Sentences with phrase «claims about public»

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Unfortunately, as this analysis finds, the WPRI report is fatally flawed, undermining both its claims about public school choice and any implications for private school choice...

But union leaders, when issuing public statements, may make claims about public support that are not altogether justified.

However, the decision about who to vote for on May 7th should surely be based on a party's political vision, philosophical basis and intention, rather than their ability to predict the future or make claims about the public finances.

Liberals and conservatives alike have resorted to religious arguments in defense of claims about public morality and the role of the state in defending public morality.

13) The above claims have public relevance because they concern the public good; they are no more or less discriminatory than other bona fide claims about the public good, and their contraries or alternatives have no greater prima facie claim to public consideration.

Not exact matches

The government has a chance to prove the claim that the Liberals don't really care about public transport is a myth.

Meanwhile, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration says it is looking into the vulnerability claims (Muddy Waters told the agency about the claims before going public with them).

ICE officials and Sessions had laid into Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf for warning the local immigrant community about the impending raid, claiming that the tip - off helped lead to «864 criminal aliens and public safety threats» remaining at large.

The Bipartisan Budget Act of 2015 (Public Law 114 - 74; November 2, 2015), made some changes to Social Security's laws about claiming retirement and spousal benefits.

A simmering dispute between Dauman and Redstone, who has so far successfully fought off legal claims about his competency, broke into public view last week when he fired Dauman and Abrams from the trust and told Viacom executives he opposed the company's plan to sell a stake in the Paramount Pictures division.

Toyota shareholders incensed over a sudden drop in the Japanese automaker's stock price are heading to court with lawsuits claiming company executives deliberately misled investors and the public about the depth of accelerator problems in millions of its vehicles....

The group argues that the claims the plaintiffs made to the court are inconsistent with statements they routinely make to the public about their services, Hauptman said.

Susan Jones is a researcher uncovering the truth about the Massey tunnel replacement project While the public has shown support for a new crossing over the south arm of the Fraser River, there is no «overwhelming support» for the planned $ 3.5 billion planned bridge as claimed by B.C.'s Minister of Transportation, Todd Stone.

The Iranian defence minister once again called the Zionist regime's claims about Iran baseless and absurd and added the levelling of such accusations is not acceptable even for people and public opinion of the world.

Among other things, Hogan is claiming that Gawker violated the tort of «publication of private facts,» which prohibits people from publishing private facts about others, even if they are true, unless the facts are related to matters of «public concern.»

Trump's comments about the relationship broke an 11 - day silence since Daniels went public with claims of an extramarital affair with the real estate mogul in a 60 Minutes interview.

«It was absurd enough that Hulk Hogan claimed $ 100m for emotional distress and economic damage for a story about a sex life that he'd already made public,» the statement reads.

Finally, GM's quick repayment of the loans has whetted the appetite of some commentators (including DeCloet) for the ultimate repayment of the full government contribution. That would occur through the issuance of public equity by GM and Chrysler, creating a market for those stocks into which the government would presumably sell its shares. There is even some nefarious language in the rescue packages requiring the government to sell off its shares within specified, relatively aggressive timelines. The more I think about it, the less this makes sense — neither for the auto industry, nor for taxpayers. Why not hang onto the equity stake? If the companies recover and the equity gains market value, then the government will be able to claim that on its balance sheet (hence officially recouping the cost of its written - off contributions and creating a budgetary gain).

Abortion was sold to the American public in the early 1970s with a long series of claims about its future social benefits.

And I have sought to show, using Hartshorne as a concrete example, how a dialectical defense provides the ultimate support for one's claims about experience and its essential temporality and how that dialectic rests on claims quite remote from any direct or straightforward reading of experience, whether private or public.

Julie - I was especially encouraged and thought of you while reading a particular passage because it is about the story of a woman who was assaulted and not believed... and then about the way that it was necessary for there to be a public forum where she could claim and own her experience.

Besides the established fact that legends have a way of springing up about great public figures, there must also have been an almost irresistible urge on the part of some to bolster the claim that Jesus was indeed the Messiah, especially since his behavior was m some ways most unmessianic (see p. 97).

Constructive post-modernists make no claim to perfection or finality for their ideas about philosophy, science, or public policy.

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?

In the Gallup survey, for example, 90 percent of the public claimed to have thought about «living a worthwhile life» at least a fair amount (or a lot) during the preceding two years; 83 percent said they had thought often about their «basic values in life»; 81 percent gave the same response for «your relation to God»; and 70 percent gave similar answers for «developing your faith.»

One may certainly refrain from insisting, as some Jewish leaders have, upon mandated Holocaust studies in the public school curriculum: for many people, such «mandates» might appear as an effort to establish the passion of the Jews as the larger culture's defining story, thus, ironically, giving plausibility to anti-Semitic claims about Jewish power.

Even historians who share the same faith disagree about many details, such as the time and place at which Jesus was born, the duration of his public ministry, his messianic or divine claims, his intent to establish a Church, the dates of his Last Supper and of the crucifixion.

The guide will also inform consumers and the public more generally about the ACCC's approach to free range egg claims, which may assist the public to have confidence buying free range.

