Sentences with phrase «most public role»

The most public role of Lieutenant Governor Robert Duffy, the former police chief and Mayor of Rochester, has been to introduce Governor Andrew Cuomo at events.

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Lady Spencer also acknowledged that one of the most rewarding aspects of her role as a public figure in the fashion industry is being able to help others.

He has worked with Canadian politicians and policymakers of all political stripes to craft more effective public policy, including his most recent role as an outside economic adviser to Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau.

In a CRTC online public consultation regarding the role of new media, calls for net neutrality were consistently among the most common, and highest rated submissions.

I don't minimize the importance of his insights on the role of religion in the public square, but I suspect his greatest and most enduring legacy will lie in his contribution to the unity of the Church, for which he fervently prayed.

Most significantly, Duddington argues against the charge that permitting an increasing role for religion in the legal and political (i.e., public) spheres would necessitate the imposition of one system of belief upon another, by re-emphasising the argument that Christianity does not serve to generate a moral code, but rather provides a vehicle through which it may be discovered.

Though the pope doesn't speak for Protestant Christians, he holds an important role as one of the most public faces of Christianity, said Leith Anderson, president of the National Association of Evangelicals.

Although religious pressure groups are able to influence policy makers to act in ways that are in harmony with the values of particular religious communities, this plays a secondary role in relation to most public issues.

Most Americans believe, when they think of the issue at all, that our disputes over the role of religion in public life and discourse are pretty heated» though for some of us they aren't nearly hot enough.

For the remainder, such as most of the new independent evangelical churches, their distaste for liberation theology and their understanding of the church's proper role in the public arena derive not from «an ideology of the national security state» but from sincerely held beliefs about theology, politics, and economics.

But the sermon is the most consistent and public statement of the Christian vision and thus plays a crucial role in the social life of the community.

For most people, religion plays virtually no role in shaping their opinions on a long list of important public questions.

The debate over the appropriate role of religion in the public square was the most interesting church - state controversy of the 1980s.

«[Public money] plays more of a role than most sports because of the sheer volume of games,» confirmed Cooley.

Public money plays a larger role in baseball than it does in most other sports based on the sheer volume of games.

I'm glad we're playing our role in one of the most successful public health initiatives of all time.

Given their tight food budgets, and their role as public servants, such moves have to be very carefully considered and grounded in what matters to children's well being in the most concrete terms.

The Vice President who queried the fact that most Nigerians for some reason do not discuss the role of grand corruption in crippling the nation's economy, admitted that though corruption is not easy to stamp out, said if the country sticks to the policy of ensuring that as far as public finance is concern, there is no impunity, people are held into account, then the economy will soar in no time.

A Saratoga County native and alumna of Syracuse University's S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications, she has worked in reporter and editor roles at newspapers in Utica and Binghamton, and most recently for the Press of Atlantic City in New Jersey.

Most importantly, this period will offer politicians the chance to re-connect with the public, to motivate and share their passions, to demonstrate the rightful role and need for expert and responsible leadership, and to tailor trust.

In NY we know they're the political party of the public unions and most NY Dems in Albany gratefully take their endorsements but their talons don't spread much past our borders so they seem irrelevant, especially on the national stage where they'll play NO role as a check on Trump.

However, throughout the second half of the 20th Century, national debt and public sector borrowing emerged as a structural problem in most developed economies, with large deficits being run year after year, as the role and «size» of the state has grown.

«Given the important role public policies and services play in supporting individuals to make the most of their talents, we will consider legislating to make clear that tackling socio - economic disadvantage and narrowing gaps in outcomes for people from different backgrounds is a core function of public services,» the white paper stated.

«Though the media most important role is to help the public to enjoy its «right to know» by informing, educating, sensitizing and enlightening the populace, media should also work with a share responsibility of the legislature to contribute to political emancipation and transformation in ways consistent with economic principals by pursuing fact based, fully substantiated reporting.

Born Abdul - Malik Kashie Yoba in the South Bronx, he is most recently known for his role in Fox's new drama, Empire, a hip - hop drama centers on a music industry heavyweight who is about to take his company, Empire Entertainment, public.

It is clear that there is a public appetite for the representation of women in the most high - profile roles of Labour's shadow cabinet.

Beyond that, though, the book's most poignant relevance to today's crisis lies in its portrayal of the vision and statesmanship of public employee unions, which played a crucial role in saving the city.

The greatest disappointment is that Liam Byrne kept his policy review role and the work and pensions portfolio (although Jon Trickett, the most encouraging promotion, has responsibility for public sector pensions).

