Main supporters of the approval include the President's PLN, which has established a coalition with PUSC and ML in Congress to approve the implementation laws in Congress, as well as different business chambers, while the main opposition to CAFTA comes from PAC, labor unions, environmental organizations and public universities.

A critical turning point comes when the King decides not to give money to a man who has committed theft but instead to cut off his head and also to carry out this punishment in a particularly cruel and humiliating manner, parading him in public to the sound of drums as he is taken to the execution ground outside the city.

The original phrase " the common-wealth " or " the common weal " ( echoed in the modern synonym " public weal ") comes from the old meaning of " wealth ," which is " well-being ", and is itself a loose translation of the Latin res publica ( republic ).

They argue that some, if not all, of the cost difference between public and private schools comes from a process known as cream skimming — selecting only those students that belong to a preferred economic, religious, or ethnic group — rather than from differences in administration.

For instance, the fact that most of the government revenues comes from oil and gas, and not from general taxes, might affect fiscal responsibility, public expenditure might be more inefficient and institutions might be weaker.

** The Interstate Commerce Commission's federal order banning segregation at all interstate public facilities officially comes into effect.

The term free rider comes from the example of someone using public transportation without paying the fare.

The software generally comes on specially marked MSDN discs, but contains the identical retail or volume-license software as it is released to the public.

A similar problem can also be seen in Eastern Europe, for example in Romania, where the government is often accused of patronage ( when a new government comes to power it rapidly changes most of the officials in the public sector ).

Beginning on July 27, 2007, a disclaimer was added to each bottle of Aquafina, stating the water comes from a " public source ".

In fact, a good deal of the tension in their relationship comes from Hacker's awareness that the politicians are liable to lose their jobs if civil service ineptitude comes to public attention.

The city has a large community sector and much support for the city comes from the public.

“ Prisoners are roused from bed at 5: 30 am, and at 6: 00 the zhiban from the kitchen wheels in a cart with tubs of corn gruel and cornbread … at 7: 00 the company public security cadre ( captain ) comes in, gathers all the prisoners together, and authorizes any sick prisoners to remain in the barracks.

Arnis comes from arnes, old Spanish for harness or armor ( harness is also an archaic English term for armor with the same roots ), which is what the costumes worn during Moro-moro ( MorosSIS y Cristianos ) stage plays were called when practitioners disguised their art as merely stage fight choreography for public entertainment under the Spaniards ' noses.

The type of choking most commonly recognized as such by the public is the lodging of foreign objects ( also known as foreign bodies, but consisting of any object which comes from outside the body itself, including food, toys or household objects ) in the airway.

Although some funding comes from the federal government, public education is almost entirely funded and controlled individually by state and local governments and school districts.

At a public house, Jof comes across Raval.

") However, the reference to cookie baking more likely comes from an unrelated remark by Hillary Clinton: " I suppose I could have stayed home and baked cookies and had teas, but what I decided to do was to fulfill my profession which I entered before my husband was in public life.

The narrator befriends him and comes up with a plan to introduce him to the public in such a way that they will accept him, so he will not need to spend his life in concealment.

Any means by which the general public comes into contact with a specific brand constitutes a touchpoint that can affect perceptions of the corporate brand.

* One of the top 50 public universities in the country when it comes to offering academic excellence at an affordable price — Kiplinger's Personal Finance, 2006

Government pension payments are financed through an 18. 5 % pension tax on all taxed incomes in the country, which comes partly from a tax category called a public pension fee ( 7 % on gross income ), and 30 % of a tax category called employer fees on salaries ( which is 33 % on a netted income ).

The incoming call comes in from the public network ( A ) and comes into the PBX.

Unfortunately, it was Muzak, which automatically is piped into the public rooms, and which nolens volens had to be endured.

Let me then ( and in public ) glance into the mirror.

President Kennedy, already two quiet demands down, still refused Thursday to be drawn into delivering a public ultimatum to Moscow.

The element of public danger which enters so largely into architectural certification, however, would demand a prolonged study of structure.

It quite often happens that campaigns go askew, resulting in a most unflattering deterioration of strong hands into played-out hands, just as a member of a former campaign's `` public '' may emerge flatteringly `` right '' the next time.

All of this must be taken into account before the image of an `` all-Negro '' D.C. public school system is conjured up.

Nevertheless, with a reading public that longs for the `` good old days '' and with an awareness of our expanding international interests, it is easy for the Benets to obtain a magnified position in literature by use of all sorts of Americana, real or fake, and it is easy for the Steinbecks and Sandburgs to support their messages of reform by reading messages of reform into the minds of the folk.

Henry stormed into Giffen's office waving a copy of the New Orleans Courier, shouting that the emancipation scheme had become a public affair, and that it would reach the `` Ears of the People on the Plantation, and make them restless & unhappy ''.

) The sorry fact about this young man, who was barely of age when he broke into major-league baseball, was that he really was a better ball player than he was given credit for being -- never so good as he claimed, and always an irritant to his associates, but a good steady performer when he could fight down the temptation to orate on his skills or cut up in public.

Barnett, who came into office with no previous experience in public administration, has surrounded himself with confusion which not only keeps his foes guessing but his friends as well.

The public atmosphere that has been generated which makes acceptance of this law a possibility stems from the disrepute into which the labor movement has fallen as a result of Mr. McClellan's hearings into corruption in labor-management relations and, later, into the jurisdictional squabbles that plagued industrial relations at the missile sites.

they put much effort into public housing.

For a number of years, Wesleyan has been drawing varied groups of political and business leaders into these informal discussions with members of the faculty and student body, attempting to explore and clarify aspects of their responsibility for public policy.

He spoke through the public address box built into the cabin, and his gigantic voice roared out over the empty plain, so that the pink herd of talking people stirred gently in their happiness and wondered what their friend B'dikkat might be wanting to tell them.

The Armenian government ’ s stated efforts to strengthen and reform the military are called into question by continuing non-combat deaths and other violent incidents in the army ranks, which have come under greater public scrutiny in 2010.

A later senatorial investigation into the disappearance of the public funds made no action against Octavian, since he subsequently used that money to raise troops against the Senate's arch enemy, Mark Antony.

The French Revolution ( 1787 – 99 ) that began during his youth was also influential: Ampère ’ s father was called into public service by the new revolutionary government, becoming a justice of the peace in a small town near Lyon.

Dionysius of Halicarnassus exhorts us to " Observe in Alcaeus the sublimity, brevity and sweetness coupled with stern power, his splendid figures, and his clearness which was unimpaired by the dialect ; and above all mark his manner of expressing his sentiments on public affairs ," while Quintilian, after commending Alcaeus for his excellence " in that part of his works where he inveighs against tyrants and contributes to good morals ; in his language he is concise, exalted, careful and often like an orator ;" goes on to add: " but he descended into wantonnness and amours, though better fitted for higher things.

Nikephoros III Botaneiates was forced into a public vow that he would grant protection to the family.

In the 5th century public slaves forming a cordon with a red-stained rope herded citizens from the agora into the assembly meeting place ( Pnyx ), with a fine being imposed on those who got the red on their clothes.

The ACT public education system schooling is normally split up into Pre-School, Primary School ( K-6 ), High School ( 7 – 10 ) and College ( 11 – 12 ) followed by studies at university or TAFE.

They undermine the procedural values of accuracy and public confidence in accuracy and fairness, by convicting innocent defendants and creating the perception that innocent defendants are being pressured into pleading guilty.

When a senatus consultum was passed, it would be transcribed into a document, and deposited in the public treasury, the Aerarium.