Sentences with phrase «interested public at large»

Your attention to detail and personal committment to your clients, as well as to the interested public at large via your excellent on - line web articles, displays what many lack in this business... dedication, forward thinking strategies, and a wiilingness to put your reputation on the line in the face of adversity.

Director David Gryn has produced, curated and promoted artists» film events that have consistently attracted large audiences, comprising those already familiar with contemporary art, general cinema - goers and the interested public at large.

Not exact matches

Topics included: early reporting on inaccuracies in the articles of The New York Times's Judith Miller that built support for the invasion of Iraq; the media campaign to destroy UN chief Kofi Annan and undermine confidence in multilateral solutions; revelations by George Bush's biographer that as far back as 1999 then - presidential candidate Bush already spoke of wanting to invade Iraq; the real reason Bush was grounded during his National Guard days — as recounted by the widow of the pilot who replaced him; an article published throughout the world that highlighted the West's lack of resolve to seriously pursue the genocidal fugitive Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic, responsible for the largest number of European civilian deaths since World War II; several investigations of allegations by former members concerning the practices of Scientology; corruption in the leadership of the nation's largest police union; a well - connected humanitarian relief organization operating as a cover for unauthorized US covert intervention abroad; detailed evidence that a powerful congressional critic of Bill Clinton and Al Gore for financial irregularities and personal improprieties had his own track record of far more serious transgressions; a look at the practices and values of top Democratic operative and the clients they represent when out of power in Washington; the murky international interests that fueled both George W. Bush's and Hillary Clinton's presidential campaigns; the efficacy of various proposed solutions to the failed war on drugs; the poor - quality televised news program for teens (with lots of advertising) that has quietly seeped into many of America's public schools; an early exploration of deceptive practices by the credit card industry; a study of ecosystem destruction in Irian Jaya, one of the world's last substantial rain forests.

It is interesting that much of the growth in income of the top 1 % has come in the form of eageincome which is practically impossible to hide (because employers have reporting and withholding obligations in the tax system and, at least for large public companies, often have public disclosure obligations for their senior CEOs).

Specifically, Defendants made false and / or misleading statements and / or failed to disclose that: (i) the Company was engaged in predatory lending practices that saddled subprime borrowers and / or those with poor or limited credit histories with high - interest rate debt that they could not repay; (ii) many of the Company's customers were using Qudian - provided loans to repay their existing loans, thereby inflating the Company's revenues and active borrower numbers and increasing the likelihood of defaults; (iii) the Company was providing online loans to college students despite a governmental ban on the practice; (iv) the Company was engaged overly aggressive and improper collection practices; (v) the Company had understated the number of its non-performing loans in the Registration Statement and Prospectus; (vi) because of the Company's improper lending, underwriting and collection practices it was subject to a heightened risk of adverse actions by Chinese regulators; (vii) the Company's largest sales platform and strategic partner, Alipay, and Ant Financial, could unilaterally cap the APR for loans provided by Qudian; (viii) the Company had failed to implement necessary safeguards to protect customer data; (ix) data for nearly one million Company customers had been leaked for sale to the black market, including names, addresses, phone numbers, loan information, accounts and, in some cases, passwords to CHIS, the state - backed higher - education qualification verification institution in China, subjecting the Company to undisclosed risks of penalties and financial and reputational harm; and (x) as a result of the foregoing, Qudian's public statements were materially false and misleading at all relevant times.

According to Australian economist William Mitchell, ``... the Japanese experience with sustained high fiscal deficits, the world's largest public debt to GDP ratio, close to zero interest rates, and deflation, was totally at odds with (neo-liberal) economic theories.

As the gap between the rich and the rest of the population grows, economic policy increasingly caters to the interests of the elite, while public services for the population at large - above all, public education - are starved of resources.

«The fact and the details of the investigation which the BBC published to the world at large, along with the video footage of his apartment being searched, were private information and there was no public interest in the disclosure of this information to the millions of viewers and website readers around the world to whom it was published.

It would be interesting to know, over the history of the USA, how many Presidents, have harbored secretly atheistic / agnostic views, but show a pious side, only to the public at large?

