Sentences with phrase «agency headed by»

The Act is administered and enforced by the federal Competition Bureau (Bureau), a federal enforcement agency headed by the Commissioner of Competition (Commissioner).

She plays a former super model, who owns a bunch of businesses, including a private detective agency headed by Bruce Willis.

Trained at the French government's gunpowder agency headed by the famous chemist Antoine Lavoisier, E.I. was certain that he could produce black powder superior to the best available American product at that time.

Jim D: «If it is for policymakers like Congress or government agencies headed by the likes of Pruitt and Perry, it will fall on deaf ears.»

If it is for policymakers like Congress or government agencies headed by the likes of Pruitt and Perry, it will fall on deaf ears.

Not exact matches

Current FCC chairman Ajit Pai, appointed by President Donald Trump to head the agency in January, has been a steady opponent of the current rules and its working to reverse them.

The tension mirrors disputes that have arisen over the refusal by Catholic hospitals and universities to offer contraception in their employee health plans and moves by local governments to stop contracting with religiously affiliated adoption agencies that refuse to place children in households headed by same - sex couples.

The Apple chief was accompanied by Lisa Jackson, Apple's vice president of environment and government affairs and the head of the Environmental Protection Agency under President Barack Obama.

The sentiment was echoed recently by the outgoing head of the Environmental Protection Agency, Gina McCarthy, who credited the Obama administration with helping to create thousands of renewable energy jobs.

Steele, who was the head of the British intelligence agency MI6's Moscow desk and is known for his «knowledge of the intricate web» of Kremlin - tied companies and associates, wrote the dossier between July and December of 2016 as part of an opposition research project funded by anti-Trump Republicans.

The news comes from a report issued Thursday by the Secure Our Smartphones («S.O.S.») Initiative, an international partnership of law - enforcement agencies, elected officials, and consumer advocates headed by New York State Attorney General Eric Schneiderman, San Francisco District Attorney George Gascón, and London Mayor Boris Johnson.

Ford, by contrast, issued two voluntary recalls, and did so in such a straightforward manner that the head of the National Highway Transportation Safety Agency commended the company for «stepping forward to resolve [the] issue.»

But Obama fired Flynn as the head of the Defense Intelligence Agency in 2014 — and Flynn's security clearance would have been renewed at the DIA level rather than by the upper echelons of the White House.

Heads of six U.S. intelligence agencies are warning Americans against using products made by Chinese smartphone manufacturer Huawei.

The confusing stance comes as the Federal Communications Commission under new chairman Ajit Pai, a former Verizon (vz) lawyer appointed by President Trump to head the agency, is working to roll back the rules.

Pai, chosen by Trump in January to head the agency, also has said he wants to dismantle other significant regulations as part of a sweeping review he said would remove barriers to business and modernize rules.

The contract «particularly important» at a time when Europe has threatened to cut gas imports and reduce its dependence on Russia because of the Ukraine crisis, said Alexander Lukin, a deputy head of the Russian Diplomatic Academy under the country's Foreign Ministry, quoted by the RIA Novosti news agency.

Chinese press agency Xinhua, for example, said the court was «headed by (a) Japanese right - winger.»

The U.S. Senate voted on Tuesday to confirm attorney Jay Clayton to head the SEC, a change in leadership that could prompt a change in tack by the agency through which investment products come to market.

There are currently two interim leaders of the agency: current head of the Office of Management and Budget Mick Mulvaney, who was selected by President Trump to oversee the consumer watchdog until a permanent replacement could be found, and Leandra English, former CFPB chief of staff turned deputy director, whom Cordray had appointed.

Broward Sheriff's Office spokeswoman Veda Coleman Wright said the agency was notified by Cruz's guardian, Rocxanne Deschamps, that he was driving without a license or insurance and could be headed to Broward County.

A uniform fiduciary rule crafted by the agency, however, will be business - model neutral, she said — a term that has had many in the advisory community scratching their heads.

The fact is that private industry, backed by both agency initiatives and forward - thinking angel investors, will be heading to the Moon in the very near future.

The investigation, headed by the agency's economic offences wing, is looking into the victim's claim of losing just under 7 bitcoins in total last year.

Apart from brief — and unofficial — comments by Valerie Szczepanik (head of the agency's distributed ledger working group), since then there has been nary a whisper regarding cryptocurrency or blockchain technology.

