Sentences with phrase «engaging the public on»

A civil liberties commission - perhaps with Shirley Williams and Charles Clarke co-chairing and involving Tory voices, too - could engage the public on how to reconcile security and liberty.

The luxury of time accommodated these institutions to engage the public on investment line, a move which convinced lots of people to accept and appreciate the authenticity of these establishment forcing massive participation.

Engaging the Public on Food and Water Security: Perspectives from the AAAS Leshner Public Engagement Fellows

«We also hope that the Administration will regard Earth Hour as a way to inform and engage the public on climate change, just as the federal government has traditionally used Earth Day to educate the public about general environmental issues.»

«Yet if we continue to think about public opinion in this narrow way, as policy conflicts emerge, mistakes will be made and opportunities will be missed to effectively engage the public on the questions and concerns that matter to them.»

«A national synthetic biology organization could convene scientists and stakeholders from commercial entities, philanthropy, academia, and government to discuss policy, develop regulation, prioritize the development of tools and fundamental research, engage the public on education and ethical issues and create infrastructure.»

Information is power, and we will work every day to inform, educate and engage the public on critical policy debates.

We invest in leadership development and coaching programs for principals and campus / district teams, provide grants to innovative education organizations, pursue research - driven public policy advocacy at the state level, and inform and engage the public on issues impacting all students.

Title: FAA Engages the Public on its Strategic Plan Link: https://www.transportation.gov/mission/open/faa-engages-public-its-strat...

We also have increased citizen participation on all fronts, including engaging the public on departmental policy and regulations and in local transportation decision - making through our Ladders of Opportunity efforts and initiatives such as the Every Place Counts challenge.

We'll be happy to work with you on what to say, how to say it, and how to take those first steps toward engaging the public on your behalf and that of the entire pet trade.

If we (as a movement) are to bring an end to the killing of pets in shelters, we need to engage the public on a deeper level than just a guilt - relieving donation.

Park leaders and interpreters are also using this as an opportunity to engage the public on this critical issue.

The organization engages in a variety of interdisciplinary partnerships with artists, architects, and designers to engage the public on critical environmental issues.

Matthew Nisbet at Age of Engagement: «Eye on 2012: A Post-Partisan Plan to Engage the Public on Climate Change.»

Chris Mooney & Sheril Kirshenbaum in their book Unscientific America: How Scientific Illiteracy Threatens our Future explain that scientists have failed to get their message across for a variety of reasons but mostly because we are not engaging the public on their turf.

In the July issue of The Scientist magazine, my colleague Declan Fahy and I contributed a commentary discussing the need for scientists and ethicists to engage the public on major trends and innovations taking...

And finally, excerpts from Nisbet's essay on «Eye on 2012: A Post-Partisan Plan to Engage the Public on Climate Change»

Law Day is less an occasion to focus on the shortfalls of our system however, and is more an opportunity to engage the public on the often poorly understood subject of the Canadian legal system.

You will engage the public on their doorstep and seek to recruit regular long term donors through...

Not exact matches

Cuban went on to voice his support for programs such as AmeriCorps, which engage young people in public service work across the United States.

Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump and his supporters have suggested that the now - notorious 2005 conversation made public by the Washington Post on Friday — in which Trump is heard making sexually explicit comments about women while TV personality Billy Bush eggs him on — was typical of the kind of harmless «locker room talk» in which men engage in all the time.

When business folks do engage on public policy, it tends to directly involve their bottom line, like the recent feud between the big telecommunication companies and Harper over foreign ownership rules.

Angus responded by arguing that Chan's role as the company's leading public policy person in Canada means he's in charge of engaging with government on a wide range of business issues that affect Facebook, which has 23 million users in the country and more than two billion worldwide.

I also made clear that while I won't be participating in the Forum, BlackRock will continue to engage on issues of public policy with governments at all levels and around the world.

A recent survey on corporate reputation conducted by the Corporate Responsibility Association (CRA) showed that nearly 50 % of the companies who responded had been targeted by activist citizen groups, and now engage with these non-governmental organizations in order to help improve public perceptions.

As it shows, gun owners and supporters of laxer gun laws are more likely to have recently engaged a public official or political organization on this issue.

Brianna's responsibilities include engaging companies on environmental, social, and governance issues and public policy advocacy.

