Sentences with phrase «despite public claims»

In his May 17 post, he stated that, despite public claims of transparency, «public documents, such as the Test Specifications for the Redesigned SAT contain crucial statements and claims that are fabrications.»

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And despite Trump's claim that plenty of lawyers and «top law firms» want to work for him, a growing number have passed on a chance to represent a client who contradicts them in public, changes his story repeatedly, expects them to lie and has a history of stiffing his employees.

Just this week the simmering spat between the pundit and Arsene Wenger boiled over again, with both aiming public digs at the other, Merson bizarrely claiming that the former Spurs manager Harry Redknapp was a much better tactician than the Frenchman despite their records showing different.

Despite the mayor's claims to the contrary, City & State found some details of his nonprofit groups and their interactions with City Hall remain private or virtually inaccessible to the public, and oversight of them appears muddled with largely voluntary compliance.

David Cameron pressed ahead with his «big society» agenda today with a # 600 million fund for charities and community groups, despite claims it was failing to resonate with the public.

While Ed Miliband floats around the country playing the role of a man with integrity, it's worth noting that despite «marching for the alternative» a few years ago with the people he claims to represent, he turned his back on public sector workers and those on «Workfare», whilst allowing changes to employment law to go through virtually unchallenged, allowing the coalition to force through it's anti-worker agenda.

Norman Lamb, the former Health Minister who set up the Lib Dems» expert panel, said ORB's findings about licensed cannabis sales showed that the public were way ahead of most politicians who, he claimed, doggedly support prohibition despite its disastrous consequences.

Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan earned up to $ 150,000 last year from a Long Island law firm despite claims that he was giving up his outside legal work, according to documents made public yesterday.

Without public financing we would not see Council Members with the courage to claim their independence despite receiving support from the REBNY backed PAC.

We already know from the CCTV that there were no members of public to take offence, despite what the police claimed - so the case would hinge on whether a police officer, in this instance an experienced member of an elite firearms unit, felt «threatened» because a middle aged man had muttered a sentence which included the word «fucking» with his earshot, whist walking away wheeling a bicycle.

A public utterly convinced that despite all evidence to the contrary people claiming disability benefits are mostly on the fiddle.

On her own life, Harman claimed to be a normal member of the public, despite her long parliamentary career.

Despite Cuomo's public claim of ongoing support for SolarCity and its still - under - construction plant in Buffalo — the keystone of the Buffalo Billion — investors have demonstrated they don't share the governor's faith.

«Despite the claims of some,» Diaz said Thursday, «we know that our public schools have, at best, remained stagnant over the past decade.»

ALBANY — Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan earned up to $ 150,000 last year from a Long Island law firm despite claims that he was giving up his outside legal work, according to documents made public Tuesday.

The group claimed the de Blasio administration has «regularly refused» to grant charters space in public school buildings, despite a state law requiring them to do so.

4) Willie Soon states «I don't like to claim that I am an expert on anything,» despite listing himself as an «expert in mercury and public health» for a discredited Wall Street Journal op - ed dismissing health concerns over mercury pollution from coal plants.

It comes after the commissioner made no mention of transparency in his first big interview, published in TES last week, despite telling Radio 4's Today programme in January he wanted commissioners to become more accountable and transparent and claiming «there are many routes» for the public to contact him.

Advocates claim there is great public demand, despite the fact that a 2013 Gallup poll indicated that opposition to the use of public funds for private schools is at 70 %, its highest level ever recorded in that survey.

Despite strong support for the Common Core from the state's business community, some conservative critics wildly claim the higher standards are a federal plot to take over public education.

Teachers unions really can claim only two big wins — Democrat Tom Wolf ousting incumbent Republican Gov. Tom Corbett in Pennsylvania and the re-election of Tom Torlakson as California's superintendent of public instruction — despite the fact that the nation's two largest teachers unions spent more in this election cycle than ever before: more than $ 60 million in total.

While Governor Malloy's proposal to ban collective bargaining at Commissioner's Network schools is appalling and inappropriate, the notion of turning a public district school over to a charter school company should be rejected because, despite what Mr. Green claims, Connecticut's charter schools DO NOT have a proven track record when it comes to serving the broader community.

Despite detailed assurances from top state officials, an offer to set up a no - cost, high - speed internet network for cash - strapped public schools across Louisiana died recently amid conflicting claims on the merits of the plan.

Despite the lower percentages of these and other types of special needs students, Capital Prep's performance scores do not reflect corresponding higher achievement; the school, in fact, has a lower performance index score than Hartford Public Schools has for precisely the population that Capital Prep claims to have achieved great success with.

