Sentences with phrase «against the governors of»

The strongly worded ruling from Judge Leon was in a case brought against the governors of the Federal Reserve by a group of plaintiffs including the National Association of Convenience Stores, the National Retail Federation, the Food Marketing Institute, Miller Oil Co., Boscov's Department Store and the National Restaurant Association.

This is just as she also threatened to take legal action against the governor of Edo state Adams Oshiomhole for his recent efforts to link her name to the alleged $ 2.1 billion arms issue.

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TORONTO, May 1 - The Canadian dollar fell to a four - week low against its U.S. counterpart on Tuesday before paring its decline, as Bank of Canada Governor Stephen Poloz said the outlook for the domestic economy is good despite the overhang of high household debt.

On stage in Detroit, real estate mogul Donald Trump faced off against his three remaining Republican challengers in the presidential race: Senator Marco Rubio of Florida; Ted Cruz, the senator from Texas; and John Kasich, the governor of Ohio.

Smith, previously Minnesota's lieutenant governor, was appointed to serve as her state's senator following the resignation of Al Franken, who became embroiled in controversy after several women came forward with sexual harassment allegations against him.

Whitman is well - known in state and national politics as well, having worked on presidential campaigns for Mitt Romney and John McCain, and having run against Jerry Brown in 2010 for the governor of California, a race she ended up losing.

The former Bank of Italy governor, when asked by a reporter in 2013 what role gold plays in a central banks portfolio, answered that the metal was «a reserve of safety,» adding, it gives you a fairly good protection against fluctuations against the dollar.

The British pound hit a new seven - year low against the dollar after Bank of England Governor Mark Carney on Tuesday ruled out an interest rate rise any time soon.

Faced with boycott threats from giant businesses, including Nike, Apple, Angie's List and Salesforce.com, Indiana's Governor Mike Pence has vowed to alter the language of a controversial, religious freedom bill he signed into law just last week, to ensure businesses can't use it to discriminate against LGBT customers.

One of the raps against Carney is that his reputation as Canada's bank governor in no way prepares him for what awaits.

Indeed, the committee has been notorious for voting against the wishes of the current governor, Sir Mervyn King.

Salesforce came in and pushed the governor of Georgia up against a wall over a anti-gay legislation, and this week, Apple, Google and Facebook are among the companies putting serious pressure on North...

Lisa Fritsch, who ran against Greg Abbott in the Republican Primary for Governor of Texas in 2014, discussed the importance -LSB-...]

Bank of England Governor Mark Carney is also promoting the use of green bonds in the fight against climate change.

Subir Gokarn, deputy governor of the Reserve Bank of India, announced that his country also was reviewing defenses against the «potential threat» of inward capital flows.»

These paybacks have pushed up the yen's exchange rate by 12 % against the dollar so far during 2010, prompting Bank of Japan governor Masaaki Shirakawa to announce on Tuesday, October 5, that Japan had «no choice» but to «spend 5 trillion yen ($ 60 billion) to buy government bonds, corporate IOUs, real - estate investment trust funds and exchange - traded funds — the latter two a departure from past practice.»

The NRA is filing a lawsuit against the state of Florida after Governor Rick Scott signed a bill prohibiting gun sales to anyone younger than 21 on Friday.

Against this weak growth background, inflation has also remained quiescent, falling well short of BOJ Governor Kuroda's target of 2 % yoy growth in core CPI inflation.

This is not the first time that Carney, who is also the governor of the Bank of England, has cautioned against over-regulating cryptocurrencies.

Includes an examination of a possible vote of non-confidence against the Conservative minority government; a request to the Governor General to allow a Liberal - New Democratic coalition to form a new government; and the immediate tasks facing a possible coalition government once in power.

LONDON (AP)-- The pound jumped on Friday to reach its highest level against the dollar in nearly five years after the Bank of England's governor predicted an interest rate hike might come sooner than expected.