In her prior role as the Director of Shareholder Activities at the Foundation, Laura successfully engaged public corporations on topics ranging from climate change to corporate governance.

Mr. Garland and his team are responsible for developing and implementing the Funds» active ownership programs for public equities, including voting proxies, engaging portfolio companies on their environmental, social and governance policies and practices, and advocating for regulatory reforms to protect investors and strengthen shareholder rights.

Tesla acknowledged its semiautonomous Autopilot system was engaged by the driver in the seconds before a fatal crash last week, raising more questions about the safety of self - driving technology on public roads.

The government seems more intent with not providing the public with information, rather than engaging Canadians in discussion on critical policy issues.

For some reason the Minister seems more intent with not providing the public with information, rather than engaging Canadians in discussion on critical policy issues.

This misjudgment (perhaps initially due to management downplaying the incidents) could explain why the board got engaged so late in the process, and why they did not impose penalties on executives until after the first scathing Congressional hearing and weeks of public outcry.

The government seems more intent with not providing the public with information, rather than engaging the public in discussion on critical policy issues.

As a profitable Crown corporation that operates on commercial principles, EDC works together with private - and public - sector financial institutions to create greater capacity for Canadian companies to engage in trade and investment.

As long as PS Fund (along with any of its Related Persons) does not otherwise engage in (or has not otherwise engaged in) conduct that would otherwise result in its becoming an Acquiring Person by becoming the Beneficial Owner of 10 % or more of the shares of Common Stock then outstanding, PS Fund's solicitation and receipt of one or more revocable proxies from the Company's stockholders to be counted toward the number of shares of the outstanding Common Stock needed to cause a special meeting of stockholders to be called pursuant to and in accordance with the Bylaws, which proxies are given to PS Fund in response to a public solicitation of proxies made pursuant to, and in accordance with, Section 14 (a) of the Exchnage Act by means of a solicitation statement filed with the Commission on Schedule 15A, should not, of itself, cause PS Fund to become an Acquiring Person.

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.

Finally, for some time the Finance Department has been engaged in a strategy of locking into long - term debt at historical low interest rates, thereby minimizing the impact of higher interest rates on public debt charges.

As a profitable Crown corporation that operates on commercial principles, EDC works together with private and public - sector financial institutions to create greater capacity for Canadian companies to engage in trade and investment.

The Departments of Agriculture, Commerce, Labor, Housing and Urban Development, Transportation, Energy, and Homeland Security, and the Environmental Protection Agency shall develop plans for implementing the requirements of this memorandum, providing technical assistance to nonfederal actors engaged in predevelopment activities, and educating grantees and the public on the benefits of predevelopment and the Federal resources available for these activities.

Therefore, I will from this moment on refuse to dignify the continued public expression of ignorant prejudice by engaging it.

Few Muslim groups engage Hollywood as much as the Muslim Public Affairs Council, which has built relationships with studio executives at all four major networks, and consulted on shows from «Seventh Heaven» to «Bones.»

«The demands on our time to respond and trying to engage us as a public forum was pulling us from focus on the operation of a transit agency and that is our business,» Hunter said in an e-mail message to CNN.

But the more time marches on, the more Humanae Vitae appears prophetic, for Paul VI voiced four concerns regarding artificial contraception that have largely become realities: a general lowering of moral standards; increased marital infidelity; the reduction of women to instruments for the fulfillment of male desire; and public authorities engaging in coercive population planning programs.

So it is deliciously ironic that on this very public and glorious day of Jesus» ministry, a day when he will be welcomed into Jerusalem with joyous hosannas, they find themselves engaged in a most unromantic form of ministry, mucking around a stable, looking suspiciously like horse thieves, and trying to wrestle an untamed and no doubt balky animal toward the olive groves.

Moreover, if liberalism is indeed absolute, so that there is no longer any outside, then a contest of rights is really the only ground on which liberal public reason will permit itself to be publicly engaged.

The renewed vigor with which Southern Baptists are engaging issues of public policy also draws on a distinctively Reformed critique of culture.

My own work in and out of the office — in the pages of First Things and in the many conferences held by the Institute on Religion and Public Life — has helped me both deepen my own Catholic faith and engage more fully in ecumenical dialogue.

They may frequently engage moral questions in institutional contexts where the theological warrants for a specific ethical issue may not be honored — as when they advise on matters of medical ethics, public policy and ecological practice.