Sentences with phrase «few members of the public»

NARPO believe that very few members of the public fully understand many of the issues around policing changes.

They also decry the Legislature's common practice of passing bills in wee hours of the night when few members of the public are watching.

«It seems very unlikely that more than very few members of the public in Japan exceeded the maximum permissible internal exposure of 1 mSv [millisievert] / year,» the team writes in the 3 March issue of Environmental Science & Technology.

Peter Wells, an adjunct professor and senior research fellow at the International Ocean Institute at Dalhousie University in Halifax, said it is not surprising few members of the public used the libraries.

But fewer members of the public and fewer parents think at least 30 % of the high school day should be devoted to students receiving instruction on a computer.

Few members of the public know about Lovelock's predictions in detail.

Aware that very few members of the public have yet formed an opinion on geoengineering, or have even heard of it, the geo - clique is working at framing geoengineering positively.

The public's right to know is the reason journalists are permitted access to officials that few members of the public will ever enjoy.

It is a good start but not enough to invite a few members of the public to join our discussion tables (after all, they are «our» tables, «our» language, «our» agenda).

Despite the more than doubling of the number of barristers per capita in the past 18 years, fewer and fewer members of the public can afford them.

Few lawyers — and even fewer members of the public — are familiar with this practice model.

Here is something else very few members of the public know.

Not exact matches

«There are quite a few board members of public companies who never speak to the media,» says Eleanor Bloxham, CEO of board education and advisory firm The Value Alliance and Corporate Governance Alliance.

The new hire was joined by board member Arianna Huffington and former CEO Travis Kalanick in what was mostly a drama - free induction of the new leader to the company — a company that Khosrowshahi claims he will take public in as few as...

The members of today's intense religious groups and not a few members of the larger public like to get even closer to home, rubbing texts like these into contemporary Christian consciousness: «Now great multitudes accompanied Jesus; and he turned and said to them, «If any one comes to me and does not hate his own father and mother and wife and children and brothers and sisters, yes, and even his own life, he can not be my disciple»» (Luke 14:25 f.).

Here are a few of those affirmations: all baptized Christians have Spirit - granted charismata assigned to them; offices are a particular type of charismata; there is no ontological difference between officeholders and other members of the congregations; the priesthood of all believers does not divide a congregation into distinct groups (laity and clergy); ordination is a public attestation to the presence of the particular charismata by the whole congregation; ordination is not necessarily an irrevocable appointment to a lifelong task.

Church member John Holcombe, among the massacre's few survivors, invited the public to attend the funeral of his pregnant wife, Crystal, 36, and three of her children, Greg, 13, Emily, 11, and Megan, nine; his parents, 60 - year - old Bryan and Karla Holcombe, 58; a brother, 36 - year - old Marc Holcombe, and Marc's 18 - month - old daughter, Noah.

A Europe - wide survey by Seed magazine a few years back asked members of the public if they considered the following statement true or false: genetically modified tomatoes differ from ordinary tomatoes in that genetically modified tomatoes have genes in them and ordinary tomatoes do not.

But few things are logical in the Southern Conference, a strange assortment of public, church and military schools that has changed borders more often than Czechoslovakia; 32 institutions have been members at one time or another since its founding in 1921.

Several noncontroversial budget bills were printed last night, and a few were even passedby the Senate — with very little discussion on the part of majority members and no opportunity for the public to see anything before it was voted on.

Several noncontroversial budget bills were printed last night, and a few were even passed by the Senate — with very little discussion on the part of majority members and no opportunity for the public to see anything before it was voted on.

Conservative MPs and members of the public gallery then stood up applaud, along with a few Liberal Democrat, SNP and DUP MPs.

I've argued before that corporations are better targets for email campaigns than are members of Congress, both because companies are very sensitive to the public perception of their brands and because they receive so many fewer emails than elected officials (we've managed to swamp Congress).

In the past few months, the leaders of all the public sector unions threatened a mass strike of three million workers over pensions, while this week the Public and Commercial Services (PCS) union balloted members on industrial action over civil service jobpublic sector unions threatened a mass strike of three million workers over pensions, while this week the Public and Commercial Services (PCS) union balloted members on industrial action over civil service jobPublic and Commercial Services (PCS) union balloted members on industrial action over civil service job cuts.

According to him, right discerning members of the public will not worship under the feet of the embattled Bishop whose conduct in the past few years have been very questionable.

The flower petals accompanied a few bouquets that leaned on the headstone of Mary Burnett Talbert, remembered by elected officials and members of the public who gathered at the cemetery.

Cornegy, one of the few Council members to show public support for Cuomo or the charter movement, received a standing ovation from the crowd on Wednesday.

