Sentences with phrase «without informing the public»

Silver now acknowledges that using government funds to settle a claim against an elected official without informing the public was wrong.

Not exact matches

The RFIs hint at changes desired by industry without providing enough detail to inform members of the public who do not have experience with the internal workings of the Bureau or the implications of the questions.

Shortly after this, it became public knowledge that our government was directly involved in the mining of Nicaraguan harbors, that the president had personally endorsed the project, and that it had been carried out without proper notification to the congressional committees that are entitled to be informed.

In either event, religious leaders and FBOs need to make informed decisions, neither rushing haphazardly into new public partnerships without weighing the pros and cons, nor simply dismissing such collaborations without any thought about what their social responsibilities might be.

It provides the charm of competence without any basis from the public to make an informed decision.

«In the light of this development, the Command wishes to inform all medical practitioners in Lagos state, that the Act demands that every hospital in Nigeria whether public or private shall accept or receive for immediate and adequate treatment with or without police clearance any person with a gunshot wounds.

This is why it is unconstitutional on the part of Koku Anyidoho and Kofi Adams to attack my person and assassinate my character without referencing the fact that I had previously refuted similar allegations in writing so that the public can make an informed assessment of their accusations against me.

He was also worried that the way people drive tainted V8 vehicles without being checked at police barriers and flagrantly flouting traffic rules, should inform the public that «we don't need a prophet to even come and prophesy to us that we are compromising our security».

This however would not deter efforts to continually discharge our duties of informing the public on the activities of the Nigerian Army without fear or favour.

To date, the Administration has undertaken a confusing process without the public health research necessary to make an informed decision.

Bleary - eyed legislators from both houses expressed optimism that they would be voting through the final bills Wednesday afternoon, but Cuomo emerged at 6 p.m. — without Democratic Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie or Republican Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan — to inform the public that there was no deal.

Scientists and others who hope to inform the public or spur action have long struggled with how to convey the high stakes of global warming without making people feel helpless or fueling deniers by coming across as alarmist.

Without a media environment that serves the public's need to be informed, connected and involved, our democracy and our society will suffer.

No movement in the history of our country has been able to achieve the scale and transformative change needed in public education without a powerful, informed grassroots movement pushing for it.

As Edwards argues, «An ill - informed public will benefit people who can push an agenda without accountability and public scrutiny.»

Abstract: This joint paper was conducted by Issues without Borders (IWB) and Citizens Rights Watch (CRW), non-governmental organisations with aim to raise awareness on the ongoing European refugee crisis, inform the public about the «IWB Refugee Project», the value of volunteering and ask you to join us and contribute to our efforts towards bringing a positive change and improve the human quality of life.

* «An ill - informed public will benefit people who can push an agenda without accountability and public scrutiny.»

These strategies involve 1) accurately informing the general public and the policy community regarding the condition of schools, that is, their financing, their achievement, and the relationship between the two; 2) conducting empirical research aimed at understanding issues of productivity in education; 3) informing policymakers and school managers regarding means by which budget cuts can be made without eviscerating instructional effectiveness; and 4) solving challenges to wider adoption of instructional technologies.

«Well - meaning but ill - informed expressions of policy, especially without the benefit of formal public comment from affected stakeholders, confuse rather than aid the legal landscape and make the work of schools and parents in ensuring students receive appropriate education needlessly difficult,» said Francisco M. Negrón, Jr., Associate Executive Director and General Counsel, National School Boards Association.

Forget about the hundreds of hours that children have already spent prepping or the absurd Common Core Smarter Balanced Assessment Field Test and forget that instead of informing towns that only 10 % of their students need serve as rat labs for this test, Malloy and Pryor decided that ALL Connecticut public school students should be used a guinea pigs — test subjects for a testing that will run from March through June — all without the approval of their parents.

Accountability should be enforced where the necessary resources are provided and the tools used to measure success or failure are well developed, appropriate to the task, and used to inform instructional decisions.School Choice School choice is appropriate within the public school system as long as equal opportunity and access are ensured without discrimination on the basis of race, gender, socioeconomic status, or disability.

This endangers the public welfare by allowing financial interests to exercise public policy without interference from an informed public.

The new initiative, Climate without Borders aims to serve as a platform to exchange information amongst weather presenters and to inform public at large.

