Sentences with phrase «duties over the nation»

Shorten told Nine last week that PHIs «are making 25 per cent profits» — which is just wrong (though why would we expect a former director of AustralianSuper with fiduciary duties over the nation's largest retirement fund to know the difference between a profit margin and a return on equity?)

Not exact matches

The problem that towers over us is not the morality of recycling plastic or making better immigration policies, although I do wish we could reduce our dependence on non-biodegradable packaging, and I do hope we continue to search for reasonable solutions to immigration that respect both the dignity of persons and the rights and duties of sovereign nations.

Sadly, the signals were early enough — of a self - abdicating elite over a nation - slaying monster (simply because that elite is so rotten it knows no other way); and a media that merrily surrenders its sacred historic duty to that elite's profane hysteria.

We stand for the Monarchy; traditional marriage; family and community duties; proper pride in our nation's distinctive qualities; quality of life over soulless utility; social responsibility over personal selfishness; social justice as civic duty, not state dependency; compassion for those in need; reducing government waste; lower taxation and deregulation; our ancient liberties against politically correct censorship and a commitment to our democratically elected parliament.»

We need to make sure that we are in control over the things that affects us.Anytime there is flood and people loose their life, most of the blame goes to sitting presidents.I am not saying that the central government does not have responsibility to ensure that enabling environment is created.They have a great work to do but as citizens what is our quota?When you move around Accra, sometimes i becomes angry within myself because i am in doubt as to whether our sanitation laws exit.People because of the tax they claim they pay waits for zoom lion workers to come and clean the choked gutters before our houses and shops either than that, it will remain like that.Is it modernity or civilization that has turned us to forget our traditional values or duties of ensuring that our environments is clean?Everybody in our Ghanaian setting knows the responsibility of men and women in making sure that our environments are clean not waiting for flood to occur and we start blaming sitting presidents.To the media, though your responsibility is to keep governments on it toes, you equally have a mandate in educating the public of what we are expected to do as citizens in other to ensure that our dear nation is a better ecosystem for all of us to live.The attention of the media should be shifted from making politicians popular to making us aware as citizens of our responsibilities.I sometimes get confused to hear journalists calling opponents to comment on issues concerning the sitting governments and the only thing that comes to my mind is what do the journalist want to hear from the political opponents?Nothing.They will end up criticizing without giving an alternative.The media should rather resort in questioning people directly to where the problems are coming from.Let us build our institutions.When it comes to energy issues.Citifm will call Hon.KT Hammond who was a deputy minister living who he worked under (His boss at that time) and I always become confused because what can we expect from him?nothing.

With the frequent reports of school districts doing a poor job of fulfilling their authorizing duties and school districts» authorizing over half of the nation's charter schools, it is easy to see how the real power of the chartering strategy is being negated.

As a matter of ethics high - emitting nations and individuals have had clear ethical duties to reduce ghg emissions to their fair share of safe global emissions for over thirty years.

Being a tribal member with the Cherokee Nation with nearly fifteen years as a federal prosecutor in different federal courts and over twenty as both an Army active duty and reserve lawyer (Judge Advocate), I brought a perspective to the tribal court bench that was unique.

On Friday, February 28th, 2014 at 10 am PST (1 pm EST), students from law schools across Canada will argue an appeal over Twitter about the duty of Canada's governments to consult First Nations on mines development.

The move is a surprise to industry watchers and T - Mobile's COOs Jim Alling, will take over the duties of the CEO while the nation's fourth largest phone carrier searches for a replacement.

The said conference was participated by almost 120 research scientists and experts from over 20 nations, who concluded that the equal sharing of parental duties and responsibilities, and custody following a parental divorce or separation is acknowledged as «the most effective» way to lessen the cases of high parental conflict and domestic violence across the U.S.

In 1936, Edward VIII - the Queen's uncle - scandalised the nation when he chose love over duty, abdicating from the throne to marry American divorcee Wallis Simpson.