Sentences with phrase «public testimony to»

She is also a skilled and passionate science communicator, with experience giving public testimony to legislative committees, speaking with lawmakers, writing Op - Eds, communicating with journalists and training fellow scientists in climate communication.

The governing board's presiding officer reserves the right to impose reasonable time limits on public testimony to ensure that the agenda is completed.

When legislators are treating educators as non-entities, their professional training as of no import, and you report «Republicans ignored amendments and cut off public testimony to force a vote», one has to wonder what the real agenda is - to punish teachers for political leanings?

Republicans ignored amendments and cut off public testimony to force a vote on the bill.

Seeing himself as a mirror and role model to these very students, Tunji has been authoring op - eds and policy papers, as well as providing public testimony to encourage our district and state to focus its reform efforts on improving outcomes for our most vulnerable students.

If this Ethiopian Eunuch was all alone and far away from home, then nobody would have seen or known what he did on this deserted road in Israel, and therefore, his baptism could not have been a public testimony to anyone.

The response was a public testimony to the continuing power of the papacy, but «tapping into this innate well - pool of discrimination and prejudice was akin to opening a Pandora's Box,» Asbridge writes.

The right to believe what one will and to bear public testimony to that belief cuts to the heart of the American experiment in a free and just public order.

Not exact matches

The Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation on Friday requested public testimony from Mark Zuckerberg, the Facebook founder and CEO, adding to the list of congressional panels looking to haul in the company's top executives.

The House Committee on Energy and Commerce has also requested Zuckerberg's testimony, while the Senate Judiciary Committee has been mulling doing so since two senators asked its chairman, Sen. Chuck Grassley, to bring the billionaire in for a public hearing.

The company's move to back off its public support for the measure follows company CEO Mark Zuckerberg's second day of testimony on Capitol Hill.

Testimony this week ranged from journalism ethics and website analytics to Hogan's public statements about his sex life, including the his penis size.

CHARLESTON, W. Va., Nov 28 (Reuters)- The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency will hear testimony from coal miners, lobbyists, environmentalists and others on Tuesday at a public meeting in West Virginia on the EPA's proposal to dismantle an Obama - era plan to slash carbon emissions from power plants.

To further increase the possibility that all borrowers have a fair opportunity to request a foreclosure review, the Comptroller of the Currency and the Chairman of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System should require that servicers include a range of potential remediation amounts or categories in communication materials and other outreach, such as direct mailings to borrowers, public service announcements, the independent foreclosure review website, regulators» websites, and officials» testimonies and speecheTo further increase the possibility that all borrowers have a fair opportunity to request a foreclosure review, the Comptroller of the Currency and the Chairman of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System should require that servicers include a range of potential remediation amounts or categories in communication materials and other outreach, such as direct mailings to borrowers, public service announcements, the independent foreclosure review website, regulators» websites, and officials» testimonies and speecheto request a foreclosure review, the Comptroller of the Currency and the Chairman of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System should require that servicers include a range of potential remediation amounts or categories in communication materials and other outreach, such as direct mailings to borrowers, public service announcements, the independent foreclosure review website, regulators» websites, and officials» testimonies and speecheto borrowers, public service announcements, the independent foreclosure review website, regulators» websites, and officials» testimonies and speeches.

A Facebook spokesperson told us it had no public comment to make on Kogan's testimony.

The idea was to establish a record that will allow for better questions from senators when Cohen is summoned back for public testimony, the official said.

CA whistleblower Chris Wylie — who last month gave public testimony revealing how millions of Facebook users» data was passed to his former employer for political ad targeting — has described AggregateIQ as the Canadian arm of CA's parent entity, SCL.

Despite Mark Zuckerberg's 10 - hour, multi-day public testimony last week before Congress to answer for the Cambridge Analytica scandal, it's unclear how and when U.S. lawmakers will actually regulate Facebook and its data collection practices.

A UK parliamentary committee has published a cache of documents provided to it by an ex CA employee, Chris Wylie, who gave public testimony in front of the committee at an oral hearing earlier this week.

Teh Hong Piow, Public Bank's founder and chairman, says: «We appreciate this honor, as it is a testimony to our commitment to remain nothing short of being the best.

As questions about Facebook's role in the 2016 election and its privacy issues mounted, Mr. Zuckerberg initially tried to avoid the limelight, dodging requests for public testimony by lawmakers in the United States and Europe.

As mystics and missionaries, heroic martyrs and courageous founders of religious orders, in public life as sovereigns or in quiet service in convent or school, the Church's women saints are testimony to the fact that Mother Church takes legitimate pride in her daughters.

These organizations should be cut off from defining public policy and the courts should be restricted in allowing their testimony, bias and words to define the courts decision.

