Sentences with phrase «one's public standing»

Why are bishops taking public stands on the feasibility of border fences, on guest - worker programs, on workplace enforcement?

CEOs must take a strong public stand against workplace harassment — and keep repeating that message.

Though they have made their mark in the private sector, these men and women are taking public stands on hot button social and environmental issues ranging from gay marriage to climate change to gender equality.

«Having public standing as a writer of history helped me stand my ground, but few women get that boost, and billions of women must be out there on this seven - billion - person planet being told that they are not reliable witnesses to their own lives, that the truth is not their property, now or ever.»

So I went over to look at Settlement Rating System of America and my impression is that this is just yet another enterprise to collect money from debt settlement companies to give them a rating or some sort of public standing in order to make a potential client feel secure they are dealing with a legit company.

So it will go on, I suppose, till we find someone with enough courage, enough learning, enough public standing to undertake the synthesis; there is a battle royal, long overdue, which still has to be fought out at the level of academic debate (p13).

Toronto is an open, not a private festival, which means a member of the general public stands a fair chance of getting in.

The Supreme Court of Canada said that in determining whether to grant public standing to applicants, courts should consider three -LSB-...]

(Now, if Streep somehow manages to take a strong public stand against the horrors of child sexual predation, and then beats out Blanchett on Sunday, we may have to reevaluate....)

That declaration — published simultaneously by the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung and the local Schwäbischen Tagblatt — was a dramatic reversal of an earlier public stand taken on December 8, when the full professors of the faculty unanimously expressed their support of Küng and pointed out the dangers for freedom of theological research and teaching intrinsic in the German bishops» position (ibid., pp. 100 - 101).

The former minister had no real public standing in January and was hardly known outside Westminster.

My hope is that David Davis will return to the back benches as a powerful figure of serious public standing.

Reps. Peter King (R - Seaford) and Steve Israel (D - Huntington) said they have taken both high - profile public stands and initiated personal discussions behind the scenes to prod negotiators on both sides to reach a settlement.

Your editorial made a laudable public stand in support of genetic modification as a way to produce nutritionally enhanced crops...

Since when does taking a strong public stand qualify as an act of heroism?

This was the result of his eloquent public stands against a previous administration's announced intention to end forever Cooper Union's tradition of free tuition and to alter the basic character of the school unilaterally.

Apple CEO Tim Cook has taken a very public stand against an FBI request and court order to create a backdoor into the Apple operating system.

In the unanimous decision written by Cromwell J., the Court outlined the main reasons for the development of public standing law:

Though the country has taken a hostile public stand toward bitcoin, there are no know - your - client (KYC) nor anti-money laundering (AML) requirements explicitly put on crypto exchanges.

Speaking at the 2014 Congress Lowitja, the biennial conference of the Lowitja Institute — Australia's national Indigenous health research body — Mundine won applause from the audience for his recent public stand against the proposed repeal of Section 18c of the Racial Discrimination Act.

Maude's sole piece of vintage artwork sits on its side, grabbing the eye's attention, and has a remarkable story behind it: Shot in 1968, the photograph is from a series that followed Bobby Kennedy's funeral train from New York to Washington, capturing the mourning public standing in salute.

Estimating the influence of the news media on public expression — on whether it causes individuals to take public stands on key policy issues, for example — has long been challenging to scientists.

Judges are discouraged in their ethical guidelines from commenting on matters of policy or taking public stands on issues that could be perceived as partisan; politicians similarly are prevented by the sub judice rule from commenting on matters that are before the courts.

All American Christians need the Roman Catholic bishops to take a strong, public stand against politicians like Joe Biden who openly mock the teaching of the Church to which they claim to belong.

So it will go on, I suppose, till we find someone with enough courage, enough learning, enough public standing to undertake the synthesis; there is a battle royal, long overdue, which still has to be fought out at the level of academic debate.

Similar charges led to disciplinary action against other lawyers under pre-Proposition 64 law which granted members of the general public standing to bring such suits without having to show that they had been personally injured by the violation.

The Supreme Court of Canada said that in determining whether to grant public standing to applicants, courts should consider three factors:

It began when Merck & Co.'s Kenneth Frazier took a public stand against Trump for his failure to quickly condemn white supremacists for deadly violence in Virginia, and it pushed many chief executive officers into strange new territory.

Her decision to explain her preemptive double mastectomy in a New York Times editorial, though controversial in some health circles, underscored her willingness to foster hard conversations by taking a public stand.

Whole Foods CEO John Mackey, who aspires to using his business for a «higher purpose» than just raking in cash (though he's doing that, too), took a public stand against President Barack Obama's healthcare reforms, describing them as akin to «fascism.»

While it's rare to see CEOs here take a public stand (witness the silence of Toronto's business leaders when the Rob Ford scandals unfolded), a growing number of American executives are stepping into the public spotlight, taking stands on issues like religious freedom, gay marriage and gun control.

The dispute over the panels began on Monday, when Merck & Co.'s Kenneth Frazier took a public stand against Trump, saying that quitting the manufacturing council was «matter of personal conscience» and said that U.S. leaders had to reject «hatred, bigotry and group supremacy.»

To explain Beutner's termination, Griffin gave several interviews that only worsened his public standing.

But on Wednesday, the cracks in the edifice of his public standing were really...

Mr Byres said the report provides CBA «with a clear path towards restoring its public standing» and said the report «goes to the heart of the issues that led to the damage to CBA's reputation».

Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback, a conservative Christian who has taken public stands against abortion and same - sex marriage, had joined Obama for an AIDS summit.

In the summer of 1941, at the height of Germany's success in the war, Bishop von Galen decided to take a public stand against the Nazis, even if he had to do it on his own.

The Cardinal O'Brien affair may for a time have passed from the front pages of the newspapers but it has done deep and lasting damage to the Church's credibility and public standing.

He wants everybody to know who His disciples are, and He wants His disciples to make a public stand for Him.

A Miami pastor is fighting back after the head of the Miami - Dade school district threatened to evict his church, which rents space on Sunday in one of the district's schools, because of the pastor's public stand against h0m0

Try taking a public stand against Christianity in the US!

How much would hostility toward indigenous Christians increase if American Christians took a public stand against the rights of Arabs in the Middle East to determine their own future?

In our corporate consumerist American culture which celebrates hedonistic materialism and where aggression and a lack of ethics often results in short term economic gain [at the expense of long - term sustainability], taking a public stand for universal human values is likely to result in the end of career advancement or even job loss.

When Cizik tried to convince the NAE to take a public stand on global warming, he was booted from the association, according to Paul Rogat Loeb, author of «Jesus and Climate Change - The Journey of Rich Cizik.»

The pastor who preaches on controversial subjects may be tempted to take a public stand that would be at variance with the thinking of half the congregation and thus turn them away.

Third, I fear that genetic counseling is doing great harm to the public standing of hospitals and the medical profession.