Sentences with phrase «as against the official»

In some states a litre of fuel rose to between N200 and N300 or above per litre as against the official pump price of N145.

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Other top government officials, like foreign minister Nikos Kotzias, have worked to water down the threat of further sanctions against Russia as well.

New York attorney - general Eric Schneiderman subpoenaed The Weinstein Company as part of a probe into whether studio officials had violated the law in their handling of abuse claims against its disgraced co-founder Harvey.

It started with Russia's seizure of Crimea from Ukraine in March, and it has been followed by a cascading series of punches and counterpunches: U.S. sanctions on Kremlin officials, Putin's support for Ukraine separatists, more penalties against Russia, and then counter-sanctions as Russia banned the U.S., the European Union, Norway, Australia, and Canada from selling billions of dollars» worth of fruits, vegetables, fish, and meats to Russia.

Most state election officials scoffed at the idea, while Trump critics described his obsession as thinly veiled racism against Hispanic and African - American voters.

In his job as an activist at the Center for Popular Democracy, Barkan led a successful effort to get Fed officials thinking more about low - income Americans as they conduct monetary policy, often arguing against interest rate hikes in the face of high underemployment and weak wage growth.

Emails anonymously provided to Chevron may show a «conspiracy against Chevron,» the oil giant claims, as well as leaks of confidential court materials to high - level Ecuadorian government officials in violation of court orders

Clinton has repeatedly accused her opponent as being soft on Russia, pointing to his praise of Russian President Vladimir Putin as a strong leader, his suggestion that he would rethink sanctions against Russian officials, his sharp criticism of NATO and other policy positions.

But as a government official said, «It was a way of demonstrating that Singapore was prepared to stand up against the mighty America.»

But some government officials, including some of Pruitt's own aides, pushed back against the spending requests and reportedly were sidelined as a result, pointing to an agency staff in disarray.

As a result, some top Chinese leaders have urged party officials «not to hesitate to show their sword» — a phrase that, in Chinese, means using violence against one's opponent.

At a time when the White House has vowed to act more forcefully against North Korea, Iran and other threats, some officials see the Cuba problem as yet another lesson in the dangers of using intelligence selectively to advance policy goals.

China may have played an early card in this week's trade summit with the United States as officials pegged the yuan at the lowest levels against the greenback in more than three months as the country's trade surplus swells to $ 58.25 billion.

Known for: Having waged a war against corrupt officials and won official recognition as the party's «core,» Xi became China's most dominant leader in decades in his first term.

As recently as March 10, 2018, American, EU, and Japanese officials agreed to cooperate on addressing unfair Chinese trade practices within the World Trade Organization (WTO) framework.27 The keys to pushing back against China's unfair practices are: maintaining a strong relationship with allies in Europe and Asia; being a reliable partner; and upholding multilateral institutions like the WTAs recently as March 10, 2018, American, EU, and Japanese officials agreed to cooperate on addressing unfair Chinese trade practices within the World Trade Organization (WTO) framework.27 The keys to pushing back against China's unfair practices are: maintaining a strong relationship with allies in Europe and Asia; being a reliable partner; and upholding multilateral institutions like the WTas March 10, 2018, American, EU, and Japanese officials agreed to cooperate on addressing unfair Chinese trade practices within the World Trade Organization (WTO) framework.27 The keys to pushing back against China's unfair practices are: maintaining a strong relationship with allies in Europe and Asia; being a reliable partner; and upholding multilateral institutions like the WTO.

As noted above, the final results for the previous fiscal year coupled with about six months of data for the current fiscal year are required before one can properly assess the current results against the latest official forecast.

China's official news agency, Xinhua, characterized the call between Mr. Mnuchin and Mr. Liu as confrontational, with Mr. Liu warning Mr. Mnuchin that America's trade actions against China were straining economic ties between the countries.

The officials said Kelly portrays himself to Trump administration aides as the lone bulwark against catastrophe, curbing the erratic urges of a president who has a questionable grasp on policy issues and the functions of government.

The likelihood of a United States strike against Syria after a suspected chemical weapons attack increased Sunday as President Trump said there would be a «big price to pay» and officials in France vowed the country would «do its duty» in responding.

Similar to U.S. National Park Service officials» prior preference for peaceful herds of elks and an absence of «risky animals,» some monetary policymakers maintained a bias against market volatility, and they perceive removal of «unwanted volatility» as beneficial to financial markets to inadvertently reduced markets» risk tolerance.

Prominent Republicans warned President Donald Trump on Wednesday against taking further trade actions that could harm American workers, even as top administration officials meeting in Davos, Switzerland, rose to the defense of the president's «America...

Thus far in 2005, the dollar has risen back to around 1.30 against the euro, in part reflecting the fact that the US federal funds rate has now risen above the monetary policy rate in the euro area, as well as comments from European officials expressing concerns about the extent of the appreciation of the euro.

Ask any of these Zimbabweans if they see bitcoin as a hedge against «official» monetary policy.

Eurozone officials are unanimous that it means a commitment to financial war against labor — to austerity and yet further economic shrinkage; to faster privatization selloffs (but not to Russians if they offer higher prices, as Gazprom did) and hence higher prices for hitherto public utilities; to no rejection of past insider privatization deals to higher value - added taxes on consumers; and to lower pensions for labor.

The camp trailers on family property of Santa Rosa contractor Michael Wolff, which serve as temporary homes for workers clearing fire debris, won't result in fines this week against Wolff, a city official said Wednesday.

