Sentences with phrase «lost public confidence»

Last year, the city's institutions lost public confidence over issues that made national headlines — and there's no resolution in sight.

The whole political class has lost public confidence.

Until they do, they are in danger of losing all public confidence on this issue.

These holier than thou academic types never seem to get it and then they wonder why they are losing public confidence.

Not exact matches

In an environment of derogatory comments, public humiliation or even physical abuse, you're guaranteeing that people will be losing their confidence.

But as the company's public struggles went on, vendors lost confidence, RadioShack's chief financial officer, Carlin Adrianopoli, said in a court statement on Thursday.

As a result, shareholders could lose confidence in our financial and other public reporting, which would harm our business and the trading price of our ADSs or ordinary shares.

Ackman resigned from the board on Aug. 13 after he went public with statements saying he'd lost confidence in Penney's board and that Chairman Thomas Engibous should be replaced.

Ackman went public last week with statements saying he'd lost confidence in Penney's board and that Chairman Thomas Engibous should be replaced.

Well, it has taken horse racing a long time to buildup the public's confidence, and it shouldn't do anything to lose that confidence.

After being blown out at home by then # 3 Oklahoma last week 55 - 17, the public has lost a great amount of confidence in the Longhorns.

Labour lost because they: a) broke manifold electoral promises b) lied shamelessly to the people and parliament c) engaged in industrial - scale corruption and lame cover - up d) wilfully enraged their newest supporters e) eschewed democracy at every opportunity f) treated the electorate like idiots g) alienated a vast constituency of voters with strong personal interest in the well - being of our servicemen h) inherited the most benign of economies and recklessly maxed out the public debt i) devoted inordinate time and effort to policies based on immature class war antics j) engaged in open internal dissent while being too cowardly to take any definitive action k) offered a wholly negative electoral campaign Unless confidence is restored in these areas, Labour will continue to be despised.

This report acknowledges that the public have lost confidence in the asylum system under Labour and that the lengthy asylum process is neither serving the asylum seeker nor the taxpayer.

We have, as profession, lost the trust and the confidence both of the public and of the political constituency.

She observed that the judiciary is currently facing a difficult time saying the «time - tested institution is losing face, public confidence and legitimacy.»

They confirmed that following the collapse of the pilot cull last year, many farmers lost confidence in the government's ability to deliver a legal culling programme against strong public opposition and decided to take the law into their own hands and illegally gas badgers on their farms.

There is a sense that the fundamental fairness that is a critical part of the American social compact has been lost, and I think that as attorney general, I would work not just to see that everybody plays by the rules but to restore public confidence in big banks, insurance companies.

«In appointing a special prosecutor for the Howard Beach case, Governor Mario Cuomo further expressed his opinion that the public had lost confidence in the Queens District Attorney's ability to fairly prosecute that case.»

It is no coincidence that our politicians should be making a cult of our armed forces when the public has lost so much confidence in the wars they have asked them to fight: the Iraq war, unnecessary and unlawful, the Afghan war unending and unprofitable.

You have lost the confidence of colleagues, and you have struggled to win the confidence of our voters and the wider the public.

«And I tell this to my colleagues, most of whom are completely honorable public servants in the state Legislature: You've got to do something about this... this is the kind of stuff that makes people lose their confidence in government.»

Flanked by more than two dozen city and state lawmakers, Schneiderman said the public has «lost confidence in this part of our criminal justice system,» and said «that erosion of trust and confidence must be addressed and must be addressed now.»

The poll also finds the public has lost confidence in Common Core, the controversial new learning standards.

«[B] eing charged himself will inevitably lead to losing the public's confidence, and also such a case would be a huge distraction that would impact the office's efficacy.»

«As prosecutors, it is time to acknowledge that the public has lost confidence in part of our criminal justice system.»

I can not have public confusion between scientific advice and policy and have therefore lost confidence in your ability to advise me as Chair of the ACMD».

And as both The Wall Street Journal and NHK, Japan's national public broadcaster, reported today, Teruhiko Wakayama of the University of Yamanashi, Kofu, a cloning researcher and co-author of both papers, now says he has lost confidence in the papers.

«The public is losing confidence in the ability of the higher - education sector in particular to control costs,» note the authors, adding that «all of higher education has a stake in addressing this problem, including the elite institutions that are under less immediate pressure than others to alter their teaching methods.»

«The last thing we need is for teachers and the public to lose confidence in something that can actually transform teaching and learning.

Americans are losing confidence in public education, disheartened by the resistance to common sense changes and turned off by the toxic rhetoric.

«Our numbers are decreasing because the public has lost confidence in us,» said school board member Anthony Standberry.

Perry has lost confidence in the Wake County public schools and has applied for an Opportunity Scholarship so that she can send Faith to a private school.

Bets like this are useful ways of examining confidence in predictions — any trivial wager would be accepted immediately since there is nothing to lose, while having it be something more substantial requires reflection on the benefit of accepting (public respect) vs the probable loss.

That shows clearly that the general public lost confidence in AGW — both science and policy — over the period 2008 — 2010.

Concern with relatively small effects of possible anthropogenic caused global warming is a misplaced distraction, and will probably lead to the public losing confidence in scientists, and could weaken the support needed when real problems occur.»

But, most of all, it has caused the general public to lose confidence and trust in the IPCC and in climate science, in general, a result which our host here has recognized and acknowledged with a certain sense of sadness.

Since confidence hasn't really been lost in the mainstream public, restoring it should be easy!

This will just muddy the waters even further and lose confidence in climate science by me and I suspect the public at large»

This can result in immense problems, even for those on the «winning» side by leading to such extreme policies that the public loses confidence in the Agency and even the movement.

[64] We find that Justice Cosgrove has failed in the execution of the duties of his judicial office and that public confidence in his ability to discharge those duties in future has been irrevocably lost.

Plainly if a document has been made available to the general public, all confidence (and with it privilege) will have been lost.

These staggering developments have not only seriously dented public confidence in the ability of public and private sector organisations to keep our personal data secure, they have also reawakened concerns about the extent to which our domestic laws provide adequate protection for individuals whose personal data is lost or misused.

The public, of course, may have a right to lose confidence.

When the public loses confidence, it doesn't have to explain why it feels that way.

If the parties can not agree, the Crown will let the presiding Judge or Justice of the Peace know that he or she is seeking the detention of the accused person on one of the three grounds in the Criminal Code: i) the primary ground (that the accused will not attend for court and could flee the jurisdiction), ii) the secondary ground (that the accused is a public safety risk and there is a substantial likelihood he or she will reoffend while out on bail), and iii) the tertiary ground (that the public will lose confidence in the administration of justice should the accused person be released).

... The ethical issue should not be the likelihood of the matter coming to court but rather the likelihood that the public would lose confidence in the court being able to adjudicate the matter impartially.

I don't subscribe to the political mantra that the public is losing confidence in the criminal justice system.

[89] To ensure that the public does not lose confidence in the judicial system, a delicate balance is required to maintain a degree of judicial insulation from society so that judges remain impartial arbitrators While at the same time allowing them to be active members of the community.

[120] The motivation behind this concern is the «fear [that] not only [will] a future decision be tainted, but also that the public will lose confidence in the character of a judge who seeks, takes or appears to take any advantage of his or her office».

Former Gov. Brewer «loses» first election in 35 years with dubious results; AZ State Treasurer demands recount NEW YORK, NY — Disputed results due to technical malfunctions at Saturday's Arizona GOP State Convention further undermines public confidence in the fairness of the Republican nominating contest, as former Arizona Governor Jan Brewer says she was cheated out of the contest and the...