I have backed my claims with every reasonable information, based on a public document and what I know about the terms of the club's long term lenders (you can't just use the club as leverage in the US when it's already geared in the U.K.).

nice to see you crawl out of your hole just in time to offer your 2 cents worth once again... unlike yourself I started following this team long before Wenger arrived on the scene and will continue to do so long after he's gone... in his earlier years I admired the cerebral elements he brought to the EPL, which at that point was more brutish than beautiful, and I respected the seemingly tireless efforts of Arsene, Dein & staff to uncover and develop talent without sacrificing the product on the field... likewise I appreciated that such a youthful manager wasn't afraid to bring strong personalities and / or world - class players into the fold without being fearful of how said players would potentially undermine and / or dilute his authority... unfortunately this all changed about 10 years ago and culminated in the removal of all our greatest players, both young and old, without any real replacements coming in... from Henry to RVP to Fabergas and Nasri, it was easy to see that this club was no longer interested in competing at the highest levels... instead of being honest, minus the ridiculous claims regarding the new stadium, Wenger chose to side with management and in doing so became the «front man» for this corporation pretending to be a world - class soccer club... without the «front man» this organization would have been exposed numerous years earlier, so his presence was imperative if the facade was to continue... it's for this reason and more that I despise what this once great man and Kroenke has done to my beloved club... the gutless, shameful and manipulative way they have treated the fans, like myself, is largely indefensible and this is why I felt it necessary to start offering my opinion in a public format... trust me, I resisted the temptation for many years but as long as the same shit continues to exist I will voice my opinions and if you don't like it maybe you should look for a different team to pretend to follow

However, if Wenger is looking to bolster the Arsenal front line he could do a lot worse than get in touch with another French club PSG, who reports claim could be about to sell their Uruguayan centre forward Edinson Cavani after the public falling out the striker has had with his new team mate Neymar.

once they started public school and ate in the cafeteria once a week, my older one didn't care for the canned fruit claiming a «chemical» taste as the reason, my younger one was enthusiastic about spiced apples, mandarin oranges and pineapple tidbits and requested the same at home.

He reported this week that his FOIA request was denied by attorneys for DC public schools, who claimed that «that details about the rebates constitute «trade secrets» and that exposing them to public scrutiny would hurt the «competitive position» of Chartwells, the school system's contracted food service provider.»

Of course, I'm not talking about an absolute but a rule of thumb, and all bets are off when it concerns elected officials and others whose lives are in the public realm (celebrities, wannabes, MySpace exhibitionists, porn stars, bloggers), since there's no way a reality show contestant (for instance) can claim a reasonable expectation of privacy.

Just got a «breaking news» alert from The Politico that Barack Obama has accused the Clinton campaign of engaging in «the old «Swift boat» politics,» using as evidence a Bob Novak piece from earlier today that claimed that Clinton was holding scandalous material on the Illinois senator, refusing to use it in public, but spreading rumors about it behind the scenes.

He asked how important SDG5 was to the general public claiming that since politicians have to talk up popular issues to get elected they would talk about SDG5 more if it was a widespread concern to people.

By successful, I mean undermined the public trust of the results sufficiently so the winner could not successfully claim a mandate, take leadership, pass the law - whatever the vote was about.

Claim 27: «The Chairperson, Mrs. Charlotte Osei unilaterally awarded a contract of about $ 25,000 to a South African company, Quazar Limited to change and redevelop the Commission's logo under the guise of rebranding without going to tender contrary to the Public Procurement Act.»

According to him, the fuss about plagiarized logo won't «put food on the table of the ordinary Ghanaian», urging the general public to disregard such claims.

Surely what you mean is «Ken may well employ sophistry to claim that he is not technically in breach of party rules, because saying that the candidate should not have been dropped, walking around for the TV cameras with the rival candidate (and having a quick chat about why the Labour candidate) did not in fact entail an explicit «vote Rahman» public statement (even though the whole point was to convey precisely that impression to any sentient being).

«There's uncertainty about what the state of those centers is going to be,» said Mr. Torres, a native of public housing, claiming many public housing residents have complained of their dealings with private contractors.

He says testimonies he expects to be made public in the coming days were from «whistleblowers» who were «peripheral, making invented claims about things they didn't see».

Cuomo has yet to offer the full - throated public support for MMA that the sport's promoters claim he has expressed in private, but continues to make generally supportive comments about its potential economic benefits.

We've become used to hearing about «modern attitudes», «barbaric behaviour» and endless public opinion polls claiming that the majority of people are against repeal of the supposedly iconic Hunting Act.

«He provokes public order, as a tool of attracting the media and making unsubstantiated claims about the transparency and fairness of all the elections he contested, such tactics are dangerous and irresponsible.»

Top attorneys led by New York State Attorney General Eric Schneiderman and former Vice President Al Gore announced a collective effort to investigate Exxon Mobil over environmentalist claims that the company misled the public about its role in climate change.

Downing Street strenuously denies the charge, saying that the information about Blears» claims had first been made public by the communities secretary herself, on her website.

The bill provides a little more information about legislators» outside income, including by limiting their ability to claim that certain income should be shielded from public disclosure, a tactic that has been all too common in Albany in recent years.

The lawyers filed a motion to dismiss the charges — which allege Silver lined his pockets with nearly $ 4 million in bribes and kickbacks in a stunning abuse of power dating to at least 2000 — claiming public statements that Manhattan US Attorney Preet Bharara made about the case «caused irreparable harm by tainting» the grand jury that indicted him on Feb. 19.