Sentences with phrase «agent of government»

«affordable housing agreement» means an agreement made by the minister, the British Columbia Housing Management Commission or any other agent of the government with a person who has received or is to receive assistance from the government to acquire, develop or operate an affordable housing development;

(3) If an affordable housing agreement includes a restriction under subsection (2), the minister, the British Columbia Housing Management Commission or other agent of the government may file a written notice in the land title office containing

A government school has more limited ability to tell you what to do (being an agent of the government), and there has to be some statutory underpinning for any restrictions they would impose on your liberty.

But when Company Z reads an employee blog post saying «We are wrong on this (to become an agent of a government and censor an entire blogger's work)» what would most do?

You tend to work for whoever pays you, and when scientific research is mostly paid for by grants from the government, science becomes an agent of government.

Just a note on Randy's comment... the only rationale for a pet limit I have seen is the stupid claim that, if you have more than the «average» number of pets (a number chosen by the government), then you are assumed not to have the resources to care for them unless an agent of the government comes into your home, without a warrant, and decides you're okay.

As the fiscal agent of the Government, MAS acts to undertake the issue and management of SGS on its behalf.

Kiefer Sutherland stars as Jack Bauer, an agent of the government's Counter Terrorist Unit (CTU) that works to prevent acts of terrorism against the United States.

It's another thing to become an agent of a government and censor an entire blogger's work,» Scoble wrote on his blog.

The tendency for UGC to become a mere agent of government was exacerbated — until 1979, when it regained a somewhat greater initiative.

Speaking through his media aide, Paul Mumeh, Mark said the EFCC or any other agent of government were chasing shadows because the property was dully offered for sale, bided for, and he purchased like any other person would in line with Federal Government's Monetization Policy that was started during the time of President Olusegun Obasanjo.

Then again, I find BOTH sides of this argument to be illigical idiots from the ground up, by somehow blythely assuming as axiom that the government owes ANYONE (straight or gay) different treatment based on nothing more than an agent of government having previously given them a paper statement that these two are now in a special relationship.

Furthermore, they should resist becoming a tool or agent of government programs that have no interest in the unique values and mission of the church.

In the US, pastors who perform weddings act as an agent of the government.

The idea is to leave as few non-individual players as possible in the private sphere, and to turn those few that are left into agents of the government.»

What makes this psychology so prevalent is that those who have the power - agents of government, parents, teachers, business managers, and religious leaders, who also define what's right or wrong - totally support it.

Good answer, however, from POV of constitutionalists like Alan Dershovitz, the concept of «taint team» is unconstitutional because they are agents of government and that alone prevents them from even looking at privileged communications, let alone pick what is and what's not relevant.

Even our long cherished principle that an accused person is presumed innocent until proven guilty has suffered brutal assault at the hands of overzealous agents of government.

Just yesterday, labour leaders in the state raised the alarm that their lives were under threat from the agents of government because of the ongoing strike action.

But Smith's lawyer, Evan Lipton, said the evidence will prove only entrapment — that «agents of the government invented a crime and lured Malcolm Smith into it.»

Agents of government is more correct.

Generally, personal injury lawsuits against school districts tend to be tricky because, first and foremost, public schools are agents of the government.

«Police over a long time were the public face of the Government as the agents of the Government, police caused unimaginable pain and anguish to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities, families and particularly mothers and children by the forcible removal of children,» Mr Ryan said.

Not exact matches

Syrian President Bashar Assad and his government are suspected of having used nerve - agent and chlorine gases against people living in Douma, Syria, on April 7, killing dozens and injuring hundreds of men, women, and children.

We could develop a Communist Cuba terror campaign in the Miami area, in other Florida cities and even in Washington... We could sink a boatload of Cubans enroute to Florida (real or simulated)... Exploding a few plastic bombs in carefully chosen spots, the arrest of Cuban agents and the release of prepared documents substantiating Cuban involvement also would be helpful in projecting the idea of an irresponsible government.

Leading the effort has been Gary Boggs, who spent four decades as a DEA agent before joining McKesson in 2013 as the senior director of regulatory affairs, in the midst of the government's investigations into McKesson.

