Sentences with phrase «n't public officials»

Shouldn't public officials consider what the public wants?

And don't tell me he's not a public official....

They will argue that Percoco, who left government at one point to work on Cuomo's campaign, wasn't a public official at the time he received the alleged bribes.

He used to say, «I'm not a public official.

Not exact matches

If it is public that you have a Blackberry and it it (sic) government and you are using, government or not, to do business, it may become an official record and subject to the law,» Powell wrote.

Back in Toronto, Nuinsco officials remain optimistic about conducting a spinoff in the Middle East and North Africa, even with ongoing conflicts in both Egypt and Sudan, not to mention a soft market for initial public offerings.

The same can not be said for the Trump administration's top health officials — a substantial departure from the Obama administration's prominent public information campaigns and unusual considering the federal government is still tasked with enforcing the law.

Even if you don't get a flu vaccine before October, as is considered ideal, public health officials recommend that everyone — including pregnant women in any trimester — aged 6 months and older, as well as those with compromised immune systems such as small children and the elderly, get their seasonal flu shots in order to protect both themselves and those around them.

Interior Department officials said the revisions to the Obama - era plans were aimed at increasing flexibility on public lands where the birds reside — not undoing protections outright.

Given state control of public life, it's not surprising that Nazi officials were successful in promoting and propagating their version of Christmas through repeated radio broadcasts and news articles.

The White House has not put out an official statement confirming the order, just as it has not confirmed that it has frozen grants and contracts at the age ncy, that the agency is not allowed to communicate with the public, or that the EPA will be barred from funding original science.

He did not shield public records from FOIA by routing official communication through a private server in his basement.

President Donald Trump will not assert executive privilege to block fired FBI Director James Comey from testifying on Capitol Hill, the White House said Monday, setting the stage for a dramatic public airing of the former top law enforcement official's dealings with the commander in chief.

While Air Force officials knew the UFO sightings were U-2 tests, they couldn't really tell the public.

That's a specific example that speaks to a larger truth: Most public - sector officials can not understand the pressure and time demands startups face.

The 84 percent success rate achieved in the Gaza war of 2012 has improved to 90 percent in the current conflict, according to both Israeli and U.S. officials who have been in the command rooms and privy to top - secret interception data that, for security reasons, is not made public.

All too often, though, our elected officials respond to public health crises like gun violence and firearm - related deaths not with action — but with deflective statements that inevitably include their thoughts and prayers.

Whitmarsh declined an interview, but did say his correspondence with the government began after reading in the media that officials said the Public Service Agency could do the review because they said they weren't involved in the firings.

Indeed, Ontario and other jurisdictions did not bother to be so prescriptive, and even Alberta officials concede this part of the bill is largely clarification (other parts are to force religious and private schools to adopt the same LGBT - friendly policies as public schools).

The ordinance seeks to establish regulation and a permitting process that would enable the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency or Department of Public Works to take action against scooters from companies that don't have an official permit from the city.

Therefore a scheme developed by two or more persons to bribe a foreign public official that is later not followed through can still result in the violation of the CFPOA.

That depends on how one interprets the final outcome, which will not be known until the official Public Accounts numbers are released the fall.

While officials in China must report their income and assets to authorities, as well as personal information about their immediate family, the disclosures aren't public.

Although Warren did not herself use legislation or official congressional power to get Wells Fargo to claw back $ 60 million from executives, her public shaming and the Facebook post that followed fanned the public opinion fires so vigorously that the bank's board had to do something to quell shareholders and an angry public.

That's not sound monetary policy - it's a picnic for insiders, bought and paid for through the abuse of public funds by government officials too unprincipled even to recognize the abuse.

Officials corroborated or supplemented intelligence from other sources to make a case to surveil Carter Page, but much of that information can't be made public because it's highly sensitive.

It was not immediately clear what they were searching for, but the officials said that there was no immediate threat to public safety.

Eurozone officials are unanimous that it means a commitment to financial war against labor — to austerity and yet further economic shrinkage; to faster privatization selloffs (but not to Russians if they offer higher prices, as Gazprom did) and hence higher prices for hitherto public utilities; to no rejection of past insider privatization deals to higher value - added taxes on consumers; and to lower pensions for labor.

