Sentences with phrase «act than president»

Even if Le Pen wins, she'd likely have less freedom to act than President Trump, who has signed a number of executive orders calling for sweeping changes.

Not exact matches

Virtually every Republican and Democratic leader — other than the President — denounced the attack for what it was: an act of terror.

Obama had used the Antiquities Act more than any other president, his White House said in December, when he designated over 1.6 million acres of land in Utah and Nevada as national monuments, protecting two areas rich in Native American artifacts from mining, oil and gas drilling.

That changed in the U.S. in 2007 after President George W. Bush signed the Energy Policy Act, which extended Daylight Saving Time in the U.S. Rather than starting on the first Sunday in April and ending on the last Sunday in October, the U.S. began observing Daylight Saving Time on the second Sunday of March, with it lasting until the first Sunday in November.

More than a year after President Obama signed the JOBS Act into law, the Commission released rules for regulating equity crowdfunding.

It took President Barack Obama more than a year from his inauguration to get the Affordable Care Act passed by the skin of its teeth — despite enjoying massive Congressional majorities.

He's written six best - selling books, coached everyone from former President Bill Clinton and Oprah to Serena Williams and Aerosmith, acted as a founder or partner in more than 30 companies (with combined annual sales of $ 5 billion), and presented to more than four million live seminar attendees.

Earlier roles included acting as the head of Corporate Development and Planning for Canada and serving as senior vice president and chief financial officer for Franklin Templeton Investments Corp. for more than a decade.

Upon taking office, one of the president's first acts was to slash the previous administration's energy subsidies, which cost the government more than $ 51 billion over the past 13 years.

And the issue that concerns me the most is that Oboma is acting more like a dictator than a president.

While there is no indication that Urban directly advocated such acts of barbarism (any more than President Bush advocated the atrocities committed at the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq), the acts can be traced to passions he had set in motion.

While «children are being murdered» the president has «done worse than nothing», he said, adding that «one of your very first acts as president was to roll back the regulations that were designed to keep firearms out of the hands of the mentally ill».

They have one less point than they did at the same stage last season but then - president Manuel Llorente had already acted, getting rid of Mauricio Pellegrino to appoint Ernesto Valverde.

The Senate's Healthy, Hunger - Free Kids Act of 2010 would earmark about $ 4.5 billion more for child nutrition programs over a 10 year period, which is less than the $ 10 billion increase President Obama asked for.

Militarily Ukraine is also in a very weak position, with a conscript army that could itself fragment into Ukrainian and Russian components if pushed into military action, and a command echelon that seems to be prepared (given the sacking of the army chiefs by both Yanukovych and the new acting president Turchynov) to prefer caution and neutrality rather than be an instrument for splitting the country any further than it already is.

Of course if a President acted with Congress to pass legislation, then that legislation would require more than a future executive order to repeal.

@Celeritas: I don't believe there's any means for a US President acting alone to «entrench» an executive order, meaning that it would require any more than another executive order to overturn it.

Even though counsel is to some degree «independent» and free from Executive Branch supervision to a greater extent than other federal prosecutors, the Act gives the Executive Branch sufficient control over the independent counsel to ensure that the President is able to perform his constitutionally assigned duties.

Responding to a question about whether Vice President Kwesi Amissah - Arthur, an economist and former Governor of the Bank of Ghana, really had intended responding to the former Deputy Governor of the Bank of Ghana's several claims on the economy, as had circulated on social media days after the lecture, Mrs Bawa Mogtari said: «I'm sure you heard the vice president say clearly that any individual, genuine economist could have done a much better job than the flag bearer or the acting flag bearer of the NPPresident Kwesi Amissah - Arthur, an economist and former Governor of the Bank of Ghana, really had intended responding to the former Deputy Governor of the Bank of Ghana's several claims on the economy, as had circulated on social media days after the lecture, Mrs Bawa Mogtari said: «I'm sure you heard the vice president say clearly that any individual, genuine economist could have done a much better job than the flag bearer or the acting flag bearer of the NPpresident say clearly that any individual, genuine economist could have done a much better job than the flag bearer or the acting flag bearer of the NPP».

«We pray for those who are piloting the affairs of the country in his absence, more than ably led by the Acting President.

The governor's announcement came less than a month after President Obama signed the roughly $ 10 billion Water Infrastructure Improvements Act for the Nation.

The truth is that Gov. Cuomo has played a slight of hand game with both parties since becoming Governor and now with the election season drawing nearer his base will show they have a longer memory than he might have counted on when he failed to back Democratic Senate candidates and let if not openly encouraged the IDC Coalition to come into being by acting like Party didn't count at all in his game plain to win re-election and then possibly run for President in 2016.

Kim, who is serving in an acting capacity until President Trump names a new head of the U.S. Attorney's office in Manhattan, declined to comment further than the legal position contained in his Aug. 23 letter to the Buffalo Billion judge.

«This level of lawlessness has left us with no option than to doubt the ability of our Acting President to successfully preside over the affairs of our country.

