Sentences with phrase «like open government»

Sounds like open government, but they usually vote raises after the elections.

Not exact matches

So whilst the closed door discussions will be about how to keep the status quo regardless of the rapidly increasing power costs and breakdown of service that is now being experienced around the country, the open conversations being had by the people are excited discussions about the future because we trust the likes of Elon Musk and Mike Cannon - Brookes to get the job done more than we trust big power and Government to come to any kind of meaningful and affordable long term solution.

Association president Gary Smith, of Brookfield Financial, opened the conference by imploring federal and provincial governments to play more of a role, lauding those provinces like Ontario that have launched venture funds, and taking credit for the repeal of Section 116 of the Income Tax Act in the Harper government's spring budget.

A feeble federal government has opened the door for business leaders like Starbucks» Howard Schultz to address social issues Congress has refused to touch.

«It is also clear that the government has made the considered decision that it is better off securing such crypto - legislative authority from the courts [than] taking the chance that open legislative debate might produce a result less to its liking.»

While there have been tough questions from several senators, rhetoric regarding government regulation of internet companies like Facebook was not overly pronounced in opening statements, though several Senators did directly address it in their questioning.

Taobao is the e-commerce (and around Taobao, recently more effort is spent on its own SNS, open platform etc); Alipay solves the online payment; Koubei (Yelp - like service) is building an active online community; Aliwangwang, the Instant Messenger helps you to communicate with the seller, the customers and friends; Alisoft is the SaaS platform, and strong partnership with third parties and the government help on the logistics, setting up offline stores, branding etc..

I think folks are maybe open to that in places like social networks or even ride sharing, but if you tried to do that in healthcare or if the government tries to do that and takes away what people have, promising they've got something better, folks get real angry and it only takes one or two bad experiences, one or two people who really have something bad happen to them, to end that real quick.

«Our government is pleased to see companies like Burger King investing in Canada's economy and looking to benefit from our low taxes and open markets.»

I liked this article... it's good to get things out in the open to see how Mormons act in the workplace and government.

Shortly, the government opened the market, among others markets like stocks and bonds.

This refuge once known will produce reaction on the happiness even of those who remain there, by warning their task - masters that when the evils of Egyptian oppression became heavier than those of the abandonment of country, another Canaan is open where their subjects will be received as brothers and secured against like oppression by a participation in the right of self - government.

In the face of open hostility toward the press by our current government, The Post certainly feels like a heartened reminder of the battles that have come before and what we might learn from them today.

The more that I looked at the death penalty the more I saw Pandora's box: It opens up a whole lot of other important issues like race and economic inequity and how the death penalty is applied — even things like the role of government.

The prime minister used his opening speech to an international conference on Somalia taking place in London to warn that, despite political advances in Somalia like a new president, government and parliament elected by representatives of all clans, the country «still faces desperate poverty».

The closing of private sites and parks on leased government land along with guarding access to normally open and unguarded national parks / forests, like the Appalachian trail is due to the Washington Monument Syndrome.

It will finally be time to start to hash out whether the UK is pursuing the Extreme Brexit touted by the government so far, the Single Market and Customs Union route seemingly opened up by the Northern Ireland deal, or, more likely, whether the UK will be careering around the Brexit terrain between all possible options like an out - of - control shopping trolley.

A Federal law would either ignore one of the realities, or add at least a complexity level (if worded like «States with more than X % of Spanish speaking population must provide government forms both in Spanish and English»), and complexity is very bad in laws and opens the way for a lot of headaches (how is the % calculated?

Like Pasc, we have previously argued that opening up public service markets requires a seismic shift in government commissioning skills and have called for greater central support to co-ordinate departmental activity and share emerging knowledge about how public service markets operate.

On highly visible and charged issues like the Human Rights Act, border controls and the deportation of Abu Qatada, the Government missed an open goal through mismanagement.»

And the reason I know that every child can go to a school like that is because with this Government, more and more new ones are opening.

Isn't this the very definition of a 421a tax subsidy: «New York State taxpayers have enough problems, like crumbling roads and bridges and soaring taxes, without having to subsidize Cuomo's political supporters who would rather be handed the work than learn to compete within the confines of public bidding law and an open market,» said Josh Reap, the government affairs director for Associated Builders & Contractors.

«New York State taxpayers have enough problems, like crumbling roads and bridges and soaring taxes, without having to subsidize Cuomo's political supporters who would rather be handed the work than learn to compete within the confines of public bidding law and an open market,» said Josh Reap, the government affairs director for Associated Builders & Contractors.

It's not like the overall policy is completely open and up for debate (it depends on the results of the previous election and the plans of the government).

Like all the government's gimmicks before the so called Samira Bawumia statement, the Facebook post is open - ended about when exactly Bawumia will return to post.

