Sentences with phrase «undermining public and government»

He points out that the latter option risks undermining public and government support in the technology, which could set things back even further.

Not exact matches

And even if Canadian courts ultimately deem such probing too onerous within the rubric of «reasonableness» review, such details can provide fodder for public commentary that can undermine the government's position in the court of public opinion (regarding the economic case for increased oil sands production, for example, see University of Alberta Professor Andrew Leach's commentary here).

Would Nestlé really try to undermine government and public efforts to normalise breastfeeding with a viral campaign that tells women their breasts are ogled when they go out in public?

«Let loose in government on their own they would wreck the recovery — costing jobs, driving up interest rates and undermining the growth needed to cut tax bills and fund public services,» he will say.

The Act effectively gives the British government the right to «de-recognize» an embassy, and therefore dispense with the principle of inviolability, if it believes that premises are being misused for non-diplomatic purposes that undermine public safety or national security.

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.

«The Conservative Government is clearly encouraging a more commercialised and marketised approach to education development and is deliberately promoting a strategy which its own evidence suggests risks undermining the provision of high quality public education in developing countries.

In addition, reports suggest Ms Harman will argue this weekend for the attorney general's legal advice to the government to be published, saying the row over the legality of the Iraq war and the BAE - Saudi corruption probe has undermined public confidence.

«He understands how abuse of power undermines our democracy and has made it a top priority to uphold the integrity of our government by removing bad actors, bringing corruption cases against 40 New York public officials,» she wrote of Schneiderman.

«It is not right for us to allow the government to undermine the integrity of the probation service, and to put profits ahead of public safety,» Plaid Westminster leader Elfyn Llwyd said.

«If it is merely used as a means for the government to combat their prison overcrowding crisis no one wins - the victim gets no justice, the public get no protection, the offender gets no rehabilitation and the whole scheme is undermined.»

The House of Lords science and technology committee said the government is doing too little to improve security on the internet and risks undermining public confidence in the service.

Socio - Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has urged Governor Akinwunmi Ambode «to take steps to immediately reverse the unfair and discriminatory toll charges at the Lekki - Epe Expressway and Lekki - Ikoyi Link Bridge toll gates by the Lekki Concession Company, if the Lagos State government is not to run the risk of undermining the public interests, democratic values and accountability, and opportunities for participation.»

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.

It also criticised the government's controversial decision to stage public sector pay awards, warning savings will be modest and on - off, do little to fight inflation and undermine the credibility of the pay review body process.

«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.

In essence, this involves two things: growing the private sector, and reforming the public sector so that what the Government does — and the money it spends — boosts, rather than undermines, Britain's competitiveness.

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.

Alan Johnson wrote to the professor: «It is important that the government's messages on drugs are clear and as an advisor you do nothing to undermine public understanding of them.

Aid workers also say that news of the vaccination plot may undermine their ability to work with the public and with developing world governments.

, which outlines strategies to undermine climate change science in government and public opinion.

We found that large international NGOs and humanitarian organizations feel that their expertise and experience was going unrecognized and unappreciated by government actors, and that government actors sometimes view NGOs as competitors who were undermining their efforts to get as many children as possible into public schools.

I felt that sometimes conversations were boiled down to one best practice — for example, current best practices stress integrating students into the public system and government ownership over the sector, but this seemed to undermine the «both / and» approach: that formal and informal programs were necessary, given the scale of the crisis, and that international, national and local actors all have their own advantages and expertise to offer.

The right to play is wholly undermined, it says, by: the government's withdrawal of a play policy for England; insufficient provision of spaces and facilities for play and leisure, particularly those accessible to children with disabilities or from disadvantaged communities; a lack of public spaces where teenagers can socialise; and the underfunding of play and leisure policies in the devolved nations.

Roosevelt's dictum has long been undermined by collective bargaining between employees and public officials at all levels of government.

If the Supreme Court now strikes down aggregate contribution limits, it will further privilege wealthy donors in the political process and further undermine working people's confidence that government is serving the public interest.»

Daniel A. Domenech, executive director of AASA, The School Superintendents Association stated, «The impact these changes would have on state and local governments to adequately and appropriately invest in and support critical infrastructure investments, including public schools, are unacceptable and put our nation on a path that undermines progress in student learning, graduation rates, college completion rates and career readiness.»

But Esty recognized that the public is demanding more transparency and honesty in government and that the appearance of a conflict of interest would undermine his credibility as the leader of his agency.

On the other hand, recognizing that their membership is getting angrier and angrier and that the Malloy / Wyman agenda is undermining public education, public services and is translating into public employee layoffs, some of these same unions have taken to running television advertisements urging citizens to stand up for the public servants who educate our children, provide critically important support for those in need and ensure that government programs are available to the people of Connecticut.

Reprinted with permission on UnionWatch, it describes how public sector unions, virtually unopposed, have undermined the effectiveness and overpriced the costs of government at all levels in California.

These local governments argue fossil fuel companies, including Exxon and Chevron, knew greenhouse gases from its products would cause the world to warm but «concealed the dangers, sought to undermine public support for greenhouse gas regulation, and engaged in massive campaigns» to promote their products.

The ads were targeted at key ridings in the battleground province of Ontario and were designed to undermine public support for the then Liberal government's climate change policies, according to various Friends of Science statements.

There is a real risk that such a disregard of the separation of powers and the constitutional role and institutional capacity of the different branches of government could undermine the legal aid system and cause a lack of public confidence in judges and the courts.

This serves to undermine judicial impartiality, fundamental to ensuring the stability of Turkey's legal institutions, and has consequently diminished public confidence in both the judiciary and the government.

The government began a review of Medco in July (only three months after start - up) because it says that a number of new businesses emerging within the sector have the potential to undermine the government's policy objectives and public confidence in the MedCo portal.

The public interest demands that the current cadre of expertise remains and talented new entrants are not deterred from undertaking this essential work, but there is a limit to what can be done in a climate where those who conduct this work are being repeatedly undermined and undervalued by this government.

But even if the public can read government - funded research, patents on inventions that arise from it can still fall into the wrong hands and undermine the public interest.

Blaming a public servant — even one as senior and reputedly influential as Professor Halton — for a bad Government decision not only lets Minister Peter Dutton off the hook on this issue, it undermines the fundamental accountability of the Government.

As medical and public health researchers we do not want to be used by the government as an excuse to undermine Medicare and penalise the poor.

For 30 years, nearly all public discussion about the importance of marriage, and the role that government policy played in either supporting or undermining it, was muffled.