Sentences with phrase «uphold public»

The Independent Advisory Group will make recommendations to the Council at the end of May, 2016 on measures to strengthen the Council's ability to uphold the public interest by assuring the competency and integrity of real estate licensees and their compliance with the Real Estate Services Act.

And a platform to uphold the public's interest, which includes holding the powerful accountable and shining a light in unexpected places.

And yes, religious rights and freedoms are included in BC lawyers» collective responsibility to uphold the public interest in the administration of justice.

And, «lawyers are statutorily required to uphold the public interest in the administration of justice by preserving and protecting the rights and freedoms of all persons» aren't religious beliefs a part of this?

I can not comprehend how TWU could instill this value in any of its students when it institutional purpose is to deny this obligation «to uphold the public interest in the administration of justice by preserving and protecting the rights and freedoms of all persons.

Unlike teachers, lawyers are statutorily required to uphold the public interest in the administration of justice by preserving and protecting the rights and freedoms of all persons.

«Employing a liberalized model would allow the profession to uphold the public policy rationale underlying regulation while welcoming the investment and capital that spurs innovation, allows for global competition, enhances efficiencies, and facilitates new ways of serving clients,» the report states.

At common law, what was expected in these circumstances was that the attorney general would institute proceedings to uphold public rights and duties either acting ex officio or through a «relator action», ie one in which the attorney general proceeded to assert a public right on the relation of a private person or a corporation.

Environmental justice advocates say that the attacks on science represent irresponsible political malpractice against the people of the U.S. by officials who are sworn to uphold the public interest.

Thankfully, the last few years have shown a huge improvement in the way that legislators choose to uphold public safety.

When Sen. Patty Murray, a Democrat from Washington, asked Education Secretary Betsy DeVos directly during the confirmation process whether she would uphold Public Service Loan Forgiveness, DeVos she said she «look [ed] forward to discussing» it.

«To have someone who is supposed to be in public service, swears to uphold the public trust, found to be guilty of a crime, it's never happy.»

DiFiore then contradicted herself by saying that «the use of (racial epithets) by anyone, let alone a public servant who is sworn to uphold the public good, is intolerable.»

In October 2015, Mass Audubon was awarded Land Trust Accreditation by the Land Trust Alliance, providing important independent confirmation that Mass Audubon's policies, practices, and programs meet or exceed national standards for excellence, uphold public trust, and ensure that our conservation actions will have permanence.

«In such a world,» he continued, «those who uphold public morals and serve the public weal do so only for Satan's ends.

«The Turkish government's news media shutdown shows how the State of Emergency law is being used to deny the right to free speech beyond any legitimate aim of upholding public order,» Human Rights Watch said in a statement.

Upholding the public interest is the responsibility of our political leaders, who should be smart enough to recognize that this pipeline expansion was opposed from the beginning.

On June 28th, the U.S. Supreme Court — in a bitterly divided 5 — 4 vote — upheld a public university's right to enforce an «all - comers» antidiscrimination policy against a student group affiliated with the Christian Legal Society (CLS).

POTTERThat's, again, why we really — we're working towards licensure in Virginia and achieve licensure for certified professional midwives in Virginia because it creates a mechanism of accountability that not only upholds public safety and allows an overview of competency and a community standard, but it also creates a much better mechanism for review of practices of midwives or any health care providers.

In that sense, a private company has to be understood as upholding public interest principles, as embedded in a community to which it owes duties and obligations.

The controversy over whether work on airborne bird flu can be published shows that transparency is vital to upholding public trust

It may be noted in this respect that the General Court has followed a narrow reading of Article 11 of the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union, which upholds a public right to freely express opinions and impart information.

The Alberta government is holding consultations on proposed legislation to protect essential public services while upholding public sector workers» right to meaningful collective bargaining dispute resolution... [more]

The Alberta government is holding consultations on proposed legislation to protect essential public services while upholding public sector workers» right to meaningful collective bargaining dispute resolution.

The recent U.S. Supreme Court ruling upholding public use of eminent domain powers, has sparked a surge of legislative action across the country.

