Sentences with phrase «running of our public services»

He claimed that his priorities were defending civil liberties; devolving the running of public services to parents, pupils and patients; and protecting the environment, [56] and that he wanted to forge a «liberal alternative to the discredited policies of big government».

And yes, they are hugely important to the running of our public services.

Not exact matches

At the company's VMworld conference last week, VMware tweaked its cloud message again, pitching a new set of services, called Cloud Foundation, that the company says will help businesses run their applications across internal data centers or those run by VMware (vmw), VMware partners, or public clouds.

Every one of them had an outstanding «score» of patents applied for and granted in 2016, according to IFI Claims Patent Services, which helped Inc. identify the entrepreneurs who now run America's most innovative public companies.

The government's priority is to ensure that public services are not disrupted, said David Lidington, the minister in charge of the Cabinet Office, which oversees the running of government.

A public cloud like Amazon Web Services or Microsoft Azure comprises a massive set of computer servers, storage, and networking gear, which are rented out to businesses that don't want to expand or run their own data centers.

Some other labour organizations have followed suit, including Toronto CUPE locals which, in the wake of a privatization drive by Mayor Rob Ford, have run several hearts - and - minds campaigns depicting individual city employees talking about the public services they deliver.

At that time, VMware announced Cloud Foundation, a set of services to help businesses divvy up their computing jobs between internal data centers and data centers run by VMware, its partners, or public clouds.

Amazon on Thursday said that Amazon Web Services revenue is continuing to grow strongly, with an annual run rate now of about $ 16 billion, although the company noted that revenue growth for the public cloud giant has slowed down.

The beauty of Gravitant is that it will let a company's employees set up and use a variety of cloud services using the same screen whether those services lie inside their own firewall, on dedicated resources run by IBM outside their firewall, or in some other public cloud (including AWS), said Don Rippert, IBM's general manager of cloud strategy.

To run DOI's Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement, one of two agencies that regulates offshore drilling, Zinke chose Scott Angelle, a member of the Louisiana Public Service Commission who served on the board of directors of (and was paid $ 989,238 by) oil pipeline operator Sunoco Logistics.

Earlier this month the Economist ran a leader (editorial) Â and longer article asking and then largely answering who should for the costs of the economic crisis (public services and workers of course!).

On top of running its giant e-commerce business, it also owns the largest public cloud computing service in the world.

My congratulations to all the PSAC members who ran as candidates, and to all of the other public service workers who ran and who worked hard on campaigns.

Here in the U.S., the online music scene has a number of players such as Pandora, the Internet radio service that went public last month, and Last.fm, the long - running online radio service acquired by CBS in 2007.

For its part, the PSAC ran an effective campaign against public service cuts — one of the best I can remember.

Yet rather than taking this opportunity to run these banks as public utilities and lower their charges for credit - card services — or most important of all, to stop their lending to speculators and gamblers — governments left these banks operating as part of the «casino capitalism» that has become their business plan.

The two kinds of activity which we have noted — the public appeal and the service to individuals in need — run together.

With stunning consistency, virtually every indicator of civic engagement currently available shows the same pattern of increase followed by stagnation and decline — newspaper reading; TV news watching; attending political meetings; petition signing; running for public office; attending public meetings; serving as an officer or committee member in any local clubs or organizations; writing letters to the editor; participating in local meetings of national organizations; attending religious services; socializing informally with friends, relatives or neighbors; attending club meetings; joining unions; entertaining friends at home; participating in picnics; eating the evening meal with the whole family; going out to bars, nightclubs, discos or taverns; playing cards; sending greeting cards; attending parties; playing sports; donating money as a percentage of income; working on community projects; giving blood.

He is not running a public service or a utility company — he is merely helping to ramp up the value of a privately owned company over a prolonged period of time.

Nina Hansen, vice president of operations for the Enosburg Falls - based Abbey Group, which runs the food service programs at 70 Vermont public and private schools, as well as schools in New York and New Hampshire, said these unpaid bills are a problem in many districts, but none of the schools her company serves would stop a student from eating because of it.

Illinois will run public service announcements on radio and TV and use elements of the campaign to boost education, training and community efforts to encourage breastfeeding.

Once this is exposed (and it will be because it is so widespread, and the amount of money and power in running the Agencies and Authorites to their own benefit is astounding), Cuomo will be gone from public service and his family totally discredited.

Their only way to make ends meet is to do a bad job: that is the inevitable endpoint of public services run for profit.

Chidoka, a former Minister of Aviation, said that the running mate would be a strong partner in the commitment to transform the public service in the state to meet the people's hope.

