Sentences with phrase «from sections of the public»

However, Mahama has resorted to microblogging site — Twitter — to clarify the matter following rancor over the issue from a section of the public.

Many observers felt that the appointment of three deputies to one Ministry was unnecessary given the fact that the President had already come under fire from sections of the public for the size of his government.

The «Eagle Prophet» as he is popularly called, gained recognition for his famous prophecies that has caused a great stare among Ghanaians due to his unflinching ability to deliver prophesies amid several backlash from a section of the public who treat his prophesies with scorn rather than finding solutions to avert them.

George Ayisi Boateng's pledge to prioritize the welfare of New Patriotic Party (NPP) members before considering other Ghanaians, has been met with outrage and calls for his dismissal from some sections of the public.

However, concerns have been raised from some sections of the public that, the facility has been abandoned since the new government took over, but Professor Lawson, insisted the project was still on course, and that the government, has shown the willingness to secure the funds necessary to ensure its completion.

The Government has come under fire in recent months from a section of the public, particularly the opposition, for these policies that have been adopted in a bid to address the country's economic concerns.

Hon. Nitiwul has come under a barrage of criticism from a section of the public after he at a press conference, advised former President John Mahama to vacate any «disputed» military land he is currently occupying.

Without making any definite pronouncement on the issue during the interview, President Akufo - Addo had stated that any possible change would only come after a robust concerted push for LGBT rights from some sections of the public.

Without making any definite pronouncement on the issue during the interview, President Akufo - Addo said any possible change will only come after a strong concerted push for LGBT rights from some sections of the public.

Not exact matches

Etsy chief executive Chad Dickerson and Paul Misener, Amazon's vice president of global public policy, both voiced concerns that the draft proposal would prohibit the FCC from using Section 706 to regulate service providers.

in the case of our directors, officers, and security holders, (i) the receipt by the locked - up party from us of shares of Class A common stock or Class B common stock upon (A) the exercise or settlement of stock options or RSUs granted under a stock incentive plan or other equity award plan described in this prospectus or (B) the exercise of warrants outstanding and which are described in this prospectus, or (ii) the transfer of shares of Class A common stock, Class B common stock, or any securities convertible into Class A common stock or Class B common stock upon a vesting or settlement event of our securities or upon the exercise of options or warrants to purchase our securities on a «cashless» or «net exercise» basis to the extent permitted by the instruments representing such options or warrants (and any transfer to us necessary to generate such amount of cash needed for the payment of taxes, including estimated taxes, due as a result of such vesting or exercise whether by means of a «net settlement» or otherwise) so long as such «cashless exercise» or «net exercise» is effected solely by the surrender of outstanding stock options or warrants (or the Class A common stock or Class B common stock issuable upon the exercise thereof) to us and our cancellation of all or a portion thereof to pay the exercise price or withholding tax and remittance obligations, provided that in the case of (i), the shares received upon such exercise or settlement are subject to the restrictions set forth above, and provided further that in the case of (ii), any filings under Section 16 (a) of the Exchange Act, or any other public filing or disclosure of such transfer by or on behalf of the locked - up party, shall clearly indicate in the footnotes thereto that such transfer of shares or securities was solely to us pursuant to the circumstances described in this bullet point;

the disposition of shares of common stock to us, or the withholding of shares of common stock by us, in a transaction exempt from Section 16 (b) of the Exchange Act solely in connection with the payment of taxes due with respect to the vesting or settlement of RSUs granted under our equity incentive plans or pursuant to a contractual employment arrangement described elsewhere in this prospectus, insofar as such RSU is outstanding as of the date of this prospectus; provided, that, if required, any public report or filing under Section 16 of the Exchange Act will clearly indicate in the footnotes thereto that such disposition to us or withholding by us of shares or securities was solely to us pursuant to the circumstances described in this clause;

Section 162 (m) of the Code imposes a $ 1.0 million cap on the compensation deduction that a public company may take in respect of compensation paid to our «covered employees» (which includes our Chief Executive Officer and our next three most highly compensated employees other than our Chief Financial Officer), but excludes from the calculation of amounts subject to this limitation any amounts that constitute «qualified performance - based compensation,» or «QPBC,» within the meaning of Section 162 (m) of the Code.