An Office of Family Assistance (OFA) funded national resource for fathers, practitioners, programs / Federal grantees, states, and the public at - large who are serving or interested in supporting strong fathers and families.

The attrition of the public realm; the remorseless growth of inequality; the social pathologies associated with its growth; the humiliations suffered by those at the bottom of the economic pile; the callous indifference of those at the top; the penetration of state institutions by corporate interests; the decline of public trust; and, not least, the hubristic irresponsibility of a sometimes criminal financial sector — all the stigmata of pre-crisis Britain — loom as large as they did before 2008.

Non-partisan redistricting While liberals might salivate at the potential to regain control of redistricting to turn texas blue there may be a larger public interest at stake.

The public at large, not just lawyers and politicians, are interested in rights and freedoms.»

Meanwhile back here on planet Earth; where no one, (not even someone such as myself with a lifelong interest in politics,) has ever heard of either Jeremy Corbyn or Angela Eagle much before last week, the Ivory tower jibe chimes very much in tune with my own previous assessment of a now all but completely defunct Labor party completely out of touch with the public at large and with broader opinion, and out to lunch.

The root of this difficulty is that both sides in public - employee negotiations find it in their interest to reduce the wage portion of the overall collective bargaining agreement — which, in the case of the Chicago public school teachers, is quite high at over $ 75,000 per year — in favor of larger pension benefits under a «defined benefits» plan.

In 8 of the past 10 years, we have also surveyed teachers on the subject and have seen some interesting differences between the thinking of these educators and the public at large.

Broad public support has tangible value when it brings the interests of the public at large against the concentrated opposition of unions.

The purpose of school personnel certification is to protect the educational interests of students, parents, and the public at large by assuring that teachers in this state are professionally qualified.

At present — the issue of public libraries is peripheral to the interest of the large publishers and is only a PR problem for them.

The public at large is fairly receptive to the idea of financing the things they are interested in or contributing to their favorite online publication and raising money for a new initiative.

They have a vested interest in Amazon's and Hachette's actions here and have as much a right to make their case as the corporate titans involved, to either or both companies, and to their readerships and the public at large.

Sasser affirmed the ordinance was enacted «in the best interest of the health, safety and welfare of animals and the public at large.»

The public at large needs to understand that MORE than just animal welfare is at stake here, and animal lovers need to understand that the AVMA and all its state affiliates are concerned ONLY with the financial interests of its members, NOT with animal welfare, since they lobby against humane legislation to protect companion animals at every chance they get.

In 2017 we will open up the doors to the public for the first time and judging from the speed at which the Golden Tickets sold out, there seems to be a large interest to attend.

There have been some fantastic spoofs which got a lot of attention, and which just shows how much interest there is in the industry and public at large for a new Nintendo console.

Organized by Gottsegen and Brian Bishop, a painter who teaches at Framingham State University in Massachusetts, the program will be part of ARTspace, a sort of conference within the larger conference devoted to issues of special interest to artists and open to the public free of charge.

The collective wisdom of a very very large interested citizenry is at work in climate science, and, will influence public policy.

Though opinion polls indicate the general public is little interested in climate change, there is something at work in society at large that is seen, in the eyes of politicians, to justify their extravagant expenditure of our money and their time on the subject.

We, the undersigned organizations and individuals, have come together to ensure that U.S. action on global warming is commensurate with the scale of the challenge confronting us and that the path we choose benefits the public at large, not narrow special interests.

But, for now, if you are interesting in looking at or playing with some numbers, below are estimated average savings in 20 large cities for an individual in a two - person household who decides to drop the car and take public transportation.

Gross points out that the program reflects a number of important trends, including (1) A Touch of Conscience (where most companies pay lip service to concerns like global warming or poverty); (2) The New Guilded Age (where fat and happy law firms think nothing of the absurdity of giving students a $ 60 allowance for lunch); (3) Defining Public Service Down (a situation where most people claim interest in community service but don't want the lower incomes that go with it, so they find a win - win situation like doing pro bono at a large firm); and (4) It's Good To Be the King (describing how partners set priorities and realize that the $ 15 lunch is quicker and gets associates back to billing more quickly and spares partners from socializing).

