Sentences with phrase «public resources meant»

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Companies spend enormous resources trying to «go public,» meaning that it becomes legal to sell stock to lots of people.

The library, available to the public online, is meant to be used as a shared resource for everyone in the company that influences the customer - facing experience.

[24] We can not fail to praise the commitment of international agencies and civil society organizations which draw public attention to these issues and offer critical cooperation, employing legitimate means of pressure, to ensure that each government carries out its proper and inalienable responsibility to preserve its country's environment and natural resources, without capitulating to spurious local or international interests.

Already a movement is under way to improve end - of - life care by educating health - care providers to respond better to the needs of dying patients, by creating new care settings or improving existing ones, by seeking changes in methods of paying for appropriate care, by educating the public through conferences, town meetings, television programming, and even Web sites (see www.careproject.net), by providing adequate relief of pain, by withholding or withdrawing treatments that only prolong dying, by keeping company with those who are lonely, and by being a resource of meaning and hope for those tempted to despair.

The Commission could further this goal by three means: conducting and publishing research into what initiatives are successful at increasing political participation; advising public bodies and institutions regarding how to better democratise their functioning; and critically, by providing resources and capacity - building to facilitate local, civil society - led initiatives that aim to increase broad - based levels of participation or deliberation in political decision - making.

More importantly, Beijing's primary security concerns are internal, which means that a significant portion of the Army's personnel and resources is devoted to guarding the country's borders and supporting public - security forces.

Alas, in recently approved draft legislation, the Romanian government declared the Canadian company's private project to be of public utility and of overriding public interest, which it is not, given that the Romanian Constitution stresses that «public interest riches», including underground resources, are the exclusive object of public property, meaning that they solely belong to the Romanian people.

«That will mean stepping up efficiency savings, it will mean accelerating public service reforms, it will mean committing to far - reaching asset sales and securing responsible pay deals and it will mean switching resources from lower to higher priority areas that better meet the new challenges.»

That means criticism of the European Union in public; it means opposing immigration; but it also means that the political professionals will devote considerable resources to tearing down the minor parties.

Second, disagreements between members of the combined authority (made up of Barnsley, Doncaster, Rotherham and Sheffield)-- and with the Government — mean that the public consultation needed to unlock the powers and resources on offer as part of the city region's devolution deal has not yet taken place.

And it means giving public charter schools the resources they need to welcome more kids.

When it comes to fragile states theft of public resources like development money for education and land do create deep seated anger that if not addressed in time can evolve into grounds for seeking alternative means to redress the situation.

Included in the PowerPoint: a) Scarcity, Choice and Opportunity Cost - The Fundamental Economic Problem - The Meaning of Scarcity and the inevitability of choices at all levels (individual, firms, govt)- The basic questions of what will be produced ow and for whom - The Meaning of the term «Ceteris Paribus» - The Margin and Decision Making at the Margin - Sort run, long run, very long run b) Positive and Normative Statements - the distinction between fact and value judgements c) Factors of Production - the rewards to the factors of production: land, labour, capital and enterprise - Specialization and division of labour d) Resource Allocation in Different Economic Systems and Issues of Transition - decision making in market, planned and mixed economies - the role of the factor enterprise in a modern economy e) Production Possibility Curves - shape and shifts of the curve - constant and increasing opportunity costs f) Money - functions and characteristics in a modern economy - barter, cash and bank deposits, cheques, near money, liquidity g) Classification of Goods and Services - free goods, private goods (economic goods) and public goods - merit goods and demerit goods as the outcome of imperfect information by consumers PowerPoint Also Includes: - Key Terms for each Chapter - Activities - Multiple Choice and Essay questions from past exam papers.

Understanding Student - Weighted Allocation as a Means to Greater School Resource Equity This article by Karen Hawley Miles and Marguerite Roza examines how the shift to student - weighted allocation affected the pattern of resource distribution within 2 districts: the Houston Independent School District and Cincinnati Public Resource Equity This article by Karen Hawley Miles and Marguerite Roza examines how the shift to student - weighted allocation affected the pattern of resource distribution within 2 districts: the Houston Independent School District and Cincinnati Public resource distribution within 2 districts: the Houston Independent School District and Cincinnati Public Schools.

