Sentences with phrase «general public backed»
43 % of the general public backed the idea on the grounds that, in today's harsh financial climate, the Government should «use the money instead to provide more help to people who need the money more», whereas 48 % said it would be wrong to do this, as «pensioners have spent their working lives paying for their state retirement benefits».
https://yougov.co.uk/ Not exact matches
This gets back to the New York Times column I cited yesterday, which disparaged business efforts to address what have traditionally been public sector issues — like fixing the health care system, exploring space, or providing general education and training.
Surgeons General dating back to Ronald Reagan appointee C. Everett Koop have consistently cited the medical damage from gun violence as a major public health threat; Adams didn't reject that logic, but his wording underscores just how politically fraught the issue is.
But she also cautioned that rolling back FSMA could have dangerous consequences for the general public.
In other words, Chesbrough is encouraging managers to rethink their internal process of innovation on two levels: first, to acknowledge there is knowledge to be tapped from the general public, and second, a company should strive to offer that innovation back to the world.
The Standing Committees of the Public Accounts and on Government Operations and Estimates have also recommended that the «Office of the Comptroller General complete its study of accrual - based budgeting and appropriations and report back by March 31, 2013 its recommendations on whether the Government of Canada should pursue accrual - based budgeting in departments and accrual - based appropriations in its financial reporting system».
The Standing Committees of the Public Accounts and on Government Operations and Estimates have also recommended that the «Office of the Comptroller General complete its study of accrual - based budgeting and appropriations and report back by March 31, 2013 its recommendations on whether the Government of Canada should pursue accrual - based budgeting in departments and accrual - based appropriations in in its financial reporting system».
They decided to focus on selecting bonds issued by the government of Puerto Rico and its public corporations, which could include infrastructure bonds backed by alcohol taxes and general obligation bonds.
The combined firm, Smith, Barney & Co will have over 700 employees and it will turn its back on dealings with the general public in favor of a more institutional and high net worth focus.
11:58 am ET: Zuckerberg is back, followed by Facebook's VP of Public Policy Joel Kaplan and Facebook's General Counsel Colin Stretch.
«Right now when you look at [open source blockchain startups such as] Ethereum — these are LGPL [Lesser General Public License] based licences, which means that if you are to use it and use derivative works you have to give it back to the owner.
Unless the general public — not just the highly educated leaders of church and society, but the general public — knows about these problem with all their pros and cons, and are able to weigh and consider alternatives and solutions from every standpoint — left, right and center — unless that happens, our nation will never be able to fight its way back toward solutions that will build us up, strengthen our resolve, and re-create the nation I used to love and I now would love to reform.
The same man overseen what is likely to be deemed one of the greatest results of the century, when Newcastle slammed five home past Sunderland at St James» Park back in October in a 5 - 1 rout of their fiercest of rivals, but it was Hughton's failure to deliver winning outcomes on a regular basis which ultimately cost him his job in December, to the dismay of the fans and the general public
Getting back to making this part of my routine — I wondered if like flossing, mouthwash etc this could become a part of the general public's routine.
Why do you think there's so much push back among the general populace, when women try to normalize breastfeeding or breastfeed in public without a cover?
«If this is a good plan, it should go back to the Plan Commission,» said Eleanor Roemer, general counsel of the advocacy group Friends of the Parks, adding that there should be public meetings of neighborhood groups if the new story is built.
We really don't need to go back in time and have these things invading our schools, places of work and the public in general.
«This result shows that public servants, who provide vital services from the cradle to the grave, will not stand back while everything they have ever worked for is taken from them,» PCS general secretary Mark Serwotka said.
Below you will find, compliments of the TU's CapCon, the Troopergate - related memo Gov. Andrew Cuomo so desperately wanted to keep from public view that he sent two top aides to the state Archives to remove it from the cache of documents there that date back to his four - year term as state attorney general.
Public and Commercial Services union general secretary Mark Serwotka has backed a call for the release of the comedian and activist Jonathan May - Bowles, known as Jonnie Marbles, who was jailed for throwing a foam pie in the face of Rupert Murdoch.
With NYC Public Advocate Letitia «Tish» James snubbing its nominating convention tomorrow, the minor Working Families Party is frantically trying to figure out who to back for attorney general, and will likely either back Fordham Law Prof. Zephyr Teachout or a palceholder.
In an unusual move, the party's state committee voted to back two hopefuls for attorney general: New York City Public Advocate Letitia James, whom Cuomo supports, and law professor Zephyr Teachout.
«For us in the State, we believe strongly that by doing this, we are returning this library back to the general public.
The call to ban has long had the backing of the general public, with opinion polls consistently showing support for a complete prohibition and 94.5 % of respondents to a public consultation on the issue calling for the same back in 2010.
The research also found 16 % of members of the general public saying the change made it more likely they would back Miliband at the 2015 general election, compared to just four per cent who said otherwise.
