Sentences with phrase «public settings for»

Even religion's most informed advocates are reluctant to speak of their faith in public settings for fear of rejection by their intellectual peers.

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But a new focus on Moore's previous public statements on controversial topics also gained traction of late, just days ahead of the Alabama special election set for December 12.

Sure, there's the rare self - motivated individual who prefers fitness videos over all else and works out every morning, but for the general public, having someone to yell in your face when you don't want to do another set of burpees is going to increase the likelihood of success.

Even less like a public research lab, Laberge and Richardson set themselves a deadline, as they had done developing products for Creo: four years to net gain.

«Those pushing for net neutrality think the world would work better if the Internet was somehow magically transformed into a public utility, like a water or electricity company, with the FCC and state regulators setting rates, overseeing investment, and micromanaging relationships between providers and customers,» Downes says, adding the result would be devastating to the smooth functioning of ISP networks.

By 2014, my wife had set up private groups for our families, so the kiddie photos mostly get shared there and it's easy to mentally separate the private FB sharing in a group from more public sharing.

In public relations, setting a narrative for a brand's story or a company's announcement is just as important.

But he stopped short of declaring the song in the public domain, leaving open the possibility that others may hold the copyright and setting the stage for a trial.

In a recent public statement about the move, FCC chairman Tom Wheeler — who happens to be a former head of the National Cable & Telecommunications Association — said that for too long, the set - top box has been a boon for cable and satellite companies but a bane for users.

«For setting up a new tone, it's a good start,» said Sun Zhe, the co-director of the China Initiative of Columbia University's School of International and Public Affairs.

One user from California noted,» [It's] not cool to sue customers simply for writing a review,» while another from Massachusetts said, «When you sue your customers for voicing their dissatisfaction in a public setting, you're attempting to stifle free speech.»

Pierlot wrote a paper for the CD Howe Institute in 2011 showing that a person with a salary of $ 75,000 at the end of a 35 - year career would accumulate more than $ 1.4 million in savings through a defined - benefit plan (wherein the pensioner is paid a set income based on past earnings and years of service, mostly confined to the public sector these days) compared to $ 674,711 for someone with no pension but a maxed - out Registered Retirement Savings Plan.

The federal government, for public safety reasons, will withhold some federal highway funds from states that set their drinking age younger than 21 but Congress has never tried to pass a law setting the drinking age nationally at 21.

Following successful models like the X-Prize, private - and public - sector leaders should work together to set up a high - profile Canada Prize that offers incentives for entrepreneurs and researchers to solve critical problems with commercial and public benefits, like cheap desalination units or better distribution of electricity to villages.

Most respondents disagreed with the Conservatives that the census is a privacy concern — 55 % of the CEOs said the census should remain mandatory since the resulting data are important for setting public policy.

Our data is more like a set of jewels, a rich collection of information that is a goldmine for advertisers but also contains the memories, personal details, and insights of the public.

In practice, this meant more public land was set aside for conservation purposes and, in the areas still open to logging, cut blocks — those strategically shorn sections of forest seen in aerial photos — grew smaller.

Ice Cream giant Ben and Jerry's had been living on the public relations of setting their wage ratio for the highest - paid employee to the lowest to 5:1 — which they did until 1990.

«Automakers have been working to mitigate distraction in vehicles since we developed the first set of distraction guidelines in 2003 — years before this issue entered the broader public debate and a full decade before NHTSA published its guidelines for vehicles,» said the Alliance of Automotive Makers, an automotive trade group made up of 12 car and light truck manufacturers including BMW, Chrysler, Ford, GM and Toyota.

Beyond fees, Aequitas says it will enforce a higher set of requirements in some cases for companies looking to go public.

With the new Trudeau government pledging more deficits, public debt and cost to service it appear set to keep growing for the foreseeable future.»

The angry protestors are gathered outside of the office of Nevada's Public Utilities Commission, the regulatory body that sets rules for the state's electricity, gas, and water utilities.

In my case, I signed up for a stand - up comedy course at the Comedy Cellar and then did a couple of public sets.

