Sentences with phrase «true public purpose»

Given the devastating power of eminent domain, there must be a true public purpose before even considering taking someone's private property.

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Taking aim at two - term Democratic Gov. Cuomo, Molinaro, 42, criticized «leaders who squander the public's trust by putting the personal politics of ambition and greed above government's true purpose» of serving the people.

«The true purpose of these payments is unknown, but it does appear not to be a purpose related to public office.

Get Rid of Compulsory Schooling In the April 1924 issue of The American Mercury, journalist and satirist H.L. Mencken ginned up a well - constructed piece on the true purpose of public education: «The aim... is simply to reduce as many individuals as possible to the same safe level, to breed and train a standardized citizenry, to put down dissent and originality.»

It is true that schools and colleges sometimes emphasize different public purposes.

This may well be true, but it is surprising to see such strong advocacy for the racial integration of schools at a time when the prospects for any public action — executive, legislative, or judicial — to combine for purposes of integrating urban and suburban school districts are just about nonexistent.

But the true nature and purpose of the IPCC need to be proclaimed to the public who have been gulled into thinking the nature and purpose of the IPCC is «science».

In the current context, if someone were to make a copyrighted scientific study available to the public for the true and obvious purpose of engaging in the political debate over climate and energy policy, then I think they'd have a chance of winning in court.

Governments * are doing * nothing that could possibly affect total CO2 emissions, true, but the public has already spent over the many years, trillion dollars paying for all kinds of idiotic activity which is ** said ** by corrupt / stupid / evil / greedy / fraudent government policy makers to be done for the purpose of reducing CO2 emissions.

The purpose of requiring full, true and plain disclosure is to make markets more efficient and to protect the public.

129 In the third place, as regards the argument that the disclosure of documents relating to the ACTA could only have reinforced the public interest with regard to international relations and avoid controversy arising from the leaked publication of certain proposals, it should be noted that, while it is true that the purpose of Regulation No 1049/2001 is to ensure maximum transparency by giving the fullest possible effect to the right of public access to documents of the European Union (recital 4 of the regulation), it nevertheless provides exceptions to the right of access to protect certain public or private interests, and in the present case, the public interest as regards international relations.