Sentences with phrase «undermine public trust»

By any other presidency's standards, the speech had some wildly controversial moments — particularly an alarming call to remove federal workers who «undermine the public trust or fail the American people» while rewarding the loyal — but by 2018 standards, and Trump standards, it was fairly safe.

But the revelation of the lenient penalties officers receive for their misconduct is troubling and equally serves to undermine public trust in the ability of the police tribunals to police their own.

A worrying trend which threatens to undermine public trust in science as a knowledge building enterprise.

More of the same serves only to undermine public trust in in scientists and science.

Despite the reluctance of school administrators to speak up and push back against this ludicrous accountability exercise that has been promoted by politicians and corporate education reformers who have many self - interested reasons for maintaining this misguided testing endeavor, it is well - known that the «standardized» testing mandate only serves to continue the false narrative of failing American public education in order to drive the profit - making agenda of those who seek to privatize education and undermine the public trust.

State GOP Chairman Chris Healy had requested the investigation by Kane's agency, and on Monday, another top Republican, Senate Minority Leader John P. McKinney of Fairfield, said: «The crimes Sen. Gaffey committed and will plead guilty to, as well as his prior violations of state elections law, undermine the public trust placed in elected officials.

Since taking office in 2010, the Conservative Party, conspiring with the right - wing press, have run a campaign to undermine public trust in the UK's welfare system.

In June 2009, Sir Michael Scholar, head of the UK Statistics Authority, wrote to Harman to warn her that different headline figures used by the ONS and Government Equalities Office with regards to pay differentiation between men and women might undermine public trust in official statistics.

By successful, I mean undermined the public trust of the results sufficiently so the winner could not successfully claim a mandate, take leadership, pass the law - whatever the vote was about.

«For the governor's office to come up with this up - is - down, down - is - up interpretation is totally not credible, and it undermines public trust in government,» he added.

It is the pervasive culture of corruption - both legal and illegal - in state government that has undermined public trust and yet failed to spur truly meaningful reform, good government advocates and many legislators and other stakeholders say.

«Such conduct is not only unacceptable, it undermines public trust in our justice system and will not be tolerated in Brooklyn,» Acting District Attorney Eric Gonzalez said.

Instead, after a rather feeble retelling of the consensus, the film showed Nurse going after the deniers, who, he suspects, are responsible for undermining public trust in science.

Prosecutor Genaro Pacheco decided that Anleu's tweet was a crime because it undermined public trust in the country's banking system.

As a recent and unfortunate example, we recently observed a number of lawyers, i.e. the five Conservative federal MPs who are lawyers in Ontario, along with Liberal MP Gagan Sikand, fail in their duty to promote equality, diversity and inclusiveness in their public life by voting against or abstaining from voting in favour of M - 103, a a non-binding parliamentary motion condemning Islamophobia and religious discrimination, thereby undermining public trust and confidence in the legal profession.

Wagner says reports of a political data firm exploiting a loophole in Facebook's old data platform has severely undermined public trust in Facebook.

Not exact matches

on the campaign trail, we're back where we started — with our trust in public officials undermined, and a media that lacks creativity in naming scandals.

The point is that churches exceed their competence, undermine their credibility, skew their mission, and risk betraying the trust of their people when they turn themselves into political lobbies, promiscuously pronouncing and advocating on almost every policy issue in public dispute.

«The USDA has violated the public's trust in the USDA organic label, and will continue to undermine the value of the label in the market as long as it ignores the legal authority of the NOSB, and of public process, to establish the National List of Allowed and Prohibited Substances,» said Jay Feldman, Executive Director of Beyond Pesticides and a former member of the NOSB.

Beyond the food safety vulnerabilities, food fraud creates tremendous economic harm and undermines peoples» trust in the food supply chain, extending to companies, the food industry and even public institutions.

nice to see you crawl out of your hole just in time to offer your 2 cents worth once again... unlike yourself I started following this team long before Wenger arrived on the scene and will continue to do so long after he's gone... in his earlier years I admired the cerebral elements he brought to the EPL, which at that point was more brutish than beautiful, and I respected the seemingly tireless efforts of Arsene, Dein & staff to uncover and develop talent without sacrificing the product on the field... likewise I appreciated that such a youthful manager wasn't afraid to bring strong personalities and / or world - class players into the fold without being fearful of how said players would potentially undermine and / or dilute his authority... unfortunately this all changed about 10 years ago and culminated in the removal of all our greatest players, both young and old, without any real replacements coming in... from Henry to RVP to Fabergas and Nasri, it was easy to see that this club was no longer interested in competing at the highest levels... instead of being honest, minus the ridiculous claims regarding the new stadium, Wenger chose to side with management and in doing so became the «front man» for this corporation pretending to be a world - class soccer club... without the «front man» this organization would have been exposed numerous years earlier, so his presence was imperative if the facade was to continue... it's for this reason and more that I despise what this once great man and Kroenke has done to my beloved club... the gutless, shameful and manipulative way they have treated the fans, like myself, is largely indefensible and this is why I felt it necessary to start offering my opinion in a public format... trust me, I resisted the temptation for many years but as long as the same shit continues to exist I will voice my opinions and if you don't like it maybe you should look for a different team to pretend to follow