The Speaker of Parliament, Professor Mike Oquaye, has been sworn in as acting President for the second time in less than a week.

In this case of upvoting all redditors, the president is not attempting to take complete control of a private company, but he is attempting to exert authority over a company to act in a way other than what they see as their best business practice.

The gap between Americans who view the Affordable Care Act favorably and those who do not is smaller now than at any time since the fall of 2012, a year before the law's disastrous rollout, according to a monthly poll that has tracked attitudes about the polarizing law since President Obama signed it five years ago.

1 A declaration that on a true and proper interpretation of Article 75 of the 1992 Constitution of Ghana, the President of the Republic of Ghana, by agreeing to the transfer of Mahmud Umar Muhammad Bin Atef and Khalid Muhammad Salih Al - Dhuby (both former detainees of Gunatanamo Bay) to the Republic of Ghana, required the ratification by an Act of Parliament or a resolution of Parliament supported by the votes of more than one - half of all the members of Parliament.

More than a dozen Democratic state attorneys general took legal action Thursday seeking to preserve billions of dollars in federal subsidy payments for insurers under a provision of the Affordable Care Act after President Donald Trump threatened to halt the funding.

The two applicants prayed the Supreme Court for «a declaration that on a true and proper interpretation of Article 75 of the 1992 Constitution of Ghana, the President of the Republic of Ghana, by agreeing to the transfer of Bin Atef and Al - Dhuby (both former detainees of the Guantanamo Bay) to the Republic of Ghana, required ratification by an Act of Parliament or a resolution of Parliament, supported by the votes of more than one - half of all members of Parliament.»

The Speaker of Parliament, Professor Aaron Mike Oquaye, is set to be sworn in as acting President tomorrow [Saturday] for the second time in less than a week.

As a leader of the country, President Mahama is expected to act in ways that will unite rather than divide the people of this country.»

The National Democratic Congress [NDC] Member of Parliament for Builsa South, Dr. Clement Apaak, had earlier expressed reservations with what he described as the impromptu summoning of Parliament for the second swearing - in of the Speaker to act as President in less than a week.

And that deficit — caused by softer - than - expected tax revenues — did not even account for the repeal of the Affordable Care Act promised by President - elect Donald J. Trump's administration, which would cost the state more than $ 3 billion, according to the governor.

National Democratic Congress [NDC] Member of Parliament for Builsa South, Dr. Clement Apaak, is upset with what he calls the impromptu summoning of Parliament for the second swearing - in of the Speaker of Parliament, Professor Aaron Mike Oquaye, to act as President in less than a week.

... no person who has held the office of President, or acted as President, for more than two years of a term to which some other person was elected President shall be elected to the office of the President more than once.

The Presidency on Monday said it was wrong for anybody to be claiming that the Acting President, Yemi Osinbajo, has been performing better than President Muhammadu Buhari since the President started his extended medical vacation.

What else would you see an acting President do more than what he doing at now?

Meanwhile, less than 24 hours after the attacks, the acting President, Yemi Osinbajo, arrived in Maiduguri on Thursday for a one - day official visit, defying the presumed security threat in the state.

«Nigerians expect a more purposeful leadership from the champion of change than this anarchy in the land and the time to act is now, Mr. President.»

Acting President Osinbajo has no choice now than to fire Malami.

Their visiting the Acting President may be misconstrued to mean that they are more loyal to him than the President,» a government official, who pleaded anonymity, told our correspondent.

Michael Mulgrew, UFT President After more than a decade working under the Bush - era No Child Left Behind Act, we finally have a chance to reverse the law's misguided federal mandates that dictate how states evaluate teachers and address struggling schools.

Mitt Romney leads President Obama in the district 49 - 45 — the exact same margin by which voters support both the repeal of the Affordable Care Act and eliminating tax cuts for those earning more than $ 250,000.

Section 8 of the act states: «There shall be for the commission an Executive Secretary who shall be: «a legal practitioner with not less than 20 years post qualification experience and requisite experience in human right issues; a person of proven integrity and be the Chief Executive and Accounting Officer of the commission; appointed by the president subject to confirmation by the Senate.»

Linda Brown - Robinson, president of the NAACP chapter, said DeFrancisco should «disavow the idea that there is more than one side to this despicable act of domestic terrorism perpetrated by the alt - right and white supremacists.»

... And I can not think of anything I'd rather be doing in what is likely my last act after 26 years in Congress than to send this bill to the president.»

Holdren helped the president understand the integral role of science in economic recovery, Holt added, noting that the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act included more than more than $ 20 billion for scientific research.

-- Not later than 1 year after the date of enactment of this Act, and at least once every 4 years thereafter, the President shall enter into a joint agreement with the National Academy of Public Administration and the National Academy of Sciences under which the Academies shall --

The WIPP Land Withdrawal Act (LWA, Public Law 102 - 579, signed into law by President George H.W. Bush on October 30, 1992) was the result of six years of congressional consideration and more than a decade of public debate about the facility's mission.