Sentences with phrase «very public example»

Yes, I've actually done this, as have many other people (Dave Asprey to name one very public example) and you are not necessarily worse off.
There are very public examples, like Neo-nazi parents that teach their children to hate.

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Turn to the Pepsi ad debacle for a very public and expensive example.
Of course there are many examples, whether boasting an exit including a buyout, etc. or continuing a solid business model supporting some «heroic» and very public entity.
Two notable and highly - public examples include the relaxation of the «bona fide» office requirement in New Jersey permitting the use of virtual offices, and the very public federal court battle about New York Judiciary Law § 470and its office requirements for non-residents.
As an example, I owned IMS Health and it went private, combined with other companies, etc. and is now a public, very expensive stock again.
Those of us who dismiss the conservative tradition as being represented by Billy Graham or by the stance of Christianity Today ten or 5 years ago might, for example, take a look at Richard Mouw's Political Evangelism, which is typical of a new breed of theological writing from a very conservative, though hardly fundamentalist, biblical perspective, or God in Public, by William Coats, Episcopal chaplain at the University of Wisconsin.
For example, one of the Gallup surveys mentioned earlier showed that 60 percent of the American public personally considered prayer to be very important and another 22 percent regarded it as fairly important; by comparison, only 39 percent thought that reading the Bible is very important, 38 percent thought that attending religious services is very important, and 28 percent thought that being part of a close religious fellowship group is very important.
Two things of note - Prosecutor in public statement was very intent on using this an an example for all their other «thousands of cases» and also....
The books are usually very hesitant to raise the line solely based on a large amount of public dollars and this is a great example of that.
For example, there are certainly societal issues with breastfeeding toddlers in public (or even in private), but it can be very beneficial for the child's emotional development and can engender tender feelings for a mother.
If you are breastfeeding, it's a good idea to check on how feeding in public is viewed in the country you're visiting — Scandinavian countries, for example, are very liberal — whereas it would be unacceptable to breastfeed in public in a Muslim country.
But that won't stop the internet from trying to hop onto television's party barge as it floats by: organizations and publications across the spectrum are encouraging their followers to tweet questions at the moderators, for example, using this very public event to try to get attention for their causes.
BH: As your example suggests, there is often a way to cobble together a coalition of people who all agree on the importance of a public thing, but for very different sorts of reasons.
«It doesn't set a very good example,» said Tim Hoefer, executive director of the Empire Center for Public Policy, a fiscally conservative think tank based in Albany.
More tax is lost to onshore evasion or non-compliance than to offshore evasion and avoidance but it does not always attract the same level of public interest - for example a former minister for tax was vilified for making the very valid point about the scale of the tax loss from paying tradespeople in cash.
I think the Frontline team are a very good example of people who have a public ethos, but want to deliver a public service in a different way.
Other committees less frequently engage in this way, but a very interesting example comes from the House of Commons Health Committee, which expressed concerns about limitations on Labour's ban on smoking in public places, and helped to force a vote which toughened these provisions.
Thus, an Internet channel may distribute text or music worldwide, while a public address system in (for example) a workplace may broadcast very limited ad hoc soundbites to a small population within its range.
However, local residents use roadways very differently from city to city — for example, due to the availability of public transportation — and ride - hailing sharing may affect crashes differently between locations.
I still wasn't the most confident guy (for example, I still wasn't randomly asking girls out in public) but I was becoming very comfortable on dates, which gave the appearance of confidence.
For example, there is a cute Asian guy at my job who has shown interest but, I ran off when he tried to approach me in a very public meeting (I know I kicked myself afterwards) because the black people at my job are EXTREMELY messy and would have noticed.
«This is also a very important example of the benefits of the Gonski schools funding system — $ 224 million of additional Gonski funding is going to greatly benefit public schools right across the state and this is yet another example of the importance of all governments around Australia committing to fully funding the Gonski model.»
Covers the concept of government failure, with thorough explanations and good examples, including discussions of the following reasons for government failure: Imperfect Information Conflicting Objectives Administrative Cost Market Distortions and introduction to Public Choice Theory Very concise (only 11 slides total), this is a good introductory PPT at a good introductory price!
