Sentences with phrase «from public influence»

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This board should contain relevant news from all sources: companies big, small, public, private as well as any other type of news that could inspire or influence the direction of the startup.

Because Cavuto holds the titles of managing editor and senior vice president, his public support for Ailes reportedly raised questions as to whether his letter might be seen as a manager inappropriately attempting to influence employees to support Ailes or discouraging other women from coming forward.

«Aside from that, the number of districts controlled or influenced by the Afghan government had been one of the last remaining publicly available indicators for members of Congress — many of whose staff do not have access to the classified annexes to SIGAR reports — and for the American public of how the 16 - year - long US effort to secure Afghanistan is faring,» he added.

Sopko wrote that historically, the number of districts controlled or influenced by the government has been falling since his office began reporting on it, while the number controlled or influenced by the insurgents has been rising — «a fact that should cause even more concern about its disappearance from public disclosure and discussion.»

A few years later, however, Jay - Z is no longer staying mum, and the rapper has shown a sense of public activism that deviates strongly from his previous stances on how to use his wealth and influence to help others.

Zuckerberg visited with senators in closed - door meetings Monday, previewing the public apology he plans to give Congress on Tuesday after revelations that the data - mining firm Cambridge Analytica gathered personal information from 87 million users to try to influence elections.

Giving three extra seats on the board to the CEO was certainly founder friendly; that the expansion happened at the same time Uber accepted a $ 3.5 billion investment from Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund, which came with a board seat, suggests Benchmark viewed the board expansion as a way to protect its own interests and influence as well.

-- Introduce your business to thousands of potential customers in the entire market area of Cape Cod, the Islands, and the South Shore — Influence the buying decisions of thousands of potential customers — Speak to people who will make a decision to buy your product or service this week — Create a consistent flow of new customer opportunities via foot traffic, phone calls, website traffic, e-newsletter sign ups, social media engagement — Tell «the story» of your business — Differentiate your business from your competitors — Encourage customer loyalty — Educate past customers on why they should come back and do business with you again — Grow your market share — Make your business a household name and create top of mind awareness — Build the credibility of your business — Control the public's perception of your business

• The character and integrity of those with whom you are doing business • Changing technology as it impacts industries (including the banking industry) • Future changes in the law or even how the law might be interpreted differently 10 years from now • Deteriorating international competiveness (as what happened to our tax code) • Emerging competitive threats • Changes in industrial structure; e.g., new sources of competition • Political influence and unexpected litigation • Public sector fiscal challenges, demographic changes and challenges managing the nation's healthcare resources

The Massachusetts Public Bank will be set up to serve the needs of all Commonwealth residents, be insulated from political influence, and be independently and regularly audited.

Dimitri Cavalli, source of many WWAI items over the past few years and author of the Washington Examiner story from which these quotes are taken, explains the change this way: Back then, Lynn was defending progressive causes, but now that «the so - called Religious Right has eclipsed the influence of the Religious Left in American public life,» it's time to shut down religious influence.

Nevertheless, even if nations do not always act in the best interests of their people, they are far more amenable to influence from the public than are transnational corporations.

Lessons can be learned from a simple look at Stonewalls website and the myriad of projects which have been established to influence public opinion and to raise money, much of it public money.

As a result our influence is ebbing from public life and we are increasingly finding ourselves at odds with popular culture and political opinion in areas of morality such as bioethics, right to life, family and sexual ethics.

For the kinds of «publicness» achieved by different theologies are strongly influenced by the distinct kinds of social realities (or publics) from which theologies emerge and to which they speak.

Whatever disciplining behavior may mean these days on the part of churches, there are no possible powers except exclusion from the particular group (which, in a heterogeneous society, is not being made a pariah) and possibly influencing public opinion.

Sanger's powerfully charged distinction between prudent and imprudent fecundity has grown to influence policies on everything from immigration to public schools.