Despite innumerable private testimonies of help and solidarity given — often at great risk — to persecuted Jews, despite innumerable touching signs of friendship and fidelity that dismissed Jewish professors received from their students, no public protest has been made by any educational body; and some new corporative institutions, among the liberal professions, are willingly admitting a kind of numerus clausus.

As Professor Martha Minow of Harvard comments on this testimony: «Tears in public will not be the last tears, but to know one» s tears are seen may grant a sense of acknowledgment that makes grief less lonely and terrifying.»

It is bad enough that atheists object to Tim Tebow's public testimony.

To further compound the suppression of the public testimony, there is a strong movement of the social gospel going on in America which teaches that we must show the love of God in deed and not in word.

The judge pointed to the pastor's testimony that «in accordance with the belief that baptism is a public declaration of faith, it is the long - standing custom and practice of the church each week to report in the Sunday bulletin the name of any person who was baptized the previous Sunday.»

``... there is no proper public, no listener to adequately receive their testimony» (Slavoj Žižek) Surely the key feature of Christianity is its advocacy of agony.

The Republican presidential candidate's 2007 church switch also may mirror something much more personal: The culmination of Perry's journey from a mainline Protestant upbringing to an evangelical - flavored faith built on close relationships with Baptist preachers and giving public testimony about God.

Pell attended court every day during four weeks of testimony last month, during which his alleged victims testified via a video connection to a courtroom closed to the public and media.

Civil liberties lawyers urged a state judge to reverse Staten Island DA Dan Donovan's attempt to keep secret the grand jury testimony concerning the police chokehold death of Eric Garner, saying the public needs to reconcile a widely watched video of the arrest with the decision not to indict the officer involved.

Trump's warning last month that his conversations with Comey might have been taped was an attempt to affect Comey's public statements and his testimony before the Senate Intelligence Committee, the president admitted.

At 6:30 p.m., the state Senate Joint Task Force on Heroin and Opioid Addiction holds a public meeting to gather information and testimony regarding sober homes and existing regulations, Pace University, Willcox Hall, Stephen J. Friedman Room, 861 Bedford Road, Pleasantville.

A New York State Division of Human Rights public hearing has been set to hear testimony in a sexual harassment complaint filed against Huntington Highway Superintendent Peter Gunther.

«I look forward to offering testimony as part of [the task force's] public review process and for my constituents to do likewise in order to end with a map that truly represents the unique character of northeast Queens.»

Howe, in his first public testimony since pleading guilty and agreeing to cooperate in 2016, is expected to lay out what he says was a series of payoffs to line Percoco's pockets from Howe clients who were already contributors to Cuomo and wanted favors from the administration.

Zimpher, speaking to reporters after her testimony, also punted on a question about private colleges» concerns that their enrollments will decline if the state gives free tuition to some public college students.

(3) The correction may be made to the authority before whom the false testimony was given or by whom it is to be evaluated in the proceedings, to a court, a public prosecutor or a police authority.

At the end of his testimony, de Blasio sought to steer the conversation back to the cost shift in Cuomo's budget and a relative lack of public information.

The second public hearing held by Gov. Andrew Cuomo's commission to probe public corruption featured testimony from long time government reform groups.

Following a month of abundant citywide community activism and outreach, City Public Advocate Bill de Blasio has submitted to City Hall more than 10,600 parent petition signatures, dozens of video and audio testimonies and nearly 20 resolutions from Community Education Councils, Community Boards and the Schools Chancellor's Parent Advisory Council, all protesting teacher and day care cuts.

He says testimonies he expects to be made public in the coming days were from «whistleblowers» who were «peripheral, making invented claims about things they didn't see».

The five - member panel, which met last Wednesday to hear testimony in the case, was tasked with making a final determination after the ethics committee for the Public Employees Federation found evidence of a «major violation» and referred it for a hearing.

At 6:30 p.m. Thursday, the state Senate Joint Task Force on Heroin and Opioid Addiction will meet at Pace University's Pleasantville campus for a public hearing to «gather information and testimony regarding sober homes and existing regulations, or lack thereof.»

Evidence introduced in the ongoing corruption and bribery trial of former Yonkers Councilwoman Sandy Annabi has cast the spotlight on another public official: state Senator Tom Libous, who, according to witness testimony, pushed a law firm to hire his son — and inflate his starting salary — in exchange for steering government business toward the firm's practice.

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Republicans have seized on testimony about Percoco's presence in the Democratic governor's office to raise questions about whether the administration kept separate private and public functions.

The New York State Department of Labor gives notice that on Monday, June 15, 2015, the Wage Board will hold a public hearing to receive testimony about an increase in the minimum wage...

During the fight over service cuts and fare increases, some of the most vocal testimony at public hearings involved people with disabilities who need Metro Bus and Rail to get around to jobs, to homes, to health care.