The British protest against the removal of female images on the currency parallels a similar protest in Canada, when Carney, as Canada's central bank governor, announced in 2011 that an icebreaker would displace the images of five famous women on a new series of $ 50 polymer notes.

The Department's Office of Special Investigations says it is «reviewing the allegations» against Mr. Bettencourt after being pressured by Governor Pataki and Senator D'Amato of New York.

Romney isn't really inoculated against charges of extremism by his record as an opportunistically moderate Massachusetts governor.

The Republican Party is most vulnerable because the Religious Right, a substantial voting bloc, is adamantly against gambling, This was evident recently in an Alabama gubernatorial primary race, when the challenger said that he «would not rule out new gambling rules» and lost, while Governor Fob James agreed to almost all of the right's social agenda, and won renomination.

Romney has been widely criticized for running against his past - against what he did at Bain Capital and as governor of Massachusetts, and against his prior views on abortion and health care.

A massive campaign aimed at forcing Switzerland to make billions available in «compensation» was launched by the WJC, with the governors of four American states threatening economic sanctions against the Swiss, and the City of Los Angeles withdrawing millions of dollars of pension funds from a Swiss bank.

Though Valerian was favorable to Christians in the beginning later he turned against because of the constant calamities of the empire which were attributed to their atheism and also he was influenced by his governor who took vengeance upon Christians.

He calls Governor Henry's bill, against which he is remonstrating, «a contradiction of the Christian religion itself, for every page of it disavows a dependence on the powers of this world.»

(CNN)- The stars of TLC's «Sister Wives» reality show sued Utah's governor Wednesday, asking a judge to block the state's long - standing law against polygamy.

The demonstrations against the Christian governor, along with a January 2016 high - profile ISIS bombing in Jakarta, have led to fears that Indonesia is becoming more radicalized, even though the country remains home to one of the world's largest, most peaceful Islamic organizations.

This proclamation, against which the Spanish governor of Granada and many Spanish statesmen (among them the duke of Alba) emphatically protested, was nevertheless enforced by the advice of a cardinal and an archbishop.

Richard Lamm, the former governor of Colorado who has campaigned against excessive medical costs, recently cited the case of a patient in a Washington, D.C., hospital who has been in a comatose state since Lamm was a high school student.

It's a little too late for praying, it's Mrs.Clinton's call to be @ the helm; now, with her hubby Mr.Clinton as VP; and one of you out of all of you, need to tell Romney he's committed fraud, for leaving the Post of so - called gov.that theirs a 2 yr.interval that must be met; the same fo Obama; whom is worst off then Bush Jr.then for none of you to have no Allegiance to be nothing but commander of thieves, since April 4th, 1968 to presently; in the killing of Dr.King Jr.must still go under Oath to all you perjurers; that mustn't go unpunished to the array of charges I have stored up against each of yo on every job, on every public premise; that Obama didn't praywhen he lied to GOD ALMIGHTY in perjury; to have left the seat of sen.to jump to the office; knowing he hadn't a clue what to do; so he got Joe, which is Cheney all over; whom should of been out of public; and he knows that and all the fugitives, even in the Italian led court in DC; that will have to answer to what is -LCB- H.R. 7152 -RCB-; and why they let Olsen for Bush Jr.waste the American's People's time, not to mention all the lives that's been lost; for the tyrannies since 1968 to presently has cost; Vote I, Edward Baltimore; to confirm I; Governor of DC; as of 2/16/12; cause DC; has been a State, already; and all you slaves from State to State; need to snap out of your peonage which is prohibited by Federal Laws; on anybody!!!!!!!

There isn't, David argues, any evidence for the governor's claims about the benefits of gambling, and the governor himself presents none, and a great deal of evidence against it.

Henry's legislation against Rome was revived, although Elizabeth chose to be called «supreme governor», unlike Henry who called himself «supreme head» of the church in England.

Florida Supreme Court says legislature, governor had no right to save Terri Schiavo's life The Florida Supreme Court today ruled unanimously that the state legislature should not have given Gov. Jeb Bush the power to feed mentally disabled 40 - year - old Terri Schiavo against the wishes of husband, who wanted to starve her to death.