A few paragraphs later Cardinal Dulles laments that «the greatest threat to religion, in my estimation, is the kind of secularism that would exclude religion from the public forum and that treats churches as purely private institutions that have no rightful influence on legislation, public policy, and other dimensions of public life.»

Good economists know, from work carried out within their discipline, that the foundations of their subject are virtually non-existent... Conventional economics offer prescriptions for the problems of inflation and unemployment which are at best misleading and at worst dangerously wrong... Despite its powerful influence on public life, its achievements...

After exerting influence on state affairs under Czarist rule, the church found itself overnight banished from public life, its property confiscated, its worship repressed, and its role in the educational system ended.

In most cases the rest of society needs protection from Christians trying to exert their influence on public policy.

If Santa Clausism became the dominant «religion» of the country, tried to influence the government, inst / itute laws and public policies and demand that it be taught in public education - start every school day with a reading from «Twas the Night Before Christmas» and have «Ho Ho Ho» on your money - I'm just betting that you would have something to say about it on an internet forum and elsewhere!

In speaking to the Bundestag last 22 September Pope Benedict issued an «urgent invitation» to engage in «a public debate» on the cultural influence of positivistic philosophy (see our Road from Regensburg column).

As a result our influence is ebbing from public life and we are...

Everyone knows that great numbers of these are totally dissociated from the influences of public worship.

Modernization theory views such processes of institutional change within American religion as the alleged differentiation of private piety from public policy, the growing differentiation of secular education from its religious roots, and the emergence of professional therapy as a distinct alternative to pastoral counseling as bellwether trends in advanced industrial societies generally and suggests that they may be in some way influenced by broader international patterns.

On every question about economic or political decisions, from general influence on public policy to specific influence on the minimum wage, between 75 percent and 85 percent of African - Americans said that religion should be involved.

Yet many church groups conduct programs of «public affairs» as if persons are autonomous units, isolated from the influence of power entities in their communities and able to regulate their behavior under all circumstances by dint of sheer moral will.

The Oregon chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union supported maintaining the ban on religious clothing in public schools, arguing that it protected students from improper religious influence.

I believe, personally, that we must seek the roots of apartheid theology rather in the pietist withdrawal of reformed theology from the public sphere under the influence of Andrew Murray and others, and in the influence of German theologians and philosophers on Afrikaner students during the 1930s.

One interesting observation to be gained from these figures is that the paid - time religious programs had reached the peak of their influence, numerically at least, almost three years before most public attention was given to them in the election year of 1980.

By contrasting the line movement at books like CRIS and Pinnacle with the public betting trends from our seven contributing offshore sportsbooks, we're able to explain what factors are influencing line movement and which teams are offering value.

By contrasting the opening and current lines with the public betting trends from our seven contributing offshore sportsbooks, we're able to explain what factors are influencing line movement.

I would love to see a round up of success stories from large public school districts that don't have celebrity personalities who can influence school boards and reasonable budgets driving change.

One source of influence on general public opinion is the newspaper media and the news feeds that spin off to television and radio from feature articles of interest.

Some barriers include the negative attitudes of women and their partners and family members, as well as health care professionals, toward breastfeeding, whereas the main reasons that women do not start or give up breastfeeding are reported to be poor family and social support, perceived milk insufficiency, breast problems, maternal or infant illness, and return to outside employment.2 Several strategies have been used to promote breastfeeding, such as setting standards for maternity services3, 4 (eg, the joint World Health Organization — United Nations Children's Fund [WHO - UNICEF] Baby Friendly Initiative), public education through media campaigns, and health professionals and peer - led initiatives to support individual mothers.5 — 9 Support from the infant's father through active participation in the breastfeeding decision, together with a positive attitude and knowledge about the benefits of breastfeeding, has been shown to have a strong influence on the initiation and duration of breastfeeding in observational studies, 2,10 but scientific evidence is not available as to whether training fathers to manage the most common lactation difficulties can enhance breastfeeding rates.

