Sentences with phrase «in public life today»

In our politically divided world, Ted Hughes» brand of fair and humanitarian leadership is exactly what we need in public life today.»

By common consent, so as not to be seen to be blowing my own trumpet, it is regarded as being composed of some of the best persons in public life today, men and women of achievement, experience, integrity and knowledge, together with youthful elements who are full of promise.

Not exact matches

As online review service Yelp prepares for its initial public offering, the company quietly has gone live in Australia today.

But it should matter that such behavior was confirmed today, beyond any reasonable doubt, by one of the most credible people in public life.

«We respectfully ask all parents to acknowledge that students need to be in class every day to benefit from the education they are guaranteed and to avoid falling behind in school and life,» Albuquerque Public Schools principals wrote in a letter to parents, USA Today reports.

«This was what drove me for decades in public life and I still am animated by that mission today.»

But that is the unfortunate reality many of us in the public eye must live with today,» O'Reilly said in the statement.

«The notion the news is imperilled runs contrary to [the public's] experience — 93 per cent say they get more news today, quicker, in a more timely fashion, from more diverse sources, than they ever had in their life,» pollster Allan Gregg said.

After initially downplaying the report's accusations, Caldbeck earlier today acknowledged his poor behavior in a public apology, writing, «The past 24 hours have been the darkest of my life.

Facebook chief executive Mark Zuckerberg today (April 4) outlined the company's latest moves to address public fears over the extent of data scraping in a rare live Q&A with the media; updates that come as its privacy scandal rumbles on.

The great problem today is not the threat that religion poses to public life, but the threat that the state, presuming to embody public life in its entirety, poses to religion.

Then today, I was reading an article called «Change - Seekers» in World Magazine, which summarized the major study of the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life (available here).

In his column today, Michael Gerson writes about a Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life event at which the sociologist Robert Putnam spoke.

I would also need to look at religion, following today the brilliant sociological analysis Tocqueville made of the role of religion in our public life, a role all the founders of the republic discerned.

Living in justice in this world as a good steward of God's bounty, maintaining privacy and yet caring for every legitimate public need, removing every vestige of exploitation, protecting the environment for today's and tomorrow's generations, and being honest in every individual transaction, all of these are covered when we push the Commandment «You shall not steal» into the very depths of our complicated and complex lives.

«What you have in American religion today are the nonwhite Christians and the Nones,» says Mark Silk, professor of Religion in Public Life at Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut.»

But «metaphysics» means nothing in American public life today, and after three decades of trying to explain the Christian «anthropology» of John Paul II to various audiences, I am still being asked what «anthropology» is, and what the behavior of primitive tribes has to do with Christianity.

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The government will today sign up to the United Nations Convention on Disability Rights, guaranteeing disabled people the right to education, employment and participation in political and public life.

Eric Pickles has become the latest minister to demand a return of Christianity in Britain's public life, as he outlined a new community cohesion strategy today.

Sayeeda Warsi consulted with the Pope on how to return Christianity to a central role in British public life during a trip to the Vatican today.

In life, perception is reality and today, we are perceived in the worst light by an angry, scornful Nigerian Public for reasons which are absolutely unnecessary.&raquIn life, perception is reality and today, we are perceived in the worst light by an angry, scornful Nigerian Public for reasons which are absolutely unnecessary.&raquin the worst light by an angry, scornful Nigerian Public for reasons which are absolutely unnecessary.»

Women are being put on the «mummy track», preventing them from advancing to top jobs in public life, according to a report published today.

The statistics keep changing, the series aren't the same, the functions and the roles keep altering and nothing is constant — particularly not the people who run the machine, for ministers and now senior public servants too live in a «here today gone tomorrow» world where they're no sooner settled in than they're out.

Eric Pickles, Secretary of State for State for Communities and Local Government (CLG), in launching his new strategy on integration and community cohesion, Creating the conditions for integration, today said that Christianity should be restored to the centre of public life.

«I commend Governor Cuomo for taking these important steps today to complement the Senate's ongoing efforts to raise public awareness and direct resources to increase the number of life - saving organ donors in the state.

«These brave public servants put their lives on the line each day to protect this city — and today we are letting them know: we are there for you too,» Mr. de Blasio said in a statement.

In my live blog of today's historic PMQs I wrote this: «In what has to be one of the lowest points in public service broadcasting BBC2's Daily Politics coverage stops halfway through the Prime Minister's concluding remarks to cut to Wimbledon.&raquIn my live blog of today's historic PMQs I wrote this: «In what has to be one of the lowest points in public service broadcasting BBC2's Daily Politics coverage stops halfway through the Prime Minister's concluding remarks to cut to Wimbledon.&raquIn what has to be one of the lowest points in public service broadcasting BBC2's Daily Politics coverage stops halfway through the Prime Minister's concluding remarks to cut to Wimbledon.&raquin public service broadcasting BBC2's Daily Politics coverage stops halfway through the Prime Minister's concluding remarks to cut to Wimbledon.»

While she acknowledges that «in today's climate it would be crazy not to think about running for office,» she also is concerned about what a return to public life might do to her professional career: «I have clients, a team and regulations that demand my time.»

Patrick Diamond on what the left can do in an era of less growth, less public spending and lower living standards; Sarah Mulley on Labour's immigration challenge; Stuart White and Martin O'Neill on the «New Labour that wasn't» and the lessons for «one nation» Labour today.

But today, the trend in all these — and so many other — spheres of public life is exactly the opposite, thanks to the steady, independent, visionary leadership of Mayor Mike Bloomberg.

However, today Mr Hutton argued that you can not deal with differences in life expectancy through the pension system - these must be tackled with better strategies on public health, child poverty and improved education and skills training.

