Sentences with phrase «as holders of that office»

Almost inevitably, when members of nondominant ethnic groups are given high offices in the church, they are expected to act very much as holders of that office have always acted.

«However, ancient and terrible magic binds me as the holder of this office to pass into law any petition which reaches one million signatures.

Not exact matches

Presidents are exempt from federal ethics rules, though most recent holders of the office have sold off their financial holdings and put them in trusts as if the rules did apply to them.

A graduate of the Ecole Polytechnique, holder of a DEA in Organisational Strategy and an Engineer from the Ponts et Chaussées, François Gauthey joined the Private Office of the Minister for the Economy, Edmond Alphandery, in 1993, as a technical advisor.

NeuLion's role boils down to three elements, Wagner said, which are disseminating the actual live - stream of the fight, as well as handling the entire transaction process for customers looking to pay to stream the fight through UFC.TV, Sky Box Office, or one of the other rights holders the company works with.

The face - to - face meeting between Moynihan and Holder is being pushed as the bank faces the possibility of a lawsuit from the U.S. Attorney's office in New Jersey against Merrill Lynch's actions leading up to the mortgage crisis.

When an employee takes a government job that requires divesting of assets in order to prevent conflicts of interest — as the role of Treasury Secretary certainly would, and did for the current holder of that office, Steven Mnuchin — J.P. Morgan's policy fast - tracks the vesting of the employee's stock awards.

While we therefore welcome Ms. Lynch's ascension to the office, in candor, we probably would say that anyone short of Jamie Dimon as Attorney General would likely be an improvement over Mr. Holder.

As a former public office holder, he is forbidden by law from lobbying the federal government for a period of five years as of the date of his political retirement in 201As a former public office holder, he is forbidden by law from lobbying the federal government for a period of five years as of the date of his political retirement in 201as of the date of his political retirement in 2016.

Because I could not hide this fact from myself and others, because I could not very well begin my lectures in Bonn with the salutation to Hitler, and because I could not very well swear an unconditioned oath of allegiance to the Führer, as I should have to do as the holder of a state office, I lost my position in the service of this state and was forced to quit Germany.

Tell you what: As part of your Lenten discipline, pray for your least favorite public office holder.

We think in terms of liberty, equality, representative government, popular elections, and office holders as public servants.

Just as the lordship of Christ made demands for public justice on office - holders in the New Testament (Luke 4:15), the same is true for those who rule as citizens.

«The issuance of a new executive order on refugees and immigrants acknowledges that there were significant problems with the first executive order that caught up green card holders and others as they tried to enter the United States,» said Tim Breene, CEO of World Relief, the evangelical refugee resettlement agency forced to close five offices and lay off 140 employees in the wake of Trump's decision to halve America's intake of refugees from 110,000 to 50,000.

The other consequence, as we have seen is the multiplication of recurrent costs of governance as resources which should otherwise have been channeled into areas of public need are expended paying and maintaining civil servants and political office holders.

Twitter as Campaign Tool The increased use of Twitter by political office holders, candidates, and issue advocacy organizations and campaigns was arguably the most important — if not hyped — advancement in digital politics in 2009.

Beware, though, my mainstream media friends: as the Chicago Tribune's Steve Johnson put it, «it was a bad night for news anchors and Washington bureau chiefs, the traditional interrogators of would - be holders of American high office.»

It does seems that the Monarch will step aside when he or she feels that age is inhibiting her work, but whether that is 85 — as with Charles — or 91 — as with William — depends on the holder of the office and the pressure they are subjected to by the wider political community.

This system is employed to elect single office - holders for a whole regional or local authority area (spanning many constituencies or wards, and sometimes called «at large» elections) while taking account of the preferences of as many voters as possible.

Also cited in the list were double appointments as name of some appointees are currently public office holder in federal parastatals.

I wonder what the ratio of politicians, either as «new candidates» or as «office holders», is for corporate corruption influence?

Last night, not long after Magistrate Judge and special redistricting master Roanne Mann grilled legislative lawyers about the merits of considering incumbency, she released a set of proposed maps that seems to take the current configuration of congressional districts as a very loose template, but with some significant changes for a number of existing office - holders.

As the existing holder of the prime minister's office, Gordon Brown is allowed to remain in Downing Street until the first meeting of the new parliament — slated for Tuesday 18th May.

Why should I even talk of odd appointments of ghost political office holders when sometimes ago, a widow and a chartered accountant from Borno State, Mrs Maryam Danna Mohammed was unlawfully and arbitrarily removed from her position as General Manager Audit of NDPHC without any justification.

Dr. Ayine is seeking a declaration that, via the interpretation of Articles 190 (1)(d), 199 (1), 199 (4), and 295 of the 1992 Constitution, that retirement age of all holders of public office created pursuant to Article (1)(d) is 60 years, thus Mr. Amidu is not qualified or eligible to be nominated as the Special Prosecutor.»

We can not condone such statements, and we condemn them in no uncertain terms as unbefitting of an envoy and holder of a high privileged diplomatic office.

The full spreadsheet of those who have claimed expenses to pay for their ERG subscription is here, although it is not clear that this is the full membership of the organisation, as a number of people listed on ERG letters and other publications — including office holders — are not included, and the list is significantly shorter than the 50 - 100 members that its leading figures sometimes claim to have.

