Sentences with phrase «public duties because»

Bharara said the secret agreement was a corruption of Silver's public duties because he continued to be lobbied by lobbyists from the developers and some of the developer's recommendations on real estate issues were adopted into law by the legislature.

Not exact matches

«It's unconstitutional because we have the duty to regulate our zoning and public safety.

Tocqueville said religion is «the first political institution» of American democracy because it was through religion that Americans are schooled in morality, the rule of law, and the habits of public duty.

A duty, but also a privilege — and a privilege because it enables each to share with all, to give to and receive from the fellowship, to make public profession of and witness to the faith that is ours and to encourage others to do so by sharing in a common activity.

They will be duty bound to push for their manifesto commitments and although the Liberal Democrats argue that they would help reign in Labour profligacy, it is hard to imagine they would force a second election because public spending cuts are not deep enough.

Elected officials should serve the public because they feel it is a civic duty, not because of the rate of pay.

Mohammed said that the present administration owes it a duty to put the record straight, especially because the issues raised by the former President are of public interest and borders on national security.

There are some parliamentary occasions that we cover in detail here, not necessarily because they are going to be riveting, but out of a Reithian sense of public duty (eg, David Cameron at the liaison committee).

A Cuomo administration official, speaking anonymously because negotiations are ongoing, said an ethics proposal under consideration would force lawmakers to disclose the source of any outside income they receive within narrow bands, including any money «in substantial conflict with public duties» of a lawmaker.

Pastor Omokri who, in a series of tweets, advised President Muhammadu Buhari to hand - over power to his vice, Professor Yemi Osinbajo if he (Buhari) is too sick and can't cope with the presidential duties however urged the civil servants in Nigeria too to sue the Federal Government if their bosses query or sack them for absenteeism because President Muhammadu Buhari who is the chief public servant has missed work (the Federal Executive Council meetings) three times now.

We need to make sure that we are in control over the things that affects us.Anytime there is flood and people loose their life, most of the blame goes to sitting presidents.I am not saying that the central government does not have responsibility to ensure that enabling environment is created.They have a great work to do but as citizens what is our quota?When you move around Accra, sometimes i becomes angry within myself because i am in doubt as to whether our sanitation laws exit.People because of the tax they claim they pay waits for zoom lion workers to come and clean the choked gutters before our houses and shops either than that, it will remain like that.Is it modernity or civilization that has turned us to forget our traditional values or duties of ensuring that our environments is clean?Everybody in our Ghanaian setting knows the responsibility of men and women in making sure that our environments are clean not waiting for flood to occur and we start blaming sitting presidents.To the media, though your responsibility is to keep governments on it toes, you equally have a mandate in educating the public of what we are expected to do as citizens in other to ensure that our dear nation is a better ecosystem for all of us to live.The attention of the media should be shifted from making politicians popular to making us aware as citizens of our responsibilities.I sometimes get confused to hear journalists calling opponents to comment on issues concerning the sitting governments and the only thing that comes to my mind is what do the journalist want to hear from the political opponents?Nothing.They will end up criticizing without giving an alternative.The media should rather resort in questioning people directly to where the problems are coming from.Let us build our institutions.When it comes to energy issues.Citifm will call Hon.KT Hammond who was a deputy minister living who he worked under (His boss at that time) and I always become confused because what can we expect from him?nothing.

«I believe that if scientists had refused to carry out this research because we feared (rightfully) that our work would be misrepresented, we would have failed to do our duty as experts, which is to inform the public.

This approach has led Connecticut to, «[b] eyond a reasonable doubt» as Judge Moukawsher writes, «default on its constitutional duty to provide adequate public school opportunities because it has no rational, substantial and verifiable plan to distribute money for education aid.»

Because state takeovers have been characterized by conversion of public schools into charter schools; schools unaccountable to elected boards, with little duty to report on its finances, yet they receive millions in public funds.

The trial court held that «Connecticut is defaulting on its constitutional duty to provide adequate public school opportunities because it has no rational, substantial and verifiable plan to distribute money for education aid and school construction.»

It said, «[t] he Meredith court distinguished the Bush decision because the Indiana Constitution contained no «adequate provision» clause and no restriction on the mandate to provide a free public school system, and instead contained two distinct duties — «to encourage... moral, intellectual, scientific, and agricultural improvement,» and «to provide... for a general and uniform system of Common Schools.

At university, we have a few guards and 2 or so police officers on duty, because the building is huge and large government, public buildings with massive amounts of people in it SHOULD have some security.

This was clear to us a while ago since we played them when we were kids, but now it's clear to us because you can hear them in just about any public match of Halo, Call of Duty, or most online shooters.

