Sentences with phrase «seeking public aid»

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The Christian Right wants public money to be used for private religious education (vouchers), buildings and services to be used for private religious purposes (this article), and they want subsidies in the form of tax breaks, special exemptions of other sorts, and they even want to destroy Aid to Needy Families so they can drive people into seeking help at their private religious «missions» where you are not allowed to eat unless you are a Christian, and so on.

Although bearing the same gay stigma in the public mind as does the disease, these groups typically are broadly based, receive public as well as private foundation funds, and seek to serve without discrimination all who are affected by AIDS.

Furthermore, the vast majority of public union political activity seeks to aid the left side of the political spectrum, as the unions are closely aligned with the Democratic and Working Families parties.

So we would also seek to negotiate protections, clarifications or exemptions where necessary in relation to privatisation and public service competition directives state aid and procurement rules and the posted workers directive.

The governor sought to put pressure on Senate Republicans, who oppose extending the millionaire's tax, by saying in a Jan. 24 speech that there can be no increase in aid to public schools unless legislators vote to continue the income tax surcharge on millionaires.

There is the question of whether the applicant is seeking to actually serve the public, or to claim the associated power for personal gain, either while serving or to aid in ascending to the next or ultimate position of power and authority.

Skelos also sought to aid his son in helping him procure title insurance work related to the refinancing of hundreds of millions of dollars worth of bonds for an unnamed Long Island Hospital system, a refinancing that required the approval of the Nassau County Industrial Development Agency, a public authority.

Governor Cuomo is seeking a number of progressive items, and Skelos ruled out agreeing to several of them, including public campaign financing, and college aid to children of illegal immigrants.

SEEKING to expand the market for cigarettes in the 1920s, the American Tobacco Company solicited the aid of public relations mastermind Edward L. Bernays.

In fact, radicalization scholars have found that some extremist groups actively seek out harsh penalties from criminal justice agencies and governments, in an effort to exploit perceived overreactions for a public relations advantage that also aids their recruitment efforts.

Journalism, which is the film's central focus, should seek out and bring to light the injustices perpetrated or aided by the systems within the public trust.

By using the threat of effectively denying the children of military personnel access to public education, the bill seeks to force the federal government either to increase its impact - aid payments to districts or to establish separate schools, with full federal funding, on the bases.

They must be enrolled in the fall, awarded federal financial aid (at any point during the year), be seeking a degree or certificate, and they must be paying the in - district or in - state tuition rate, if attending a public institution.

Aided by politicians like Taylor, public schools leaders have chosen to not to embrace competition but to seek protection from it, fighting the growth of better educational alternatives at every turn.

State and federal financial aid has protected low - income and some middle class families from state universities» big tuition and fee increases — but not enough eligible families sought help, a report from the Public Policy Institute of California concluded.

In addition, rather than appropriately fund Connecticut's education grants, Malloy's budget plan seeks to redirect existing state aid for public schools to Connecticut's poorer towns by slashing grants to wealthier and middle income communities.

The first request sought information relating to any additional costs to the MOJ and wider public sector that may have been created as a result of the reduction in government spending on civil and criminal legal aid.

What is less clear is why the CCJ, the ABA and other organizations continue to focus so much of their limited attention and resources on seeking increased public funding — and call on others to do the same — rather than devoting some of that attention and resource to changing the regulations in order to allow for alternative means of providing legal aid and, as a consequence, to also allow for alternative means of funding.

Our guests for this program are Bennett H. Brummer, public defender in charge of the Miami - Dade Public Defender Office, who has brought a lawsuit seeking to send more cases to outside private lawyers, and David Carroll, director of research for the National Legal Aid & Defender Associpublic defender in charge of the Miami - Dade Public Defender Office, who has brought a lawsuit seeking to send more cases to outside private lawyers, and David Carroll, director of research for the National Legal Aid & Defender AssociPublic Defender Office, who has brought a lawsuit seeking to send more cases to outside private lawyers, and David Carroll, director of research for the National Legal Aid & Defender Association.

A «perfect storm» is about to hit, the report claims, because public bodies and large corporate are seeking to reduce their advocacy spend; solicitor - advocates are increasing in number, and will soak up more advocacy work; 2,000 instructing law firms may close this year, and larger firms may seek to do more in - house; family law legal aid firms are closing shop following the introduction of new contracting rules, and the Ministry of Justice is seeking to cull criminal legal aid firms, perhaps to a level of 70 %, reducing the pool of referral law firms; and tenancies will continue to decrease as chambers merge to consolidate their business position.

The High Court judge, Mr Justice Francis, said that Parliament can not have intended for legal aid not to be available in such cases: «However, it does seem to me that when Parliament changed the law in relation to legal aid and significantly restricted the availability of legal aid, yet continued to make legal aid available in care cases where the state is seeking orders against parents, it can not have intended that parents in the position that these parents have been in should have no access to legal advice or representation... I am aware that there are many parents around the country in similar positions where their cases have been less public and where they have had to struggle to represent themselves.

In 2015, Julie Matthews won on merit; she was highly respected in the justice and non-profit sectors and was involved in many projects that allowed individuals to seek legal aid and educated legal professionals and the public on the law and the resources that were available to the powerless and poor.

Most improvement has occurred in the public sector — in particular, the provincial and federal governments and Nova Scotia Legal Aid, which have been proactive in implementing measures and programs to improve the hiring and retention of lawyers from equity - seeking groups.

305 ILCS 5/11-13: Conditions for receipt of vendor payments — Limitation period for vendor action Vendors seeking to enforce an obligation of a governmental unit or the Illinois Department of Public Aid for goods and services furnished to recipients and subject to a vendor payment must commence their actions within 1 year from the accrual of the cause of action.

Housing & Benefits Team Our Housing & Benefits Team has the goal of supporting the criminal practice by aiding to stabilize the living situation of our Brooklyn clients by representing clients in administrative proceedings, eviction proceedings, affirmative actions seeking repairs as well as advocate on their behalf for access to public benefits.

[97] If individuals can not be assured that judges are impartial, this could erode public confidence in adjudication and could result in people becoming reluctant to seek the aid of the judiciary to help resolve disputes.

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