Sentences with phrase «several members of the commission»

«Several members of the Commission (district attorneys and a law school dean) issued personal statements to correct the public record.

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The same month the offices of the Mothers of the Disappeared were bombed and several members of the Non-Governmental Human Rights Commission received death threats.

And 32 - year - old Mikhail Mikhailov, an accomplished water colorist, advertised his talents at local yacht clubs and received several hundred dollars» worth of commissions to paint pictures of members» houses and their boats.

Commission member Ben Weese, who was chairman of the permit committee, said that Park District officials had worked with Logan Square residents over several months on an aesthetically appropriate design and, given that the changes are reversible, said that it was a «noble experiment» worth pursuing.

Indeed, representatives of Quazar had several meetings and workshops with senior staff and members of the Commission.

Commission members, Cuomo and legislative leaders are negotiating to craft a new package of ethics laws that would include some parts of an anticorruption bill known as the Public Trust Act that the governor proposed after several corruption cases involving state lawmakers.

Mr. Bharara is also reportedly investigating Mr. Cuomo: after several former members of the Moreland Commission publicly defended its work (in coordination with Mr. Cuomo's office), Mr. Bharara warned Mr. Cuomo not to tamper with witnesses.

The governor says he did speak to several members of the Moreland commission, and they agreed to release personal statements that he said corrected «inaccuracies» that were in the initial New York Times report on the controversy.

Briffault, the author of several dozen law review articles on campaign finance law and local government, has been a member of several commissions dealing with state and local governance.

Several Republican members of the legislature favor impeaching the governor, but Harrell said he would avoid talking about possible impeachment charges until the State Ethics Commission concludes its recently - launched investigation into Sanford's travel expenses.

In August 2014 — following the release of a long investigative piece by the New York Times that detailed the administration's interactions with the panel — the Times Union reported that Percoco had urged several of the defunct Moreland Commission's members to issue statements supporting the governor's narrative that it had operated independently.

In August 2014, the Times Union reported that Percoco, then serving as Cuomo's campaign manager, privately contacted several former members of a statewide anti-corruption commission and encouraged them to issue public statements supporting the governor and affirming the panel's independence.

But several members of the Democrat - dominated chamber spoke up against the governor, blaming him for meddling in a commission that legislators expected would recommend the first increase in their $ 79,500 base pay since 1998.

Mr. Bharara also warned Mr. Cuomo last week about possible witness tampering after several former members of the Moreland Commission publicly defended the governor in an effort coordinated by Mr. Cuomo's office.

On Wednesday, the seven - member state Commission on Judicial Compensation, a panel formed to rule on the issue of pay hikes, heard from several witnesses at a hearing in the Legislative Office Building.

That description directly contradicts several things, including the fact that the panel was named «The Commission to Investigate Public Corruption,» and that 10 of its 25 members were sitting district attorneys.

New York City Councilwoman Helen Foster, nominated by Cuomo to head the state's Human Rights Commission, had the worst attendance record of any council member and flunked the bar exam several times, the Post's Fred Dicker reports: http://bit.ly/19b7g2L Continue reading →

Several members of the recently - appointed National Commission on Forensic Science have commented on the need for further analysis.

In a 14 December letter to NASA's inspector general, he said that several Augustine panel members were registered lobbyists who took «direct advantage of their temporary roles on the Commission to further their personal business.»

RTI staff worked closely with several of the Board members including the Environmental Defense Fund, the North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality, the U.S. Geological Survey, the North Carolina Wildlife Resources Commission, and The Nature Conservancy to develop a scientific basis for establishing the prescribed ecological flows.

It is member of several High - Level Groups of the European Commission, Observer to the ERA - CAPS, Founding member of the Initiative for Science in Europe, the Plants for the Future ETP and the Global Plant Council.

She has over 90 academic publications and has held several leadership and advisory positions, including Chair of the Gordon Conference on Science and Technology Policy, Secretary and Council Member of the Society for Risk Analysis, the European Commission Expert Group for Science in Society and the EU's «SYNTH - ETHICS» project, the FDA Blood Products Advisory Committee, and the UN WHO - FAO Expert Group for Agrifood Nanotechnology.

Building on our distinction as a non-partisan, research - driven organization, Raise Your Hand in advance of the 84th Legislative Session conducted or commissioned several research pieces — all of which were made available for download on our website, and distributed to members of the legislature, policy influencers, and stakeholder groups.

