Sentences with phrase «not engage with the public»

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I also made clear that while I won't be participating in the Forum, BlackRock will continue to engage on issues of public policy with governments at all levels and around the world.

The government seems more intent with not providing the public with information, rather than engaging Canadians in discussion on critical policy issues.

For some reason the Minister seems more intent with not providing the public with information, rather than engaging Canadians in discussion on critical policy issues.

The government seems more intent with not providing the public with information, rather than engaging the public in discussion on critical policy issues.

As long as PS Fund (along with any of its Related Persons) does not otherwise engage in (or has not otherwise engaged in) conduct that would otherwise result in its becoming an Acquiring Person by becoming the Beneficial Owner of 10 % or more of the shares of Common Stock then outstanding, PS Fund's solicitation and receipt of one or more revocable proxies from the Company's stockholders to be counted toward the number of shares of the outstanding Common Stock needed to cause a special meeting of stockholders to be called pursuant to and in accordance with the Bylaws, which proxies are given to PS Fund in response to a public solicitation of proxies made pursuant to, and in accordance with, Section 14 (a) of the Exchnage Act by means of a solicitation statement filed with the Commission on Schedule 15A, should not, of itself, cause PS Fund to become an Acquiring Person.

Specifically, Defendants made false and / or misleading statements and / or failed to disclose that: (i) the Company was engaged in predatory lending practices that saddled subprime borrowers and / or those with poor or limited credit histories with high - interest rate debt that they could not repay; (ii) many of the Company's customers were using Qudian - provided loans to repay their existing loans, thereby inflating the Company's revenues and active borrower numbers and increasing the likelihood of defaults; (iii) the Company was providing online loans to college students despite a governmental ban on the practice; (iv) the Company was engaged overly aggressive and improper collection practices; (v) the Company had understated the number of its non-performing loans in the Registration Statement and Prospectus; (vi) because of the Company's improper lending, underwriting and collection practices it was subject to a heightened risk of adverse actions by Chinese regulators; (vii) the Company's largest sales platform and strategic partner, Alipay, and Ant Financial, could unilaterally cap the APR for loans provided by Qudian; (viii) the Company had failed to implement necessary safeguards to protect customer data; (ix) data for nearly one million Company customers had been leaked for sale to the black market, including names, addresses, phone numbers, loan information, accounts and, in some cases, passwords to CHIS, the state - backed higher - education qualification verification institution in China, subjecting the Company to undisclosed risks of penalties and financial and reputational harm; and (x) as a result of the foregoing, Qudian's public statements were materially false and misleading at all relevant times.

They feel Christianity isn't being given the same respect as other faiths, that the media, the way laws are interpreted, the general hesitancy of businesses and public bodies to constructively engage with them as Christians is pushing them to the edge of society.

Our civic memorials should seek to purify public memory, not repress or ignore it, because our social instincts need to be engaged by a rich public culture, one with the confidence to put American flags where they belong.

The author is Archbishop Charles Chaput of Denver, the publisher is Doubleday, and the price should be no obstacle to a book that offers a fresh analysis of what has gone wrong with the Church in America, a convincing case for encouragement, wise counsel on how to engage the public square and, not incidentally, restored confidence in the ability of (some) bishops to teach on faith and morals.

You have argued that Christians (along with other believers) have every right to make religious arguments in the public sphere — that they don't need to turn to some neutral, universally rational language before they engage in political debate.

What is being shaped is the life of a community of bodied persons who are agents in a public realm shared with many others, most of whom do not engage in this practice of worship.

It can't be right that we engaged in such a public spat with Sporting Lisbon.

Instead, Nestle dismisses concerns, uses doublespeak to deflect and doesn't openly engage with the public.

«The public is hereby reassured that the Service will collaborate with appropriate agencies to ensure that the mischievous activities of any person or group (s) to engage in illegal activities will not affect the effective distribution of products across the country.

«I came out on streets today because I feel the government reforms are not adequately engaging in dialogue with various workers in the public sector.

