Sentences with phrase «touch upon public»

It withdraws protection from the weak and vulnerable, allowing the strong to define the status and rights of the weak; it privatizes matters which, in any legitimate political order, must be public in nature; it sets innumerable roadblocks to the rectification of the problem through mutual deliberation of citizens in legislative assemblies; and it has made what used to be its most loyal citizens — religious believers — enemies of the common good whenever their convictions touch upon public things.

Not exact matches

White also touched upon what happens after startups go public, noting that these companies should be prepared to protect investors with «enhanced structures and controls for conducting their operations.»

We haven't even touched upon how many people can save a ton of money going to a public school like I did or attend community college for two years and then transfer to a public school for even more savings.

The essay will no doubt become an important guide in the public debate on Israel and its critics, for it outlines the complexity of an issue that touches upon politics, human rights and religion.

We need to make public arguments that touch directly upon the truth about human nature as available to human reason.

At several points he touches upon the paradoxes of modern urbanism and the tragic ironies of our cultural attitude toward cities: although we now have more individual freedom, technical ability, and, arguably, social equity, we do not live in places as hospitable to human beings as were our cities of the past; we are pragmatists who build shoddily; our current obsession with historic preservation is the flip side of our utter lack of confidence in our ability to build well; while cultures with shared ascetic ideals and transcendent orientation built great cities and produced great landscapes, modern culture's expressive ideals, dogmatic public secularism, and privatized religiosity produce for us, even with our vast wealth, only private luxury, a spoiled countryside, and a public realm that is both venal and incoherent; above all, we simultaneously idolize nature and ruin it.

Besides, what's legal or not is going to depend on the country or countries considered and your questions touches upon several distinct issues (copyright, public funding...).

General Richard Dannatt became a very public critic which is touched upon in his memoir Leading From the Front (Bantam Press, # 20.00).

The public acceptance of in vitro fertilisation shows how quickly new technology can win hearts when it touches upon the right to have a child.

In a terrific turn as the tragic teen idol, he not only portrayed the man as the public knew him but also touched upon the myth behind the famous persona, in a performance both measured and suitably nostalgic.

At least, the historical value excuses most of the shortcomings, this hailing from the end of film noir's height, revealing much on public tastes of the time and even touching upon the Cold War paranoia for which the decade and its parabolic science fiction are recalled.

Further, our findings do not touch upon the substantive merits of a CCSS - based curriculum that is the focus of so much public discussion.

The decision touches upon a national debate about the viability of charter schools and the role they play in public education.

Not only does this mean you don't have to wait to see your book in print, but it also opens up even more doors for writing adaptive, timely, and responsive works that touch upon issues still being actively discussed in the public sphere.

The Nasher, as all museums do, juggles numerous roles as classroom, encyclopedia and community space for both the public and the local arts community, and Chalet does touch upon at least one of those.

The work emphasizes the performative qualities of the routine activities on site that touch upon the link between ceremony and territory, bringing forth a reality that is far from the general public's awareness.

For Please Touch the Art, the artist has installed three forms of social sculptures in Brooklyn Bridge Park: Appearing Rooms, a systematically shifting architectural space formed by jets of water; Mirror Labyrinth NY, a site - specific installation of mirror - polished stainless steel that reflects and distorts the distinctive skyline of lower Manhattan; and sixteen bright red Modified Social Benches, alterations upon the familiar outdoor park bench, which actively engage visitors» perceptions of public space with their curious curves and undulations.

In Untitled (History), Glenn Ligon's FOIA drawings (2011), Johanna Calle's Version Official (2008) and Nasrin Tabatabai and Babak Afrassiabi's Letters That Go Folded Into Shredder (2008 - 11) all touch upon the deletion of historical information from the public.

59 and 60) between «private» and «public» place, the majority held that these deal with enforcement only and do not touch upon, or otherwise limit, the scope of the regulatory powers granted to the Lieutenant Governor by s. 66 (1)(s), nor do they purport to define the terminology used in the PHA.

Investor treaties touch upon a great many policy areas critical to a state's functioning, areas including agricultural, environmental, human rights and public health policies.

He practises in all areas of Employment law, Business Protection, Public law, Local Government law, and Human Rights law, and in areas of European law, Pensions law, and Commercial law that touch upon or overlap with those areas.

Because the delivery of the public services touches upon consideration of other important legal and policy matters, PIAC has also developed expertise and is frequently involved in funded and unfunded work (approximately 20 % of PIAC's work is unfunded) representing its constituencies in competition law and practice, Foundation of Ontario electronic commerce, privacy, multilateral agreements, and general issues of consumer protection.

This week's edition is fairly abbreviated, with stories touching upon the challenges that increased pro se litigation create for public interest advocates and for court administrators, continued coverage of the debate about the autonomy of public - interest clinical programs at state - run law schools, and more.

The ramifications will touch upon every interaction police officers have with the public including breath samples in impaired driving cases, the execution of search warrants, and on - the - street encounters as was the case in Grant.