Sentences with phrase «issue official positions»
The Fellowship does not issue official positions on homosexuality or other social issues.
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«Once you've highlighted an issue and brought it to people's attention and shined a spotlight, and elected officials or people who are in a position to start bringing about change are ready to sit down with you,» Obama said, «then you can't just keep on yelling at them.»
While Winnie's endorsement may not alienate members of its small staff, a workplace adopting an official political position brings up touchy issues.
We participate in the policymaking process by informing public officials about our positions on issues significant to our customers and our business.
«So, number one, the positions I hold on these issues is the Second Amendment, I've held since the day I entered office in the city of West Miami as an elected official,» Rubio responded.
It is not without interest that such dissenters are frequently most enthusiastic about the Church taking official positions on innumerable issues in political dispute.
Bases of the Social Concept of the Russian Orthodox Church, the Russian Orthodox Church's official document outlining its position on social issues, calls grave social ills, such as alcoholism and drug addiction, «a retribution for the ideology of consumerism, for the cult of material prosperity, for the lack of spirituality, and the loss of authentic ideals.»
If we take a look at our Catholic brothers and sisters, we can see how Pope Francis has quickly shifted the public perception of the Catholic Church, even though many of his official positions related to contentious issues remain the same.
His official campaign website still contains nothing about his position on sanctity of life issues.
For that matter latest polls demonstrate that even a majority of Catholics disagree with the official church position on this issue, and an even stronger majority oppose the restrictions on birth control.
Specifically, a large percentage of former religious adherents disagree with official church positions on issues pertaining to the LGBT community.
We believe that Catholics who, in good conscience, take positions on the difficult questions of legal abortion and other controversial issues that differ from the official hierarchical positions, act within their rights and responsibilities as Catholics and citizens.
Even before Celtic or Brighton could issue any official communication confirming or denying these stories, senior journalists of both, Sky and BBC had already sent out tweets taking contradictory positions and leaving fans divided.
The Academy spent years analyzing all of the available research and ethical issues to develop its official position on the «study drug» matter.
Neither Labour nor the Conservative party has an official position on hunting - all the votes of recent years have been free votes, as hunting is regarded as an issue of conscience.
A report issued at the start of the July 4 weekend found just 408 jobs have been created, though state officials predict that thousands more new positions eventually will come.
The complaint alleges that Aiello and Gerardi, COR's president and general counsel, «entered into a bribery scheme whereby the Syracuse developer would make tens of thousands of dollars in payments to Percoco, using Howe as a pass - through to help conceal that the payments to Percoco came from the Syracuse developer, and in exchange, Percoco agreed to use, and did in fact use, his official position and influence to assist the Syracuse developer with a number of issues as the opportunities arose.»
Speaking on the global issue, Ghana's fourth president is calling on the African Union to state its official position before the end of its summit ongoing in Ethiopia:
«It appears that voters in the 23rd CD have no problem crossing party lines to support issues, positions, candidates, and officials irrespective of party identification,» said Siena pollster Steve Greenberg.
«After a hearing officer issues her findings and recommendation, the Commission will determine whether the Governor violated the Public Officers Law by soliciting and accepting unlawful gifts and using his official position to obtain unwarranted privileges.»
Ideally, I'd like a separate count for actual votes on bills, and one on clear positions taken on issues that did NOT get an official vote count.
They were used to sensible British officials in Europe finding compromise positions on difficult issues, making promises and delivering on them.
Both officials have yet to state a position on the issue.
SILVER also entered into a corrupt arrangement with Dr. Robert Taub, who was a leading physician specializing in the treatment of asbestos - related diseases, through which SILVER issued state grants and otherwise used his official position to provide favors to Dr. Taub so that Dr. Taub would refer and continue to refer his patients to SILVER at Weitz & Luxenberg, a firm with which SILVER was affiliated as counsel.
We are polling all elected officials and those seeking public office as to their position on this important issue and we intend to keep the millions of Italian Americans residing in this state informed as to the result of our inquiry and make the community aware of who is supportive of the Italian American community and who will succumb to anti Italian sentiment.
«What's most important to me is an elected official's position on the issues and how do you support my policies as opposed to their politics and political issues,» Cuomo said.