The speaker since 1994, he has long been the most powerful Democrat in the Legislature, and he was expected to play a large role in the coming weeks as lawmakers tussle with Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo over the budget and contentious proposals regarding public schooling and criminal justice.

Public reporting of health care quality and patient safety information has reached unprecedented levels, allowing patients to play an increasing role in their own health care decisions; however, as access to information becomes easier, it is important for patients to know where to look for the most accurate and reliable data.

Although Zika causes no harm in most people it infects, its possible role in clusters of microcephaly in babies and Guillain - Barré syndrome in adults led the World Health Organization on 1 February to declare that it is a «public health emergency of international concern.»

Unlike bitcoins, which are created by the public, the Mazacoin Tribal Trust privately mined most mazacoins before the official launch of the currency, essentially giving the role of central bank to the trust.

As the committee put it, «While mtDNA plays a central role in genetic ancestry, traits that are carried in nDNA are those that in the public understanding constitute the core of genetic relatedness in terms of physical and behavioral characteristics as well as most forms of disease.»

For most purposes re public policy on climate flips, it is the demonstrated instability and the role played by freshening the North Atlantic that needs emphasis, along with the melt water from Greenland adding to the effects of increased rainfall in the very places where downwelling seems to be most efficiently conducted, the Larador and Greenland Seas.

It has a lot to say about sexism and power structures in the workplace, and the complicated father - daughter relationship at its core evolves in a most unusual way — through role - playing and pranks in public.

But unlike «CQ,» this one is unlikely to vanish in limited release; the cast features Bill Murray, Jason Schwartzman, Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Patricia Arquette, Aubrey Plaza and perhaps most importantly, tabloid magnet Charlie Sheen in his first major role since his public meltdown.

Fiercely affecting, the film is a poignant and thought provoking reminder of the artifice inherent in being forced to live one's life in public and also a reminder that there was a time that Jackie, one of the most famous women in the world, had to assume the role for the nation of grieving widow and do it with dignity, poise and grace while all the while having to struggle to privately deal with the violent dissolution of her own inner and outer reality.

That was followed by an eight - episode run on «Boston Public» and more supporting roles in films like «Constantine» and «The Bourne Supremacy» — though most of that work remained on the proverbial cutting room floor.

Most Democrats, in particular, would be committing political suicide by trying to alter the unions» current role in public education, and they will resist any efforts to do so.

While private support accounts for most of the nonprofit group's budget, public money also has played a critical role.

Perhaps most impressively, Duncan brought unprecedented levels of transparency to the Chicago Public Schools and will hopefully do so with the controversial and often misconstrued federal role in education policy.

While Vance may see personal behavior rather than policy as exerting a greater influence on life outcomes, public institutions — the Marine Corps and Ohio State University most particularly — played a prominent role in arresting his otherwise inevitable march down the road to nowhere.

Civil society has a critical role to play in social mobilization, raising public awareness, bringing marginalized voices to the centre, holding governments to account for their commitments, by scrutinizing spending, ensuring transparency in governance and budgeting, and developing innovative approaches to help advance the right to education, especially for the most disadvantaged.

Most students will continue to attend public colleges for the foreseeable future, but the private, non-profit sector plays an important role and may be in a position to contribute even more to the nation's educational attainment and economic mobility than it currently does.

In December, a New York - based nonprofit research organization called Public Agenda released a report about trustee engagement that concluded that most board members believe their role is to select and support a good institutional leader rather than directly question administrators or initiate reform.

Most recently, Steve became a founding member of the Coalition of Community Charter Schools a group of public charter schools and organizations in New York City that envision a positive and collaborative role for charter schooling as part of our public education system.

Seeing himself as a mirror and role model to these very students, Tunji has been authoring op - eds and policy papers, as well as providing public testimony to encourage our district and state to focus its reform efforts on improving outcomes for our most vulnerable students.

The role of standardized tests is one of the most contentious subjects in public education.

He was moved from education after four years to become Chief Whip, a role - to maintain discipline and ensure the government gets its business through Parliament - which has a lower public profile, but which is based in Downing Street and according to David Cameron at the time is «one of the most important jobs» in government.

After all, most of the public intellectuals among movement conservatives are focused more on the expansive role of the federal government in civil society and the marketplace, while more populist conservative types are concerned about preserving what they consider to be traditional values such as the idea that the government that is best is the one at the local level that is, in theory, closes to the people (even if the virtual and real bankruptcies of cities such as Detroit and Vallejo, Calif., call that thinking into question).