Sentences with phrase «against our council person»

«The majority of the community decided to vote against our Council person,» he said.

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It was a man from the council who referred me to Christians Against Poverty (CAP), a charity which provides practical and emotional support to people struggling with debt.

In the image of Psalm 82, whatever we claim to do in our churches, as a people we have worshipped the gods against whom the God of Israel speaks in the council.

They know about the anti-Jewish polemics of certain church fathers; about the forced baptisms, especially of children; about the church council decree that sanctioned the removal of such children from their parents; about a papal edict encouraging raids on Jewish synagogues by the faithful; about the expulsion of all Jews from a country like Spain; about Luther's hate language directed against Jews when they did not convert according to his timetable; about the prohibition against Jews living in Calvin's Geneva; and about all the cruelties Christians have felt justified in perpetrating against the people they called «Christ - killers.»

As to the people of the world, Roach did not mention the international - law argument against aggression or anticipate the Security Council's declaration that Iraq was guilty of aggression and was a threat to international peace and security.

Granted, President Bush did make a public relations misstep in the days immediately following the 9/11 attacks when he called the coming U.S - led war against global terrorism a «crusade» and promised that terrorists would face the «full wrath» of the U.S. «A lot of people think that America is out to get Islam, anyway,» Joshua Salaam, director of the Council on American - Islamic Relations, warned at the time.

The vocation of St. John as the apostle of the Divinity of Christ's one person has fed and powered the true development of the doctrine of the Church at all times, not least in the first centuries in which the true doctrine of both the divinity and the humanity are hammered out in great Councils, and the concepts are refined in the fires of contrary heresy against either the full Divinity or the full Humanity of Christ.

In the language of the World Council of Churches, his actions against the people and the natural communities in the Korean peninsula were actions against the integrity of creation.

What this stupid behaviour shows is that despite Australian regulations being the toughest of all the world markets, you can't regulate against a lack of commonsense by a small group of people» said the Council's CEO, Mr Geoff Parker.

The Human Rights group Liberty have today written to the council urging them to drop the plans saying they would discriminate against disabled people.

The liberal leader in the European Parliament, Guy Verhofstadt, and the leader of the European People's Party, Manfred Weber, sent a letter to Juncker and European Council President Donald Tusk saying that Malloch should not be granted credentials, citing his «outrageous malevolence against the values that define this European Union.»

Two NYC Council members — Inez Barron of Brooklyn and I. Daneek Miller of Queens — were among 41 people arrested yesterday during an union protest against CUNY cuts outside Cuomo's Midtown office.

The latest guilty pleas from Council member Stewart's former Chief of Staff and another staffperson have not done great things for his campaign... unless you are one of the people who believe that the whole thing is a racist plot against him.

Fight against local authority cuts to youth services and press council leaders across the city to invest in youth centres and out of school support for young people

During these discussions the officer highlights three major problems that homeless people are up against when they approach councils for housing help.

At Tuesday's Council meeting, Brenda Doll, of the City of Tonawanda, presented 200 signatures from people against per...

Speaking in Harlow, where Labour took control of the council in last week's local election, Miliband said: «The reality now for people aspiring to get on is that they feel they are running up against a brick wall in terms of unemployment and getting on the housing ladder.»

«Basically I disagree with the Judge so I shall appeal on the grounds that I pointed to the fact that as an elected officer if anybody had any petition against me, Article 43 (D) states very clearly that the person has to go to the national council and not the national disciplinary committee.

In total 600,000 council tax defaulters faced calls from bailiffs and local authorities filled for bankruptcy against 1,706 people.

«If this is not adhered to within twenty one days (21) the Igbo National Council, INC, will petition and also sue the Nigeria Army and the Federal government, to International Criminal Court, ICC, for genocide against the armless people of the southeast Nigeria.»

More than 75 people sat in the Buffalo Common Council chambers Tuesday listening as others told stories of being in a broken system, a system rigged against women.

