Sentences with phrase «on public practice»

This focus on public practice and evidence has had a great impact.

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Topics included: early reporting on inaccuracies in the articles of The New York Times's Judith Miller that built support for the invasion of Iraq; the media campaign to destroy UN chief Kofi Annan and undermine confidence in multilateral solutions; revelations by George Bush's biographer that as far back as 1999 then - presidential candidate Bush already spoke of wanting to invade Iraq; the real reason Bush was grounded during his National Guard days — as recounted by the widow of the pilot who replaced him; an article published throughout the world that highlighted the West's lack of resolve to seriously pursue the genocidal fugitive Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic, responsible for the largest number of European civilian deaths since World War II; several investigations of allegations by former members concerning the practices of Scientology; corruption in the leadership of the nation's largest police union; a well - connected humanitarian relief organization operating as a cover for unauthorized US covert intervention abroad; detailed evidence that a powerful congressional critic of Bill Clinton and Al Gore for financial irregularities and personal improprieties had his own track record of far more serious transgressions; a look at the practices and values of top Democratic operative and the clients they represent when out of power in Washington; the murky international interests that fueled both George W. Bush's and Hillary Clinton's presidential campaigns; the efficacy of various proposed solutions to the failed war on drugs; the poor - quality televised news program for teens (with lots of advertising) that has quietly seeped into many of America's public schools; an early exploration of deceptive practices by the credit card industry; a study of ecosystem destruction in Irian Jaya, one of the world's last substantial rain forests.

(In late September, five corporate AI leaders — Amazon, Facebook, Google, IBM, and Microsoft — formed the nonprofit Partnership on AI to advance public understanding of the subject and conduct research on ethics and best practices.)

In practice, however, relying on editors and public documents leaves the database riddled with holes, especially in areas outside its core of finance.

The Globe and Mail on Tuesday reported that, in the face of new rules stating that compensation practices must be made public, Ontario hospitals are «scrambling» to eliminate executive perks.

His office sent cease - and - desist letters to Bird, Spin, and LimeBike on Monday, saying that their «unlawful» business practices have created a «public nuisance» that must be corrected.

Practicing his hand gestures and analyzing images of his movements allowed him to become «an absolutely spellbinding public speaker,» says the historian Roger Moorhouse — «it was something he worked very hard on.»

Attached to the letter was a list of practices they called «common sense corporate governance principles» that amounted to a basic outline of a code many U.S. public companies today already either agree with or live by, or both, including issues of who sits on the board, the kinds of topics the board should discuss, and the adoption of proxy access.

Tarun has worked in health for 30 years, focusing on public health research, policy and practice in the prevention of common chronic diseases and addressing Aboriginal health gaps.

In the past, it's been considered a sound business practice for brands to avoid taking public political stances on hot topics.

However, «recent public scrutiny of data management practices at Facebook may have a tempering effect on citizens» willingness to opt - in, especially in the near - term,» the Goldman team said in a note to clients.

(Heffernan touches on the big - picture disservice in the media's insidious practice of narrowing our horizons for profit, rather than expanding them in the public interest: «[Media companies] know that when we buy a newspaper or a magazine, we aren't looking for a fight... The search for what is familiar and comfortable underlies our media consumption habits in just the same way as it makes us yearn for Mom's mac»n' cheese.»)

Huffington expressed that a multipronged action plan is underway to rejuvenate the company after allegations clouded its business practices and discussions on internal matters affected its public image.

Mr. Garland and his team are responsible for developing and implementing the Funds» active ownership programs for public equities, including voting proxies, engaging portfolio companies on their environmental, social and governance policies and practices, and advocating for regulatory reforms to protect investors and strengthen shareholder rights.

Stanford Graduate School of Business Professor Jeffrey Pfeffer wrote in the journal, Academy of Management Perspectives, that, «Although most of the research and public pressure concerning sustainability has been focused on the effects of business and organizational activity on the physical environment, companies and their management practices profoundly affect the human and social environment as well.»

The case, which was filed on Dec. 20 and made public on Wednesday, centers on the punitive tariffs that the United States imposes when it finds other countries guilty of subsidizing their products or of selling them abroad at unfairly low prices, a practice known as dumping.

Public accountants have suddenly become very aware of how devastating the practice of rubber - stamping questionable accounting practices can be on their reputations when these practices are eventually revealed.

Many directors also have experience serving as executive officers, or on boards of directors and board committees of other public companies, and have an understanding of corporate governance practices and trends.

Our Economic Advisory practice offers clients a competitive advantage in identifying market opportunities by providing insight into economic developments and trends, from one of the leading thinkers on the intersection of the economy and public policy.

Even Warren Buffett enrolled in a public speaking class to help manage his stage fright — the billionaire also taught a night course on investment principles to practice talking in front of strangers.

Alixe concentrates her legal practice in the areas of initial public offerings, follow - on offerings, reverse takeovers, capital pool corporations, qualifying transactions, mergers & acquisitions, secondary listings and exempt market financings (more).

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.

Canadian embassies and trade commissions have aggressively promoted the mining industry's agenda on foreign soil, while large - scale public media campaigns, both at home and abroad, promote corporate social responsibility practices.

Mr. Bowsher was also Chairman of the Public Oversight Board, an independent, private sector body that monitored and reported on the self - regulatory programs and activities of the SEC Practice Section of the Division for CPA firms of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants.

