Sentences with phrase «public denial of»

Imperial Oil, Exxon's Canadian subsidiary, as these documents demonstrate, had a clear understanding of the environmental and climate consequences of CO2 pollution from fossil fuel combution, yet its public denial of these links grew stronger throughout the 1990s.

I really think Amazon's public denial of a new Kindle version is to sustain sales of V1.0 and keep competitors guessing.

The phone call, which is corroborated by taped evidence, flies in the face of the Liberal Democrat MP's repeated public denials of the allegations.

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But politicians who believe they can replicate the Canadian experience in the current climate are «in a state of denial — total political and public denial,» according to Don Drummond, who was an assistant deputy finance minister under Martin.

It's maybe one reason why people are so easily misled into climate change denial when there don't seem to be any definitive and reliable sources of data that are open to the public where information is presented in various different ways that most ordinary people are interested in.

Trump's denial was the first time he's made a public statement about the money given to Daniels ahead of the 2016 election to keep her silent about her alleged 2006 affair with Trump.

Once a debt obligation is paid in full, a lot of times a lender will not terminate the lien automatically, this means that you could be closing up a financing arrangement and receive a delay or denial at the 11th hour, due to the results of your current lender's public records search uncovering the existence of UCC - 1 liens that are still active.

She should speak out against the climate change denial rampant in opposition circles and talk about the benefits of the carbon tax, the transition to renewable energy and her government's investments in public services and infrastructure.

I lived in denial for years because I was afraid of what might happen to me and my personal relationships (family and friends) if I were to make public who it is that I truely am.

It is christians who are out attempting to impose their views (ie: denial of gay rights b / c their book apparently says so; denial of women's rights; using the threat of hell; teaching dis - proven creationism to innocent children) on the public.

The crucifixion, viewed simply as an historical event, is the ultimate evil: the betrayal, denial, unjust and cowardly condemnation, blaspheming and brutalising, flogging, public humiliation and torturing to death of the Son of God himself.

I wonder how much of their support was based on a sort of shocked denial that the accusations COULD be true, given the public face of Tony with which they were familiar.

And for the record, the archbishop of Denver has never threatened any public official with the denial of Communion ¯ including Sen. John Kerry.

Lipstadt insists, wisely, that no scholar or survivor should engage deniers in debates or other public forums, since this would only give the impression that, whatever the final judgment, Holocaust denial represents a legitimate point of view.

• The public has been dragged through a labyrinth of denials, retractions, redefinitions and tortured arguments, all designed to justify and rationalize lowered moral standards in the treatment of prisoners, not to strengthen and defend high ethical standards.

The denial of cultural expression, which almost inevitably includes religious expression, in public is the death of democracy.

The sin of the church, according to Annie Dillard, is the absence of expectancy in its life and witness, the failure to take adequate account of what the living God is contemporaneously doing in the world to bring his reign to visibility in, with, and under the affairs of the earth; the practical denial of the trustworthiness of the Father, the efficacy of the Son, and the agency of the Holy Spirit in personal and public life.

475, HB 7906) R.I. Gen. Laws § 23 -13.5-1 and § 23 -13.5-2 (2008) allow a woman to feed her child by bottle or breast in any place open to the public and would allow her a private cause of action for denial of this right.

For example, in the above case, US media seemed to be in a denial mode that, Trump had managed to radicalize the general public of US against muslims / refugees.

The denial by Jay Sekulow, one of several personal lawyers Trump has hired to represent him in the Russia case, is the latest of many examples in which the president's aides and lawyers have scrambled to avert a public - relations mess created by the preident's tweets, off - script remarks or leaked private conversations.

But he said he wanted his story — his denial of wrongdoing — to be made public.

There were also civilian detentions in military facilities, often based on flimsy evidence; denial of fair public trial; executive influence on the judiciary; infringement on citizens» privacy rights; restrictions on freedoms of speech, press, assembly, and movement

Public Advocate Bill de Blasio, who Quinn's campaign had accused of being connected with the ad, said Quinn was «in denial about how upset people are at the positions she's taken.»

This could include denial of all government loans, grants, subsidies and public contracts to tax avoiders.

The bills that Cuomo vetoed address the culture of denial and delay that dominates state agencies when it comes to answering information requests from the public.

«The talk of the Big Society is meaningless, there is just no substitute for public services and, despite the denials, it is a cover for cuts.

The Low Incomes Tax Reform Group (LITRG) has welcomed a recommendation in a report by the House of Commons Work and Pensions Committee that the «self - employed» should be given at least «worker» employment status unless the engager of their labour can prove otherwise.1 This is a recommendation that LITRG made in written evidence to a separate inquiry.2 LITRG believes that the denial of employment rights to people working in the «gig economy» and the exploitation of other flexible workers regarding their taxes share a common cause: the workers» own lack of knowledge, their reluctance to challenge their treatment because they lack confidence or just need the work and the businesses involved apparently having little fear of action being taken against them by public bodies.

