Sentences with phrase «public explanation for»

Given the wide myriad of facts and cases which Justice Zabel could face, a public explanation for the hat is likely warranted, especially in light of the wide number of enumerated and analogous groups attacked through use of this political symbol, or the hundreds who have been publicly insulted.

Furthermore, Target's public explanation for its refusal to use a universal proxy card does not address why Target would not permit its nominees to be named on Pershing Square's Gold proxy card.

Neither Berkshire nor Buffett gave a public explanation for the CEO's departure.

Not exact matches

Barry Racey, AK Steel's public relations director, offered some explanation for Wainscott's pay bump: «2014 compensation decisions were made early in the... year, and were largely based on 2013 company performance.

The study also neglects to consider several reasonable explanations for a modest premium in public administration hourly wage growth compared to the average.

The explanation provided was that as a «result of accounting changes due to the Jobs and Economic Action Plan, public debt charge forecasts from the Federal Budget are no longer a reasonable estimate of cash - basis expenditures for reporting in the Estimates» [5].

The «Building Alberta» clause — passing legislation that compels the government to publicly disclose criteria for determining public infrastructure investment priorities, a clear public infrastructure priority list, and a detailed explanation for changing the priority list when that occurs.

The subject of financial stability does, however, call for some public explanation.

Few states have ever provided a more cogent explanation for any public policy, and none has ever furnished a more coherent defense of the ban against assisted suicide.

While both Lancaster and Edwards deplore the collapse of public services, their explanations for this collapse differ.

Dawkins, Krauss, Hawking, etc. develop theories and explanations and expose their theories to other scientists and the public for rigorous review, unlike religion which is no better than unproven myth and astrology.

Of course science has a different story to tell us and until someone refutes the scientific basis for the age of the earth and the evolutionary basis for the creation of life the Biblical explanation should be taught only in religious schools and has no place in secular public education.

-LSB-...] of public - school children Chris Liebig offers the following explanation for what he calls the «incredible shrinking lunch period»: At a meeting with concerned parents, the school superintendent sympathized with our concerns, but -LSB-...]

-LSB-...] and parent of public - school children offers the following explanation for what he calls the «incredible shrinking lunch period»: At a meeting with concerned parents, the school superintendent sympathized with our concerns, but -LSB-...]

No other explanation was given, but the damage was certainly done, he had made Brooks feel ashamed for breastfeeding in public.

Many in the Conservative Party are convinced the public are obsessed about the unfairness of the modern economy — as if this was part of the explanation for Labour's rise.

Her only public explanation was the assertion that: «You can't run for leader at the same time as being deputy leader».

A state - provided fact sheet, written as a simple explanation for residents who have elevated levels of PFOA in their bodies and posted online, is misleading and does not adequately convey the severity of the danger, according to four public health experts.

The only possible explanation must be the wave of public sympathy for the Tory leader produced by the tragic death of his precious son, Ivan.

Mr Osborne speculated: «The only explanation for the incompetence in not making them public as promised is that Gordon Brown has blocked them at the last minute while he dithers about what to do.»

What would now be good to see from governments is more explanation to their citizens of how the tax system actually works, so the public can makes up its mind with all the facts, such as that corporation tax is paid on profits and not sales and it is legitimate for a subsidiary to pay for the use of intellectual property owned by another group company.

But between the timing of the decision — it was held up for years with little explanation, only to come together shortly after the Cuomo's re-election — and the way it comported with the direction of public opinion, the politics lined up rather neatly for the governor.

The more plausible explanation for Justice Dotse's absence from the Bench on Thursday is that he either recused himself or was asked to recuse himself given his earlier Public Comment on the case.

ALBANY — The state Public Authorities Control Board on Wednesday approved a controversial loan for the Tappan Zee replacement bridge, but not before the amount was cut in half without explanation and officials admitted for the first time there would be a toll hike to pay for the project.

Giving further explanations on the party's request on Eyewitness News, Policy Adviser for PPP, Kofi Asamoah Siaw said: «over the years, the Electoral Commission and some other institutions have conducted public service in a manner in which they please and they have hurt this nation's progress and development, so we have taken issues with the Electoral Commission's function of being a regulator of the activities of political parties.»

Additionally, he is involved in a lawsuit against a private citizen who asked for an explanation in a public meeting of Highway Department expenditures that were brought forward in a public meeting to the Town Board by the Fleet Manager as warranting examination.