The government is hiking the costs of the process so much that most people simply won't be able to afford to mount a legal challenge against the executive - whether that's a government minister, your local council, or any other public sector area where busybody officials look to take shortcuts.

Therefore, we were surprised and perplexed when on Saturday, February 18, 2017, the three chiefs, led by Awulae Agyemfi Kwame, purportedly speaking on behalf of and for the Nzema Maanle Council, stated at a press conference that the youths and people of Nzema are against Dr Ben Asante's appointment, and rather want the President to appoint Prof Kaku Sagary Nokoe, an ethnic Nzema for the Ghana Gas top position.

The High Chiefs who were members of the Olubadan - In - Council led by the Otun Olubadan of Ibadanland, High Chief Lekan Balogun accused the Olubadan of taking decisions on behalf of the Council, inciting the people against the state government.

Organizations Supporting the Fossil Fuel Divestment Act: 350.org NRDC Sierra Club Atlantic Chapter Citizens Campaign for the Environment Clearwater Food & Water Watch Citizen Action of NY 350NYC NYS Council of Churches Catskill Citizens for Safe Energy Catskill Mountainkeeper Citizens Environmental Coalition of NY Fossil Free & Green NY Green Education and Legal Fund Greenfaith Healthcare Without Harm Jews Against Fracking NY Interfaith Power & Lights People for Animal Rights Plan to Save the Planet, Albany Renewable Energy Long Island Rochester People's Climate Coalition Syracuse Cultural Workers Syracuse Peace Council

«Yet in the very same year, a council candidate has proposed forced eugenics against disabled people.

Pre-Campaign Community Service / Activism: Worked extensively with Family of Woodstock, Rip Van Winkle Council of Boy Scouts of America, establishing Ulster County Habitat for Humanity, Ralph Darmstadt Homeless Shelter, Ulster County Board of Health and Ulster County Human Rights Commission, Caring Hands Soup Kitchen Board Member, Midtown Rising Board Member, Teacher at Woodbourne Prison, part of Rising Hope Program Platform At a Glance Economy: Supports farming subsidies, job creation through infrastructure investments in rural broadband and sustainable technology, in favor of strong unions Healthcare: Medicare for All Women's Rights: Pro-choice, supports fully funding Planned Parenthood, birth control to be paid for employer, supports equal pay for equal work Racial Justice: Will work to prevent discrimination of all kind Immigration: Supports comprehensive immigration reform that includes path to citizenship for undocumented immigrants Foreign Policy: Supports increased pressure on North Korea but not military intervention Environment: Supports measures to stall climate change and create green jobs LGBTQ: Supports anti-discrimination of all people Gun Control: Will not take NRA money, supports common sense gun control and against Faso's vote to allow the mentally disabled to obtain firearms

Councillor Liam Smith, deputy leader of the council, said: «It is not fair for her to play one group of people off against another.

Gayle Meyers, with Statewide Senior Action Council, says her group often gets calls from people who have filed complaints to the health department against nursing homes, and never hear anything back.

Hawkins was polling 9 % statewide even before a widely - praised debate performance, and has earned endorsements from a spectrum of people and organizations, including Ralph Nader, Seattle socialist city council member Kshama Sawant, education analyst Diane Ravitch, and former Mobil Oil VP - turned - renewable energy activist Lou Allstadt; as well as Albany weekly paper Metroland, 6 teachers» unions, 6 Democratic Party clubs, Socialist Alternative, and a number of groups leading the fight against school privatization, such as United Opt Out and the New York Badass Teacher Association.

Glasgow City Council, which now has to mount a huge clean - up operation, had warned against the unofficial party and urged people to find a «safer alternative» way to celebrate.

Two people often aligned with Mayor Bill de Blasio — the Rev. Al Sharpton and City Council Speaker Melissa Mark - Viverito — spoke out against news that the police officer involved in Eric Garner's 2014 death made $ 23,220 in overtime last year.

