Sentences with phrase «general public conducted»

A representative poll of the general public conducted at the same time found 70 % of voters believed it was a good thing.

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Hadfield's return couldn't happen «too soon,» according to the article, since he was wasting so much time conducting public relations for himself and space agencies in general, rather than actual scientific research:

During CES, Goetgeluk says Virtuix is conducting a «testing - the - waters» campaign on SeedInvest under the new mini-IPO rules of Regulation A of the JOBS Act, which allow the general public for the first time to potentially invest in tech startups.

A company - wide investigation into allegations of sexual harassment, discrimination and sexism being conducted by former U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder, is expected to conclude by the end of April and will also be made public.

After those claims were made public, Kalanick hired former Obama administration Attorney General Eric Holder and his law firm Covington and Burling to conduct an investigation into Fowler's claims.

If the government refuses to go with a public inquiry then the next premier should direct the Auditor General to conduct a review of airplane usage for all MLAs and their staff from Sept 2012 to Mar 2014.

Nonprofit — A corporation that conducts business for the sole purpose of benefiting the general public.

Irrespective of profound differences in general and special environment, cultural level and religious level, the rites conducted in the «homes» of the American Indian, the Egyptian, the Chinese, or the German or Englishman of the sixteenth century have certain features in common, as compared with public, congregational ceremonies.

In our divorce courts, all now conducted in secrecy so that neither the media nor the general public are aware of what goes on, the Feminist bias is virtually complete.

In general, the ACCC may grant authorisation if it is satisfied that the proposed conduct is either unlikely to substantially lessen competition or likely to result in a net public benefit.

«SNF has funded important school foodservice research, and conducted a major campaign to raise funding to enhance the public image of school foodservice professionals and school meals in general,» says School Nutrition Foundation Executive Director Patricia Montague.

«The disgraceful, criminal conduct of Senate Democrats exposed by the Inspector General makes it clear they were only looking after their own political best interests, not the public's.»

Two types of recall election are needed: (i) local people forcing a by - election on their sitting MP; and (ii) public petitions calling for a general election: once more than 50 % of the electorate had signed a properly conducted petition, then the sovereign would dissolve parliament for a general election.

The HUD inspector general is conducting a wide - ranging audit into how Buffalo's public housing authority spent tens of millions of dollars over the past two years.

Explaining the motive for the petition, one of the petitioners Abigail Elorm Mensah said the former Attorney General has on several occasions conducted himself in a manner that has brought the party into disrepute and public ridicule and also weakened the unity and cohesion of the party in breach of articles 46 [8] and 45.

«The second general elections... represent an opportunity for all the stakeholders to promote their vision regarding the future of the DRC in a peaceful and constructive way and to the Congolese people to exert their fundamental rights to make a choice regarding the conduct of public affairs for the coming years... I believe that the country deserves our support in this effort... I wish her [Mariya Nedelcheva] and her team all success in their independent assessment of these important elections».

Speaking through his Special Assistant on Public Communications and New Media, Lere Olayinka, Governor Fayose who said everything under Buhari was becoming inconclusive, added that «If in three days, INEC could not conduct credible election in Bayelsa State of just eight local governments, one wonders what will happen during the general elections in 2019.

Political office holders like the National Organizer and Deputy Secretary General of political parties are mandated by the spirit of the 1992 Constitution to exhibit ethical actions and conduct in their relationship with the public and their party members.

A statement signed and issued in Accra by the Director - General of the Public Affairs Unit, Assistant Commissioner of Police, David E. Eklu, said said the police on receiving the information conducted a security checks on the mall and found the information to be false.»

The order empowers the office of Attorney General Eric Schneiderman to conduct a public corruption probe of Abelove's conduct, including his decision to present the case to a grand jury that cleared the officer of wrongdoing less than a week after the shooting.

The code requires members to act in the public interest and in accordance with the seven general principles of conduct identified by the committee on standards in public life: selflessness, integrity, objectivity, accountability, openness, honesty and leadership.

A press statement issued by the Assistant Secretary General, Nigeria Union of Teachers, NUT, Comrade Adamu Ango in Kaduna on Monday noted that the state government purportedly conducted a competency test for all teachers in public primary and secondary schools on the 3rd June, 2017.

An analysis conducted for the Daily News by the New York Public Interest Research Group found Cuomo had collected $ 1.39 million from donors who gave more than $ 37,800 - the legal limit for the general election.

In August 2012, NYCHA suspended annual general inspections of apartments when a new HUD rule loosened a requirement that public housing authorities conduct yearly inspections of every apartment, according to a NYCHA fact sheet released by the de Blasio administration on Monday morning.

Results of the two - year phase 2 trial — conducted by a consortium led by investigators at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH), Harvard School of Public Health, and the University of Rochester — are being published in JAMA Neurology.

This survey of the general public, along with a companion survey of members of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), was conducted by the Pew Research Center in collaboration with the AAAS.

«For the first time, our study points to a risk difference between drinking daily and drinking five or six days a week in the general male population, since earlier studies were conducted on alcohol misusers and patients referred for liver disease and compared daily drinking to «binge pattern» or «episodic» drinking,» observed lead investigator Gro Askgaard, MD, of the Department of Hepatology, Copenhagen University Hospital, Rigshospitalet, and the National Institute of Public Health, University of Southern Denmark, Copenhagen, Denmark.

I tried to do too much, teaching courses, running a large lab of students, sitting on several editorial boards, directing the Mind, Brain & Behavior Program at Harvard, conducting multiple research collaborations, and writing for the general public.

The survey of the general public was conducted using a probability - based sample of the adult population by landline and cellular telephone Aug. 15 - 25, 2014, with a representative sample of 2,002 adults nationwide.