Offering explanations for the President's decision to appoint a Minister who will specifically be in charge of Public Procurement, Mustapha Hamid said the President resorted to such a move as a means of tackling wastage through public procurPublic Procurement, Mustapha Hamid said the President resorted to such a move as a means of tackling wastage through public procurpublic procurement.

ReShapeNY wants to see the new maps vetted by an «impartial» panel applying «a clear and objective set of criteria for drawing district lines and a public explanation as to how and why each individual district was drawn.»

«Accepting the notion that breaking down complex concepts from my discipline into very simplified explanations for the understanding of the public does not «dumb down'the work, but in fact gives it greater value, as it can reach more people.»

Gomes said there are several potential explanations for the provincial differences in high - dose opioid prescribing, including varying coverage among public drug plans, training among prescribers and differential marketing on the part of pharmaceutical companies.

The study also postulates some explanations for the ostensible weakness of the EITI: the EITI's limited and its voluntary nature, resistance by the public and corporate sector, and the absence of a strong civil society in many resource - rich countries.

Hamoudi, who teaches in Duke's Sanford School of Public Policy and is a fellow of the Duke Center for Child and Family Policy, points to a very different potential explanation for differing divorce rates: the robustness of female embryos.

Social Theories of Risk presents diverse attempts to provide theoretical explanations for that crisis in public confidence.

Of course, there might be other explanations such as improved awareness among the public of security issues and identity theft and the like as well as more effective and so protective software and security systems on putative targets of cybercrime including as email phishing attacks on bank account, for example.

Such passion for knowledge requires support for science and its institutions, and continual public engagement with science, including interactions with scientists, whom, she said, devote their lives to discovery, evidence - based explanations and proposing solutions to the challenges facing society.

This is basic stuff, of course, at least for the 53 per cent of the American public that accepts evolutionary theory as a scientific explanation of life's rich diversity.

This was more than 15 years ago in a public school in Colombia; I did not have access to computers at that time and my text books were not advanced enough to have all the explanations for all the experiments we conducted in the lab.

A potential explanation for the secular trend may be that while improved treatment for cardiovascular risk factors or complicating diseases has reduced mortality in all weight classes, the effects may have been greater at higher BMI levels than at lower BMI levels.12 Because obesity is a causal risk factor for hypertension, diabetes, cardiovascular disease, and dyslipidemia,15,19 - 22 obese individuals may have had a higher selective decrease in mortality.18 Indirect evidence of this effect is seen in the findings as the deaths occur at similar time periods in the 3 cohorts, but cohorts recruited at later periods have an increase in the BMI associated with the lowest mortality, possibly suggesting a period effect related to changes in clinical practice, such as improved treatments, or general public health status, such as decreased smoking or increased physical activity.

There are problems with NCLB that scream for thoughtful explanation, rigorous attention, and public concern.

The explanation for this questionable act was that the federal agency had no other way to obtain information on state - funded pre-school programs that operate outside the public - school orbit.

One possible alternative explanation for the improvements observed in traditional public schools when a charter school opened nearby is the migration of lower - performing students from the traditional public school to the charter school.

For example, the researchers — whose study was confined to California — found nothing to back one popular explanation: that increased public awareness...

This sort of public broadcast piece is very difficult for the remote students because you don't want to put your hand up in front of everybody and say «I don't get it» and have a teacher publicly live say «well, let me give you some extra explanation for that» — for some students that's very intimidating.

Moreover, the similarity of trends in public and private schools casts doubt on explanations that emphasize the failure of public schools to match growth in parental demand for teacher quality.

Covers the concept of government failure, with thorough explanations and good examples, including discussions of the following reasons for government failure: Imperfect Information Conflicting Objectives Administrative Cost Market Distortions and introduction to Public Choice Theory Very concise (only 11 slides total), this is a good introductory PPT at a good introductory price!

Ponder those odds in light of Weingarten's explanation to the New York Times for the P.S. 194 lawsuit blocking the expansion of Harlem Success: «Parents should have a voice when it comes to their children's education, and by eliminating community schools without public hearings, the D.O.E. is taking away that voice.»

Part of the explanation for this is the widespread ignorance on the part of the general public about just how much already is spent on public schools.

A possible alternative explanation focuses on motivations for moving from public to private school.

Figure 2 contrasts with the relatively smooth accrual that would occur with a cash balance pension plan (see our EFP paper for an explanation of this type of program, used by many large private employers and a few public employers).

In recent years, two explanations, the so - called «Bennett Hypothesis» and «state disinvestment» (state funding cuts for public universities), have received a lot of attention.