Sentences with phrase «of public service as»

As a result of my public service as a school board member for eight years, and as a city council member for an additional eight years, both my corporate and public school clients have had me focus...

He has a long record of public service as a prosecutor, judge, and now the country's Attorney General,» said Matt Prasse «08, who served as President of the BC Law's Federalist Society in 2006 - 07.

Take the issue of public service as an example.

«Keith Wright's only career has been in government and he's a valuable commodity because of his public service as an elected official,» said Dick Dadey, executive director of Citizens Union, a government reform group.

It was this upbringing, and it's embrace of the shared and common struggles of Queens middle - class families, that inspired Grace to lead a life of public service as a public interest lawyer and now as a member of the New York State Assembly.

Both candidates have impressive accomplishments: Clinton achieved top levels of public service as first lady, U.S. senator and secretary of state, and Trump has been touted as a modern business tycoon.

Two - thirds of Americans put the benefits of libraries at the top of the list of public services as compared to schools, roads and parks.

The EU layer of public service regulation further adds to this complexity as it interacts in many different ways with the national legal frameworks in this field: EU law may structure national legal norms, coordinate the provision of services between the Member States, bring about minimal or maximal standards (e.g. pertaining to quality, ubiquity or affordability of the services provided), comprise detailed regulation or even set prices for the provision of public services as in the case of mobile roaming tariffs.

Not exact matches

Jersey Standard executives are properly proud of their unique photographic venture as a public service, but sometimes they are not quite sure what the company is getting out of it, times when they wonder if «documentary» pictures of such subjects as tombstones in New Orleans or cockfights in Venezuela are not merely irrelevant.

Critics of the proposed FCC rules, which had not been made public as of the writing of this story, fear they will still allow large companies to pay for more robust connections to consumers, as Netflix recently did in a deal with Internet Service Provider Comcast.

Wheeler's «split the baby» approach to the contentious net neutrality debate, reported on over the weekend by the Wall Street Journal and the New York Times, would effectively reclassify Internet service providers as public utilities akin to the phone companies under Title II of the Telecommunications Act, but only in dealing with large content providers such as Netflix and Google's Youtube.

As would other key players, including former TD Bank chief economist Don Drummond (author of a detailed report outlining cost - cutting opportunities in Ontario) and former parliamentary budget officer Kevin Page, who has spent decades uncovering wasteful spending in the public service.

Wheeler's new rules — which would prohibit blocking, throttling, or paid prioritization of internet content — would also reclassify broadband and internet service providers, or ISPs, as public utilities under Title II of the Telecommunications Act.

Last April, Daimler launched Moovel, a series of apps that allow users to book and pay for public transportation and see how well it integrates with other transit options, such as bike - or ride - hailing services, to get to a final destination.

Customers have multiple instances of cloud deployments in public cloud, Software as a Service, which in many cases is larger than public cloud, and hybrid.»

The new service speaks to eHarmony's need to diversify as IAC / InterActiveCorp bulks up ahead of the planned public listing of Match Group, which will hold the company's dating businesses.

It's possible to imagine Estonia's idea becoming a multibillion - dollar business in the years ahead — turning the whole view of government as a bureaucracy offering public services into an entity generating profits.

The court ruled in favor of Verizon, saying that the FCC did not have the authority to enforce its previous order, unless it reclassified Internet Service Providers (ISPs) as common carriers, essentially public utilities.

Mr Prosser has worked in the public service for more than 20 years in both Commonwealth and State government departments — including a stint as an Aboriginal heritage project officer with the Victorian Department of Premier and Cabinet.

They believe too that a voluntary military and civilian national service program for young people would help alleviate the social disruption and teach important new skills and provide tutoring to disadvantaged students, help for the elderly, and improvements of public spaces such as parks and playgrounds.

«The focus of our legal appeal will be on the FCC's decision to reclassify broadband Internet access service as a public utility service,» Jon Banks, senior vice president of U.S. Telecom said in a statement.

Adolfo Rodriguez, managing partner of the A / R Financial Group, has been focusing more and more on Social Security maximization over the past six years, conducting seminars for the public and for other advisors, as a service to their own clients.

And while many startups and tech companies that depend on open access to the Internet have cheered those rules, which reclassify Internet Service Providers (ISPs) as public utilities under Title II of the Telecommunications Act, cable and telecommunications industry representatives have already filed several lawsuits that challenge the regulations.

for Transport, the public must question every major transport project as spending 2.2 billion dollars on the Forrestfield - Airport rail link is a grotesque waste of money which can not be justified with our very low population density and simply needs an efficient bus system at a fraction of the cost similar to that servicing Melbourne's Tullarmarine Airport.

We like to think of ambulances as doing a public service which they clearly do do, but they're also charging now.

«With a record of service that has spanned more than 30 years as a public servant, as an adviser, as a scholar, Ash is rightly regarded as one of our nation's foremost national security leaders,» Obama said.

At issue are current rules that classify internet service providers like Comcast and Verizon as public utility - like «common carriers» under Title II of the Communications Act.

