Sentences with phrase «high officials in»

High officials in the Communist Party have access to information that no one else sees, lower level officials have correspondingly less, but the common populace, ideally have none.

His investigations revealed that high officials in the U.S. Trust Territory of Palau were smuggling endangered species products from the Philippines to Palau and, contrary to U.S. law, they were also shipping sea turtles to Japan.

High officials in the palace possessed finely carved stone cylinders that they rolled over gobs of clay to seal doors, containers and documents [see illustration on next page].

Romney unlike Kennedy was and remains a high official in the Morman Church (he was presiding Bishop 1981 in the Boston stake when he was Gov. of Mass..

Another high official in the division disagrees.

A high official in Trinidad once entered upon a discussion of the virtues of hot pepper, and, like many another converted one, told the story of his conversion.

When Shinzo Abe visited Romania, some local analysts argued that this historical visit (first time visit from a Japanese high official in some of the countries) is related to US withdrawal from Trans - Pacific Partnership.

The Speaker of the New York State Assembly is the highest official in the New York State Assembly, customarily elected from the ranks of the majority party.

Not exact matches

«For electric vehicles in China, we have a new technology model every two years,» says Dong Yang, a high - ranking Communist Party official at the China Association of Automotive Manufacturers, the auto lobby.

However, several high - ranking officials in the British military do not agree, and spoke out against Trump's ban.

Malik is one of the highest - ranking biopharma officials to date named in the probe by dozens of state attorneys general for alleged price fixing; Mylan is strongly denying the claims.

As higher costs are passed on to consumers, supporters aim to put a dent in sales, as was the case in Berkeley, where according to public health officials retail purchases of sugar - sweetened beverages dropped nearly 10 % during the first year of that city's soda tax.

The meeting was held before Trump instructed officials to consider tariffs on an additional $ 100 billion in Chinese imports, bringing the value of the nation's products set for higher duties to about $ 150 billion.

There is no indication in the budget how these numbers are estimated, so I spoke to government officials, who indicated that these are «straight - line» estimates and do not take into account possible behavioural responses by these high income earners.

BEIJING — A high - powered U.S. delegation arrived in Beijing on Thursday for talks with Chinese officials on defusing tensions that are propelling the world's two largest economies toward a trade war.

The M142 High Mobility Artillery Rocket System (HIMARS) is no longer reserved for bombarding the bejesus out of ISIS militants in Syria from the cover of the war - torn country's rolling deserts: Marine Corps officials are experimenting with firing the guided artillery system from the deck of an amphibious ship in the middle of the ocean.

Consumer prices across the euro area reached a high not seen for almost four years, jumping 1.1 percent in December, official figures say.

Officials in London and Brussels are racing against a two - year deadline to make sure Britain has an orderly exit, but tensions are running high.

NAPA, Calif. (AP)-- Businesses in California's wine capital are mopping up thousands of dollars in high - end vintages and sweeping glass from ghostly downtown streets that officials hope will soon bustle again with tourists following the San Francisco Bay Area's strongest earthquake in 25 years.

The last official numbers show SoundCloud incurred a $ 51 million (# 45 million) loss in 2015, higher than the $ 39 million (# 35 million) loss it recorded in 2014.

A high - powered U.S. delegation arrived in Beijing for talks with Chinese officials aimed at defusing the tensions, though analysts say they appear unlikely to yield a breakthrough given the two sides» intensifying rivalry in strategic technologies, where China lags behind the U.S..

In fact, millions of people stand to see higher tax bills because of the elimination or curtailment of deductions such as one for state and local taxes, according to the Joint Committee on Taxation, the nonpartisan official scorekeeper for Congress.

In 1969, government officials noticed that 155 people with high incomes were legally using so many deductions and other tax breaks and that they were paying absolutely nothing in federal income taxeIn 1969, government officials noticed that 155 people with high incomes were legally using so many deductions and other tax breaks and that they were paying absolutely nothing in federal income taxein federal income taxes.

They will target the website and the high - profile people in [Olympic organizers, the organizing country or Olympic sponsors]... targeting high - ranking officials in government or media or sporting organizations, and they're going to use this platform in order to protest corruption or political corruption.»

A high - ranking EU official, who often attends Eurogroup meetings, told CNBC last week that having a common minister seems unlikely in the near term.

I wonder whether he also told Trump that Japan's high - ranking officials from foreign, defense and other government agencies were conducting consultations in Sendai, Japan last Thursday and Friday with their Chinese counterparts on contested maritime borders in the South China Sea.

This week, Federal Reserve officials signaled further interest rate increases in 2018 based on evidence of steady U.S. growth, while the heads of the ECB and the Bank of England seemed in no rush to push rates higher in the wake of disappointing economic data out of Britain and Europe.

