Sentences with phrase «public claims to the contrary»

Clearly Duncan knows this, but, he would rather make public claims to the contrary, and support his claims with irrelevant metrics.

Not exact matches

The aim of these recent suits (contrary to the claims of outraged separationists) is not to restore traditional religious teaching and practices, but to purge away a «counterreligion,» an alternative system of belief that the plaintiffs claim public schools are inculcating.

13) The above claims have public relevance because they concern the public good; they are no more or less discriminatory than other bona fide claims about the public good, and their contraries or alternatives have no greater prima facie claim to public consideration.

I agree that arguments contrary to Farrow's «have no greater prima facie claim to public consideration» than do his.

Despite the mayor's claims to the contrary, City & State found some details of his nonprofit groups and their interactions with City Hall remain private or virtually inaccessible to the public, and oversight of them appears muddled with largely voluntary compliance.

Claim 1: «Madam Charlotte Osei, the Chairperson of the Electoral Commission on 30th June, 2015 assumed office as Article 71 appointee whiles still holding office as a Board Member of Ghana Re Insurance, a public company contrary to Article 44 (4) of the 1992 Constitution.

Claim 27: «The Chairperson, Mrs. Charlotte Osei unilaterally awarded a contract of about $ 25,000 to a South African company, Quazar Limited to change and redevelop the Commission's logo under the guise of rebranding without going to tender contrary to the Public Procurement Act.»

Claim 23: «The Chairperson has constituted herself into the Commission's Tender Review Committee contrary to the Public Procurement Act.

A public utterly convinced that despite all evidence to the contrary people claiming disability benefits are mostly on the fiddle.

Senator Patty Murray has argued that, for students in rural areas, «their public school is the only real option and claims to the contrary only amount to «false choice.

And contrary to the claim that vouchers hurt public schools, the report found that students at Milwaukee public schools «are performing at somewhat higher levels as a result of competitive pressure from the school voucher program.»

She makes clear that, contrary to the claims being made, public school test scores and graduation rates are the highest they've ever been, and dropout rates are at their lowest point.

Contrary to the claims of Republican legislative leaders, the newly adopted education budget cuts to have led to hundreds of teacher layoffs and thousands of lost jobs according to data released recently by the Department of Public Instruction.

The most serious problem facing public schools, according to parents polled, contrary to claims by reformers, is the fundamental lack of adequate funding, with school overcrowding being the second most serious concern cited by parents.

Contrary to the claims of the powerful charter school lobby, the charter initiative has left public schools with a higher and higher percentage of challenging students and fewer resources to offer them.

Contrary to the widespread claim that vouchers do not benefit participants and hurt public schools, the empirical evidence consistently shows vouchers improve outcomes for participants and public schools.

Significant progress in reducing emissions and limiting climate change could be achieved if companies 1) unequivocally communicate to the public, shareholders, and policymakers the climate risks resulting from continued use of their products, and therefore the need for restrictions on greenhouse gas emissions consistent with the 2 °C global temperature target; 2) firmly reject contrary claims by industry trade associations and lobbying groups; and, 3) accelerate their transition to the production of low - carbon energy.

In these three cases, the debtors had claimed that the awards were unenforceable because they were contrary to public policy, and due to improper notification of the proceedings and invalidity of the arbitration clause.

We successfully struck out a claim brought against our client, Mr Xavier Huertas (a French insolvency practitioner) by Dr Richard Smith who was seeking a declaration in the English Courts that a Judgment obtained by Mr Huertas against him in France should not be recognised or registered in England under the 2001 Brussels Regulation on the ground that it would be manifestly contrary to public policy.