Sentences with phrase «upon the public policy»

It is nowhere more clearly expressed than in the judgment of Lord Justice Oliver in Cutts v Head [1984] Ch 290, [1984] 1 All ER 597: «That the rule rests, at least in part, upon public policy is clear from many authorities, and the convenient starting point of the inquiry is the nature of the underlying policy.

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But I have a huge issue when religion is foisted upon me, it is used to make public policy, and used to inflict injury and death to people who are deemed «unworthy» (like gays or blacks or people who won't go along for the ride).

If there is any public policy proposition that a pluralistic system must agree upon — for the protection of all its members — it is that human life must be immune from arbitrary violation by other humans.

Again, I personally believe that public policy regarding induced abortions ought to change — but not because of what I believe but rather because the objective merits of purely rational arguments have prevailed upon a majority of public policy makers.

These issues call for wisdom on the part of policy - makers, but my chief concern is to counteract pressures upon the Government by vociferous elements in the public.

It has always depended upon human choice, that is to say on individual decisions and on public policy.

Increasingly public health bodies are recognising the need to look to independent, trustworthy information upon which to base public health policies.

«This platform will have a policy unit which will draw on the best ideas and practical solutions, building partnerships with other organisations, in the public policy and private spheres, so that those in the frontline of politics have a bigger and better policy agenda to reflect upon; and a networking capability to join like - minded people up.

The first, the Ulster County Legislature's Energy and Environment Committee will meet on Thursday, May 3rd at 5:30 pm (at UCRRA located at 999 Flatbush Road in Kingston, NY) and, more importantly in order for your voice to be heard, a public hearing is set for May 23rd (VIEW our facebook event) with a potential vote to follow that would establish both new policy and a higher fee for our current commingled system imposed upon Kingston.

«The core of this is you can't enact public policy based upon a discriminatory animus,» state Attorney General Eric Schneiderman, a Democrat, said at John Jay College in Manhattan this morning, flanked by immigrant advocates.

«It is necessary to protect the rights of scientists to pursue and communicate their inquiries unimpeded, expand the placement of scientists throughout the government, build public policies upon scientific evidence and support broad educational efforts to expand public understanding of the scientific process.»

But he wrote in a 2008 essay for the Science and Public Policy Institute, a climate denial website, that upon closer inspection of the research he found it to be «flimsy.»

«In their opinion piece, Simopoulos and DiNicolantonio call upon public health bodies to establish nutrition policies based on science, but they justify their criticisms by advancing an unproven hypothesis on the adverse effects of omega - 6 polyunsaturated fatty acids, derived largely from theoretical arguments and animal studies, as if it were established fact.

These were: well - being and welfare — insisting upon the adoption of well - being policies in all education settings; empowering and enabling — identifying the balance between empowering and overburdening staff; freedom and flexibility - reversing the trend for testing and increasingly structured curriculum frameworks and trust and train teachers to do their job with a focus on reflective practice; and celebrating success — making sure we all better celebrate the amazing experiences and achievements of teachers to help stem a current tendency for public pessimism.

Second, and perhaps more important, the fact that poor and minority students flee segregated traditional public schools for similarly segregated charters does not imply that charter school policy is imposing segregation upon these students.

If the new information surprises respondents by indicating the district is doing less well than previously thought, the public, upon learning the truth of the matter, is likely to 1) lower its evaluation of local schools; 2) become more supportive of educational alternatives for families; 3) alter thinking about current policies affecting teacher compensation and retention; and 4) reassess its thinking about school and student accountability policies.

Controversial public policies should not be exempt from reexamination simply because their authors place the label «civil rights» upon them.

Upon his return to the United States, Gary earned an MA in Public Policy from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania in 1996 and Ph.D. in Education Policy in 2000 from the Graduate School of Education at the University of Pennsylvania.

Speakers opposed to the state's new public education policies whipped an audience of hundreds into a furor at Comsewogue High School on March 29, 2014 as Opt - Out supporters, preaching from the stage in the auditorium, vowed to «starve the beast» — calling on parents to have their children skip the rigorous standardized tests and deprive the school system of the data upon which the system depends.

Aside from celebrating charter schools, the rally «will also call upon elected representatives in local and state government to support pro-charter policies, including the expansion of high - quality charters, better facilities for charter students, and an end to the politics and rhetoric challenging parents» right to choose the best public school for their children,» according to a press release from California Charter Schools Association Families.

He said he has earned the chance to follow through on the major policy shifts upon which California has embarked since he was elected as superintendent of public instruction in 2010.

Although state laws vary widely in terms of the policies governing charter school oversight and accountability, these publically funded institutions, which receive freedom from the rules and regulations of traditional district schools in exchange for meeting agreed - upon performance targets, now serve an estimated 2.9 million students in more than 6,700 schools around the country (National Alliance of Public Charter Schools [NAPCS], 2015).

This weekend's Wall Street Journalinterview with the foundation's namesake about those school reform efforts once again hit upon one of the most - salient points I had made: That private - sector donations to public school districts and efforts at influencing policy won't be enough to continue the overhaul of American public education.

This book drew upon my experience as an economist of higher education who has conducted empirical analyses on how colleges respond to individual pressures, a researcher who has been involved in a range of public policy discussions, and a person who manages a private - sector accountability system (Washington Monthly magazine's annual college rankings).

Upon completion of his Ph.D. in Educational Leadership & Policy Analysis at the University of Wisconsin - Madison, Don accepted a position as principal in Chicago Public Schools (CPS), and under his leadership, his school was rated one of the top 100 in the nation by U.S. News & World Report.

