Sentences with phrase «public position»

You've all taken strong public positions on issues during your careers.

People often take public positions for what that position communicates about themselves, rather than based on any kind of rigorous analysis.

The most public position in the church is, of course, pastor.

Most public positions have fixed terms, and they can be renewed — in the absence of term limits.

Which other public position is the term of office tied to the person's age?

Imagine having to appear before a family court judge who took a very public position on the award of alimony or the general credibility of persons alleging domestic abuse.

The right to privacy, discovered in 1965, has strangely led us to place sex in an ever more public position.

The text outlines that «individuals who hold or have held important public positions, particularly those from countries where corruption is widespread,» need watching carefully.

Why should public positions always have to settle for inferior talent?

The remaining three didn't stake an obvious public position.

I think that people forget that politicians often take unusual public positions on known facts in order to promote the desired outcomes.

When anyone in a prominent public position lies about something, or makes absurd and false claims, I believe we all have a responsibility to call them out.

The most common public positions involve scientifically simplistic narratives leading to an impossible certainty.

There are some scientists, and it is a minority, who want to be advocates, and everyone knows know who they are because it is a deliberately public position.

Neither were public positions of Gov. Andrew Cuomo at the time, but both have played out, and Cuomo (despite an insistence to the contrary) has tacked left in his legislative agenda for this session.

While it's not uncommon for the state's mayors to take public positions as a group, it is rare for the New York City mayor and a single upstate mayor to issue a joint statement on their own.

By forcing public positions into the center, and by forcing compromise in the formulation of policy, the institutions of American politics have diffused and defused the passion necessary for war.

Some employers insist on plain text resumes for notary public position, just because the application tracking system that they go through before reaching them is hot - wired for plain text.

According to him, after lecturing for over thirty years and holding public positions including Minister of Health, he doesn't desire anymore appointments.

OccupyNigeria took advantage of this long held public position on the issue to push their agenda against the Jonathan regime.

The principle of consistency is that once having taken a strong public position in support of any specific option, I am now bound to continue my support, irrespective of any secret ballot, because I feel that I must act consistent with my stated choice.

And well before that, however, Comey staked out unusually public positions on a range of hot - button issues that have characterized a historic and contentious tenure in public service.

Hiring a person with Mr. Byrd's baggage for his very public position speaks to what city management apparently does not value in a high - level employee: honesty and integrity.

Sullivan analyzes each of these attitudes and concludes that they have all proven ineffective in developing a workable public position on homosexuality.

But then there is this: «Others, for political and even ecclesiastical reasons, seek the public embarrassment of politicians whose public positions differ from church teachings through the public refusal of the sacrament of Holy Communion or public admonition by the bishops.»

While there is no declared public position you do need to read the runes and understand the way modern football clubs work.

A proposed rewrite of Milton town law will strip the resident preference from its code for three influential public positions — the comptroller, the deputy highway superintendent and the assessor.

The Chairperson therefore can not be accused of holding two public positions simultaneously.

«It further gladdens our heart to note the recent public position taken by the national leadership of the NBA against the Buhari's recent justification to his disobedience to court orders in Nigeria, particularly as it concerns the duo of Nnamdi Kanu and Sambo Dasuki.

«The standard to maintain one of the most powerful public positions in our state is something higher than «I have not yet been convicted of a crime,» Bharara said.

According to the Ghana Integrity Initiative, the African Automobile cars left to rot at the Institute of Local Government Studies even after the Judgment Debt Commission has concluded its work and some indicted officials by the Commission still holding public positions shows that the country has not put in enough effort and commitment in tackling corruption.

A member of the NPP and former Executive Director of the Danquah Institute, Gabby Otchere Darko, had said two members of the panel including V.C.R.A.C. Crabbe, had made public their position on calls for a new voters» register hence the need for the parties to boycott the forum.

The political decision makers with whom we would have to negotiate for those neighborhood changes were sometimes members of those congregations, and they would often try to privately influence pastors or congregation leaders to take a different public position.

For the bulk of Rep / Cons, this assumption of «scare stories» is more or less their normal public position regarding the state of climate science.

A Senate report from Senate Democrats including Senator Elizabeth Warren and Senator Bernie Sanders found that the U.S. Chamber of Commerce's «lobbying is at odds with its own public positions,» The New York Times reports.

It's a vital resource for law students and lawyers trying to figure out a much less straightforward area of the legal market (public interest jobs) that simultaneously receives less attention from careers professionals because there are fewer public positions than private ones.

Indeed, a recent comprehensive analysis of the diplomatic maneuverings and public positions of the Holy See from the end of the nineteenth century to the present, Andrej Kreutz» Vatican Policy on the Palestinian - Israeli Conflict (Greenwood Press, 1990) comes to this same conclusion.

Newsday reported in January that Terry had compiled nearly $ 1.4 million in state and federal tax debts as he made hundreds of thousands of dollars in public positions in Nassau County government.

Scientists were much slower to add their names to an open letter to George W. Bush that the UCS organized in 2004, says Rosenberg — which he sees as a reflection of uneasiness about Trump, but also a sign that younger scientists are more comfortable taking public positions on policy.

He wonders about the press intruding beyond Brooks» public position into her private life.

Plank also promised in the letter that Under Armour will take «other public positions on legislation around the country in support of the interests of our teammates whenever policy conflicts with human rights.»

Did you know that James Monroe served in more public positions that anyone else in U.S. history?

Alan Greenspan assumed his most important public position on August 11, 1987, replacing Paul A. Volcker as chairman of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System.