«Buffalo is a better place today because Carl Paladino no longer has any power or authority over the lives of tens of thousands of children of color in the Buffalo Public Schools,» the Buffalo chapter of Showing up for Racial Justice, which has staged a series of anti-Paladino protests, said in a statement.

The long - awaited inquiry into MPs» expenses by Sir Christopher Kelly's committee on standards in public life — which will set out a framework for new rules regarding MPs» expenses — will publish its report on Wednesday 4 November, a committee spokesman announced today.

ALBANY, NY (01/20/2009)(readMedia)-- «This rule will have a profound impact on the working lives of thousands of public employees and it will save lives,» CSEA President Danny Donohue told state Department of Labor officials today about a proposed DOL rule that would require public employers to put in place workplace violence prevention programs to protect their workers.

Personal Info Birthplace: Staten Island, NY High School: Brooklyn Tech High School (public - requires entrance exam) Higher Education: SUNY New Paltz, University of Buffalo Law School NY19 Connection: Attended SUNY New Paltz, 1970 - 1974; Returned to live in Kingston in 1981 and thereafter moved to Woodstock where he has resided through today Length of Residency in NY19: Kingston, NY and Woodstock, NY since 1983; greater than 34 years Prior Job History: Served as a Volunteers in Service to America (VISTA) Volunteer working with Native American tribes in Nebraska, Western Nebraska Legal Services attorney between 1977 - 1980; Ulster County Public Defender's Office in the 1980s and early 1990s, Law Offices of Dave Clegg practicing predominantly personal injury law and elder abuse cases until prpublic - requires entrance exam) Higher Education: SUNY New Paltz, University of Buffalo Law School NY19 Connection: Attended SUNY New Paltz, 1970 - 1974; Returned to live in Kingston in 1981 and thereafter moved to Woodstock where he has resided through today Length of Residency in NY19: Kingston, NY and Woodstock, NY since 1983; greater than 34 years Prior Job History: Served as a Volunteers in Service to America (VISTA) Volunteer working with Native American tribes in Nebraska, Western Nebraska Legal Services attorney between 1977 - 1980; Ulster County Public Defender's Office in the 1980s and early 1990s, Law Offices of Dave Clegg practicing predominantly personal injury law and elder abuse cases until prPublic Defender's Office in the 1980s and early 1990s, Law Offices of Dave Clegg practicing predominantly personal injury law and elder abuse cases until present.

Today he formally begins a new chapter in his life of public service by being inaugurated as state Senator for the 14th Senate District.

Medical experts, led by Sir Ian Gilmore, special advisor on alcohol at the Royal College of Physicians write: «Today the public learns of the deplorable practices that were instrumental in the government's decision to reverse its commitment to save thousands of lives through implementing a minimum unit price for alcohol,

Scofflaws who've ignored tickets for boozing in public, urinating in the streets and other quality - of - life offenses have no reason to behave now: City Council Speaker Melissa Mark - Viverito is announcing legislation today to wipe out more than 700,000 outstanding warrants for the low - level misdeeds.

Sir Christopher was speaking to BBC Radio 4's Today programme after the committee on standards in public life, which he chairs, published its response to the new expenses consultation.

Attendees at today's kickoff included: City of Buffalo Mayor Byron Brown, Buffalo Public Schools Interim Superintendent Donald Ogilvie, SUNY Trustee Dr. Eunice Lewin, University at Buffalo President Dr. Satish K. Tripathi, SUNY Buffalo State President Dr. Katherine Conway - Turner, Erie Community College President Jack Quinn, Regional Economic Development Council Co-Chair, businessman and developer Howard Zemsky, Staff Scientist Mwita Phelps of Life Technologies / Thermo Fisher Scientific, Director of the Buffalo and Erie County Public Libraries Mary Jean Jakubowski, Dr. Norma J. Nowak, Director of Science and Technology, UB's NYS Center of Excellence in Bioinformatics and Life Sciences, as well as a number of invited guests, including elected leaders, teachers and students.

NEW YORK, NY (05/11/2012)(readMedia)-- Early this afternoon, a team of welfare recipients, unemployed New Yorkers looking for work, public housing residents, and people living with HIV / AIDS — members of the grassroots organizing groups Community Voices Heard (CVH) and Voices of Community Activists and Leaders (VOCAL - NY)-- led other New York residents in a series of actions in Lower Manhattan to highlight the inequality prevalent in our City today, and lift up the need to restore critical programs currently proposed to be cut in Mayor Bloomberg's Fiscal Year 2013 budget.

43 % of the general public backed the idea on the grounds that, in today's harsh financial climate, the Government should «use the money instead to provide more help to people who need the money more», whereas 48 % said it would be wrong to do this, as «pensioners have spent their working lives paying for their state retirement benefits».

The Committee on Standards in Public Life recommended that such an overhaul should be carried out once in each Parliament, and today's package of proposals represents the overhaul in the present Parliament.

On this important late winter New York Sunday, he promised, «I will remember where I came from, I will remember the struggles that I faced, I will remember the adversity, and when difficult decisions have to be made, I will do it remembering all of you of course, but also the folks who aren't here today, the single mom working two jobs, the public housing resident living in conditions that are not acceptable, the family whose landlord is harassing them, trying to deregulate where they live.

We heard you loud and clear and today's report is reflective of our commitment to ensure that all residents of public housing live in safer communities.»

An award - winning journalist, Christine has specialized in reporting on intersections of religion and public life for a variety of national and local media outlets including The Huffington Post, Jersey Shore Patch, Slate, Christianity Today, Urban Faith, The High Calling, and On Faith.