Sentences with phrase «of public confrontation»

«By providing business owners and employees with the key information they need to properly serve those who have served our country and those who need our help and understanding, we hope to improve access for those with legitimate service dogs and reduce the possibility of public confrontation.»

The decision — prompted by board complaints that the president had not moved fast enough to address the university's challenges — embroiled the board, faculty, and president in two weeks of public confrontations.

Not exact matches

The investigation is expected to set up a potentially explosive confrontation between a bipartisan group of lawmakers and Timothy D. Cook, Apple's chief executive, at a public hearing on Tuesday.

Sustained national media attention on the shooting, emotional confrontations between politicians and survivors and their families, as well as a public - opinion shift in favor of stricter gun laws could spur Congress to do something to tighten access to guns.

George Weigel calls for the Church to «discipline itself» into a narrow public witness addressing religious freedom and life issues only, what he sees as «the points of maximum confrontation with the dictatorship of relativism.»

The confrontation between the FBI and the Branch Davidians at Waco riveted public attention precisely because that sort of thing happens so rarely.

Television, in particular, was found to have presented violence in simplistic terms — depicting «a visual three - way alignment of Negroes, white bystanders, and public officials or enforcement agents,» which tended to create the impression that the riots were predominantly racial confrontations between blacks and whites, while factors such as economic and political frustration were pushed into the background.

The practical conclusion of «Confrontation» is easily summarized: Jews must work together with representatives of the «religion of the many» when it comes to ethics and public policy.

The readings offer four distinct perspectives on the nature and attainment of happiness, each of which will serve as the springboard for the discussion of a different set of issues in relation to the search for human ful llment: participation in public life, self - control and education, the longing for God, and the confrontation of death.

Public confrontation would undoubtedly spark a media storm of historic proportions, but, after the dust settled, where would the rejectionists go?

Yet the basic war / peace confrontation has been given so little attention that its position within the international law of human rights has hardly been grasped by the general public or even by political leaders.

He uses the phrase «the theatre of the national pornography of the Roman state,» to describe public executions, and goes on to give an analytical example where «the rending of flesh in public could be linked to the bravery exemplified by a woman in her confrontation with Roman authority, and simultaneously, to a language of love.»

Of course, what people mostly ask about is Rader's far - different public persona: Doug Rader, the zany, flaky Houston Astro third baseman who sat on a birthday cake in the clubhouse; Doug Rader, the madman in Jim Bouton's book Ball Four who advised kids to eat baseball cards to ingest all the information printed on them; Doug Rader, the raging tyrant - manager of the Texas Rangers who was fired after ferocious confrontations with players and writerOf course, what people mostly ask about is Rader's far - different public persona: Doug Rader, the zany, flaky Houston Astro third baseman who sat on a birthday cake in the clubhouse; Doug Rader, the madman in Jim Bouton's book Ball Four who advised kids to eat baseball cards to ingest all the information printed on them; Doug Rader, the raging tyrant - manager of the Texas Rangers who was fired after ferocious confrontations with players and writerof the Texas Rangers who was fired after ferocious confrontations with players and writers.

Another part of the French public wants to decrease the risk of possible military confrontation with Russia.

Mr Miliband has traditionally sought to avoid the confrontations with unions which characterised the time of Tony Blair and Gordon Brown, but there are some very concrete political advantages to a public spat with union leaders and many voices in his office are urging him to make the most of it.

The scene is set for confrontation, and if O'Grady is able to evade stereotyping, she may stand a chance of beginning to win public approval.

NYC Council Speaker Melissa Mark - Viverito — typically a close ally of de Blasio, a fellow Democrat — has made criminal justice reform the central mission of her second year as speaker: Sweeping proposals have driven her rapid emergence as a visible public figure, leading to her first real confrontation with the mayor's administration.

Pritchard was at the centre of a political story in 2010 when he had a public confrontation with John Bercow, the Speaker of the House of Commons, who had told him to stand aside in a corridor.

