Sentences with phrase «public life said»

Sir Alistair Graham, the former Chairman of the Committee on Standards in Public Life said that naming her sister's spare bedroom as her main home was «near fraudulent» — which elicited a threat of legal action from Ms Smith for «malicious falsehood» — unsurprisingly, she didn't actually take such action.

Earlier the chairman of the committee for standards in public life said banning MPs from hiring relatives «could be the right thing to do».

The former chairman of the Committee of Standards in Public Life said it was a «serious error of judgement» but O'Shaughnessy said he believed he had followed the spirit of the rules.

The Pew Research Center's Forum on Religion and Public Life said government restrictions and religiously motivated hostility rose significantly between mid-2006 and mid-2009, when the research was conducted.

Not exact matches

«Twitter is the most direct way to engage with the candidates and issues of this election and to participate in the live, public conversation around its key events,» said Adam Sharp, Twitter's head of news, government, and elections, in a statement.

As a result of social media, participants also admitted to neglecting their loved ones, driving recklessly, being humiliated while snapping selfies in public, and posting things that they would never otherwise say in real life.

Freed from the demands of public market investors who tend to focus on short - term returns, some companies may find renewed life that harks back to when they were small and privately held, business experts say.

«Such participation of war criminals in public life in Germany would have been unimaginable,» she said.

So whether you're devoutly religious, libidinously left, rapaciously right, or somewhere in between, what you say and do in your public life matters to your customers and to the people who help make your company what it is.

One of Buffett's investments in himself came in early adulthood, when he signed up for a $ 100 Dale Carnegie public speaking course that he says changed his life.

Trump holds no public office and has said he'll simply go back to his «very good way of life» if he loses.

«It is a sad feature of the human predicament, in personal as in public life, that whenever one has the agreeable sensation of being impressively moral, one probably is not,» Kennan said.

«It is breathtaking to see the way the Clintons throughout the last, you know, quarter century, have pursued a career in public life, but done quite well in private life,» he said.

But that is the unfortunate reality many of us in the public eye must live with today,» O'Reilly said in the statement.

«They have more control over their day, they're not being as stressed to perform in the public eye, they don't have a lot of physical demands, and nobody's life is at risk,» said Tony Lee, publisher of CareerCast.com and JobsRated.com.

Chin said the company is able to broadcast things like the Super Bowl live to tens of thousands of subscribers because each subscriber has an individual antenna and a unique copy of the broadcast, thus enabling it to be considered by some in the eyes of the law as a private performance rather than a public one.

«I did a lot of spiritual work,» he says, and came to the realization that if he wanted to continue to be the CEO of Whole Foods, there couldn't be any aspect of his life that was secretive or hidden that would be embarrassing should it become public.

«It's just a fact of life that people in the public eye attract money for all sorts of reasons,» Lenkowsky said.

«As technology jumps forward and people are changing preferences we have to think long and hard about what the public sector offers to people when it comes to money and how do we facilitate people living in society getting access to money in the forms and shapes they prefer them to be,» Skingsley said.

This circle would be easier to square if policy elites had performed better over the last 15 years, and could more credibly say that they had created the public institutions necessary for people to improve their own lives.

«He has consistently chosen to put his private life out there, for public consumption,» attorney Michael Sullivan said.

«It's not about getting any public recognition for her giving, it's to help touch and transform individual lives,» said Laura Arrillaga - Andreessen, a philanthropist and lecturer on philanthropy at Stanford who has been close friends with Ms. Powell Jobs for two decades.

Holvey said she was inspired to go public again as more and more women have spoken out about harassment in their own lives.

Mr. Weekes, the chief assistant public defender, said lawyers were still trying to piece together the details of Mr. Cruz's life.

Loyola keeping a Catholic identity helps promote real intellectual diversity in American public life (and, again, I'd say the same as to other religious universities; I can imagine some religious belief systems that are so pernicious that, while they must be constitutionally protected, we can still say they hurt American life more than they help it, but I think that most of the traditions that found universities do have a good deal to contribute).

«The notion the news is imperilled runs contrary to [the public's] experience — 93 per cent say they get more news today, quicker, in a more timely fashion, from more diverse sources, than they ever had in their life,» pollster Allan Gregg said.

RIYADH (Reuters)- Saudi Arabia's crown prince said in a published interview that Israelis are entitled to live peacefully on their own land, another public sign of an apparent thawing in ties between the two countries.

The public defenders currently assigned to represent him said they were looking into how much money Cruz may get in life insurance proceeds after the death of his mother, Lynda, in November 2017.

Fildebrandt said such action «feeds a growing culture of disrespect of people who chose to dedicate their lives to public service.»