This doesn't mean that we ought not to spend public money to help families with limited financial resources access good childcare for their young children.

(Ill.) A new plan to better prepare students in Chicago Public Schools for life after graduation has education experts concerned that the initiative, while well - meaning, may prove half - baked unless the district can provide support resources.

A decision by a rural family to withdraw a child from the public school and enroll them elsewhere doesn't mean that the family disconnects from the school — it simply means that the school has fewer resources to provide the non-educational benefits critical for community members.

With an influx of 40 - plus new students (the law requires this year's Opportunity Scholarship holders to be former public school attendees, meaning that last year's group of students attending Greensboro Islamic Academy would not qualify for vouchers), it's not clear how the prior financial needs of GIA will be met, given that a larger student population will demand even more resources.

Everybody romanticizes what it means to teach in an under - resourced urban public school system.

With the state's much - anticipated release of Smarter Balanced test scores tentatively scheduled for Wednesday, EdSource is gearing up to provide comprehensive coverage, along with additional resources to help the public understand what the scores mean.

It means talking with parents and community activists worried about children with greater needs having access to fewer resources, local business leaders concerned about protecting the critical contributions of public schools to their local workforce and economy, and many others who have a stake in public education and our country's future.

The real questions in Arizona public education today involve how we will best utilize scarce resources in order to provide a quality education for EVERY student; the most effective ways to replicate successful, innovative schools; and the fastest means to develop these schools in the neighborhoods where they are needed most.

So we must also transform the means by which we manage the human resources of our public education system, and this will require that we examine every aspect of the way in which we prepare, certify, mentor, retain, evaluate, and compensate educators, so that this entire chain and all of its links will be assessed based on their value added to Texas student achievement.

The AFT website moves into Bizarro territory when it concludes its mini anti-choice rant by informing us that public money used to subsidize private school tuition means «less accountability for taxpayers» dollars, a false hope for a handful of kids, and fewer resources for school reforms that actually work.»

Yet critics of the French system say that spreading government funds across the two sectors means all schools are stretched thin, leaving some public schools, in particular, without the resources they need to serve the students they have.

This means that all schools large and small, urban and rural, public and private, brick and mortar or virtual, need to provide access to teaching expertise in the library as well as best resources, technologies and physical and virtual learning spaces to support learner needs as they evolve.

«Having these resources available through the public libraries, which are open year - round and hours schools aren't open, mean we're available to assist students when schools are not open.»

Neutering Sterilizing a pet is good for public health (fewer strays means fewer dog bites, less public resources needed for animal shelters etc.), good for a better house pet (less urine marking, tendency to fight or roam), no unwanted litters, reduced risk of many diseases, etc..

This is not only good for those who have pets as their responsibility; it also means that issues which might otherwise take up scarce public resources through the regulatory or lawmaking process are handled long before they become problems.

Sterilisation as a means of controlling the community cat population has been carried out by members of the public using their own resources, with support from the Cat Welfare Society's reimbursement scheme and the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animal's sterilisation voucher scheme for the past 7 years.

So when resources are used to target people (and dogs) that are not a threat to public safety, these resources are being diverted from true public safety threats - meaning breed specific laws make people less safe, not more safe.

Ours on the other hand seeks the most efficient means to protect the public interest in the biosphere by making these values transparent in the market, discouraging wasteful resort to this most valuable resource, ensuring that the funds for remedies are raised from those who imposed costs and so forth.

Moreover, they have recently added an eco-label center where you can do a search on eco-labels and find out information about what particular labels mean, whether they are subject to conflict of interest problems, and whether broad industry and public input was used to establish their standards — a very promising resource.

Andy, think long and hard about what you've said here and ask yourself how climate scientists can avoid to appear to be engaged in nefarious activities when subjected to quote - mining, selective publication of stolen e-mails, outright misrepresentation of public statements, organized FOI flooding meant to overwhelm a departments resources to respond (while asking for stuff the university in question has no right to release), etc etc..

«The Doris Duke Charitable Foundation believes that data - driven, spatially explicit strategies for land conservation are the best means of insuring that scarce public and private resources are invested wisely and efficiently.