A very important project but at the same time something that's very useful to the public at large because it deals with conflicts of interest that affect our clients at large and affects the public.

34 Whether there is a general category broader than the sub-category, it must at least be recognized that there can not be any public - interest or public - protection exception, writ large, to the presumption against retrospectivity, for the simple reason that every statute, whatever its content, can be said to be in the public interest or for the public protection.

In Pulse Data the ASC declined to exercise its public interest jurisdiction to cease trade a shareholder rights plan, primarily because a large majority of the shareholders of the issuer had voted to adopt the plan at a time where the take - over bid was pending with full disclosure of the implications of the shareholder rights plan.

Although you won't be around to see it, your heirs will be (and the the public at large, if they're interested).

New CILEx chief executive Mandie Lavin has called for collaboration within the legal profession at large to work together in the public interest.

In addition, these cases often serve the public interest, as they often have significant implications for the public at large.

«If, as all agree, it is essential in the public interest to provide a family justice system, and it can not be fully self - financing, should the cost be found from society at large or from a charge, essentially by way of taxation, on those who need to bring claims in the civil courts?»

The reason I am writing about this is that while ordinary litigants, who go to court to assert or defend their own legal rights and interests, are perfectly entitled not to care about what the public knows about their cases, it seems to me that public interest litigants, who ostensibly pursue matters not on their own behalf but on that of the public at large or at least of some section of the public, are, in my view, in a different position.

But lawyers at some large firms say it's not uncommon for annual budgets for donations for public - interest organizations to range upwards of $ 1 million.

Also, I would note: if these duties (of loyalty / fiduciary to clients and to other persons or the public at large) come into conflict, a lawyer's rules of professional conduct will require following the relevant rules regarding conflicts of interest.

This, at the same time that dozens of large firms are paying associates not to work for them either, but rather to report to law clinics and public - interest legal employers, or to travel or do «something meaningful.»

We are a national resource for fathers, practitioners, programs whether they be non-funded or federal grantees, states and the public at large who are serving or are interested in supporting strong fathers and strong families.

The National Responsible Fatherhood Clearinghouse is an Office of Family Assistance funded national resource for fathers, practitioners, programs / federal grantees, states and the public at - large who are serving or interested in supporting strong fathers and families.

Signed: Your friendly former - Realtor critic - at - large with no vested interest in whether anything changes or not, but who, for the minority of real live professionals who populate the ranks of the misbegotten, feels sorry for the negative tar - brushing from the public that they receive thanks to the policies of ORE that serves the interests of «their» own back pockets whilst claiming to be there for their dues - payers as they routinely, by way of turning that blind big eye, throw them under the bus of wasted, unrealistic (supported by ORE) dreams.

The questions now become these: What is more important in the greater scheme of things; the interests of ingrained sales types, or the public at large, and, where does the real estate practitioner fit into the equation (depending upon one's philosophy) regarding whether being a Realtor should simply be a money - making gambit or a widely respected profession?

Do I detect deep down rumblings of discontent begining to surface regarding the actions, or lack thereof, of your «leaders» regarding acting in the best interests of «their» income providing membership at large, which ironically, will or will not result in the best interests of the public interest at large, from a purely fiduciary perspective, forgetting about the so - called wide - open, anything - goes, wild - west, snake oil - pushing competition models being aided and abetted by the CB?

Aitken claims repeatedly to speak for the public at large on this yet it is the business interests of a few individuals that initiated it and have been the ongoing inspiration for her attacks against CREA and most recently TREB.

The purpose of the Award is to: recognize outstanding REALTOR ® members of our Association for the effort and work expended in the interest of their fellow REALTORS ®, their profession, and the real estate community at large; demonstrate the outstanding work done by REALTORS ® to the general public; identify those REALTORS ® best suited for leadership positions; and foster a spirit of camaraderie among those who are in a position to do much of the productive work in local associations / boards, the state association, and the national association.