Sentences with phrase «first public stance»

Quinn, taking her first public stance on the Garden showdown more than six months into the debate, announced June 19 that she supported a stricter 10 - year limit — one without any loophole.

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First there is a tendency, owing perhaps to its MacIntyrean inspiration, to conceive of this «option» primarily in practical or political terms, that is, as a kind of «communitarian» stance within an increasingly hostile public square.

We are Christians first because we belong to Christ, not because of our public stances.

The World Health Organization's (WHO) very stance on breastfeeding is a, «global public health recommendation, infants should be exclusively breastfed for the first 6 months of life... [then] infants should receive nutritionally adequate and safe complementary foods while breastfeeding continues for up to two years and beyond» (p. 7 - 8).

Since it has first - hand information about the matter, at least much more than the general public whose sympathy it is trying to rally, it is only reasonable to respect its stance.

The EPA's stance, however, was struck down by the U.S. Supreme Court in April 2007, and one of the first actions of Lisa Jackson, the new EPA administrator under the Obama administration, was to declare CO2 and other greenhouse gases a threat to public health and welfare and release a proposed endangerment finding largely built on the earlier ignored analysis.

However this is not the first time Nikolai has publicly stated the nation's stance on the use of blockchain technology as two years ago he made mention of the «necessity to explore the use of blockchain technology in the best interests of the public» claiming it would be of great benefit to the economy of the nation and «relations between the state and the public».