Sentences with phrase «interest of the public determined»

She said the secretariat is encouraged by an intense interest of the public determined to take advantage of the policy.

Not exact matches

These factors will at times seem tangled; they will proceed in fits and starts, as the ambitions of an untested President interact with the interests of a recalcitrant conservative block, a determined opposition, and the will of a divided public.

The Fiduciary Rule and PTEs followed an extensive public rulemaking process in which the Department evaluated a large body of academic and empirical work on conflicts of interest, and determined that conflicted advice was causing harm to retirement investors.

«Based on the extensive public comments and evidence garnered during that process, the department determined that such conflicts of interest are widespread and could cost investors in individual retirement accounts (in one segment of the market alone) between $ 95 billion and $ 189 billion over the next 10 years,» wrote the Justice Department lawyers.

Given the absence of a public trading market of our common stock, and in accordance with the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants Accounting and Valuation Guide, Valuation of Privately - Held Company Equity Securities Issued as Compensation, our board of directors exercised reasonable judgment and considered numerous and subjective factors to determine the best estimate of fair value of our common stock, including independent third - party valuations of our common stock; the prices at which we sold shares of our convertible preferred stock to outside investors in arms - length transactions; the rights, preferences, and privileges of our convertible preferred stock relative to those of our common stock; our operating results, financial position, and capital resources; current business conditions and projections; the lack of marketability of our common stock; the hiring of key personnel and the experience of our management; the introduction of new products; our stage of development and material risks related to our business; the fact that the option grants involve illiquid securities in a private company; the likelihood of achieving a liquidity event, such as an initial public offering or a sale of our company given the prevailing market conditions and the nature and history of our business; industry trends and competitive environment; trends in consumer spending, including consumer confidence; and overall economic indicators, including gross domestic product, employment, inflation and interest rates, and the general economic oupublic trading market of our common stock, and in accordance with the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants Accounting and Valuation Guide, Valuation of Privately - Held Company Equity Securities Issued as Compensation, our board of directors exercised reasonable judgment and considered numerous and subjective factors to determine the best estimate of fair value of our common stock, including independent third - party valuations of our common stock; the prices at which we sold shares of our convertible preferred stock to outside investors in arms - length transactions; the rights, preferences, and privileges of our convertible preferred stock relative to those of our common stock; our operating results, financial position, and capital resources; current business conditions and projections; the lack of marketability of our common stock; the hiring of key personnel and the experience of our management; the introduction of new products; our stage of development and material risks related to our business; the fact that the option grants involve illiquid securities in a private company; the likelihood of achieving a liquidity event, such as an initial public offering or a sale of our company given the prevailing market conditions and the nature and history of our business; industry trends and competitive environment; trends in consumer spending, including consumer confidence; and overall economic indicators, including gross domestic product, employment, inflation and interest rates, and the general economic ouPublic Accountants Accounting and Valuation Guide, Valuation of Privately - Held Company Equity Securities Issued as Compensation, our board of directors exercised reasonable judgment and considered numerous and subjective factors to determine the best estimate of fair value of our common stock, including independent third - party valuations of our common stock; the prices at which we sold shares of our convertible preferred stock to outside investors in arms - length transactions; the rights, preferences, and privileges of our convertible preferred stock relative to those of our common stock; our operating results, financial position, and capital resources; current business conditions and projections; the lack of marketability of our common stock; the hiring of key personnel and the experience of our management; the introduction of new products; our stage of development and material risks related to our business; the fact that the option grants involve illiquid securities in a private company; the likelihood of achieving a liquidity event, such as an initial public offering or a sale of our company given the prevailing market conditions and the nature and history of our business; industry trends and competitive environment; trends in consumer spending, including consumer confidence; and overall economic indicators, including gross domestic product, employment, inflation and interest rates, and the general economic oupublic offering or a sale of our company given the prevailing market conditions and the nature and history of our business; industry trends and competitive environment; trends in consumer spending, including consumer confidence; and overall economic indicators, including gross domestic product, employment, inflation and interest rates, and the general economic outlook.

Before making an order (requiring a person or persons to hold an export license), the Minister shall determine whether it is in the public interest of Alberta to do so having regard to:

But they are also financed from the public broadcasting fees, so they have a conflict of interest when it comes to determining them.

Good government groups have for years complained that New York's campaign finance laws make it difficult for the public to determine the actual source of campaign dollars, whether due to the so - called «LLC loophole» — which allows business interests that control a network of subsidiaries to vastly multiply their political giving — or corporate formation laws that allow companies to obscure the individuals and other businesses behind them.

Good point when one of the areas the manifesto looked at was the collaboration with public sector interest to acquire the technology and equipment needed to log creative works in order to determine true and deserved royalties.

Governments have, however, remained determined to continue to raise Tobacco Duty in the interests of public health.

The City Bar argued that New York should follow the lead of the other states, particularly California and Washington, which have created independent entities to determine whether an exception is warranted under particular cases or whether certain information should be kept confidential in a case of extreme hardship that would not violate the public interest.