Hours later, Attorney General Jeff Sessions hit back at Chicago, saying the Trump administration «will not simply give away grant dollars to city governments that proudly violate the rule of law and protect criminal aliens at the expense of public safety.»
Cuomo is backing the creation of a chief procurement officer and is supporting legislation that would allow the comptroller, attorney general and the procurement officer «to collaborate on a student and make recommendations regarding initiatives to better enable the public to track state contracts and audits.»
But Times columnist Philip Collins, a former speech writer for Tony Blair, said it made no sense for Ed Miliband to back a general strike, it would not get backing from the general public and it would achieve nothing.
According to a Marist College Institute for Public Opinion survey released Monday, 47 percent of New York State voters would back Pataki and 45 percent would support Gillibrand if the general election were held today, with 8 percent undecided.
«The happiest years of my life professionally were as attorney general, as governor, as a prosecutor and I'd like to go back to public service,» he told CBS 2's Weijia Jiang.
Meanwhile, state Sen. Michael Gianaris (D - Queens), who was considering a run for attorney general, said Thursday he will seek re-election to the Senate and instead back city Public Advocate Letitia James for AG.
To the limited extent that the general public engages with him, they think he's the guy who stabbed his brother in the back, had a Mori marriage and moonlights as an extra from the Wallace & Grommit cartoons.
«Whatever the niceness and the current warm glow, Corbyn will be a leader of the hard left, for the hard left, and espousing both general politics and specific positions that the public just are not going to accept in many of the seats that Labour is going to have to win to get back in power.»
PCS general secretary Mark Serwotka said: «This result shows that public servants, who provide vital services from the cradle to the grave, will not stand back while everything they have ever worked for is taken from them.
«Each week when I drive up to the state Legislature... I often feel like I'm driving three hours north and 30 years back in time because attitudes toward women in the Legislature are so out of date and out of sync with actual understanding of the general public,» said Democratic state Sen. Liz Krueger of Manhattan.
Plaid's Leanne Wood has received the backing of Mark Serwotka, General Secretary of the Public and Commercial Services Union (PCS), who called her «one of the most outstanding politicians in Wales.»
Indeed, in his efforts to raise a billion dollars of private money, Obama became the first presidential candidate in the general election in over 30 years to back out of public financing, an idea which is now more or less kaput.
Candidates for the General Assembly will get their hands on nearly 12 million taxpayer dollars to reach voters in 2016, as planned, after public financing advocates fought back a threat at the state Capitol.
Eighty - six per cent of Corbynites said they strongly backed wholesale nationalisation, compared to just 31 % of the general public.
LPCiminelli, whose roots trace back to the founding of the Frank L. Ciminelli Construction Co. in 1961, is one of the largest general contractors in Western New York, with a long history of work on major public - and private - sector projects.
Higgins made clear he's not necessarily saying Trump has any ties to Russia but at this point he believes the only way to gain the general public's confidence back is to bring in an independent entity to investigate.
«Though I must affirm to the general public that the party was founded on the basis of sacrifice and social justice, we also have to keep in mind that times have changed and these changes call for new ways of doing things, a responsibility that should not be tasked with the leadership alone but those at the grass roots as well as to enable us come back strongly in the next general elections in 2020,» opined the former military man.
Responding to the report published today by Policy Exchange arguing for reform of the public sector pay and pensions frameworks, Chris Keates, General Secretary of the NASUWT, the largest teachers» union, said: «This report appears to be another example of supporters of the Coalition Government seeking to rally support for localised pay in the face of a dearth of evidence to back up the Coalition's proposals for the abolition of national pay frameworks for public services.
Mark Serwotka, general secretary of the Public and Commercial Services Union (PCS), condemned Conservative plans on welfare reform today warning that they risked taking the welfare state back to the Victorian era.
His opponent, Sen. John McCain, was one of the most ardent advocates of campaign finance reform who was left to chastise Obama for turning his back on a general election public financing structure designed to level the playing field.
A former Education Minister and Bring Back Our Girls, BBOG convener, Oby Ezekwesili has called on the Senate President, Senator Bukola Saraki and the speaker, Honourable Yakubu Dogara to give details of the National Assembly budget to the general public.
He asked Mr. Cuomo for a general referral to go after public corruption in the state — something he said Mr. Cuomo backed when he himself held Mr. Schneiderman's job — but was denied.
In a letter to the chancellor, Alistair Darling, the CBI's director general, Richard Lambert, says the government needs to accelerate its efforts to get the public finances back on track to counter speculation that it is the next European country at risk of moving down the credit ratings.
Mark Serwotka, general secretary of the Public and Commercial Services Union (PCS), said discussions were under way about action that would show people can «fight back».
«In celebration of this victory over agents of tyranny, all public servants in Ekiti State are enjoined to converge on Fajuyi, Ado Ekiti by 10 am tomorrow, Thursday, October 12, 2017 to welcome the Commissioner for Finance and the Accountant General back to the State.