Sentences with phrase «public about the excess»

Contrary to the expectations of many Nigerians that Mrs Husseina Mohammed, a civil servant in kogi state attached to the Teaching Service Commission will be compensated for her honesty in returning the sum of N1.8 M mistakenly paid into her account amid the current hardship, the state government has issued her a query for allegedly misinforming the public about the excess salary mistakenly paid into her account.

Not exact matches

The Institute notes that federal public service employment, excluding military and RCMP uniformed personnel and federal government business enterprise employees, has increased by about 35 per cent between 1999 and 2009, (from 224,600 to 302,000), well in excess of overall growth in population of 11 per cent over that period.

The questions about religion and public life, those calling for «public» discussion, no longer focus on the verifiability of religious speech but concern quite other issues: methods of understanding and describing the religious realities, old and new, that we see appearing around us; useful criteria for assessing these religions and for defining and comprehending this new set of powers in our public life; and ways of protecting vital religious groups from the excesses of the public reaction to them, and protecting the public from the excesses of powerful religious groups — hardly questions a secular culture had thought it would have to take seriously!

Combining the Bias for Home teams during the Playoffs with Betting Against the Public, we find that betting on Home Teams with less than about 40 % of the Public on the Home Team — has resulted in a winning percentage in excess 60 % over the past three playoff seasons.

Dr Ahmad said once media play its investigative role and providing the public with information about the actions and opinions of the legislators, tyranny and excesses of arbitrary rule would be prevented.

The incident will only serve to reinforce public scepticism about politicians» rhetoric to tackle greedy bankers and the excesses of capitalism.

It is the latest (arguably quite redundant) evidence of a more fundamental truth about politics: The instinct that leads many people obsessively to pursue public approval and power through winning elections is closely linked to the instinct that leads many of these same people (and let's face it, they are all men) to sexual excess and disaster.

«I think a 50 per cent tax rate at # 150,000 is actually in the centre ground of politics, because I think that one of the things people thought about us, as a Labour government, was that we were behind where the public was on some of the excesses we have seen in society.

«Tories in Buckingham will be free to vote for Nigel Farage but CCHQ worries about publicity coup for UKIP Main A Conservative Government would prioritise tackling the excesses of public sector pensions»

«By being clear about that, I thought we would be in a better position to convince the public that the debt was down to our response to the credit crunch, not to excess spending before it.»

The debate is not about climate change, though it touches on the excess of the climate debate that have been observed on this blog, as well as in many other areas of public life.

Industry sources in both Ohio and Poland say the criticisms about wind turbines are unjustified and that the recently adopted setbacks are far in excess of anything needed to protect the public or individual property owners.