Mr Umunna called on ministers to order a «proper, independent assessment of the takeover» to determine whether it is in the public interest.

«Having now received referrals in relation to all three of the above officers, and in view of the seriousness of the matter and the significant public interest, I have determined the IPCC should conduct and independent investigation.»

New York Public Interest Research Group NYPIRG also criticized the opacity of the state budget process, which notorious for taking place largely behind closed doors, especially in terms of the final, major deals reached, with the infamous «Three Men in a Room» process determining what stays and what goes — largely without public Public Interest Research Group NYPIRG also criticized the opacity of the state budget process, which notorious for taking place largely behind closed doors, especially in terms of the final, major deals reached, with the infamous «Three Men in a Room» process determining what stays and what goes — largely without public public input.

And of course in many cases — determining the whereabouts of a terrorist or the carrier of a disease — public interest has an overwhelming claim on information that is usually private.

The researchers offer four steps for improving the review process: develop methodological standards for evaluating evidence used to back off - label drug recommendations; combine the findings into one «single, rigorously developed resource» rather than five inconsistent reference guides; assess whether those reviewing and determining off - label drug use policies have potential financial conflicts of interest; and make the compendia listings, which currently are only available by subscription, free to the public.

i find that people who have either personal interests in the meat and dairy industry or who simply have a preference for eating meat and meat products because it tastes good and they feel they can not live without it are the ones determined to put down people like Dr. Campbell who's interest is for the good health of the public.

His decision to have unrestrained violence achieve his film's resolution is much less endearing, the sign of a lazy filmmaker determined to meet expectations and content to value the base desires of his core fan base over the interests of sound storytelling and the tastes of the general moviegoing public.

Considering Connecticut's biggest corporate executives are determined to see their policies adopted, no matter how wrong that are, it will be interesting to see if the new Executive Director of the Connecticut Council for Education Reform reverses herself and joins the call for charter schools or if she is able to sit down with her organization's members and explain why shifting scarce public resources from district schools to charter schools is not the solution for closing Connecticut's achievement gap.

Rather, the persons in positions of power determine what the public interest is (Denhardt & Denhardt, 2007).

It is a complex system for parents to navigate, involving two separate lotteries: the Hartford Public Schools (HPS) lottery for HPS district schools, HPS charter schools, and Hartford magnet schools, and the Greater Hartford Regional School Choice Office (RSCO) lottery for Open Choice schools and RSCO magnet schools.Parents must navigate this incredibly confusing and stressful lottery process with the hope of securing a quality education for their child, yet even before tackling the lottery process itself, interested parents must undertake the time consuming process of determining which schools in the system are the best fit for their children.

The content of the NAEP reading assessment is determined by a framework developed with the help of researchers, policymakers, and the interested public as well as experts in reading and its measurement.

Corporate and Tax - Exempt Fundamentals Best Practices for Open Meetings and Avoiding Conflicts of Interest; Laws Affecting Governance and Transparency in Charter Schools: Brown Act, Government Code 1090; Political Reform Act; Determining Which Governance and Public Transparency Laws Apply to Your School; Tax Exempt Facilities Financing; Prop 39; Commercial Space to School Use; Lease Negotiations; Compliance Related Legal Updates; HR Compliance; Pupil Fees; Student Privacy Laws; Student Expulsions and Dismissals; Admissions Practices and Lottery Preferences; Renewal; Revocation; Closure; Risk Management and Internet Safety

Why should these narrow groups, dedicated to serving outside interests, be determining the future of Connecticut's public education system?

I really am interested in how a former undersecretary of education has come to the point that he is so determined to attack teacher tenure, teacher unions and «restrictive work rules» for teachers — especially during a time when public schools have been systematically defunded, forced to jump through hoops (Race to the Top) in order to get what remains of federal funding for education, like some kind of bizarre Hunger Games ritual for kids and teachers, and as curriculums have been narrowed to the point where only middle class and wealthier communities have schools that offer subjects like music, art, and physical education — much less recess time, school nurses or psychologists, or guidance counselors.

The President's decision to launch TTIP negotiations with the EU followed a detailed exploratory process by the Administration that included public and private sector stakeholders, as well as Congress, and determined that an agreement that addresses a broad range of US - EU bilateral trade and investment policies, as well as global issues of common interest, could generate substantial economic benefits on both sides of the Atlantic.

With respect to the adequacy of the relief secured by the decree, the court's function is «not to determine whether the proposed [d] ecree results in the balance of rights and liabilities that is the one that will best serve society, but only to ensure that the resulting settlement is within the reaches of the public interest.»

The Clayton Act, as amended by the APPA, requires that proposed consent judgments in antitrust cases brought by the United States be subject to a sixty - day comment period, after which the court shall determine whether entry of the proposed Final Judgment «is in the public interest.»

