Sentences with phrase «public influence on»

The central thrusts of a reborn reform movement should be stockholder action to effect corporate decision - making, the mobilization of public influence on Congress, the development of improved rating systems, the encouragement of research to support policy - making, and the creation of support mechanisms to encourage and inform creative people working in the media industries.10.

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The court wrote in Boyce that «the appearance of unlawful command influence» exists «where an objective, disinterested observer, fully informed of all the facts and circumstances, would harbor a significant double about the fairness of the proceeding» — a calculus evident in Nance's own public comments on Oct. 23.

Trump's public chiding of Merck CEO Ken Frazier — the first person to leave the manufacturing council on Monday — also influenced the decision.

Many governments, businesses and social organizations rely on the data, and opposition groups argue the Conservatives are attempting to influence future public policy decisions since low - income earners and immigrants will be less likely to fill out a voluntary form.

What we're looking at is the inevitable result of that history expressed through public opinion, and influenced by racialized ideas on crime and criminality.

Thursday's sanctions target Russians indicted last month as part of the special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation into Russia's election meddling on charges of conspiracy to interfere in the election by waging a social - media influence operation to sow discord and sway public opinion in the US in favor of Trump.

As his public influence grew, the preacher's stands on the social issues of his day were watched closely by supporters and critics alike.

Protests, despite having no direct influence on legislation, are fundamental to harnessing public opinion around an issue.

Governments have made efforts to improve accountability by requiring lobbyists to register their activity and making campaign contributions public, predicated on the idea that transparency will reduce the risk of undue influence.

Sopko wrote that historically, the number of districts controlled or influenced by the government has been falling since his office began reporting on it, while the number controlled or influenced by the insurgents has been rising — «a fact that should cause even more concern about its disappearance from public disclosure and discussion.»

To measure how well GoPro's customer engagement goals are met, we can look to the comments, shares, and reviews that their audience provides through public feedback and GoPro can measure how their content increases time on site and influences user - generated content.

A few years later, however, Jay - Z is no longer staying mum, and the rapper has shown a sense of public activism that deviates strongly from his previous stances on how to use his wealth and influence to help others.

Published by the conservative think - tank Fraser Institute, the report's goal is to influence public policy and «set the record straight» on «wildly off - base» reports on financial costs of raising children.

Zuckerberg visited with senators in closed - door meetings Monday, previewing the public apology he plans to give Congress on Tuesday after revelations that the data - mining firm Cambridge Analytica gathered personal information from 87 million users to try to influence elections.

They're hard to reach, they distrust marketing, and they have an outsized influence on the general public.

Almost all of the public discussion at the time on the appropriate setting for monetary policy focused on the inflation outcomes excluding the influence of the changes in the tax rate (Graph 4).

Further, it is understood that emphasis should be on recruitment of Directors who bring more than credentials or designations by contributing to a culture that accelerates business success by advocating and influencing public policy, developing business leaders, connecting businesses and presenting thought leaders.

On the basis of the above facts, GEI acknowledged in its settlement agreement that the consulting agreements, even those pursuant to which no amounts were actually paid, violated the anti-bribery provision of the CFPOA, as they constituted agreements to provide, directly or indirectly, a benefit to a foreign public official so as to induce the official to use his position to influence decisions of a foreign state for which he performs duties and functions.

Giving three extra seats on the board to the CEO was certainly founder friendly; that the expansion happened at the same time Uber accepted a $ 3.5 billion investment from Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund, which came with a board seat, suggests Benchmark viewed the board expansion as a way to protect its own interests and influence as well.

Heimans and Timms spoke with MarketWatch by telephone recently about new power and its influence on government, corporate governance, social activism and public opinion.

-- Introduce your business to thousands of potential customers in the entire market area of Cape Cod, the Islands, and the South Shore — Influence the buying decisions of thousands of potential customers — Speak to people who will make a decision to buy your product or service this week — Create a consistent flow of new customer opportunities via foot traffic, phone calls, website traffic, e-newsletter sign ups, social media engagement — Tell «the story» of your business — Differentiate your business from your competitors — Encourage customer loyalty — Educate past customers on why they should come back and do business with you again — Grow your market share — Make your business a household name and create top of mind awareness — Build the credibility of your business — Control the public's perception of your business

A bot is thought to be behind the posting of thousands of messages to the FCC's website, in an apparent attempt to influence the results of a public solicitation for feedback on net neutrality.

It's also marks a shift in the public's expectation of CEO's influence and action on how growth will be achieved in the short, medium and long term.

This report is the result of a coordinated research effort by the central banks of Canada, Italy, Japan, the United Kingdom and the United States and the Bank for International Settlements on the determinants of market liquidity and on how central banks and other public authorities influence these determinants.