Times when Governor Berkeley of Virginia in 1670 said, «I thank God there are no free schools, nor printing, and I hope we shall not have them these hundred years; for learning has brought disobedience and heresy and sects into the world, and printing has divulged them and libels against the best government.

The New Mexico State Legislature and Governor King quickly passed Senate Joint Memorial 5, which stated, in part and with considerable exaggeration: «Whereas, despite New Mexico's long and rich chile history and prehistory, with solid archaeological evidence indicating the continuous use of both red and green chile since the time of Folsom Man some twelve thousand years ago [this is not true], we now find «Texas Man» claiming the noble chile as his; and whereas despite the facts, we hear boasting from east of the Pecos that «The Lone Star State» is the chili capital of the Southwest... and Texas chefs malign the noble «red and green» by blending it into a slurry of kidney beans and onions called chili; now, therefore, be it resolved by the Legislature of the State of New Mexico that the Land of Enchantment bets the «whole enchilada» and its reputation as the Chile Capital of the World against the Lone Star State in the Mother of All Chile Wars Festival to be held May 29 - 31, 1993 at the Doña Ana County Fairgrounds.»

* Republican governors watch automated production process * Say campaign against «pink slime» unwarranted scare SOUTH SIOUX CITY, Neb., March 29 (Reuters)- A maker of the hamburger filler branded by critics as «pink slime» on Thursday allowed three state governors supportive of the U.S. beef industry and a handful of journalists to see it being made for the first time since a controversy erupted over use of the meat scraps.

A former deputy governor of Osun state and a key chieftain of the People's Democratic Party, PDP, Iyiola Omisore, has accused the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) of blackmail over allegation of fraud being leveled against him.

To the extent that that had not been done, Mr Anyidoho believes Dr Bawumia's action constitutes a criminal offence under Section 251 of Act 29 of the Criminal Offences Act 1960, hence he intends filing a suit against the former Deputy Governor of the Bank of Ghana.

A guy who invested in downtown buffalo when everyone else gave up on the inner city while his opponent was carefully reinventing himself as a calm, aloof, controlled and experienced outsider, who just happened to have a former governor (a crappy one at that), married a Kennedy for her name and got cuckolded in the process, wasted billions on bad sub-prime mortgages and canal money, ran against Carl McCall earning the everlasting respect of the African - Americans in NYS, and now sounds suspiciously like Elliot Spitzer.

Specifically, Omo - Agege's bill had stated that the immunity granted to the president, governors and their deputies in section 308 (1) of the constitution would no longer apply to criminal proceedings arising from allegations of financial crimes against them.

The speaker, Mr. Chikwendu Kalu, while reading the resolution, set up 8 - man ad - hoc committee to investigate allegations of misconduct against the judge, and mandated Governor Ikpeazu to appoint an acting chief judge pending the completion of the investigation by the committee.

The report is perhaps the antics of mischief makers, who wish to score cheap political points against the Kano State governor, a statement by the president's spokesman, Femi Adesina disclosed.

Although Sean Patrick Maloney is the favorite of a number of unions, he played a key role in the fallout of the Troopergate scandal, which Cuomo investigated as AG, and also ran against the governor in the 2006 AG primary.

«Apparently Governor Cuomo knew that this tactic of divide and conquer could be used with skill to appoint one of his friends, knowing that she is not the most qualified and does not have the necessary experience compared to others, but knowing that any non-Hispanic who would vote against her would create the perception that he or she was Anti-Hispanic,» Diaz Sr. wrote.

«Governor Ikpeazu, who has faith in the judiciary and rule of law, has instructed his lawyers to file an appeal immediately against the said judgment».

The Abia State Governor, Dr. Okezie Ikpeazu, has filed a notice of appeal and application for stay of execution at the Court of Appeal in Abuja against the ruling of Justice Okon Abang of the Federal High Court.