Sentences with phrase «public act of»

Because their relationship is founded on a clear, public act of commitment, a night out together makes a statement about the nature of the relationship.

The policy which permits media reporting on judicial proceedings depends on (i) the right of the public to be informed about a significant public act of the state, and (ii) the law's recognition that the way in which the story is presented is a matter of editorial judgment.

Don't click, «Everything we blog, everything we tweet, and everything we click is a public act of making media.

«45 The demand of Christ for a visible act of obedience is manifested in the public act of baptism.

They remind us how essential it is that entire communities repent with one voice, and how dangerous it is when individual voices forfeit repentance with public acts of immodest remorse.

On the other hand, it can refer to the act by which the self constitutes itself as a self; the public acts of word and deed are just ways of expressing this inner act which corresponds to the more primary meaning of «human act.

Where the Gospel itself was preached and believed, and its central public acts of baptism and the celebration of the Last Supper of Jesus with his disciples were seen to be done, there was the Church founded by him.

Chiurai asks us to consider subjective mourning for these public acts of violence including the recent events that took place in Marikana.

His interest in public acts of violence is thus a real issue of personal relevance.

By their public acts of love and commitment they are laying the foundations for further progress towards civil marriage for lesbian and gay couples» said Rose.

The Supreme Court did not define what «egregious fault» means other than to say it is something more than ordinary fault, defining it loosely as a term of art that requires not simply more, or even more public acts of marital indiscretion, but acts that by their very nature, are different in kind than ordinary fault that breaks up a marriage.

Not exact matches

The first trial involving a charge under the Canadian Corruption of Foreign Public Officials Act was concluded this past summer, and resulted in a conviction.

Harvard public policy professor and behavioral economist Iris Bohnet says one solution to solving this issue is «micro-sponsorship,» which is the act of advocating for a colleague who has been wronged.

The Copyright Act of 1976 further clarified copyright protection: A copyright owner now has the exclusive right to reproduce the work; prepare spin - off works based on the copyrighted work; and to sell, perform and / or display the copyrighted work in public.

«It's a balancing act» between tending to the clients of his public relations firm and dealing with the requirements of the investigations, he said.

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.

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.

In January, the Monetary Authority of Singapore urged the public «to act with extreme caution and understand the significant risks they take on if they choose to invest in cryptocurrencies.»

But acting confident enough to get on stage and give a speech to a packed room, even when your hands are violently shaking, is necessary to learning the art of public speaking.

Wells Fargo also revealed that it had submitted request for some Valeant's documents under the Freedom of Information Act, which will become public May 24.

Like Twitter and dozens of other companies that have gone public in the last couple of years, GrubHub took advantage of a provision in the JOBS Act of 2012, which lets small companies valued at $ 1 billion or less to file for an initial public offering in private, and just a few weeks before it intends to debut.

Mark Carney is a hard act to follow but the new Bank of Canada Governor Stephen Poloz managed to make a mostly - positive debut at his first public appearance under the watchful eye of government, and economists in this country and around the world.

Dorsey's selfless act has already resulted in a significant amount of positive media coverage and public perception.

Two polls published in recent days reinforced the idea that the American public generally disapproves of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA) and doesn't think it would benefit their personal finances.

Pete may have helped draft the public messaging at the conclusion of the case, but he didn't act alone.

Back when the teams were born, global anti-corruption advocates accused Canada of failing to enforce its Corruption of Foreign Public Officials Act (CFPOA), introduced in 1999.

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.

Ma, who has created a database of polluting factories in China, shaming them to clean up their act, says more transparency is needed to appease the public as awareness spreads.

Those scandals, in turn, prompted the Sarbanes - Oxley Act of 2002, with its added compliance measures for public or soon - to - be public companies.

Public speaking is an act that terrifies a lot of people and excites the heck out of the rest.

However, the landscape has changed as sections of The JOBS ACT — legislation intended to free up small business capital — rolled out to the public over the past year.

SoMoLend anticipates opening up the funding of its loans to the general public in early 2014, when the JOBS Act is fully implemented.

A look at the companies that have gone public since President Obama passed the Jumpstart Our Business Startups Act in April of 2012.

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.

During CES, Goetgeluk says Virtuix is conducting a «testing - the - waters» campaign on SeedInvest under the new mini-IPO rules of Regulation A of the JOBS Act, which allow the general public for the first time to potentially invest in tech startups.

And if his own ambitions stray too much from the public good, then hopefully the «discipline of the market» will act as a check on the tech visionary himself.

The very act of incorporation, after all, requires a framework of public laws to enable it, as do key aspects of modern incorporation such as limited liability.

