Sentences with phrase «public commitment»

I'm a mission priest, and my mission field is mainstream media, where it's very difficult for people who make public commitments to faith to get a hearing.

A framework that incorporates the progressive realization principle, with public commitments by government, with targets and benchmarks and with processes for monitoring, would facilitate questions such as is enough being done?

Thus, to begin to make progress on this extremely difficult matter will require enhanced private and public commitment alike.

This act is not an instant accomplishment, taking place in the secret chambers of the heart, but, as the inquiry suggests, a lifelong public commitment.

Contact those who have made personal public commitments to share health data.

Another big change since 2014 is the rise in companies making public commitments to open their patent portfolios to the public.

That leads into the other big drawback: a lack of public commitment.

Trump had public commitments from county leaders representing less than five percent of the weighted vote, but chairs representing roughly 22 percent were holding out for him to enter the race.

Bronfenbrenner says that based on her 25 years of labor research, the AFT was right to conclude that the vote would fail given the drop in public commitments to vote in favor.

This is why the law until the 1960s resisted or delayed divorce, gave a privileged status to monogamous marriage and upheld the need for public commitments of a mutually consenting man and woman as the ground for the formation of legal families.

Evidenced by a range of indicators such as; oversubscription, upsizing, as well as public commitments, green bond mandates and statements of expectation from investor groups, green bonds are also being used to successfully tap into the vast capital pool of institutional investors globally (US$ 88 trillion).

Canada is the second largest country in the world by area and boasts both a vibrant nationwide arts community and a strong public commitment to culture.

The FCAC also helps to educate consumers and monitors industry codes of conduct and public commitments designed to protect the interests of the consumers.

He is also receiving help rallying votes from a number of influential committee members — including Mississippi committeeman Henry Barbour — and has the most public commitments so far.

He has secured the most public commitments so far from among the committee's 168 voting members and oversaw Badger State Republicans» impressive wins in this year's gubernatorial, Senate and House races.

Create a sense of accountability in seniors through public commitment to help fight summer melt

In spite of highly public commitments by Prime Minister Stephen Harper and U.S. President Barack Obama to speed the flow of goods across the border, many companies are facing a very different reality on the ground, he said.

Over that period, it will cost the state more than $ 450,000 — a significant public commitment to a women's health initiative.

The clear public commitment by the authorities (the Government and the Bank) to maintaining low inflation over the medium term appears to have been an important factor in turning around expectations.

He or she would commend public commitment to Islam's truth claims.

On July 19, seven national academies, including the Royal Society, urged the government to make a «bold public commitment» that the United Kingdom wants to retain and build on its research base, «to assuage any loss of confidence in UK research».

«The results move beyond educational posters, showing how public commitments and active engagement can prompt greater personal motivation to perform a behavior, in this case reversing a tendency to prescribe antibiotics when they are not effective,» Doctor said.

«In our investigation of VSCs, we find social identity motivates public commitment in support of goal attainment,» the researchers write.

If this is true - if academic education is merely about the three R's - then we might well ask: Why should any society make a fundamental and expensive public commitment to common schools?

The Public Engagement Toolkit: Create public commitment and strengthen confidence in public education.

Mr. Horovitz indicated to Mr. Lampert that once the process was complete Avigen would communicate its findings to stockholders and that the Board did not believe that it would be prudent to make public commitments until that time.

In November 2016, seven African heads of state made a collective public commitment to sustainable palm oil development at the UN Climate Change Conference in Marrakesh.

The Conference of the Parties (COP) and its ensuing results showed that governments are not willing to take on consistent public commitments and that they tend to transfer the practical responsibility for achieving (notoriously insufficient) targets to the private initiative.

EIA has released a new report exposing leading U.S. retailers such as Walmart, Publix, and Safeway as doing little to meet public commitments to phase out hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs), some of the most potent greenhouse gases (GHGs), used most commonly in refrigeration and air conditioning systems.

I can't help feeling that had the research been conducted in the US, where law firms have a far greater public commitment to pro bono work and where commercial lawyers are more likely to spend time in public office, the lawyers would have come across as being a little more broad - minded and worldly.

Foley Hoag earned the 100 percent rating as a result of its commitment to four main criteria as described by the Human Rights Campaign: providing equal benefits for same - sex partners and spouses; no benefits discrimination for transgender employees and dependents; demonstrating a firmwide organizational competency on LGBT issues; and demonstrating a firmwide public commitment to the LGBT community.

Some former presidents of the Tertiary Students» Confederacy Network (TESCON), in the Ashanti Region, have commended Ghana's High Commissioner to South Africa, George Ayisi Boateng, for making public his commitment to prioritize members of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) in his dealings with Ghanaians.

Historically, energy modernization has been driven by a strong public commitment to expand modern energy services, ensure equitable energy access, and achieve broader economic development goals.

Official renewable energy targets have become nearly universal, with some form of public commitment in 93 percent of countries covered by the RISE indicators.

Audi and Volvo are making a very public commitment to Google after pledging to build Android into their next generation of cars... Google was demoing a [prototype] Maserati that was running Android at last year's I / O.

The proponent clearly has more work to do in order to fulfill the public commitment it has made to engage with Aboriginal groups and local communities along the route.»

Since 2014, tech companies have been reporting the demographics of their workers and have made public commitments to increase the diversity of their workforces.

Why DanoneWave took the steps to become the largest public benefit corporation in the U.S. with a public commitment to become a Certified B Corp by 2020

With growing interest and support from public markets (including through the incorporation of DanoneWave as the largest public benefit corporation in the U.S. and their public commitment to become a Certified B Corp by 2020 as well as Laureate Education's IPO in early 2017), multi-billion dollar companies are following suit and choosing to operate their businesses with purpose and accountability.

If you have a complaint in respect to a violation of a consumer protection law, a public commitment or an industry code of conduct, you may contact the FCAC as follows:

There first was a public commitment to reach the 2 % price stability target within roughly two years and maintain it.

But that group that showed their public commitment to everybody else in the room, 86 percent of them got one full grade better and moved from a C to a B or a D to a C on the next exam.»