According to the Wikipedia: Advocacy by an individual or by an advocacy group normally aim to influence public - policy and resource allocation decisions within political, economic, and social systems and institutions; it may be motivated from moral, ethical or faith principles or simply to protect an asset of interest.

Folks, if public utterances coming from the NPP stables should be believed, then, they can lead us to only one firm conclusion that the NPP is damn unstable, porous, paranoid, and useless because of its own inherent weaknesses, not because of any outsider's negative influence to tear it apart.

The consensus is that Russia influenced the US election in Trump's favor (by eg hacking his political opponents and strategically using that information to influence public opinion; this may or may not have happened in coordination with some people from the Trump campaign).

Incorporating important lessons from the 2012 and 2014 U.S. elections, this book is essential for anyone running for office or trying to influence public opinion and public policy in 2016.

Rev. Prof. Emmanuel Martey's claims on governance to be a genuine love for God and country, but last week, his sincerity was questioned with the accusations from his former Public Relations Officer (PRO) that his utterances, have been influenced heavily by an opposition political leader with cash and an expensive brand new SUV car.

Ultimately, that insults the intelligence of the public and, far from offering more influence, reduces the real choice available at elections.

However, given that there has been a change in recognised moral authority away from religion and towards secular influences, the question arises as to when a government is going to realise this change and accept the implications for public policy.

APOLOGY ACCEPTED Mr. Asiedu Nketia accepted the apology from former Public Relations Officer of the Presbyterian Church of Ghana, Dr Emmanuel Osei Akyeampong who claimed his attack on the former was influenced.

4 pm Soft Power and the UK's Influence Subject: Soft Power and the UK's Influence Witness (es): (at 4.20 pm) evidence will be heard from Nicholas Beadle CMG, Senior Associate Fellow of the Royal United Services Institute (RUSI), Lt General Simon Mayall CB, Defence Senior Adviser for Middle East, Ministry of Defence and Steve McCarthy — Director of International Security Policy, Ministry of Defence Location: Committee Room 1, Palace of Westminster Tuesday 9th July 9.30 am Public Administration Subject: Work of the Cabinet Office Witness (es): Richard Heaton CB, Permanent Secretary, Cabinet Office Location: Room 15, Palace of Westminster

I believe that such appeals carry grave threats to democratic discourse, and I think it wrong that faith groups, which in the United States and here enjoy significant hidden subsidies from other taxpayers, should award themselves a special right to influence the law and public policy and seek to impose their views on others who disagree with them.»

Salmond's manifesto pledges to protect Scottish public services from cuts by what he calls «London - based parties», while Robinson promised to use any influence gained from a hung parliament to further Northern Ireland's interests.

At our state conference last month, we overwhelmingly passed resolutions supporting guaranteed healthcare as a human right, free public education from pre-K through college or trade school, a living wage and fair compensation for all, investments in environmental protection and renewable energy, restoration of voting rights to former felons, public financing of elections to eradicate the corrupting influence of big money in politics, and other policies that serve the people.

«I think 9 percent from one industry is starting to become a significant portion of his overall funds, such that the public might perceive the industry could have an outsized influence,» said Alex Camarda of government watchdog group Reinvent Albany, noting that such contributions are legal.

(b) No officer of the County Committee, District Committee or Divisional Committee or of any of their subcommittees, no member of the Executive Committee and no employee of the County Committee shall use or attempt any party position as a means of undue or improper influence to secure from any state or local agency (as those terms are defined in Public Officers Law 73) for that officer, member of the Executive Committee or employee or others with whom the person has a family, employment, business or financial relationship any benefits, privileges or exemptions not generally available to members of the pPublic Officers Law 73) for that officer, member of the Executive Committee or employee or others with whom the person has a family, employment, business or financial relationship any benefits, privileges or exemptions not generally available to members of the publicpublic.