Sentences with phrase «good public acts»

Not exact matches

And if his own ambitions stray too much from the public good, then hopefully the «discipline of the market» will act as a check on the tech visionary himself.

If the financial connection to China, a country whose government typically opposes transparency and political dissent, seems problematic, Hwang isn't concerned: «If anything, we are informing the public about upcoming changes in laws as well as the decision makers behind it, emboldening affected parties to act up and speak up if necessary,» he said.

Canada managed the financial storm of 2008 better than others because we anticipated risks and acted proactively with public policy foresight, responsible oversight of our financial industry, and better decisions and performance by financial service providers and our clients than was the case in other countries.

The Vancouver Board of Trade is strongly supportive of the announced Action Plan for Women Entrepreneurs, as well as its promise to modernize Canada's corporate governance framework through amendments to the Canada Business Corporations Act to promote gender diversity among public companies, using the widely recognized «comply or explain» model.

Or has the act of making a public appearance at which investors are pitched mean you are already necessarily under 506 (c) and, in the immortal interjection of Gov. Perry, whoops, you'd better have filed your Form D 15 days back already?

People who try to separate their private convictions about human dignity and the common good from their involvement in public issues are not acting with integrity, or with loyalty to their own principles.

Regulation A of the JOBS Act (also known as the Mini-IPO or Reg A +) allows a company to use online equity crowdfunding to raise up to $ 50,000,000 in new capital, online, from anyone in the general public, not just the rich and well - connected.

I could admittedly do better, and would certainly have captured more upside from temporary speculation, had I committed myself to the principle that central banks will act strictly to defend the bondholders of the banks they represent, even if it means trespassing into fiscal policy, subordinating public interest, empowering the worst stewards of capital, violating legal restrictions, and inviting long - term instability.

Farnworth's legislation, titled the Public Health Protection Act, amends existing provincial statute to restrict who can own and operate equipment like pill and tablet presses as well as tablet machines.

In our Securities Practice, we act as counsel to more than 80 public companies (including 20 Chinese issuers), as well as, numerous FINRA (formerly NASD) licensed underwriters and placement agents in connection with their financing activities, including private placements and public offerings of equity and debt securities.

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.

after losing friends and all our safety personnel and the consideration of the families i see no good coming from this and only animousity and ill feelings and betrayal by our public officials in asllowing this to happen... it is deplorable and an insult to the 3,000 dead and the thousands affected by this horrible act and time must pass to heal the wounds before the issue is even discussed.

As James Wilson wrote, in America there was introduced «into the very form of government, such particular checks and controls, as to make it advantageous even for bad men to act for the public good.»

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In this sense, religion and religious values act as social glue: informing society's understanding of the public good, providing the vocabulary of common moral discourse, and, consequently, restraining and bonding the centrifugal forces of national life.

Thus the G.I. Bill, the Public Facilities Act, the National Defense Education Act, and the various forms of student aid initiated in the 1960s — BEOGs, SEOGs, Work - Study, Pell grants, etc. — have subsidized the survival of many colleges and universities, but inexorably they have served as well to make the grantee institutions more anxious to observe the laws and regulations of the State than the strictures of the Church whose sponsorship is, by comparison, so intangible.

A person who retreats from public life because it is too inconvenient or unpleasant or fails to accord with his nice ideals acts as a citizen of the city of man, seeking his own good — peace of mind, ideological purity — at the expense of the common good.

Elsewhere he stresses the importance of public justification, and twice, using the Israeli Supreme Court as his reference, he offers that acts of «lesser evil» remain wrong but that the punishment properly entailed by them may be mitigated because of their good purpose.

It is endowments that give such private universities the freedom to act in ways that temporarily contradict public opinion and, in the long term, serve the public good.

With all the furor and dishonesty over the Supreme Court's decisions on contraception and the Religious Freedom Restoration Act, it's a good moment to think about what kinds of structural weaknesses the center - right has in public debate and what can be done to address some of those weaknesses.

Byrne Dairy Web sites will disclose your personal information, without notice, only if required to do so by law or in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to: (a) conform to the edicts of the law or comply with legal process served on Byrne Dairy or the site; (b) protect and defend the rights or property of Byrne Dairy; and, (c) act under exigent circumstances to protect the personal safety of users of Byrne Dairy, or the public.

That USDA has violated the Organic Foods Production Act and its consultation provisions enacted to apply in just these circumstances for industry and public stakeholders to revise, refine, and advance organic standards via a well defined process.

Part of that marketing is how team members act while inside the skatepark where Halterman can observe interactions between teammates and other riders, but all team members must sign a contract that requires that they maintain good grades and conduct themselves properly in school and in public.

Challenge Success websites will disclose your personal information, without notice, only if required to do so by law or in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to: (a) conform to the edicts of the law or comply with legal process served on Challenge Success or the site; (b) protect and defend the rights or property of Challenge Success; and, (c) act under exigent circumstances to protect the personal safety of users of Challenge Success, or the public.

The Equalities Act 2010 in the UK creates a clear protection for breastfeeding women, in that service providers (including all public services, as well as restaurants and cafés) can not refuse to provide an equal service to a breastfeeding woman, and this applies no matter what the age of the child.

With the Child Nutrition and WIC Reauthorization Act of 2004, PL 105 - 268, the U.S. Congress established a requirement for all local agencies (including public and nonpublic, as well as Residential Child Care Institutions) with a federally - funded National School Lunch Program (NSLP).