Hopefully, NYC elected officials will hold Senator Gillibrand accountable for her past votes and current position on immigration issues and not be swayed by a PR blitz.
The Senate Republicans, who occupy 32 of the Senate's 62 seats, have now made official their position that the issue should be dealt with by amending the state consitution — a process that wouldn't be completed in time to affect next year's round of redistricting.
Muir said that's not an official position of Reclaim, and said the organization does not advocate on social issues.
Balboni talks about the latest security issues in the state and about his position as the top law enforcement and emergency preparedness official in the state.
«People respect officials who are willing to stand up and give their positions on controversial issues whether or not they agree or disagree with it,» Cuomo said.
A report issued at the start of the July 4th weekend found just 408 jobs have been created, though state officials predict that thousands more new positions will eventually come.
On the assumption that Cameron will indeed craft a governing majority, ScienceInsider has used the Conservative Party's manifesto, speeches by its officials, and news interviews in other publications to compile the Conservative Party's position on some key issues related to British research:
A higher - education lobbyist who follows biomedical issues said shortly before the vote on Smith's bill that her organization wasn't even aware of the narrow definition of STEM fields, and another said her organization had taken no official position on the issue.
Jeffrey R. Chadwick, an associate professor of church history and doctrine at BYU, published an article in the latest issue of BYU Studies on Dating the The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter - day Saints has taken no official position on the exact date of Christ's birth.
In a sudden shift in negotiating positions last week, officials of the Los Angeles Unified School District and the United Teachers - Los Angeles agreed to table the two most controversial issues in their current contract talks, apparently averting the possibility of a strike that would affect 550,000 students, according to district officials.
The key bulwarks against this kind of mission creep are, first, a definitive, public statement from the President - elect on the administration's position on Uncle Sam's role in schools; and, second, absent that, education officials» deep familiarity with today's policy issues and ability to apply conservative principles to them.
The choice of the Democrat - turned - Republican — a former teachers» union lobbyist and Reagan administration official — drew immediate praise from political conservatives who support her position on two pressing education - related issues: affirmative action and bilingual education, both of which Ms. Chavez opposes.
Elected officials are now utilizing different social media platforms to communicate with their constituents and keep them informed of their policy positions on emerging issues.
State Sen. Tamara Barringer, a fellow Wake Republican who met recently with Alexander and Wake County school officials on the class size issue, said she wasn't «in a position to comment» on the timing but that she was «certainly hopeful that we will craft a solution to this crisis.»
U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan, who clashed frequently with California education officials on a range of K - 12 education policy issues, announced that he will resign his position in December.
The School Board annually adopts a legislative program to inform public officials and others of its positions on legislative policy issues of importance to the Fairfax County Public Schools.
Even calling an elected official to ask a question or stating your position on an issue is a way of participating.
The National Association of Independent Schools, the largest association for nonreligiously affiliated private schools, does not take an official position on many policies, leaving statements on more controversial issues to its autonomous member schools.
In the case of an incumbent, find out how long they've been in office, and call his or her legislative office to ask about any historical positions the official has taken on issues of interest to your business.
Through relentless pressure on the media to present the issue «objectively,» and by challenging the consensus on climate change science by misstating both the nature of what «consensus» means and what this particular consensus is, ExxonMobil and its allies have confused the public and given cover to a few senior elected and appointed government officials whose positions and opinions enable them to damage U.S. credibility abroad.
yeah, if only «they» were a monolith, they might have official bodies capable of issuing position statements on behalf of their scientist members, they might have some sort of (I don't know) Royal Society even... they might, in short, be capable of at least a rudimentary form of self - policing, perhaps even enough to render themselves culpable en masse for the abuses they collectively turned a blind eye to, despite having the collective ability to stop them.
It ought to be routine to poll an organization's members on a contentious issue before the organization takes an official position.
The onus is now on Dominion to explain, and ideally sever, any ties the company has to the Thomas Jefferson Institute, a group that has long communicated harmful views on climate change — views that do not seem to align with Dominion's official positions on this urgent issue.
As a result of the change in position by the Official Solicitor in the proceedings, there was no test case before the Court to determine the issues in (7) above.