Sentences with phrase «of public deliberation»

After weeks of public deliberation — including expressing support for some gun control measures — Trump has not yet outlined what he would like to see in legislation.

The E3 Alliance Central Texas Deliberative Dialogues are some of the finest examples of public deliberation leading to action in the nation.

Texas Forums maintains a network of over 400 people in Central Texas and around the country who are trained deliberative democracy moderators, skilled issue framers, innovative community organizers, and respected scholars and researchers of public deliberation.

My fear is that Obama's «non-ideological» approach to the very same questions is really an attempt to furtively import his own preferred ideology under the radar of public deliberation and consent.

That's actually not the sort of science communication that is needed to improve the quality of public deliberations over climate in the US.

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The company said it would «normally keep our deliberations confidential,» but because it owns about 82 % of VMware, it's required to share some details in a public filing.

During its first - ever live broadcast of jury deliberations, the Andy Awards revealed the four big winners of its newly revamped awards program: Nike's «Breaking 2» integrated campaign that documented runners attempting to break the two - hour marathon mark, which earned the «Bravery» award; a «Sound of Music» - inspired musical for Orkin, nabbing the Student honor; «Immunity Charm» for the Afghanistan MInistry of Public Health from McCann Worldgroup India, which earned the award for Social Good; and State Street Global Advisors» «Fearless Girl» from McCann New York, which claimed another top honor and earned the best of show Grandy award.

After March 4, 2013, an International Arrest Warrant will be issued against these Defendants.The guilty verdict followed nearly a month of deliberations by more than thirty sworn Citizen Jurors of the 150 case exhibits produced by Court Prosecutors, The Court's judgement declares the wealth and property of the churches responsible for the Canadian genocide to be forfeited and placed under public ownership, as reparations for the families of the more than 50,000 children who died in the residential schools.To enforce its sentence, the Court has empowered citizens in Canada, the United States, England, Italy and a dozen other nations to act as its legal agents armed with warrants, and peacefully occupy and seize properties of the Roman Catholic, Anglican and United Church of Canada, which are the main agents in the deaths of these children

Clarity will be served by repeating that the maximal happiness principle is translated into the maximal public principle only for purposes of ethical deliberation.

Instead of a robust conception of consent that includes searching public deliberation about the most enduring moral questions, Obama envisions a less proactive, more symbolic recognition on the part of the public that their interests are being adequately managed by the political class.

«Laying aside all personal interests, we pray for guidance in our deliberations, that we may conduct the affairs of this House with wisdom and humility, for the public welfare and peace of New Zealand.

There is little doubt now of the huge impact of these deliberations on politicians, scientists and the general public.

It withdraws protection from the weak and vulnerable, allowing the strong to define the status and rights of the weak; it privatizes matters which, in any legitimate political order, must be public in nature; it sets innumerable roadblocks to the rectification of the problem through mutual deliberation of citizens in legislative assemblies; and it has made what used to be its most loyal citizens — religious believers — enemies of the common good whenever their convictions touch upon public things.

The Commission could further this goal by three means: conducting and publishing research into what initiatives are successful at increasing political participation; advising public bodies and institutions regarding how to better democratise their functioning; and critically, by providing resources and capacity - building to facilitate local, civil society - led initiatives that aim to increase broad - based levels of participation or deliberation in political decision - making.

The two citizens» assemblies — Assembly North in Sheffield and Assembly South in Southampton — provided a chance for a small group of ordinary members of the public to engage in structured deliberation on the hot topic of local and regional devolution.

If the referendum educates the public in the power of their voice, and if it educates masses and elites to expand their moral imagination enough to recognize the complaints of the other side, this experiment, although probably not the best outcome, has the epistemic value desired by proponents of deliberation, and its long - term effect may be more electoral stability and a renewed aversion to change for the sake of change.

«It behooves them to meet at some point in public to kind of outline how they intend to proceed, (and) what parts of their deliberations they feel would not be subject to the open meetings law and need to be conducted confidentially, and to start off on a good public footing,» she said.

Last week, Schneiderman noted that much of the commission's work will be deliberations about investigations, which by law must be shielded from the public.

A Public Hearing was held on the foregoing Local Law Intro., on Wednesday, June 23, 1993, due notice thereof having been published in the official newspapers of the County of Erie, and after due deliberation thereon, I, DENNIS T. GORSKI, County Executive of Erie County, do hereby APPROVE and SIGN said Local Law this 9th day of July, 1993.

A DRI committee made up of city and county leaders, following public, post-award deliberations, included the Kaz site on a

Former State Senate Leader Dean Skelos was stone - faced and silent as he left a federal courthouse where a jury found him and his son Adam guilty of public corruption charges today, after a four - week trial and just about eight hours of deliberations — but attorneys for both men said they would pursue legal challenges to the verdict.

«I have found Marc to be an energetic advocate of public engagement and thoughtful deliberation of public concerns.

Seth Agata, a former Cuomo aide who was announced Tuesday as the new executive director of the Joint Commission on Public Ethics, was selected by a narrow vote of 8 - 4, according to a source with direct knowledge of the deliberations.