By Laura PeuquetWhile the health of America's youth has been part of political and public conversations for some time, the Healthy Hunger - Free Kids Act (HHFKA) brought school food nutrition to the national forefront and paved the way for significant progress towards better school food.

While the health of America's youth has been part of political and public conversations for some time, the Healthy Hunger - Free Kids Act (HHFKA) brought school food nutrition to the national forefront and paved the way for significant progress towards better school food.

I swear babies act better in public spaces!

It's hard to feel good as a parent when you can't even get his socks on, when every word you've said to him has been a reprimand, when the innocent act of serving tuna casserole instead of the expected tacos incites a riot, when you realize you've left more public places in a huff with your child in five years than most parents do in a lifetime.

Last week this blog was devoted to discussing Texas Agriculture Commissioner Sid Miller's first act in office — a declaration of «cupcake amnesty» — as well as his plan to bring deep fat fryers and sodas back to our public schools.

Last week this blog was devoted to discussing Texas Agriculture Commissioner Sid Miller's first act in office - a declaration of «cupcake amnesty» - as well as his plan to bring deep fat fryers and sodas back to our public schools.

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By acquiring this property, and establishing a new wildlife sanctuary at Tidmarsh, Mass Audubon will lead by example in protecting one of the best remaining land conservation opportunities in coastal Massachusetts, and inspire the public to act on nature's behalf.

In my opinion, BF is a completely normal act and should not be censored, but it is also an intimate act that should be protected, and one of the best ways to do that is to somewhat remove yourself from the public eye whilst nursing.

The developments at D.C. Central Kitchen converge precisely with the public school system's recent efforts to introduce fresher, healthier foods, as well as the «Healthy Schools Act» approved earlier this year by the D.C. Council, which not only raises nutritional standards for school food but provides bonus funding for every meal that contains a locally grown component.

Further, discussion included the implications of the Safety in Youth Sports Act (PA's concussion law) and its future needs, provide information in regards to concussion education programs available to the public, as well as describe who are the appropriate medical professionals trained in evaluation and management of concussions and how you can recognize them.

«This directive draws it strength with appointment letter given to you dated 26 August 2009, under reference NDHQ paragraph which reads «You will be subject to the Civil Service Law 1993 (PNDCL327) the Public Service Commission Act 1994 (Act 482) and any statutory instruction made there under and other general or department instructions as well as administrative directive for the time being enforce», the letter said.

The next afternoon Mugabe called her from a public phone to offer his thanks and enquire after her baby.This memory of an act of thoughtfulness from Mugabe clearly shaped Holland's early views of the guerilla leader, but it is also led to a simple question, which recurs throughout her many interviews with those who knew him best as a child and in his early life.

Freedom of Information laws (such as the US's Freedom of Information Act) were implemented in an effort to at least give a semblance of transparency, as well as allow the general public to feel as if they can help hold their Government accountable.

The discussions over the resolution's language have been extraordinarily fluid over the last few days, with discussions centering around how far to go on the Dream Act, as well as public financing.

People who go into public life, they want to act in the public interest, to pursue the national interest, to do things for other people, to make the country, make the world a better place.

To ensure irreversibility, we are implementing the following measures to tackle some of the long - term structural issues: a. capping of the statutory funds at 25 percent of government tax revenues b. operationalization of the Treasury Single Account (TSA) to consolidate all government funds at the Bank of Ghana c. tightening of expenditure controls in GIFMIS to minimize inefficiencies and budget overruns d. strict enforcement of the PFM Act, as well as the Public Procurement Act, to ensure efficiency in public procurement, and e. adoption of the competitive tender process, which is eliminating wastage and giving Ghanaian taxpayers real value for their Public Procurement Act, to ensure efficiency in public procurement, and e. adoption of the competitive tender process, which is eliminating wastage and giving Ghanaian taxpayers real value for their public procurement, and e. adoption of the competitive tender process, which is eliminating wastage and giving Ghanaian taxpayers real value for their money.

Indeed, until it was reformed in 1989, Section 2 of the Official Secrets Act 1911 made it a criminal offence for any civil servant or public contractor to reveal any information he or she had learned in the course of his or her work: an offence that successive governments continued to prosecute well into the 1980s, despite recommendations published in 1972 by the Franks Committee calling for reform.

Certain types of evidence, such as witness statements, are protected by statute and there is a tricky balancing act between the need for the investigation to use the best, most reliable evidence and the desire for the public to have access to source information.

Theresa May said she wanted to be able to take action against those «who are acting in a manner that is not conducive to the public good and who are acting in a manner that is seriously prejudicial to the nation's interests.»

«The 6th District and America need to stop big corporate money from privatizing our democracy, which means public funding for public elections as we have in NYC and a DISCLOSE act so anonymous money from billionaires doesn't buy our government,» said Green, who is the author of Who Runs Congressand Losing Our Democracy, as well as the author of the multiple matching funds for small donors part of the City's campaign finance law.

Democratic Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie said earlier Monday that «it's not looking good» for getting the DREAM Act, which would provide college tuition assistance to the children of undocumented immigrants, and the tax credit, which would incentivize donations to groups that boost public and private education, in the final budget.

«If the Senate is going to act and protect the best interests of taxpayers and workers, there must be a thorough and deliberative process for public review and input.

Percoco's defense against the federal bribery charges — that one has to be a state employee in name, if not in fact, in order to act as a public official — troubles good government groups.