Sentences with phrase «great public calls»

Immediately after his death there were great public calls for his canonisation.

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Tesla CEO Elon Musk went decidedly low - brow in an exchange with transportation experts on Friday, following reports of comments in which Musk called public transport a «pain in the ass» and suggested the subway was a great place to bump into a murderer.

It also placed viewers in the middle of an event that is still an intense topic of fascination for the American public, with director Kathryn Bigelow calling the death of bin Laden «one of the great stories of our time.»

In more recent years, our advocacy efforts have also focused on regional issues, from our very public role in the 2015 transit and transportation plebiscite, to our work around Metro Vancouver's proposed Bylaw 280 and regional waste management, our longstanding calls for a mobile business licence program across Greater Vancouver, and our advocacy at all levels of government to invest in roads, bridges, and Pacific Gateway trade infrastructure across the region.

Full employment via public jobs is a great thing; but, oh, it is so blatantly obvious that debt - free money creation by the government is absolutely censored on both the right and the so - called left to protect the commercial - banking cartel.

«These moving billboards, as we call them, are a great educational tool for the motoring public,» said Elisabeth Barna, ATA's chief operating officer and a member of the TMAF executive committee, at the Mid-America Truck Show in Louisville.

VICTORIA — B.C.'s New Democrats are calling for new and stronger actions from the B.C. Liberals to ensure long - term sustainability and environmental quality, greater public accountability, and best practices in the natural gas industry as the practice of hydraulic fracturing...

The authors resist the suggestion that this call for a greater sense of community and public participation is idealistic.

Thus, when militant rabbis called upon soldiers to disobey orders to withdraw from Gaza, he reminded the public that undermining legitimate authority caused greater harm than the worst possible consequences of evacuation.

Faith in Public Life's Shannon Sullivan said such arguments calling for greater border security before enacting reform often represent...

The KJV is a fine monument to what Ian Gordon P The Movement of English Prose calls «great public spoken prose.»

Moses is often portrayed as a great stutterer, timid of speaking in public, but in the game he is soon called a man schooled in all the wisdom of the Egyptians, molded into a Moses «powerful in speech and in action.»

Those dealing with the great public sacrifices are called Srauta sutras; those with the domestic rites the Grihya sutras.

Although he is shy about public attention, the New York Times, Sports Illustrated, and New York magazine have all done profiles of Konchalski, with the latter calling him «the last great (and good) basketball scout» in an industry too often devoid of integrity.

The idea that you can not bring any objective ideas about metaphysics or the good of the human being to public debate is sometimes called «procedural liberalism», or in the words of the late, great R.J. Neuhaus, the «naked public square».

In 1976 a UNESCO conference called for greater public access and participation in the media, for regional cooperation to develop news within the regions, and for agreement on the principle of a

The editors added: «A great deal of what might be called the silent public opinion of the south has already marked off segregation as a doomed and dying social arrangement.»

Then we have looked at public prayer, saying a great deal about its congruity with human nature and human life and attempting to show that it is both a duty and a privilege for anyone who would call himself a Christian in any serious sense of the term.

In its statement the NCCC called for greater involvement by the Federal Communications Commission in guarding the public airwaves.

They attend to scripture; struggle to discern the gospel's call and demand on them and their congregations in particular contexts; lead worship, preach and teach; respond to requests for help of all kinds from myriad people in need; live with children, youth and adults through life cycles marked by both great joy and profound sadness; and take responsibility for the unending work of running an organization with buildings, budgets, and public relations and personnel issues.

But he saw religion as the great restraining element that could turn naked self - interest into what he called «self - interest rightly understood,» that is, a self - interest that was public spirited and capable of self - sacrifice.

It got it from religion, first during the Great Awakening of the l740s, when religious revivalism inspired the sense of national community which made possible the formation of a new nation, and later in what Bellah calls «public theology,» with its theme that Americans are the «chosen people.»

It was not for nothing that John Courtney Murray, the great American Catholic public philosopher of freedom, called Thomas Aquinas «the first Whig.»

There are growing calls for public inquiry by fans of other football clubs into the decision by Boris Johnson to let the Hammers rent the stadium built by taxpayers» money for the 2012 Olympics, an occasion of great British national celebration.

But I'm also a Nurse Practitioner who read a lot of research, had a great Lactation Consultant and called the public health department who was overseeing the nutrition portion of the on post daycare.

Marie Stopes International is calling for greater effort, through public education campaigns and advertising of family planning methods and services, to increase women's awareness of the full range of contraceptive options and regular use of a method suitable to their lifestyles.

