Sentences with phrase «substantial role in all decisions»

Parents across the U.S. want a real, substantial role in all decisions that affect our children's schools, such as the one provided by Chicago's local school council system.

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Between January and September of 2003, after conducting seven different polls, researchers found that the answer was yes: «A substantial portion of the public had a number of misperceptions that were demonstrably false, or were at odds with the dominant view in the intelligence community... [These misperceptions] have played a key role in generating and maintaining approval for the decision to go to war»

(The May 1998 statement issued by the AAAS Board of Directors is titled, A Framework for Federal Science Policy) I welcome, therefore, this opportunity to testify before you today on the role of science in informing legal and policy decisions that have substantial scientific or technical components.

By design, under ESSA, the role of the federal government in education is greatly diminished, and states face critical and substantial policy decisions in framing school accountability and the academic standards and testing systems that underpin those structures.

Yet such foundations can play an important role in the authentication procedure, bringing together trusted authorities and comprehensive archival resources to provide informed, impartial decisions that have the potential to generate — or lose — somebody a substantial amount of money.

The Applicant's disability arose out of the Ministry of Labour's criticism of the asbestos removal projects that the Applicant was responsible for in her role as Supervisor, Regulated Substances, and the Ministry's decision to threaten the Applicant with a substantial personal fine.

Over the next seven years, Eric played a substantial role in helping the Office issue over 5,700 decisions for class members and the government.

They are also unhappy that the director of public prosecutions has to give consent to any prosecutions, that the legislation lacks extra-territorial bite, and that the test of senior management failure is too restricted — namely that «only those persons who play a significant role in decisions or in the actual managing or organising of the whole or a substantial part of those activities» can be the catalyst for the offence.

If ICC judges follow, like they did in the past, the Kunarac test (the conflict — or occupation — «must play a substantial role in the perpetrator's decision, in his ability to commit the crime or in the manner in which the conduct was ultimately committed»), there is no reason to expect the Court to question the existence of a sufficient nexus.

can provide documented evidence of previous experience in a family counselling environment in a job role involving the self - directed application of knowledge with substantial depth in some areas, the exercise of independent judgement and decision making, and a range of technical and other skills.