Sentences with phrase «public assertions of»

Not exact matches

Given the assertions by members of Congress in 2012, and the emails that are already in the public domain, the sluggishness is concerning.

She rejected Porter's public assertions that the claims were part of a «coordinated smear campaign» against him.

It shows that assertions questioning the capacity of the FEDERAL government to pay for programs, usually prefaced with the call for â $ ˜â $ ˜adult conversationsâ $ ™ â $ ™, and couched in terms such as fiscal sustainability, solvency, and unfunded liabilities, are red - herrings that will lead to needless reductions and privatizations of public programs in health care, elder care, pensions and so on.»

Since what I hear over an amplified PA system (kind of hard to «ignore» 70 db invocations in a mid size room, tbh) are things in the prayer I passionately disagree with, yet barred by prayer protocol to challenge the assertions of the prayperson (which such challenges to ideas are encouraged at public meetings) it sets up a «I'm not going to get anything accomplished unless I pretend I am one of them.»

I see a bunch of posts here arguing that Hitler was an atheist, despite his very public and very vocal assertions to the contrary.

While people might have found Teebow's assertion of his faith in public irksome, nobody condemned him on TV for it, or made threats against his life.

I have watched well - intended ecumenicity become twisted in the interest of 475 ideological assertions and public policy postures.

But in the end we must try to think together in the mode of a public theology: that is, a form of discourse which uses symbols of ultimacy but also seeks publicly negotiable warrants for its assertions.

True, Dr. Joycelyn Elders, the Surgeon General, did apologize, in a manner of speaking, for her public assertion that the Catholic Church is indifferent to human suffering except when it comes to the unborn.

There are curiosities, such as the assertion of the editor of America, a Jesuit publication, that President Bush's talk about being at war might upset «Islamic public opinion.»

The Alliance core principles document begins with the assertion that the purpose of the principles is to ensure that Public Waldorf education is ever - evolving, and continuously renewed through practice, research, observation, and active reflection.

While jihadists, dictators, and aid workers have each played a hand in defining the Africa of today, the resurgence of the African public's «ferocious self assertion» will define the continent's future.

The public uproar over the issue heightened Wednesday following an assertion by the Finance Minister Seth Terkper that allowances and pensions are being taxed under the new income tax law, Act 896, 2015, because they are all forms of income no matter how they are earned.

The first secretary attacked shadow chancellor George Osborne's own assessment of the public finances, calling his Mais lecture «longer on assertion than specific proposals».

Spinmeisters like Lord Mandelson continue to advance transparently dishonest claims, such as his ludicrous assertion that the government could not give projections of public spending cuts — which we all know must come — because they would be based on «speculation».

However, turning the other eye is always not an option when an organization abandons its core mandate to regale an unsuspecting public with very tepid, hurtfully unfactual and sillily inaccurate assertions that are capable of igniting conflagrations of unimaginable proportion.

«While one can argue with the governor's assertion that there are trend factors in some areas of the budget which have made increases automatic, there can be no doubt that institutions of public higher education have consistently seen nothing but cuts over the last few years,» Glick, a Manhattan Democrat, said.

Where's this assertion that Labour is out of step with the public on welfare cuts come from?

That assertion differs from Schneiderman and DiNapoli's versions of what their respective roles were in approving in the payment, which, will be the subject of an investigation by the Joint Commission on Public Ethics.

Among the high points: a guarantee that the Adirondack Park will «be forever kept wild» and, as of 1938, assertions that promoting public health, educating all kids and aiding the needy are the government's obligation.

At one of his public engagements President Mahama noted that events of the last few months had demonstrated more vividly and vindicated the assertion by the founder in 2008 that «Ghana is larger than all of us, and the NDC's victory is the victory of ordinary and truthful Ghanaians guided by the proven history and performance of a Social Democratic Party and Government.»

Mark Serwotka was recently interviewed in The Guardian: «The most likely comment to exasperate Serwotka is the assertion that they're fat cats, a smug drain on the public purse: of 301,000 members «we've got 30,000 people earning just above the minimum wage, 100,000 earning less than # 15,000 [the average civil service salary is # 22,000].

A statement by PDP's spokesperson, Kola Ologbondiyan reads, «We have taken judicious note of assertions by the Senate President that the said plot is allegedly being hatched by the Inspector General of Police, Mr. Idris Ibrahim, «to settle scores» with the Senate over its recent declaration that he is not fit to hold public office.

Such assertions, the MP argued on Eyewitness News, were indicative of a lack of understanding of public finance.

On July 28, at a late - announced economic development event in Buffalo that constituted his first public appearance since the publication of the Times» Moreland story, the usually nimble governor struggled to respond cogently to questions about his various, contradictory assertions about his handling of the committee.

This assertion is not completely true as my story focuses on the Joint Commission on Public Ethics, how the agency appears to be stacked with political cronies and how the creation of the agency has echoes of Gov. Eliot Spitzer's failed attempt to reform the state's ethics organization.

