Sentences with phrase «public letter last»

«These are not just political conflicts or economic choices; they are moral choices with enormous human dimensions,» Bishop Stephen E. Blaire of Stockton, California, chairman of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops» Committee on Domestic Justice and Human Development, said in a public letter last week.

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And Eat24 already has a quirky, unconventional public image — last month, the company wrote a hilarious, meme - filled Dear John letter to Facebook, explaining why it was taking down its page and would rely only on social media that didn't charge for organic reach.

In a public letter to the Board circulated last Monday June 24, Zimmer wrote said it was clear he was let go «to avoid addressing my growing concerns with recent board decisions.»

Last Thursday, James Mattis, the Defense Secretary, published a public letter concluding that the decline of the American industry as a result of unfair trade posed a threat to national security, a position aligned with the Commerce Department's.

The public letter released on Friday (Jan. 18) notes that leaders of 15 religious groups, including Lutherans, Presbyterians and Methodists, asked Congress to take that step last October, and that the «voice of the Episcopal Church is woefully missing.»

In a public letter, Focus president Jim Daly said, «Focus on the Family has been working diligently over the last three years to reach out to Millennials.

Among those signs, ambiguous and interesting, is the public letter sent last May by Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, president of Iran, to George W. Bush.

Today is one of the last days to submit public comments on the proposed regulations which would bring about his misguided plans, and here is the letter I'm submitting.

Last month he masterminded a letter of his own on the EU referendum, getting nearly 100 Tories to sign up to his proposal for the coalition to legislation on giving the British public a vote at some time in the next parliament.

Beginning last summer, DemCom also automatically imports all letters of support / opposition from outside organizations that have been posted on the public website POPVOX.com and prominently displays those letters alongside the internal / official documents related to that bill.

Last week, Garodnick and 26 other City Council members sent a letter to Gov. Cuomo in support of his renewed pledge to support a statewide bill for public campaign financing.

In a letter sent to Armstrong last month by Tony Blair, the Prime Minister says the office should «work in partnership with the sector to make progress in the key areas of public service delivery, philanthropy, volunteering, building strong communities and social enterprise» (R&R, 26 May, p2).

De Blasio's top housing official noted in a letter to Cuomo's office Monday that the state hasn't released $ 200 million for city public housing from last year's budget.

In a letter last July to the Times Union, Covello and three others wrote that, «If the next Executive Director is not hired from outside State government after an exhaustive search, the public trust will be inexorably destroyed.»

Mr Mendelsohn sought to tell Mr Abrahams his method was unacceptable and wrote to the millionaire requesting a meeting, in a letter Mr Abrahams made public last night.

«All decisions by the DOE to co-locate schools are viewed by communities as the City giving up on the extant traditional public school,» the elected officials wrote in a joint letter last week to Chancellor Carmen Fariña and PEP Chairperson Vanessa Leung.

Last month, 150 health experts issued an open letter to the UN health agency calling for the Games to be delayed or relocated «in the name of public health».

«Rick received a letter from the New York State Commission on Public Integrity informing him that he must file a financial disclosure statement «within seven days after the last day allowed by law for the filing of independent nominating petitions.»»

Opening last night's debate, Lord Harrison, argued «that the BBC has failed the humanist community in Britain both in the spirit and in the letter of the Communications Act 2003, which requires the BBC to schedule programmes on religion and other beliefs, including humanism... The truth is that religious public broadcasting is growing while Anglicanism contracts.»

Here in Kingston, Mayor Steve Noble sent a letter to the Coast Guard last month objecting to the proposed anchorages, and the Common Council's General Government / Public Safety Committee plans to hold a special meeting at which it will propose and issue a resolution against the anchorages.

The Rosendale Town Board voted last week to send a letter to the two designated co-lead agencies on the State Environmental Quality Review (SEQR) of the Pilgrim Pipeline project, the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) and the New York Thruway Authority (NYTA), urging them to guarantee ample opportunities for «meaningful public and municipal participation» during the scoping phase of the review process.

Ministers have resisted demands for a public vote from nearly 100 Tory backbenchers, who last month signed a letter to the prime minister calling on him to legislate for a referendum in the next parliament.

Last week, I delivered a letter to the Erie County Legislature urging its members to bring the leadership of the ECWA to Old County Hall for a public hearing.

City Council education chair Daniel Dromm is pushing chancellor Carmen Fariña to make Diwali an official public school holiday, but said he hadn't yet heard from the administration about a letter he wrote to Fariña on the topic last week.

In a letter last Monday to Metropolitan Transportation Authority head Veronique Hakim, Public Advocate Letitia James says the gender policy «violates the spirit, if not the letter» of state and city laws meant to protect human rights.

The panel, appointed in early July by Gov. Andrew Cuomo in response to this year's torrent of public corruption scandals, last month sent letters to both chambers requesting that members deriving more than $ 20,000 in outside income disclose their sources, and that lawmakers who are attorneys disclose their civil or criminal clients — an element of transparency that the Legislature has resisted for years, claiming it violates attorney - client privilege.

At committee meetings last week, the frustrations bubbled over, resulting in a public letter condemning city councilman Adam McFadden for, among other things, race - based comments.

