Sentences with phrase «very public role»

But Quinn's own list on her e-mail shows that she's keeping busy — from teaching at Harvard's Kennedy School earlier this year to taking a very public role in the Cuomo administration — a team that typically has only one member who is out front and public.

In more recent years, our advocacy efforts have also focused on regional issues, from our very public role in the 2015 transit and transportation plebiscite, to our work around Metro Vancouver's proposed Bylaw 280 and regional waste management, our longstanding calls for a mobile business licence program across Greater Vancouver, and our advocacy at all levels of government to invest in roads, bridges, and Pacific Gateway trade infrastructure across the region.

Not exact matches

The comedian and TV personality Conan O'Brien spoke about his very public failure in 2010 when he was given NBC's Tonight Show hosting gig (that once belonged to Jay Leno) only to be forced out of the role.

Suddenly, too, the same Chinese leaders who in the early and mid-2000s still had played the role of the meek learner became, in speeches and public appearances and writings, very much the triumphalist teacher.

«Last year on this very stage, I posed the question: «What is the role and responsibility of a for - profit, public company in today's society?»

Stamos, who joined the social giant almost three years ago after a very public stint in a similar role at Yahoo, ran the team inside Facebook tasked with hunting down ads related to the Kremlin's efforts to sow unrest in the U.S. ahead of the presidential election.

Anyway, yes, this is all rather ugly in some very unpleasant ways, but I think the overall conversation here has been relatively civil — at least within the framework I'm working from that all public leaders / figures / role - models who are authors, speakers, event sponsors, etc., commit themselves to public scrutiny and accountability.

All of us fret and kick against the steel bands of institutionalism; the teacher against the grading system, the social worker against the artificiality created by the very fact of his being a professional representative of the state commissioned to deal with human needs, the worker something of whose very life is «bought» against the employer, and the sensitive employer who buys that portion of that life against the system, the public official against the role which political necessity assigns to him.

This «outfront» role, enacted «before the congregation,» is of course very public: administering the sacraments, preaching the word, and being of service to other human beings within and without the congregation.

Our society's understanding of the pattern of family life and of the role of conscience and religious belief in public life remains a very important part of the political agenda.»

His Time interview was even more astonishing, as Tiger openly answered questions about his very public divorce from Elin Nordegren following his sex scandal, their current «more open and honest» relationship as «best friends,» and his role as co-parent to their two kids.

Of course, I am for equal opportunity and equal rights when it comes to legal and public - sphere issues, but the fact is, from 0 - 5, especially with regard to breastfeeding, a mother plays a key role that is very different from a father.

Between the crafts and the leadership role I've taken on (with a few others) for the urban hen movement (we're working on a petition and will be hosting a public educational urban hen meeting in a couple weeks), I'm going to have a very busy December.

Given their tight food budgets, and their role as public servants, such moves have to be very carefully considered and grounded in what matters to children's well being in the most concrete terms.

Fight Back New York can play a unique role in this race by showing in a very public and powerful way that Ruben is not just bad for LGBT people, he's bad for New York.»

The Treasury Committee is suited to such a role and should hold government to account for its announcements on tax, some of which are announced at Budgets without any or very little prior public consultation.

At a panel discussion at GWU's School of New Media and Public Affairs on Monday, Rospars described in particular the vital role of online video content, whose power the campaign recognized from the beginning — very early in the race, Obama's team already included a videographer and screenwriter / producer squad to shoot footage both for internal / documentary purposes and (more importantly) for use in public as a persuasivePublic Affairs on Monday, Rospars described in particular the vital role of online video content, whose power the campaign recognized from the beginning — very early in the race, Obama's team already included a videographer and screenwriter / producer squad to shoot footage both for internal / documentary purposes and (more importantly) for use in public as a persuasivepublic as a persuasive tool.

«I think that's a great fit for her, and I think she would do a great job as she has been as the public advocate representing a very diverse city, and I think she has inspired other women of color to take on large roles like that,» Bichotte said.

But not in very public facing roles as surely we will want to be seen as a NEW Government.

Vanderhoef noted the role the restored employees play in protecting the public health and safety of county residents and said he was very hesitant to eliminate them in his proposed budget.

John Andrews, head of the Welsh Funding Councils, which share out public money for higher and further education, says Hunt was «very concerned» with education and training, particularly their role in developing the economy.

«However, we hope these findings reassure clinicians and the public that that there is little question about the effectiveness of mammography screening, which should continue to play a very important role in our efforts to prevent deaths from breast cancer.»

For most purposes re public policy on climate flips, it is the demonstrated instability and the role played by freshening the North Atlantic that needs emphasis, along with the melt water from Greenland adding to the effects of increased rainfall in the very places where downwelling seems to be most efficiently conducted, the Larador and Greenland Seas.

Delta Airlines and Bank of America on Sunday withdrew their sponsorship of New York City's nonprofit Public Theater over a new Shakespeare in the Park production of «Julius Caesar» featuring a facsimile of Donald Trump in the title role meeting a very bloody end.

Yet we know very little about these local leaders, and we seldom hear their voices in debates about the role that their organizations do and should play in public education and school reform.

Now, as he assumes the role of chief academic officer of the nation's largest school system, Polakow - Suransky, who very few people, including educators, have heard of, will have to get used to being on a brightly - lit stage in the klieg - light capital of the world; just as private industry CEO Cathie Black travels from the well - insulated corporate board room to the decidedly raucous arena of a sprawling public school system.