There is an exception in which you are not a «beneficial owner» of shares over which you have voting power «if such voting power arises solely from a revocable proxy or consent given to such Person in response to a public proxy or consent solicitation made pursuant to, and in accordance with, Section 14 (a) of the Exchange Act by means of a solicitation statement filed on Schedule 14A.»

the sections of the Exchange Act requiring insiders to file public reports of their stock ownership and trading activities and liability for insiders who profit from trades made in a short period of time; and

As long as PS Fund (along with any of its Related Persons) does not otherwise engage in (or has not otherwise engaged in) conduct that would otherwise result in its becoming an Acquiring Person by becoming the Beneficial Owner of 10 % or more of the shares of Common Stock then outstanding, PS Fund's solicitation and receipt of one or more revocable proxies from the Company's stockholders to be counted toward the number of shares of the outstanding Common Stock needed to cause a special meeting of stockholders to be called pursuant to and in accordance with the Bylaws, which proxies are given to PS Fund in response to a public solicitation of proxies made pursuant to, and in accordance with, Section 14 (a) of the Exchnage Act by means of a solicitation statement filed with the Commission on Schedule 15A, should not, of itself, cause PS Fund to become an Acquiring Person.

It shall be unlawful for any broker, dealer, or exchange, directly or indirectly, to make use of the mails or any means or instrumentality of interstate commerce for the purpose of using any facility of an exchange within or subject to the jurisdiction of the United States to effect any transaction in a security, or to report any such transaction, unless such exchange (1) is registered as a national securities exchange under section 6 of this title, or (2) is exempted from such registration upon application by the exchange because, in the opinion of the Commission, by reason of the limited volume of transactions effected on such exchange, it is not practicable and not necessary or appropriate in the public interest or for the protection of investors to require such registration

Below are some sections (slightly edited for public viewing) from a letter just sent to the investors of the fund I help manage.

Section 4 (a)(2) of the Act (formerly known as Section 4 (2) prior to the enactment of the J.O.B.S. Act) provides an exemption from registration for «transactions by an issuer not involving any public offering.»

Along with requiring from students the usual sorts of speeches conforming to the usual sorts of categories, I always included sections on poetry recitations (they usually hated that) and public reading in front of a group, say, at church.

Portugal's Superior Magistrates Council, an oversight body, said it had taken note of the «vivid criticism from broad sections of public opinion», but added courts are independent and it could not intervene, even when faced with «archaic, inappropriate or unfortunate» comments by judges.

Williams led the way, scoring nine points in the final 2:30 of the game, to earn Sheldon the first Division I championship berth for a public school from the Sac Joaquin Section.

When they lower the giant segments of the Maryland flag over top of the student section at games it is not done to hide the students from public view, or to separate them (perhaps even segregate or secede them) from the other patrons in attendance.

As early as April, 2011, they went public with the C - section rate for the database and in July of 2012 they released all of these statistics from the database.

Section II of the report, Time Use Findings (Chapters 4 - 6), primarily draws from time use surveys and includes public opinion questions related to time use when available.

«In addition, detachments of mobile and conventional police as well as the intelligence assets of the Force have been deployed to protect law abiding citizens, reassure the public, prevent the incident from degenerating into a major security threat and aid the Homicide Section being deployed in the location and apprehension of other suspects who are currently at large.

Under paragraph 3 of section 42 of Public Officers Law, the «governor may in his discretion make proclamation of a special election... which shall be not less than thirty nor more than forty days from the date of the proclamation.»

Now the Blairites themselves stand accused of harking back to the glories of 20 years ago and failing to acknowledge just how alienated large sections of the public feel from traditional Westminster politics.

We tried and it was a beautiful experiment that I thought was very important but those in power managed to sabotage its reputation by just constantly hammering that a new constitution should never be ratified in dispute which was complete bollocks (for more on the dispute manufactured by the Independence Party see the «An Unexpected Hiccup» section of From the people to the people, a new constitution) because those in power will always fight against anything that brings more liberation and more rights to the public and thwarts their unconditional power.