He argues that prebendalism is the most appropriate conceptual notion for explaining Nigeria's politicians intense and persistent struggle to control and exploit the offices of the state and defines prebendalism in terms of «the historical association of the term «prebend» with the offices of certain feudal states which could be obtained through services rendered to a lord or monarch or through outright purchase by supplicants... the adjective «prebendal» will refer to patterns of political behaviour which rest on the justifying principle that such offices should be competed for and then utilised for the personal benefit of office holders as well as their reference or support group.

The very exciting day ended with a party which saw Senator Babafemi Ojudu and his entourage made up of political leaders, former political office holders, businessmen and women as well as colleagues and staff from the Presidency taking to the dance floor.

On the other side, during the long tenure of Governor George Clinton, very rarely an office holder was removed, and the Council only filled vacancies as they occurred by resignation, death, declination of re-appointment, or term limit.

A Ghanaian lawyer, Elikplim L. Agbemava, has commenced an action at the Supreme Court seeking clarification on some of the benefits enjoyed by Article 71 office holders as well as other public servants in that category.

If in November 15, 2013, he saw it proper and in the nation's best interest to issue a directive abolishing the purchase of state bungalows by government office holders, he must think he is above that abolition, much less think he can have a state bungalow for free as his retirement benefit.

The Guardian interviewed Labour chairs, secretaries and other office - holders, past and present, as well as councillors from 101 of the 632 constituencies in England, Scotland and Wales on Thursday, Friday and Monday.

As the holder of such a sensitive office that had all the information about security and other sundry issues at his disposal, Dasuki opined that security agencies in the country particularly the military had their hands full presently and were focused on routing the Boko Haram terrorists menace, whose success will also benefit the elections as internally displaced persons would be able to go back to their communities and votAs the holder of such a sensitive office that had all the information about security and other sundry issues at his disposal, Dasuki opined that security agencies in the country particularly the military had their hands full presently and were focused on routing the Boko Haram terrorists menace, whose success will also benefit the elections as internally displaced persons would be able to go back to their communities and votas internally displaced persons would be able to go back to their communities and vote.

For failing to retract the offending statements and tender public apology within the stipulated period, Fayemi's counsel is asking the court for reliefs compelling the defendants to pay damages for the statements against him which had portrayed him as a «very corrupt public office holder and fraudulent person who siphoned public funds at the detriment of Ekiti citizens while serving as governor».

Further, Cameron's personal aversion to reshuffles and belief that ministers were most effective when given time at a department led to him viewing many cabinet members, including the holders of the Great Offices of State, as immovable.

He explained that since the Ekiti State governor's tenure and his counterpart's in Osun State will expire on 15th October and 26th November 2018 respectively, Section 178 (2) of the country's 1999 Constitution (as amended) and Section 25 (8) of the Electoral Act 2010 (as amended) had stipulated that election into the office of governor should be held not earlier than 150 days and not later than 30 days before the expiration of the term of office of the last holder.

«Security and anti-graft agencies should be mindful of how they take instructions from political office holders as the tide of power was constantly moving, as the APC will not be in power forever.

Lembo's been in a high - profile position as a state office holder for close to seven years, plenty of time to be «serious about fixing» Connecticut's government long before these harrowing times.

But Koppell tells Benjamin that he has «toyed» with the idea of running for state Senate if the current holder of that office, Eric Schneiderman, vacates his seat to run for attorney general if, as expected, the current holder of that office, Andrew Cuomo, runs for governor.

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The party expressed regrets that Fayose was owing one month salary of less than N2bn when he took N9.6 b bailout, but paid only one month salary and refused to pay pensioners, leave bonus and severance allowances of former political office holders as approved in the protocols of the bailout approval.

Following the attacks coming his way over the effigy of Jacob Zuma in Owerri now that the immediate past South African president has resigned, the Imo state governor, Rochas Okorocha has insisted that the statute would remain as Zuma is not the first public office holder to resign from office.

The NLC said the union made a demand for wage increase in 2009 after a thorough study of the salaries of political office holders» pre-and post-consolidation, as well as a careful examination of the minimum annual wage levels in African countries.

A total of 96 green card holders applied to start the citizenship process at a fair in the Manhattan offices of the union, which billed the event as a «response to the Fifth Circuit Court's decision.»

In Ohio, Democratic Senate candidate Jennifer Bruner wasn't exactly some sort of Tea Party outsider; she is a statewide office holder, as is Lee Fisher.

Parliament approved the provision of accommodation for the immediate past President, John Dramani Mahama, because it found it prudent that office holders such as Presidents, ought to be motivated in this manner in order for them to be committed in their service to the nation, Deputy Minority Leader in Parliament, James Avedzi has said.

It goes to show the level of corruption in public offices in Nigeria, as our public office holders are afraid to declare what they spend on behalf of the pple they are representing.what is the way forward 4 us.

On the opposite end of my desk, I placed this draper vase from Lulu & Georgia that I used as a pencil holder to organize my smaller office supplies and keep my space clutter - free.

The United States, after all, elected Barack Obama as its head of state twice and has seen a highly - privileged section of African - Americans — no less reactionary than their white counterparts — in some of the highest offices of the state (Colin Powell, Condoleezza Rice, Eric Holder, etc.).