Its recommendations include calling for a commission to review proposals for further devolution, a Convention for England to ensure representation of the public view and greater oversight of the intergovernmental machinery.

«The NASUWT has called for a Parliamentary Select Committee enquiry into the cost of education, as it is now increasingly clear that a basic principle of our great public services, that they should be free at the point of use, is being seriously compromised.»

He notably did not endorse the man who defeated him in the GOP primary, Carl Paladino, and also took his erstwhile Democratic target, Andrew Cuomo, to task, calling both candidates «flawed individuals, flawed in terms of public character, flawed in terms of ideas and principles that will restore growth and pride to our great state.»

Prophet Kobi for one has admitted in the same video in which he appealed to the public to help him to unravel the identity of the anonymous person who had posted another video online that, among other things claimed the prophet had predicted Bishop Obinim's therianthropic prowess, also pontificated that the end times or Christ's Second Coming, otherwise called Parousia or Second Advent, is not to be expected in these times as the Great Commission has yet to penetrate every nook and cranny of this planet!

Your doctrine of so - called «expansionary fiscal contraction» — that the faster you cut public spending, the greater the boost to private investment and growth — has been exposed as intellectually bankrupt.

As you'll recall, Lazio had some harsh words for both Paladino and his Democratic opponent, AG Andrew Cuomo, when he bowed out of the race, calling them «flawed individuals, flawed in terms of public character, flawed in terms of ideas and principles that will restore growth and pride to our great state.»

New Yorkers for a Brighter Future transferred the money to another entity called the Fund for Great Public Schools, which has been operating in several hotly competitive state Senate races.

News 12 Brooklyn story on BP Adams leading City University of New York (CUNY) students in a rally calling for greater affordability and investment in public higher education by the State.

With the nation still reeling from the harm caused by underregulated markets, conservatives are using city and state budget crises to call for across - the - board privatization, entrusting unaccountable private companies with an ever greater share of the public good.

Like Pasc, we have previously argued that opening up public service markets requires a seismic shift in government commissioning skills and have called for greater central support to co-ordinate departmental activity and share emerging knowledge about how public service markets operate.

The Democratic governor's refusal to make the document public comes at the same time he has been calling for greater disclosure of New York lawmakers» outside income.

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.

If and when the deficit is gone and tax receipts flow in with greater value it is hard to imagine Osborne calling for major public investment.

«Thank you Derek, I look forward to working with you for many, many years in the future,» Fitzpatrick said, calling him a «great» ally on public safety issues.

The New York Times editorial board called the Common Core a once in a generation opportunity; U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan says the new curriculum may prove to be «the single greatest thing to happen to public education in America since Brown v. Board of Education.»

Cuomo acknowledged that a number of names are «being bandied about» and called the attorney general position the «greatest job in public service in the state of New York.»

«I'm not advocating all the state's functions to be taken over... There is fairly obviously nothing like the capacity in the voluntary and independent sectors to do that,» he said, but added: «I'm calling for much greater pluralism and a mixed economy of public service provision.

«The result of this has been huge sections of the British media defended their friends in the so - called main parties and the offensive, idiotic statements made by this handful of people have been lifted up and presented to the Great British public as if they represent the view of this party, which they do not.

With a series of public corruption cases roiling the Legislature, Cuomo called for increased penalties for official misconduct and tighter disclosure rules that require greater disclosure of conflicts of interest.

He also said it is important in reforming health care to realize that «there is no free lunch,» called for higher mileage standards for cars, talked about the struggles of carmakers in Detroit («You can't fight the marketplace»), and said that while he wouldn't call for a nationwide ban on smoking in public places like the one he pushed through in New York, «it would be great if America did it.»

Erie County Legislator Kevin Hardwick, a professor at Canisius College, has utilized the information gathered by a team of Canisius College students from his Public Administration class to propose a resolution that calls for a 12 - month land option on the NFTA's property in the Buffalo Outer Harbor to allow the Greater Buffalo Sports and Entertainment Complex to explore the possibility of developing a downtown stadium.

With the greatest respect once again, we of the Public Interest Advocacy Group (PIAG) call on the leadership of our august house to facilitate with adequate speed, all processes leading to making the Joe Ghartey Committee Report on the bribery scandal that was alleged to have hit Ghana's Parliamentary House.

The group also called for a restructuring of the Joint Commission on Public Ethics to increase independence, and for greater disclosure of independent expenditures.

ALBANY — Branding himself the most successful governor in modern times, Gov. Cuomo on Tuesday defended his focus on New York City issues while calling new federal involvement in the city's public housing «the greatest embarrassment and the greatest irony.»