Sentences with phrase «obama earlier this year set»

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Obama set López Rivera's incarceration to expire 34 years early on May 17, one of 209 pardons he issued before leaving office — a move Mayor Bill de Blasio defended.

We were spurred into action when the Augustine commission, a blue - ribbon panel that President Barack Obama set up earlier that year to review the space shuttle and its intended successor, reported that «the U.S. human spaceflight program appears to be on an unsustainable trajectory.»

Earlier this year, when the Obama Administration announced a set of proposals that would stop the flow of federal funds to career - training colleges that couldn't show that they were adequately preparing students for gainful employment, critics said that for - profit colleges were being unfairly targeted, and that low - income and nontraditional students would lose opportunity.