Sentences with phrase «public stands on»

«We need to see where the public stands on how much they value privacy of their communications versus the ability to track terrorists.

Exactly where the public stands on this issue depends a lot on how you ask the question.

Estimating the influence of the news media on public expression — on whether it causes individuals to take public stands on key policy issues, for example — has long been challenging to scientists.

Why are bishops taking public stands on the feasibility of border fences, on guest - worker programs, on workplace enforcement?

Though they have made their mark in the private sector, these men and women are taking public stands on hot button social and environmental issues ranging from gay marriage to climate change to gender equality.

Guess what: a political candidate is using the internet to leverage the attention he's receiving from taking a public stand on an issue.

Cuomo is reportedly planning to send an ethics program bill to the Legislature in hopes of pressuring members into taking a public stand on the measure.

That debate has put all eyes on City Council Speaker Christine Quinn, who has yet to take a public stand on the bill, which has deeply divided many of those she will have to court in her presumptive run for mayor.

Ahead of tonight's first Europe debate between Nick Clegg and Nigel Farage how do the public stand on the European Union?

It's hard to help make the argument that dark women are out looking for interracial seeing to increase their financial or public standings on earth when they seem to be to be doing just fine independently.

The overall reluctance of New York's education reform leaders to take a public stand on DeVos reveals a third rail that local charter advocates — and their counterparts in other charter - heavy cities, like New Orleans, Washington, D.C. and Los Angeles — are now forced to maneuver.

Gov. Jerry Brown hasn't taken a public stand on the bill, and he declined to comment for this story.

CPV (Comment 16) expresses the concern that once a scientist takes a public stand on an issue, he or she is likely to succumb to various pressures that can undermine scientific objectivity, encourage confirmation bias, etc..

Ninety - six people die every day from guns in the U.S., but most lawmakers «have no public stand on guns,» David Hogg, one of the more outspoken Parkland student activists, told the crowd in Washington today.

The value of that solidarity was acknowledged earlier at the conference by Warren Mundine, Chair of the Prime Minister's Indigenous Advisory Council, who said he had been urged to take a public stand on the Federal Government's proposed repeal of Section 18C of the Racial Discrimination Act by the Jewish Board of Deputies and Chinese community.

Not exact matches

Denton's optimism about this recent investment stands in direct opposition to his previous, and very public, aversion to taking on outside money.

Indeed, Skype had long - standing plans to go public, and its backers felt sure it would have thrived on its own.

CNBC takes a look at where this historical negotiation stands as investors, political analysts and the general public try to keep a track of what's going on.

The Morton County Sheriff's Department is not using Facebook check - ins to monitor Standing Rock protesters, a public information officer told Snopes on Monday.

While his standing among troops has likely been burnished by some of his policies — like boosting spending and reducing executive - branch input in battlefield decision - making — he has faced public criticism on some initiatives, like raising the budget and expanding US involvement in Afghanistan.

As things stand in 2014, the prospects for 2039 for the building and what happens inside it hinge on three things: Just how far the trading community pushes automation, how hard regulators push back and how well the 80 or so locations now where stocks are traded can maintain their trust and credibility with the investing public.

As his public influence grew, the preacher's stands on the social issues of his day were watched closely by supporters and critics alike.

While it's rare to see CEOs here take a public stand (witness the silence of Toronto's business leaders when the Rob Ford scandals unfolded), a growing number of American executives are stepping into the public spotlight, taking stands on issues like religious freedom, gay marriage and gun control.

They came with nothing but each other and a lot of gratitude... Well that young man, who is not so young anymore, was joined by his life partner three days ago as they stood on the perch of the New York Stock Exchange, rang the bell and took their company public.

Evan Spiegel, co-founder and chief executive officer of Snap Inc., stands on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange during the company's initial public offering on Thursday, March 2, 2017.

The dispute over the panels began on Monday, when Merck & Co.'s Kenneth Frazier took a public stand against Trump, saying that quitting the manufacturing council was «matter of personal conscience» and said that U.S. leaders had to reject «hatred, bigotry and group supremacy.»

Similarly, danwei were work units whose members were apportioned public goods and were ranked based on their «good» or «bad» political standing.

But just as Harper is de-emphasizing some of his past comments, the Liberals are also de-emphasizing their stand on private care within the public system, as we saw recently when Health Minister Pierre Pettigrew did a very public about - face on this very question.

Opening Statement to House of Representatives Standing Committee on Economics, Finance and Public Administration Canberra — 17 February 2006

The Standing Committees of the Public Accounts and on Government Operations and Estimates have also recommended that the «Office of the Comptroller General complete its study of accrual - based budgeting and appropriations and report back by March 31, 2013 its recommendations on whether the Government of Canada should pursue accrual - based budgeting in departments and accrual - based appropriations in its financial reporting system».

