Sentences with phrase «public structures by»

For nearly a century, the country's primary defense against flood risk has been the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP), which is intended to reduce the impact of flooding on private and public structures by providing affordable insurance to property owners.

Not exact matches

Given how far the pendulum has swung, Levy believes it's time to reassess what we accomplished by removing the public purpose requirement and making the corporate structure so easy to access and maintain.

«The public funds, at least in Pennsylvania, are structured to enable the bank to make a loan that they might not be able to make without the public debt behind them by enhancing the loan - to - value, reducing the risk to [the bank], and then passing on some benefits [to the borrower] in the form of lower interest rates, which help cash - flow issues.»

Given Osiris's strong five - year record of growth and profitability, Bowers was able to help make Miller's wishes come true: he structured a deal that raised $ 13 million from a large local pension fund — the Pennsylvania Public School Employees Retirement System (see «What Pension Funds Want,» [Article link]-RRB--- by selling a package of subordinated debt and convertible preferred stock, which included a fixed interest rate and dividend yield.

In the provincial public and near - public sectors, pension plans have been moving away from the classic DB structure for nearly 20 years, led by the Ontario Teachers» Pension Plan (OTPP).

Since the company went public in 2008, it's raised its dividend each year and its share price has outperformed gold bullion and gold miners, as measured by the S&P / TSX Global Gold Index, due to its unique structure and debt - free model.

Following the egregious no - vote IPO of Snap Inc. and requests by CII and other concerned investor groups, three major index providers opened public consultations on their treatment of no - vote and multi-class structures.

• Boondoggles for bank executives; rather, their employees are salaried public servants (paid by the state, with a transparent pay structure) who would likely not earn bonuses, commissions or fees for generating loans.

Our unique public policy committee structure balances the priorities of our grassroots Members with the strategic direction set out by our board of directors, policy council and management team.

She suggested taking what has been shared on this thread, along with information that can't in good conscience be shared in public, for private professional review, making use of structures developed by denominations over many years of dealing with situations like these.

a set of values, beliefs, and structure in a person's life in order to give them direction and a sense of right and wrong is fine, but organized religions are no more than large corporations, and like any large corporation are only focused on their bottom line... trying to control the public and extract as much money as they can from them by any means necessary... promoting fear, uncertainty, hate and a sense that they alone can offer salvation... for a price (although they are very cleaver about getting to this hidden and unspoken cost... after all these hundreds of years they have perfected their craft well!)

As I have argued in these pages and elsewhere, the «presumption,» by detaching the just war way of thinking from its proper political context» the right use of sovereign public authority toward the end of tranquillitas ordinis, or peace» tends to invert the structure of classic just war analysis and turn it into a thin casuistry, giving priority consideration to necessarily contingent in bello judgments (proportionality of means, discrimination or noncombatant immunity) over what were always understood to be the prior ad bellum questions («prior» in that, inter alia, we can have a greater degree of moral clarity about them).

Can we reconceive theological education in such a way that (1) it clearly pertains to the totality of human life, in the public sphere as well as the private, because it bears on all of our powers; (2) it is adequate to genuine pluralism, both of the «Christian thing» and of the worlds in which the «Christian thing» is lived, by avoiding naiveté about historical and cultural conditioning without lapsing into relativism; (3) it can be the unifying overarching goal of theological education without requiring the tacit assumption that there is a universal structure or essence to education in general, or theological inquiry in particular, which inescapably denies genuine pluralism by claiming to be the universal common denominator to which everything may be reduced as variations on a theme; and (4) it can retrieve the strengths of both the «Athens» and the «Berlin» types of excellent schooling, without unintentionally subordinating one to the other?

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.

Active social reform (or involvement in the structures of society) will follow such proclamation, but it will be left by and large to concerned individuals.23 According to the editors, individual Christian involvement will include responsible public criticism of the errors of government (e. g., detente, price freezing, opposition to capital punishment, corrupt leadership, lack of low - rent housing) while remaining always orderly and loyal in the process.