«Protection of public interest can never be equated with obvious presidential threats to citizens» sovereignty; enshrined and entrenched in Section 14 (2)(a) of the 1999 Constitution; to the effect that sovereignty belongs to the people of Nigeria from whom government through this Constitution derives all its powers and authority.

He wrote to the Smith Commission: «The argument some use to justify our exclusion on the grounds that we currently have no «parliamentary representation» fails to appreciate that the referendum was not a parliamentary process, but an unprecedented public debate that resulted in an extraordinary level of engagement from all sections of society.»

However, the list as released has created mixed reactions from a cross section of the Ghanaian public, with critics saying the figure will overburden the national purse.

Winstone observes in the final section, post-2007, that the political diary may well have reached the natural end of its literary life with the growth of the blog, Twitter and the thread, which are instantaneous and public — she includes extracts from the Conservative blogger Iain Dale.

The prophet has already faced harsh criticism from a large section of the Ghanaian public, for stating he prophesied KABA's death three weeks ago.

The Strategic Thinkers Network - Africa (STRANEK) is of the strong view that the list of staffers at the Presidency as submitted to Parliament in accordance with section 11 of the Presidential Office Act, 1993 (Act 463) results in a wasteful expenditure which is not in tandem with President Akufo Addo's policy of protecting and saving the public purse from profligate expenditure and wanton abuse.

It attracted media practitioners, journalists, student journalists from the African University College of Communication (AUCC), Ghana Institute of Journalism (GIJ) and University of Professional Studies, Accra, as well as a section of the public.

From his time working at the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development in the Clinton administration to his work on the City Council to reform 421a and end discrimination against Section 8 tenants to his work as Public Advocate to crack down on bad landlords, no one has done more to fight for affordable safe housing for all New Yorkers.»

Yesterday, after months of campaigning, the Government finally accepted a House of Lords amendment that got rid of the word «insulting» from Section 5 of the 1986 Public Order Act.

It is the Wal - Mart's of the business world who are profiting most from the low minimum wage standard and also relying on taxpayer subsidies to keep their poverty wage workers fed, housed, and health enough to work for them because these minimum wage workers are paid so low they qualify for food stamps, Section 8 and public housing rent subsidies, Medicaid, and the Earned Income Tax Credit,» Hawkins said.

The Home Office is expected to launch a public consultation later this week which will propose the transfer of those firearm categories from the general licensing arrangements to the stricter provisions of section 5 of the Firearms Act 1968.

«You win from the centre; you win when you appeal to a broad cross section of the public; you win when you support business as well as unions.

Mr Ayisi - Boatneg, after making that comment in a meeting with the Tertiary Students Confederacy (TESCON) student wing of the NPP, suffered a lot of flak from a section of the Ghanaian public.

Tuesday: «The Conservatives want to amend Section 2 of the Health and Safety at Work Act 1974 to ensure that protecting the public from risk is given priority over the risk to [police] officers» (BBC).

It was «a lapse in oversight on our part [and when] brought to our attention, we corrected it,» Commissioner Bill Bratton said Tuesday of Section 50 - A of the New York State civil rights code, which restricts officers» personnel records from public release.

In recognition of December 1 as World AIDS Day, the Buffalo & Erie County Public Library at 1 Lafayette Square, downtown Buffalo, is hosting a display of two large sections of the NAMES Project National AIDS Memorial Quilt, as well as local AIDS quilts from Friday, November 29 through Sunday, December 8.

Nana Aba has since won sympathy from a large section of the public and there have been growing calls on her to quit the station and continue her career elsewhere, with the latest call coming from her fellow journalist cum lawyer, Samson Lardy Anyenini.

The mayor said the city was required to follow Section 50 - a of the state's Civil Rights Code, which shields the disciplinary histories of police officers, correctional officers and firefighters from public view.

Dr. Otabil has been chastised by a section of the public after a specific monetary offering notice from his camp which promises different rewards appeared on social media.

Unfortunately one of the reasons why Rahman was able to poison public life there for so long is that sections of the left like Jon Lansman refused to believe that anything that was aid about Rahman from the likes of Andrew Gilligan was true because it came from Gilligan.

A section of New York's public officers law prohibits state employees from using «the property, services or other resources of the state for private business.»