the new IPAct was introduced, Liberty, a British organisation concerned with human rights protection, requested a judicial review to the High Court.Liberty argued that some powers protected by the Act such as the interception of communication, acquisition of communication history and the creation of bulk personal datasets breached the public's rights.

There have been previous guides but the IWM has now produced a magnificent history and guide, superbly illustrated, written by Jonathan Asbury — Secrets of Churchill's War Rooms (Imperial War Museum) takes the reader to areas not easily accessible to the public.

Susan Lerner, Executive Director of Common Cause / NY, noted that «Hydraulic fracturing has been one of the most polarizing issues in recent history, with no shortage of political money invested by pro-fracking interests to achieve a favorable outcome... New York State needs comprehensive campaign finance and lobbying reform to assure New Yorkers that public policy is based on their interest, not the special interests.»

Yesterday's concessions by the Coalition, in respect of the public sector pensions negotiations, verge on an unconditional surrender to the unions, perhaps on a scale unprecedented in the history of public sector labour negotiations.

Yes, the pro-charter group StudentsFirstNY praised the budget: «New York made history by investing in... charter schools in a manner that will dramatically assist in educating public school children.»

The Museum of Political Corruption, a 501 (C)(3) nonprofit, nonpartisan institution, is committed to empowering the public by offering a better understanding of political corruption, detailing its history, and encouraging solutions that promote ethics reform and honest government.

Though critics accuse many of these greats of striking a happy marriage between public good and private bliss, history is clearly kind to them, by the way they have shaped the temper of the Nigerian newspaper press.

In one party Albany «reform» has a history of meaning only a faction switch — driven by competition for public money.

Off the top of my head the biggest ones are: (1) corruption within the Buildings & Grounds Department (2) corruption involving school district vendors over-billing and paying bribes and kickbacks that led to those two Federal indictments and convictions; (3) corruption involving police harassment of a woman on behalf of the manager of a local beach club; (4) a child rapist operating out of a public middle school; (5) an illegal gambling and pornography web site operated by members of the New Rochelle Police Department; (6) a retired police officer defrauding charities including St. Jude's Children's Research; (7) illegal asbestos handling and asbestos removal at an elementary school; (8) an effort to artificially inflate the salaries and pensions of senior police commanders; (9) the relationship between the New Rochelle Police Commissioner and a corrupt contractor, a man who has since been convicted on Federal corruption charges; (10) the sordid history of former New Rochelle Schools Administrator Freddie Dean Smith.

We are coming out of a phase in our history when commitment to public services was measured solely by annual increases in expenditure.