Sentences with phrase «adopted under the administration»

He said: «Setting the records straight, the idea of siting a tertiary educational institution in the crude oil and gas - rich Gbaramatu Kingdom in Warri South West Local Government Area of Delta State was first proposed and adopted under the administration of President Olusegun Obasanjo as a critical component in the roadmap to peace and sustainable development of the Niger Delta.

The pending legislation was submitted to codify existing policies adopted under the administration of former County Executive Andy Spano, a Democrat, while also drawing from model ordinances put in place by the New York state attorney general's office in order to alleviate concerns about the treatment of immigrants living in county.

Not exact matches

The submission comes as Verizon and other top Internet service providers like AT&T (t), Comcast (cmcsa), and Charter Communications (chtr) have won several victories over regulations adopted by the FCC under the Obama administration.

Conservative legal group urges change to education regulations adopted under the previous Administration.

In the meantime, Mr. Peralta has called on the mayor to adopt an amnesty program under which proprietors can seek to have fines incurred during the Bloomberg administration dismissed by the new mayor.

Continuing he said: «I would have wished that the country can even adopt this, that, anytime there is an outgoing administration they appoint an Auditor - General so he is not under the influence of the one who appointed him and he owes no allegiance to the one who comes in.

Cuomo aides last week began casting their decision as a continuation of a policy first adopted in 2007 under the administration of former governor Eliot Spitzer.

In each year under his administration, the BOE receives full funding by the time the budget is adopted.

Under the Obama administration, the federal government used carrots and sticks to encourage states to adopt new academic standards and test - based teacher evaluation systems.

But then, yes, the Obama administration fatefully decided to award extra points to states adopting the Common Core when deciding which would get big grants under its stimulus - funded Race to the Top program.

• Commitment to federal laws established by Supreme Court rulings: OCR's current reading of its authority under Title IX goes beyond the narrow interpretation adopted by the Supreme Court in two decisions that addressed the sexual harassment issue, even explicitly rejecting the rulings in guidelines issued under the Clinton administration.

While 29 states and 150 localities have recently adopted ban the box policies in employment law, the movement to ban the box in college admissions is still comparatively young and it is not yet clear whether it will sustain its momentum under the new administration.

In this article, Greg Anrig compares the adversarial approach to school improvement typified by New York City under Bloomberg — which pits teachers and their unions against «reformist» district administrations — with a collaborative approach that a number of districts have adopted.

Given this requirement to adopt a test - based teacher evaluation system, Texas» chosen waiver route appears to be a better choice for Texas educators than if the state pursued a waiver under the administration's waiver program.

The District and at least 25 states, under prodding from the Obama administration, have adopted or are developing value - added systems to assess teachers.

Under guidance from the Obama Administration, the Department signed an Interagency Memorandum of Understanding in August 2011, inviting agencies to adopt or update their environmental justice strategies.

Despite Palestinian objections, Jews began to migrate to Palestine in large numbers from 1918 (the area was under British administration until 1948 as a result of the Mandates System adopted by the League of Nations).

With the Obama administration's mandate for health care companies to demonstrate meaningful use of EMRs to qualify for stimulus money under the HITECH (Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health) Act, health care companies now have a greater incentive to adopt EMR technology.

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration in the United States is working on new guidelines, but currently regulates autonomous vehicles under a slightly different system that was adopted in 2013.

Seismic airgun surveys are the first step toward offshore drilling, of course, but under the current five - year Outer Continental Shelf (OCS) oil and gas leasing program adopted by the Obama Administration, the Atlantic can not be considered for drilling.

The National Farmers Union (NFU) passed a resolution in 2013 urging «the president, attorney general and Congress to direct the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) to reclassify industrial hemp as a non-controlled substance and adopt policy to allow American farmers to grow industrial hemp under state law without affecting eligibility for USDA benefits» Policy - Adopted March 2 - 5, 2013 Read the text of NFU Policy Statement here (HTML).

«Urging the president, attorney general and Congress to direct the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) to reclassify industrial hemp as a non-controlled substance and adopt policy to allow American farmers to grow industrial hemp under state law without affecting eligibility for USDA benefits.»

Therefore, the right of family reunification under Article 10 (3)(a) of the Family Reunification Directive can not depend upon the moment where the national competent authorities formally adopt their decision recognizing the status as refugee, as this would mean submitting it to the functioning of the national administration.

The recently adopted SCC Procedures for the Administration of Cases under the UNCITRAL Arbitration Rules (the Procedures) are now available on the SCC website.

As public positions like these, which are viewed by various groups in society as discriminatory or hateful, are potentially not only contrary to the Statement of Principles that lawyers will be required to adopt, but also a breach of their existing obligations under the Rules of Professional Conduct, the Law Society should immediately take steps to investigate and, if necessary, publicly censure the lawyers cited above for their failure to advance the administration of justice by joining other MPs of good will in voting to condemn the hateful acts of certain members of the public.

The Limited License Legal Technician Board has ongoing authority to adopt policies for the administration of the LLLT license and to recommend and develop practice areas under authority granted by the Washington Supreme Court under Rule 28 of the Admission and Practice Rules (APR).