Sentences with phrase «about federal attempts»

Teachers are just as negative about federal attempts to eliminate racial disparities in disciplinary practices.

Not exact matches

Even before news reports emerged in recent days about the potential misuse of Facebook data, federal regulators and Congress grappled with social media's growing influence on U.S. elections and the ways in which Russian operatives used the platforms to attempt to sow social unrest ahead of the 2016 presidential contest.

While the United States has been embroiled in pre-presidential election drama and speculation about what might trigger the Federal Reserve to raise interest rates, the United Kingdom voted to leave the European Union and multiple central banks worldwide turned to a negative interest - rate policy in an attempt to stimulate growth.

Because the birth control cases all focus on a 1993 federal law, the Religious Freedom Restoration Act, not the Constitution, the Justices will face questions about whether the mandate to provide free access to 20 forms of birth control drugs or devices, sterilization, screenings, and counseling imposes a «substantial burden» on religious freedom of nonprofit employers with religious objections to some or all contraceptives, whether the mandate in fact serves a «compelling interest» of the government, and whether an attempt to provide an exemption from the mandate satisfies the requirement that such an accommodation is «the least restrictive means» of achieving the government's policy interest.

As opposed to the thousands and thousands of billboards & church message boards every 50 ft with their snarky comments pushing their beliefs and quite often attacking non -(Jesus) believers and / or science directly or indirectly, all the millions of people that like to go around constantly «sharing their beliefs» about how everyone who believes differently is gonna be tortured and burned for eternity, or the countless attempts by local, state, and federal government officials to push laws based on those beliefs and to favor those beliefs all over the country.

In an attempt to learn more about dragonfly migration, the US Forest Service's Wings Across the Americas program has assembled a group of dragonfly experts, nongovernmental organizations, academic institutions, and federal agencies and formed the Migratory Dragonfly Partnership (MDP).

Federal prosecutors found out about many of the details of the alleged embezzlement and attempted cover up because they were tapping Sampson's cell phone.

«Queens Schools are to be Off - Limits to Federal Immigration Agents» QUEENS, NY — Borough President Melinda Katz stated the following in response to questions about federal immigration agents showing up last Thursday at P.S. 58 in Maspeth and seeking a fourth - grader: «As a mother, I am deeply troubled and horrified at this attempt on the -LFederal Immigration Agents» QUEENS, NY — Borough President Melinda Katz stated the following in response to questions about federal immigration agents showing up last Thursday at P.S. 58 in Maspeth and seeking a fourth - grader: «As a mother, I am deeply troubled and horrified at this attempt on the -Lfederal immigration agents showing up last Thursday at P.S. 58 in Maspeth and seeking a fourth - grader: «As a mother, I am deeply troubled and horrified at this attempt on the -LSB-...]

A Manhattan federal judge rebuffed Bill Cosby's attempt to force New York magazine to turn over unedited interview recordings, transcripts and related notes from a story about a group of women who have accused the comedian of sexual assault, calling it a fishing expedition that ignores legal protections for the press.

«When confronted with their conduct, the Manganos and Mr. Venditto obstructed justice in an attempt to cover up their criminal behavior and Linda Mangano and John Venditto lied to federal agents when questioned about these actions,» he said.

In it, Ajit Pai, one of two Republicans on the five - member Federal Communications Commission (FCC), characterizes the project as an attempt «to squint for and squelch» what Americans are saying about the political process.

Since 1998, the federal government has attempted to increase the accountability for preparation programs by requiring states to collect and report information about the programs, including completion rates, average scores on state and national teaching tests, and the number of student teaching hours required.

One can argue that there are limits to what the federal government can do about states that inadequately fund education and that a Republican Congress would have blocked any attempt by the Obama administration to create more adequate and equitable education funding.

«While attempting to rebrand its legal challenge as merely an attempt to seek information about implementation of the scholarship program, the administration's real motive still stands — forcing parents to go to federal court to seek approval for where they want to send their children to school.»

The nation currently spends about $ 15 billion on Title I, the federal program meant for the education of poor children, and analysts attempting to understand the impact of Trump's proposal have assumed that these are the dollars that would be redirected to vouchers.

You'll read about the financial instability in the country that led to the birth of the Federal Reserve, our nation's third attempt at a central bank.

In the weeks that followed, in his attempt to «take down» TPWR, Mr. Garay engaged in repeated posts of fabricated and defaming statements about TPWR; contacted state and federal agencies as well as supporters of TPWR with intent to discredit our organization; contacted personally volunteers and supporters of our rescue offering monetary incentive (bribes) for them to share with him any details that could be used against TPWR in further attempts to discredit TPWR's record; posted publicly solicitation of individuals for him to hire who would be willing to further «investigate» and «expose» TPWR; personally and directly interfered in and had his followers contact individuals who were collaborating with TPWR while coordinating the rescue of Weimaraners in need into the TPWR rescue program.

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The allegations come as federal investigators probe whether Bush administration officials tried to block government scientists from speaking freely about global warming and attempted to censor their research.

The federal government had earlier attempted to get the action dismissed but in Scott v. Canada (Attorney General), released Sept. 6, 2013, the justice described the action as «about promises the Canadian government made to men and women injured while in service to their country and whether it is obliged to fulfill those promises.»

There is a federal law about collecting debts, 15 USC 1692f, which prohibits a debt collector from using «unfair or unconscionable means to collect or attempt to collect any debt».

The Second Circuit's sweeping rejection of Chevron's attempt to use a New York federal court to halt worldwide enforcement of an $ 18 billion Ecuadorian judgment places the international arbitrators center stage — and raises questions about the limits of arbitral power.

On Tuesday, September 17, 2013, NAR President Gary Thomas sent a letter to Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) Acting Director Ed Demarco raising concerns about the continued attempts to increase cost and reduce access to conventional mortgages.