Sentences with phrase «even public officials»

For them, art is a way of speaking out against injustices such that citizens, media, and even public officials can be motivated to act; however the way in which art expresses its politics is shaped by realities understood both individually and within a community through poetic and aesthetic forms.

In fact, very little of the bill had anything to do with the recent corruption scandals or even public officials.

Not exact matches

Back in Toronto, Nuinsco officials remain optimistic about conducting a spinoff in the Middle East and North Africa, even with ongoing conflicts in both Egypt and Sudan, not to mention a soft market for initial public offerings.

Even if you don't get a flu vaccine before October, as is considered ideal, public health officials recommend that everyone — including pregnant women in any trimester — aged 6 months and older, as well as those with compromised immune systems such as small children and the elderly, get their seasonal flu shots in order to protect both themselves and those around them.

Still, public health officials say the possibility of infection warrants preventive measures, and some Olympic athletes attending are taking some creative — some might even say extreme — steps to protect themselves.

Indeed, Ontario and other jurisdictions did not bother to be so prescriptive, and even Alberta officials concede this part of the bill is largely clarification (other parts are to force religious and private schools to adopt the same LGBT - friendly policies as public schools).

Foreign investors in particular — and even foreign officials now — are disgusted with how the Americans are mismanaging the economy and indeed, flagrantly stealing from the public domain.

It is claimed that government spending distorts the economy even when it is made by public enterprises, and that only unregulated markets (that is, markets regulated by financial managers rather than elected officials) can allocate resources efficiently.

On the basis of the above facts, GEI acknowledged in its settlement agreement that the consulting agreements, even those pursuant to which no amounts were actually paid, violated the anti-bribery provision of the CFPOA, as they constituted agreements to provide, directly or indirectly, a benefit to a foreign public official so as to induce the official to use his position to influence decisions of a foreign state for which he performs duties and functions.

That's not sound monetary policy - it's a picnic for insiders, bought and paid for through the abuse of public funds by government officials too unprincipled even to recognize the abuse.

 Mr. Poloz himself bent over backwards in his last Monetary Policy Report to not use that term — even though the Bank's own numbers (projecting negative GDP growth for both the first and second quarters of 2015) suggested a recession was indeed already underway. Instead, public officials are normally sanguine and rose - coloured in their public pronouncements, hoping to incrementally shift consumer confidence with their cheeriness, and thus spark more spending. [A ridiculous extreme of this approach was provided when George Bush blithely encouraged Americans to go shopping in the days after the 9 - 11 terrorist attacks.]

It's about a hopeful break even scenario of your marketing budget that gives you market validation, deliverable marketing and branding assets, data driven research to improve and grow your company, and pre sales, PR, and buzz that was never possible to obtain prior to an official public launch.

Even if they thought McCain was wrong, the median voter would hardly doubt that he was sincere and informed (by the standards of public officials.)

New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg is one of the few public officials who defended Jones's right to go ahead, even as he condemned the idea as «distasteful.

If we take a look at our Catholic brothers and sisters, we can see how Pope Francis has quickly shifted the public perception of the Catholic Church, even though many of his official positions related to contentious issues remain the same.

Just as earlier the official Church could not and would not give any authoritative answer to someone about their choice of a profession, even though it could be a moral question of importance for salvation, so today and tomorrow the Church in many questions, even those of public interest and far - reaching importance, will not, even ratione peccati, be able to give a specific answer officially and directly.

after losing friends and all our safety personnel and the consideration of the families i see no good coming from this and only animousity and ill feelings and betrayal by our public officials in asllowing this to happen... it is deplorable and an insult to the 3,000 dead and the thousands affected by this horrible act and time must pass to heal the wounds before the issue is even discussed.

Despite the rhetoric of democracy there is a lack of transparency m discussions of officials with the IMF / WB authorities and their decisions regarding conditionalities often imposed on the debtor countries without clear exposure even to Parliament and its select committees, much less to the general public affected by them.

In the celebrated case New York Times v. Sullivan, the U.S. Supreme Court held «the First Amendment protects the publication of all statements, even false ones, about the conduct of public officials except when statements are made with actual malice (with knowledge that they are false or in reckless disregard of their truth or falsity).»

And even though the public outcry against it caused enforcement of the legislation to be put on hold, it was not rescinded, and thousands of public officials have already agreed to abide by it.

Even though the official media of communication may in principle be devoted to the good, those who operate them are never wise enough or good enough to be the exclusive architects of the public mind.

Sometimes they would even threaten the lives of the public officials in order to get a pay raise.

In a recent interview with the Washington Post (part of their ominously titled «Voices of Power» series), Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius discussed Archbishop Joseph Naumann's request that she not present herself for communion because of her public support for legalised abortion: «Well, it was one of the most painful things I have ever experienced in my life, and I am a firm believer in the separation of church and state, and I feel that my actions as a parishioner are different than my actions as a public official and that the people who elected me in Kansas had a right to expect me to uphold their rights and their beliefs even if they did not have the same religious beliefs that I had.