In response to ESD's repeated delays and denials of Freedom of Information Law (FOIL) requests, Reclaim New York (Reclaim) filed a lawsuit today in State Supreme Court against New York State's lead economic development agency to obtain public records related to how the agency spent $ 246.5 million on advertising initiatives.

But the right to bargain collectively is offset by the law's denial to public sector unions of labor's major lever to achieve its bargaining goals — the strike.

ALBANY — State Attorney General Eric Schneiderman has reached deals with three major real estate firms to stop what he claimed was the illegal denial of apartments to people on public housing assistance, the Daily News has learned.

«Given the overwhelming evidence that Exxon Mobil knew the facts about climate change but chose to mislead the public and their investors through a massive campaign of climate denial, we strongly support NYS lawmakers taking action to hold them accountable, «Lipton said.

THAT at the upcoming conventions of the National Educational Association and the American Federation of Teachers, NYSUT sponsor and support resolutions encouraging teacher unions, public employee unions, private sector unions and not - for - profit organizations to call upon their pension and retirement funds to not invest in private equity funds that are complicit in and profit from the denial of the rights to organize into a union and bargain collectively.

Climate change denial has increased across all sectors of the American general public over the last decade, write the authors.

«Given the neglect, distrust, denial and manipulation of evidence today, it is more important than ever that reporters have the best available scientific evidence — provided with clarity and context — to inform the public about issues so very relevant to their lives,» said Rush Holt, chief executive officer at AAAS.

Kempe is the lead author of the article, which found high rates of payment - denial from private insurers, school restrictions on charging fees to parents, and low payments for vaccine administration from public payers like Medicaid.

«There is no other action associated with this settlement, no admission or denial of wrongdoing and no financial penalty,» the company said of the culmination of a two - year investigation by the New York Attorney General's Office in which it was accused of violating state laws prohibiting «false and misleading conduct» in statements to the public and investors.

But he wrote in a 2008 essay for the Science and Public Policy Institute, a climate denial website, that upon closer inspection of the research he found it to be «flimsy.»

One key member of the denial machine, astrophysicist Willie Soon from the Smithsonian Institute for Astrophysics, has portrayed himself as an «expert» on mercury and public health in order to attack legislation curbing mercury emissions from coal plants.

«-LSB-...] The denial or rewriting of this type of historical fact undermines the values on which the fight against racism and anti-Semitism are based and constitutes a serious threat to public order.

On the flip side we're also seeing a rise in cyber attacks in the education and public sectors with the Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks on the NHS making national headlines last year and more recently hoax bomb phishing emails demanding money from schools.

Rothstein says that teachers have a role to play in making sure that this history — which includes the denial of public services to certain neighborhoods, the segregation of public housing, the awarding of building contracts for developments that would exclude African - Americans, among other things — is better known.

Just 36 percent of them, according to Public Agenda, believe that their tougher scrutiny of weak teachers is leading to tenure denials and only 30 percent report that student achievement is being factored into their teacher evaluations.

After 1950 its effects were compounded by the shift public - opinion analyst Daniel Yankelovich details in New Rules from the ethic of self - denial to the ethic of self - fulfillment.

If the FOIA Coordinator denies a request, the FOIA Coordinator will explain the reasons for denying the request, that is, either the public record is exempt from disclosure or the public record does not exist and will inform the requesting party of the right to appeal the denial to the Webberville Community Schools Board or seek judicial review.

The state has essentially taken over Chicago Public Schools» special ed program after a five - month investigation documented systemic delays and denials of vital services for children, in violation of federal law.

Three additional charter proposals, from Magnolia Public Schools, were pulled in advance of the school board meeting because they had been recommended for denial.

B. Local school boards shall report the grant or denial of public charter school applications to the Board and shall specify the maximum number of charters that may be authorized, if any; the number of charters granted or denied; and whether a public charter school is designed to increase the educational opportunities of at - risk students.

The reasons for Tuesday's three recommended denials include low test scores, which the staff report says is «well below the performance of the public schools that the charter school pupils would otherwise have been required to attend.»

«The charter is working on a more comprehensive and detailed response to the board's denial of the petition and will provide this to the district and public in the interests of full disclosure.

Even a modicum of investigation on the part of Commissioner Pryor and the State Board of Education would have led to the denial of the Booker T. Washington Charter School, yet Rev. Morrison, who now has a lucrative five - year charter to run a private school with public funds has the audacity to claim that Connecticut's charter school application process is «grueling.»