Federal funding of science and technology may fall short of what is needed to keep the U.S. research enterprise competitive, said AAAS CEO Rush Holt, but he also increasingly hears «concerns about what I would call an ongoing trend that goes back many years, even decades, where ideology and ideological assertions have been crowding out evidence in public and private debates and policymaking.»

The green groups have made «inaccurate public assertions» with the purpose of causing «anxiety» about GM technology and its the regulatory process, counters Oxitec.

Greenpeace is accusing one of the nation's largest conglomerates of sowing confusion around scientific assertions behind climate change, a broadside that comes amid waning public engagement on human - caused emissions.

During the meeting representatives from leading biomedical journals responded with an unequivocal assertion that public disclosure of information of relevance to public health emergencies should not prejudice journal publication of full scientific reports.

In the argument for smoking bans in parks and on beaches, the most striking aspect, according to Dr. Bayer, is the assertion that just the act of smoking in public poses a threat to the well - being of children and adolescents because of the message it conveys.

But verifying that a Web service using those schemes wasn't equivocating required examining every transaction in every block of the blockchain — or at least, every block added since the service first used the scheme to certify a public assertion.

Usually the speaker illustrates one of the assertions with a sad or funny dating story that ends either with resignation to single status or with anger at the depressing situation he or she «has to» endure.If you're up for dating fat girls, you need a proper fat dating site.Forget about trying to pick up gals on the streets or in public places.I know some of you have had bad experiences, but the good experiences outweigh those, from what your fellow singletons tell me.

Contrary to the assertion that these programs focus on «values» — the «Gospel message» is about salvation, and contains no «values lesson» — it is a religious doctrine, and because of this, belongs to religion — and not in our public school classrooms.

Assertions of «benign» intent hardly ensure that public policies will not have perverse consequences.

The failure of the United States to close the international test - score gap, despite assiduous public assertions that every effort would be undertaken to produce that objective, raises questions about the nation's overall reform strategy.

(p. 222) It does not seem unfair to expect the authors to provide evidence, other than the fact of differentiation, to support these assertions, or to say what is being done in traditional public schools that better prepares students for life in a democratic society.

«The PDK / Gallup poll shows that the American public's confidence in their doctors and other professionals is connected to Board certification — each profession's assertion of accomplished practice that goes beyond state licensure.

The assertion that charter public schools are opening in locations where there is money available and because of anti-union views is simply false.

Dora posted an analysis of the initiative by local education expert Dr. Wayne Au, who points out that charter schools are undemocratic, take funds away from struggling public school districts, and — contrary to assertions in the initiative's language — are not better than traditional schools.

Contrary to opponents» assertions that Nevada's ESA program would «drain» or «siphon» resources from public schools, this analysis shows how it can instead offer a potential and welcome source of savings for school districts by increasing their flexibility to direct education dollars.

Once you know the history of standardized tests in public schools, you can never fall for Coleman's absurd assertion that, «boycotting standardized tests may seem like a good idea, but hurts black learners most.»

Assertions that the sector has «fulfilled one of its core missions — equity for students — by establishing itself as a primarily urban phenomenon with significant chains of schools that are closing achievement gaps» (Lake, 2013, p. 1) are countered by claims that «charter schools, on average, don't have an academic advantage over traditional public schools, but they do have a significant risk of leading to increased segregation» (Rotberg, 2014, para 2).

Assertions that «Choice costs too much» (Commentary, Jan. 11, by Chariho Superintendent Barry Ricci) question the value of charter schools without honoring their many contributions to Rhode Island public education.

The rationale for the expansion effort is based on the report's assertions that charters do a better job of educating children than traditional public schools.

All of these assertions are untrue of public charter schools.

This order concerns the unlawful assertion of sovereign immunity by Thai Airways International Public Company Ltd. («Thai Airways»), a foreign air carrier holding permit and exemption authority to operate to and from the United States, conduct that violated the express terms of its operating authority, 49 U.S.C. $ 41301, and constituted an unfair and deceptive practice in violation of 49 U.S.C. 3 41712.

But in public, I mostly see people advocating for the traditional publishing world who come across as mired in 20th thinking about publishing and selling books, ignorant of the self - publishing world, making sweeping assertions which they can't support, making the mistaken assumption that the writer's best interests are identical to the publisher's best interests, clearly unaware of how many traditionally - published writers (including bestsellers) are engaging in self - publishing (and comparing the experiences and numbers with their under - contract books), and / or contemptuous of writers and dismissive of readers.

It is troubling when individual works or entire movements are hidden from public view (in some cases for decades), accompanied by denials or implied denials, or by indifference, of the existence of those works; and assertions that imply those works don't exist.

The efforts to link these figures seems less based on factual assertions as to their actual historical dynamics, and more of an appropriation of the mythologies and public narratives from each, as a kind of ready - made lore ripe for nearly miraculous synchronicities and coincidences (various timelines and actions line up to an uncanny extent).