Sentences with phrase «very public setting»

Tranen was designed by Henning Larsen Architects in the beginning of the 1980s as an ideal niche for the exhibition of contemporary art in a very public setting.

Praise one of those people, sincerely and specifically, in this very public setting.

As I express my gifts in very public settings, I'm putting myself in the midst of this battle on a weekly, if not daily, basis.

For precisely that reason I was unable to come to the rescue of my fellow geriatrics without getting into a very personal and very public set - to.

Not exact matches

Fruchter, Specter, and Yuan summed it up best, saying that even though some of the data was public, what could be inferred from the full data set could be «very sensitive.»

«Even though public universities are not affected by the endowment tax, they are very much opposed to it, for fear it would set a precedent that would be applied to them in the future,» Terry Hartle of the American Council on Education told NPR in December.

For me, the importance of setting very public targets was brought home last week, while helping put together a Fortune analysis of how nine of the biggest tech companies compare on diversity.

A year of hellish relations with aboriginal groups; a possibly fatal public - relations cloud over the Keystone project, based precisely on the Harper government's poor environmental record; serious opposition in Europe to any extension in Canada - EU relations at the very same time we're trying to negotiate a trade deal; and a set of controversies that still motivate NDP supporters and the NDP caucus today, another year closer to a federal election.

In an emailed statement, the company says it feels strategically sound: «We feel very confident around our product and growth strategy, it's not something we divulge in public settings — but our board and investors are very happy with where we're taking the company strategically.»

Outside of a very narrow set of institutions that are subject to compensation limits, just watch how much of the public's money - which benefitted several major investment banks following a very direct route - gets allocated to Wall Street bonuses in the next few weeks.

a set of values, beliefs, and structure in a person's life in order to give them direction and a sense of right and wrong is fine, but organized religions are no more than large corporations, and like any large corporation are only focused on their bottom line... trying to control the public and extract as much money as they can from them by any means necessary... promoting fear, uncertainty, hate and a sense that they alone can offer salvation... for a price (although they are very cleaver about getting to this hidden and unspoken cost... after all these hundreds of years they have perfected their craft well!)

The very laws and agencies set up to protect them from poor houses, starvation and medical negligence sweep them into a corner out of public view, where they are fed, housed and forgotten.

It is sufficient to note that he came from very humble origins — a carpenter's family in an obscure village; that he attracted no particular public attention during the first thirty years of his life; and that he then set forth to proclaim the advent of the «Kingdom of God» — the rule of God on earth which the prophets had said would be established by the Messiah.

The sportsbooks are doing a very good job of setting the right number and taking advantage of the public.

«The very idea of setting aside land for public good began with the creation of Boston Common in the 1630s.

Some of the very institutions that were set in place to protect and promote peace are the very ones violating their mandates and engendering fear in the public.

I'm very skeptical of most of the public voices who are loudly in favor of budget cuts now, because too many of them were the same people praising the Bush tax cuts that blew the deficit through the roof (nice work that, turning surplus into record - setting deficit in just a handful of years).

Shockingly, the UK political establishment looks poised to loosen further what already looks like a very lax fiscal regime, at a time not only of straitened public finances and austerity (and a high burden of personal taxation), but also of extraordinarily high petroleum prices (2011 was the first year in history when the international price of crude averaged over 100 dollars per barrel, 2012 was the second, 2013 the third, and 2014 looks dead set to be the fourth).

ALBANY — Good - government advocates are pinning their hopes for passage of substantial ethics and campaign finance reforms on very public examinations of alleged corruption set to take place over the next six months.

In an idea very similar to that proposed by Iain Duncan Smith, the public services policy group will say that parents should have the power to set up new schools to rival those of local education authorities:

By «submerged state» Mettler means a set of indirect government subsidies and benefits whose size and beneficiaries, indeed whose very existence, is largely invisible to the public.

A very large share of statutory language is a blueprint setting forth the structure and organizational (constitution - like) operating rules of a vast governmental bureaucracy, and don't impose either private law or public law obligations on any private individuals.

No - one really wanted to set out where the cuts will hit, and we had diversionary tactics such as talking about public sector pensions for the few very well paid public sector staff that won't make any real contribution to reducing the deficit.

«In my personal dealings with Andrew Cuomo we've been very careful to not set the stage for labor wars or, public verse private sector... discourse,» he said.

