Sentences with phrase «from elected»

To go from elected official to broker / agent of my own solo firm was a huge change to make.

The children and families who need these services deserve better from their elected representatives.

The new «national executive» would have up to10 members, comprised of 8 people elected by the «national body» including a chair and deputy chair, as well as up to 2 people appointed by the Minister from elected regional councillors;

In the aftermath of the Parkland shooting, young people across America are demanding action from their elected officials.

Before a suspect was even in custody, the hashtag #NeverAgain had gone viral, town halls were televised, and the March For Our Lives organizers published a list of concrete policy reforms they sought from elected officials.

The federal disability program has been under attack from elected officials in recent years, as accusations of rampant fraud attempt to shake the public's trust in the program.

This is necessary, because otherwise, senior members of the Executive Branch who oversee the clandestine agencies could simply hide FISA warrant requests, decisions, or the extent of their surveillance activities from elected officials.

More of us should be attending meetings and demanding transparency from those elected.

It is a time to expect the most and the best from our elected officials.

In addition to managing the environmental review process and development team, we also are advising our client on community engagement, political support from elected officials, and litigation risk assessment.

The likelihood that this bill will make into law with the current congress seems like a long shot, but it absolutely represents the kind of ambitious plans we need from our elected officials to fight the consequences of climate change.

But to fully address the threat of global warming, we must demand action from our elected leaders to support and implement a comprehensive set of climate solutions.

Dallas Goldtooth of Indigenous Environmental Network, part of the It Takes Roots delegation said,» We head to COP23 as part of Indigenous Environmental Network and with the U.S. People's Delegation to continue the to rise up as Indigenous, Black, and Brown communities against extraction, colonialism and to call for real action from elected leaders who have pledged to address climate change.»

The Challenge will run from January through May and will leverage gamification to motivate youth competitors to take actions like: having a climate conversation with a parent, generating and sharing viral content on social media, or showing up with friends to local legislative offices to demand climate action from elected leadership.

said,» We head to COP23 as part of Indigenous Environmental Network and with the U.S. People's Delegation to continue the to rise up as Indigenous, Black, and Brown communities against extraction, colonialism and to call for real action from elected leaders who have pledged to address climate change.»

From elected officials to health professionals to faith leaders, you stood arm - and - arm and held the line on one of the most polluting industries to threaten the Northwest in recent history.

«Such regulatory authority can only come from elected legislators, not unelected bureaucrats.

And, of course, it's not enough that you accept control from elected government, you're happy to accept control from unelected NGOs.

And that's why it's up to all of us, everywhere, to act now and demand change from our elected officials.

These local efforts — infused with momentum from New York and combined with statewide organizing, tough lawyering, the creativity of everyone who joins this movement, and courage from our elected officials — will all help us win our fight for a healthy environment and a renewable - energy economy.

Securing the strong policy changes needed to protect our oceans requires leadership and support from elected officials.

Thailand's military government, which seized power from an elected government in May, is considering a law that would ban the dog meat trade, and it has intensified enforcement of laws that ban slaughtering and transporting dogs without a license, the New York Times reported yesterday.

What Navas didn't realize at that time that she enrolled her kids in charters was that she would have to fight for her sons to make sure they receive the support they deserve from elected officials.

Our children, parents, teachers and public schools deserve far better from our elected officials.

However, the real message educators need to hear from elected leaders is that they are trusted.

As Election Day drew near, the SOS activists were bolstered by support from elected officials, including Boston Mayor Martin Walsh, U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren and U.S. Reps. Michael Capuano and Catherine Clark.

The lack of total obsequiousness from elected Democrats must have been very shocking to them.

Connecticut's Parents, teachers, public education supporters and taxpayers deserve better from their elected officials but Governor Malloy has made his position clear.

«To take away decision - making powers from elected ministers and put them, without debate, into the hands of unaccountable and opaque regional schools commissioners would be totally unacceptable.

I agree that all of the points raised above are contributing factors, but a lot of the variation relates, in my view, to how a country structures its levels of government, how it shares wealth across jurisdictions and the nature of what the polis is demanding from elected officials.

In order to do so, we need your help to get support from your elected officials to vote for and represent us at the Capitol.

A mayor's attempt to wrest control of a school system from an elected school board might seem like a brave effort to shake up a recalcitrant education system, or it could be dismissed as a politician's power grab.

Precluding some scandalous upheaval (not likely, especially considering that our bar for bad behavior from elected officials is ever - rising), you will be a two - term mayor.

Transparency and accountability have been key areas of concern since the commissioners were first appointed in September 2014, with opponents of academies questioning why responsibility for schools is being removed from elected local authorities and given to appointed civil servants.

To be successful, the school system is going to need full community support from all elected and appointed officials, business leaders, and the community at large.

There are few things more difficult than changing a position from elected to appointed, but we encourage the legislature to continue the education reforms of the past four years, and move forward with proposals this year to switch to a uniform system that includes all elected school board members, whose election coincides with the presidential election, and all appointed superintendents.

Perhaps its most controversial elements involve the potential for increased public funding of charter schools, all of which hold nonprofit status, but some of which are operated by for - profit management franchises, and a proposal to transfer authority over the IPS district from an elected school board to a board appointed by the city's mayor and city - county council.

To turn it around, we need real leadership from our elected officials at all levels of government.

Senate passed bill sought by Governor to change state school beard from elected to appointed, but measure stalled in House.

Shifting oversight responsibility from one entity to another - say, from elected school boards to mayors - opens the possibility that things will be done differently.

The commission, set up to find ways to make the state government more efficient, is expected this week to issue recommendations that include transforming the office of state superintendent from an elected position to an appointed one and eventually divesting the education department of many of its duties and powers.

These meetings are free of cost and held in a public space, typically beginning with a short speech from an elected official and then an open Q&A, where attendees can ask questions about a piece of legislation or a specific issue.

It can complement the message that's coming from the scientific community and from the elected leadership.

But endorsements from elected officials — and even from Bronx County — failed to lift Espaillat above Rangel in 2014, and it's unlikely they will sway the outcome of the race this year.

«It is really amazing that we are not having the kind of outcry we need from elected officials to understand that as go our full - service hospitals goes our community and goes our city,» said Stringer, who volunteered to share the expertise of his land use committee and his community affairs unit with proponents of a new hospital.

He also proposed allowing the state to strip pension payments from elected officials convicted of crimes related to their public office, regardless of when that official was first elected.

While the data dump was intended to soften opposition from elected officials to the tech firm's intrusion into the market, City Council member Helen Rosenthal (D - Upper West Side) called the new information a distracting «rabbit hole» that doesn't move the company any closer to compliance.

«It is widely understood that verbal assault is just as reprehensible and harmful as physical abuse is and it can not be tolerated from elected officials.

But after years of pushback from some elected officials and the power companies that owned the land, he said he now sees widespread support for the idea.

The Conflicts of Interest Board also issued a general advisory in 2012 after receiving numerous questions from elected officials on how they and their subordinates may engage in political activity.