The vote followed an acrimonious meeting, where commissioners appointed by the Assemblys peaker demanded a public discussion of the deliberations, and called the governor's threats to open his own investigation «coercive.»

Seth Agata, who was announced Tuesday as the new executive director of the Joint Commission on Public Ethics, was selected by a narrow vote of 8 - 4, according to a source with direct knowledge of the deliberations.

If the governor's calculation here was that the press and some legislators would scream about the lack of deliberation but that the public wouldn't care at all about the process angle, was he wrong?

When asked what he might do if a proposal for a 47 percent pay boost — which has been floated during the commission's deliberations — reached his desk, raising the yearly compensation of New York lawmakers from $ 79,500 to $ 116,900 and making them the highest paid legislators in the nation, despite the public corruption scandals that have consumed Albany, Cuomo replied:

«I think we should make sure whatever we do is done with careful deliberation so that we understand the rights and liberties of individuals with public safety.»

As my part of being engaged in public deliberation on this issue, I have to say that Purnell and others seem to focus too much on choice and not enough on substantive freedom or «capability».

Elizabeth Lynam, director of state studies for the Citizens Budget Commission, said her organization had advocated for on - time budgets, but not at the expense of true deliberation and robust public vetting.

After more than a year of deliberation and public discussion, an initiative to merge the governments of the city of Syracuse and Onondaga County has moved forward in what officials described as a «historical starting point.»

The hearings we held across the state and the expert research we commissioned informed the commission's public deliberations, and through these the broader public, on the procedural and substantive questions attendant to the calling of a convention.

When it comes to addressing a public health crisis killing Erie County residents at a rate of more than one a day, decision makers holding the purse strings have been torn between the need for speed and the need for thoughtful deliberation.

A dialogue may also serve as a preliminary assessment of public opinion and scientific viewpoints before more formal deliberations are considered.

Through that perspective the project examined the scope of the public domain in science, emphasizing equity in access to the benefits of science, and encouraging broad participation in deliberations on matters of intellectual property policy.

«One of the reasons why we are undertaking this review is to encourage public deliberation.

«The development, risk assessment regulation, and use of gene drives should be based on public dialog, public deliberations, and public decision - making.

All of the reports on genome editing call for robust public debate, but the simple fact is that embryo research has proven highly divisive and resistant to consensus, and it is far from clear how to know when there is enough thoughtful deliberation to make policy choices.

Based on the panelâ $ ™ s deliberations, consideration of public comments, and subsequent modifications, the following definitions have been developed: Dietary Fiber consists of nondigestible carbohydrates and lignin that are intrinsic and intact in plants.

That raises an intriguing question: how fair does the media coverage of these disputes seem to be?The media plays a crucial role in informing the public, refereeing policy deliberations, and explaining what school reforms mean for students and families.

One gets the sense that some of the vote on Amendment 66 was a carryover from the general public anger over how many measures, such as gun control, were forced through the legislature with little deliberation and no bipartisanship.

It is difficult to find other areas of public policy where there is such a clear and immediate path from new research to the courts, to legislatures, and to policy deliberations.

Second, in deciding policies, schools are accountable for democratic and public deliberations; even with recent revelations of corrupt practices among CEOs and boards of directors and meltdowns in the mortgage lending community, minimal public oversight of corporate governance currently exists.

The report strengthens the positions of teachers in Chicago should they vote to strike, should be considered in deliberations over the Friedrichs case, and must help shape ongoing debates about the importance of unions in the nation's public education system.

To summarize, the written regulations (R - 3600 (c)-RRB- require the Board to notify parents of a potential school closure, prepare a closing study using multiple criteria that is conducted by a committee (the selection process and requirement for a committee are vague), allow people close to the decisions (e.g. parents at the school) to have input in deliberations about closing a school before the final decision is made, and arrange public hearings on the topic.

The deliberations have addressed various topics such as whether (a) parents should have to be state - certified teachers in order to home educate their children, (b) parents should have to have achieved a particular level of formal education in order to homeschool their children, (c) parents should have to pass teacher qualification examinations that states use for public school teachers, (d) homeschool students should be subjected to mandatory standardized achievement tests, (e) state officials should oversee the social activities of home - educated students (or homeschool socialization), and (f) parents should have to get approval from the state government in order to engage in home - based education with their children (see, e.g., Farris 2013; Yuracko, 2008).

The law says it's essential that public business be done in the open and that citizens know about «the deliberations and decisions that go into the making of public policy.»

Each appeared to violate the state Open Meetings Law, which gives the public the right to witness deliberations and decisions of public bodies.

The OML is based on a presumption of access that provides the public with the right to know in advance about meetings of public bodies and then to observe the meetings and deliberations.

The authors observed four shared strategies used by the groups in this process: 1) public conversations — open forums for deliberation among a range of stakeholders, leading to problem solving and commitments to action; 2) monitoring programs and policies — gathering and analysis of data to evaluate the effectiveness of improvement efforts; 3) participating in the public arena — building political will through get - out - the - vote campaigns and meetings with elected representatives; and 4) joint ownership and relational culture — developing «public» relationships that lead to collective action.