Sentences with phrase «arm of the state»

He went on to call for government consolidation, including merging several regional entities and overlapping arms of state government.

We are fearless in challenging decisions from public officers and other arms of the state.

In short: We're looking at a bunch of bad ideas here, and the aggressive arm of the state is behind all of them.

He gave the same amount last year, after donating $ 50,000 in 2010, and has given upwards of half a million dollars in total to various arms of the state committee.

The amendment not only makes a mockery of accountability by using tests that wouldn't pass anyone's smell test, it even violates both state constitutions (which put states in charge of public education and therefore, in charge of all testing) and the U.S. Supreme Court's ruling in Hunter v. Pittsburgh (which affirms the positions of districts and municipalities as arms of state governments).

Ron was previously president and chief executive officer of State Street Global Advisors, the investment management arm of State Street Corporation and a global leader with nearly $ 2.8 trillion in assets under management.

State Street Global Advisors, the investment management arm of State Street Corporation (NYSE: STT), delivers investment strategies and integrated solutions to clients worldwide across every asset class, investment approach and style.

Ritz's campaign also benefited from $ 173,000 in contributions from the political arm of the state's largest teachers union.

Enforcement arms of the state bars range from near - fanatical oversight to general uninterest.

He is scheduled to speak Sept. 18 to the Empire Club in New York City, making a pitch to the finance arm of the state Republican Party.

The enforcement arm of the state Board of Elections filed suit against Gonsalves in March, accusing her of 10 instances of failing to file timely reports between 2013 and 2015.

«This bill ignores that the Department of Public Instruction is the administrative arm of the State Board of Education, and overlooks the NC Constitution and previous judicial rulings.»

Jindal will raise money for the campaign arm of state Senate Republicans at an event in Manchester with ticket prices running from $ 100 to $ 5,000, CNN has learned.

He added he'll be meeting with state Senate President - designate Bill Galvano, who chairs the Florida Republican Senatorial Campaign Committee, or the GOP campaign arm of the state Senate.

I'm not sure what to make of it yet but the fact that SUNY seems to be acting as a development arm of the state in a lot of ways... Anytime you see that, it just seems really interesting to me.

One thoughtless sexual adventure can lead to a lifetime responsibility — enforced by the strong arm of the state.

Having rejected the authority of the Church as the glue holding together Christendom, Protestantism was ineluctably drawn to the force of military might, to using the secular arm of the state as the source for order and unity.

Louis had earlier asked Cuomo about budget language that would pave the way for arms of the state to use eminent domain around Penn Station, the crucial transportation hub in midtown Manhattan.

The Labour Party lawmaker charged the house to appeal to the executive arm of the state government to include Library Use on the school Time - Table, facilitate the establishment of function school libraries stocked with relevant books and other information resources in a bid for students to relate with books and develop their reading culture.

In the end, however, Schneiderman's long - standing relationship with the progressive arm of the state's organized labor community carried the day.

Dolan, who is also leader of the New York State Catholic Conference, the lobbying arm of the state's bishops, said the church is supportive of «very vigorous» changes to statute of limitations that would increase the age for victims to file civil and criminal actions.

As one of two Assembly Republicans from New York City — the other being Staten Island Assemblymember Ron Castorino, who chairs the county arm of the state Republican Party — Malliotakis has not shied away from the spotlight and has been forceful on some of her more conservative views.

For ten years Vallas directed the budget arm of the state legislature in Springfield.

Canada and China have signed a deal that will see PetroChina, the market arm of the state - owned China National Petroleum Corp., investing $ 1.7 billion in two Canadian tar - sands deposits in Alberta.

China's legal profession has two faces: One is a functioning commercial bar, the other is an oppressive arm of the state.

As the charitable arm of the State Bar, the California Bar Foundation's mission is to serve as a catalyst for building a better justice system for all Californians.

This location is seen as symbolic as the Court now sits alongside, but separate to, the executive and legislative arms of the state.

By contrast, Democratic challenger Glenda Ritz has raised $ 112,000 to date, largely from the political arms of the state's teachers unions.

This fact, along with the U.S. Supreme Court's ruling in Hunter v. Pittsburgh, has long ago established that districts are merely arms of state governments.

Euroclear Bank has announced that State Street Global Advisors (SSGA), the asset management arm of State Street Corporation (STT) has now completed the migration of all of its SPDR Irish - domiciled ETFs to Euroclear's ICSD model.»

SSGA is the investment management arm of State Street Corporation.

«The fact that customs might share what it learns with other arms of the state (including law enforcement) upon engaging the tool is a separate issue,» Hubbard argued.

The two Abu Dhabi funds are similar in size and both arms of the state but are distinct entities.

I saw that in reworking the doctrines of sin and atonement in the systematic theology I was planning to write, I had to address head - on the ways that postmodern society, through the arm of the state, aims to punish and heal.

Fairly or unfairly, they often came to be seen as an arm of the state, implicating them in government failures and compromising their ability to evangelize.

At one end of the media spectrum is the South African Broadcasting Corporation, SABC, the state monopoly for all television and almost all radio; it serves as an arm of the state, much more so than French television does and only slightly less so, if these things can be measured, than Soviet broadcasting.

Assassinations in London, President Putin's Championing of Russian Orthodox Church as an arm of state power, cyber warfare against countries and corporations, the use of proxy and paramilitary front groups, attempted coups in the Balkans, loans to the French National Front, the use of Russian forces in eastern Ukraine and in Georgia.

Under the previous government charities came to rely more and more on taxpayers» money, to the extent that parts of the voluntary sector practically became another arm of the state.

But could journalists really be free to do their job - to uncover wrongdoing, to expose dishonesty - with an arm of the state probing and interfering?