Included in the PowerPoint: a) Scarcity, Choice and Opportunity Cost - The Fundamental Economic Problem - The Meaning of Scarcity and the inevitability of choices at all levels (individual, firms, govt)- The basic questions of what will be produced ow and for whom - The Meaning of the term «Ceteris Paribus» - The Margin and Decision Making at the Margin - Sort run, long run, very long run b) Positive and Normative Statements - the distinction between fact and value judgements c) Factors of Production - the rewards to the factors of production: land, labour, capital and enterprise - Specialization and division of labour d) Resource Allocation in Different Economic Systems and Issues of Transition - decision making in market, planned and mixed economies - the role of the factor enterprise in a modern economy e) Production Possibility Curves - shape and shifts of the curve - constant and increasing opportunity costs f) Money - functions and characteristics in a modern economy - barter, cash and bank deposits, cheques, near money, liquidity g) Classification of Goods and Services - free goods, private goods (economic goods) and public goods - merit goods and demerit goods as the outcome of imperfect information by consumers PowerPoint Also Includes: - Key Terms for each Chapter - Activities - Multiple Choice and Essay questions from past exam papers.

I still feel very passionately about my future role working as a school leader to benefit traditional public schools in North Carolina.

While the public is incoherent on the federal role in education, as it is on the federal role in everything, polls show Americans are very clear about not wanting the feds deciding what kids learn.

Chartering is premised on a basic if provocative idea: The principles of public education allow state leaders to cast the government in a role very different from the one it occupied for a century.

What has happened in Gadsden shows how the push to rank schools based on measures like graduation rates — codified by the No Child Left Behind Act and still very much a fact of life in American public education — has transformed the country's approach to secondary education, as scores of districts have outsourced core instruction to computers and downgraded the role of the traditional teacher.

Seeing himself as a mirror and role model to these very students, Tunji has been authoring op - eds and policy papers, as well as providing public testimony to encourage our district and state to focus its reform efforts on improving outcomes for our most vulnerable students.

«Californians are very supportive of charter schools, but they also strongly value the role of traditional public schools as well,» said Schnur.

«Unions continue to play a very strong role in their local school districts and partner with parents and their communities to ensure the best public schools for students.»

«OverDrive has been working with a lot of very forward - looking publishers and for many years has appreciated the important role of the public library with connecting readers with books and authors,» explained Potash.

Some traits were very useful for the original role the dog had to play, but we find odd or «bad» when we see it happening in our homes or in public, and we are expecting the dog to act in ways that aren't normal for that breed in that circumstance.

For most purposes re public policy on climate flips, it is the demonstrated instability and the role played by freshening the North Atlantic that needs emphasis, along with the melt water from Greenland adding to the effects of increased rainfall in the very places where downwelling seems to be most efficiently conducted, the Larador and Greenland Seas.

After all, the media play a very big role in allowing (in effect) politicians to get away with this sort of thing, and the media are even more responsible for not educating the public sufficiently on the matter.

In your prior role as planning consultant for AES — which has an abysmal and very public record on social and environmental responsibility and is a major lobby for the coal industry — how did you view yourself?

I agree completely with you that science should conform to other ways of knowing particularly when engaged in prediction of risk But there is huge confusion about this and scientists and engineers are often very inarticulate about their role when uncertain science is applied to public policy.

The role that you are playing now is very important with respect to how the greater public will view this debate.

Now, the integration of the messages from each working group is very important because the IPCC, as a whole, must give a context to the general public about the crux of the climate change issues, and I believe that the chair must play that integrating role.

Given Dr. Trenberth's role as the IPCC's [coordinating] Lead Author responsible for preparing the text on hurricanes, his public statements so far outside of current scientific understanding led me to concern that it would be very difficult for the IPCC process to proceed objectively with regards to the assessment on hurricane activity.

Here, the role of the infamous public insults are now played by the blogs — but instead of a few names hurled through the papers over a very brief period, it is a never ending stream of bile, invective, accusations and poorly formed argument.

Students are taught to be «legal technicians,» with very little emphasis, at least during the first year, on the social and ethical ideals of the profession in its public role: «the first - year experience as a whole, without conscious and systematic efforts at counterbalance, tips the scales... away from cultivating the humanity of the student and toward the student's re-engineering into a «legal machine.

I am hoping that the court «s role in this case will strike at the very existence of an absolute immunity under two guiding principles: equality under the law (especially when the alleged wrong has been committed by a person who should be held to the highest standards of conduct in exercising a public trust; and any infringement of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms constitutes «improper purpose» aimed at gaining a private collateral advantage.

The lawyers played a very important role in this process, especially in bringing the public attention to the issue.

Quoting the philosopher Jeremy Bentham, the Supreme Court of Canada has repeatedly told Canadians that «publicity is the very soul of justice» and has emphasized the crucial role that public access to court proceedings plays in our democratic system.

Stamos, who joined the social giant almost three years ago after a very public stint in a similar role at Yahoo, ran the team inside Facebook tasked with hunting down ads related to the Kremlin's efforts to sow unrest in the U.S. ahead of the presidential election.

Presidential Management Fellows, who serve for two years in a federal role that aligns with their graduate studies, go on to a very broad range of careers in public service or the private sector.