Sentences with phrase «public judgment in»

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«Taking full account of the available evidence and strength of public opinion today, my judgment is that Scotland should say no to fracking,» Paul Wheelhouse said in a statement Tuesday to the Scottish Parliament in Edinburgh.

The events in Charlottesville have triggered a public and widespread crisis of faith in the president's ability and judgment.

«In my judgment that conduct foreseeably brought Lord Mandelson's public office and personal integrity into disrepute and exposed him to accusations of conflict of interest, and it gave rise to the reasonable grounds to suspect that Lord Mandelson had engaged in improper discussions with Mr Deripaska about aluminium...&raquIn my judgment that conduct foreseeably brought Lord Mandelson's public office and personal integrity into disrepute and exposed him to accusations of conflict of interest, and it gave rise to the reasonable grounds to suspect that Lord Mandelson had engaged in improper discussions with Mr Deripaska about aluminium...&raquin improper discussions with Mr Deripaska about aluminium...»

But anyone in a position like his — at the head of a media empire — ought to have the good judgment not to do things that require such public apology in the first place.

Executive Management Bonus Plan, (4) «For» ratification of the appointment of KPMG LLP as the Company's independent registered public accounting firm for fiscal year 2010, and (5) in accordance with the best judgment of the persons named in the proxy card on any other matters that should properly be brought before the Annual Meeting.

Given the absence of a public trading market of our common stock, and in accordance with the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants Accounting and Valuation Guide, Valuation of Privately - Held Company Equity Securities Issued as Compensation, our board of directors exercised reasonable judgment and considered numerous and subjective factors to determine the best estimate of fair value of our common stock, including independent third - party valuations of our common stock; the prices at which we sold shares of our convertible preferred stock to outside investors in arms - length transactions; the rights, preferences, and privileges of our convertible preferred stock relative to those of our common stock; our operating results, financial position, and capital resources; current business conditions and projections; the lack of marketability of our common stock; the hiring of key personnel and the experience of our management; the introduction of new products; our stage of development and material risks related to our business; the fact that the option grants involve illiquid securities in a private company; the likelihood of achieving a liquidity event, such as an initial public offering or a sale of our company given the prevailing market conditions and the nature and history of our business; industry trends and competitive environment; trends in consumer spending, including consumer confidence; and overall economic indicators, including gross domestic product, employment, inflation and interest rates, and the general economic oupublic trading market of our common stock, and in accordance with the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants Accounting and Valuation Guide, Valuation of Privately - Held Company Equity Securities Issued as Compensation, our board of directors exercised reasonable judgment and considered numerous and subjective factors to determine the best estimate of fair value of our common stock, including independent third - party valuations of our common stock; the prices at which we sold shares of our convertible preferred stock to outside investors in arms - length transactions; the rights, preferences, and privileges of our convertible preferred stock relative to those of our common stock; our operating results, financial position, and capital resources; current business conditions and projections; the lack of marketability of our common stock; the hiring of key personnel and the experience of our management; the introduction of new products; our stage of development and material risks related to our business; the fact that the option grants involve illiquid securities in a private company; the likelihood of achieving a liquidity event, such as an initial public offering or a sale of our company given the prevailing market conditions and the nature and history of our business; industry trends and competitive environment; trends in consumer spending, including consumer confidence; and overall economic indicators, including gross domestic product, employment, inflation and interest rates, and the general economic ouPublic Accountants Accounting and Valuation Guide, Valuation of Privately - Held Company Equity Securities Issued as Compensation, our board of directors exercised reasonable judgment and considered numerous and subjective factors to determine the best estimate of fair value of our common stock, including independent third - party valuations of our common stock; the prices at which we sold shares of our convertible preferred stock to outside investors in arms - length transactions; the rights, preferences, and privileges of our convertible preferred stock relative to those of our common stock; our operating results, financial position, and capital resources; current business conditions and projections; the lack of marketability of our common stock; the hiring of key personnel and the experience of our management; the introduction of new products; our stage of development and material risks related to our business; the fact that the option grants involve illiquid securities in a private company; the likelihood of achieving a liquidity event, such as an initial public offering or a sale of our company given the prevailing market conditions and the nature and history of our business; industry trends and competitive environment; trends in consumer spending, including consumer confidence; and overall economic indicators, including gross domestic product, employment, inflation and interest rates, and the general economic oupublic offering or a sale of our company given the prevailing market conditions and the nature and history of our business; industry trends and competitive environment; trends in consumer spending, including consumer confidence; and overall economic indicators, including gross domestic product, employment, inflation and interest rates, and the general economic outlook.