Factional president of the Ijaw Youth Council, Mr. Eric Omare, on his part said: «We are disappointed, it is lopsided, unfair and unjust against us and it is a continuation of this government's discriminatory treatment of the Niger Delta people.

The council voted 41 in favor and 6 against on two bills that will largely end cooperation with the federal government when it requests an immigration detainer — which asks Corrections or the NYPD to hold a person for 48 hours when they might otherwise be released so that the person can be handed over the the Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agency.

He also assured people of the state that elections into the 33 local governments and 35 local council development areas (LCDAs) would be held as soon as the suit against the election was settled.

``... an active campaign against my leadership by a local Momentum organiser, being called a neo-Nazi by some Corbyn t - shirt wearing person outside the Labour Party Conference, and events at a national level targeting Labour Councillors and Labour Councils that do not conform to the particular form of ideological purity that seems to have taken a grip of the party...»

Mr Walker has for the last few months at the request of the Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards been investigating two previous complaints I made that Bob Blizzard had repeatedly used his # 10,000 p.a. Parliamentary Communications Allowance to publicise attacks on Conservative controlled Waveney District and Suffolk County Councils and even encouraged people to vote against them.

«I believe that people who have higher (incomes) also need assistance, but if they need assistance, we certainly know that people of lower (incomes) also need assistance, and this doesn't include any of them,» Council member Jumaane Williams, who voted against MIH, said during a recent Council hearing.

«There are people in this world who are criminals, who steal things,» said Quinn, who leads the City Council and is running against the public advocate in the Democratic mayoral primary.

NEW YORK (CBSNewYork / AP)-- The New York City Council has voted to pass bills that will create an outside watchdog for the nation's biggest police department and make it easier for people to file profiling claims against it, overriding mayoral vetoes.

Republicans could not convince anyone to run against Miner this year and are likely to look to some of the same people to run for mayor as well as mid-term openings on the city council.

«I have never been as well known as some of the people I've run against, whether that's when I first ran for City Council, when I ran for public advocate or today,» de Blasio said in Brooklyn.

Peter Smith, head of the government's Spongiform Encephalopathy Advisory Council (SEAC) thinks the single positive result offers «limited reassurance», because most people alive in the UK today ate potentially infected meat products before the first measures against BSE were introduced in 1988.

«The ability of MMV048 to block all life cycle stages of the malaria parasite, offer protection against infection as well as potentially block transmission of the parasite from person to person suggests that this compound could contribute to the eradication of malaria, a disease that claims the lives of several hundred thousand people every year,» said Professor Chibale, Founder and Director of H3D, founding Director of the South African Medical Research Council (SAMRC) Drug Discovery Research Unit at UCT, and senior author of the paper.

The committee schedules an open hearing on the day before the Council meeting at the AAAS Annual Meeting to give interested persons an opportunity to speak for or against proposals or resolutions submitted for possible Council action.

The American Council on Exercise advises against wave therapy for those who are pregnant, have a history of seizures, blood clotting issues, tumors, or people with pacemakers.

SAT and ACT exams, the most commonly used college - admissions tests, are biased against minority students and provide a poor indicator of success in college, said Jeffrey I. Johnson, the national youth - councils coordinator for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.

UN Security Council will adopt Resolution 1566 in 2004 and gives a definition of terrorism as «criminal acts, including against civilians, committed with the intent to cause death or serious bodily injury, or taking of hostages, with the purpose to provoke a state of terror in the general public or in a group of persons or particular persons, intimidate a population or compel a government or an international organization to do or to abstain from doing any act.»

As well as the 221 formal objections submitted to the council, 592 people signed online petitions against the plan and three schools also wrote in opposition including Kenton, which has about 2,000 pupils.

«In particular, both the forced academisation of schools in areas considered to be «unviable», and the removal of the council role in school improvement, went against evidence that council - maintained schools perform more highly than academies and free schools in Ofsted inspections, and that conversion to academies did not in itself lead to better results,» said Richard Watts, chairman of the LGA's Children and Young People Board.