Sentences with phrase «in public office because»

We do not need another career politician like Obama who was in public office because he was incompetent and could not succeed in real life.

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Because of its expertise and ongoing involvement with questions concerning the financial books and records of public companies registered with the SEC, the Office of the Chief Accountant is often called upon to assist in addressing issues that arise in the context of Commission enforcement actions.

-- Two top public affairs officers at FEMA have resigned in the past month, with one woman describing the office culture as a «boy's club» and saying she was excluded from meetings because of her gender.

In Sarah Palin I also do not trust, because she is a mere media hound and quitter, and should be considered unqualified to hold public office.

I can't believe in this day and age a person in public office is seen to be less of a leader because he does not regularly attend church.

It is not the whole Church, of course, but it is the essential focus of communion in Truth, because it is in fact the office of «The Master's Voice» — the Magisterium — in public proclamation of the Word.

«I believe in an America where the separation of church and state is absolute — where no Catholic prelate would tell the President (should he be Catholic) how to act, and no Protestant minister would tell his parishoners for whom to vote — where no church or church school is granted any public funds or political preference — and where no man is denied public office merely because his religion differs from the President who might appoint him or the people who might elect him.

The most generous interpretation I can think of goes something like this: Virginity would disqualify one for office, not precisely because it is a moral failing, but because it bespeaks a lack of experience, a naiveté we can ill afford in our public servants.

We go because it's the last place on earth (except perhaps the therapist's office) where it's socially acceptable to cry in public, or to say out loud that we're sinners in need of mercy, or broken and in need of healing.

Declaring early in American history that the Constitution was «godless» because it failed to acknowledge the authority of Jesus Christ, the church up until a generation ago practiced «political dissent,» not allowing members to vote, hold public office, or take oaths of allegiance to the flag or the Constitution.

If the bishops persist in pressing them on abortion, Catholic politicians will either be «precluded from holding high public office, because attacked by their own church's officials and otherwise harassed by their coreligionists,» or else, if they are elected, it will be «precisely because they are portrayed by coreligionists as renegades from the church.»

A free press is basic to the health of democratic culture in the civil sphere because it offers one line of public accountability for those in public office.

You always hear jokes about different aspects of breast - feeding, and some were afraid to bring it to the floor of the Senate because they feared there would be embarrassing questions and that it would become a joke,» said Frazier, who got involved after a group of nursing mothers came to his office and shared their experiences about breast - feeding in public.

As an average person, I WOULD NOT want you to stand or sit anywhere near me in places including, but not limited to, a PTA meeting, a children's soccer game, a restaurant, an office cubicle, an amusement park, a bus, an airplane, a political rally, and pretty much all other public spaces, because your attitude and UNNECESSARY USE OF CAPS LOCK totally suck.

Spitzer declined to pick favorites in the 2006 Democratic primary, but was believed to prefer former NYC Public Advocate Mark Green to Cuomo — in part because Green's rich developer brother, Stephen, gave very generously to Spitzer's campaign, but also because Spitzer didn't relish the idea of having the ambitious Cuomo breathing down his neck from the AG's office.

The Telegraph's Philip Johnston applauds the reduction in public sector jobs: «Removing many back office staff is a good thing because it becomes necessary to deal with people directly rather than split the functions of a service... The fact is that the public sector employs 800,000 more people than in 1997, many of them engaged in developing specifications, writing guidance, drawing up standards, devising targets, enforcing inspections — all in the name of a reform programme that does not work properly.

A presidential staffer in the office of the Vice President, James Agyenim Boateng has called on the public to disregard a tweet making rounds on various social media platforms that the Vice President Kwesi Bekoe Amissah - Arthur failed to respond to Dr Mahamadu Bawumia's lecture because of rain.

The ISVA told him they would have to meet to discuss intimate details of his childhood sexual abuse in a public coffee shop, because her office was on women - only premises.

Gillibrand's push for the WFP is eyebrow - raising in part because of Cuomo's efforts to establish the Women's Equality Party as a permanent party through the next election cycle and Gillibrand's own backing of electing more women to public office.

Running the Home Office is one of the hardest jobs in government because of the public's expectations of what needs to be done, Tony Blair said today.

«It will be embarrassing for the government if they file an application because the whole public will know that after all they didn't want to collect the money so their surrogates file it but the Attorney General's office was in court tele - guiding things unethical lawyers do,» he added.

I decided to run for office because I believe in public service so it is disheartening to see elected officials brazenly disregard the public trust for personal gain.

It's an important point, because the apparent rift over the Inner Harbor development project has raised questions about the relations between the two offices, which will be critical to the future of Central New York — public discussions about different possible regional government arrangements are on the horizon, via the upcoming Consensus report and the fact that a plan to consider alternative governing structures was embedded in the recent $ 500 million aid package from the state.

At first, Mayor Bloomberg sounded he was outlining why three terms as mayor was enough experience in public office for him, but he quickly switched gears and began characterizing City Hall as the perfect preparation for the White House because it allowed him to buck the Beltway establishment and get real on - the - ground knowledge.

Gov. David Paterson reiterated this morning that layoffs of state workers are «necessary» before he leaves office because the public employee unions offered his administration «nothing» in its quest to save $ 250 million.