There were significant judgments and estimates inherent in these valuations, which included assumptions regarding our future operating performance, the time to completing an initial public offering or other liquidity event and the determinations of the appropriate valuation methods to be applied.

How does he feel entitled to make any claim to be a better Catholic than Santorum (for that is what he's implicitly claiming) on questions that the church rightly leaves to the prudential judgment of voters and public officials, within broad boundaries, when in the next breath he confesses his complete failure to be any kind of Catholic at all on a question on which the church speaks with categorical moral authority?

It is indeed a public service and will, in our judgment.

Belief in immortality and the certainty of divine judgment are indispensable supports of public virtue, our founders thought.

It is the duty of the Caliph or Imam, the leader in Islam, to consolidate public opinion, execute judgments, administer state machinery, encourage the faithful in the practice of their faith, such as prayers and the religious tax, and look after affairs of public interest with the guidance of a parliamentary democracy, the basis of government in Islam.

In a time of grave testing, America has once again given public expression to the belief that we are «one nation under God»» meaning that we are under both His protection and His judgment.

The Baptist Joint Committee on Public Affairs (BJC)» which is more like a rump committee than a joint committee since the withdrawal of the Southern Baptist Convention» also issued a harsh judgment on Republicans in the name of a presumably nonjudgmental God.

The church's prophetic word must be heard in the public sector, searing in judgment against those actions, both individual and systemic, which continue patterns of oppression based on strength or race or sex or tradition.

As I have argued in these pages and elsewhere, the «presumption,» by detaching the just war way of thinking from its proper political context» the right use of sovereign public authority toward the end of tranquillitas ordinis, or peace» tends to invert the structure of classic just war analysis and turn it into a thin casuistry, giving priority consideration to necessarily contingent in bello judgments (proportionality of means, discrimination or noncombatant immunity) over what were always understood to be the prior ad bellum questions («prior» in that, inter alia, we can have a greater degree of moral clarity about them).

This hubris is in contradistinction to the clear teaching of the Catechism of the Catholic Church» for the Catechism, while assuming a serious dialogue among government officials, just war analysts, and the public, nonetheless teaches (at § 2309) that «the evaluation of these [just war] conditions for moral legitimacy belongs to the prudential judgment of those who have responsibility for the common good.»

Insofar as they take the initiative to provide what in their judgment is needed, they decide this in consultation, not with public officials, but with business leaders.

Granted that there is a place, and a significant place, for sympathy and toleration in our public life; but might there not also be a place for more fully and carefully developed faculties of judgment?

We always risk making bad judgments in the political mode of public theology.

Should we make a sharp distinction between public and private life as in the judgment (attributed to Martin Luther) that it is better to be ruled by a wise Turk than a foolish Christian?

obligation in relation to each public moral issue as it arises; a word of the retrieval of the culture's most creative ideals and institutions; a world of judgment on the culture's present and potential sins; a word of forgiveness whenever it is repentant; a word of promise and so of confidence (in God, if not in itself) for the future.

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.

If same - sex marriage is accepted as a constitutional right, the rights of orthodox religious groups regarding their approach to and public judgment of the moral quality of same - sex couples» relationships may lose out, and in numerous ways.

This public would expand in social inclusiveness as its ethical level rose, gradually elevating the minds of commercial men toward the standard of judgment summed up in Smith's idea of the «Impartial Spectator,» the quintessentially public citizen.

If in public places like our major universities we are going to operate on the premise that moral judgments are relative to communities, then we should follow the implications of that premise as consistently as we can and not absolutize one, or perhaps a few, sets of opinions and exclude all others.

(3) Christian judgments should never stem solely from the clergy but should involve lay specialists with skill in public affairs.

Christian judgments should never stem solely from the clergy but should involve lay specialists with skill in public affairs.

In my judgment she is quite successful in demonstrating how such a distinctively religious concept may still have public purchase and intelligibilitIn my judgment she is quite successful in demonstrating how such a distinctively religious concept may still have public purchase and intelligibilitin demonstrating how such a distinctively religious concept may still have public purchase and intelligibility.

Because we dare not speak for God presumptively (as you've seen some TV preachers do in pronouncing certain public events as unmistakably God's judgment for specific sins), we should pursue a reverent agnosticism about why individual bad things happen.

