Sentences with phrase «shut out of the process»

Linda McQuaig takes on the Security and Prosperity Partnership: Since the SPP initiative was officially launched in March 2005, the public has been effectively shut out of the process.

The certificate also does not recognize that Brooklyn County Committee members were shut out of the process, their voices suppressed the backroom deals that led to today's shameful conclusion... Although erstwhile reformer Daniel Squadron himself asked for a full vote upon his resignation, he clearly fostered and approved of the back room deal to benefit his friend and chosen successor.

Education lawyers in several cities said parents shut out of the process rarely go public with their complaints out of concern for their children's privacy.

In this way, the «reform» agenda stays on schedule, cooperative politicians of either party collect their PAC money and the voters are shut out of the process.

Of course, it isn't possible to keep everyone happy, so what happens when small but vocal minorities start complaining that they have been shut out of the process, their views marginalised and the «establishment» is somehow persecuting them?

This Deputy Grand Chief says his people were shut out of the process.

Not exact matches

Sales - novice founders wisely cede the details of sales strategy to others, but they don't need to shut themselves entirely out of the process.

That turned out to be the wrong angle, and Virgin Cars ended up shutting down just five years later,» Branson says, adding that in retrospect, «the biggest potential for disruption in the automotive industry had nothing to do with the process of selling cars, but rather with how cars were powered.»

Shareholders are essentially shut out of the corporate governance process.

In August, 2003, Harper told Maclean's that Canada's refusal to support the coalition meant that «Canada remains alienated from its allies, shut out of the reconstruction process to some degree, unable to influence events.

Belief in the fixity and finality of the choice (of one's own group) inevitably shuts out the limitless horizon of the idealizing process which is an integral part of religious experience.

«Members of the U.S. House of Representatives - Republicans and Democrats alike - have been completely shut out of the legislative process of extending and improving child nutrition programs,» Kline said in a statement.

Back in the day, these hormones protected us in labor by quickly shutting down the process of birth in situations that would make delivering a baby unsafe, like if, for instance, a tiger were to jump out and started chasing you!

He didn't want to see a «de-Ba «athification process», in which all members of Saddam's civil service were shut out in the cold.

When the Democrats were in power of both Houses (Silver and Malcolm Smith) and Eliot Spitzer / David Paterson / Andrew Cuomo, Upstate New York was completely shut out of the Legislative process.

«And all of those are areas where people, I think, felt shut out of the political process.

Suleika Cabrera Drinane, President and CEO of the Institute for the Puerto Rican / Hispanic Elderly, Inc., said, «From fighting on behalf of CUNY students in the 1960s to co-founding one of the most effective civil rights organizations in the country, Mr. Perales is a lifetime advocate for those whose voices are often shut out of the political process.

Lawmakers in the minority parties — the Republicans in the Assembly, Democrats in the Senate — are largely shut out of the budget - making process, leaving it up to the governor, the Senate majority leader and Assembly speaker.

«People feel totally shut out of the political process; they feel like Congress is corrupt,» she said in between an impromptu march with New Paltz teachers to support their fight for a new contract and a recent informational session on tick - borne diseases.

Minor parties have been shut out of the political process.

«Imaging of the joint could help evaluate the mechanism of a drug's therapeutic effect, and if a process turns out to be mediated by more than one chemoattractant, understanding the mechanism would allow the rational design of combination therapies to completely shut down critical steps in the process.»

The Republicans, who have argued that scientific panels should guide federal regulations in health, safety and the environment, said that they distrust the process of peer review because it tends to shut out scientists who disagree with the prevailing view.

The move to shrink NEON follows years of complaints from scientists that NSF and project management have been inflexible and that the community has been shut out of the decision - making process.

This chemical weathering process is too slow to damp out shorter - term fluctuations, and there are some complexities — glaciation can enhance the mechanical erosion that provides surface area for chemical weathering (some of which may be realized after a time delay — ie when the subsequent warming occurs — dramatically snow in a Snowball Earth scenario, where the frigid conditions essentially shut down all chemical weathering, allowing CO2 to build up to the point where it thaws the equatorial region, at which point runaway albedo feedback drives the Earth into a carbonic acid sauna, which ends via rapid carbonate rock formation), while lower sea level may increase the oxidation of organic C in sediments but also provide more land surface for erosion... etc..

Club Nintendo, Nintendo's rewards system, is to be shut down soon and Nintendo are currently in the process of rolling out the final batch of rewards, with Japan's having been revealed.

Instead, the final boss of Sonic the Hedgehog 2 literally drops in out of the sky and I just sort of shut down for a moment while I processed that.

Each was referring to a Monday night vote by our local board of education (of which I am a member — though my gadfly tendencies often lead me to butt heads with other board members, and to get shut out of things like budget - making processes).

A long - awaited inspection of the federal Reading First program found today that federal education officials may have steered the grant - application process for the $ 1 billion - a-year initiative to ensure that particular reading programs and instructional approaches were widely used by participating schools, and that others were essentially shut out.

Do some public schools, allegedly open to all comers, go out of their way to attract families with more money, more connections, and more flexibility — and shut out families who lack those resources in the process?

«People can call themselves Democrats for Education Reform — it's a free country — but if your agenda is to shut teachers and school employees out of the political process and not lift a finger to prevent cuts in education, in my book you're not a reformer, you're not helping education, and you're sure not much of a Democrat,» said state Supt. of Public Instruction Tom Torlakson, a registered Democrat whose office is nonpartisan.

Challenge 3: A quarter of parents say they feel shut out of the collaborative process and are not given opportunities to offer input.

They have an intimate relationship with the painting process and we the viewer have a possibility of sharing that intimacy as the work does not shut us out or bounce us back off a hard surface; it lets us in.

Some of them are in a process of change: Jenifer Nails in Frankfurt has been recently shut down unexpectedly; LambdaLambdaLambda in Pristina plans a crossover between an art project space and a commercial gallery; The Green Parrot will very soon move out of its premises in Barcelona and start flying through travelling exhibitions.

After tremendous public pressure the Alberta government finally announced a review but they are shutting the public groups out of the process.

Attorneys are not shut out of the publishing process.

FCo then sells off XCo's parts, in the process shutting down a number of factories in a number of small Canadian towns, putting a slew of people out of work and hurting the business that relied on the shut down factories.

He might simply be unlucky — I have a friend who's now a very successful litigator for a Toronto boutique who was shut out of the articling process at the time.

A failure to engage young Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders will mean that a majority of the community are effectively shut out of decision - making processes.

Do you not see a straight line for many of the processes that occur now from listing to close that could be co-opted and shut out brokers?

Finally, don't even think about locking tenants out of the unit or house or shutting off utilities before the eviction process is legally complete.