Sentences with phrase «public authorities need»

Governments and public authorities need to act on their responsibility to keep our common infrastructure up to speed and secure.

Alex Rook Qualified: 2006 Made partner: 2013 Key cases: Advising on the first Supreme Court case in relation to the law on consultation (Moseley), which ruled that all public authorities need to improve how they consult with local people; advising on behalf of national charities in two Supreme Court community care cases.

Not exact matches

So what lessons can public health authorities around the world take away from this episode to ensure that, next time, our global response — and yes, it needs to be a global response — is better and quicker?

20.02.18... The Estonian state needs to understand the necessity of a state reform that would cut the number of officials exercising public authority by half, prominent lawyer and former Minister of Justice Jüri Raidla said in a speech at a meeting dedicated to the centennial of the Republic of Estonia on Monday.

The need to obtain Parliamentary authority for new borrowings increased Parliament's oversight over government's finances and improved the transparency of government finances to Parliament and the public at large.

«To ensure public shareholders are not disadvantaged, any takeover bid would need to be put to a shareholder vote and any recommendation by the board would have to be based on an appropriate premium as well as safeguards for future probity given past track records of the businesses controlled by the Murdoch family», said Kieran Quinn, chairman of Britain's Local Authority Pension Fund Forum (LAPFF).

We need this, because although most Catholics do tend to take a robust commonsense view on the subject, we are also keenly aware of great pressure from public authorities.

Government needs a more practical, less academic social policy aimed at the deficiencies of public authority» law enforcement, school standards, and work requirements» that the research itself suggests are central to poverty today.

Now, however, the scientific evidence has become so overwhelming that public authorities are emboldened to emphasize the need to «target» the fight against AIDS.

-- that we need not fear the government because Jesus has «disarmed the powers and authorities» and «made a public spectacle of them, triumphing over them by the cross.»

Furthermore, despite the emphasis by such theologians as Augustine, Calvin, Jonathan Edwards, and Reinhold Niebuhr (with whom Schlesinger enjoyed a personal association) on the need to distinguish between divine and human authority, it is a gross distortion of all of their views for Schlesinger to impute to them the kind of relativism which makes the existence of God and the reality of revelation (the basis of all western religious traditions) so utterly irrelevant for public life.

Furthermore, if the faith of American Christians is so strong, why do they need public officials and authority figures to tell them to pray?

Among them were pantheism and the positions that human reason is the sole arbiter of truth and falsehood and good and evil; that Christian faith contradicts reason; that Christ is a myth; that philosophy must be treated without reference to supernatural revelation; that every man is free to embrace the religion which, guided by the light of reason, he believes to be true; that Protestantism is another form of the Christian religion in which it is possible to be as pleasing to God as in the Catholic Church; that the civil power can determine the limits within which the Catholic Church may exercise authority; that Roman Pontiffs and Ecumenical Councils have erred in defining matters of faith and morals; that the Church does not have direct or indirect temporal power or the right to invoke force; that in a conflict between Church and State the civil law should prevail; that the civil power has the right to appoint and depose bishops; that the entire direction of public schools in which the youth of Christian states are educated must be by the civil power; that the Church should be separated from the State and the State from the Church; that moral laws do not need divine sanction; that it is permissible to rebel against legitimate princes; that a civil contract may among Christians constitute true marriage; that the Catholic religion should no longer be the religion of the State to the exclusion of all other forms of worship; and «that the Roman Pontiff can and should reconcile himself to and agree with progress, liberalism and modern civilization.»

The Gender Equality Duty requires public authorities «proactively to address the individual needs of women and men in all their functions» (official guidance).

The new Gender Equality Duty (Equality Act 2006), effective from 6 April 2007, requires all public authorities, including those commissioning parenting services, to have «due regard» to the need to promote equality of opportunity between men and women.

Caroline Smith DeWaal of the Center for Science in the Public Interest testified that federal food safety agencies need authority to order recalls and trace food.

