Sentences with phrase «as state entities»

Those under investigation include Joseph Percoco, one of Cuomo's closest aides, and Todd Howe, a lobbyist whose law firm had relationships with several companies that received work from the state as well as state entities in charge of awarding that work.

As a state entity, it pays no property taxes.

It will a lot harder for the country to ban cryptocurrencies and trading if they have actively seized and exchanged the coins as a state entity.

Not exact matches

The Securities and Exchange Commission has ultimate authority in setting up the rules regarding equity - based crowdfunding, but the SoMoLend case should be a very clear reminder that state securities» entities may be potent as a regulatory force.

If you operate a business (without a legal entity such as a corporation or LLC), you generally have to register this trade name with a state or county government.

Speaking to The Irish Times, Kenny said, «European leaders need to be over here talking to Republicans, Democrats and the administration about what membership of the European Union means and the relationship that it can have with as powerful an entity as the United States.»

People, person, or persons as used in this Constitution does not include corporations, limited liability companies or other corporate entities established by the laws of any state, the United States, or any foreign state, and such corporate entities are subject to such regulation as the people, through their elected state and federal representatives, deem reasonable and are otherwise consistent with the powers of Congress and the States under this Constitution.

Debt obligations issued by states, cities, counties, and other public entities that use the loans to fund public projects, such as the construction of schools, hospitals, highways, sewers, and universities

«State and local tax revenues will likely continue to fluctuate in the coming quarters as various entities, including states, high - income taxpayers, pass - through entities, corporations, and tax professionals are examining the new rules of the game, exploring loopholes, and looking into ways to minimize tax liability in light of the new provisions of the TCJA,» Daydan wrote.

This discussion also does not consider any specific facts or circumstances that may be relevant to holders subject to special rules under the U.S. federal income tax laws, including, without limitation, certain former citizens or long - term residents of the United States, partnerships or other pass - through entities, real estate investment trusts, regulated investment companies, «controlled foreign corporations,» «passive foreign investment companies,» corporations that accumulate earnings to avoid U.S. federal income tax, banks, financial institutions, investment funds, insurance companies, brokers, dealers or traders in securities, commodities or currencies, tax - exempt organizations, tax - qualified retirement plans, persons subject to the alternative minimum tax, persons that own, or have owned, actually or constructively, more than 5 % of our common stock and persons holding our common stock as part of a hedging or conversion transaction or straddle, or a constructive sale, or other risk reduction strategy.

This is a shame, because, as I have previously mentioned on CoinDesk, Canada is an attractive environment for bitcoin entities to set up operations since our country does not have, for example, the state - by - state money transmitting regulations that currently exist in the US.

Therefore, their actions arguably substantially affect interstate commerce and may only be regulated by Congress as opposed to a state entity such as a local county agency.

The new evidence also revives the discussion about the export of commercial spyware abroad, and how nation - states are using them to undermine entities they deem as political threats.

Our effective tax rate differs from statutory rates primarily due to our pass - through entity structure for U.S. income tax purposes, while being treated as taxable in certain states and various foreign countries as well as for certain subsidiaries.

While the AIIB still has many obstacles to overcome before it is a functioning entity (not least the opposition of the United States and Japan, as well as the incumbent Asian Development Bank in Manila), there can be little doubt now that it will come to fruition.

The owners of the company may still be charged unnecessary fees as well, so if you know it's time to close the doors on one business, make sure you officially dissolve the entity with the Secretary of State.

(1) engage in the «Geographic Area» (as defined below) as an employee, agent, consultant, advisor, independent contractor, proprietor, partner, officer, director, or otherwise of a Competing Business (as defined below); (2) have any ownership interest (except for passive ownership of one percent (1 %) or less in any entity whose securities have been registered under the Securities Act of 1933 or Section 12 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 or the securities laws of any other jurisdiction of the United States) in a Competing Business; or (3) participate in the financing, operation, management, or control of a Competing Business.

The policy was adopted a month ago as the province lobbied Governor Andrew Cuomo to drop his proposed New York Buy American Act, which would have required state entities to buy from U.S. companies on all purchases more than $ 100,000 (U.S.).

The regulatory obligations of Regulation CF such as the audit requirements and individual state approvals are costly for many entities considering crowd fund investing and can often take up a significant portion of the funds raised through a portal.

With the new legislation, the Ombudsman office would be contracted out to a nonprofit entity rather than be a direct state agency, as it is now.

This heightened state of transparency is already having policy consequences as political will to regulate offshore entities mounts in both the U.S. and abroad.

The degree to which an actuality departs from a prior entity is determined by a number of factors, the flux of occurrent sensation, the baseline activity at each phase as it is activated, the decay of prior states and the emergent novelty inherent in the becoming process.

It amended the 1998 policy and added a category of «entities of particular concern» to cover non-government actors such as ISIS or Boko Haram, confimed that the international religious freedom ambassador - at - large reports directly to the secretary of state, and added a 90 - day deadline from the time the State Department issues its annual religious freedom report to the time it needs to present a new list of new state, and added a 90 - day deadline from the time the State Department issues its annual religious freedom report to the time it needs to present a new list of new State Department issues its annual religious freedom report to the time it needs to present a new list of new CPCs.