Not exact matches

That agreement also upheld earlier limits to euro area budget deficits (3 percent of GDP) and public debt (60 percent of GDP).

«To avoid sowing seeds of division in our nation, upholding this fundamental constitutional principle at the core of our nation's identity plainly serves a significant public interest,» Chuang wrote in his ruling.

One reason for the advertiser indifference is that many Facebook marketers are not big brands with a public image to uphold, but smaller, so - called «direct advertisers.»

California banned affirmative action policies in public universities in 1996, and just this year a federal appeals court upheld the ban, according to the Associated Press.

The British ICO is an independent authority set up to uphold information rights in the public interest, promoting openness by public bodies and data privacy for individuals.

Still, he says that he doesn't want to be part of a party (i.e., the Republican party) that upholds what he describes as unreason, but he also doesn't claim that such alleged scientific truth regarding ultimate questions of human destiny provides answers for public policy.

It's a tradition that I'm proud to uphold not only as a fellow believer but as an elected leader whose entry into public service was actually through the church.

Palin works from the assumption that one enters public service not to uphold the constitution, not to defend the nation, not to enrich the lives of citizens, but to honor God.

Again, we can ask whether the spate of hate - speech and «equality» legislation in Britain and other European countries — not to mention the restrictions on public manifestations of faith, the right to which has been upheld again and again by both domestic and European courts — also falls foul of this Article.

But it would be that very civilized tradition that would uphold British honor in the end, allowing the public to hear Benedict's elegant voice.

The court upheld the Internal Revenue Service's decision to withdraw the university's right to receive tax - deductible contributions because discrimination was contrary to public policy.

Fighting what he sees as the vacuous definition of marriage as a purely private relationship of love, Blankenhorn urges readers to work toward resurrecting marriage as a public institution designed to uphold what he believes is the birthright of every child — to have a mother and a father.

Members play an important role in upholding the vital role of faith in the public square.

Christians» rights are not being infringed if they are asked to uphold a secular neutrality in state - sponsored public activities.

They attended a school - board meeting in October 1993 where they distributed material citing federal laws and court rulings upholding the rights of pregnant students to participate in public school extracurricular activities.

I think the Supreme Court got it wrong again in 1896, when the Plessy v. Ferguson decision upheld segregated public facilities in the states.

Hence their worship services and other «religious» activities have frequently been transformed as if they were means of upholding the morale of a group in society whose special interest is the maintenance of the ideal and program of the good life in the public affairs of the day.

It will not change anything as far as public opinion and I hope they uphold prop 8 and Doma.

In a recent interview with the Washington Post (part of their ominously titled «Voices of Power» series), Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius discussed Archbishop Joseph Naumann's request that she not present herself for communion because of her public support for legalised abortion: «Well, it was one of the most painful things I have ever experienced in my life, and I am a firm believer in the separation of church and state, and I feel that my actions as a parishioner are different than my actions as a public official and that the people who elected me in Kansas had a right to expect me to uphold their rights and their beliefs even if they did not have the same religious beliefs that I had.

Religious charity Christian Solidarity Worldwide (CSW) explained on its website that the Cuban Office for Religious affairs «is focused almost entirely on controlling and restricting the public and private manifestation of religious faith, not on upholding and protecting the religious freedom of Cuban citizens.»

The Supreme Court's 6 - 3 decision upholding the right of a Christian youth group to meet in public schools after class hours is a significant signal of the Court's....

This is why the law until the 1960s resisted or delayed divorce, gave a privileged status to monogamous marriage and upheld the need for public commitments of a mutually consenting man and woman as the ground for the formation of legal families.

Public officers take an oath to uphold the Constitution, to uphold the law of...

Of course, the courts must uphold the First Amendment provision against any and all who wish to capture the public schools for their own sectarian teaching.

Conversely, the state now tolerates express religious bigotry; the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit recently upheld a declaration by the San Francisco Board of Supervisors that attacked the Catholic Church as an improper «foreign» influence in the public square.