The Standing Committees of the Public Accounts and on Government Operations and Estimates have also recommended that the «Office of the Comptroller General complete its study of accrual - based budgeting and appropriations and report back by March 31, 2013 its recommendations on whether the Government of Canada should pursue accrual - based budgeting in departments and accrual - based appropriations in in its financial reporting system».

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Autonomous is pleased to announce the release of «Token Mania,» an in - depth look at Initial Coin Offerings: What they are, how they work, and the ways in which this new funding mechanism based on distributed - ledger technology stands to displace traditional markets for public and private investment.

Protestors, their friends and reporters for various financial media were asked several times by staff and security to step off the building's premises, and stand only on the public street.

When Marc Garneau next informed the House that he «entered politics to counter the public's perception that politicians are on the take» and that «regrettably, the member for Parry Sound — Muskoka is making that extremely difficult,» there was much grumbling from the government members and the Speaker stood to call for order.

She currently serves as a member on several of the Legislature's committees, including the Standing Committee on Families and Communities, the Standing Committee on Public Accounts, and the Standing Committee on Privileges and Elections, Standing Orders and Printing.

But according to the MLA committee membership list released on Dec. 13, 2016, Fildebrandt is no longer Chair of the Standing Committee on Public Accounts, a role he has filled since June 2015.

In the 38th Parliament (2005 - 2009) he served as Chair of the Legislature's Select Standing Committee on Public Accounts Committee, Deputy Chair of the Select Standing Committee on Education and Deputy Chair of the Special Committee to Appoint an Ombudsperson.

In a report published in March 2013, the Standing Committee on Public Accounts consequently directed the Department to do so by June of 2013 (recommendation 3).

A particularly active MLA, Mason has served as a member of the Standing Committees on Law and Regulations, and Public Accounts, as well as the Special Standing Committee on Members» Services.

Here's a letter to the board of Biglari Holdings re: executive compensation [Noise Free Investing] & then more thoughts on Biglari's compensation agreement [My Investing Notebook] Where things stand in the market [Bespoke Investment Group] A list of stocks Nasdaq is canceling trades in from yesterday's madness [Business Insider] The best interest rate chart in the world [Trader's Narrative] A great macro overview from Barry Ritholtz [The Big Picture] A look at John Paulson's possible ownership of Bear Stearns CDOs [Zero Hedge] John Mauldin on the future of public debt [Advisor Perspectives] Top buys & sells from Morningstar's ultimate stock pickers [Morningstar] The truth about «Sell in May & Go Away» [WSJ] An interview with hedge fund manager Hugh Hendry [Investment Week] Bill Ackman: Let's have a public registry for stock opinion [Barron's] Hedge fund Harbinger hires ex-Orange chief for wireless plan [Dealbook] & Deutsche Telekom has been in talks with Harbinger [FT] Hedge funds begin to restructure fee system [FT]

Despite the wane, Snap's initially successful IPO stands as a good sign for tech companies on the brink of going public.

Opening Statement to House of Representatives Standing Committee on Economics, Finance and Public Administration — The Australian Payments System

In a major public lecture, Donald Trautman declared that «as a text for public proclamation, in many instances it borders on failure... As it stands, the New Missal is not pastorally sensitive to our people... Our liturgy needs not a «sacred language» but a pastoral language».

But Justice Sonia Sotomayor worried about the effect on local citizens who choose not to stand and bow their heads when asked during a public prayer.

• In an article on the anxieties of wealthy New York parents trying to get their small children into elite preschools, a New York Times reporter writes of standing outside one of the sought - after public schools, which happens to be one of four public schools recently the subject of a sex - abuse scandal.

In the summer of 1941, at the height of Germany's success in the war, Bishop von Galen decided to take a public stand against the Nazis, even if he had to do it on his own.

If the RC had come out a couple of decades ago and asked the public for help in exposing the pedophile priests so that they could be excommunicated and imprisoned, they might have a leg to stand on, but they didn't do that.

For when in summer the peasant's horse stands in the meadow and throws up his head or shakes it, surely no one can know with certainty what that means; or when two of them who throughout their lives have walked side by side pulling in the same yoke are turned out at night, when they approach one another as if in intimacy, when they almost caress each other by movements of the head; or when the free horses neigh to one another so that the woods echo, when they are gathered on the plains in a big herd as if at a public meeting — assume then that they really could make themselves understood to one another.

Here, we don't just illuminate where Mitt Romney and Barack Obama stand on the issues that matter to our readers; we also delve into the larger question of how politics and faith should coexist in the public space.