As a DIA curator, I researched our extraordinary painting collection, enhanced our permanent galleries by displaying our artwork in new ways, curated temporary exhibitions, visited private and public art collections with our patrons, and identified new works for acquisition among many other things — the work curators perform is one of the most interesting in the museum profession because of the multiplicity of duties that it entails.

The youth had argued the State had a duty to reduce its emissions more quickly because the youth's and future generations» constitutional rights to essential public trust resources were being threatened.

«The bar took into consideration that the bâtonnière has to be irreproachable, because she is representing justice; her duty is to protect the public.»

The Council contended that TfL's decision was unlawful because of a failure to comply with the public sector equality duty; and a failure to take account of relevant considerations.

487.11 Either a peace officer or a public officer who has been appointed or designated to administer or enforce a federal or provincial law and whose duties include the enforcement of this or any other Act of Parliament may, in the course of their duties, exercise any of the powers described in section 487, 492.1 or 492.2 without a warrant if the conditions for obtaining a warrant exist but it would not be feasible to obtain a warrant because of exigent circumstances.

No person in Canada should be refused a legal public service because of the moral disapproval of the person whose duty it is to provide that service.

& Prof. Code § 6007 (b)(3) provides the bar with this authority if, after notice and an opportunity to be heard, the State Bar Court finds that «because of mental infirmity or illness,» the lawyer is either (1) unable to or «habitually fails to perform his or her duties or undertakings competently,» or is (2) «unable to practice law without substantial threat of harm to the interests of his or her clients or the public.»

Invitees have a duty to their guests, customers, and patrons to actively ensure that dangerous conditions do not exist on their property because they hold themselves out in such a way that they are generally open to the public.

The duty of care was not defeated under the second branch of the Anns test, which deals with public policy considerations that would weigh against a duty of care, because it was in the public interest that professional accountants who undertake to create wills do so with care not only for the best interests of their clients but also for the intended beneficiaries under those wills.

; (4) taxpayers would not have to pay for a justice system that provides lawyers a good place to earn a living but doesn't provide affordable legal services for those taxpayers; (5) the problem wouldn't be causing more damage in one day than all of the incompetent and unethical lawyers have caused in the whole of Canada's history (6) the legal profession would be expanding instead of contracting; because, (7) if legal services were affordable, lawyers would have more work than they could handle because people have never needed lawyers more; (8) law schools would be expanding their enrolments instead of being urged to contract them; (9) the problem would not be causing serious & increasing damage to the population, the courts, the legal profession, and to legal aid organizations because their funding varies inversely with the cost of legal services for taxpayers who finance legal aid's free legal services; (10) there would be a published LSUC text that declares the problem to be its problem and duty to solve it, and accurately defines the problem; (11) Canada would not have a seriously «legally crippled» population and constitution - the Canadian Charter of Rights an Freedoms is a «paper tiger» without the help of a lawyer; (12) Canada's justice system might again be «the envy of the world»; (13) the public statements of benchers would not show that they don't understand the cause of the problem and haven't tried to understand it; (14) LSUC's webpage, «Your Legal Bill - To High?»

All schools, including public, Catholic and private, have a legal duty to provide students with an educational environment free from harassment and other forms of discrimination because of their race, ancestry, place of origin, colour, ethnic origin, citizenship, creed, sexual orientation, age, marital status, family status or disability and sex including gender identity.

Needed is a civil service for law societies because a civil service is: (1) permanent; (2) an institution of continuously developing expertise; (3) charged with a duty of vigilance as to public need; and, (4) able to carry out programs requiring long - term development, including development that bridges bencher elections and requires the trial - and - error learning for which benchers are not equipped.

[95] In my view, a finding of proximity based entirely on a regulator's public acknowledgement of its public duties to those affected by its actions, coupled with reliance by those affected on the regulator's public statements, is inconsistent with the Supreme Court's rejection in Imperial Tobacco of the claim that Health Canada owed a private law duty of care to consumers of low - tar cigarettes because it had made public representations as to the relative safety of those cigarettes.

Because English law does not recognise a claim for damages for breach of a public law right as such, a claimant who wishes to recover compensation for economic losses allegedly suffered as a result of a breach of statutory duty by a public authority must satisfy the court that the statute in question confers on him a private law cause of action.

«But because I have a civic duty to democracy and the overwhelming public interest, we [felt] we had a duty to dive a bit deeper as public citizens.»

The mixed message is that RECO is telling the public to use Realtors that RECO themselves appear to have determined aren't meeting the public's expectations of a Realtor's duty of care and skill... because too many realtors (45 %?)

It was not a commitment mandated by the marketplace because it involved the voluntary acceptance of liabilities and responsibilities, duties and costs, limitations and obligations, which the public did not even perceive as their due.