The Telegraph's Philip Johnston applauds the reduction in public sector jobs: «Removing many back office staff is a good thing because it becomes necessary to deal with people directly rather than split the functions of a service... The fact is that the public sector employs 800,000 more people than in 1997, many of them engaged in developing specifications, writing guidance, drawing up standards, devising targets, enforcing inspections — all in the name of a reform programme that does not work properly.

Under your leadership, Labour has no hope of winning power because you simply don't engage with the typical person on the street and you don't inspire belief among the public at large.

The idea of four New Labour ministers engaging in a turgid, managerial debate in public for a number of months, would not have offered the real debate the party needed, and filled me with dread.

I fear the Home Office anticipated, if not engineered, the appallingly low turnout and wilfully permitted the elections to continue in full knowledge that the majority of the general public were not engaged with.»

Midway through his second term, Cuomo has not engaged in a rough - and - tumble negotiation with the two largest public - sector labor unions, CSEA and PEF.

«The Bank of Ghana wishes to inform the general public that MMM Ghana is NOT LICENSED by the Bank of Ghana to engage in any form of deposit - taking activity, hence anyone who does business with MMM Ghana does so at his or her own risk,» BoG warned further.

Someone is involved in corruption, the laws are there, the institutional frameworks are there and the courts are there, but once a politician, public servant or anybody else who is supposed to protect the public purse engages in corruption, our attitude towards dealing with it has not been good,» he stated.

@hsmvz It is not that different in Germany, with Loki Schmidt, Hannelore Kohl or Doris Schröder - Köpf being quite public figures engaged in charity.

The pair have rarely been seen engaging each other in public, with reports suggesting they are not on good terms.

«So, my challenge today for politicians, the press and the public is to accept the overwhelming evidence that things are not working, that politicians are letting down the victims of the drugs trade by failing to engage with the evidence.

De Blasio's very public airing of his grievances with Cuomo last year, in which he said the governor had «engaged in his own sense of strategies, his own political machinations, and what we've often seen is, if someone disagrees with him openly, some kind of revenge or vendetta follows,» marked a turning point in the two men's relationship, and not for the better.

«Under the new law, anybody, whether acting in concert with a public servant or not, who engages in a course of conduct to defraud a state or local government would be guilty of a crime ranging from the fourth degree (class E felony) to the first degree (class B felony), depending on the amount defrauded,» a release from the governor's office said.

I don't think we should spend a lot of money until the public is engaged with the details of any (renovation) plan.

I am not opposed to more interaction with the public, but would note that the supervisor is constantly engaged with the public, even when walking down the street.

Corbin and his army do not wish to engage with these and moderates who remain (i.e. most of them) in the Labour Party will be stymied from engaging with these voters because a) to set out policies that attract them will go against Corbyn and his new «democracy», b) this will look divided and c) the public is highly sceptical about 21st century socialism.

«BOST is a public company financed with taxpayers» money and therefore has the responsibility to ensure that it does not engage in suspicious deals that lead to avoidable revenue losses, both to itself, government and consumers,» ACEP added.

What is paramount is not necessarily the recommendations in those reports, which are open to review and improvement, but their model for engaging with government and the public on how to connect science and the economy strategically, systematically and beneficially.

During the first session, Reaching Beyond the Science - Interested Public, participants discussed a range of ways to engage with audiences who may not be seeking science content.

It also doesn't help that many of us lack formal training on how to engage with the public or communicate our science.

«There are many reasons why policymakers may or may not engage with science and we are not under any illusions that our project will provide a magic bullet,» said Emily Cloyd, who heads the AAAS Center for Public Engagement with Science and Technology and is one of the project leaders.

«The video lectures allowed for flexibility, as students could repeat sections they didn't understand for clarification and prepare questions to send to section leaders ahead of time, although the video lectures did make it difficult for students to engage directly with the lecturers,» said Stephanie Shiau, PhD, a post-doctoral student in Epidemiology at the Mailman School of Public Health, and co-first author.

To successfully communicate with journalists and the public, a scientist must first engage their interest, which is not always easy.

«I've looked for other ways to engage with science in the public sphere, and found either they don't exist or will take more time and energy on my part,» Moon says.

Solutions: Smart talking and media mastery Surveys show that most people want more information about climate science, Schmidt said, so scientists should engage in public forums such as blogs, question - and - answer sessions and public talks, provided they are not simply stacked with angry debaters.