The world's largest «DDoS - as - a-Service» operation, webstressor.org, has been seized by the US military Defence Criminal Investigative Unit after a joint operation headed by the UK's National Crime Agency.

Besides being named as the fifth most popular destination for Chinese tourists for Chinese New Year by China's top travel agency Ctrip, a recent survey by Juwai.com also revealed that Chinese buyers intend to head Down Under during this peak property hunting period.

Dinner was to be served, according to the agenda circulated in advance of the meeting of the Senior Advisory Committee, which is chaired by deputy minister of Finance and includes the heads of the Bank of Canada, the Office of the Superintendent of Financial Institutions, the Canada Deposit Insurance Corp., and the Financial Consumer Agency of Canada.

He attended Columbia, Harvard, and Oxford universities, and his mother was appointed by President Ronald Reagan as the first female head of the Environmental Protection Agency.

The «Oscar for Leo» project is headed up by a woman named Tatyana Yegorova, who recently told Russia's TASS news agency that after she and other longtime fans saw The Revenant, they decided it was high time DiCaprio was awarded an Oscar.

He reconstructs Condor's history by mining previously secret documents from both the U.S. and South America, as well as interview data from more than 200 people, including Colonel Manuel Contreras, head of Chile's brutal spy agency, DINA.

President Lagos appointed her to the Commission on Torture and Political Prisoners, which is headed by Sergio Valech, a retired bishop and the last director of the Vicariate of Solidarity, the Catholic Church's human rights agency, founded during the darkest years of the Pinochet era.

Launched by heads of the three UN Rome - based agencies, it gathers practitioners and experts worldwide to share and disseminate information and practices.

NBA — The Free Agency period has been dominated by talk of LeBron James heading back to the Cleveland Cavaliers and below shows a timeline of the prop bet for LeBron to return to Cleveland (via 5Dimes — low limits):

Rival agency Hanover Communications is headed up by Charles Lewington, the smooth - talking former Conservative party press chief under John Major.

Dr Aning, who is the Head of Research at the KAIPTC, gave the caution in an interview with the Ghana News Agency on Thursday in Accra on the sideline of a public lecture delivered by Mr Simon Coveney, Minister of Defence for Ireland.

Presidents dismiss cabinet members if they perceive that they will stand to lose agency by maintaining an agency head as a member of their inner circle.

This assurance was given by the heads of the security agencies in the state following the announcement of the electoral umpire to conduct the bye - election into the vacant seat of the district next month.

But the anti-narcotic agency, in a statement on Monday by its Head, Public Affairs, Mitchell Ofoyeju, said any individual, found culpable of drug trafficking and other related offences, would be duly prosecuted by the agency irrespective of his or her status.

They are expected to complete the registration process by submitting the endorsed appointment letters to the heads of the user agencies they have been posted to for approval before they officially begin the service.

Trump's Environmental Protection Agency head, Scott Pruitt, is in hot water for spending much of his first year in Washington, D.C. living in a Capitol Hill townhouse co-owned by the wife of a major energy lobbyist.

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It was the first board meeting presided over by Larry Schwartz, installed by Gov. Paterson last month to head the agency after he forced Meyer «Sandy» Frucher to step down as chairman.

The agency was headed until January by Bill Mulrow, a former Blackstone lobbyist who is now the governor's chief of staff.

The event was attended by both current and former heads of agencies under the Ministry.

Other proposals by the Albanese campaign include new Mitchell Lama development in place of the mayor's proposal to build 90 new homeless shelters, a tax on real estate purchased by foreign individuals and corporations as investments rather than residences, and consolidating «programs like Head Start and pre-K under a single city agency.»

The agency — headed by the mayor, who appoints a majority of its board members — has been criticized for poor financial oversight of block grant funds.

But Politico's Laura Nahmias asked about a campaign promise he'd made in 2013 — to disclose not only his own meetings with lobbyists, but those held by agency heads and commissioners as well.

The Ethics Commission will soon be rolled into a new agency, with the head honcho and majority of board members appointed by Governor Eliot Spitzer.

, on Tuesday, in Abuja, held a crucial meeting with heads of internal security agencies over the killings by herdsmen and other security challenges in the country.