Sentences with phrase «public mandate»

So, building knowledge is an essential step in addressing a growing public mandate to do something about these dismal dropout statistics.

We'd like to see the same public mandate expressed about charter schools.

Those policy makers, our leaders, are going to have to act, even without a huge public mandate.

It would allow her to go to Brussels with a strong public mandate for talks.

Whenever a strong public mandate or enormous wealth or present power is taken to mean freedom from all those responsibilities and constraints which living together requires, we are in the grip of a modern version of an all - virtuous chosen people or of a latter - day Puritan elect.

«Most financial Crown corporations are required to have public mandate reviews every 10 years; however, no independent mandate review of CMHC has been conducted for more than 20 years.»

As we have expanded a Waldorf approach into more diverse settings and grappled with the requirements of public mandates, tension between fidelity and compromise has been our constant companion.

Regardless of what we think about these words, Obama actually told the truth — with a renewed public mandate, he no longer needs to worry about re-election and thus can be more assertive in defending his position.

Moreover, he has come to power with a significant public mandate, and after a long struggle in politics, he has learnt the right lessons, matured and mellowed.

For the EP to pursue an explicitly integrationist agenda on such a thin public mandate would not be democratically honest, and indeed would be counter-productive, only serving to fuel anti-EU sentiments even further.

«There is a pretty broad public mandate» to expand CPP, he said.

We can still curb global warming and achieve sustainability, but it will require hard work, ingenuity, and a strong public mandate, combined with personal change — perhaps, dare I say it, even some level of sacrifice.

The first simple observation - that there was nothing even close to a public mandate for permanent reductions in state - led welfare provision at the last election (recall that the Tories had to radically groovify their brand, centre - left their smile; recall too that the LDs remain as much a social democratic grouping as an economic liberal one).

The methodology, as always, may be debatable, but the result nevertheless could be seized on by Cuomo and the Senate Republicans who are aligned with him on this issue, and could complicate efforts by de Blasio and his allies to make the case that opponents of his plan are thwarting a public mandate.

Albert openly questioned whether it was appropriate for him, a Democrat, to assume the powers and duties of the presidency when there was a public mandate for the presidency to be held by a Republican.

Perhaps more importantly, if the amendment is voted down it will give Governor Christie and future elected officials a «public mandate» to avoid fixing the pension system.

Despite several attempts, the union was unable to turn bargaining into a public mandate for the transit system New Yorkers deserve, with expanded services and lower fares.

Tim wrote: «It annoys me when people say Gordon Brown has no public mandate.

«At most independent schools around the nation, there's not per se special education — that's a public mandate, and we're independent schools.»

Founded in 1999, the organisation's public mandate is to offer a climate of support for the creation of and interaction with diverse artistic practices by producing new solo exhibitions of international and local artists.

Despite the grave concerns over human rights violations, the two banks that have a public mandate, have not taken position against the test flooding.

Ed Poll of LawBizManagement and I share concerns about mandatory malpractice insurance as well as mandatory disclosure if you do not have malpractice insurance as it will disproportionately hurt the solo practitioner as well as the public the mandate purports to protect.

In January, PMI Canada submitted its recommendations to the panel that called for separating CMHC's various businesses, including mortgage insurance, into separate entities, privatizing CMHC's mortgage insurance business, and recommending a public mandate review of CMHC.