In the latest ConservativeHome survey of Tory members, no fewer than 94 % took the view that significant cuts in public expenditure would be necessary to restore order to the public finances.

Over the past few weeks, public faceoffs with lawmakers over her nominee for state attorney general, her reluctance to request all the stimulus funds available to the state, and a series of her picks to fill a Democratic legislative seat that have all been rejected by members of the party.

WHEREAS, the NY SAFE ACT was adopted after minimal public discussion, contains serious flaws, i.e., police officers are not exempt, and having been on the desks of the members of the New York State Legislature for only a few hours, thereafter was literally adopted in the night and signed into law by Governor Andrew Cuomo; and

As members of the body setting up a review of Liberal Democrat policy on immigration and identity under Andrew Stunell MP, or members of the review itself, we feel the need to put a few facts in the public domain following Nick Clegg's speech on Friday.

Horner, legislative director of the New York Public Interest Research Group, said he was glad to see rank - and - file members of both chambers talking about ethics, in contrast to what he called «the cricket sounds that we've hearing over the past few weeks when it comes to ethics — no RV driving around the state, no town meetings about ethics.»

• According to a survey of members of the Association of American Universities and the Association of Public and Land - grant Universities, Jeffrey Mervis wrote on Monday, federal government sequestration has led to fewer student positions (31 % of respondents), a reduction in temporary or part - time staff positions (30 % of respnodents), and a decline in postdoctoral fellows (24 % of respondents).

The move comes after a public outcry that included, in the last few days: a lawsuit by animal welfare groups; a letter of protest sent to the agency from 18 Senate Democrats; and this letter to President Donald Trump, sent by a bipartisan group of 101 members of the U.S. House of Representatives, demanding that the information be immediately reposted on the public website.

According to the acting regional secretary of the Community and Public Sector Union, Jessica Munday, AAD has already lost 30 employees over the past few months, leaving the remaining 300 staff members stretched.

As part of National Science Foundation - funded research, Rachel Greenstadt, PhD, an associate professor in the College of Computing & Informatics and director of the lab; Vaibhav Garg, PhD, a former postdoctoral researcher at PSAL, Rebekah Overdorf a doctoral researcher in the lab; and their associate Sadia Afroz from the University of California — Berkeley; broke down several years - worth of conversations between members of four cybercrime forums that were anonymously made public a few years ago.

Such audit may be performed by a committee of not fewer than three members of the Association or by a Certified Public Accountant.

These tribal members do not receive the financial benefits that some have received from PFS, and have few resources when compared with the millions of dollars that PFS is spending on lawyers and public relations.

After extensive conversations over the past several weeks with senior staff persons and key Members of Congress who serve on the congressional committees with jurisdiction over the bill, it has become clear that very few, if any, public health bills such as the SMA Treatment Acceleration Act will move through Congress during the lame - duck session set to begin on November 15.

It is not often that the passing of an actor that so few members of the general public could name but almost all would recognise draws the reaction witnessed across social media networks over the past twenty - four hours.

Another possible reason private schools might have fewer instances of bullying is that private schools often find it easier than public schools to create a strong school culture centered on common values of members.

Among members of the public, the partisan divide runs in the opposite direction, with more Democrats than Republicans favoring school vouchers targeted toward low - income families, a fact that few analysts have recognized.

Although a few members have been prominent supporters of charter school expansion, the group has tended to support traditional public - school interests like greater funding for struggling schools and pay raises for teachers rather than choice proposals.

Alan Hawkes, a member of the N.C. Charter School Advisory Board who holds close ties with NHA, told his colleagues upon approving relatively few new charter schools for 2015 that Sen. Jerry Tillman's intent was to have many more national charter school operators come into North Carolina and make public school districts feel «threatened and up their game.»

The reception was attended by nearly 20 legislators as well as many education leaders, including Joan Buchanan, Chair of Assembly Education Committee, freshman Assemblymember and charter champion Cheryl Brown, Assemblymember and member of the Education Committee Rocky Chavez and State Superintendent of Public Instruction Tom Torlakson, just to name a few.

However, Ford has yet to deliver any Ford Focus EVs to any general members of the public (Ford delivered some to Google and other high - profile customers a few months ago).

A few members of the BookPage team spent last week in Indianapolis at the Public Library Association convention.

Initially offered to members only, the email newsletter was expanded to the general public after a few months of operation.

A reduction in supply may benefit re-homing centres by a greater take up of homeless pets by members of the public, but a still greater benefit would be a lower demand for them to take in unwanted animals as a major source of poorly bred and poorly socialised animals would be deprived of its main outlets and consequently fewer animals would be rejected by their owners.

This report highlights the worrying increase in commercial dog breeding in the last few decades, many of which are sold to third parties (dealers and pet shops) rather than directly to members of the public.