Sentences with phrase «special committee against»

She is the recipient of numerous awards, grants, and artist residencies, including a Fulbright Senior Research Fellowship andtwo Fulbright Senior Specialist grants as well as grants from the Ford Foundation, the Mid-Atlantic Arts Foundation and the United Nations Special Committee Against Apartheid.

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Forming a special committee to investigate the allegations against Mr. Wynn was necessary.

Chairman Nunes» decision, supported by House Speaker Ryan and Republican Members of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, to publicly release misleading allegations against the Department of Justice and Federal Bureau of Investigation is a shameful effort to discredit these institutions, undermine the Special Counsel's ongoing investigation, and undercut congressional probes.

«Chairman Nunes» decision, supported by House Speaker Ryan and Republican Members of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, to publicly release misleading allegations against the Department of Justice and Federal Bureau of Investigation is a shameful effort to discredit these institutions, undermine the Special Counsel's ongoing investigation, and undercut congressional probes,» the committee's Democrats said in a sCommittee on Intelligence, to publicly release misleading allegations against the Department of Justice and Federal Bureau of Investigation is a shameful effort to discredit these institutions, undermine the Special Counsel's ongoing investigation, and undercut congressional probes,» the committee's Democrats said in a scommittee's Democrats said in a statement.

Recently, a group of UN experts, among whom the Special Rapporteur on the Right to Health and the Committee on the Rights of the Child, have reiterated that these obligations, including protection against misleading marketing, constitute an integral part of States» human rights obligations.

Mr Martin Amidu, President Akufo - Addo's nominee for the office of the Special prosecutor has told Parliament's Appointments Committee that all the allegations he levelled against former President Mahama and the NDC before the 2016 election were based on perception not reality.

In 2011, Watch ran for state Committee member against Councilman Halloran — who withdrew at the last minute — and was substituted by Dr. Anthony Daddiego, a special education teacher who won the state committeeman position outright.

But when Mr. Donovan fought for the turf against Democratic Councilman Vincent Gentile in a special election last May, the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee and the House Majority PAC — which share a mission of of turning red districts blue — refused to get involved.

Here in Kingston, Mayor Steve Noble sent a letter to the Coast Guard last month objecting to the proposed anchorages, and the Common Council's General Government / Public Safety Committee plans to hold a special meeting at which it will propose and issue a resolution against the anchorages.

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — Staten Island Democrats still do not have a candidate to run in the special election for Congress against Republican District Attorney Daniel Donovan, even after the Democratic executive committee interviewed three prospective candidates Wednesday night.

But the APC, the Special Assistant to the President on Prosecutions, Chief Okoi Obono - Obla; and the Chairman, Presidential Advisory Committee Against Corruption, Prof. Itse Sagay (SAN), berated the PDP for saying that the President Muhammadu Buhari administration destroyed the independence of the anti-graft agencies.

A special committee of the Ulster County Legislature has called on the Catskill Mountain Railroad to drop its suit against the county in exchange for the county abandoning its effort to immediately terminate its lease with the railroad.

So embittered was Hackett that he refused pleas from Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee Chairman Rahm Emanuel (Ill.) to run for the 2nd District House seat against Rep. Jean Schmidt, whom Hackett had nearly beaten in an August 2005 special election.

«The Committee, after the hearings and the analysis and evaluation of the evidence adduced before it has come to the conclusion that there is no merit in the allegations levelled against the Ministry of Trade and Industry as contained in the motion and which culminated in the setting up of the Special Committee,» concluded the committee'Committee, after the hearings and the analysis and evaluation of the evidence adduced before it has come to the conclusion that there is no merit in the allegations levelled against the Ministry of Trade and Industry as contained in the motion and which culminated in the setting up of the Special Committee,» concluded the committee'Committee,» concluded the committee'committee's report.

The special election pitting Tedisco against Murphy is a priority for both parties: On Monday, the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committees paid for an ad for Murphy, while former Republican presidential candidate Rudy Giuliani hit the trail with Tedisco in upstate New York.

According to a statement by his Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity, Mr. Laolu Akande, the Vice-President spoke while granting audience to a delegation of the Presidential Advisory Committee Against Corruption led by its Chairman, Prof. Itse Sagay, at the Presidential Villa, Abuja.

A special committee of the Ulster County Legislature has called on the Catskill Mountain Railroad to drop its suit against

«When you've spent 30 years... teaching special education students, it's kind of a head - scratcher to see the state teachers» political action committee spending money against you.»

(CNN)- A special House committee in South Carolina will formally consider an impeachment resolution against Gov. Mark Sanford for the first time next Tuesday, the Republican chairman of the committee told CNN Friday.

In Formal Opinion 477, the Ethics Committee went one step further, concluding that «a lawyer may be required to take special security precautions to protect against the inadvertent or unauthorized disclosure of client information when required by an agreement with the client or by law, or when the nature of the information requires a higher degree of security.»

In 2014, Amnesty presented a report to the Special Parliamentary Committee on Violence Against Indigenous Women entitled Violence against Indigenous Women and Girls in Canada: A Summary of Amnesty International's Concerns and Call to Against Indigenous Women entitled Violence against Indigenous Women and Girls in Canada: A Summary of Amnesty International's Concerns and Call to against Indigenous Women and Girls in Canada: A Summary of Amnesty International's Concerns and Call to Action.

