Sentences with phrase «public responsibility which»

Not exact matches

[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.

TfL, which is responsible for the city's transportation system, determined that Uber was not «fit and proper to hold a private hire operator license» owing to its lack of corporate responsibility and to concerns regarding public safety and security, according to a TfL statement.

«Other organisations, private or public, which ran homes where abuse took place bear a similar responsibility.»

Based entirely on anecdotal evidence, however, I believe the press» credibility with senior citizens has taken a hit from which it is unlikely to recover, and it may be entirely due to the election of 2008, when the mainstream media utterly abandoned whatever responsibilities to the public trust to which it still felt obliged, tossed presumptive - nominee Hillary Clinton aside and» rejecting any - and - all discomfiting questions about his experience, background, past - operations, education, friendships or capabilities» hoisted candidate Barack Obama upon their shoulders and carried him into the White House in triumph.

I also appreciate Richard Reinsch's introduction to Ralph Hancock's excellent book The Responsibility of Reason, which Peter links below, but it seemed a little odd to me to use Rawls's concept of «public reason» as the key example of the sort of reason - reliance that Ralph wants us to see the insufficiency of.

The commercial, for - profit basis of much communication technology, which may dilute a focus on public responsibility, and the fact that many nations are recycling to commercialized systems rather than staying with the model of public communications.

Any society in history will need structures which balance enhancement of freedom and self - determination with checks on it by long - established legal and moral traditions of keeping power in the service of order and mutual responsibility, as well as creation of new structures of public morality.

If the readers of texts in both the Jewish and Christian communities took their responsibilities seriously and understood that they were making a significant contribution to worship, we too can recapture the enthusiasm for public reading which the early Christians enjoyed!

He also feels that it is unfair for the public to «impose» responsibility on scientists, which is to «exact disproportionate service from one group because of their special ability.»

The religious institutions which formed such people and continued to claim their loyalty took public responsibility in this sense for granted, The churches preached a gospel which supported responsible lives without needing to draw their members deeply into esoteric spiritual disciplines or arcane theological issues.

When groups of citizens get together to accomplish purposes of mutual interest (from which they derive no profit), it should not be the responsibility of government to inspect, evaluate and approve their endeavors on the basis of supposed conformity to the prevailing notion of «public benefit» or «public policy» of the moment.

The churches at this point have a great responsibility not to advocate over-all idealistic solutions but to emphasize the distinctively Christian message that is relevant to these issues, to help their members to see the world without the characteristic American ideological blinders, to challenge many of the prevailing assumptions about the cold war and nuclear armaments, and to encourage the debate on public questions about which most people prefer to be silent.

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.

A while back the NCCB issued a splendid statement, Living the Gospel of Life, which was very specific about the responsibility of Catholic politicians and others in the public arena.

The public policy question becomes, «If trappers bear responsibility for catching free - roaming pets (all of which aren't even injured), what responsibility do owners have for the negative effects of their pets» actions?»

They are seeking what has been called post-modern paradigms for «an open secular democratic culture» within the framework of a public philosophy (Walter Lippman) or Civil Religion (Robert Bellah) or a new genuine realistic humanism or at least a body of insights about the nature of being and becoming human, evolved through dialogue among renascent religions, secularist ideologies including the philosophies of the tragic dimension of existence and disciplines of social and human sciences which have opened themselves to each other in the context of their common sense of historical responsibility and common human destiny.

A secret marriage, however undesirable, is still monogamous if there is a legal registry which can later be made public and which forms the basis of the assumption of mutual responsibilities.

I welcome the opportunity to demonstrate that the American Family Foundation is not an organization which deals in prejudice, fanaticism, and hysteria, or that its call for responsibility on the part of destructive cults is bad for religion or the public order.

It recommended that the state clarify «the responsibilities of public health service providers,» which read in light the Committee's long - standing disgust at conscientious objection to abortion means something like «force your doctors to perform and refer for abortions.»

