Sentences with phrase «about failing state»

Yes, there is some good in those politically battered bones, especially in how David Paterson walked the talk about failing state finances in creative ways that could help his successor.

Later, during the «war on terror», Ethiopia manipulated Washington's fears about failed states and Islamism to get US backing for an invasion of Somalia to quash the Union of Islamic Courts which was trying to reunite the country.

The application argued that no removals to Somalia should be taking place while the upper tribunal considers an appeal on UK country guidance about the failed state.

Not exact matches

Some are likening Michigan State to Penn State University, where three senior officials, including the school's president, were sentenced to jail last year for failing to tell authorities about a sexual abuse allegation involving coach Jerry Sandusky.

In a decision released by the Baltimore Circuit Court, Judge Martin P. Welch wrote that the 35 - year - old was being granted a new trial because his initial council failed to properly cross-examine an expert from the state about the reliability of cell tower data that seemed to place him at the scene of the crime.

But according to Andrew Maynard, the director of the Risk Innovation Lab at Arizona State University, what you won't find in the document is any information about some of the most likely reasons the awe - inspiring project might fail.

In the 2000s, after the «outreach» had failed, Rockwell complained bitterly about «Red - State fascists» who supported George Bush and his war.

JONESBORO, Ark. (AP)-- Arkansas State has sued Miami and is seeking $ 650,000 in damages for failing to reschedule the football game in Jonesboro that was canceled in September because of concerns about Hurricane Irma.

April 12 West Virginia sued Equifax Inc on Thursday for failing to safeguard consumer information of hundreds of thousands of state residents and for delaying alerting the public to a breach that exposed the personal data of about 148 million people, the state's attorney general said.

Plaintiffs and investigators question why the U.S. Olympic Committee, USA Gymnastics and Michigan State University, where Nassar also worked, failed to probe complaints about him going back years.

Finally, this conclusion about causality fails to answer the question of why antitrust suits are typically brought after the stock market has climbed for years or even decades to a state of overvaluation in a climate of rampant speculation rather than at any other time.

After saying in July that he would have «some concerns» about pursuing a state - based bank tax if it first failed in South Australia, West Australian Treasurer Ben Wyatt suggested on Thursday the option was still on the table.

Conservatives, for their part, repelled by the public vision of civil rights advocates and convinced that the programs of the past have failed, prefer not to address racial issues at all; when they do, they talk in formalistic terms about the principle of «color - blind state action.»

If more States had adopted the ACA and set up their own sites the Federal site would not have been overloaded which is what Fox and the conservatives are all upset about now since their ideology argument failed so badly, now all they have is «The Websites Broken!

It is possible that a hurricane of change awaits both church and state in the next half - century, for observers who are cynical about the institutional church often fail to take note of the equal cynicism about the state in communist countries.

Let me address one thing really quick... you talk about vouchers, but fail to mention that the United States currently ranks 25th in the world in math.

Agents of the state can teach your children how to have sex, give them condoms, put them on the pill, give them the morning - after pill if it doesn't work, and take them off for an abortion if that fails - and all without you having any say in the matter or necessarily even knowing about it.

Of those who failed to grasp what I said about the meaning of the term «capitalism,» or who imagine I was arguing for the modern state as opposed to the modern market, David Lumpkins provides the most entertaining remarks.

This state of affairs not only fails to engage with the core issue at the heart of the culture of death, it also tacitly encourages agnosticism about life after death, human freedom, the ultimate nature of evil and the human need for prayer and religious practice.

I happen to live in Britain where the welfare state, despite its obvious failings and inadequacies (to which reactionaries are always calling attention), has had and still does have as its chief concern the provision to everyone of those absolute necessities that are required if the citizens are to lead better, healthier, and more satisfying lives because they have been delivered from nagging fears and worries about illness and old age and much else that can be so dreadfully threatening to them.

there is no doubting that Arsene has helped to provide us with some incredible footballing moments in the formative years of his managerial career at Arsenal, but that certainly doesn't and shouldn't mean that he has earned the right to decide when and how he should leave this club... there have been numerous managers at each of the biggest clubs in Europe throughout the last decade who have waged far more successful campaigns than ours yet somehow and someway each were given their walking papers because they failed to meet the standards laid out by the hierarchy of their respective clubs... of course that doesn't mean that clubs should simply follow the lead of others, especially if clubs of note have become too reactionary when it comes to issues of termination, for whatever reasons, but there should be some logical discourse when it comes to the setting of parameters for a changing of the guard... in the case of Arsenal, this sort of discourse was largely stifled when the higher - ups devised their sinister plan on the eve of our move to the Emirates... by giving Wenger a free pass due to supposed financial constraints he, unwittingly or not, set the bar too low... it reminds me of a landlord who says he will only rent to «professional people» to maintain a certain standard then does a complete about face when the market is lean and vacancies are up... for those who rented under the original mandate they of course feel cheated but there is little they can do, except move on, especially if the landlord clearly cares more about profitability than keeping their word... unfortunately for the lifelong fans of a football club it's not so easy to switch allegiances and frankly why should they, in most cases we have been around far longer than them... so how does one deal with such an untenable situation... do you simply shut - up and hope for the best, do you place the best interests of those with only self - serving agendas above the collective and pray that karma eventually catches up with them, do you run away with your tail between your legs and only return when things have ultimately changed, do you keep trying to find silver linings to justify your very existence, do you lower your expectations by convincing yourself it could be worse or do you stand up for what you believe in by holding people accountable for their actions, especially when every fiber of your being tells you that something is rotten in the state of Denmark

(Reuters)- ABC News has failed to persuade a South Dakota state judge to dismiss a $ 1.2 billion defamation lawsuit by a meat processor complaining about a series of reports that referred to its signature product as «pink slime.»