The UN Committee against Torture concluded in 2002 that the state of emergency was «hindering the full consolidation of the rule of law in Egypt» and recommended that Egypt» [e] liminate all forms of administrative detention,» a position echoed most recently in October 2010 by Special Rapporteur Martin Scheinin in his report on his mission to Egypt.

Mr. Lowell has been counsel to the US House of Representatives twice, most recently when he was Chief Minority Counsel during impeachment proceedings against President Clinton and before that as special ethics counsel to the House Committee of Standards of Official Conduct (Ethics Committee).

Born 1950; lawyer (1974 - 80); law degree from the University of Athens (1973); diploma of advanced studies (DEA) in labour law from the University of Paris II, Panthéon - Sorbonne (1977); national expert with the Legal Service of the Commission of the European Communities (1988 - 1990), then Principal Administrator in Directorate General V (Employment, Industrial Relations, Social Affairs)(1990 - 1994); Junior Officer, Junior Member and, since 1999, Member of the Greek Council of State; Associate Member of the Superior Special Court of Greece; Member of the Central Legislative Drafting Committee of Greece (1996 - 98); Director of the Legal Service in the General Secretariat of the Greek Government (1996 - 1998); Judge at the General Court of the European Union (1998 to 2010, President of Chamber from 2004 to 2010); Member of the Supreme Council for Administrative Justice (2011 - 2012); Member of the Special Court for Disputes relating to the Remuneration of Judges and of the Special Court for Actions against Judges (2013 - 2014); Member of the Advisory Panel of Experts on Candidates for Election as Judge to the European Court of Human Rights (2014 - 2015); Member of the Committee responsible for giving an Opinion on Candidates» Suitability to perform the Duties of Judge at the European Union Civil Service Tribunal (2012 - 2015); Lecturer in European Law at the National School for the Judiciary (1995 - 1996 and 2012 - 2015); Judge at the Court of Justice since 7 October 2015.

At an Emirate level, the Dubai Legal Affairs Department is entrusted as well of regulating the profession and has a special committee that oversees any complaints filed against legal consultants and advocates.

The practice's recent representations include: (i) CONMEBOL in connection with U.S. criminal investigations and prosecutions into allegations of bribery and corruption in the international soccer world; (ii) the Special Committee of Banco BTG Pactual S.A. («BTG Pactual») in an internal investigation of alleged corruption involving its former CEO and other bank executives, in which we found no basis to support the allegations against the Bank and its employees; (iii) two of the largest construction companies in Brazil in potential civil and criminal investigations and litigation involving the Petrobras bribery scandal (Lava Jato), the largest corruption scandal in Latin American history, involving allegations of over $ 2.5 billion in bribes and kickbacks; (iv) the Government of Brazil in a corruption matter involving former senior government officials and multiple jurisdictions; (v) the General Manager of one of the largest energy companies in Central America in connection with allegations of bribery in Guatemala; (vi) a Mexican high - ranking executive for Wal - Mart Stores, Inc. in connection with DOJ and SEC FCPA investigations against Wal - Mart; (vii) a large Argentinean oil company and its owner, one of Argentina's wealthiest individuals, in connection with high - profile DOJ and SEC investigations involving alleged FCPA violations to secure an extension of oil rights in an Argentinean oilfield; (viii) the United State's largest chemical and industrial products companies in an internal investigation of alleged corruption involving its Mexican subsidiary; (ix) the Rosenthal family, one of the most prominent families in Central America, in a number of related criminal matters; and (x) a senior executive of one of Venezuela's largest engineering companies in DOJ investigations into corruption and money laundering involving PdVSA.

[362] The court further noted that the disciplinary process against Dr. Wang changed; it evolved from a code of conduct committee investigating a particular complaint relating to specific confidentiality issues to a special committee generally investigating, without a complaint, the conduct of Dr. Wang in her capacity as director and officer.

As the political executive remains stagnated to dig into the irregularities by insurance companies in demanding exaggerated claims against the exact reimbursement of hospital expenses of rickshaw pullers & labourers under RSBY (Rashtriya Swashthya Bima Yonja) from government, the speaker, Shashank Shekhar Bhokta, on Monday orders a special house committee for an investigation into the scam.

The government's second point of rebuttal against the CERD Committee's decision is that the Committee failed to take account of the range of measures contained in the whole of the act that «purport to treat native title in a way that is different or takes account of the special nature of native title».

[15] See for example Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women, General Recommendation 25, on article 4, paragraph 1, of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women, on temporary special measures, (2004), pAgainst Women, General Recommendation 25, on article 4, paragraph 1, of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women, on temporary special measures, (2004), pagainst Women, on temporary special measures, (2004), para 20.

See also Special Rapporteur on the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms while Countering Terrorism, Australia: Study on Human Rights Compliance while Countering Terrorism, UN Doc A / HRC / 4 / 26 / Add.3 (2006) at http://daccessdds.un.org/doc/UNDOC/GEN/G06/155/49/PDF/G0615549.pdf?OpenElement; UN Committee against Torture, Concluding Observations: Australia (2008), para 3.