This is another of the significant issues in the recent growth of paid - time religious programming: by displacing all other types of religious programming, the paid - time religious broadcasters have virtually eliminated the community - responsibility orientation of media functioning in America which had been represented by public - service programming, much of which was religious in orientation.

The biggest push for sugar reduction is coming from public health bodies, 62 % consumers believe that it's manufacturers» responsibility to reduce sugar content in their cakes, which puts a significant pressure on the cake industry.

(A) kin to a public marriage contract, we need an official «co-parenting agreement» and associated civil status, which not only enshrines the rights and responsibilities of each parent in respect of their children, but also sets out the principles by which they relate to one another and make decisions.

If she had a completely different motive from the one that seems obvious here (which I somehow doubt), then yes, she should have taken responsibility for making sure it was obvious before deliberately making a public spectacle of herself.

Modelling a new way of talking about breastfeeding that clarifies the evidence and acknowledges the fact that improving breastfeeding rates is not the responsibility of individual mothers; rather, this is a public health imperative for which government, policy makers, communities and families all share responsibility

They are conveyed to a non-profit conservation organization or public conservation entity, which accepts the right and responsibility to monitor the property and defend and enforce the terms of the CR in perpetuity.

The Office for Budget Responsibility will issue independent assessments of the public finances: this is an institution specifically intended to improve long - term financial planning, and which will help not only this Government but future governments to remain on the fiscal straight and narrow.

Public engagement has four key tenets, each of which has to be understood if you are to effectively launch or relaunch your campaign - public sector diplomacy; mutual social responsibility; shared sacrifice; and continuous conversPublic engagement has four key tenets, each of which has to be understood if you are to effectively launch or relaunch your campaign - public sector diplomacy; mutual social responsibility; shared sacrifice; and continuous converspublic sector diplomacy; mutual social responsibility; shared sacrifice; and continuous conversation.

March 8, 1984, Joseph J. DioGuardi, 43, a partner in Arthur Andersen & Co., one of the» Big Eight» international accounting and consulting firms, will leave the firm on March 31 to enter the race for the 20th Congressional...» He has distinguished himself in the areas in which he has had firmwide responsibility, namely the tax aspects of nonprofit organizations, the public sector and charitable giving,» the statement continued.

They represent a contractual arrangement over the long term by which the public sector transfers to the private sector all or part of construction, financing, operation, and maintenance responsibilities.

A democratic process in which political positions are seen purely as a matter of public service with a responsibility to try and meet the aspirations of the ordinary citizens is likely to engender electoral integrity and healthy participatory government.

The data series in which we found serious discontinuities or complete breaks are not trivial or obscure, but are (or should be) of major importance to the evaluation of government of any political stripe, such as total public sector capital investment, local government spending (on which the Office for Budget Responsibility and the government differ whether it is rising or falling), how much the government costs to run, and how much the civil service costs to employ.

In the meantime, angry commuters continue to blast Cuomo for his non-response: the Riders» Alliance, a consistent critic of the governor, stated that, «The worst delay riders face today is the delay in Governor Cuomo taking responsibility for fixing public transit, which is falling apart on his watch.

Evaluating the Public Health Responsibility Deal for Alcohol surveys the evidence on the Government's flagship public health programme, which was launched in 2011 as a voluntary partnership with commercial organisations, public bodies, academics and NGOs to promote public health Public Health Responsibility Deal for Alcohol surveys the evidence on the Government's flagship public health programme, which was launched in 2011 as a voluntary partnership with commercial organisations, public bodies, academics and NGOs to promote public health public health programme, which was launched in 2011 as a voluntary partnership with commercial organisations, public bodies, academics and NGOs to promote public health public bodies, academics and NGOs to promote public health public health goals.

«Recruitment intentions are falling, which will make further rises in unemployment therefore seem inevitable given that public sector job losses are outpacing the predictions made by the Office for Budget Responsibility.»

According to him, the largest share of responsibility for nurturing, sustaining and continuously deepening Nigeria's electoral process rests on the Commission, as a result of which it must take the lead in demonstrating to the general public and all staff, that the integrity of the electoral processes is the defining moment for credible electoral outcomes.