 Mr. Poloz himself bent over backwards in his last Monetary Policy Report to not use that term — even though the Bank's own numbers (projecting negative GDP growth for both the first and second quarters of 2015) suggested a recession was indeed already underway. Instead, public officials are normally sanguine and rose - coloured in their public pronouncements, hoping to incrementally shift consumer confidence with their cheeriness, and thus spark more spending. [A ridiculous extreme of this approach was provided when George Bush blithely encouraged Americans to go shopping in the days after the 9 - 11 terrorist attacks.]

It's a tremendous responsibility, and one elected officials elsewhere have decided is better left to public servants whose primary motivation isn't getting re-elected.

«We believe that public officials must be held to a higher standard, and whether intentional or not, misusing taxpayer dollars is unacceptable,» wrote Sens. Johnny Isakson, R - Ga., and Jon Tester, D - Mont., chairman and ranking member of the Senate committee, and Reps. Phil Roe, R - Tenn., and Tim Walz, D - Minn., chairman and ranking member of the House committee.

You can do it in public, you just can't put up a permenant structure in a government building endorsing a religion or endorse it while acting in a capacity as a government official.

One need not be a historian of education or a theologian to assess the damage done to public education and then to society in general by how these cases were decided and what public school officials were empowered to do (or so they believed) despite the clearly given cautions from the Supreme Court itself.

There are several possible reasons why elected officials do not insist on strictly secular inaugurations and public events.

Closer to home, we can observe more familiar forms of raider corruption when our police officers and public officials traffic in what should not be for sale.

Despite preemptive military action, the post - «victory» occupation of Iraq and global involvements elsewhere, America's present policy makers and public officials insist that the term «empire» simply does not apply.

And I did not want to add to comments that drug up what the courts and public officials have already judged on for years, at the possible expense of hurting Tony's family more than all of them have already suffered.

can only occur where there exists some institutional umbrella that can protect human rights advocates and offer both political and material support for human rights activities: a church...; a press sufficiently independent so that it can report information the government would prefer not be made public and that can offer a forum for some opponents of the government; professional associations, academic and intellectual centers which are financially solvent and not directly controlled by military or government officials.

Just as earlier the official Church could not and would not give any authoritative answer to someone about their choice of a profession, even though it could be a moral question of importance for salvation, so today and tomorrow the Church in many questions, even those of public interest and far - reaching importance, will not, even ratione peccati, be able to give a specific answer officially and directly.

kinda funny adelina... im not an atheist and im offended by public officials saying any religious statement from the government pulpit.

If we could trust our elected officials to keep religion out of their public service, then we wouldn't need the 1st Amendment.

His definition started with the negative: it is not broken - down public housing; not neighborhoods where children and 73 - year - olds are on their own; not decision - making in which planners, city officials or federal bureaucrats — everyone but the people call the tune.

And even though the public outcry against it caused enforcement of the legislation to be put on hold, it was not rescinded, and thousands of public officials have already agreed to abide by it.

Insofar as they take the initiative to provide what in their judgment is needed, they decide this in consultation, not with public officials, but with business leaders.

I can not but voice my concern at the increasing marginalisation of religion, particularly of Christianity... relegating it] to the purely private sphere... [such] that Christians in public roles should be required at times to act against their conscience... and the official teaching of the Church.

We may not be high - ranking public officials, but the challenge of Jesus remains.

question by Sinsinawa Dominican Sister Erica Jordan, who not - so - subtly suggested that Ryan's approach to healthcare reform, tax reform, and welfare reform was in conflict with the Church's social teaching, the very Catholic Speaker replied that he completely agreed with Sister Erica that God is «always on the side of the poor and dispossessed»; the real question was, how do public officials, who are not God, create public policies that empower the poor and dispossessed to be not - poor and not - dispossessed?

We don't know who he was exactly, but the title Luke gives him, most excellent Theophilus, hints that he may have been some sort of high ranking public official.

But precisely for this reason all Christians do not only receive a complete and supposedly concrete natural law which is communicated to them by the official representatives of the Church, they also find out for them - selves the actual requirements of public life, so that all may have as much freedom as possible, a freedom that can act with God in view and thus create that personal finality which receives God himself as its eternal meaning.

That conversation is not advanced when, as happened after the CNN broadcast, smug partisans attack a serious Catholic public official by suggesting that he's deficient in both his moral commitment to the poor and his understanding of Catholic social doctrine.