Sentences with phrase «public about the responsibilities»

Without the tireless efforts of these groups working to place homeless animals with permanent families and educating the public about the responsibilities of dog ownership, many more of these wonderful, adoptable pets would needlessly be put to death each year.

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Ask people honest questions in public, about their workloads, responsibilities, and the office environment in general.

These media already give the news that the public needs and are much better about screening out lies, whether because of regulations (in the case of radio and newspapers) or traditions of responsibility (in the case of most print media).

Peabody Energy has a responsibility to be honest with investors and the public about the risks posed by climate change, New York Attorney General Eric T. Schneiderman said in announcing the settlement with Peabody Monday.

Your legacy gift to the Fraser Institute Foundation will help us educate future generations about public policies that support free and open markets, individual choice, and personal responsibility, for the long - lasting prosperity of all Canadians.

Based entirely on anecdotal evidence, however, I believe the press» credibility with senior citizens has taken a hit from which it is unlikely to recover, and it may be entirely due to the election of 2008, when the mainstream media utterly abandoned whatever responsibilities to the public trust to which it still felt obliged, tossed presumptive - nominee Hillary Clinton aside and» rejecting any - and - all discomfiting questions about his experience, background, past - operations, education, friendships or capabilities» hoisted candidate Barack Obama upon their shoulders and carried him into the White House in triumph.

The responsibility of bishops is and always has been, as Archbishop Raymond Burke of St. Louis and other bishops have explained in great detail, to protect the integrity of the sacrament, to prevent public scandal that creates confusion about the Church's teaching, and to avoid the danger of people receiving the sacrament, as St. Paul puts it, to their damnation.

And the Church in the 20th century hadn't always got its language and style right: Casti Connubii in the 1930s says wise and true things about marriage and family life, but didn't somehow quite manage to tackle the emerging questions being raised by women as educational opportunities for them expanded and new responsibilities cametheir way in public, commercial, and professional life.

In either event, religious leaders and FBOs need to make informed decisions, neither rushing haphazardly into new public partnerships without weighing the pros and cons, nor simply dismissing such collaborations without any thought about what their social responsibilities might be.

The churches at this point have a great responsibility not to advocate over-all idealistic solutions but to emphasize the distinctively Christian message that is relevant to these issues, to help their members to see the world without the characteristic American ideological blinders, to challenge many of the prevailing assumptions about the cold war and nuclear armaments, and to encourage the debate on public questions about which most people prefer to be silent.

A while back the NCCB issued a splendid statement, Living the Gospel of Life, which was very specific about the responsibility of Catholic politicians and others in the public arena.

In the face of a threat to public order, those with public power and the responsibility for maintaining peace, even if they care about justice, as Pilate did, are sometimes under pressure to sacrifice justice — and with it, all pretense of determining whose views are correct when it comes to life's big questions.

They are seeking what has been called post-modern paradigms for «an open secular democratic culture» within the framework of a public philosophy (Walter Lippman) or Civil Religion (Robert Bellah) or a new genuine realistic humanism or at least a body of insights about the nature of being and becoming human, evolved through dialogue among renascent religions, secularist ideologies including the philosophies of the tragic dimension of existence and disciplines of social and human sciences which have opened themselves to each other in the context of their common sense of historical responsibility and common human destiny.

Moreover, clergy have learned not to let anyone lay guilt trips on them about their responsibility to help save the public schools, secure decent salaries for domestic workers, free prisoners who ought not to be incarcerated.

I talked with him by phone, and asked him about the context of this remark, as well as the content of his sermon and the Christian's public responsibility toward Presidents with whom we disagree on crucial issues.

She is nearing completion of her B.S. in Public Health, and particularly interested in learning and writing about compassion, cooperation, and responsibility as they relate to mindful living, health, and parenting.

Any conversation about personal responsibility or public policy that fails to acknowledge this reality is either disingenuous, or uninformed.

It makes us nervous to think about that as a public responsibility.

If your teenager works, use the opportunity to talk about expectations, responsibility, and other aspects of behaving respectfully in a public setting.

By denying parents information on best practices about ways they can reduce risks while bedsharing in addition to encouraging them not to bedshare, the public health community potentially shares responsibility for the continued SIDS cases in bedsharing.

Modelling a new way of talking about breastfeeding that clarifies the evidence and acknowledges the fact that improving breastfeeding rates is not the responsibility of individual mothers; rather, this is a public health imperative for which government, policy makers, communities and families all share responsibility

Ms Spence also made a broader point about the public's attitude towards responsibility and how that impacted on policing.

While there are disagreements about the approach, both the disagreements and the do and don'ts - list focus on how journalists can make sure that they put their responsibility to the public and to truth before anything else.

The EU has now re-nationalised the rights of member states to determine whether to grow GM crops, while retaining the responsibility for determining crop safety, and this should go someway to allaying public fears about GM.

Members of the Public are hereby enjoined not to panic but go about their lawful duties and other responsibilities without fear or apprehension.

I am two and a half stone lighter which, as a former shadow public health minister in the Scottish Parliament, is just as well, given how much time we witter away about taking personal responsibility for one's own health!

They have a responsibility to come clean with the public about the risks of a leap into the dark.

