Sentences with phrase «public insistence»

He tacitly accepted the public insistence of EU officials that no deal can be made on immigration.

She was remanded without bail to jail on May 5 2014, despite having missed no court appointments over two years of hearings and her public insistence on refusing to plea out.

This all contradicted the Iranian government's public insistence that its nuclear program has always existed for peaceful energy purposes rather than military ones.

Not exact matches

One of the most obvious areas of abuse concerns the resolute insistence by most public companies to have the CEO serve as chairman of the board.

This insistence that our strategies for public involvement must take seriously the health of the larger society obviously calls for intense theological investigation.

Mann's erstwhile Calvinism and his belief that education was to reform the world became civil religion as it emerged in the schools, most of all in Mann's insistence upon public schools for all people.

Thus also the insistence of American public education on its «exclusive franchise» on legitimacy even though millions of children attend nonpublic schools.

Published lists of donors, the announcement of pledges to the church building fund campaign, the insistence on a tax write - off for a donation - all these would seem to belong to the kind of public display that Jesus decried.

This insistence on winning public recognition for one's piety Jesus found offensive; he called it hypocrisy.

Khrushchev impressed the American public with his wit, warmth, humanness and nerve, but he also confounded everyone by his insistence that, above all, he wanted to visit Disneyland.

Bellah, he wrote, challenged the mainstream insistence on the fact «value distinction and its elimination of religion from public life and discourse, which were the usual conventions of his discipline.

The insistence that theological education must keep students in touch with current intellectual and cultural developments is, of course, Kelly's and Brown's recapitulation of the «Berlin» model's contention that excellent education must engage the public world.

The Spanish giants have shown a confident face in public regarding their insistence on holding on to Griezmann, but the club are making contingency plans in private.

It's an empty cliche that strategically keeps women in the home through the sly insistence that motherhood is much more valuable than any job that women could have in the public sphere.»

Drawing upon evidence from the debates over healthcare reform in both the U.S. and the U.K., where Palin's propagation of the idea of death panels and Labour's insistence that Gove's reforms constituted privatisation «pure and simple» served only to confuse and scare the wider public, Thompson argued that misleading and emotive language is making political reform and compromise harder to achieve.

Like the EU referendum bill, or Theresa May's attacks on imaginary health tourists, or Iain Duncan Smith's insistence on the effectiveness of his welfare reforms, this is another example of post-reality governance: policy based not on the real world, but on an imaginary one of PR messaging in which the sole purpose is stay in power by finding lines of public opinion and putting the opposition on the wrong side of them.

I stated then in writing amongst other things that: ``... I am sorry if any person gets offended by my insistence on the protection of public property and putting Ghana First because I was molded with this world, social, and the cultural view to life and community which it is too late to change.

From a position of internal infighting, the public suddenly converges on the insistence that all division should be suppressed in the name of unity.

The government risks further embarrassment this year as Mr Brown has been uncompromising in his insistence public sector workers such as nurses, police officers and prison guards must accept a 1.9 per cent pay rise to maintain inflation.

E.J. McMahon, research director at the conservative Empire Center for Public Policy, said in tweet during the Monday presentation that the governor's «continued insistence on hyping the impact strains credulity.»

Buhari said his insistence on probity, transparency and accountability in the public and private sectors was to secure the future of the country for all Nigerians, especially the youths.

The strength of Stephen Macedo's Diversity and Distrust is its insistence on evaluating public schools on the basis of whether they are indeed making good citizens.

However, an insistence on the secular control of public funds meant that Catholic and other church - based schools could not receive publicly funded vouchers, even in academically failing school districts where other private schools are unavailable to poor students.

«We use the data and information to get ourselves back on track towards where we want to go,» Summit Public Schools founder and CEO Diane Tavenner explained about Summit's insistence on rapid information cycles.

As the state's policymakers begin to work on the meager changes to the system supported by this ruling, community engagement and insistence on quality public schools for all children must be strongly and persistently communicated, and attempts to saddle this state with mediocrity rejected.

Gov. Dannel P. Malloy's insistence on increasing funding for charter schools has more than a dozen Democratic legislators questioning whether they can support the next state budget if it means their neighborhood public schools are flat - funded or cut.

His strong association with artists, many of whom he had encountered at Corsham School of Art, led to an insistence that the art and the creative artist should remain the centre of attention, while recognising the importance of education and interpretation in bringing work to the public.

Every word on those pages is taxpayer funded and everything the IPCC does is in the public interest so we should be able to disseminate their work and freely discuss it despite their insistence that it's a work in progress.

Van Ypersele's insistence that the public agrees that we «must stop ignoring» climate change is nonsense.

They are reduced to bludgeoning insistence in public, and stroking their worry beads in private hoping that the contrary trends will make a sharp turn in their favor.