In an attempt to redress the wrongs of slavery following its abolition in 1865, Congress passed the 1875 Civil Rights Act — which, among other things, forbade most forms of discrimination in public accommodations.

The RCMP now has more than 30 ongoing investigations into violations of Canada's Corruption of Foreign Public Officials Act.

On Jan. 26, Acting Attorney General Sally Yates contacted White House counsel Don McGahn to raise concerns about discrepancies between the public accounting and what intelligence officials knew to be true about the contacts based on routine recordings of communications with foreign officials who are in the U.S.

Canada's Corruption of Foreign Public Officials Act (CFPOA), a product of this era, became law in 1999.

Add to that a lack of regulation: After the passage of the JOBS Act in 2012, which aimed to make it easier for small businesses to raise capital, startups could take on many more investors before the Securities and Exchange Commission effectively forced them to go public.

Former Comptroller General of the U.S. Charles Bowsher, former board member and acting chair of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB) Chuck Niemeir, and former Chair of the International Accounting Standards Board Sir David Tweedie, along with a host of other luminaries, also signed the letter.

The act has also put pressure on small private firms — those that were poised to go public, and others that are dealing with a shortage of accountants.

According to the GAO report, public companies with $ 75 million or less in market capitalization paid a median of $ 1.14 in audit fees for every $ 100 in revenue under the act, compared to just 13 cents for every $ 100 by companies with over $ 1 billion in market capitalization.

In the first year of implementation, the propensity of small public companies to be purchased by private firms, which are not subject to the act, increased by 53 %, the report said.

And while crowdfunding looks promising, enactment of the Title III section of the JOBS Act that would allow small businesses to sell equity to the public has been postponed until the end of the year or longer.

The DEA has already received the Food and Drug Administration's recommendation on the rescheduling, which is a key part of the rescheduling process stipulated by the Controlled Substance Act, says Russell Baer, a special agent at the DEA's office of public affairs.

These risks and uncertainties include: Gilead's ability to achieve its anticipated full year 2018 financial results; Gilead's ability to sustain growth in revenues for its antiviral and other programs; the risk that private and public payers may be reluctant to provide, or continue to provide, coverage or reimbursement for new products, including Vosevi, Yescarta, Epclusa, Harvoni, Genvoya, Odefsey, Descovy, Biktarvy and Vemlidy ®; austerity measures in European countries that may increase the amount of discount required on Gilead's products; an increase in discounts, chargebacks and rebates due to ongoing contracts and future negotiations with commercial and government payers; a larger than anticipated shift in payer mix to more highly discounted payer segments and geographic regions and decreases in treatment duration; availability of funding for state AIDS Drug Assistance Programs (ADAPs); continued fluctuations in ADAP purchases driven by federal and state grant cycles which may not mirror patient demand and may cause fluctuations in Gilead's earnings; market share and price erosion caused by the introduction of generic versions of Viread and Truvada, an uncertain global macroeconomic environment; and potential amendments to the Affordable Care Act or other government action that could have the effect of lowering prices or reducing the number of insured patients; the possibility of unfavorable results from clinical trials involving investigational compounds; Gilead's ability to initiate clinical trials in its currently anticipated timeframes; the levels of inventory held by wholesalers and retailers which may cause fluctuations in Gilead's earnings; Kite's ability to develop and commercialize cell therapies utilizing the zinc finger nuclease technology platform and realize the benefits of the Sangamo partnership; Gilead's ability to submit new drug applications for new product candidates in the timelines currently anticipated; Gilead's ability to receive regulatory approvals in a timely manner or at all, for new and current products, including Biktarvy; Gilead's ability to successfully commercialize its products, including Biktarvy; the risk that physicians and patients may not see advantages of these products over other therapies and may therefore be reluctant to prescribe the products; Gilead's ability to successfully develop its hematology / oncology and inflammation / respiratory programs; safety and efficacy data from clinical studies may not warrant further development of Gilead's product candidates, including GS - 9620 and Yescarta in combination with Pfizer's utomilumab; Gilead's ability to pay dividends or complete its share repurchase program due to changes in its stock price, corporate or other market conditions; fluctuations in the foreign exchange rate of the U.S. dollar that may cause an unfavorable foreign currency exchange impact on Gilead's future revenues and pre-tax earnings; and other risks identified from time to time in Gilead's reports filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the SEC).

A 2010 Senate report by Senator Lieberman affirmed the President's authority during war, threat of war, or «a state of public peril» to «take over wire communications in the United States» and «shut a network down» under Section 606 of the Communications Act of 1934.