Despite GOP claims, education advocates say Senate budget fails to repair damage to public schools

This week's budget plan also hands down a whopping $ 50 million in cuts over two years to central office administration and operations in the Department of Public Instruction, despite claims from the state's top public school agency that past legislative cuts have severely hampered the department's ability to provide intervention and guidance in North Carolina's poorest and most low - performing distPublic Instruction, despite claims from the state's top public school agency that past legislative cuts have severely hampered the department's ability to provide intervention and guidance in North Carolina's poorest and most low - performing distpublic school agency that past legislative cuts have severely hampered the department's ability to provide intervention and guidance in North Carolina's poorest and most low - performing districts.

Despite the criticism Lake Forest Charter School has received over the years for being one of the few public schools with selective enrollment, it isn't stopping New Orleans» parents from trying to claim a stake in the city's school choice melee.

But despite this sadomasochistic calibration, the ride quality on public roads barely suffers, claims project leader Antonio Grandi.

Despite public acceptance of self - publishing as a viable means of expression, the traditional publishing industry continues to claim that it is the final arbiter of what's good and right and culturally relevant.

Despite this, some companies are trying to mislead the pet - owning public by claiming they have high quality evidence showing they provide the same benefit without the risks.

Until recently, the large, wealthy, and entrenched animal welfare organizations have successfully dominated the national discussion on companion animals, and they have misused that power to falsely claim that animals are being killed because of the public, despite shelters trying their very best.

Despite the attention given to zoonotic diseases and claims of cats being a public health risk, there are actually more community benefits resulting from the association with these animals.

Evolution is now claiming you won't able to finish the single player career despite promising a platinum for the Plus version plus they are not supporting PS3 wheels, depsite public promises.

Silverstring Media has since updated their site to claim they are not a public relations firm, despite Kramer claiming on her Patreon site that she does «PR and production» for independent game developers.

Vanessa Faye Johnson claimed that despite intentions, the «lack of exchange and dialogue, the simplification of complex issues in the Biennial» effectively cast the artists largely as victims in the eyes of the public.

Despite it's backing by big corporations, the group claimed it provided «a voice for consumers interested in vital public issues.»

Yet despite those obvious disruptions, and despite the growing and thickening sea ice, and despite the lack of any warming trend what so ever, the scientific literature is spammed and the public bombarded with more propaganda claiming climate change has put penguins in peril.

In his attempt to intervene, Mann has called upon friends in academe to bolster his claim that, despite using a taxpayer - funded email system at UVA, that he has the right to prevent the public from seeing what he says are «private» emails.

The modern equivalent with regard to AGW is that, despite the claim that 95 % or more of climate scientists support the AGW establishment position, support for the position among the general public (of the western nations anyway) is only of the order of 50 %.

In response, Johnson said the company «remains committed» to the goal and repeated Starbucks» claim that the cup is recyclable, despite paper cups only being accepted for recycling in four major cities in the U.S., with no public information about how many cups actually make it through the recycling process and are repurposed.

Claims that a scientific consensus on climate doesn't exist despite multiple studies or even cursory looks at the literature, or that expert opinions are meaningless, are really just efforts in denial, and attempts to halt reality - driven public policies.

U.S. public agreement with the view that human activities have caused global warming, now 57 %, has waxed and waned over the past decade, despite a steady increase in the percentage of Americans claiming they understand the issue well.

The modern equivalent with regard to AGW is that, despite the claim that 95 % or more of climate scientists support the AGW establishment position, support for the position among the general public (of the western nations anyway) is only of the order of 50 % (14).

With the help of a specialist employment law barrister (who also thought that my client had a good claim for unfair dismissal), we re-drafted the claim, attended a short employment tribunal hearing (which we won, despite the public sector body throwing everything they had at it), and took the case towards trial, confident that we would win.

As I mentioned, but Mitch ignored, the English experts were unanimous in saying that, despite two years experience there and the 10 + years of Australia's experience to draw on, it is still too early to tell whether there will ever be any benefits to the public of the types claimed by the ABS supporters.

Despite huge investments, public sector insurance companies are facing a high claim ratio and falling profitability

Despite huge investments, public sector general insurance companies are facing a high claim ratio, falling profitability and poor solvency ratios.

The FTC lawsuit claimed that the company repeatedly shared user information with the public despite telling users that their information would be kept private.

Manager of Public Relations at Zillow Group tells The Real Daily, «despite the claim in the suit, no listings on Zillow are exempt from having a Zestimate.