In March, federal prosecutors charged two Russian intelligence agents and two hackers with masterminding a 2014 theft of 500 million Yahoo accounts, the first time the U.S. government has criminally charged Russian spies for cyber crimes.

The indictment says Manafort and Gates received the money by acting as unregistered agents of the pro-Russia government of Ukraine and its political parties and leaders.

While Podesta didn't directly accuse Trump of assisting with Russia's meddling with American campaigns, he suggested Trump was either «willfully ignoring» intelligence officials» warnings about Russian government involvement or «an unwitting agent of the Russian Federation.»

The first half of the film feels strangely off — it starts with a prologue set in the»80s that introduces Michael Douglass as Hank Pym, a scientist with a remarkable formula for shrinking matter who decides to hide it from the government agents that want it as a weapon (there are also quite a few Easter eggs for Marvel fans in those first few minutes).

There is no evidence to date of government agents misusing the forfeiture process to steal Bitcoin, and former prosecutors, including Histed, stress that corruption is the exception, not the rule.

Cartel members (some of whom resettled after cooperating with the US government) and their relatives live in the US — sometimes in the same neighborhoods as the agents who once pursued them.

Other than a few wildly far - fetched possibilities — North Korean agents running around Havana, or perhaps a secret team of Venezuelan spies subverting their own government's closest ally — that would seem to leave only Russia.

It also featured an FBI agent who went rogue, and sold Ulbricht information about the government's case for hundreds of thousands of dollars, paid in bitcoins.

Papadopoulos was arrested on July 27 of this year upon his arrival to Dulles airport in Washington, DC, and met with government agents several times thereafter.

The newly unsealed charge, filed October 3 by the special counsel Robert Mueller's office, said that on January 27 Papadopoulos lied to FBI agents about «the timing, extent, and nature of his relationships and interactions with certain foreign nationals whom he understood to have close connections with senior Russian government officials.»

And if we wanted to spend some time on the suject, we could probably find numerous other examples of census data being historically (and, if you believe the New York Times - that agent of the Harper government - presently) misused by governments, often to the significant prejudice of minority members of those societies.

It could be a House of Cards political thriller: A high - ranking elected official and his family are wined and dined by a rich and powerful foreign agent who does business with the government.

In the fall of 2010, the Government reached agreements with a number of bargaining agents, representing over 95,000 employees, which included the elimination of the accrual of severance benefits for resignation and retirement.

In an October article in LifeHealthPro, an online trade journal for insurance agents and financial advisers, Michael Markey, an insurance agent and owner of Legacy Financial Network, called for Ramsey to «be regulated and to be held accountable» by the government for the opinions he gives to listeners.

BipCoin can be used by anyone granted they're not a government or government agent, bringing the notion of independence to a whole new level.

We got a tip that there was a rogue agent on the [government] payroll, which we took with a grain of salt at the time, given the conspiracy theories that were out there about the government.

An avid proponent of collaborative communities, during his tenure as Chair, Dr. McArthur reached out to businesses, governments and academia to solidify the Foundation's position as a thought leader and agent of action in Canada's evolving relations with Asia.

The Bank subscribes to tenders when necessary for its own portfolio management purposes and provides registry services, but since October 2006 the Bank no longer acts as agent for the Australian Government in conducting tenders of Australian Government Securities.

The Office of the Superintendent of Real Estate in B.C., a newly created government overseer of the industry, has decreed that an agent must not, and indeed can not, double - end a deal.

OTTAWA — Four Russian spies based in Canada have been ordered out of the country as Western governments seek to condemn the Kremlin's alleged involvement in the poisoning of a former Russian agent and his daughter in Britain.

Never before have prices in the financial markets been so distorted and deceptive, but people now feel more secure because it is clear that the government and its agents are hard at work ensuring that nobody can take advantage of anbody else.

The poisoning of a former agent has put pressure on the British government to rein them in.

Page had a longtime history of connections with the Russian government — so much so that in 2013, Russian agents approached him with the intent of turning him into an asset (a point the Nunes memo never notes).

According to the FBI, that warrant was based on information from a variety of sources that showed they had probable cause Page may have been acting as an agent of the Russian government.