Sentences with phrase «good public purpose»

We should not forget that apple juice is a useful source of vitamin C, and no good public purpose whatever is served by creating quite unnecessary public alarm and confusion.»

Not exact matches

«Coursera is at the front of this effort, with a stellar team, a remarkable growth trajectory, and a purpose that is an unmitigated public good.»

Some assets, however, may no longer serve a public policy purpose and are of particular interest to, for example, Ontario's large pension plans as good long - term investments.

III (NYSE American: HCAC) is a Special Purpose Acquisition Company (or SPAC) actively seeking to invest in, and introduce to the public markets, a compelling best - in - class industrial growth or industrial infrastructure company with an enterprise value of approximately $ 1 billion.

And they can claim to be saving the public money for better purposes — like buying F - 35 fighter jets and building jails!

The event's main purpose was to discuss recent developments in Alberta public policy, as well as expectations for the upcoming Alberta budget.

With growing interest and support from public markets (including through the incorporation of DanoneWave as the largest public benefit corporation in the U.S. and their public commitment to become a Certified B Corp by 2020 as well as Laureate Education's IPO in early 2017), multi-billion dollar companies are following suit and choosing to operate their businesses with purpose and accountability.

On the positive side, if the Conservative Government does table its proposed legislative aid mandate, it will afford an opportunity for a more open public debate, in which we will have a chance to address the fundamental purposes of the aid program, and how those purposes may be best achieved.

The purpose, in Pelosi» s words, is to warn the public that the GOP tax plan «is a scam, a major scam and it» s being presented as something that is supposed to be good for working...

A charitable organization serves broad public purposes in educational, religious, scientific and artistic fields, among others, as well as the relief of poverty and other public benefit activities.

Good intra-institutional diplomacy and public relations arc helpful in reducing opposition to a minimum — e.g., interpreting the nature and purposes of a proposed group and obtaining official approval.

In both the bedroom and the public square, the purpose of social relations is the pursuit of private life plans and personal well - being.

While this is possible at times, private worship is best considered as an auxiliary to public worship; as such, it needn't fulfill the whole range of purpose that public worship does, but can be satisfied with lifting up one or two aspects.

So great is the change in the political climate that it seems likely we will have to pay more attention to the danger of uncritical enthusiasm for religion in public, especially when religion is promoted as an instrumental good for the achievement of sundry purposes public and personal.

Hence, the use of technology for good purposes runs into three tough problems at once: (1) balancing private wants and social needs; (2) harmonizing the plans made by individual experts with the decisions of the public as a whole; and (3) devising long - range policies in a political system which responds best to immediately felt needs, fears, and wants and which has a generally ill - informed electorate.

Idiotic precautions that serve no purpose other than making the public feel better about themselves are the reason we still have tto take our shoes off at security.

A just society will levy appropriate taxes for this purpose, to support the best possible public systems, public parks, and playgrounds, schools, and health facilities.

If religions thus eschew separate «communal power» and seek justice in society, there is no reason why for this purpose, they should not bring their specific faith - insights regarding public morality into dialogue and common action through secular multi-religious groups open for faith - interaction among themselves as well as with secular ideologies.

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.

Bloom points out, for example, that Oliver Wendell Holmes gave up searching for a principle «to determine which speech or conduct is not tolerable in a democratic society and invoked instead an imprecise and practically meaningless standard — clear and present danger — which to all intents and purposes makes the preservation of public order the only common good» (p. 28).

In a public speech a few years ago, President Bush expressed this commonly - held view, albeit within the context of a sober warning: «The powers of science are morally neutral — as easily used for bad purposes as good ones.

Remember from the beginning of the Obama administration the very public mantra was «our number one priority is to make Obama a one term president» and the Greedy Obstructionist Politicians made good on their promise with record numbers of filibusters and anonymous objections with the sole purpose of making government as non-functional as possible.

Although many will suggest that Robson has a personal vendetta of sorts aimed squarely at the Grinch who stole soccer, that doesn't make his words any less truthful... such tactics are nothing new... in the U.S.this business practice has become so common that even the players regularly use the media to manipulate public opinion (LeBron James did likewise to rally public support for himself and away from his teammate, Kyrie Irving, who has asked to be traded)... whether for contract leverage or to rally support for or against certain players, this strategy can be incredibly effective at times, but when it misses the mark it can be dangerously divisive... for a close - to - the - vest team like Arsenal to use such nefarious means to manufacture a wedge between the fans and it's best player (again), is absolutely despicable... for the sanctimonious higher - ups who demand that it's players adhere to a certain protocol regarding information deemed «in house» or else to intentionally spread «fake» news or to provide certain outlets with privileged information for such purposes is pretty low indeed... no moral high ground here, just a big club pretending to be a small club so that they can continue to pull the wool over the eyes of a dedicated, albeit somewhat naive, fan base... so not only does this club no give a shit about it's fans, this clearly shows that clubs primary interests aren't even soccer related... for all intent and purposes Kroenke doesn't care if we're a soccer club or a tampon factory as long as we continue to maximized his investment... stay woke people... great to see more and more people commenting on the state of the franchise... this club needs to be held accountable for it's actions

A good public transit system will help to alleviate many of these potential problems, but this too must be well maintained to keep from falling into disarray and subsequently failing to serve its purpose.