Cafeteria managers across the state had complained for a year about food that reeked of ammonia, but state and federal regulators failed to alert school districts.

USDA inspectors knew about the leak but failed to notify state education or health officials.

But if Sweetgreen's goal was to raise awareness about school nutrition (and not just garner a lot of publicity for its restaurants, which it did in spades), I fail to see what it accomplished by holding American schools up to an unrealistic international standard — whether the standard is unrealistic because it's inaccurate (Greece) or because the country in question invests far more time, money and effort than the United States in feeding its children (France.)

NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio took his time to schmooze with legislative leaders at the Capitol during his State of the State visit, saying: «With all due respect to Mayor Bloomberg, this is about showing respect for the leadership in Albany, and I think he often failed to do that.»

Democrats are not overly optimistic about future elections either, as they have failed to break ground into the Midwestern, and Southern states also coined as the Republican «Red Wall.»

City and State chats with former Assemblyman Ed Sullivan about the failed 2000 coup attempt against Speaker Silver, and says «lots o luck» to whoever tries it again.

'' It is quite unfortunate that labour leaders at the national level, who ought to know better, also failed to avail themselves of the opportunity of meeting with officials ofthe state government to clear apparent misconceptions about the intention of the government,» the statement said.

The dialogue that ensued engaged the authors with a series of questions surrounding the book's central thesis: despite the real progress in racial equality achieved by the 1960s civil rights legislation, the United States political institution has been caught in between two modes of conceptualizing, and enacting policy, about race — both of which have failed to close the tremendous gap in racial disparities in social and economic welfare that are a legacy of American history.

And if they fail to perform their basic function which is approving a state spending plan on time, they can forget about that raise they were counting on.

The state loses about a billion dollars in federal funding now that Congress has failed to renew the Child Health Plus plan, which offers health care to about 330,000 low - income children in New York.

He also lambasted the Moderator for complaining about the state of the Kotoka International Airport describing it as a village Airport but failed to commend government's efforts after the facility was refurbished.

We are now about one week from the April 1 deadline for a new state budget, and either the Legislature will pass, or will fail to pass, the state budget that I have proposed.»

Also on hand were state Conservative Party Chairman Mike Long and state GOP Chairman Ed Cox, both of whom backed Turner, a businessman who garnered about 40 percent of the vote in his failed effort to unseat Weiner.

Soares, as you'll recall, issued two separate Troopergate reports, neither of which recommended any criminal charges for key players in the scandal — although the second suggested former Gov. Eliot Spitzer had perhaps been «not truthful» about his role in the failed plot by his administration to use the State Police to discredit his then - political nemesis, ex-Senate Majority Leader Joe Bruno.

State Committeeman Bernard Greene pointedly asked Andersen why the report's attached spreadsheet failed to list «income by source» & «expenses by category,» adding that he received «more information from the FEC & the OCPF» about the line items in question «than what I've gotten from you.»

But his message for national Democrats was undercut by questions about his outspoken support for Governor Andrew Cuomo, an avowedly centrist Democrat, and the mayor's failed effort to help win the State Senate, despite the demographic advantages in New York State.

Instead, a quick glance at the 244 pages shows much more about his early life steeped in Tennessee politics, his quick ascent in the Democratic party and his failed 2006 bid for Senate in the Volunteer State versus Bob Corker.

After failing to get onto the ballot at the state GOP convention, Levy said he would have to think about whether to seek a third and final term this fall.

«The current state of decline is wholly unacceptable and we're going to do something about it now,» Cuomo said, singling out failing subway service at a midtown conference.

Buhari in an interview with Voice of America as part of his recent visit to the United States said, «The Tribunal will has the powers to seize cash and assets of Nigerians convicted of failing to explain how they came about their humongous wealth.They will be asked to prove how they acquired the difference, otherwise, everything will be taken away and they will be prosecuted.»

«Having failed in their bid to escalate crisis in the Niger Delta through the meaningless Operation Crocodile Smiles, the hawks and detractors of the Niger Delta have gone about introducing a very gross illegality in the NDDC board and duration to willfully set one state against another.

Sen. Eric Schneiderman called Donovan a «nice man,» but noted he had lobbied against Rockefeller Drug Law reform as the head of the state DA's association (Rice was on the board, too, which has become an issue in the primary) said he «represents the past» and the «old, failed ways of thinking about the justice system.»

Dozens of residents turned out for the meeting, furious about recent events in Ramapo, including an FBI investigation into St. Lawrence as well as a state investigation alleging that town fire inspector Adam Peltz allegedly failed to report serious safety violations at several private schools.

If the congressional redistricting commission fails to reach an agreement about a redistricting plan, it must submit two plans to the state Supreme Court, which must in turn select from those two plans a final map.

«We are now about one week from an April 1 deadline for a new state budget and either the legislature will pass or will fail to pass the state budget that I have proposed,» he says in the ad.

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I still can not understand why the Nana Addo described the perfect submission by the President at Agona Nkwanta as insults directed at his person.Nana is free to continue his anti-transformation chest thumping that's his cup of tea attempts to sow doubt about the President's capabilities has failed and will forever fail.So far he has failed to mount a significant challenge Mahama's #Changinglives, TransformingGhana # agenda leaving him in the confused state he finds himself.

About one - third of state legislators received a failing grade for votes on gun issues since the passage of Cuomo's SAFE Act in 2013, the group New Yorkers Against Gun Violence announced.