Sentences with phrase «not serving the public»

This manner of advertising doesn't serve the public and it's not even clear it serves advertisers.

Until that agreement occurs, theology will not serve its public function of authentic communication.

Keeping the system as it is might appease the moralists among us, she noted in 2007 in an opinion piece for The New York Times, but it «doesn't serve the public interest of helping individuals meet their care - giving commitments».

When lawyers and social commentators descend to this level of deliberate distortion and misinterpretation for their own ends, they do not serve the public interest and should cease to be taken seriously.

You can't serve two masters, and if your outside income is too high, you're not serving the public.

Dadey, whose thoughts aligned with Gov. Andrew Cuomo's comments today in a radio interview, said the process as it is now hasn't served the public well and that while a perfect compromise isn't possible, the bipartisan support for the overhaul is important.

But MADD Executive Director Richard Mallow says the current system of allowing taxi and limousine commissions in certain municipalities — such as Suffolk and Nassau continues — «has not served the public well» when it comes to current transportation options.

A gentle, high level, «positive» debate about two competing visions — something which some commentators seem to want - will not serve the public well.

A gentle and positive debate about two competing visions of Europe will not serve the public well.

«At a bare minimum the people have a right to expect and demand that their elected representatives at least obey the law... It's clear that too many of them are self - serving and not serving the public,» he said.

«Cuomo's leadership could inspire a domino effect of related pipeline rejections as other states begin to put the protection of water and our climate before flawed energy projects that do not serve the public interest.»

«It certainly does not serve the public good to create a pay - to - play atmosphere where New Yorkers who have business before the city feel the need to contribute financially to the Mayor's political and nonprofit interests in order to have their business favorably considered.»

As we've argued, public policy should reward those providers that best deliver student outcomes — and punish those providers that do not serve the public good.

For all the popular assertions that private schooling can not serve public purposes, the data suggest that public and private educators value similar things and seek to accomplish similar aims.

«The public purpose doctrine is still an issue — sending taxpayer funds to unaccountable schools doesn't serve the public purpose.

Bring your own snorkel gear, water and snacks, as there's no gear rental stand or public restaurant / bar (the attractive, often - empty, private beach club / restaurant at the far side of the bay is for nearby residents and doesn't serve the public, even if you're happy to pay).

This ruling would have the effect of relegating BC lawyers to a pre-cloud technological backwater, which does not serve the public's interest nor the LSBC's own principal strategic goal of becoming a «more innovative and effective professional regulatory body.»

The Supreme Court stated in its recent Clyde River decision: «A project authorization that breaches the constitutionally protected rights of Indigenous peoples can not serve the public interest.»

When we see more and more people wanting to be lawyers, and most of them are choosing careers where they do not serve the public directly, it this the tipping point we needed to invite others into law's game of reverse musical chairs?

Representative or not, it is remarkable that across Canada's two largest provinces — which account for nearly 75 % of the Canadian legal profession — the majority of lawyers do not serve the public directly.

They are not serving the public interest by doing so.

Both complain that restrictions on multijurisdictional practice do not serve the public interest.

PIAC argued that the current voluntary data breach notification requirements are not serving the public interest because companies are allowed to decide whether the scope of a data breach warrants notifying the public — an argument PIAC has been making since 2003.

Selling off public assets like Hydro One would benefit private investors and lawyers but would not serve the public interest, according to a legal opinion issued today.

Law societies don't serve the public interest as long as they don't try to solve «the unaffordable legal services problem.»

When the patented invention is but a small component of the product the companies seek to produce and the threat of an injunction is employed simply for undue leverage in negotiations, legal damages may well be sufficient to compensate for the infringement and an injunction may not serve the public interest.

Not exact matches

RALEIGH, N.C. — A public water utility studied what it was serving to its 200,000 North Carolina customers and found it contained multiple unregulated industrial chemicals with uncertain health effects, including some substances that university researchers didn't know existed, legislators learned Thursday.

That image was cemented in the public mind, and in a not - so - positive light, by David Fincher's movie The Social Network, in which Parker was played by Justin Timberlake as a self - serving, callous playboy.

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.

«The secretary did not speak to the president and is unaware of the reason, but he is grateful for the opportunity to serve, and still believes strongly that public service is a noble calling.»

Venter, who created the first synthetic human cell back in 2010, feels the FDA hasn't found a way to serve the public in regard to genome data regulation — it barred 23andMe from offering genetic - risk assessments in 2013 before later reinstating the right to offer limited genetic reports.

I don't think we're serving the public appropriately when we boil this thing down to quotas because I think there are other alternatives that could be explored.

But the GOP congressman, Sen. John Kennedy of Louisiana, minced no words: «If you want to serve the public, particularly as a member of a president's staff, I don't care who you are, even if you're a Rhodes Scholar, you can't beat the hell out of your spouse.

By no means is this to imply that politicians shouldn't be truthful or that it serves the public good to lie, cover up, or distort information.

Zuckerberg carefully negotiated a clause that would allow him to take a leave from Facebook to serve in public office or government, so presumably he has some sort of political beliefs — if not outright political ambition — as well as some core ideas about what's good for society and what's not.

Some public spaces like libraries don't bring in much in rent, so they mainly serve as a way to attract people to the mall, she says.

J&J spokesman Ernie Knewitz told CNBC, «As we have learned through the 2016 election campaign, personal attacks do not serve the interests of the American public or foster a balanced discussion on the substantive issues facing the nation.»

Unfortunately, this baseless action then serves as a basis for public opinion, which is not easy to reverse even after the actual facts are revealed.

He is a former director of BMC Software, Inc., a non-public software corporation based in Houston, Texas, and serves on the board of the following not - for - profit organizations: School of Public Policy, University of Calgary (Executive Fellow), National Research Council of Canada, Ontario Global 100 Network (Chair), C.D. Howe Institute, and Canadian Council of Chief Executives.

But with the crude oil export ban lifted and liquefied natural gas (LNG) exports on the rise, landowners like Rosinski are starting to question whether or not giving up their land to serve these private aims qualifies as «public good.»

The Secretary did not speak to the President and is unaware of the reason, but he is grateful for the opportunity to serve, and still believes strongly that public service is a noble calling.

Covered Persons may not serve as a director, trustee, or in a similar capacity for any for - profit public or private entity, without approval of an Executive Officer and the Director of Global Compliance, or their respective designees.

In our view, this is not a very transparent way to dissolve a Crown corporation, even if served little public value.

«We've not had access to the drug for a few months,» said Dr. Armstrong, who also works at Grady Memorial Hospital, a huge public treatment center in Atlanta that serves many low - income patients.

Ying has been on the boards of public, private and not - for - profit organizations, and currently serves as director on the boards of WIMTACH and Ogden Pond Technology Group.

The document differentiates between public and permissioned blockchain platforms, noting that those systems operating with permissioned protocols «do not necessarily involve a virtual currency that may serve as the economic incentive for miner or validator participation in public networks.»

Chris has served on the Board of Directors of several public, private, and not - for - profit entities.

Harper has committed that our crown corporations will not be able to serve the public interest, they will have to act under strictly commercial considerations.

If they are open to the public, then they MUST serve anyone who walks in the door, and is not violating the law.

For example, we have an atheist Prime Minister — and no one cares because this is personal (it is not about her politics)-- just as public schools are used for general education and religious education is served by your place of worship, associated community, family, etc..