Day - to - day decisions of public companies are left up to a CEO and executive team, but the overall direction of the company is determined by an independent board of directors charged with representing the investors» best interests.

FOI laws were created to allow individuals to access public data held by the Federal Government, and since the IRS is part of that Government, you can use Freedom of Information Requests to see how they calculated your back taxes owed, how they've determined what penalties, fees, fines, and interest should apply to your debt, and look for problems that would allow you to reduce or even wipe out the money that they're demanding.

Before issuing a policy, the title company performs an in - depth search of the public records to determine if anyone other than you has an interest in the property.

The favoured models of CO2 abatement schemes are exactly consonant with a market based apporach to allocation of public goods, in which the public interest and the managemement of the interest humans have in the commons — here the biosphere — is undertaken by government and the market is left to determine how to deliver these goods most efficiently and effectively.

In the PEN / TWUC release, Charlie Foran, President of PEN Canada said, «The government of Canada has no right to determine what is an acceptable opinion for an individual citizen, on climate change or any matter of public interest.

Each year the nutritionists at the Center for Science in the Public Interest (CPSI) assume the unnerving task of determining the most extreme restaurant meals in the United States, seeking out the meals which shame all others in terms of calories, saturated fat, sodium, and sugar.

In general, its difficult to determine the company's motivation for its sustainability initiatives, but this certainly suggests that Google may be more interested in public relations than becoming a true model of sustainability.

In most areas extreme care in the wording of an issue is not that critical, but with something as important and politically charged as climate change where there are powerful interests determined to make sure nothing changes and who freely manipulate public opinion through corporate outlets every word, every turn of a phrase, every nuance needs to be carefully considered.

regard criminal offences such as those referred to in the second subparagraph of Article 83 (1) TFEU as constituting a particularly serious threat to one of the fundamental interests of society, which might pose a direct threat to the calm and physical security of the population and thus be covered by the concept of «imperative grounds of public security» -LSB-...], as long as the manner in which such offences were committed discloses particularly serious characteristics, which is a matter for the referring court to determine -LSB-...].

Smith J. assessed a number of blog posts by Levant, and determined whether he could rely s. 2 (b) of the Charter, or on a number of established defences, including justification, fair comment, qualified privilege, or the Grant defence of responsible communication on a matter of public interest.

It makes it clear that the determining prerequisite is that there is a perceived conflict of interest, regardless of whether an actual lack of impartial performance occurred: «the concept of a conflict of interest does not relate only to a situation in which a public official has a private interest which has actually influenced the impartial and objective performance of his official duties -LRB-...) but also to a situation in which the interest identified may, in the eyes of the public, appear to influence the impartial and objective performance of his official duties» (emphasis added).

W. Scott Schlosser, a Master of the court, had determined the identity of the source could be central to the firm's claim and that the public interest in disclosing their name outweighed that of protecting their identity.

But NSBS amended its regulation to add a qualifier that says a person meeting this criterion could be licensed, «unless council, acting in the public interest, determines that the university granting the degree unlawfully discriminates in its law student admissions or enrolment policies or requirements on grounds prohibited by either or both the Charter of Rights and Freedoms and the Nova Scotia Human Rights Act.»

In addition to determining the likelihood of conviction, Crown prosecutors can not proceed with charges where it is «not in the public interest» to do so.

There are four points at which an optimum number of lawyers per capita can be determined in the best interests of the public.

So as the public interest in the race starts to climb, lawyers may find themselves asked (in particular by friends and family who fall into that middle - of - the - political - spectrum undecided group that determines the outcome of every election) to shed some light on the issues of the day.

«would occasion the... difficulty of forcing state and federal judges to decide on an ad hoc basis which publications address issues of «general or public interest» and which do not — to determine, in the words of MR. JUSTICE MARSHALL, «what information is relevant to self - government.»

In determining whether or not any particular restriction was necessary, anxious scrutiny should be given to the question whether the interests of the public could be protected by a less onerous obligation.

In BNP Paribas v Mezzoterro [2004] IRLR 508, Mr Justice Cox, obiter, expressed the view that it was in the public interest that allegations of unlawful discrimination should be heard and properly determined, as such complaints are inherently difficult to prove.

In determining whether acceptance of a late - filed complaint is in the public interest, the tribunal considers whether there is anything «particularly unique, novel, or unusual about the complaint that has not been addressed in other complaints.»

The official languages page from the New Brunswick Courts website explains that s 24 of the Official Languages Act, SNB 2002, c O - 0.5, requires that «[a] ny final decision, order or judgment of any court, including any reasons given therefore and summaries, shall be published in both official languages where (a) it determines a question of law of interest or importance to the general public, or (b) the proceedings leading to its issuance were conducted in whole or in part in both official languages.»

The courts have an inherent jurisdiction to determine how the principle of open justice should be applied [27]- [37] and can permit the identity of a party or witness to be withheld from public disclosure where necessary in the interests of justice [38 - 41].