He faces the death penalty if convicted, but his public defender Melisa McNeill has said he would plead guilty in return for a life prison sentence.

Scheer went on to say Leitch brought her unique background in medicine to public life.

I have to be honest and say that I'm a bit taken aback (and a bit hurt) that those of us who were in the streets in the past five years for Black lives didn't receive this type of reception or public support.

Kenney said he hopes she stays in public life: «She has a lot to contribute.»

«People who find themselves wanting to insert religious texts and religious authority into public life,» he said, «are in fact recognizing something correct: namely, the nonneutrality of secular reason.»

When asked his opinion of Taunton before a public debate, Hitchens said, «If everyone in the United States had the same qualities of loyalty and care and concern for others that Larry Taunton had, we'd be living in a much better society than we do.»

The ordained leaders of the Church, and the laity who are Christ's principal witnesses in the public square, do not enter public life proclaiming, «The Church teaches...» When the question at issue is an immoral practice, they enter the debate saying, «This is wicked; it can not be sanctioned by the law and here is why, as any reasonable person will grasp.»

Well it is true that some people seek sorcerers to implement Jinn that are satanic demons into mankind or his house or his business to finish him or make his life miserable or to stop flow of his business income... In such case it is either you are religious enough and say your prayers often then it becomes hard for this to harm you or otherwise you need to find some one who practice exorcism to remove this evil... But many are just pretending to be good at it and help you not but squeeze money out of you with tales and stories... There is another type of possessions and that is not through a sorcerer but directly by coincidence what man is at his weakest moments and those weakest moments for a possessions are when you come through a great fear or when cry or laugh loudly in hysteria, or during a certain moment of mating... or even when sneezing loudly... That's why there are prayers to be said on daily basis to guard you from such things and specially if passing haunted places such as deserted houses but most evil ones are residents of public toilets and market places... Some of them even would claim that you have made a wrong action by which you have killed a dear one to them and for that they have possessed you and that is mostly night time such as throwing a cigaret butt to a dark place or stepping killing an insect or even an animal at night which could have been one of them or possessed by one of them... So this is true thing happening to many who suffer unexplainable illnesses or sufferings which could look like mental illness that comes and goes as pleased...

«It's [the report] certainly not trying to take Christianity out of public life and public consciousness, but we are reflecting the fact that up to half of the population now say they have no religion.

Nearly one in five Americans believe Obama is a Muslim, up from around one in 10 Americans who said he was Muslim last year, according to the survey, conducted by the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life.

By my reading of both the human condition and our current culture, a project like Hart's is more important to the status of religion in public life than, say, arguments for a natural law.

I do not know the precise history of those two key phrases, but I would guess that their origins are fairly recent — say, in the 1920s or 1930s, when media began to «personalize» and «democratize» so much of American private and public life.

The name First Things was chosen because it implies, in one sense, «that the first thing to be said about public life is that public life is not the first thing.»

Radio would be the most wonderful means of communication imaginable in public life, a huge linked system — that is to say, it would be such if it were capable not only of transmitting but of receiving, of allowing the listener not only to hear but to speak, and did not isolate him but brought him into contact.

About 40 % of evangelicals between the ages of 18 and 29 are likely to say homosexuality should be accepted by society, compared to 24 % of evangelicals who are older than 30, according to the 2007 religious landscape survey by the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life.

I say this, and I do so in capital letters with exclamation points, because of a survey released Thursday by the Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life regarding voter perceptions of the religious beliefs of Barack Obama and Mitt Romney.

Garlow is one of a growing number of Americans who say that religion should play a greater role in politics, according to the findings of a recent study by the Pew Research Forum's Religion & Public Life Project.

Plays are play, as Walter Ong observes, except for the playwright and perhaps some of the paying public.5 Moreover, while most would say that tennis and drama provide at least the occasion for play (even if some tennis players, for example, are not actually «playing»), the list of possible play activities is much broader than we often imagine, including much of life - more, in any case, than just tennis, reading, dancing, etc..

While I no longer believe the earth is just 6,000 years old, I still live in the tension of unanswered questions about the universe, and death, and brains, and Neanderthals, and whatever Neil deGrasse Tyson's got to say on public television about the earth getting burned up by the sun or our species going extinct after an asteroid hits.

Yet the draft describes wide - ranging protections, saying, «Persons and organizations do not forfeit their religious freedom when providing social services, education, or healthcare; earning a living, seeking a job, or employing others; receiving government grants or contracts; or otherwise participating in the marketplace, the public square, or interfacing with federal, state, or local governments.»

Faith in Public Life's Shannon Sullivan said such arguments calling for greater border security before enacting reform often represent...