Sentences with phrase «little public action»

Not exact matches

Moreover, if their constituents are largely indifferent to the brewing public health crisis, there is little incentive for members of Congress to cut short their vacations and return to Washington to take long - overdue action.

Lobbyists and interest groups stir up public opinion demanding action this way or that; the legislators bend to the winds of this pressure; the congressional committees and their friends in the bureaucracy write the immensely detailed and arcane rules that, with little oversight, put legislation into practice.

For instance a US Education department report concerning American public schools shows large scale contemporary abuse, with little action being taken against admitted offenders.

Let's face it goalkeepers tend to march to the beat of a different drum and Szczesny certainly fell into that category, but most of his antics were relatively harmless and simply reflected a certain level of immaturity that isn't uncommon for someone thrust into the limelight at such a young age... lord knows we've seen that happen with numerous players throughout the years and very few were ever banished for such behaviour... the only on - field action that drove me crazy was his inability to take a deep breath and not try to rush the play with an ill - timed throw at certain points in the game when common sense suggested holding the ball and slowing things down... the fact that he continued to do this probably had a lot to do with the glaring lack of coaching time spent with the goalkeepers... ultimately he made the fateful decision to take his frustrations out into the public sphere and paid dearly for it... in the end, his services were wanted by several of the best Italian squads, which is significant considering the historical importance placed on the defensive side of the ball in Serie A... all I know is that if someone asked me to pick the most athletically gifted goalkeeper we have had in our squad since the arrival of Wenger, without hesitation, he would be my pick and for that reason his departure is more than a little disappointing... what else is new though

However, a small conference matchup will receive limited action, and oddsmakers have no incentive to adjust their lines based on one - sided public betting since there's so little liability.

«We've taken a little bit of sharp action on the road squad, and that prompted the steam movement from the public.»

Clearly there's a little bit of sharp money (reverse - line movement in this case) around the market to go against that public action on Everton.

The demonstrators who brought you the pro-millionaire's protest that blocked the Capitol's State Street entrance and ended with more than a dozen arrests planned another «action» today — this time a little public disturbance / theater featuring a mock NJ.

The Low Incomes Tax Reform Group (LITRG) has welcomed a recommendation in a report by the House of Commons Work and Pensions Committee that the «self - employed» should be given at least «worker» employment status unless the engager of their labour can prove otherwise.1 This is a recommendation that LITRG made in written evidence to a separate inquiry.2 LITRG believes that the denial of employment rights to people working in the «gig economy» and the exploitation of other flexible workers regarding their taxes share a common cause: the workers» own lack of knowledge, their reluctance to challenge their treatment because they lack confidence or just need the work and the businesses involved apparently having little fear of action being taken against them by public bodies.

«What is particularly missing at this time is her coming out in public, meeting her constituents, talking to TV cameras, explaining what happened, perhaps being a little humble about all of this and giving a satisfactory explanation to her constituents and the wider Conservative family to be quite frank, because speaking to people from the West Midlands region where she is an MP, these things do have a knock - on effect and there are other marginal seats far closer to her constituency where people have got Labour majorities to overturn which may be more difficult if the local Conservative politician is seen as tainted and not having justified their actions and also I gather that Conservative Party HQ has had party donors from the region expressing concern that she hasn't satisfactorily justified what she has done.»

But, currently, public warning researchers are each carving out little hazard niches (hurricanes, wildfires, hazmat), as well as single dimensions of the warning problem (timing them, delimiting risk zones, selecting protective actions).

California's ban on affirmative action programs in public education and government agencies has had little impact on school districts since its passage last November in a statewide vote.

Public choice, supplemental services, corrective action plans, and reconstitution have all been implemented limply and to little effect.

CHICAGO — Chicago Teachers Union (CTU) President Karen Lewis criticized the Chicago Public Schools (CPS) list of schools targeted for closures and other school actions by pointing out that not only does the policy do little to improve student achievement, but the District has a poor record of improving academic achievement among the city's most vulnerable students.

North Carolina's largest public school system may be warning of «enormous disruptions» without speedy action from state lawmakers on a looming class size funding crisis, but key education leaders in Raleigh tell Policy Watch there's little sign Republican lawmakers in the General Assembly will act soon.

Yet there has been very little discussion in a public setting about why this was the most appropriate course of action.

Education Reform Advocacy Now Inc. is part of the massive three - headed corporate education reform behemoth that includes Education Reform Advocacy Now, Inc.; Education Reform Now, Inc. and Democrats for Education Reform, the related Political Action Committee that donates directly to pro-corporate education reform candidates and supports opponents of candidates who don't support the reformer's efforts to turn schools into little more than testing factories, while diverting scarce public funds away from real public schools and redirecting them to privately owned charter schools.

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Energy intensive industries in Europe, such as steel or cement companies, still pocket huge amounts of public money while doing too little to reduce emissions, a report entitled «European Fat Cats» * published by Climate Action Network (CAN) Europe today shows.

In the last few years we realised something important: there is a huge climate movement in Europe on the local and national levels, fighting for the environment, educating people on the environment, resisting dirty energy projects, promoting democratic clean energy... But there is very little cross-border connection between groups and movements, which allows decision makers and the media to water down the size and importance of our movements, and claim that there isn't enough public pressure for action on climate change.

Trading standards departments and the Office of Fair Trading have a wide range of responsibilities for public interest matters and, one suspects, that there will be little incentive for them to take action into what could be regarded as a purely two - way dispute between competitors, unless the public is being severely misled.

Personally I think that the time has come for the Canadian public to focus a little more on the economics of a grossly expanding expectation of government regulation of our actions, and a dropping capacity on the part of the public to understand and interact with that regulation without a lawyer, followed by a diminished capacity to pay those lawyers (See the NSRLP — http://representingyourselfcanada.com/)

In the months since The DAO enforcement action, the SEC repeatedly had warned the public about potentially fraudulent token sales, pump and dump schemes, cyberscams, celebrity promoters and the like, but little guidance had been provided by the SEC with respect to token sellers purporting to sell tokens with some functional utility.

We now live in a near police - state like environment where when you take out in excess of five thousand dollars from your own bank account your bank is obligated to report your action to the government, with cameras in unheard of places, and guns - talk in four out of five daily newscasts postings, and more documents involved in merely selling or buying a house, than anyone ever would have thought could be conjured up, and newspaper articles press people warnings still telling the public that only sellers pay commission... A little like the American - coined term «fake - news?»