But my own judgment is that the absence of some of the more highly motivated students is not the primary problem with the public schools; and in any case these students might lose much of that motivation if forced to attend those schools.

Later (in the same chapter) he lists the following criteria: we must recognize that we are doing evil, we should act only out of demonstrable necessity, and only in last resort, and we must justify our actions publicly and submit to public judgment as to their correctness.

For example, he insisted that «if there be any thing constant in Protestantism, it is undoubtedly the substitution of private judgment for public and lawful authority.»

The importance which was attached to the choosing of the minister is impressively reflected in a passage of Calvin's Institutes where he writes: «Whenever a controversy arises respecting religion, which requires to be decided by a council or ecclesiastical judgment; whenever a minister is to be chosen, in short, whenever anything of difficulty or great importance is transacting;... it is a pious custom and beneficial in all ages, for the pastors to exhort the people to public fasts and extraordinary prayers.»

As the public made snap judgments about his character, he felt his trust in others erode.

If you thought getting glares while discreetly breastfeeding your newborn under a nursing cover, huddled in a tiny crowded space, was uncomfortable, try nursing an active two - year - old on a public park bench; or better yet, imagine the judgment you'd get if you announced you were going to nurse your adopted African baby for the first time... at age three.

You may already have encountered criticism or judgment for your parenting choices, in public, on social media, or even from your own family.

But along with the public support comes public judgment on a whole lot of parenting issues that no one seemed to care about in past generations.

I finished the ad feeling uneasy and only after thinking about it for a bit did I realize what it was... I'm a breastfeeding mother that feels consistent judgment regarding my choice to feed in public, not necessarily wanting to cover my child while feeding, pumping at work for my «older child» and she's less than 1 yr old, organizing my life / job / childcare to prioritize our nursing relationship... I feel judgment and yet I'm making an effort to do the best for my baby.

If you thought getting glares while discretely breastfeeding your newborn under a nursing cover huddled in a tiny crowded space was uncomfortable, try nursing an active two - year - old on a public park bench, or better yet, imagine the judgment you'd get if you announced you were going to nurse your adopted African baby for the first time... at three.

Ultimately though, regardless of how absurd it sounds, women are harassed for feeding their babies, asked to leave restaurants, fear meeting their child's needs in public due to public shaming, face judgment for how they feed their children, and feel pressured to feed a certain way but be invisible.

However, there's a special judgment reserved for women who breastfeed, especially for an extended period of time and especially in public without a cover.

CSEA, the state's largest public - workers union, announced it would suspend its backing of state lawmakers in order to «re-evaluate our political relationships and make judgments about the criteria.»

He was also within the law if he talked to them about the rationale for the decision in that case based on (and not outside of) the judgment and related material in the Abu Ramadan case, which judgment and material is part of the public record.

The University of Rochester and embattled professor Florian Jaeger both exercised poor judgment but ultimately followed most policies and laws regarding sexual harassment, U.S. Attorney Mary Jo White said in a widely anticipated report that largely vindicated the university's actions before and after the matter became public.

By making a Public Comment on the case, Justice Dotse has compromised public confidence in his capacity to sit on and determine any further suit by the parties in the recent Abu Ramadan case seeking an interpretation of the judPublic Comment on the case, Justice Dotse has compromised public confidence in his capacity to sit on and determine any further suit by the parties in the recent Abu Ramadan case seeking an interpretation of the judpublic confidence in his capacity to sit on and determine any further suit by the parties in the recent Abu Ramadan case seeking an interpretation of the judgment.

The judgment is now out there in the court of public opinion.»

I share the view expressed by objective and reasonable members of the public that because the government was the 1st defendant / respondent against whom the Supreme Court made declarations of unconstitutional conduct in paying the judgment debt to Alfred Agbesi Woyome, the government has been pretending for purely political reasons at each turn to take steps to enforce the judgment and orders of the court only to deliberately abort them.

The only thing hindering them right now, it appears, is a hostile public opinion, which sits in merciless judgment, daring them to show their true colours.

He said in a statement at the time that: ``... I have this morning 4th November, 2016 filed an application at the Supreme Court for leave to examine the judgment debtor as the citizen public interest plaintiff in favour of whom the case was decided for the Republic of Ghana.»

Gallivan hopes the public will keep a few things in mind before passing judgment solely on the findings of the Moreland Commission.