Practice Fusion was written about several years ago as a company on the brink of going public.

Based on ideals of public consensus and trust, GBX's rigorous listing process will strive to allow the community to flourish whilst protecting participants with AML / KYC, corporate governance and best practices.

The three - day - long conference, put on by Best Practice Media, covers a wide range of topics from content creation to public relations to digital marketing.

His practice focuses on high - growth emerging companies and involves venture capital financings, mergers and acquisitions, public offerings, and private placements.

Net neutrality's popularity has always relied on the public's satisfaction with life online, and the business practices that facilitated it.

I don't know what it all means except that there were certain temple practices going on that involved public sexual performances and Paul would have been aware of that.

They got the slap on the wrists they deserved as a wake up call to the real world, which is very very skiddish about people practicing foreign religions on an airplane in public.

Well it is true that some people seek sorcerers to implement Jinn that are satanic demons into mankind or his house or his business to finish him or make his life miserable or to stop flow of his business income... In such case it is either you are religious enough and say your prayers often then it becomes hard for this to harm you or otherwise you need to find some one who practice exorcism to remove this evil... But many are just pretending to be good at it and help you not but squeeze money out of you with tales and stories... There is another type of possessions and that is not through a sorcerer but directly by coincidence what man is at his weakest moments and those weakest moments for a possessions are when you come through a great fear or when cry or laugh loudly in hysteria, or during a certain moment of mating... or even when sneezing loudly... That's why there are prayers to be said on daily basis to guard you from such things and specially if passing haunted places such as deserted houses but most evil ones are residents of public toilets and market places... Some of them even would claim that you have made a wrong action by which you have killed a dear one to them and for that they have possessed you and that is mostly night time such as throwing a cigaret butt to a dark place or stepping killing an insect or even an animal at night which could have been one of them or possessed by one of them... So this is true thing happening to many who suffer unexplainable illnesses or sufferings which could look like mental illness that comes and goes as pleased...

Indeed, it is Public Health theology practiced on an ad hoc basis.

The Church has authority from Jesus to «bind and loose» disciplines which govern the public religious practice of the God's people on earth — this is not the same as the Divine Law of God's Word and natural moral law.

Today the Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life released what it claims to be the first quantitative worldwide study on how governments and societies infringe on the religious beliefs and practices of individuals.

He also came to oppose the long - established practice of employing chaplains at public expense in the House of Representatives and Senate on the grounds that it violated the separation of church and state and the principles of religious freedom **.

What must be done is to keep insisting on the right to teach the Bible as history and as literature in the public schools until this not only is permitted but becomes as widely practiced there as in the state universities.

They may frequently engage moral questions in institutional contexts where the theological warrants for a specific ethical issue may not be honored — as when they advise on matters of medical ethics, public policy and ecological practice.

In Europe, a sharp dividing line has been drawn between religious belief and religious practice, so that Christians are frequently reminded that they can believe whatever they like and do what they like inside their churches — they simply can not speak about or act on those beliefs in public.

Beliefs and ways of life, save in respect to certain minimal attitudes and practices without which social life could not successfully be carried on, are matters of private rather than public business.

Spelled out in a lengthy lead editorial entitled «Evangelicals in the Social Struggle,» as well as in books such as Aspects of Christian Social Ethics, Henry's understanding of Christian social responsibility stressed (a) society's need for the spiritual regeneration of all men and women, (b) an interim social program of humanitarian care, ethical proclamation, and personal, structural application, and (c) a theory of limited government centering on certain «freedom rights,» e. g., the rights to public property, free speech, and so on.18 Though the shape of this social ethic thus closely parallels that of the present editorial position of Moody Monthly, it must be distinguished from its counterpart by the time period involved (it pushed others like Moody Monthly into a more active involvement in the social arena), by the intensity of its commitment to social responsibility, by the sophistication of its insight into political theory and practice, and by its willingness to offer structural critique on the American political system.

He would also come to oppose the long - established practice of employing chaplains at public expense in the House of Representatives and Senate on the grounds that it violated the separation of church and state and the principles of religious freedom.

On the other hand, as «professional» education for a socially necessary practice, it is public in the sense of contributing to public welfare, the general good.

The democracy of public school and soccer practice and work blends us all in together, and here, you're as likely to see a Nishan Sahib decal as a Christian fish, on the back of the minivans at the mall.

Additionally, this church practiced «public baptisms» (which usually meant in the tank on the church platform, almost always attended by the church folk) and «private baptisms» (by invitation only — usually in someone's backyard pool, and occasionally in the church baptistry at a time when no other function was scheduled at the church — and always followed by a «party» that included food).

Petty apartheid, the public facilities Jim Crow practices that are truly being phased out in the larger cities (where they matter), are trivial and largely irrelevant to the grander strategies of both apartheid and liberation: A point sometimes lost on American liberals who remember the U.S. civil rights activism of the sixties.

The standard method of theological education — a method practiced in the public schools and on through the university — is one of attending a certain number of classes, drafting some papers and, at the end of the term or course, writing the answers to some questions in order to indicate comprehension of the materials covered.

From my point of view, this more public focus on Obama and his religious practices is the least appealing development about him in the last four years.

Attention to particular congregations, when they are understood in terms of the practice of the public and universally shared worship of God, could only be carried on by reference to the «greater church.»

A theological school's focus on congregations in order more truly to understand God must, if congregations constituting practice is truly public worship, involve two things.