They include Kai - ming Cheng, a professor at Hong Kong University who has been a member of the Hong Kong Education Commission, is intimately familiar with the Shanghai reforms and was recently appointed to the China State Advisory Committee on Curriculum Reform; Tom Corcoran, Co-director of the Consortium for Policy Research in Education at Columbia University and an early observer of the work of the Shanghai Municipal Education Commission; Ben Jensen, a principal at the Grattan Institute in Melbourne, Australia, whose research on several aspects of the Shanghai system have drawn the notice of many observers; Vivien Stewart, Senior Advisor to Asia Society for education, and earlier, to the United Nations, who has been visiting, observing and leading delegations to China for more than a decade; and Minxuan Zhang, President of Shanghai Normal University and deputy director of the Shanghai Education Commission.

I recently joined several of my urban teacher colleagues, who are members of the Connecticut Education Association's Ethnic Minority Affairs Commission, and met with representatives of the Connecticut African - American Affairs Commission and state lawmakers who are members of the Black and Puerto Rican Caucus.

A statement from the Directorate General for Competition read: «The European Commission can confirm that on 1 March 2011 Commission officials initiated unannounced inspections at the premises of companies that are active in the e-book (electronic or digital books) publishing sector in several Member States.

As a member of the digital commission of the French national publisher association, I participate to actions for helping small and medium publishers to enter into the ebook market and for negotiating several public regulation projects concerning eBooks.

Interactive Brokers LLC is a registered Broker - Dealer, Futures Commission Merchant and Forex Dealer Member, regulated by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) and the National Futures Association (NFA), and is a member of the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) and several other self - regulatory organizaMember, regulated by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) and the National Futures Association (NFA), and is a member of the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) and several other self - regulatory organizamember of the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) and several other self - regulatory organizations.

Many members of the community landed their first commission, and several beat their previous commissions records by orders of magnitude.

He is a board member of the Museum Association of New York, has chaired the Visual Arts Panel of the New York State Council on the Arts, and serves on several advisory committees including Cranbrook Academy National Advisory Committee, Artist Advisory Board of the Fabric Workshop and Museum, and Saratoga Springs Arts Commission among other regional and national arts organizations.

Dr. Hilgert is a member of several governing bodies and advisory boards, including the German National Commission for Unesco, the foundation board of the International Alliance for the Protection of Heritage in Conflict Areas, the advisory group of the British Council's Cultural Protection Fund, and the Disaster Risk Management Committee of the International Council of Museums.

She has been a member of several international committees including the International Global Atmospheric Chemistry (IGAC), International Commission of Clouds and Precipitation (ICCP), Aerosol - Cloud - Precipitation - Climate (ACPC) Initiative of the International Global Biosphere Programme (IGBP) and a membe of the Joint Scietific Committee of the World Research Climate Programme (WCRP).

The meeting took place 6 days before the fatal quake struck, and in 2012, Judge Marco Billi ruled that the commission members carried out a «superficial, approximate and generic» risk analysis, and that they made a number of reassuring statements that led 29 of the quake's 309 victims to remain indoors at the time of the disaster, despite the occurrence of two moderate tremors several hours beforehand....

It may come as no surprise therefore that the legal issue over who is competent to conclude such agreements (the EU alone, or the EU together with the Member States) has received considerable public attention, ensuring that the Advocate General Sharpston's response to the Commission's request for an Opinion (Opinion 2/15) on the conclusion of the EU - Singapore FTA (EUSFTA) has made the headlines of several European newspapers.

One such trend that was popular several years ago was an effort to expand gubernatorial authority over the process, by allowing the governor to choose more members of the judicial nominating commission and giving the governor more nominees from which to make appointments.

The European Commission (EC) has carried out dawn raids in several Member States at the premises of companies active in the distribution of media rights, and related rights pertaining to sports events and / or their broadcasting.

The Runciman Royal Commission on Criminal Justice (1991 — 93), of which I was a member, adopted several.

Several groups of which Legal Aid is a member or with which we work closely — the D.C. Access to Justice Commission, the D.C. Consortium of Legal Services Providers, the D.C. Bar Pro Bono Center, and the Washington Council of Lawyers — submitted comments seeking changes to the rule, which had needlessly prevented competent lawyers affiliated with legal services organizations from offering free legal assistance to low - income clients.

Among the several former members of China Securities Regulatory Commission (CSRC) who were detained, only three were in charge of IPO - related issues for Leshi Internet Information & Technology Corp, a listed arm of LeEco, and were not under investigation because of Leshi's IPO, Jia told Lengjing, an investigative financial news program owned by Tencent Holdings.

After spending more than 10 years on the NCRW Certification Commission (evaluating certification and exam submissions), since 2006 I have served as a member of the NCRW Advisory Board comprised of several top experts nationwide, collaborating in evaluating best practices and setting quality standards for resume writers nationwide.