Thirdly, we have been thinking about how we can engage with the public that we're not currently reaching.

Do not use Wall postings, @replies, or other means of engaging with me in public online if we have an already established doctor / patient relationship.

Frost / Nixon won't be regarded as a movie to see for its historical revelations, which are a matter of public record and are given freely away in the trailer, but for being an engaging drama with moments of genuine intrigue and psychological interplay into public figures that are too large in life to grasp without dissection.

The public didn't respond and missed out on one of the year's most engaging films, with a cast full of young talent and rising stars.

Most importantly, it takes seriously what it means to understand the relationship between how we learn and how we act as individual and social agents; that is, it is concerned with teaching students how not only to think but to come to grips with a sense of individual and social responsibility, and what it means to be responsible for one's actions as part of a broader attempt to be an engaged citizen who can expand and deepen the possibilities of democratic public life.

«This film is an important educational resource, not to mention a vital historical record, and it is our hope that it will play a part in engaging and inspiring the general public and the next generation of scientists with the story of crystallography, charting the road to modern science.»

With the push for development of longitudinal data systems during the pit of the Great Recession, many issues surrounding the Common Core State Standards Initiative and its «next generation» tests were not fully vetted in the arena of public opinion partially because it became a «best practice» to «not engage in large scale, open forums.»

But as Lake and her team points out in the case of Detroit (where the nine charter oversight groups — including Detroit Public Schools — have done little to provide kids with high - quality options), what likely ends up happening is that shoddy school operators end up engaging in shopping for lax authorizers who will let them off the hook for failure and won't think through community needs.

But in public, I mostly see people advocating for the traditional publishing world who come across as mired in 20th thinking about publishing and selling books, ignorant of the self - publishing world, making sweeping assertions which they can't support, making the mistaken assumption that the writer's best interests are identical to the publisher's best interests, clearly unaware of how many traditionally - published writers (including bestsellers) are engaging in self - publishing (and comparing the experiences and numbers with their under - contract books), and / or contemptuous of writers and dismissive of readers.

Settling Defendants are not prohibited from informing the buying public of the list prices of their books or engaging in ongoing legitimate distribution relationships with other publishers.

Prohibited acts.A credit services organization, a salesperson, agent, or representative of a credit services organization, or an independent contractor who sells or attempts to sell the services of a credit services organization shall not: (1) Charge a buyer or receive from a buyer money or other valuable consideration before completing performance of all services, other than those described in subdivision (2) of this section, which the credit services organization has agreed to perform for the buyer unless the credit services organization has obtained a surety bond or established and maintained a surety account as provided in section 45 - 805; (2) Charge a buyer or receive from a buyer money or other valuable consideration for obtaining or attempting to obtain an extension of credit that the credit services organization has agreed to obtain for the buyer before the extension of credit is obtained; (3) Charge a buyer or receive from a buyer money or other valuable consideration solely for referral of the buyer to a retail seller who will or may extend credit to the buyer if the credit that is or will be extended to the buyer is substantially the same as that available to the general public; (4) Make or use a false or misleading representation in the offer or sale of the services of a credit services organization, including (a) guaranteeing to erase bad credit or words to that effect unless the representation clearly discloses that this can be done only if the credit history is inaccurate or obsolete and (b) guaranteeing an extension of credit regardless of the person's previous credit problem or credit history unless the representation clearly discloses the eligibility requirements for obtaining an extension of credit; (5) Engage, directly or indirectly, in a fraudulent or deceptive act, practice, or course of business in connection with the offer or sale of the services of a credit services organization; (6) Make or advise a buyer to make a statement with respect to a buyer's credit worthiness, credit standing, or credit capacity that is false or misleading or that should be known by the exercise of reasonable care to be false or misleading to a consumer reporting agency or to a person who has extended credit to a buyer or to whom a buyer is applying for an extension of credit; or (7) Advertise or cause to be advertised, in any manner whatsoever, the services of a credit services organization without filing a registration statement with the Secretary of State under section 45 - 806 unless otherwise provided by the Credit Services Organization Act.