The argument made about gay men still buying the drug but under unregulated conditions has probably been accepted by the Home Office behind closed doors — but it can not accept it in public, because it is one of the key general arguments for drug legalisation.

«That is not the attitude you take to public office where you are paid by the tax payer... so we are calling on His Excellency, the President, to as a matter of urgency, recall the High Commissioner with immediate effect, and he must be given the sack because he doesn't have the temperament, he doesn't have the qualities to represent all of us in South Africa,» Mr Ablakwa stated.

«Because we have been getting so much abuse direct to the office, and the advice surgeries are normally done in public, [the police] have sent me an email advising me to cancel them,» she told the paper.

It seems unlikely that Nixon opposed Quinn's 2013 candidacy because she did not like the idea of a «qualified lesbian» running the Big Apple (and even less likely, that this objection was rooted in a belief that only unqualified lesbians are fit to hold public office).

The Conservative press office said: «W e are not promising huge sums of new public spending in this manifesto because we believe in a strong economy founded on sound money.

DiNapoli says that the office is not in the public eye because of the functions of the office.

«He no longer could drive because he fell asleep at the wheel more than once and he had to have me, his 9 - year - old daughter, pull him up from chairs and help him in ways no 9 - year - old should ever have to help their parent,» she recalled Wednesday during a marathon public hearing at the Legislative Office Building.

They probably don't translate into a better voting intention figure because the public also have a positive recollection of Ken Livingstone's period in office - 56 % think Livingstone did well as mayor, compared to 36 % who think he did badly.

In a letter to Nancy Zimpher, First Deputy Comptroller Pete Grannis said the comptroller's office was stripping SUNY of the privilege of speedy approval of spending requests because of a $ 270,000 report commissioned by Zimpher shortly after she took control of the 64 - campus public university system in 200In a letter to Nancy Zimpher, First Deputy Comptroller Pete Grannis said the comptroller's office was stripping SUNY of the privilege of speedy approval of spending requests because of a $ 270,000 report commissioned by Zimpher shortly after she took control of the 64 - campus public university system in 200in 2009.

«We are witnessing essentially a classical case of state capture in which individuals, including those in high public office, use their position to undermine the state and its policies because of their personal interest.

«I am endorsing Diana Ayala for City Council because she is a tough, tireless fighter,» said Bronx Borough President Ruben Diaz, Jr. «During her decades of public service in her community and with the Speaker's office, Diana Ayala has proven that she has what it takes to fight for our working families in the Bronx and in East Harlem.

Swierczewski said he hoped the PACB could schedule another meeting by year's end to vote again on the Lighthouse Point subsidies, as well as $ 1.85 million for an office complex in downtown Albany that, according to Conwall, ESD held back because it needed to analyze the results of a public hearing.

Silver's conviction for doing legislative favors in return for legal referral fees and 12 - year prison sentence was reversed because of incorrect jury instructions, but prosecutors from the office of acting U.S. Attorney Joon Kim told the judge it is in the «public interest» to retry him quickly.

Pasick said in an interview Monday that he decided to make his first bid for public office because he wants to provide an alternative to those disappointed by the establishment parties.

NEW YORK — A former state senator was sentenced to seven years in prison Tuesday by a judge who called his rise from humble origins an «American tragedy» because he used the influence of his public office to steal from charities for his personal needs and pleasures.

Although the Empire State Plaza remained closed this winter — the ice skating rink shuttered, and make shift gates around the entrances because the state couldn't afford to staff the area — the Republican controlled Senate decided it was important to introduce a bill that would allow the display of Christmas trees in public offices and government buildings.

«When I came into office in 2002, I said the most important thing is public schools, because that's the future of our city,» he said.

One prominent Democrat party official disagreed saying Blake had a good shot because of his national network and work in the Office of Intergovernmental Affairs and Public Engagement in the Obama White House.

I was able to make the transition from student editor to science writer because staffers in Rochester's public relations office admired my work as a Campus Times editor.

When Jack started at Amherst, he was lucky enough to know what office hours were because, although he had attended public schools in Miami through 11th grade, he transferred his senior year to a nearby private school, Gulliver Prep, after a bad experience with a football coach who didn't value his academic skills.

The schools — 16 in the Detroit Public Schools Community District and eight from the Education Achievement Authority, a soon - to - be-dissolved state - run recovery district for struggling schools — had been identified for closure earlier this year by the Michigan School Reform Office because they've ranked in the bottom 5 percent academically for three straight years.

At the same time Luke Bronin says that HE deserves a good chunk of the credit for Malloy's 2nd chance initiative because has Malloy's lawyer he was involved in the policy process in the Governor's Office, but none of the blame for Malloy's failure to properly fund public schools.

Maria Morelli - Wolfe, a lawyer with Greater Hartford Legal Aid Inc., which last year filed a complaint with the U.S. Department of Education's Office for Civil Rights on behalf of children with disabilities at the public charter school, said that very often those students spend too many hours out of the classroom — suspended in school or out of school — because of behaviors they weren't necessarily able to control.

Newsstand, or single - copy, sales have been considered the best gauge of consumer demand because they can't be propped up by deeply discounted subscriptions or free copies distributed in public places such as doctors» offices.

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