Maragos noted that he sent letters last week to Rice and Schneiderman to alert them that the county Department of Public Works had submitted a $ 12 million payment claim from Looks Great.

The move comes after a public outcry that included, in the last few days: a lawsuit by animal welfare groups; a letter of protest sent to the agency from 18 Senate Democrats; and this letter to President Donald Trump, sent by a bipartisan group of 101 members of the U.S. House of Representatives, demanding that the information be immediately reposted on the public website.

In a letter to the Guardian, the scientists wrote that «the ACMD clearly recommended — for the third time in the last six years — that cannabis remains a class C drug, and did so after examining all the available and latest evidence on short - and long - term health risks, as well as social harms, public attitudes and policing priorities.»

It all started last fall, when an advocacy group called the Public Library of Science distributed an electronic open letter urging scientific publishers to hand over all research articles from their journals to public online archives for free within six months of publicPublic Library of Science distributed an electronic open letter urging scientific publishers to hand over all research articles from their journals to public online archives for free within six months of publicpublic online archives for free within six months of publication.

P. Balaram, a molecular biophysicist and director of the Indian Institute of Science in Bangalore, and 60 others last week wrote an open letter to the public, stating: «We strongly believe that India must radically review its nuclear power policy for appropriateness, safety, costs, and public acceptance, and undertake an independent, transparent safety audit of all its nuclear facilities, which involves non-Department of Atomic Energy experts and civil society organisations.

Scorsese has also directed numerous documentaries including the Peabody Award winning No Direction Home: Bob Dylan and Elia Kazan: A Letter to Elia; as well as Italianamerican, The Last Waltz, A Personal Journey with Martin Scorsese through American Movies, Il Mio Viaggio in Italia, Public Speaking, Shine a Light and George Harrison: Living in the Material World, for which Scorsese received Emmy Awards for Outstanding Directing for Nonfiction Programming and Outstanding Nonfiction Special.

In a letter last month to Representative Virginia Foxx, the chair of the House education committee, 13 House Republicans urged that the Public Service Loan Forgiveness program be preserved.

Arizona issued its 2017 «A-F» letter grades for public schools — district and charters - last week for the first time since 2014.

Last Thursday, leaders from the city's biggest charters sent a letter to Mayor de Blasio calling for increased access to public space.

By John Lynds In a letter to parents last week, Boston Public Schools Superintendent Tommy Chang said the school department will face a $ 50 million deficit.

CSBA Legislative Advocate Brian Rivas noted in a letter to the Assembly Appropriations Committee last month noted the bill would help charter schools maintain their eligibility for public pension plans and ensure they operate openly.

«The proposed changes in the academic indicator accountability measure are significant; yet, they are being brought to the board at the last minute and were made behind closed doors, without any public input,» the letter states.

When I made a Public Records Request to the CDE last winter for documentation of validity reliability and fairness information for Smarter Balanced tests, either in CDE files or obtainable from the Smarter Balanced consortium, the reply letter in January said CDE had no such information in their files.

So has the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, writing in a letter last month that «the federal government must no longer be expected to subsidize the inequitable funding of public schools serving high numbers of low - income students.»

A public letter from a Colorado teacher titled «I refuse to administer the PARCC» caught fire on social media last month.

In a letter sent to DeVos last week, Warren said the nominee's advocacy for school choice, charter schools and school voucher programs should be a concern for supporters of public education.

Proof of public assistance, including Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) Reference from Integrated Community / Communidad Integrada (ciiccolorado.org) Two most recent pay stubs W - 2 1040 Proof of children in the reduced - cost school lunch program Proof of unemployment benefits currently or within the last three months Proof of Food Stamps Latest award letter for Social Security or disability payments Proof of Medicaid Extreme medical expense or other demonstrable extreme financial hardship Court documents showing amount of child support or spousal maintenance

Last year's letter called on the U.S. Department of Agriculture to restore inspection reports and other documents abruptly purged from the agency's website in February 2017, leaving the public in the dark about violators of the AWA and the Horse Protection Act on soring.

Last, the letter points out that permitting feral cats to continue to roam outdoors through TNR is a threat to public health and safety.

Black's performance, called OR LIFE OR, was her first public event after writing a provocative open letter last month to the curators of the Whitney Biennial, urging them to remove and destroy a painting of Emmett Till by Dana Schutz.

Akhunov criticized the system, for example, digging out skeletons from public institutions as in Art - Cheology, 1975 - 86, or placing monumental sculptures of letters in a restricted exhibiting space creating an effect of suffocation, as in Breathe Quietly, 1976 - 2013, the monumental installation already exhibited last year in Italy during the 55th Venice Biennale.»

Texts by Lawrence Weiner (born 1942, USA) have appeared in all sorts of locations over the last five decades: as vinyl or paint on walls and windows of galleries and public spaces, spoken as audio, video or performance, printed in books and on posters, cast or carved as letters and even turned into tattoos, graffiti, lyrics and so on, ad infinitum.

A TILT is a letter signed by a lot of impressive sounding people who make a public statement or demand, and expect the gullible antiscience press (whose last science class was probably in high school), and the public, to lap it up because of their collective authority.