Sentences with phrase «against the federal government because»
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Some would be directly affected by the policy, which the government can't enforce because of federal appeals court rulings against it.
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He said the latest onslaught against his government was deliberate because no excuse had been given by the Federal Ministry of Finance for withdrawing the money after first crediting the state's account.
«Should we now say that Lai Mohammed and President Buhari sponsored Boko Haram because they spoke against the federal government's clampdown on the insurgents then?»
Finding by PRNigeria revealed that the action of Magu in instituting criminal charges against Umar has caused serious confusion and embarrassment to the Federal Government because the EFCC reports had made clear that the CCT boss had no case to answer.
«We await reports of EFCC investigations and we hope that the anti-corruption agency will be civil enough to allow an open and transparent trial in competent court of law and not media trial just to get at Governor Fayose because of his uncompromising stance against the misrule of the APC / Buhari led federal government.
He noted that when Build It Back was just getting started under former Mayor Michael Bloomberg's administration, the federal government was advocating for storm victims to apply for SBA loans — something he said «was terrible really in hindsight» because the loans are being used against the Build It Back grant.
The governor, who appealed to the Federal Government to allow political solutions to agitations by Nigerians as against the use of brute force, said he remained «committed to the call for full and total restructuring of Nigeria through dialogue and negotiation because it is too late for Nigeria to disintegrate.»
The League of Conservation Voters gives McMorris Rodgers a 4 percent lifetime score out of a possible 100 in their environmental scorecard because she has voted against bills that would have required the federal government to account for the social cost of carbon in administrative actions and required federally funded projects to be resilient to the impacts of climate change.
The White House indicated that the president felt the need to personally lobby the Senate against Senator Hoeven's amendment because it did not provide for a means of review by appropriate agencies of the federal government.
One is the Ruby Ridge, Idaho militia run by Randy Weaver, which held a standoff with federal agents in 1992, the Law attacking the compound because of its storage of weaponry to be used against the government.
Democrats can make such claims because they have nothing against the federal government in theory, however much state and local school officials have been complaining about NCLB in practice.
Federal judge Mariana Pfaelzer issued a permanent injunction against the vast majority of the people of CA by striking down proposition 187, which stated that illegal immigrants were not eligible for CA taxpayer provided «entitlements» because it interfered with the the right of the federal government to regulate immigration Federal judge Mariana Pfaelzer issued a permanent injunction against the vast majority of the people of CA by striking down proposition 187, which stated that illegal immigrants were not eligible for CA taxpayer provided «entitlements» because it interfered with the the right of the federal government to regulate immigration federal government to regulate immigration -LRB-!)
(8) the points made in the conclusion are: (1) consistent with avoiding expenditures on the criminal justice system, the federal attorney general appeared to be neglecting the plight of pre-trial inmates in custody in extremely bad jail conditions, and the provincial attorney general appeared to ignore the needs of prosecutors for greater resources of staff and time in order to work adequately; (2) similarly, the other examples presented also support the proposition that the criminal justice system is inadequately resourced because there are «no votes in justice»; and, (3) the reduction in the safeguards against wrongful convictions caused by the radical changes in procedures made necessary because governments do not provide adequate resources for the criminal justice system;
Voices came together in 2010 because it had become clear that a growing number of groups and individuals who expressed views that went against federal government views on... [more]
Because the federal government has unlimited financial resources and teams of highly skilled investigators and prosecutors at its disposal, the odds are stacked against you.
It may look as if they are because they deal with judicial review cases against the federal government, but these are cases in which the deck is always stacked against the individual.»
Both Federal and state laws prohibit private persons, organizations or governments from discriminating against people because of certain «protected characteristics.»
If you have people trying to buy marijuana in Colorado and then sell it for an even greater profit in Nebraska, the federal government is going to look into that problem and probably bring charges against people because it's illegal in Nebraska and you are transporting stuff from state A to state B in an unlawful manner.
Outraged, Jeannette Corbiere Lavell filed a legal suit against the federal government on the basis that it was in violation of the 1960 Canadian Bill of Rights because it discriminated against women on the basis of sex.