Sentences with phrase «public resources pauperized»

Choosing a well - staffed and well - maintained facility based on reputation, public resources (e.g., ombudsman, state surveys) and personal observation.

The Issue — It is illegal for a public body to use public resources to selectively benefit a particular private entity, where such benefits will or could distort competition in the market.

That is the position taken at TalkLeft, which says the incident, «Goes to show how obscene it is that the Justice Department wastes public resources on adult «obscenity» trials.»

Syndication efforts are typically intended to be public resources, where the company wants to have its content read, republished or repurposed.

Lady Hale, vice president of the UK Supreme Court, appearing before a legislative committee this summer questioned whether the bill is motivated less by saving public resources and more by decision makers» dislike for being told their decision does not conform to the law.

In a strictly worded memorandum, Ontario Superior Court Justice David Brown says «tactical gamesmanship» by parties has no place in courtrooms funded by public resources.

The main tool will be the proposed European External Investment Plan, which focuses on leveraging additional private and public resources for investment, enabling it to mobilise up to $ 44 billion.

This was particularly evident when the Court was called to examine energy production - supporting measures taken by the Member States: the Netherlands (Essent Netwerk), Austria (Austria v Commission), France (Association Vent de Colère) and Germany (Germany v Commission) all unsuccessfully attempted to persuade the European judges that their feed - in tariff schemes did not engage public resources.

Since the bus lanes constitute public infrastructure which is financed through public resources, Eventech also relied on the Leipzig Halle judgment (C - 288 / 11)(to read elsewhere on this blog: «The Leipzig - Halle judgment of the CJEU: is the financing of a transport infrastructure an economic activity subject to State aid rules?»).

Add that the subject will likely have public relevance and sympathies and, probably, money enough for a crack team of lawyers, and you conclude that any prosecutor who goes that way without an airtight case will appear to the public to be wasting public resources to prosecute a minor crime (that many people won't ever consider as a crime) in order to get publicity.

In conclusion, there seems to emerge from the Opinion of the AG Saugmandsgaard ØE a narrower interpretation of the State resources criterion, based on the commitment of public resources and causation / remoteness.

In particular, the AG seems to suggest a shift from a reading founded on the proof of a mere control exerted by the State over the resources engaged by the national measure concerned (transfer of State resources) and over the public undertaking (imputability) to an understanding requiring an actual commitment of public resources (transfer of State resources) and a causal link between alleged advantage and State budget (imputability).

The report explains why fundamental change in the legal system is necessary, exploring issues like the growth of unrepresented litigants, the role of technology, and potential partnerships between private practices and public resources.

Ms Rai's presentation offered a great deal of survey information about the use of digital legal information resources in India, the commercial and public domain resources that are available for Indian law and, significantly, an evaluation of the competing commercial and public resources.

«An act to add Sections 39730.5, 39730.6, 39730.7, and 39730.8 to the Health and Safety Code, and to add Chapter 13.1 (commencing with Section 42652) to Part 3 of Division 30 of the Public Resources Code, relating to methane emissions.»

TreeHugger extolls the virtues of urbanity and density, and the importance of shared public resources like parks.

McGrath Goodman writes that the ultimate sucker punch is that we're giving our public resources away and then asking Big Oil to sell it back to us at top dollar.

Especially because the new report is consistent with a multitude of information showing changes in living patterns and lifestyle preferences, we should shift more public resources into transit, to keep up with and strengthen the trends toward more sustainable modes of transportation....

The White House claims that a central goal of the DOI's dirty energy budget is «ensuring taxpayers receive a fair return from the development of these public resources.»

that a central goal of the DOI's dirty energy budget is «ensuring taxpayers receive a fair return from the development of these public resources.»