«New York State taxpayers have enough problems, like crumbling roads and bridges, and soaring taxes, without having to subsidize Cuomo's political supporters, who would rather be handed the work than learn to compete within the confines of public bidding law and an open market,» said Josh Reap, director of government affairs for Associated Builders & Contractors, Empire State Chapter.

It sounds like he is open to the idea of revisiting this if the government shutdown becomes a protracted affair, but that it's not necessary yet.

«The government is quite clever because obviously no one likes child abuse or extreme pornography, so they use that to open the door to spying on what people are doing on their computers.»

Events like these complement the main conference, open up politics and help develop a strong campaigning movement to elect a Labour government for the many not the few.»

It might seem like piling on, but the Buffalo Niagara Coalition for Open Government said it had started working on its report about public authority websites long before the recent reports of a so - called Golden Parachute for the executive director of the Erie County Water Authority.

«I am working to ensure that civic hackers like those at the Sunlight Foundation can build an open API with bulk downloads so the transparency the rules and people demand becomes a reality in the coming months,» City Council member Ben Kallos, chair of the Government Operations Committee, said in a statement e-mailed to techPresident.

Bills are pending in the Legislature toward that end — to require court - ordered attorney fees when agencies wrongly deny information; to allow judges to order officials to undergo training and report their FOIL compliance to the state Committee on Open Government; and to require them to file timely appeals — within 30 days — in cases like Cuomo v. Robinson.

While a Con Con, as it is often called, would provide a chance for enacting reforms on things like government ethics, term limits for elected officials, modernized voting and voter registration rules, and more, it would open up the entire state constitution to change.

«My fellowship work has opened my eyes to the critical role that government plays in supporting critical research infrastructure, like academic research programs, that maintain U.S. leadership in scientific R&D,» Trinastic said.

Former congressman Baird likes the idea of a government - sponsored habitat that would be open to the public, with user fees defraying costs as in national parks.

If you weren't lucky enough to be one of the delegates in attendance at the Queen Elizabeth Conference Centre in London you may like to take a look at some of the following sites to see how near the British government is to being «open and responsive».

They've forged connections with like - minded researchers worldwide, earned the trust of others who may have been skeptical of the efficacy of the open access model, and benefited from an expanding network of collaborators that now includes government agencies and researchers from academia and industry.

When it looked like the federal government was about to open an underground repository for the military's radiation - contaminated garbage in the early 1980s, SRIC staff met the calls of community leaders, local emergency planners, healthcare providers, and prominent scientists to «make WIPP safe.»

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The Chinese government, we learn, has made Internet addiction a national health priority, and the solution is an open - ended stint at Daxing, a «rehabilitation facility» that looks and feels remarkably like a gulag.

I'd been mostly digging the opening act, which shows how and why Amanda Waller (Viola Davis) brings together a group of «bad guys» / «metahumans» — Deadshot (Will Smith), Harley Quinn (Margot Robbie), El Diablo (Jay Hernandez), Boomerang (Jai Courtney), Killer Croc (Adewale Akinnuoye - Agbaje) and Enchantress (Cara Delevingne)-- to act on the U.S. government's behalf, should there ever be another Superman - like figure who isn't so friendly.

Enter those rich business executives, the Motch brothers Glenn and Wade (John Lithgow and Dan Akroyd), who see the area of Hammond as the perfect place to open a factory on American soil that will be free of government regulations and oversight like the one they have in China, allowing them to maximize their profits.

Like Cry Freedom, A World Apart dramatizes the evils of Apartheid and the racist policies of the ruling government through the story of white South Africans, in this case journalist and activist Diana Roth (Barbara Hershey) and her husband Gus (Jeroen Krabbé), who is seen fleeing the country for his safety in the opening scenes.

Rather than let you figure this fact out as a twist, the movie opens with two men working in what looks like a secret government lab who are about to take part in some sort of international competition to kill young people using various monsters.

After a decade of delay the federal government was forced to intervene in cities like Little Rock, Birmingham, and Boston, opening school doors with the barrel of a gun.

Silver opened his school at a time in the history of American education when innovators could get traction for their dreams, with support from private foundations, state governments, local boards of education, and graduate programs like those at the Harvard Graduate School of Education.

Such schools face a catch - 22 as they struggle to open doors for high school dropouts: if they hold onto features like continuous enrollment that maverick dropouts need, they can't fit their student data into the rigid tracking systems that applications for government funds require.

Professor James Arthur, a University of Birmingham professor who has been a key player in his employer's plans to open a free school, told a Demos fringe event that incidents like the Trojan Horse scandal in Birmingham demonstrated the «domination» of centralisation in government education policies.

This is the government that encouraged people to open free schools in office blocks and presided over the sale of playing fields, abandoned nutritional guidelines for school meals because they were too «nanny state» and is squeezing subjects like PE and Dance through the EBacc.

«Like the wider industry, to guarantee future growth we need the next government to safeguard the conditions that have made us globally competitive, keeping us open and trading and delivering an ambitious industrial strategy for our sector,» Hawes says in a statement.