They are more inclined to accept explanations from official sources, from «experts,» from company officials, from well prepared hand - outs created by public relations experts, than to go to the trouble to dig out opposing views that often are represented by small, inefficient, underfinanced and even unpopular groups.

It is not even too hard to understand how the primacy of the spiritual power revealed by Jesus Christ, by comparison with the secular power, might be thought to require official, public recognition of the primacy of the Church.

Even the most orthodox economists agree, although both they and government officials often neglect this point in their public communications.

But the crisis falls even more immediately and heavily upon public officials, for the new regime orders them to do what they ought not to do, and not to do what they ought to do.

But even if players weren't explicitly told to stand, public statements made by team officials have certainly implied its discouraged for Cowboys players.

If I don't have the right to detailed info on public officials then I have even less right to med info on private individuals.

We know that Arsene Wenger is anally secretive when it comes to talking about his transfer targets in public, and we expect him to throw journalists off the scent until the deal is done and dusted, and even then it is not reported on the official Arsenal website for at least another week.

So why is Mourinho who has ranted in full view of the public and even after calming down he still rants that officials are incompetent and not worthy of officiating a Chelsea game given such light treatment by the FA?

It is understood that to show dissent to officials, even out of the glare of the public eye should still be punished.

After critics highlighted the product on social media websites and showed unappetizing photos on television, calling it «pink slime,» the nation's leading fast - food chains and supermarkets spurned the product, even though U.S. public health officials deem it safe to eat.

That was the tone of the comments to Park District officials at a public hearing Wednesday evening.

The government's concern to manage public opinion means that, even in cases where officials were likely correct, disciplinary action is often taken.

However, the item I read said U.S. citizens aren't allowed to even discuss foreign affairs with foreign public officials.

«Spitzer is so clearly unfit for public office that I am offended, both as a woman and as an elected official that he would even deign to run.»

At the same time, while there tends to be little ostensible evidence in the UK of the blatant buying off of politicians and officials, the murky networks that connect political parties with private funders, and see the frequent movement of officials across the private and public sector, raise serious questions about the integrity of the public service ethos at the highest levels of power (as even Conservative commentators recognise — e.g. Ferdinand Mount, The New Few).

If the main official national records that purport to offer an authoritative picture of the state of the public finances (for instance, PESA and the Local Government Financial Statistics) can not even be compared from year to year by experts, where should we turn?

New York City officials, even those who praised Cuomo's executive order on NYCHA, were stunned by one clause: The city must pay for public housing repairs — and it won't be cheap.

(No public officials in the U.S., even the President, have immunity for unofficial acts in violation of the law.)

However, the «personal use» ban does not explain what «personal use» actually means, and that ambiguity has created a loophole enabling candidates to buy anything that could conceivably have some connection to a bid for public office or even serving as an elected official.

However, while the general public want to play a part in decisions about going to war, or selling arms, or giving aid, or making trade fairer, decisions are, in reality, taken in our name by the Prime Minister, by other ministers and even by unknown officials.

Carl understands the need for public officials to avoid even the appearance of impropriety.»

Public officials can still violate the law, he said, if they provide a stream of benefits in exchange for favors, even if there isn't an explicit agreement involving each one.

But Percoco's defense attorneys have argued that their client can't be guilty of the alleged bribery by COR or «the theft of honest services» from the public in part because he wasn't a state official at the time he took payments from COR, even if he acted like one.

Indeed, legal scholars — and even Bharara, during public events — have suggested it is difficult to make cases if the only evidence surrounding an official action is a campaign contribution.

There was a reason why even FDR was against public employees unions and I quote «All Government employees should realize that the process of collective bargaining, as usually understood, can not be transplanted into the public service, It has its distinct and insurmountable limitations when applied to public personnel management» «The very nature and purposes of Government make it impossible for administrative officials to represent fully or to bind the employer in mutual discussions with Government employee organizations» «The employer is the whole people, who speak by means of laws enacted by their representatives in Congress.

New York's Public Officers Law bans former government officials from appearing before the state agencies where they worked for two years in a paid capacity, and also says state employees can not ever practice, appear before or ever even «communicate» with those agencies on matters over which they were «directly concerned» during their state employment, or which were under their «active consideration.»

And even as multiple wells in nearby Hoosick Falls tested positive for elevated and potentially dangerous levels of the same toxic chemical more than a year ago, state health department employees suggested a delay in reporting results and did not initially recommend a wider outreach to the public, according to emails between state, county and federal officials, some of which were obtained through a Freedom of Information Law request to the federal Environmental Protection Agency.