It would be unrealistic to expect DeVos to acknowledge the wreckage that her policies have wrought upon Detroit Public Schools or to note that even philanthropists and foundations interested in charter schools and vouchers routinely pass over Detroit because the situation on the ground is too wild west for their tastes.

In the shaping of legislation and public policies, there is a large place for efforts to «calculate» or predict, from the findings of all appropriate social - scientific research and analysis, the probable effects of alternative policies or measures upon the happiness or welfare of the people generally, and of different groups among them; and to choose the policies most likely to be conducive to something like (in the ambiguous Benthamite phrase) «the greatest happiness of the greatest number.»

It is not based upon page views or ratings, but rather upon the economic, market, and public policy themes that could have helped you the most.

As a result, the county has posted a public response on their Facebook page whereupon they expounded upon the euthanasia policy enforcement (details that were not previously provided to our Humane Society leaders as they so indicate in their post).

By this Charter, the Governing Council is directed to obtain and to deploy whatever resources may be necessary for the energetic furtherance of the ambitions and activities of the Foundation, which shall conduct research, publish papers, educate students and the public and take every measure that may be necessary to restore the primacy and use of reason in science and public policy worldwide, especially insofar as they may bear upon the rights of the people fairly and fully to be informed, openly and freely to debate, and secretly by ballot to decide who shall govern them, what laws they shall live by and what imposts they shall endure.»

One might object by saying that the formation of public policy depends upon first establishing the scientific bases of ACC, and that the first question can be considered independently of the second.

They further question the claims that a pre-industrial or «below 350 ppm [carbon dioxide]» climate is necessarily more benign or less affected by extreme weather, and they warn that «unachievable» CO2 emissions reduction policies are at risk of being classified as «ill advised, ineffective, and disingenuous» if and / or when the public eventually recognizes how flimsy the evidence is upon which these policies are based.

When scientists take it upon themselves to exaggerate in their public policy writings or testimony to Congress, Congress will stop believing them.

The Texas Public Policy Foundation aims to advance a societal framework that effectively fosters human flourishing based upon cooperation and mutually beneficial exchange of ideas and speech.

If you are an adherent of sound scientific method, you must NECESSARILY be a skeptic in this as in all other areas of inquiry, and the «climate scientists» complicit in the push for the abrogation of scientific method are by definition NOT «doing science, gathering data, testing,» but rather presenting the seeming of scientific investigation while all the while using that masquerade to advance public policy measures predicated upon malicious nonsense.

Mark Cohen: The right - wing media have seized upon Climategate in order to claim that there is this conspiracy — essentially, of dishonest scientists who are attempting to foist this myth of climate change on an unknowing public — in order to paralyze the public debate and policy change regarding climate change.

I believe Mr. singer «s conclusion is well founded:» I would like to see the public look upon global warming as just another scientific controversy and oppose any public policies until the major issues are settled, such as the cause.

I would like to see the public look upon global warming as just another scientific controversy and oppose any public policies until the major issues are settled, such as the cause.

In responding this way, proponents of climate change policy action are implicitly confirming the ethically dubious notion that public policy must be based upon economic self - interest rather than responsibilities to those who will be most harmed by inaction.

In the interests of remaining on topic, I'll just note (as many others have) that public policy decisions are driven by the information available, that on complex subjects we depend upon expert opinion, and that due to some rather serious efforts by «skeptics» there is a gap between the expert opinion and the public perception of the same.

This was crime when Al Gore got on a public stand and, relying upon the authority of being presidency capable just ripped off, told people if they didn't install his policies in spite of the election or they'd die, that was terrorism.

The truth about Judith Curry, as I see it, is that she has a strong attraction for political dialogue, and refuses to see that the public debate over climate is fundamentally at odds with good science, as is the IPCC - sponsored «consensus» of climate alarmism, or in her case, of climate political - worryism (she seems deeply attached to helping bring about «reasonable» and «responsible» climate policies — whereas my view is that any and all such climate policies, now, are necessarily based upon incompetent, false science, are entirely the wrong thing to try to impose upon the people of the world, and need to be summarily thrown out, before one can even begin to have a dispassionate, competent scientific dialogue — as opposed to the political debate now being served up — on the state of climate science.).

When government policy is built upon hyperbole as it is here in Australia the outcome can only be against the public interest.

Obama will build upon his efforts in the Senate to ensure that more Metropolitan Planning Organizations create policies to incentivize greater bicycle and pedestrian usage of roads and sidewalks, and he will also re-commit federal resources to public mass transportation projects across the country.

Yet this growing market for clean tech is almost entirely dependent upon public subsidy and policy support.

Via Public Citizen's Consumer Law and Policy Blog I came upon the great video below featuring Alan Siegel, a branding expert and «simplicity guru.»

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.

For example, our litigators often collaborate with our public policy advisers to achieve excellent results for clients, and our transactional lawyers have completed hundreds of domestic and cross-border deals, drawing upon complementary practice disciplines when and where needed.

C.A., Sept. 27, 2010)(33959) April 5, 2013 There is not and should not be a rule of public policy precluding the applicability of issue estoppel to police disciplinary hearings based upon judicial oversight of police accountability; instead there should be a flexible approach, whereby courts have the discretion to refuse to apply issue estoppel if it will work an injustice, even where the preconditions have been met.

Michigan law protects unsuspecting consumers from auto dealers who use deceptive means and practices upon unsuspecting customers because public policy dictates that it do so.