The Gender Equality Duty requires public authorities «proactively to address the individual needs of women and men in all their functions» (to quote the official guidance on the Duty published by the Equal Opportunities Commission — and available on www.eoc.org.uk).

He therefore pledged his support to forge strategic partnership with traditional authorities, private sector, public institutions, NGOs and individuals, «to attract the needed investment to design, and implement programmes and projects to impact positively on the lives of the people».

Documents with classified information that the government chooses to release to a general public do not need such authorities or justifications for redaction of information.

The challenges and current issues imposed on Local Authorities are an opportunity for innovation and efficiency in the way that services are designed, managed and provided for taxpayers and the travelling public to deliver the infrastructure the UK needs.»

Julio Rhymer, the executive director of the Virgin Islands Water and Power Authority, quibbles with that, saying the public utility had long - established plans to bring in hundreds of utility workers after the storms but needed to phase in their arrival on the islands in an orderly fashion.

The paper singled out Assemblyman Richard Brodsky for being a «dogged champion» of public authorities reform, but said his reputation for being overly aggressive and grating «even on his allies» doesn't suit the AG's office, which needs a diplomatic leader at its helm.

«Local authorities, landlords, retailers and the public need to work together to really animate the spaces they occupy; re-imagined as destinations for retail, socialising, culture, health, wellbeing, creativity and learning.»

Radical innovations from local authorities are needed in the face of a «tsunami of a public sector recession», a thinktank has said.

If the PM needed a little reminder of the public's scepticism about Westminster politics, he needed to look no further than the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority (Ipsa), which was going out of its way to give politicians a bad name.

· Allowing counties an option to modify how they fund state mandated pension contributions · Providing counties more audit authority in the special education preschool program · Improving government efficiency and streamlining state and local legislative operations by removing the need for counties to pursue home rule legislative requests every two years with the state legislature in order to extend current local sales tax authority · Reducing administrative and reporting requirements for counties under Article 6 public health programs · Reforming the Workers Compensation system · Renewing Binding Arbitration, which is scheduled to sunset in June 2013, with a new definition of «ability to pay» for municipalities under fiscal distress, making it subject to the property tax cap (does not apply to NYC) where «ability to pay» will be defined as no more than 2 percent growth in the contract.

He said he doesn't understand why Cuomo and the Public Bridge Authority need more studies when some of his research had been conducted in partnership with scientists from credible institutions, including Harvard and Columbia universities.

If Cuomo's plan were to go through, every project funded through these bonds would need to be cleared by the Public Authorities Control Board, a three - member body that needs unanimous approval for all votes.

He controls one of the three votes on the Public Authorities Control Board, which needs to approve the project unanimously.

Cuomo signed two bills repealing the statutory authorization for 28 local public authorities and 95 urban renewal and industrial development agencies that are «either defunct, were never ultimately established by local law, or are no longer needed to carry out the public function for which they were formed.»

Polanco acknowledged that in order to enact such an agenda, the Public Advocate — a largely ceremonial citywide elected position with little direct authority — needs to heavily rely on the bully pulpit and organizing, as opposed to hard power.

Public Housing Investment: Mayor de Blasio allocated $ 1 billion in capital funds in his revised capital spending plan towards roof repairs at 729 NYCHA buildings, putting a dent in the $ 17 billion in capital needs at the public housing authPublic Housing Investment: Mayor de Blasio allocated $ 1 billion in capital funds in his revised capital spending plan towards roof repairs at 729 NYCHA buildings, putting a dent in the $ 17 billion in capital needs at the public housing authpublic housing authority.

Under the Leadership of Assembly Speaker Carl E. Heastie, the Assembly Majority fought hard to secure much needed capital funding for the public housing developments owned and operated by New York City House Authority (NYCHA).

The new coalition points to a number of potential changes to the constitution that they would like to see, including the creation of a public financing system for campaigns, election reforms like same - day registration, court reforms to make it easier to navigate the judicial system and the ability for local municipalities to exercise greater control over issues they traditionally need state authority to manage.