For example, commentator Richard Kahlenberg has argued that «the big difference between KIPP and regular public schools... is that whereas struggling students come and go at regular schools, at KIPP, students leave but very few new students enter.
Public schools in Richmond, for example, have a Brown University Index of Dissimilarity of 69 on a scale where 60 or above is considered very highly segregated.
Increased funding may very well be needed, but what recent coverage has missed is that the Mississippi School for Math the Science and similarly the Mississippi School of the Arts (MSA) are two of the most strikingly successful — and widely acclaimed — examples of public school choice success in Mississippi.
We definitely need more shooting brakes on the market today, and even though the Vanquish Zagato is limited to very few examples, it will be great to see one more sports wagon hit public roads.
Both are 1965 examples with Ford's «HiPo» 289 - cubic - inch V8 under the hood, and the latter — CSX2588 — is the very last Shelby Cobra 289 ever sold to the public.
• Godin's very public defection is just one more example of how publishing is in flux.
She is certainly not the only person who has had concerns about that; for example, Naoki Urasawa has been very public in that he doesn't like digital.
For example, among library users, 85 % of immigrant Latinos say that offering a quiet, safe place to spend time, read or study is a «very important» service offered by public libraries for themselves and their families.
Mark Kantrowitz, a nationally - recognized student loan expert, believes it's very likely that the popular Public Service Loan Forgiveness program will eventually be phased out, for example.
As an example, a Great Dane or St. Bernard may be very well trained to work with psychiatric conditions; however, they can not easily access many public places and this can cause difficulty for the owner.
«This is an example of the AVMA responding to the request of communities and public health officials to provide ideas for dealing with this important issue and the response has been very positive.»
For example, in most of Florida, public water facilities deliver water that is very hard and alkaline, which is not ideal for a large number of tropical fish.
A description spotted by Dtoid about the company's Evolution of Beatmatch Gameplay panel reads: «The panel will include gameplay examples from internal prototypes, honest discussion of our design process successes and failures, insight into how we create and test our games in development, and a synopsis of the design history of a title on public display for the very first time at the Harmonix booth.»
Japan can give world very nice example about public tansportation.
Engineers and the public at large find geology a science too obscure and difficult to understand in very practical matters of which earthquake prediction and mitigation are just an example.
That said, this (very big) choice serves as one example of the dysfunctional aspects of the current public dialogue.
Experiences in developed nations such as Japan could provide good examples for achieving public consensus on coal use by showing how CCT uses coal more efficiently; that it is much cleaner than conventional plants; and that emissions from plants using CCT are very close to that of gas - fired power plants.
Two very simple (and again, simplified) examples are evolution and public health.
There have been some excellent examples of science communication to the general public recently: the superbly executed Years of Living Dangerously documentary series; Neil deGrasse Tyson's excellent Cosmos shows; and the very clearly written and beautifully laid out Third National Climate Assessment prepared by American scientists with the help of communications specialists.
For example, in the state of Illinois where I previously practiced as a public prosecutor, there was a very limited period of time in which spouse support was awarded.
In this example we can see that «legal service centres», a somewhat nebulous term, has been defined very broadly as «Centres serving the public which may provide a variety of legal services including information, advice, referral, or help finding a lawyer.»
He notes, for example, that «much of our litigation is done on a contingency fee basis, and this is very attractive for the public and gives even the poorest person great access to justice particularly from the tort bar.»
I say ABS is a pig - in - a-poke because experts where it has been in place (1) can not see any benefits to the public other than the odd example which, upon easy inspection, is easily shown to be achievable without ABS, and (2) do see ABS as chiefly a means for funding consolidations — the very anti-public-interest evolution that you should be very keen to fight.
We work very closely with other experts; in employment, governance and public law, for example.
Claudia V. Balli, Harris County Public Defender's Office (Houston): «The hands - on workshop with examples from legal writings are very helpful.
Engineers are a good example of best practice because they split out the advocacy function a few years back and the commitment of PEO to regulating in the public interest became very clear.
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