Sentences with phrase «undue political influence»

Ironically, the original idea behind creating the SES was to create a layer of top - level professional managers who could run the government and challenge undue political influence on implementing agency responsibilities under the law.

Challenging undue political influence is precisely what Clement is doing, and rightfully so.

«We applaud the courts for protecting our laws and regulations from undue political influence, and will ask the Court to shut down pipeline operations immediately,» Standing Rock Sioux Chairman Dave Archambault said in a statement.

The son of South Africa's president has resigned from a company owned by a family accused of wielding undue political influence in the country.

«While the County Executive refuses to answer the remaining questions about undue political influence affecting county operations, COMIDA board members have chosen to resign their volunteer posts rather than be dragged into the quicksand of this ethics disaster,» County Legislator Mark Muoio, D, said.

Mr. Lake alleged that the incidents infuriated local Republicans, who he claimed exercised undue political influence on the police department and Southold Town Board to advocate for his dismissal, according to the suit.

Most recently, she completed an investigation into alleged undue political influence by wealthy business contacts of President Jacob Zuma.

The wide disbursement of capital can not only help to correct the undue political influence of giant corporations and the rich, but it can also create a society in which there are more Amy's Pup - in - the - Tubs and more people have enough to make their own way in the world without being dependent simply on labor income or constrained by the circumstances of birth.

«I don't think there's been a single aspect of the way he's run the office that would reflect any undue political influence,» said E.J. McMahon of the Empire Center for Public Policy.

Each of its three centers (for research, statistics, and evaluation) would be headed by a presidential appointee also serving a fixed term and under statutory stricture to guarantee that agency activities were «free from ideological agendas and undue political influence.»