Sentences with phrase «imposing public works»

Not exact matches

Toward debtor countries American diplomats work through the World Bank and IMF to demand that debtors raise their interest rates and impose taxes and austerity programs to keep their wages low, sell off their public domain to pay their foreign debts, and deregulate their economy so as to enable foreign investors to privatize local electricity, telephone services and other infrastructure formerly provided at subsidized rates to help these economies grow.

Yes, they will argue if given the opportunity, but the only time you see them become agitated is when religious people try to impose their beliefs on them via public works: government, schools, etc..

Mr Clarke, who served as chancellor under John Major, wants a return to proper cabinet government, arguing it is essential «to make government work better and to reverse public cynicism about the tacky system of government and politics which New Labour has imposed upon us.»

MADISON, Wis. (AP)-- Gov. Scott Walker on Thursday called on the Wisconsin Legislature to pass a sweeping welfare overhaul package that includes requiring parents on food stamps to meet a work requirement, imposes new drug testing on public housing applicants and lays down a photo - identification requirement for food - stamp recipients.

Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson wants Americans living on housing assistance to put more of their income toward rent and he wants to give public housing authorities the ability to impose work requirements on tenants.

«We respect the will of the British people, but not the will of this Tory government to impose fewer rights at work and worse public services, while the largest corporations pay even less tax.

The suit is also supported by the Center for Competitive Politics, a Virginia - based nonprofit that has worked against state - imposed restraints on political donations and disclosure requirements that it views as chilling to public engagement.

The public needs to be assured that the student is actually the one who is completing the work for the course, and the public needs to be assured that the course is not only well designed by well executed — without imposing unnecessary restrictions that will impede innovation.

The Ed Secretary worked pretty hard on balancing regulations he wanted to impose (whether for public good or to get a political deal done), with constantly checking the good charters (is this something you could live with, or would you simply not replicate....

But charters are themselves public schools, albeit without the burden of work rules and other constraints imposed by unions and the bureaucracy.

More and more Democratic politicians — including President Obama — have finally had enough of the mediocrity in our public schools and recognize that it is union - imposed work rules that have helped create the current situation.

In case you're wondering why CTU members plan to protest instead of work: Wednesday is the second of three furlough days Chicago Public Schools imposed earlier this year for teachers and school - based workers.

Because paying for private school imposes a much greater, and sometimes impossible, hardship on middle - class families than it does on the wealthy, middle - class families have a strong incentive to make public schools work.

As a way of working with resistant preservice teachers, a Freirian approach to virtual field experiences was not concerned with imposing multicultural understanding but with utilizing diverse settings to illustrate the relevance of multiculturalism in practical ways that might reshape convictions regarding appropriate curriculum and instruction in public education.

10) California: Hilary Hammell of Public Advocates reports that California charter schools are illegally imposing work quotas on students» families.

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With her large - scale installations, Barlow constructs imposing works that play between the monumental scale of public art and architecture and the precariousness of her chosen materials and compositions.

Known and lauded for his sculptures (particularly Angel of the North, the imposing public colossus commissioned in 1994), installations and public art works exploring the human body's relationship to space, this is Gormley's fifth exhibition with the gallery.

The exhibition includes work such as Paolo Cirio's installation that obfuscates the 15 million mugshots made public on internet databases for corporate profit, Maryam Jafri's photographs of Asian and African independence ceremonies and Edgardo Aragón's critical cartography and video of everyday conditions in Cachimbo, Mexico that demonstrates the crippling effects imposed by a foreign power.

I think part of this comes from scientists, both those working in that specific area of climate science and particularly those from outside that area, speaking not as scientists with their inherent tendency not to claim something conclusive without a good deal of statistically tested certainty, but speaking as someone who has been imposed upon or volunteered to give a scientific best guess without bothering the public with the details of uncertainties.

Today our McCarthyites in Climate Science are in the public eye as well as working behind the scenes to impose what can be popularly characterized as the «black hand» of Robert Louis Stevenson's Treasure Island fame.

This has included huge cuts in the fixed fees payable to those defence barristers who carry out publicly - funded work in the Crown Court under the Advocates» Graduated Fee Scheme (AGFS); cuts that, proportionately, have far exceeded those imposed on public service providers in any other sector.

While it is possible to speculate in many ways as to why this is so rare, some insight may be found in a 2013 letter from David Schraver, the President of the New York State Bar Association to Jonathan Lippman, then Chief Judge of the State of New York: Objecting to a newly adopted rule that required New York attorneys merely to report the number of hours they spent on pro bono work (without imposing any minimum number of required hours), Schraver wrote that «the provision of legal services to the poor is a public responsibility.»

To provide the public the same protections, will be an issue — or will at least be a problem — either choosing to work «without a net» or the safety net imposed (insurance and regulation), will then, add increased cost to the delivery (as it does with lawyers).

Public works often impose heavy losses on those in private property nearby.