Sentences with phrase «arms of government in»

«I feel that I'm caught in the invisible arms of government in a country slowly dying beyond our grasp,» Wojnarowicz writes in his 1991 memoir - cum - essay collection,

He said, «The death of Ikpi - Itam could be likened to a brick falling on you from the mountain top, considering the wonderful and fantastic relationship that existed between his family and that of the deceased as well as the cordiality shared between the executive and judicial arms of government in the state.»

He was optimistic that the party would move forward having completed its consultations with the National Assembly, adding that cooperation was needed among the arms of government in order to move the nation forward.

«The prevailing atmosphere of mutual tolerance and understanding between the executive and legislative arms of government in Imo state is a product of the impressive performance of the former.

As leaders, we must build synergy between the Executive, Legislative and Judicial arms of government in order to entrench good governance, transparency and accountability.

This is important because members of parliament belong to one of the third arms of government in the country and they deserved to be respected as such just as Ghanaians hold the judges in high esteem.

It said further, «We welcome the resignation of controversial Speaker Umar Ahmed Imam after the mayhem and call on the newly - elected Speaker of the House, Hon Matthew Kolawole, to provide a dynamic leadership that would position the Assembly as a truly independent arm of government in Kogi State.

The group called on the House of Assembly to rise to the challenge of playing its roles as the third arm of government in Kogi State.

Not exact matches

CAAT states that U.K. government data it has compiled show that since the Saudi - led coalition began airstrikes on Yemen in 2015, «the U.K. has licensed # 4.6 billion ($ 6.3 billion) worth of arms to Saudi Arabia, including # 2.7 billion worth of ML10 licenses (aircraft, helicopters, drones) and # 1.9 billion worth of ML4 licenses (grenades, bombs, missiles, countermeasures).»

«And then we have a legal review that says that engaging this target comports with the laws of armed conflict and that engaging in these circumstances is permissible according to those laws, and once we've established all of those things we go to the government of Iraq and ask them for permission to strike that building, and they'll say yes or no, and they do say both, depending on the structure.

The move is believed to be part of joint drills planned by the Iranian and the Iraqi government armed forces in retaliation for an independence referendum held a week ago by Iraq's Kurds.

The go - to resource for the legal requirements in your particular industry or state is the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), the arm of the federal government that enforces health and safety laws.

The cost of all those civil servants, politicians, teachers, firefighters, police officers and armed forces explains much of the overspending and indebtedness of the government sector, in the authors» view.

By the time the West struck back just under a week later, armed resistance in the areas around the Syrian government's seat of power had all but collapsed, further strengthening the hand of President Bashar al - Assad.

«They are providing arms and weapons to the Syrian opposition that can be used in fighting against the Damascus government [the seat of Syrian government].»

Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D - Calif., chief sponsor of legislation that Democrats are pushing following Orlando, got numbers in March from the nonpartisan Government Accountability Office, an investigative arm of Congress.

Ms. Taylor is currently a Director of two separate real estate companies in Papua New Guinea and previously served as the General Manager of Nokondi Investments, the property development business arm of the Eastern Highlands Provincial Government.

Azman Mokhtar, the managing director of Khazanah Nasional, the investment arm of the Malaysian government, which has a majority stake in the airline, said future state aid of up to 6 billion ringgit, or $ 1.9 billion, in the airline would come with «strict conditions.»

«This government has a record of paying out millions of dollars in salaries and bonuses to employees of arm's length organizations.

More recently, arms of the Chinese government have shown a warmer attitude to «blockchain technology», saying China has natural advantages in hardware and innovation it should leverage to become a leader in the space.

Energy exporting governments must use falling costs as an prospect to reduce generous subsidies and restore their fiscal health, according to the personal arm of the Planet Financial institution Low oil rates will aid invigorate personal investment decision in the Center East according to a leading determine at the private...

The German government is considering telling the public to stockpile food and water in case of major disasters or an armed attack, a newspaper says.

Venezuela is staring at a far worse economic crisis in the coming days, as US - based banking major Citibank intends to close a number of accounts belonging to the Central Bank of Venezuela and other government arms.

The unknown head of the Advanced Research Sector 7 arm of the government makes himself known to the Secretary of Defense, informing him of the existence of Sector 7, and how it was formed in secrecy 80 years ago by then - President Hoover to deal with extraterrestrial threats or occurrences.

Kyrgyz Republic By Simon Watkins Kurmanbek Bakiyev After a week of defying a provisional government that seized power in an armed uprising that left at least 84 people dead, the Kyrgyz Republic's ousted president, Kurmanbek Bakiyev, resigned and...

Mr. André Malraux, the government official, has a bodyguard of police armed with automatic pistols; the same Mr. Malraux, in the days when he was a revolutionary, carried an automatic himself.

... In Nicaragua there is no systematic practice of forced disappearances, extrajudicial killings or torture — as has been the case with the «friendly» armed forces of El Salvador Nor has the Government practiced elimination of cultural or ethnic groups, as the Administration frequently claims; indeed in this respect, as in most others, Nicaragua's record is by no means so bad as that of Guatemala, whose government the Administration consistently defendIn Nicaragua there is no systematic practice of forced disappearances, extrajudicial killings or torture — as has been the case with the «friendly» armed forces of El Salvador Nor has the Government practiced elimination of cultural or ethnic groups, as the Administration frequently claims; indeed in this respect, as in most others, Nicaragua's record is by no means so bad as that of Guatemala, whose government the Administration consistentlGovernment practiced elimination of cultural or ethnic groups, as the Administration frequently claims; indeed in this respect, as in most others, Nicaragua's record is by no means so bad as that of Guatemala, whose government the Administration consistently defendin this respect, as in most others, Nicaragua's record is by no means so bad as that of Guatemala, whose government the Administration consistently defendin most others, Nicaragua's record is by no means so bad as that of Guatemala, whose government the Administration consistentlgovernment the Administration consistently defends.