Public Resources Code Section 25300, et seq., directs the Energy Commission to develop the IEPR every two years, with updates in the intermediate years, and directs state government entities to carry out their energy - related duties and responsibilities using the information and analyses contained in the adopted IEPR reports

The 2009 Integrated Energy Policy Report was prepared in response to Senate Bill 1389 (Bowen, Chapter 568, Statutes of 2002), which requires that the California Energy Commission prepare a biennial integrated energy policy report that contains an integrated assessment of major energy trends and issues facing the state's electricity, natural gas, and transportation fuel sectors and provides policy recommendations to conserve resources; protect the environment; ensure reliable, secure, and diverse energy supplies; enhance the state's economy; and protect public health and safety (Public Resources Code, Section 25301 [a]-RRB-.

Since none of it is anthropogenic it is clear that AGW does not exist, predictions of a global warming catastrophe are totally wrong, and policies adapted for emission control are a criminal waste of public resources.

Rather than investing scarce public resources in coal projects, governments must shift financing towards clean energy infrastructure and technology.

is the Marxist narrative that can't distinguish the rights of a private enterprise (Heartland) by making a mindless comparison to the abuse of public resources that is Climategate and all it indicates.

Senate Bill 1389 (Public Resources Code 25300 - 25324) requires the Energy Commission to prepare a biennial assessment of natural gas markets including supply, demand, infrastructure, pricing, reliability, and efficiency as part of the IEPR.

Forest landowners are required to improve their forest roads to protect public resources, including water, fish, and wildlife habitat.

That being said, I would much prefer to see public resources invested in consumer education than with mandates.

How should scarce public resources be applied?

In a world of constrained public resources, traditional forms of concessional finance will not be sufficient to fund the investment required for a transition to a low - carbon future.

Therefore, leveraging public resources and creating enabling environments for increased use of commercial finance and incentivizing private sector investments will be critical for success.

Sorry, but inciting people for scientific endeavour, no matter how misdirected is a gross waste of money and public resources.

Evaluating leverage in CIF projects can contribute to understanding how limited public resources can be best used.

But planners could also take advantage of market data to dedicate public resources to the least developed regions.

The Green Strides web portal, powered by the Center, connects schools with free and public resources.

I have no problem with advocacy sites, however I have a serious problem with advocacy blogs which present themselves as ubiased public resources.

It is used often as an excuse for the enclosure and privatization of public resources, on the specious basis that private owners have a vested interest in protecting the environment whereas the rest of us who have to share the resource do not.

The best (non-cooperative) short - term strategy for an individual is to try to exploit more than his or her share of public resources.

Working with lists of names culled from public resources, Camnitzer added lines of type, using digital techniques to create space in the ready - made phonebook, resulting in the reappearance of hundreds of names that are now indistinguishable from the names in the original phonebook.

«It's not a very smart use of public resources to cancel something at almost no cost, federally, that provides museums with hundreds of millions of dollars of relief in terms of their insurance bills,» Heyler said.

During my career as developer I've also developed several popular freeware tools and public resources for independent game developers.

Norfolk, VA About Blog Norfolk Friends of Foster Care strives to ensure all children in the foster care system have the best childhood possible by providing: - Targeted outreach to increase the number of foster families to ensure family - home placement vs. group - home placement; and - Funding for enrichment programs that bridge the gap between what is available from public resources.

In the city's librarians and staff, the Parks Conservancy has found strong allies with a common mission of bringing public resources to a broader diversity of the population for the benefit of all people.

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.

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..

Plaintiffs are environmental protection groups with a common goal to prevent defendant City of Los Angeles (the City) from implementing a program to trap, neuter and release feral cats to the outdoors without conducting an adequate environmental review under the California Environmental Quality Act, Public Resources Code section 21000 et seq. (CEQA).

Where public resources are strained?

Over the past two years, more than 100 municipalities across the USA have overturned bans and other restrictions that target dogs in the pit bull family, and opposition to BSL comes from sources as diverse as the American Bar Association, animal rescue groups, the Center for Disease Control and even President Barack Obama, who said in August that the laws are largely ineffective while doing nothing to improve public safety, and are often a «waste of public resources».

In 2013, President Obama came out against BSL, saying it was «largely ineffective and often a waste of public resources.»

A wealth of public resources are available online.