Donald Trump sets the bar very high, but the award for the worst public policy idea of the year goes to New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo.

BUFFALO, N.Y. — Buffalo has much to boast about these days, though most residents may not realize that two complete sets of the rare and treasured Folios of William Shakespeare — the very first printings of his transformative canon of plays — are held in public trust by the Buffalo & Erie County Public Library and the University at Bupublic trust by the Buffalo & Erie County Public Library and the University at BuPublic Library and the University at Buffalo.

«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.

Meanwhile Owen Smith, who challenged Corbyn for the leadership last year, said: «I think Jeremy has cut through with the reality that Labour offers a very different set of priorities and choices to the public in a way the previous Labour shadow administration didn't.»

He emphatically stated that it has therefore become necessary to set the records straight and also to admonish the officials of current government of Nana Addo to be very honest in their public dealings and also learn to give credit where it is due.

State Senator Rev. Ruben Diaz, Sr., sent out a press release this morning to «set the record straight» about his very public argument with fellow Senator Kevin Parker, of Brooklyn.

«It was striking that the trials were in very different settings, but yielded consistent results,» says Ronald Gray, study leader for the Uganda trial and epidemiologist at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in Baltimore.

After extensive conversations over the past several weeks with senior staff persons and key Members of Congress who serve on the congressional committees with jurisdiction over the bill, it has become clear that very few, if any, public health bills such as the SMA Treatment Acceleration Act will move through Congress during the lame - duck session set to begin on November 15.

And then they set up — very quickly to allay the fears of the public — something called the Ashby Commission.

Public gyms come with their unique set of benefits and flaws — they tend to be cheap overcrowded and offer just a bit more than the very basics, which can be a good thing if you're more on the traditional side.

Young guys are often very nervous about public displays of affection, so make sure the setting is comfortable for him.

As a sugar baby, be very careful in your choice of the meeting venue and at all cost, choose a public place and set the meeting during the day.

Next up is The Tree of Life, starring Brad Pitt, Sean Penn and Jessica Chastain, now set to receive its world premiere at the 64th Cannes Film Festival later this month after a very public fiasco between the film's respective UK and US distributors.

We're ten days away from Neighbors 2 unleashing itself on a public that may not be prepared for a sequel that very nearly lives up to the lofty standards that Neighbors set.

The muted reaction to the film, which has faded as far as the public is concerned (it presently boasts a very respectable 7.3 user rating on IMDb), did seem to set back Anderson's career and dull some of its luster.

The No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 included a provision that allowed parents to transfer students from «persistently dangerous» public schools, but many states have set the legal threshold so high that very few schools qualify.

What's most important to understand about the digital textbook effort is that it's an opportunity to open up a large amount of existing public money that has been locked into use by a very small and closed set of publishers.

He set about creating «a technical support and advisory group that would seek out the very best of these community leaders, give them the start - up funds and technical advice [finances, payroll system, health care program, implementing curriculum, relations with public authorities] they needed, and help them manage their own schools.»

At the time, the idea of setting public expectations for what schools ought to accomplish rather than regulating the practices of schools and teachers seemed a goal worth fighting for, but not one that was likely to be achieved very quickly.

The nation is very likely to be better served in the long term by public schools that afford students the opportunity to be exposed to peers from a diverse set of backgrounds.

The law very clearly and unambiguously sets forth the credentials that anyone must have before assuming the public office of Superintendent of Schools in any local and / or regional Connecticut School District.

States like Arizona where a high percentage of public schools are charter schools tend to attract the charter management organizations because they are very supportive of those schools coming in and setting up shop.»

The CCA data set provides actual enrollment numbers in three mutually exclusive groups — remedial math, remedial English, and remedial math and English — for three types of public institutions — two - year, four - year «very high research,» and other four - year institutions — for full and part - time students who are U.S. residents, as well as actual remedial rates for these groups based on actual enrollment.

«If you look at public education as a business - and with nearly $ 300 billion spent each year on K - 12 education, it's a very big business indeed - it would set off every antitrust alarm bell at the Department of Justice and the Federal Trade Commission... Who's better off?

Yet there has been very little discussion in a public setting about why this was the most appropriate course of action.

In the last few days, the new set of tougher math and English language standards for grades K - 12 has suffered a spate of bad publicity that could undermine its very purpose — and turn off an already skeptical public.