The Lord's Resistance Army, a cult guerrilla army engaged in an armed rebellion against the Ugandan government, has been accused of using child soldiers and committing numerous crimes against humanity; including massacres, abductions, mutilation, torture, rape, porters and sex slaves.

Christianity has consistently qualified the legitimacy of self - defense and has authorized armed action principally on behalf of the neighbor — in the form of a government's defense of its people or a nation's intervention to aid an unjustly attacked neighbor.

In the case of the government or military, the apostle sent with orders normally would be a part of an armed entourage.

He finds these values as well in the handiwork of «insurrectionists» from Daniel Shays to John Brown to Timothy McVeigh, and in the arguments of neo-republican legal scholars such as Amar, Sanford Levinson and David Williams, who find a mandate for revolutionary resistance to oppressive government in the Second Amendment right to bear arms.

The visit has been a few years in the making but was delayed as the Colombian government's negotiations with the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia stretched on.

Among the many positions taken by these critics, the argument most relevant to our present theme is that the rise of international institutions under the umbrella of the United Nations system represents the leading edge of a new global system of government that has superseded the state in important respects, including the right to judge when resort to armed force is legitimate.

I was inundated with your government's propaganda machine in the form of the Armed Forces Radio and Television Service during that time.

Their solution was to arm the individual with certain inalienable guarantees, contained in the Bill of Rights, and to disarm the government by constructing a system of checks and balances to ensure that none of the three branches — and in particular the executive — became all - powerful.

«We have no government armed in power capable of contending in human passions unbridled by morality and religion... Our Consti - tution was made only for a moral and religious people.

By 1962, he had been instrumental in the founding of Umkhonto we Sizwe (the spear of the nation), the military wing of the ANC, charged with leading an armed struggle against the Apartheid government which had institutionalised South Africa's long history of racial injustice and taken it to new and bloody depths.

The five so - called «World - wide» wire services upon which each nation's mass media (and to some extent government) depend for information about events outside its own border are arms of their respective national systems (American, English, French and Soviet) and mirror the interests of the power structure within their home countries in the selection and presentation of information from the outside world.

He had no money, no arms, no military experience; he had no formal schooling, and he lived in an environment of anarchy and cruelty under an aggressive and hostile government.

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.

Consistent with the Hoover Report's recommendations that the United States had to reconsider «long - standing American concepts of fair play» and «learn to subvert, sabotage and destroy our enemies,» the shadow government built alliances between U.S. government officials, the Mafia, and international drug cartels; assassinated many thousands of civilians in Southeast Asia; carried out or attempted assassination of foreign leaders; trained death squads and secret police forces; worked to shore up unpopular dictators like the Shah of Iran and the Somoza dictatorship in prerevolutionary Nicaragua; worked to destabilize «unfriendly» governments such as Allende in Chile and the Sandinistas in Nicaragua; cooperated with the Colombian drug cartel to plot the assassination of the former U.S. ambassador to Costa Rica, Lewis Tambs, with the intention of justifying a U.S. invasion of Nicaragua by blaming his death on the Sandinistas; contracted with the Reagan administration and the National Security Council to find ways of circumventing a congressional ban prohibiting aid to the contras, including the trading of arms to Iran in exchange for hostages and money for the contras; illegally shipped weapons from the United States to the contras and allowed returning planes to use the same protected flight paths to transport drugs into the United States; 11 targeted the U.S. people for disinformation campaigns; and helped prepare contingency plans for declaring a form of martial law in the United States that would have formally suspended constitutional freedoms.

The Chinese Muslim's Association was founded in 1357 (A.D. 1938) at the start of the Sino - Japanese war when the Central Government ordered a Muslim general in the armed forces to form a nationwide organization which would unify the Muslims of China in support of the government and obtain support from Muslim Government ordered a Muslim general in the armed forces to form a nationwide organization which would unify the Muslims of China in support of the government and obtain support from Muslim government and obtain support from Muslim countries.

Can it be that the Israelis arrested in the U.S. for selling arms to Iran did so at the behest of the U.S. government?

When I consider the escalating arms race, the insensitivity of oppressive governments, and the unrest created by women's issues in our churches.

(1) places on record its conviction that the protection of missionaries should only be by such methods as will promote good will in personal and official relations and (2) urges on all missionary societies that they make no claim on their governments for the armed defense of their missionaries and their property.

The 2nd amendment was pretty clear that the Federal government has no role whatsoever in regulating the arms of the citizens.

The use of arms by citizens to defend themselves against the actions of Federal Government — ended in their deaths and as far as I can tell has done so, pretty much every time.

In July 1964 a House Armed Services subcommittee heard witnesses regarding the practice of industrial firms, working on cost - plus contracts, to charge off recreation and entertainment expenses to the Government.

In June, newspaper Die Zeit alleged that German Chancellor Gerhard Schröder had authorised the sale of arms to the Saudi Arabian government in an attempt to influence the vote of the Saudi committee membeIn June, newspaper Die Zeit alleged that German Chancellor Gerhard Schröder had authorised the sale of arms to the Saudi Arabian government in an attempt to influence the vote of the Saudi committee membein an attempt to influence the vote of the Saudi committee member.

Parents are «badasses» when they express their distrust of government and humanity and their interest in arming to «protect» themselves (by owning a multitude of weapons and purchasing bullets on the internet as swiftly as ordering a box of diapers).