Sentences with phrase «against the administration during»

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President Donald Trump's proposal for additional tariffs against China may escalate tensions that would hurt U.S. companies, said Miriam Sapiro, former deputy and acting U.S. trade rep during the Obama administration.

That view was on display during the presidential campaign when Trump railed against globalization and what he described as unfair trade deals negotiated by previous administrations.

The National Venture Capital Association, an industry group of top U.S. venture capitalists, filed a lawsuit on Tuesday in Washington D.C. District Court against the Trump Administration, alleging it illegally delayed an immigration program created during President Obama's term.

Flynn had misled Vice President Mike Pence and other administration officials about what he and Sergey Kislyak, Russia's ambassador to the US, talked about in phone conversations during the transition — according to reports, they had discussed the Obama administration's sanctions against Russia.

The war against unions, commenced during the Bush administration, will continue.

The Catholic bishops, who are in Baltimore this week for a quarterly meeting, spoke out against the Obama administration during the election cycle over what they said were White House violations of religious freedom.

The war against unions, commenced during the Reagan administration, will continue.

There were as many as five complaints of sexual harassment made against employees in the mayor's office during the de Blasio administration, City Hall officials said, but they refused to say how the perpetrators in those cases were disciplined.

I may yet be proved right in the future when no corruption cases in the judges» corruption cases are pending before the courts or when this government decides to investigate my allegations against the John Mahama government in the use of unconstitutional covert agents during his administration.

The former Director of Communications at the Presidency during the late President Mills» regime in an interview with Happy FM Monday, served notice the Akufo - Addo administration is likely to be overthrown similar to a coup d'état witnessed in 1972 against his father.

Ms. Crowley has been an active defender of firefighters during her time in the City Council, often working against the Bloomberg administration's efforts to close firehouses in cost - cutting moves.

Not one of the questioners during the nearly four - hour hearing seemed to indicate that they would vote against a mayoral control extension, even though a few senators asked de Blasio pointed questions about the various investigations circling his administration and other disparate education issues.

You have come under attacks for not speaking up against corruption during the administration of former President Goodluck Jonathan but you are now supporting the anti-corruption fight of President Buhari.

Some of them openly expressed their disappointment in this administration and apologised to the former President for voting against him in the 2016 election because of lies told them about him and his government by the Npp, and failure on their part to critically evaluate promises the Npp made during the campaign.

He revealed that during the latter period of President Kufuor's Administration he was shuffled to another Ministry but due to his open support for Nana Akufo - Addo against Alan Kyeremanten, because he believed Nana Akufo - Addo was the choice of the majority, he was denied the new Ministry and made a minister of State at the Castle, a designation that required that he stepped at the Castle just three times till they lost power.

Former President Goodluck Jonathan says the APC led administration's war against insurgency is being aided by the arms which were procured during his tenure.

Clark said this in Warri, in reaction to a publication in a national daily on Thursday in which he was criticised for failing to speak against corruption during the administration of former President Goodluck Jonathan.

On Tuesday, during a meeting with the editorial board of The Daily News, she delivered some harsh criticism against the Bloomberg administration's effort to close poor - performing schools, saying it had led the city to «warehouse» struggling students in schools where they «don't have a shot» at succeeding.

«The lack of transparency and accountability in military spending, during the administration of former president Jonathan, has led to the inability of the military to adequately protect people against the violation of their rights by Boko Haram in the northeast of Nigeria.»

The letter, which was sent to the State Board of Elections, sought to rebuff the latest series of accusations against the administration: that Mr. de Blasio's team in City Hall had committed flagrant violations of campaign finance laws during the mayor's unsuccessful push in 2014 to win a Democratic majority in the State Senate.

Less than two weeks after releasing a white paper on the report of the Justice Silas Oyewole Judicial Commission of Inquiry into the Finances of Ekiti State during the administration of the Minister of Mines and Steel Development, Dr Kayode Fayemi as governor of Ekiti State, the State government has filed criminal charges of corruption against Fayemi and his Finance Commissioner, Mr Dapo Kolawole.

However, others said Dorries had voted against her party on dozens of occasions during previous administrations.

«However, two days after President Buhari was sworn in, the APC government withdrew the charges preferred against Sylva on June 1, 2015, and on October 3, 2016, the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission returned to Sylva 48 houses seized from him during the administration of former President Jonathan.»

He has also been an inveterate foe of abortion, a position that informed his repeated votes against expanding the number of human embryonic stem cell lines available to NIH - funded researchers during the George W. Bush administration.

Rather, government failed to actively support desegregation and, during the Nixon and two Bush administrations, actively worked against it.

said Wednesday he would vote against DeVos's nomination, in part because she said during her hearing that it was «premature» to say whether she would uphold the Obama administration's interpretation of Title IX, the federal law that prohibits discrimination on the basis of sex.

Gates had little choice but to dive headlong into politics after the U.S. Justice Department brought antitrust charges against Microsoft during the Clinton administration.

He was baptized James Ngugi, and later became a devout Christian while at missionary school; but around 1967 he rejected his baptismal name, and changed his name to Ngugi wa Thiong «o. His family was caught up in the Mau Mau rebellion (an insurgency by Kenyan freedom fighters against the British colonial administration (1952 - 1960) during which...

Even worse, during the last stretch of Montenegro's administration, the vice president, a charismatic technocrat — pardon the contradiction — with wide eyes and dimpled cheeks, had decided to reorganize the Black Chamber and turn it into the focal point of the fight against cyberterrorism.

In 2003, during Bookbinder's time as Chief Climate Counsel, the Sierra Club backed ten states that brought a lawsuit against the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency for Bush administration's decision that it does not have the authority to regulate emissions of the greenhouse gasses that cause climate change (Massachusetts v. EPA).

«We have at least four times — four to five times the number of threats against Mr. Pruitt than we had against Ms. McCarthy,» Assistant Inspector General Patrick Sullivan told CNN, referring to Gina McCarthy, EPA chief during the Obama administration.

As an attorney in the Justice Department's Office of Legal Counsel during the administration of President George W. Bush, John Yoo helped write the so - called torture memos, justifying the use of «enhanced interrogation techniques» against «enemy combatants.»

«InfiLaw officers have information and belief that during the prior administration one or more DOE officials coerced, pressured or significantly encouraged the aBA to take adverse accreditation actions against for - profit law schools, including schools owned by InfiLaw,» states the complaint, which also claims that the school has been treated unfairly by the ABA.