While the idea of confrontation will evoke feelings ranging from queasiness to downright physical fear, the public must be engaged in a very immediate sense.

In June 2003, when Boxley was led out of the Capitol in handcuffs, having been accused of rape for the second time, Krueger said she had a very public confrontation with Assemblymember Lopez, who a decade later would be toppled by his own slew of sexual harassment scandals.

The Government may be cautious about direct attacks on the trade unions but this morning's newspapers give a sense of the coming confrontation between the powerful public sector unions and the people who depend upon public services.

Ms. Mark - Viverito — typically a close ally of Mr. de Blasio, a fellow Democrat — has made criminal justice reform the central mission of her second year as speaker: Sweeping proposals have driven her rapid emergence as a visible public figure, leading to her first real confrontation with the mayor's administration.

Shifting and uncertain, because it refuses equally to call upon a public already constituted around specific tastes and expectations and to bar the possibility that, after a solitary confrontation with the experience of the film, something may be shared after all.

Despite strong reviews and preternaturally ripe direction on the part of first time writer - director Jake Kasdan (who was twenty - three at the time), the film was issued to the public in the traditionally lackluster month of January, and like many of its brethren in Stiller's filmography, may have dumbfounded audiences with its meld of comedy and confrontation.

This is enough to keep them out of public schools, but not out of the hearts of the millions of young people who love Harry Potter and despise the small - minded Dursleys, who ride with Harry on the train to Hogwarts, cheer for him as he leads his quidditch team to victory, stand alongside him as he challenges the forces of evil, and pray that he survives the violent confrontation with Lord Voldemort that inevitably lies ahead.

Though capable of standing up to vested interests and outside agendas, he generally favors private conversations over public confrontation.

One of the first public confrontations came in 1989 when Maathai openly protested the building of a $ 200 million, sixty - story skyscraper in Nairobi's Uhuru Park that was slated to be used for government offices.

Third is its implementation; by making the list available for review without imposing any kind of confrontation requirement, they provide valuable information to the general public without turning average citizens into deputized law - enforcement officers.

While this sentiment has existed in the public consciousness for hundreds of years, the basic structure of a game as a confrontation that pits the player against the CPU (or another player) makes armed conflict an ideal setting.

The profound blackness of the sculpture's exterior is reminiscent of the blackness of the figures that populate Marshall's paintings, and as is the case with so much of his work, A Monumental Journey, speaks to centuries of struggles, solidarities and triumphs, from the continental origins of the talking drum to the confrontation of history in public space today.

Christina Fernandez's 2002 series Lavanderia is featured, along with Buck Ellison's confrontations of environmentally conscious lifestyles and Anthony Hernandez's images of public transit areas and scenes from Rodeo Drive in the late 1970s and 1980s.

Jeremy Deller's re-enactment of the miner's strike confrontations at Orgreave was surely one of the most important works by a British artist this past year, as was Michael Landy's public destruction of everything he owned.

The tone of confrontation and hostility, with public and personal attacks on individuals doing their jobs, might inhibit public discourse just as much as misleading content would.

This is best handled by a direct and public confrontation, for which the alarmists are ill prepared since they have no real scientific evidence for their assertions despite a muddy ocean of words by the UN and USEPA.

Results of such confrontations then need to be published in lucid detail for public consumption, not written in impenetrable academic prose and hidden behind paywalls

We use non-violent confrontation to raise the level and quality of public debate.

Writer Oiwan Lam theorizes that China is filtering and blocking Egypt information because the scenes of tanks moving into the city center and confrontations between soldiers and the public are all too reminiscent of demonstrations leading up to the massacre in Beijing's Tiananmen Square on June 4, 1989.

Think about whether meeting in a public place such as a cafe might reduce the likelihood of confrontation.

The value of understanding fully the Codes of Ethics that we're governed under will lead to a more skilful and successful business — and avoid confrontations with fellow colleagues and the public.

You state that having an understanding of the Codes of Ethics that govern Realtors «will lead to a more skilful and successful business — and avoid confrontations with fellow colleagues and the public.»