Committee meetings on SB 676 Senate Environment and Natural Resources Committee 3:00 pm, March 26, 2009 Public Hearing Room: HR F Agenda item: 3 Audio (RealPlayer file) Senate Environment and Natural Resources Committee 3:00 pm, April 14, 2009 Work Session Room: HR C Agenda item: 4 Audio (RealPlayer file) Senate Environment and Natural Resources Committee 3:00 pm, April 21, 2009 Work Session Room: HR C Agenda item: 8 Audio (RealPlayer file) Joint Subcommittee on Natural Resources 1:00 pm, May 13, 2009 Public Hearing Room: H - 170 Agenda item: 3 Audio (RealPlayer file) Joint Subcommittee on Natural Resources 1:00 pm, June 4, 2009 Work Session Room: H - 170 Agenda item: 6 Audio (RealPlayer file) Joint Ways and Means Committee 4:30 pm, June 9, 2009 Work Session Room: HR F Agenda item: 9 Audio

Welcome to the RFF Weekly Policy Commentary, which is meant to provide an easy way to learn about important policy issues related to environmental, natural resource, energy, urban, and public health problems.

Cutting this program means doing away with tools for resource managers, public health agencies, and other responders to detect and respond to leaks and reduce health risks.

Therefore, there can not ultimately be a transfer of State resources within the meaning of Article 107 (1) without an actual granting or withdrawal of resources belonging to the public budget.

As a point of departure, the resources employed do not flow from the public purse; on the contrary, the advantage is granted by means of a transfer of resources between private persons (from producers of other types of electricity and electricity providers to producers of CHP electricity)-- as in PreussenElektra.

What is less clear is why the CCJ, the ABA and other organizations continue to focus so much of their limited attention and resources on seeking increased public funding — and call on others to do the same — rather than devoting some of that attention and resource to changing the regulations in order to allow for alternative means of providing legal aid and, as a consequence, to also allow for alternative means of funding.

«The term «pro bono» refers to activities of the firm undertaken normally without expectation of fee and not in the course of ordinary commercial practice and consisting of (i) the delivery of legal services to persons of limited means or to charitable, religious, civic, community, governmental, and educational organizations in matters which are designed primarily to address the needs of persons of limited means; (ii) the provision of legal assistance to individuals, groups, or organizations seeking to secure or protect civil rights, civil liberties, or public rights; and (iii) the provision of legal assistance to charitable, religious, civic, community, governmental, or educational organizations in matters in furtherance of their organizational purposes, where the payment of standard legal fees would significantly deplete the organization's economic resources or would be otherwise inappropriate.»

The challenges of establishing my own firm meant I dabbled in areas like accounting, technology, human resources, and public relations, for which I had limited expertise and limited resources to hire experts.

For professors to then pick up the ball and encourage their students to do so, would surely help yield a legal resource of great value to members of the bar but, also, to members of the public — to whom this would provide the means to be much more nuanced or circumspect and, potentially, helpful in the legal «readings» they bring to us as clients!

The Magee report puts the integrity of the justice system on the line: responsibility for policy resting with central government means that the interests of justice may be conflated with political expedience, public opinion and resources.

In a landmark decision, an Ontario judge has ruled that Legal Aid's ongoing support of Kathleen Anne Worrod was an «abuse of process» that undermined the public interest and wasted precious judicial resources meant for low - income Ontarians.

Legal Aid's ongoing support of Worrod, he ruled, amounted to an abuse of process that undermined the public interest and wasted judicial resources meant for low - income Ontarians.

Individuals tend to look at the graphics, EDRM model and other graphics; EDRM means electronic discovery reference diagram, tend to look at the schematics but really what EDRM has that are available to the publics are it's guides that will work you through reach stage of e-discovery process step by steps, so that is a resource as well and there is a great blogs out there.

And, even if a client is not of limited means, there is a professional obligation to ensure that the (limited) public resources of our justice system (courts and tribunals) are used appropriately.

Therefore companies are investing resources in going through the complicated drug enlistment process, success in which means a guarantee of business from the public hospitals.