By nature, the present President of America has that element in him — I should not be saying this but I am being inherently made to convey this as comment of exception for America and for Obama whose whole (Obama and his better half) stand as an extension through the ex Presidential candidate's Charisma Of the Secretary Hillary Clinton that President Obama's Charisma has selflessly absorbed for function in the cabinet gracefully for America and the world.That shows the humbleness of President Obama and maturity of Hillary Clinton of acceptance without a feeling of high and low of ego regarded as exceptional in Divinity.I was not supposed to make this comment and I have done so to urge the Republicans to accept their Light within of consensus through individual projections under control as Obama's gesture of bipartisanship that will come to address.In short, this comment is all about health and health care where economics alone does not come into the picture with a rigorous analysis on it but should also extend as leverage to the person in play (Obama) who is also selflessly poised with corrections on it over the infra structure of it that he has proposed for approval as ego of his working element as the executive public ally chosen as the President that had appealed to the public at large voting even putting behind able dleaers like McCain?George W Bush was the last to steer America into the Light over the past of America and that stands as the subtle truth even today as on date with Bill Clinton the ex President of America giving support through his excellent independent caliber for Obama ultimately to head the show of America that was time bound of its reality that sees no barriers and to which he accepted well in his individual capacity as the free lance ex President of America.

The structures of control within the U.S. media are different from the institutionalized formal censorship we might expect of a government - controlled press; they are less visible and more subtle, not monolithic yet hierarchical, transmitted to the many by those who work for the few, essentially undemocratic and narrow in perspective, tied to the rich and powerful but not totally immune to the pressures of an agitated public, propagandistic yet sometimes providing hard information that is intentionally or unintentionally revealing..

In order to defeat underdevelopment, action is required not only on improving exchange - based transactions and implanting public welfare structures, but above all on gradually increasing openness, in a world context, to forms of economic activity marked by quotas of gratuitousness and communion.

The objective here is to humanize the structures which govern the media, both by encouraging persons within the industry to «do well by doing good,» and by insisting that the social and economic powers of the industry must be counterbalanced by governmental power which politically expresses the concern of citizens for the general public welfare.

Arendt concludes On Revolution by suggesting we try once again to build structures of government in this country through which at every level all who want to participate in public debate can do so.

If only the church's conventional image is changed from a self - centered, indifferent institution to that of a deeply concerned observer of public affairs — by simply being in the places where policy is being hammered out — this alone is warrant for deployment in the structures of the community,

Scientists oriented toward socialism or Marxism (e.g., Bernal, Needham, Haldane) have complained that within capitalism the direction of science has been determined by corporation profits rather than the public welfare.5 The solutions they offer stress political controls, which run the risk of imposing particular ideologies on the structure of science.

That pattern or movement in the stories about Jesus, that structure, functions something like a «depth grammar» in all enactments of the practice of the public worship of God in Jesus» name, by virtue of which all its culturally and theologically diverse instances bear family resemblances to one another.

Perusing the index of Origins, the weekly publication of representative documents and speeches compiled by Catholic News Service, our imaginary historian will note, for example, the following initiatives undertaken at the national, diocesan and parish levels in 1994 - 95: providing alternatives to abortion; staffing adoption agencies; conducting adult education courses; addressing African American Catholics» pastoral needs; funding programs to prevent alcohol abuse; implementing a new policy on altar servers and guidelines for the Anointing of the Sick; lobbying for arms control; eliminating asbestos in public housing; supporting the activities of the Association of Catholic Colleges and Universities (227 strong); challenging atheism in American society; establishing base communities (also known as small faith communities); providing aid to war victims in Bosnia; conducting Catholic research in bioethics; publicizing the new Catechism of the Catholic Church; battling child abuse; strengthening the relationship between church and labor unions; and deepening the structures and expressions of collegiality in the local and diocesan church.

Other than public buildings which by design are free from religious symbols, where any NYC is religious expression on private property (excepting zoning for signage size and auxiliary structures) prohibited?

Because a certain power structure has not been observed and respected by her, she dares to have and opinion that differs from the party line, she dares to step out of the role that religion has assigned her, and she dares to speak in a public forum.

just reading around and all if not most rags are saying our net spend is # 46 million how can they tell that when they do nt even know what our real budget is if it was # 100 million then we are in profit by quite a bit i do nt really know what they base there assumptions on this is where you could do with swiss ramble to dissect what really was spent from what i could see most of our 5 transfers were covered by out goings and c / l monies earned debuchy - vela deal, chambers - vermalen deal, ospina - cesc and miquel deals sanchez c / l monies and other monies recovered from wages and old installment based deals this is the same with welbeck i would imagine if not then poldolski will be sold in jan to cover this as i think he was going to be sold and this would have covered welbecks transfer more or less also and people do nt always realize that arsenal have money coming in from more than one source to cover transfers not just puma and emirates deals we have property arm of the club which makes money for transfers also outstanding debts we are owed of old transfers we receive each year on song cesc maybe van persie and all other structured deals in installment payments sales we just flogged miquel as an example and all the monies from released wages and youths sold its a bit to complex to just say we have a net spend of xyz when arsenal do nt even make the budget public so they have no starting point from which to go from i bet you we have broke even or even made a slight profit as we are self sustaining it would make sense that we can break even or at least make the net spend under # 10 million each year at least screw then all we are the arsenal we do thing our way

The controversial midfielder, who joined QPR in August after being placed on the transfer list by Newcastle following a public slanging match with the club's board, has now said his departure was inevitable after he led a dressing - room revolt over an argument over a bonus structure.