If we've learned anything from the heroics of PC Keith Palmer, Tobias Ellwood MP, and the staff at St. Thomas» who ran towards the carnage on Westminster Bridge, it is that the overwhelming majority of people in public service want to do good.

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.

Holtzman added, «I began public service running against corruption and the control of special interests and it's an interesting twist of fate that the independent and no nonsense approach that I brought to politics over 30 years ago is now more relevant than ever.

This comes as the government continues to say it wants the voluntary sector to run more of our public services.

Events in London and elsewhere last summer and more recently in the run up to the Olympics has seen the value of having a police service that is fully trained, equipped and sufficiently resilient to respond to any eventuality to protect the public.

The law says «Where a police officer notified of a special event under subsection (1) has reasonable grounds to believe that the special event if held may lead to violence or endanger public defence, public order, public safety, public health or the running of essential services or violate the rights and freedoms of other persons, he may request the organisers to postpone the special event to any other date or to the relocate the special event.»

Those variable aside, a range of names have surfaced within the last 12 hours of potential candidates who could run for attorney general, including former New York City Councilman Dan Garodnick, Sens. Michael Gianaris and Todd Kaminsky, New York City Public Advocate Tish James, Cuomo counsel Alphonso David, ex-Financial Services Superintendent Ben Lawsky, former gubernatorial and congressional candidate Zephyr Teachout and former Syracuse Mayor Stephanie Miner.

Danny Donohue, president of New York's largest public employee union, the Civil Service Employees Association, is coming off a tough election battle, running to be leader of the national union AFSCME.

It's the dirty word of the criminal defence community - the controversial Public Defender Service - paid for and run by the Ministry of Justice.

Those variable aside, a range of names have surfaced within the last 12 hours of potential candidates who could run for attorney general, including former New York City Councilman Dan Garodnick, Sens. Michael Gianaris and Todd Kaminsky, New York City Public Advcoate Tish James, Cuomo counsel Alphonso David, ex-Financial Services Superintendent Ben Lawsky, former gubernatorial and congressional candidate Zephyr Teachout and former Syracuse Mayor Stephanie Miner.

«In the run up to the General Election the vitriol from the opponents of public services is intensifying.

In fact, companies like Sodexo which runs everything from the pay roll to cleaning services at the Royal Sussex Hospital in my constituency can still cite commercial confidentiality as a defence against the inconvenience of being answerable to the public they are supposed to serve.

It's time for a new era of accountable, value for money, democratically run public services.

When it comes to running public services, that's the way you get new ideas, new people, new ways of doing things.

Interestingly, around half of those polled also mistakenly believed that that private companies running public services are already subject to Freedom of Information legislation.

Criticism of Labour's record of running public services, namely health and education, is a regular feature of Prime Minister's Question time and other parliamentary debates.

And as Cuomo plans to run for re-election on a platform reducing taxes, Silver is likely to oppose any reduction in revenue after years of flat budgeting have lowered the quality of public services.

Between 1999 and 2010, when Labour ran both the UK and Welsh governments, Wales» economic performance relative to the rest of the UK deteriorated while outcomes in key devolved public services like the NHS and Education also worsened significantly.

The deal offered to Civil Service Employees Association Local 058, to run through 2022, is similar to a contract recently approved by one of the state's largest unions, the Public Employees Federation, with 2 percent annual raises going forward.

In a release dated Monday April 3, 2017, the group said: «In line with the Administrative Instrument on public transport fares, the Road Transport Operators have reviewed the prices of the various elements that go into running of commercial transport services and have increased transport fares by 15 %.

«From running digital campaigns in support of striking McDonalds workers to making viral videos highlighting Tory cuts to public services with the CWU and the TSSA - we believe Labour is strongest when trade unions and member organisations work together closely.

Under our Right to Provide, tens of thousands of public sector workers will be able to turn your department, your ward, your team into an employee - run coop, with a contract to your parent public service.

And how can we preserve the public sector ethos as we move to a more plural, diverse and personalised way of running our public services?

Less than a week after announcing he wouldn't run for re-election, Republican state Sen. Greg Ball retained the services of attorney Joe Tacopina for $ 25,000, his campaign finance filing made public on Tuesday shows.

«At the end of the day I've got a lifetime of accomplishments that is being overlooked when people reduce my life and my career of public service down to soundbites, and a few sentences,» she said, adding, «What they overlook is the fact that I've got a reputation here and I encourage people to look at the editorials from when I was running for Congress.»