«I think that engaging in a debate about something that has been out there in the public sphere is something that we have a responsibility to do,» Mark - Viverito said.

«And if it hasn't, it should make everyone be very cautious about what they do and make sure they carry out their professional and public responsibilities in the appropriate way.»

Common Sense Principles, which claims to educate the public about limited government and fiscal responsibility, commissioned dozens of mailers in at least three key State Senate districts, targeting Monroe County Legislator Ted O'Brien, Assemblyman George Latimar (D - Rye) and Senator Joe Addabbo (D - Queens).

Katrina noted that objective information about the Nigerian Prisons Service will certainly shape public opinion and guide policy makers towards evolving a sense of collective responsibility for better prison system.

«There's nothing wrong with the governor giving legislators an opportunity to talk with him privately about their budget concerns, but it should be done after a public presentation and in accordance with his constitutional responsibilities.»

«I chose not to speak publicly about these disagreements, however, because I feel my responsibility as CEO of Success Academy is not to advance my personal beliefs on a broad range of political issues but instead to focus all of my energies on advocating for our kids and public policies that expand educational opportunity and parent choice,» she wrote.

An ethics case involving two Woodstock Town Board members has depleted the ranks of the Ethics Board and raised lingering questions about matters such as due process, the rights and responsibilities of public officials, and the soundness of the local law at the heart of the case.

In the past, the group's responsibilities included recommending policies to the Town Board and educating the public about energy incentive programs.

Mike DeRosa, Denise Merrill and Peter Lumaj made public statements about issues related to the office's responsibilities.

In the long term, the results of the survey are expected to influence ongoing global conversations about the roles and responsibilities of scientists and engineers in society, help clarify public expectations of scientists and engineers, lead to the development of materials for the education of scientists and engineers, and provide empirical data for consideration when developing specific recommendations on the nature and scope of the social responsibilities of scientists and engineers.

As the professions experience growing pressures from the public and government policy makers as well as from their own members to exercise their collective responsibility more effectively, they are, with increasing frequency, seeking strategies for informing and educating their members and others about the ethical implications of their work, for developing or revising standards of conduct, and for establishing procedures to implement and enforce whatever ethical prescriptions they adopt.»

Maybe the event would lead to more discussions among students and raise awareness about our responsibility to the public.

Musser: I think the scientific community and science journalist [s] bear a little bit of [the] responsibility for that perception among the public because we always talk about the LHC as recreating conditions not seen since the big bang, and you would therefore think if there hasn't been an energy level like that seen since the big bang, then all the phenomenon of the big bang might be unleashed upon us; these black holes, possibly being one, because people do talk about black holes having been created in the early universe.

«One of the responsibilities that we have as scientists, particularly those of us who receive public funding for our research, is to be engaged with the public about our understanding of the way that the world works and also about the limits of our understanding,» said the Stanford University researcher, who holds dual appointments with the School of Environmental Earth System Science and the Woods Institute for the Environment.

More than that, though, recent political events have reminded me of my responsibility to be informed about and engaged in local, state and federal public policy.

Scientists have a responsibility to make sure their work is used for the benefit of humanity, and part of that is taking the time to talk about what we do in terms that anyone can understand, and to clarify all potential implications (both positive and negative), so that there can be an informed public discussion, and hopefully a solution everyone can live with.

While other nations think about early childhood education as an important public investment, many Americans view it as an inappropriate substitute for individual responsibility and an intrusive threat to family privacy.

«Particular qualities of the digital world suggest the need for a greater sense of responsibility about one's actions there, such as the public and persistent nature of content posted online, the distance between one's actions and their effects on others, and opportunities for anonymity.»

Be knowledgeable or willing to learn more about public education, the local district, student achievement, and board member roles and responsibilities.

Retaining an explicit emphasis in the new standards on including «opportunities for students to study relationships among science, technology, and society» (Hicks et al., 2014, Table 1) would open the door to consideration of a set of issues that every future teacher ought to be thinking about, for example, the power relationships enacted online as manifest through sexism, racism, anti-Semitism, and homophobia; the quality of the discourse and information that circulates there and the effects of rumor on reputation; notions of public and private in a digital age; cyber bullying and suicide; copyright and plagiarism; ethics and professional responsibilities related to social media; and a host of other topics and questions that a critical media literacy approach could raise regarding technology and citizenship education.

Although there are mixed findings about whether homework actually increases students» academic achievement, many teachers and parents agree that homework develops students» initiative and responsibility and fulfills the expectations of students, parents, and the public.

Rep.Tana Senn spoke about her SEL legislation, HB 1518; Rep. Ruth Kagi talked about co-chairing the Governor's Blue Ribbon Commission that recommended a new state Department of Children, Youth and Families; and Associate Superintendent Gil Mendoza from the Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction (OSPI) spoke about how Washington State formulated its plan for the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA), the new federal education law that gives states more responsibility and accountability.

WASHINGTON — The U.S. Department of Transportation's Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) today announced the launch of its new safety - focused campaign, «Our Roads, Our Responsibility,» to raise public awareness about how to operate safely around large trucks and buses, or commercial motor vehicles (CMVs).