Depending on what it says, Trump could argue that it provides evidence of deep bias against him at the FBI and use it as a pretext to fire top Justice Department officials he perceives as insufficiently loyal, like Rosenstein.

Earlier this week, he said exactly what anonymous Ministry of Defense sources said a few weeks ago, when they asserted that Iron Dome was under threat of a procurement freeze as part of their eternal war against the Ministry of Finance officials over the defense budget.

Some argue using a permission blockchain would help as it would only allow a few people to fully access the records, but the possibility of having a government official (or just the regular public) know how an individual vote goes against the premise of free and fair elections.

After the Arab child was murdered they cried out in shared sorrow, grief, and pain against this horror, as did the Israeli Prime Minister and other government officials of note and eminence.

The Public Order Act Last month, we published English barrister Paul Diamond's report on official bigotry against Christianity in England, which uses the Public Order Act and its outlawing of speech that is «threatening, abusive, or insulting» as an excuse.

-1384), who produced the first English Bible (in 1382, not keeping it in Latin as the official language of the church), was condemned by Pope Gregory XI, issuing five edicts against him.

In the official course books, any social norms which are opposed to Catholic moral teaching are treated as «controversial» and presented with a range of views for and against.

If you listed every single good deed done by church members, officials, clergy and the Catholc church as a whole, and measured it against the negatives, I believe the scales would tip toward te positive most aggressively.

Since the beginning of last week, ISIS has taken thousands of people hostage from the outskirts of Mosul into the main parts of the city, and United Nations officials fear that the plan is «to use them as human shields against the Iraqi forces advance on Mosul.»

Against the prudent, realistic, hard - boiled legalists in the Kennedy administration like Byron White and Burke Marshall, a federal official of conscience and egalitarian conviction like John Doar (an Eisenhower holdover) emerges from Branch's account as a lonely, embattled and courageous figure: a «man who talked like Gary Cooper» and acted like Gary Cooper in the streets of Jackson, Mississippi, where he calmed an angry mob following the murder of Medgar Evers.

In a joint statement, they said: «Turkish officials who participate in the detainment of any innocent American citizen should face international consequences, and the actions against Pastor Brunson, in particular, qualify as hostage - taking.»

Even Paul, in at least one instance, claimed his rights as a Roman citizen against the abuses of officials.

Spew and hate, read the same article you did I don't recall Mr Cathy using those words it sounds like you are the one ready to use those words when you don't like what you hear, as for the other I did misspell and I do understand that officials are the ones ready to discriminate against those whoever they are were elected to serve with their own opinion.

The construction of our mosques is protested, our communities are profiled...» America's Muslim leaders have NOT issued a fatwa (official condemnation) of Osama bin - Laden as the Muslim leaders in Spain, etc. have and a USA Today poll shows that 5 % of American Muslims (120,000 people) feel that violence against the USA is justified.

from both Britain and the Continent have often failed to become involved in the discussion, even misconstruing its significance because of their radically altered historical context.5 In a recent article on evangelical identity, Gerald Sheppard goes so far as to claim that «inerrancy» is for American evangelicals «the official language of social identification, over against other so - called «nonevangelical» institutions.»

«The Church of England has no official policy either for or against hydraulic fracturing (known as «fracking»)», Philip Fletcher, chair of the CofE's group...

This discriminates not only against such groups as the Salvation Army and the Jehovah's Witnesses but even against the Catholics, whose only official presence at that time had been one church in Moscow.

We have men such as Daniel as examples, men of whom it has been written that, because the officials of his time could find no fault with him, laws were purposely passed that went against his principles, and as a result, he was thrown into the lion's den.

PFC Luna, it seems as if upon further reflection, military officials have ruled against you, and determined that standing at attention demonstrates appropriate respect.

As one Catholic official puts it, «The rhetoric and arguments aimed at marginalizing the Religious Right might one day be turned against us.»

Against a background of these events and actions, in which more than fifty congregations are now involved and in which hundreds of people have gained experience in dealing with elected and appointed authorities, the story of the Nehemiah Project can he understood As Saul Alinsky said: «The relevant skill in modern urban life is that of knowing how to hold public officials accountable» — and that, as we shall see, is what EBC and the Nehemiah Project have been all abouAs Saul Alinsky said: «The relevant skill in modern urban life is that of knowing how to hold public officials accountable» — and that, as we shall see, is what EBC and the Nehemiah Project have been all abouas we shall see, is what EBC and the Nehemiah Project have been all about.

By January of 1985 it was evident that reprisals against the lay signers were beginning as well — particularly against Daniel Maguire, professor of ethics at Marquette University, the male signer generally regarded as holding something close to official status as a Catholic theologian.

The second period also saw the decline of belief in official ideology and Christianity as the only «alternative ideology» which could unite the people against the state.

Disposition: Immediately upon receiving Chuck's cease and desist request in 2006, Kraft Foods decided to throw its corporate weight around, conspiring in the filing of a cancellation proceeding against Chuck's incontestable trademark, Smokey Chipotle; as well as filing an objection to registration upon official publication of Chuck's new trademark registration, Smokin» Chipotle.

Pre-shipment: An overseas country has an official requirement to have the export of wheat fumigated with methyl bromide as a phytosanitary precaution against the introduction of unspecified stored product pests, such as red flour beetle or rice weevil - any fumigation must take place within 21 days of export.