The purposes of the Gender Equality Duty are to promote a better understanding by services of the different needs of women and men, to promote better quality of services, to achieve more effective targeting of resources, and to achieve better results and greater confidence in public services.

The purpose of the Safe Sleep Kentucky campaign is to prevent infant deaths by educating the public in ABCD, the four letters associated with the best practices to make sure infants sleep safely.

Baby changing stations in public restrooms are a good example of how much easier it is to change a baby when the surface is designed for the purpose and is at the right height.

Our purpose is to advance the use of the best available evidence in public policy decisions on alcohol.

For the purposes of this article, I will argue that «internet protesting» refers to the use of social media, in particular social media websites, such as Facebook and Twitter, to organize and continuously fuel a public manifestation as well as provide a direct and relatively unbiased source of information on its progress and outcomes.

Under such a regulation, it may well happen that the public voice, pronounced by the representatives of the people, will be more consonant to the public good than if pronounced by the people themselves, convened for the purpose.

«The basic purpose of this commission, according to the governor's charge, was to «comprehensively review and assess New York State's education system, including its structure, operation and processes...» In failing to deal at all with such major issues as funding, special education, the lack of appropriate supports for English language learners, as well as ignoring major current controversies such as implementation of [teacher evaluations] and common core systems, the commission has ill - served students, parents, and the public at large.»

But yes, the NDNY may as well not exist for Public Integrity purposes.

«For the good of all those involved the NASUWT reiterates its call for Government to conclude its ongoing review of all of the issues surrounding the framework assessment as soon as possible, so we can urgently move to a sustainable system of assessment that is fit for purpose and commands the confidence of teachers and the public.»

«Well the purpose of the forum is to actually listen to our professionals and listen to the public figures out there and really to listen to some of the addicts that have gone through from the streets through rehab and back out and matriculated back into society,» Murphy says.

«Taxpayers have good cause to be concerned about state lawmakers and the governor using that borrowing power for anything besides its original purpose, especially when it's to pay for political pet projects,» said Ken Girardin, an analyst at the fiscally conservative Empire Center for Public Policy.

These reforms include «preventing LDC's... from financing a local government's operations of capital assets;» as well as «prohibiting the creation of LDC's solely for the generic purpose of «lessening the burdens of government and acting in the public interest.»»

The purpose will be to solicit testimony from experts and the general public about the best ways to fix -LSB-...]

The Coalition has to demonstrate that its purpose in government is not simply to cut public debt and rein in spending, but to govern better for less.

Indeed, that faith needs to be renewed, because our public institutions embody Labour's sense of the purpose of politics: to protect and care, and provide a basis for us to lead good lives together.

«We have to make sure that the precision and the purpose of the test are well - explained to the public with the limitations for interpreting the results,» Nasreddine said.

The public relations firm — which the critics note was given $ 1.6 million by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to «increase awareness, understanding, and acceptance of possible gene drive applications for public good purposes» — also coordinates responses to postings on the online forum that are critical of gene drives.

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Better than the performances themselves, though, is their broader purpose: all proceeds from Miscast help to fund MCC in its continual efforts to produce some of New York's most ambitious and original works of theater, as well as support its MCC Youth Company and in - school partnerships that serve public schools across New York City.

XBLA serves two purposes very well: it's a platform for getting quirky, risky, or otherwise disenfranchised indie games into the public eye, and it breathes new life into the arcade classics of our youth.

When a story is split into two separate films for no higher purpose than to bilk the movie - going (and dvd - purchasing) public out of their hard - earned cash, it becomes irrelevant how well written or produced it is.

In a 2006 article, Citizenship, Identity and Education: Examining the public purposes of schools in an age of globalization, Harvard Graduate School of Education Professor Fernando Reimers stressed the importance of teaching tolerance and global values, as well as developing foreign language skills and knowledge of world history, cultures, and geography.

Get Rid of Compulsory Schooling In the April 1924 issue of The American Mercury, journalist and satirist H.L. Mencken ginned up a well - constructed piece on the true purpose of public education: «The aim... is simply to reduce as many individuals as possible to the same safe level, to breed and train a standardized citizenry, to put down dissent and originality.»

Service learning, at its best, provides a wealth of exemplars of the sort of powerful learning with public purpose that WKCD champions.

Today, convoluted Title I formulas coupled with policies in some states that assign students to public schools based on their parents» zip code, do not make Title I a vehicle conducive to achieving its primary purpose of «provid [ing] a good education for every boy and girl — no matter where he lives.»

Accessible: The purpose of our journalism is to better inform the public about how well schools are serving students.