With that sobering introduction, I am grateful to Janet Martin Soskice for her straight - forward, uncomplicated definition of metaphor: «Metaphor is a figure of speech in which one entity or state of affairs is spoken of in terms which are seen as being appropriate to another» (Soskice, 96).

Aristotle states explicitly that of the many senses of the word, «nature,» the first and most proper is that by which «nature» means that principle that allows an entity, over and above its adventitious processes, itself to grow) 12 «Nature» is entity in the sense of form, with the additional condition that it is now regarded as «in some sense the factor which initiates movement and rest «13 of just those processes that take place within the concrete being itself that «has» the nature.

Philosophically this may be stated as the fact that the essence of finite entities does not imply their existence.

It was in this period that the nation - state emerged as an integral cultural and spiritual entity, providing the basis for modern European, and eventually international, politics.

In the first place, it can be conceived as causal dependence: that is, the dependence of one entity on preceding entities or states of affairs.

Here connectedness is conceived not only as the causal dependence of one entity or state of affairs on others, but as the actual immanence of those other entities in the very constitution of the entity at issue.

What we observe in large parts of Africa is what might be called the Haiti Syndrome: entities nominally classified as states which have virtually fallen out of the international economy and which seemingly can not provide for their citizens elementary justice or allow them to provide for themselves the basic necessities of life.

Finally some brief geometry is portrayed in which Whitehead states that «the fundamental ideas of geometry are exactly the same as those of algebra; except that algebra deals with numbers and geometry with lines, angles, areas, and other geometrical entities» (IM 178).

Five centuries earlier, when the Jewish community revived after having been almost extinguished as a separate entity, it had organized itself as something more like a church than a state.

Establishing an «entities of particular concern» category — a companion to the «countries of particular concern» classification used for nearly 20 years by the State Department — for non-government actors, such as the Islamic State (IS) and the Nigerian terrorist organization Boko Haram.

The national state as we know it — the largest formal political entity developed to date — grew up in the past three centuries.

As Whitehead discusses the process of a thing coming into being, he says,»... the actual entity, in a state of process during which it is not fully definite, determines its own ultimate definiteness.

COL. NORTH: The director [CIA Director William Casey] was interested in the ability to go to an existing, as he put it, off - the - shelf, self - sustaining, stand - alone entity, that could perform certain activities on behalf of the United States.

The widespread conception of the «Supreme Being» as an entity distinct from this world but controlling it according to plan and keeping human beings in a state of infantile subjection has been a not too subtle mask of the divine patriarch.5

As was stated in the preceding section, Hartshorne maintains that every actual entity is aware of the nature of God, at least in some deficient manner.

In Response to Critics Some conservative critics of the mediating institutions argument, I should note as an aside, complain that it, too, falls into the ideologically liberal trap of defining society in terms of only two entities, the state and the solitary individual, with mediating institutions being a fragile buffer between them.

Whitehead designates this fundamental state of affairs as an ontological principle: «This ontological principle means that actual entities are the only reasons; so that to search for a reason is to search for one or more actual entities» (PR 36f; 18th Category of Explanation).

That belief has been an axiom throughout both my theological life and my political life (two entities that I am unable to separate) One reason I am sometimes perceived as overly critical of my own nation is the perennial temptation in the United States to assume that our nation enjoys God's special favor, and that any criticism of it is unworthy and unpatriotic.

Accordingly, this «category of conceptual valuation» states that, e.g., after having a feeling of the green feeling in a previous actual entity, the present subject will in the second phase of its experience feel green qua green, i.e., as a pure possibility, in abstraction from its ingression in the actual world.

Stated differently, the question is whether what are referred to as past actual entities are in fact actual entities instead of merely entities.

But the media system is one of distribution as well as production and the former seems firmly in the control of large entities: corporations, major religions, and nation - states.

The process philosophy of Whitehead is essentially a metaphysics of concrescence, inasmuch as it is based on the «ontological principle,» which states that all «actual entities» and «actual occasions» comes from «something» and not from «nothing» (PR 244).

But whether one affirms or questions the appropriateness of separation as a metaphor; whether one looks to the original intent of our constitutional authors and their allies or views the law as an evolving entity; whether one points to establishment or free exercise as the key to American religious liberty, Hamburger's Separation of Church and State is a book destined to ensure that the argument continues.

His thoughts make sense if you take the promises of Old Testament Israel and apply them to geopolitical entities, such as the American state.

To be certified as a food manager, one has to pass a food safety examination administered by a certification provider that is recognized by your state's regulatory entity.

As stated in our joint CEO letter to the WHO Director - General Dr. Margaret Chan in October 2012: «We believe firmly that more has to be done not only by the alcohol beverage industry, but by governments, international organizations, community based entities, civil society and ultimately by individuals and families.»

This has resulted in the publication of a «clarification» by the ACCC stating that, although Mr Sims said that «generally the private sector will run commercial enterprises more efficiently than government», he made no reference «to privatise any specific Commonwealth owned entity (the AFR refers to Australia Post and Medibank Private as examples of assets that may be privatised).