Public comments on how to run the study (which will influence the outcome) closed last Monday.

According to its July 2016 publication The Data Revolution: The Big Deal About Big Data, GSAM observes that «investors have access to an enormous amount of information on every public company — information that can potentially influence stock prices and other investment opportunities».

If you grow up in Idaho, Utah, or areas of Arizona you will be subjected to Mormon influence right on your public high school campus:

If you grow up in Idaho, Utah, or Mesa, Arizona you will be subjected to Mormon influence right on your public high school campus:

She added that he doesn't have any influence on whether there should be public Muslim holidays or not because according to German law, individual states have to decide.

If you grew up in Idaho, Utah, or Mesa, Arizona you will be subjected to Mormon influence right on your public high school campus:

It is true that Wesley had his Aldersgate experience under the influence of a public reading of Luther's preface to the commentary on the epistle to the Romans, but when he got around to reading the commentary he found Luther blasphemous in his treatment of law, works, and reason.

Catharine Beecher, sister of Harriet Beecher Stowe and Henry Ward Beecher, argued against women's suffrage on the grounds that «women could influence public affairs very satisfactorily without recourse to the ballot box, by the simple expedient of influencing the opinions and outlook of those who did have the vote — their husbands and sons» (Reay Tannahill, Sex in History, [Stein & Day], 1980, p. 389).

• Speaking on a panel at the Catholic Press Association convention this past June, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reporter Ann Rogers suggested a new reason the Catholic bishops» public influence has declined.

Without a doubt there are brands of religion, including Christianity, which does desire to exert influence on the whole public.

It has placed some very theologically inept people in positions of significant public influence based solely on their ability to pull a crowd.

Yet even as conservatives in the last two decades have made notable strides in access to influential cultural institutions in entertainment and the media, the influence of civil society and nonpolitical leaders on public opinion is still underappreciated.

The stress on virtue that we have already noticed — Jefferson's «love of others,» Franklin's «zeal for the public good» — is very close to the biblical archetype, while the stress on self - interest that is also common among the founding fathers suggests the powerful influence of the utilitarian archetype.

At the September 1933 World YMCA conference in Sofia, Bulgaria, Bonhoeffer warned of the «growing persecution of minorities» in Nazi Germany and successfully influenced the delegates to pass a strongly worded resolution condemning the violence against Jews: «We especially deplore the fact that the State measures against the Jews in Germany have had such an effect on public opinion that in some circles the Jewish race is considered a race of inferior status.»

1) seperation of church and state; state funded public schools can't teach anything that is directly influenced by religion other than just touching on that kind of topic.

Whatever disciplining behavior may mean these days on the part of churches, there are no possible powers except exclusion from the particular group (which, in a heterogeneous society, is not being made a pariah) and possibly influencing public opinion.

The impossibility of stamping «determinate sentencing» as good or bad in any given political climate points up the fact that reform measures ultimately depend on an informed, caring and articulate minority of citizens who can influence public opinion.

The absence of consensus on important public issues means that the power of the churches to influence public policy tends to be proportional to the charisma and prestige of individual church leaders.

It goes on to suggest that a high proportion of Jews are «secularists» who hate all religions and who «want to denude the «public square» of every last trace of religious influence.»

Sanger's powerfully charged distinction between prudent and imprudent fecundity has grown to influence policies on everything from immigration to public schools.

All IRC section 501 (c)(3) organizations, including churches and religious organizations, must abide by certain rules: ■ their net earnings may not inure to any private shareholder or individual, ■ they must not provide a substantial benefit to private interests, ■ they must not devote a substantial part of their activities to attempting to influence legislation, ■ they must not participate in, or intervene in, any political campaign on behalf of (or in opposition to) any candidate for public office, and ■ the organization's purposes and activities may

Let's recognize our biblical influences and then go on to deny that others can offer public reasons devoid of their own indemonstrable premises.

A few paragraphs later Cardinal Dulles laments that «the greatest threat to religion, in my estimation, is the kind of secularism that would exclude religion from the public forum and that treats churches as purely private institutions that have no rightful influence on legislation, public policy, and other dimensions of public life.»

As and atheist, I am concerned with the influence religion has on the general public, specifically when it comes to women's rights, civil rights, gay rights, and the like.

Good economists know, from work carried out within their discipline, that the foundations of their subject are virtually non-existent... Conventional economics offer prescriptions for the problems of inflation and unemployment which are at best misleading and at worst dangerously wrong... Despite its powerful influence on public life, its achievements...

Public opinion polls may shed light on societal values, for citizens express and influence institutional aims and goods.