Second, disagreements between members of the combined authority (made up of Barnsley, Doncaster, Rotherham and Sheffield)-- and with the Government — mean that the public consultation needed to unlock the powers and resources on offer as part of the city region's devolution deal has not yet taken place.

Developing land owned by the New York City Housing Authority has the potential to generate much - needed revenue for the public housing agency while simultaneously creating more affordable housing, but those benefits drop off abruptly in less affluent neighborhoods, according to a report released today by NYU's Furman Center.

This multi-year pattern of rising tolls leads to one conclusion: the Thruway Authority is an unaccountable and grossly mismanaged public authority in need of adult supAuthority is an unaccountable and grossly mismanaged public authority in need of adult supauthority in need of adult supervision.

And on Tuesday Public Advocate Letitia James demanded that the authority do the right thing, writing to NYCHA Chairwoman Shola Olatoye: «I strongly urge you to comply with the demands made by your residents and the Legal Aid Society without forcing the need for legal action.»

ALBANY — Taking a scythe to one of the weedier corners of the state's administrative garden, Gov. Andrew Cuomo signed two bills repealing the statutory authorization for 28 local public authorities and 95 urban renewal and industrial development agencies that are «either defunct, were never ultimately established by local law, or are no longer needed to carry out the public function for which they were formed,» according to the governor's release.

It is worth noting that this reckless commitment above the budgeted amount was questioned by the Public Procurement Authority (PPA) in December 2016 when COCOBOD needed to seek approval to award additional contracts and the Authority inquired about the availability of budgetary provision to enable it to approve the requested contract awards.

«Our cities have been engulfed by filth and there is the urgent need for public authorities to finance and make our cities clean and in the case of Accra, fulfilling my pledge, one of the most ambitious of my presidency, to make it the cleanest city of Accra by the end of my term».

ANDREW LANSLEY: Yes, I think he was right because the authority of parliament frankly has been brought in to crisis point and that authority needs to be re-established not just in relation to the Speaker, but in so many other ways, which is why tomorrow for example, the scrutiny panel that David Cameron has established, that is going to be looking not only at making sure that everything we do is transparent and reasonable in the future on clear, unambiguous rules, but we are going to look back, as indeed we've done in the Shadow Cabinet and said, it's not about whether we were within the rules, it's not about whether it was legitimate, it's actually about whether we have done something which is unreasonable, which the public would not regard as acceptable and that, that test, that tougher test is one we've applied to ourselves and we will apply throughout the Conservative Parliamentary Party.

We need public health authorities, of course, but we also need them to get their messages right.

The journals said they would accept this, as long as some mechanism could be found to get that information to people who needed it — notably scientists handling H5N1 and public health authorities in countries with the virus, both of whom need to watch for those mutations.

The cases leave public health authorities in the U.S. and elsewhere wondering if a new swine - origin flu virus is circulating at low levels among humans — and what needs to be done if that is indeed happening.

Romania has a vast stock of badly insulated public housing, constructed by authorities who had lost sight of citizens» needs and mistakenly believed that manufacturing insulation used more energy than it would save.

Moreover, public institutions need the authorization of a public authority to take on debt, which in recent years has become hard or even impossible, Andradas says.

The dispute was ultimately settled but the case underscored the high stakes of labor disputes involving electric utilities, as well as the potential danger to public safety and the need for clarification of the authority of state public utility commissions, Scott said.

«Public health authorities need rapid and efficient ways to genetically detect drug - resistant parasites in order to track their emergence and spread,» says Dr Olivo Miotto, first author of the paper from Oxford University, Mahidol University in Thailand, and the MRC Centre for Genomics and Global Health.

Likewise, Georgetown University Medical Center associate professor Kevin T. FitzGerald said he hopes British authorities «will delay processing this request by the Francis Crick Institute until the broad, public engagement that is needed to help guide the use of this powerful research tool can be accomplished.»