In his job as an activist at the Center for Popular Democracy, Barkan led a successful effort to get Fed officials thinking more about low - income Americans as they conduct monetary policy, often arguing against interest rate hikes in the face of high underemployment and weak wage growtIn his job as an activist at the Center for Popular Democracy, Barkan led a successful effort to get Fed officials thinking more about low - income Americans as they conduct monetary policy, often arguing against interest rate hikes in the face of high underemployment and weak wage growtin the face of high underemployment and weak wage growth.

In his report, the IG found that complaints about sexual harassment, in many cases perpetrated by high - ranking officials, have increased over the last five years, have been consistently mishandled across the country, and require «high level action.&raquIn his report, the IG found that complaints about sexual harassment, in many cases perpetrated by high - ranking officials, have increased over the last five years, have been consistently mishandled across the country, and require «high level action.&raquin many cases perpetrated by high - ranking officials, have increased over the last five years, have been consistently mishandled across the country, and require «high level action.»

In 1997, US officials said there were more cartel operatives than ever in South Florida and levels of cocaine coming into the area were higher than eveIn 1997, US officials said there were more cartel operatives than ever in South Florida and levels of cocaine coming into the area were higher than evein South Florida and levels of cocaine coming into the area were higher than ever.

Emails anonymously provided to Chevron may show a «conspiracy against Chevron,» the oil giant claims, as well as leaks of confidential court materials to high - level Ecuadorian government officials in violation of court orders

At the last minute however, he says an academy official realized that Frazier had skipped two grades in school, and was therefore graduating from high school at 16.

Trump has pointed to Flynn's security clearance renewal in January 2016 as evidence that high - level officials once trusted Flynn.

US officials also believe that Chapo Isidro was previously a high - ranking leader of the Beltrán Leyva Organization (BLO) and was considered the «right hand man» of Alfredo Beltrán Leyva, who was arrested in 2008 and sentenced to life in prison in the United States earlier this year.

Long known for its wood sticks (and official game pucks), Sher - wood has only a small share of the high - end composite market and knew it would make little sense to launch a me - too product in a category that Bauer and CCM dominate.

The U.S. lawsuits said funds misappropriated from 1MDB were transferred to the co-founder of Petrosaudi, a company that had a joint venture with 1MDB, and thereafter to a high - ranking official in the Malaysian government it identified only as «Malaysian Official Oneofficial in the Malaysian government it identified only as «Malaysian Official OneOfficial One.»

LONDON, Jan 24 - Gold prices hit the highest in more than five months on Wednesday after a U.S. official welcomed a weaker dollar and investors sought insurance against uncertainty.

The CIA concluded last month that hackers directed by high - level Russian officials worked to interfere in the 2016 US presidential election to help Trump win.

LONDON, Jan 24 - Gold prices hit the highest in more than four months on Wednesday after a U.S. official welcomed a weaker dollar and investors sought insurance against uncertainty.

LONDON, Jan 24 (Reuters)- Gold prices hit the highest in more than four months on Wednesday after a U.S. official welcomed a weaker dollar and investors sought insurance against uncertainty.

Shulkin's job of overseeing the nation's biggest integrated health - care system was widely considered to be hanging by a thread, along with that of other high - level officials in the Trump administration.

But Tesla is in the midst of meeting potential partners from different Chinese cities, according to one high - level official from China's auto lobby who spoke to Fortune.

While New Zealand's official cash rate is already at a record - low 2 % after the latest cut in August, it is still the highest in the developed world — a major draw for yield - hungry investors and a complication for the central bank as a higher kiwi further dampens imported - led inflation.

So Trump's tax return could tell how much income they made, offering fresh information about the financial health of his organization, according to Robert Kovacev, a lawyer at Steptoe & Johnson and former Justice Department Tax Division official who represents taxpayers in high - profile tax disputes with the IRS.

A high - ranking North Korean official appeared to have arrived by train in Beijing, Japanese media reported.

Asked for the rationale behind these decisions, an OCC official explained that regulators deemed the potential for error higher in cases where the servicer actually denied a request.

Before Comey tapped him to lead the Richmond office in 2014, he was section chief of the Public Corruption and Civil Rights Section, investigating some of the highest profile cases against government officials and civil rights violations in recent years.

But while the Post describes the jail as «notorious,» the BBC has reported in the past that high - ranking officials enjoy a number of perks at the luxury prison, including TVs and being able to wear their own clothes.

China's Sinopec, Asia's largest refiner, plans to cut Saudi crude oil imports loading in May by 40 percent after national oil company Saudi Aramco set higher - than - expected prices, an official from the company's trading arm Unipec said.

According to the Democrats» memo, the DOJ provided the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court with «contemporaneous evidence» of Russia's interference in the 2016 election; information about «concerning Russian links and outreach to Trump campaign officials,»; Page's history with Russia - linked individuals and entities; and Page's «suspicious activities in 2016,» including those during a trip he took to Moscow in July of that year, during which he met with high - ranking Russian officials.