President Donald Trump will not assert executive privilege to block fired FBI Director James Comey from testifying on Capitol Hill, the White House said Monday, setting the stage for a dramatic public airing of the former top law enforcement official's dealings with the commander in chief.

Clarification: Mester advocates using rules for communication purposes to the public but not necessarily setting policy.

New York City looks set to finally replace its outdated, difficult - to - use Metrocard system for public transit.

The crown prince desperately needs the revenue and the highest possible valuation for the piece of Saudi Aramco that is set be sold to the public.

A couple of the days before Apple was set to launch the service, Swift penned a passionate public letter to the company, arguing it should pay artists for songs their customers stream even during their free one month trial.

According to a brochure published for the benefit of the British public, «the Bank sets the official interest rate — Bank Rate — to keep inflation low.»

«The determination of the PSD - led government to charge ahead with the contentious criminal justice reform in disregard of widespread public discontent and political opposition sets a scene for tumultuous period ahead, highlighting a risk of further deteriorating operating environment,» Andrius Tursa, advisor on central and eastern European issues at Teneo Intelligence said in a note last week.

Another assumption that public pension funds are making in setting lower investment target rates is that inflation will remain low for some time.

Having a set of values or ethics you share with the public helps, Oakes says, because it shows you stand for more than just making a profit.

Responding to one analyst's complaint that he was being too defensive for a company CEO who just had his first earnings release since going public, Levie said he wanted to make sure Box sets «appropriate expectations.»

The disclosure was swiftly met with criticism because of the delay in alerting the public to the hack, as well as problems with the website that Equifax set up for people to check whether their details were at risk.

«Even though public universities are not affected by the endowment tax, they are very much opposed to it, for fear it would set a precedent that would be applied to them in the future,» Terry Hartle of the American Council on Education told NPR in December.

The «COMING SOON» sign has been in the front window for what seems like an eternity, but Research in Motion is really, really, really set to unveil its BlackBerry 10 to the public on Jan. 30.

Today, Grybek is a marketing and public relations coordinator with the Habitat for Humanity of Collier County in Naples, Florida, a job where «there's more of an emphasis on productivity versus sticking to a set schedule each day,» she said.

For me, the importance of setting very public targets was brought home last week, while helping put together a Fortune analysis of how nine of the biggest tech companies compare on diversity.

Restructuring contracts around the nation's public policy goals would ensure that private operators provide more educational programming, job training classes, and work with their inmates to ensure they are set up for optimal success once they are eventually released.

The Simpson trial set the stage for the Casey Anthony trial, the Oscar Pistorius trial, and any other recent case that played out in public (and on television) almost as much as it played out in the courtroom.

«Whether we like it or not, the news media set the agenda for the issues the public talks about and the way in which we talk about them,» Moll told INSIDER.

Most significantly, (and further to the opinions of MacDonald and Heger), this move sets Public Mobile up nicely for consolidation with other small players, said Fan.

With domain hosting business GoDaddy set to go public this week, there's no time better than now to take a look back at a slew of Super Bowl ads that had people talking for days after.

Ben & Jerry's sets a precedent by discovering a little - known clause about stocks and brokering, then establishing a Vermont - only public stock offering to raise money for a new manufacturing plant.

«We've always had a set of community standards that the public can see,» Facebook Vice President Monika Bickert told NPR's Steve Inskeep, «but now we're actually explaining how we define those terms for our review teams and how we enforce those policies.»

«The collaboration we saw was some billing and administrative contacts between the two of them, so you'd see similar people show up in each of the accounts,» said Schroepfer, when asked for more detail about what it had found, before declining to say anything else in a public setting on account of ongoing investigations — despite the committee pointing out other witnesses it has heard from have not held back on that front.

We have set out to do what others weren't willing to try and are incredibly grateful for such public recognition of these efforts.»

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We devised an ambitious and well - ordered plan, a rare occurrence in the public sphere, which set targets and plans for the coming years.»

May 2014 — Facebook only now switches off the public default for users» photos and status updates, setting default visibility to «friends»