The last piece of the puzzle that must fall in place is the government's hope to realize about $ 4 billion in savings over the next three years from closing tax loopholes, tracking down tax cheats, and minor efficiencies in the public service, such as reducing travel costs.

Travis Kalanick, co-founder and CEO of ride - hailing service Uber, said Wednesday he's going to take as long as possible to go public — responding to critics and stressing he's focused on product and innovation, not liquidity.

That there would be job cuts at a legacy IT provider is almost a forgone conclusion as these companies, many of which made the bulk of their money on pricey, proprietary hardware and software, must adapt to a world in which more companies send more of their computing jobs to a public cloud provider like Amazon @amzn (amzn) Web Services.

But the journey begins with a single step and thus far the cloud news out of Oracle OpenWorld after executive chairman Larry Ellison's Sunday night keynote comprised a collaboration with Intel (INTC), a couple of new software applications delivered as a service, but not a word about Oracle's plans to offer public cloud computing capabilities.

«Before his conviction, Mr. Libby had rendered more than a decade of honorable service to the Nation as a public servant at the Department of State, the Department of Defense, and the White House.

The company could still require writing, photography, publicity, event planning, media or presentations training and other technical services, as well as some form of administration and coordination, but what else in the way of strategic public relations?

As a member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA) Small Business Taxation Committee, he has appeared before the Senate and the Internal Revenue Service to testify on small - business issues.

«The top three weighted criteria are political and social environment, medical and health considerations, and public services and transport,» explains Griffiths, adding that criteria cover factors such as ease of entry and exit, air pollution, and risk of disease.

Many public transit agencies are starting to see ride - hailing and other mobility services as a threat to their own business, as some startups, including Lyft, launch shuttle services for transporting larger numbers of riders.

While the use of public social media networks such as Facebook and Twitter is starting to decline, private messaging services are exploding in popularity.

Gov. García has framed the moratorium, over the objections of creditors, as a way for San Juan to ensure that it will continue to provide public services to its people.

The cost of entertainment goods and services that are available to the public for free as promotional items or sold to customers, such as on a cruise ship or a dinner theater, are fully deductible.

By contrast, the price point for FiscalNote's software as a service offering starts at around $ 10,000 a year for a nonprofit, and is upward of $ 200,000 for a large private or public company.

It usually starts like this (at least this is how it started for me when I earned my scar tissue): you own or work for a startup that sells a product or service and are looking to contract out some work instead of hiring inside staff because, well, you're strapped for cash — things such as fulfillment, public relations and web design are all common applicants.

He added: «For customers who want access to existing large - scale public cloud providers, we have already added greater support for Amazon Web Services as part of our hybrid delivery with HP Helion Eucalyptus, and we have worked with Microsoft to support Office 365 and Azure.

To further increase the possibility that all borrowers have a fair opportunity to request a foreclosure review, the Comptroller of the Currency and the Chairman of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System should require that servicers include a range of potential remediation amounts or categories in communication materials and other outreach, such as direct mailings to borrowers, public service announcements, the independent foreclosure review website, regulators» websites, and officials» testimonies and speeches.

«Early in the investigation process [that led to the firings], it was decided, as is the norm in such serious human resource matters, to have the Public Service Agency (PSA) lead the investigation,» Whitmarsh wrote on Oct. 6 to McNeil, adding that the Public Service Agency had support from the province's Chief Information Officer to investigate the handling of government data.

In the emails, Adams writes that Whitmarsh supports an independent and full review of how the Public Service Agency handled the 2012 investigation, as well as the actions the public service took because of the investigPublic Service Agency handled the 2012 investigation, as well as the actions the public service took because of the investiService Agency handled the 2012 investigation, as well as the actions the public service took because of the investigpublic service took because of the investiservice took because of the investigation.

«The deadline for and the scope of the review are so restrictive that it appears that the review has been deliberately designed so that it can not result in a full review of the 2012 investigation and of the actions taken by the public service as a result of the investigation.»

Goldman Sachs is currently providing advisory services and acting as an underwriter in connection with an anticipated initial public offering of the portfolio company acquired in 2005.

«We are writing to set out Mr. Whitmarsh's concerns with respect to the manner in which the Public Service Agency's review is being conducted, as well as the damaging public comments that have been made about him recently by the Minister of Health Terry Lake, Premier Christy Clark and others in Government,» wrote Public Service Agency's review is being conducted, as well as the damaging public comments that have been made about him recently by the Minister of Health Terry Lake, Premier Christy Clark and others in Government,» wrote public comments that have been made about him recently by the Minister of Health Terry Lake, Premier Christy Clark and others in Government,» wrote Adams.

In the next breath, however, Harper added: «It should not matter who delivers health care, whether it is private, profit, not - for - profit or public, as long as Canadians have access to those services through the public insurance system regardless of their financial needs.

However, a budget deficit that takes the form of transfer payments to banks, as in the case of the post-September 2008 bank bailout, the Federal Reserve's $ 2 trillion in cash - for - trash financial swaps and the $ 700 billion QE2 credit creation by the Federal Reserve to lend to banks at 0.25 % interest in 2011, has a different effect from deficits that reflect social spending programs, Social Security and Medicare, public infrastructure investment or the purchase of other goods and services.