Not to discount the value of that $ 350,000 union slush fund spiff, which Bharara will figure out anyway, de Blasio's wholly undemanding relationship with the UFT amounts to a profound betrayal of his responsibility to the city's 1.1 million public - school children.

We stand by our original campaign — massive billion dollar public subsidies have public responsibilities and the construction workforce deserves to be able to afford to live in the city in which they work.»

[Anyone] who, in public and against the facts, ascribes to the Polish Nation or to the Polish State, responsibility or co-responsibility for Nazi crimes committed by the Third Reich, [as] defined in Article 6 of the Charter of the International Military Tribunal, Annex to the Agreement for the prosecution and punishment of the major war criminals of the European Axis, signed in London on August 8, 1945 -LSB-...], or for other offences which are crimes against peace [or] humanity or [that are] war crimes, or who otherwise grossly reduces the responsibility of the actual perpetrators of said crimes, is subject to a fine or [to] imprisonment for up to 3 years.

A further unrealistic attitude which both political leaders and the public encourage with equal enthusiasm is an exaggerated notion of what any government can achieve so that nothing unfortunate happens for which the public will not blame the government and for which politicians are not prepared to assume responsibility or at least, if in opposition, to blame the government.

I am two and a half stone lighter which, as a former shadow public health minister in the Scottish Parliament, is just as well, given how much time we witter away about taking personal responsibility for one's own health!

Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie on Friday touted the provisions in the state budget that address criminal justice reforms, which range from raising the age of criminal responsibility to 18 and providing funds for the public defense of indigents.

«We need to get back to an era in which public transportation is acknowledged as an essential civic responsibility,» he planned to say in his remarks.

The $ 153.1 billion budget, which the State Legislature passed on Sunday, raised the age of criminal responsibility to 18 years old, included Gov. Andrew Cuomo's free public college tuition plan, brought back the 421 - a tax abatement program for developers and renewed the millionaires tax on people whose salaries are more than $ 1 million.

While I recognize that it is not the Board's nor the district's role or responsibility to take such things into consideration, I do believe that we have an obligation to utilize community resources whenever possible as that only serves to strengthen the community in which the children served by the Buffalo Public Schools live.

Common Sense Principles, which claims to educate the public about limited government and fiscal responsibility, commissioned dozens of mailers in at least three key State Senate districts, targeting Monroe County Legislator Ted O'Brien, Assemblyman George Latimar (D - Rye) and Senator Joe Addabbo (D - Queens).

The group in its statement made available to the Nigeria Politics Online and signed by Executive Director Adetokunbo Mumuni, Said that, «Budget padding in fact is corruption, as it is implicit in corruption offences such as abuse of office, attempt to embezzle, divert, and misappropriate public funds, conspiracy to act corruptly, and illicit enrichment, which are recognized under the UN Convention against Corruption to which Nigeria is a state party, and included in national legislation such as the Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Act, the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission Establishment Act and the Fiscal Responsibility Act.»

The Building and Construction Trades Council, which represents the unions, argued that developers have a responsibility to provide good wages since they're getting public benefits, but the Real Estate Board of New York said at the time that the costs of doing so would be prohibitive to development — or would force the government to increase subsidies to help cover costs.

The Prime Minister has called for a Big Society, which he says would see people taking more responsibility for their own public services and communities, and a stronger role for voluntary groups.

AAAS developed the questionnaire because serving society is part of the mandate for many professional societies and funding programs, and its importance is often cited in public statements and international conventions — but few agree on what those social responsibilities are or ought to be, said Mark Frankel, director of the AAAS Scientific Responsibility, Human Rights and Law program, which conducted the study along with the AAAS Science and Human Rights Coalition.

Both eventually led, Reilly said, to the establishment of the center's Science Education for New Civic Engagements and Responsibilities program, which provides teaching resources to encourage faculty to frame courses around civic challenges such as public health disparities, inequality and environmental issues.