Sentences with phrase «majority of the public trusts»

Of course if the vast majority of the public trusts the scientific community, then to offset the misinformation, it is important that scientists speak up publicly and emphasize the consensus.

Not exact matches

If we are to get out of the current financial mess we are in, then a person and intellect of Vince's stature is need and someone who already has the trust of the majority of the general public.

I wonder if something like the CTF could be funded by abolishing the monarchy and confiscating their assets for a purely public use (such as a trust for youth turning age of majority)?

Add that outrageous betrayal of trust to her 2009 self - appointed pay raise (and the entire city council) that defied a majority opposition to any pay raise voiced at a public hearing, followed by disobeying public referendum laws that recognized term limits that she abrogated (in favor of arranging an unlawful third term for Michael Bloomberg to serve, that automatically guaranteed her own job security), plus a final and detrimental insult to the working poor that blocked our rightful vote on sick pay coverage, and collectively, it would make total sense to impeach and prosecute such unethical, improper and unfair conduct — that is unbecoming to anyone purporting to serve their constituency.

Now, the family matriarch has transferred the majority of the ownership at the property to her developer son and a family trust he set up in 2016, public records filed with the city Monday show.

You may recall that despite Gov. Cuomo's public efforts to work for a Democratic majority, many of those Senate Democrats didn't trust him.

Public school parents continue to have trust and confidence in teachers, and the majority of parents believe their child has substantially higher well - being because of the school he or she attends.

The public trust doctrine has not been widely discussed in Canadian case law with the only significant mention being by the Supreme Court of Canada in British Columbia v. Canadian Forest Products Ltd., 2004 SCC 38 at para. 74 where Binnie J. acknowledged that «The notion that there are public rights in the environment that reside in the Crown has deep roots in the common law» (however, the majority decision ultimately took a conservative approach to not allow the Crown to succeed in a general claim for damages for «environmental loss» [caused by a negligently undetected controlled burn of slashing and other waste by a logging company] in the absence of a statutory scheme permitting such a claim).

Despite being a stockheld company open to the public, the majority of shares are still owned by the Moody's, from two separate entities, the Libby Shearn Moody trust and the Moody Foundation.

With the Twitter handle of what still is — rightly or wrongly — the representative of the entire cryptosphere (at least through the eyes of the general public) the information shared by the (seemingly) «official» Bitcoin account was blindly trusted by the majority of the public.

But you and ORE want the skeptical public to put their trust in all the rest of the registrants just as they do you, and the public suspects that the majority of registrants are not trustworthy enough to do so.

Macquarie CountryWide Trust of Australia enters a definitive agreement to sell a majority interest in an 11.5 - million - square - foot U.S. retail portfolio to Global Retail Investors LLC, a joint venture of First Washington Realty Inc. and California Public Employees» Retirement System (CalPERS) for $ 1.3 billion.