It considered whether the provisions of the 1995 Data Protection Directive (hereafter: the Directive) preclude national measures which allow the data transfers between public bodies and subsequent data processing without informing the data subject of the transfer and processing.

Reporters Without BordersReporters Without Borders defends imprisoned journalists and press freedom throughout the world, as well as the right to inform the public and to be informed, in accordance with Article 19 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

This implies a free press and other media to comment on public issues without censorship or restraint and to inform public opinion.

«Some might say that the accused's admission to having consumed twice the legal limit of alcohol renders a suggestion of an involuntary drugging to be without merit in the big picture, but a victim's family, or an under - informed member of the public might not go on to enquire as to whether an involuntary drugging somehow rendered the alcohol consumption involuntary.

What the SCC did not decide was whether the Union's intended use of the personal information — to, among other things, post pictures of employees crossing the picketline on a website called www.casinoscabs.ca — was reasonably necessary to inform or persuade the public, and whether it was reasonable to collect the personal information without consent for this purpose.

• Collecting, without prior information, data concerning the browsing activity of Internet users who do not have a Facebook account, without informing Internet users that it sets a cookie on their terminal when they visit a Facebook public page (e.g., page of a public event or of a friend).

Without hesitation such perspectives are valuable because they inform directly on the «public» interest, not merely in its purest intent, but in terms of common sense, and a sense of independent input.

Police forces may also inform the public on their own initiative about accidents and offences without naming the persons involved (article 74 (2) SCP).

Lawyers are precluded under their codes of professional conduct from recording conversations with clients and other lawyers without informing them, but in a situation analogous to Shepherd's — where there is bullying, harassment, misrepresentation of the law and a power imbalance among parties — I'd be very tempted to record it anyway and take my chances with a discipline panel, the Court of Appeal and the court of public opinion.

EFF first launched its Street - Level Surveillance project in 2015 to help inform the public about the advanced technologies that law enforcement are deploying in our communities, often without any transparency or public process.

In addition, the class action suit contends the screening firm «also reported public record information to employers without informing consumers that such information was being reported and without maintaining strict procedures to assure that the public information that it reported was complete and up to date» as required by FCRA section 613.

Australia, together with other countries who accepted these treaty obligations, needs to «ensure that members of Indigenous peoples have equal rights in respect of effective participation in public life and that no decisions directly relating to their rights and interests are taken without their informed consent».

«to ensure that members of indigenous peoples have equal rights in respect of effective participation in public life, and that no decisions directly relating to their rights and interests are taken without their informed consent».

Recognize and respect indigenous distinct culture, history, language and way of life as an enrichment of the State's cultural identity and to promote its preservation... Ensure that members of indigenous peoples have equal rights in respect of effective participation in public life and that no decisions directly relating to their rights and interests are taken without their informed consent; (and) Ensure that indigenous communities can exercise their rights to practise and revitalize their cultural traditions and customs and to preserve and to practise their languages.

The CERD Committee's General Recommendation XXIII provides guidelines to a participatory approach to development, including the provision by State parties of conditions ensuring «equal rights in respect of effective participation in public life and that no decision directly relating to their rights and interests are taken without their informed consent» (25).

ensure that members of indigenous peoples have equal rights in respect of effective participation in public life, and that no decisions directly relating to their rights and interests are taken without their informed consent...

[19] The Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination, («CERD Committee») which assists in monitoring and implementing ICERD, has interpreted this to mean that Indigenous peoples have equal rights to effective participation in public life and that no decisions directly relating to their rights and interests should be taken without their informed consent.

(d) ensure that members of indigenous peoples have equal rights in respect of effective participation in public life and that no decisions directly relating to their rights and interests are taken without their informed consent

What NAR can do is the same thing we've always done in the face of a long line of business models offered to consumers to sell their homes without the use of a REALTOR ®: Undertake renewed efforts to remind the public, and to encourage and help members inform their clients and customers, of the value they bring to the real estate marketing and sales transaction, and the problems and risks sellers may encounter in marketing and selling their home without using a REALTOR ®.»

It's safe to say with accurate data and the assurance a realtor can bring to the selling / buying process you can almost never go wrong.The general public usually doesn't make major decisions without being highly informed on the choice they are about to make.