The Parliament's putsch against the constitutional referendum deepens such concerns, further undermining social cohesion and public trust.

She is careful and calculating — which, despite being a strong asset in actually carrying out the duties of public office, has become a liability in her presidential campaign by undermining the public's trust in her.

The company said Comptroller Scott Stringer's report undermines the public's trust in his office.

Problem number two is the omni - shambles that undermines the general claim of competence: «If I can't trust the government to manage public fears over petrol shortages, why should I trust it on anything else?»

«The continuing secrecy only serves to undermine trust and confidence among the public in the democratic process,» she said.

«Recent acts have undermined the public's trust in government,» Cuomo said in his State of the State speech on January 13.

But ethics experts said the lack of clarity around procedure could undermine accountability and public trust.

Public trust in the body was seriously undermined by the fact it was often staffed by many former police officers and relied on the investigatory resources of the very forces it is supposed to be investigating.

Even if there is no actual impropriety, such sources of income give the appearance of impropriety and, in so doing, further undermine public confidence and trust in government officials.»

Brooklyn Assistant US Attorney Todd Kaminsky told the judge that Meng was an influential government and personal leader in New York City's growing Chinese - American community, but his actions undermined the public's trust.

What better way to undermine any remaining public trust that might survive?

«When you don't reveal who is getting paid and you operate behind a cloak of secrecy, it can undermine the public's trust in how the money is being spent,» Dadey said.

These ideas are likely to have left an impression on the public, perhaps fueling cynicism about politics and about the democratic process, and undermining the trust in institutions and in one another, across lines of difference, that is essential for the functioning of representative democracy.

As well as the potential financial penalties (the ICO has issued fines totally over # 2.67 m since 2010), the loss of trust and negative publicity can be ruinous to reputation and seriously undermine public confidence.

Josh Thompson's time as a member of Bill Finch's Brain Trust highlight the recent challenges that have been dragging down Connecticut's charter school industry and their corporate education reform allies who continue to undermine public education in Connecticut.

You are certain that Climategate undermined «trust of (much of) the public?»

It's possible that Tamsin's view is that advocating for certain policies undermines trust (as suggested in her article) and hence makes it difficult for scientists to then engage, scientifically, with the public and with policy makers.

The debate about the future no longer involves the consideration of arguments, or of creating trust in public institutions — trust, which, ironically, Monbiot has spent the last 20 or so years doing his best to undermine.

Trust in U.S. negotiators had been further undermined when documents made public by WikiLeaks and Edward Snowden revealed that the U.S. had been spying on negotiators from other countries before and during Copenhagen, trying to gain intelligence on their positions.

Those who profit off of using their labels in order to mislead others undermine the trust and confidence of the public to the detriment of us all.

Such egregious statements by a sitting judge have broad repercussions, threatening survivors» access to the equal protection of the law and undermining women's equality, as well as the public's trust in our justice system.

This is consistent with breaching the public trust as well as allegedly undermining the Charter guarantee of equality.

``... reinstating Khuong would undermine the Bar's credibility and its members» dignity, and it would imperil the public's trust in the institution.

In seeking justice for Mr. Perrot, these lawyers defended all of us from the misuse of forensic evidence, the abuse of governmental power, and an undermining of the public trust in our court system.

A failure in public trust undermines the foundations of local authority democracy, says Nicholas Dobson

This deficit is problematic as a weak start often makes crooked and - as we have seen at the ICC - broken war crimes cases which undermine trust among victims, donors and the public.

Such conditions — in these circumstances — belies the trust inherent in the doctor - patient relationship, undermines public confidence, and fails to protect the public.»

I submit that it is not the rogue acts of a handful of judges that undermine our justice system — it is the cover - ups that do the most damage to the public's trust and confidence in our courts.

«It is not the rogue acts of a handful of judges that undermine our justice system, it is the cover - ups that do the most damage to the public's trust and confidence in our courts.»