Sentences with phrase «not as public servants»

Directors of state lotteries now see themselves not as public servants, but as corporate managers of a billion - dollar industry who should do everything possible to maximize lottery revenue.

She has co-written this article as an academic, not as a public servant and not representing the views of the WA health department.

Not exact matches

When prime - time hosts — who have never served our country in any capacity — dismiss facts and empirical reality to launch profoundly dishonest assaults on the FBI, the Justice Department, the courts, the intelligence community (in which I served) and, not least, a model public servant and genuine war hero such as Robert Mueller — all the while scaremongering with lurid warnings of «deep - state» machinations — I can not be part of the same organization, even at a remove.

When Canada shut down the program in 2014, it left a fully trained industry adept at selling immigration investment and public servants used to administering immigration investment programs, as well as a pipeline with thousands of clients from around the world who had applied to Canada's program and whose applications had not yet been processed.

As a public servant and not a politician, I simply could not do that to the village.»

My duty as a public servant is not something I take lightly and I will not walk away from it until I feel my job is done.»

Yet while they'll profess admiration for individual public servants, mainstream politicians have over the past three decades relentlessly promoted a narrative which has taught us to believe that publicly - owned services such as the NHS aren't quite good enough.

Leaving City Hall Friday, Mr. de Blasio defended Ms. Noerdlinger, once a top aide to Rev. Al Sharpton, telling reporters that «we don't care what someone's boyfriend says, we care what the public servant is about, as she is very dedicated to working to bring police and community together and that's what we care about.»

Which is darn strange because as you know, public servants around Albany don't cotton much to freedom of information.

A governor and his deputy should not take more than what public servants get as pension.

As I've said before — isn't it disturbing that your ideas of what makes a good public servant are so colored by your apparent affinity for Niccolo Machiavelli who is known for proposing that «a prince is praised for the illusion of being reliable in keeping his word.

«We would talk not that infrequently and it was always showing the appropriate degree Gov. Cuomo earned as a wonderful public servant for this state,» Pataki said.

Elected officials are referred to as «public servants,» and that should not be confused with «self - serving.»

«We have to make sure that every elected official is on point with this because what some people don't get on the federal level and elsewhere is that all elected officials are servants of the public,» Afaf Nasher, CAIR - NY's executive director, who served as the rally's emcee, said to roaring applause from the crowd.

«As organised labour, we therefore find it difficult to place the faith of these people who are constantly feeding the public with lies in order to deceive when the truth of the matter is that Kogi State civil servants and pensioners are dying of starvation and treatable diseases, walking the street of Lokoja as beggars because their salaries and allowances have not been paid for a period of three to twenty - two months by the government of Yahaya BellAs organised labour, we therefore find it difficult to place the faith of these people who are constantly feeding the public with lies in order to deceive when the truth of the matter is that Kogi State civil servants and pensioners are dying of starvation and treatable diseases, walking the street of Lokoja as beggars because their salaries and allowances have not been paid for a period of three to twenty - two months by the government of Yahaya Bellas beggars because their salaries and allowances have not been paid for a period of three to twenty - two months by the government of Yahaya Bello.

When I am president, I will work consistently every single day to keep this country safe, not call Edward Snowden, as you did, a great public servant.

Yet, as intractable as they are, at least those factors are not, like nepotism, a further obstacle to social mobility, proudly showcased by Westminster's public servants.

«We don't care what someone's boyfriend says, we care what the public servant is about, as she is very dedicated to working to bring police and community together and that's what we care about.»

Hinton described Wolfe as «a highly - regarded public servant whose integrity should not be questioned.»

Cuomo said he is not targeting individual lawmakers and, in fact, sees the commission as a chance for upstanding public servants to vindicate themselves in light of recent indictments and sexual harassment allegations among a handful of sitting lawmakers.

She is also a 69 - year - old public servant who has not only evolved as an individual, but has evolved the positions she takes in reflection of her changing constituency.

Evidence from recent years suggests that this is not the case and that the decision to pass Act 10 may have hurt not only teachers and other public servants, but Wisconsin's students as well.

Thus, as a public servant, in the broadest sense, Gore has interacted with the scientific community, learned what we have learned and how well we think we know the science, and then made the translation for the public based on his perspective as a policy maker and decision maker (something we scientists often don't know much about).

They have a government appointment as a marraige commissioner, to be sure, but that doesn't make them a civil servant or government employee, any more than my appointment as a notary public makes me a civil servant.

(2) Any person appointed under subsection (1) who is not a public servant within the meaning of the Public Service of Ontario Act, 2006 may be paid such remuneration and expenses as may be from time to time fixed by the Lieutenant Governor in Copublic servant within the meaning of the Public Service of Ontario Act, 2006 may be paid such remuneration and expenses as may be from time to time fixed by the Lieutenant Governor in CoPublic Service of Ontario Act, 2006 may be paid such remuneration and expenses as may be from time to time fixed by the Lieutenant Governor in Council.

In order for the exclusion to be justified, it was not enough for the state to establish that the civil servant in question participated in the exercise of public power or that there existed a special bond of trust and loyalty between the civil servant and the state as employer.

The Commission found that the material was open to public view — Ms Baskerville had 700 followers and had not (then) «locked down» her account — and that the quoted material related to her work as a civil servant and was used as part of a debate about what use public servants should make of social media.

On Feb. 5, a Federal Court of Appeal ruled that failure to disclose one's status as a public servant during the application process can not constitute grounds to invalidate an issued patent.

Both critics and supporters of the Government and its 2014/15 Budget initiatives should focus on ensuring Ministers are fully answerable to the community for their decisions and not look to public servants as scapegoats.

On occasion, this has led to confusion with Indigenous communities as public servants have not been able to answer questions put to them by Indigenous people.

Blaming a public servant — even one as senior and reputedly influential as Professor Halton — for a bad Government decision not only lets Minister Peter Dutton off the hook on this issue, it undermines the fundamental accountability of the Government.

Practitioners with an «inherent» sense of duty and responsibility to ones» clients, thus their employers (not their brokers in this instance), will not need to be constantly reminded of their duties as a servant of the public.