No zoning ordinance or by - law shall prohibit or unreasonably regulate the installation of solar energy systems or the building of structures that facilitate the collection of solar energy, except where necessary to protect the public health, safety or welfare.

Forest preserve district naturalist Lynn Kurczewski said this park is closed to the public because of hazards posed by dilapidated structures on the property.

Her work connects postpartum support with public health by addressing unmet needs in the structure and delivery of perinatal support services.

The Shade Structure Grant Program is part of the Academy's SPOT Skin Cancer campaign (www.SpotSkinCancer.org) to reduce the incidence of skin cancer by educating the public about effective skin cancer prevention tips.

«The structure of a Constitutional Convention allows for every part of the process to be dictated by the voting public,» Kolb wrote.

Of course, Obama and Trump are characterized by wholly different domestic agendas, political leadership styles and public rhetoric, but they are also both US presidents, who govern the leading economic and military global power, confronted by largely the same foreign policy problems and endowed with the same bureaucratic structures and military capabilities.

First there are three critical problems with the structure of our economy - the dominance of government spending on recurrent expenses of a public service which employs only a small percentage of Nigerians; the dominance of our oil and gas sector (and until recently power) by an inefficient and corrupt public sector; and the structure of our financial sector which excludes Small, Medium and Micro Enterprises from financing and has been unable to provide mortgages and housing for the middle class.

It has attempted to accommodate a fast - evolving secular culture by compromising with it, while at the same time failing to adapt and modernise its own leadership structures to be more relevant and effective in both contemporary public debate and in attracting new members.

The communication structures of the Ghanaian public sphere must rather be kept intact by an energetic civil society.

El - Rufai who spoke at the inauguration of the Judicial Commission of Inquiry into the December 12 clashes in Zaria, said he also took measures to safeguard public health and safety by removing unsound structures, and clearing debris from the scene of the clashes.

In addition to toll roads, toll bridges and toll tunnels are also used by public authorities to generate funds to repay the cost of building the structures.

Her period in the department was marked by much public debate about the future of television, about digital broadcasting and the structure and financing of the BBC.

In the afternoon, the group were taken to a Johnson & Johnson Burn Treatment Centre (Chris Hani Baragwaneth), a public - private partnership where Johnson & Johnson built the structure, the first project of this kind ever undertaken by J&J.

He listed some of the areas where properties were erected on drainage channels to include Illubirin, Dolphin Estate, Osborne Foreshore Estate, Ikoyi, Osapa London, Ikota, Ogombo, Lekki, among others, noting that the massive investment of public fund into drainage clearing and de-silting had been compromised by structures hindering the free - flow of water.

The Single Spine Salary Structure (SSSS) is a major component of the Single Spine Pay Policy (SSPP) introduced by the government of Ghana to regulate the payment of public service workers, especially those under Article 190 of the 1992 Constitution of Ghana.

DiNapoli's office found cited the start of a new debt structure propped up by the state's sales tax revenue that would allow for new borrowing methods by public authorities that are done so without voter approval.

Driving across New York's bridges and tunnels could soon be an easier, and more beautiful, experience under a plan unveiled Wednesday by Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo to remove all toll gates by the end of next year and transform the structures into colorfully lit works of public art.

There were similar reports of NPP supporters arbitrarily taking over public installations across the country, reminiscent of scenes in the aftermath of the 2008 polls won by the NDC, which witnessed some of the triumphant party's supporters taking over the running of public toilets, toll booths, community centres, among other structures.

Martins said after the convention that he was not worried about a «wave election,» where candidates untouched by scandal would be unable to counter a public sentiment that the county's entire power structure needs to shift.

The right - wing groups behind this case seek to debilitate public employee unions and take away their power to advocate for their members by undermining their funding structure.

m with over 50 Hilux 4 - wheel drive vehicles armed with sophisticated weapons, chanting Allahu Akbar, meaning (God is Great) and started throwing Improvised Explosive Devices, IEDs, at all public structures without being challenged by security operatives.»

Speaking Thursday, Deputy Public Safety Commissioner John Daley said over the past two years, code enforcement efforts to target vacant structures have been supported by a $ 150,000 state grant.