«There is no other action associated with this settlement, no admission or denial of wrongdoing and no financial penalty,» the company said of the culmination of a two - year investigation by the New York Attorney General's Office in which it was accused of violating state laws prohibiting «false and misleading conduct» in statements to the public and investors.

In addition to conducting her own research on brain - computer interfaces, Kaitlyn Casimo is helping to make neural engineering easier to understand for high school students and the general public.

Dr. D'Eramo conducts online group training programs, and speaks internationally to doctors, medical students, and the general public to teach self - healing tools.

Dr. D'Eramo currently conducts online training programs, and speaks internationally to doctors and the general public for training in MindBody Medicine.

They have been conducting the Critics» Choice awards since 1995 and are considered to represent most fully - out of awards handed out by film critics - the general public's taste.

The movie presents a strong case for dramatic changes in the way the general public looks at contact sports, especially football, and to the way the institutions in charge of those sports conduct their play.

To find out, we at the Harvard Program on Education Policy and Governance have asked nationally representative cross-sections of parents, teachers, and the general public (as part of the ninth annual Education Next survey, conducted in May and June of this year) whether they support or oppose «federal policies that prevent schools from expelling or suspending black and Hispanic students at higher rates than other students.»

Other research we have conducted at the Center on Reinventing Public Education in «high choice» cities suggests this same general dynamic might explain the recent national slowdown in charter growth.

The fifth annual survey conducted by Harvard's Program on Education Policy and Governance and Education Next magazine on a wide range of education policy issues uncovered growing divisions between teachers and the general public.

That prepping has taken her all over the world: working as a research assistant for an author in Venice, Italy; getting a master's degree in philosophy at the University of Cambridge in England; helping on an archeological dig of Ancient Tiberias in Israel, where she unearthed a stack of ninth - century vases; working in Iraq as a public diplomacy officer and conducting research for generals; raising money for schools in Afghanistan for Congresswoman Jean Schmidt (R - OH); traveling to China to learn about how children of migrant workers access education; learning Arabic.

These strategies involve 1) accurately informing the general public and the policy community regarding the condition of schools, that is, their financing, their achievement, and the relationship between the two; 2) conducting empirical research aimed at understanding issues of productivity in education; 3) informing policymakers and school managers regarding means by which budget cuts can be made without eviscerating instructional effectiveness; and 4) solving challenges to wider adoption of instructional technologies.

However, interestingly, the January Client Lobbyist Financial Report that ConnCAN filed with the Office of State Ethics, as required by Chapter 10, Part II of the Connecticut General Statutes, makes absolutely no mention of the public opinion poll that ConnCAN conducted in January and released earlier this week.

ESSA further requires that states conduct «extensive outreach and community engagement» with education stakeholders and the general public during the development process of these state plans.

Developing, issuing and enforcing safety regulations are a significant portion of PHMSA's work; however, PHMSA also conducts research, funds State regulatory authorities, emergency responders, and representatives of communities affected by hazardous materials transportation, and educates stakeholder groups — including the general public — through outreach initiatives and training.

These insights come from surveys conducted at the end of 2011 and beginning of 2012 to gauge people's general reading habits, their consumption of print books, e-books and audiobooks, and their attitudes about the changing ways that books are made available to the public.

(1) A credit services organization, its salespersons, agents, and representatives, and independent contractors who sell or attempt to sell the services of a credit services organization may not do any of the following: (a) conduct any business regulated by this chapter without first: (i) securing a certificate of registration from the division; and (ii) unless exempted under Section 13 -21-4, posting a bond, letter of credit, or certificate of deposit with the division in the amount of $ 100,000; (b) make a false statement, or fail to state a material fact, in connection with an application for registration with the division; (c) charge or receive any money or other valuable consideration prior to full and complete performance of the services the credit services organization has agreed to perform for the buyer; (d) dispute or challenge, or assist a person in disputing or challenging an entry in a credit report prepared by a consumer reporting agency without a factual basis for believing and obtaining a written statement for each entry from the person stating that that person believes that the entry contains a material error or omission, outdated information, inaccurate information, or unverifiable information; (e) charge or receive any money or other valuable consideration solely for referral of the buyer to a retail seller who will or may extend credit to the buyer, if the credit that is or will be extended to the buyer is upon substantially the same terms as those available to the general public; (f) make, or counsel or advise any buyer to make, any statement that is untrue or misleading and that is known, or that by the exercise of reasonable care should be known, to be untrue or misleading, to a credit reporting agency or to any person who has extended credit to a buyer or to whom a buyer is applying for an extension of credit, with respect to a buyer's creditworthiness, credit standing, or credit capacity; (g) make or use any untrue or misleading representations in the offer or sale of the services of a credit services organization or engage, directly or indirectly, in any act, practice, or course of business that operates or would operate as fraud or deception upon any person in connection with the offer or sale of the services of a credit services organization; and (h) transact any business as a credit services organization, as defined in Section 13 -21-2, without first having registered with the division by paying an annual fee set pursuant to Section 63J -1-504 and filing proof that it has obtained a bond or letter of credit as required by Subsection (2).

South Africa's watchdog, the Financial Services Board (FSB) warned the general public against conducting financial business with the company Outlook Forex Traders.

The review was conducted in consultation with stakeholders such as dog owners, animal welfare groups, veterinarians and the general public.

As the future of our wonderful breed depends upon responsible breeding practices, the ASTC strongly encourages its members and the general public to conduct health screening and testing of all breeding stock.

In 2012, via Luntz Global, Best Friends conducted a focus group in Baltimore to gain insight into the general public's feelings and attitudes about pit bull terriers.

However, while it may work for Walmart and its unique business model, unhappy or unmotivated employees are not a good thing for most retailers conducting business with the general public on a regular basis.