To be sure, setting the price and use of curbside space is an essentially public function.
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Then last month, a man took court action against the Hollywood star, Richard Gere, for kissing his Bollywood counterpart, Shilpa Shetty, at a public function.
Sites like this serve an important public function.
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In continually seeking to innovate and show initiative, many 4-star admirals and generals are more often seeking media advice directly from newly-created "strategic communication cells" consisting of civilians of varying age, experience and skill levels who seek to "influence" audiences, while minimizing traditional roles of career military public affairs staffs who function to "inform" the public.
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But is there life beyond their public-facing function as the corporate mouthpiece and information hub?
It is important to remember that many people with special needs depend on public services to function to their highest potential.
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We have to have impartial panels of professional police because without that and without the trust of the general public, they cannot function.
Much of the money goes into maintaining some 90 public corporations whose main function these days is to provide cushy retirement jobs for officials.
"Our objective is to restore the viability of banks receiving aid so that they are able to function without public support in the future, " the European Competition Commissioner Joaquin Almunia said.
The local currency is worthless, so swathes of public services have ceased to function.
It is portrayed as mostly a function of the public disdain for more European bailouts.
Though his firm succeeded in part through stunts, Mr. Edelman conceived of public relations as an overarching information function of which advertising was a subset.
But the Merc couldn't function like the typical public company.
"For us to function effectively on behalf of the public there has to be mutual confidence within the Treasury team, and there can be no breach of trust between a Minister and his political members, " he added.
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But once it became public knowledge that part of the office's function was, allegedly, to sow deliberate misinformation to confound our adversaries, President Bush and his secretary of defense, Donald Rumsfeld, backed off as if someone had handed them a dead rat.
But the the position statement also said that hospital departments must be adequately staffed and that the public and policy makers needed to value "the unique function of the nurse and nursing".
An image search of "Italian piazza" will return pictures of complete streets that have been around for millennia, and still function today as some of the most vibrant public places in the world.
Public pronouncements crowd out private opinions, and the market ceases to function as a way of aggregating and revealing diverse, private judgments of the world.
If you believe the purpose of government is in large part the provision and management of public goods in other words, if you believe its function should reside in a place above any one individual or even a small coalition of individuals then you immediately see the disconnect.
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The centre, which opens to the public on Thursday, will include a cinema, education, conference and function centre, improved access to the burial mounds, a restaurant and shop.
So it is ironic that the Rifkind version specifies that one function of the Foreign Office is to inform Parliament and the public about the government's foreign policy.
The focus of regulation must be assault weapons, and their accessories which have no function in sport or self-defense in the hands of the public.
The essential function of jurors is to act as witnesses to justice and to confirm the public's recognition of the mechanisms of the law.
"If the world's public health community does not correct this trend, the ability of many health systems to function will be seriously jeopardised, " it says.
For Reagan, the law not only deterred abuse and waste, but was consistent with conservative principles since it essentially privatized a government function and harnessed private sector free market incentives to fight fraud and provide a public good.
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It is the function of the House to be the closest institution in the federal government to the public.
As a startup founder who handled the public relations in-house for my own business as well as someone who plays the outsourced function to other founder teams, I can identify with each perspective.
What to say about a president whose remarkable ability to function under self-imposed pressure seems to enhance his ability to inspire confidence in the public.
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