Sentences with phrase «as state government leaders»

The New York State budget, which is expected to be delivered on time, is due April 1, but as state government leaders enter the final week of negotiations there are many questions left open for New York City.

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The tiff between the airline and the state government prompted speculation that Delta may relocate its HQ as Democratic leaders from other states appealed to the airline.

New leaders for Gold Corp The state government has appointed Donald Mackay - Coghill as chairman of Gold Corporation and Richard Hayes as chief executive, effective from next month.

Chapo Isidro is recognized by the US government as the alleged leader of the Meza Flores drug trafficking organization based in Sinaloa state, Mexico.

As part of the launch of the S.O.S. Initiative, Schneiderman and Gascón commended New York State Comptroller Thomas P. DiNapoli for urging the four leaders of the smartphone industry to protect consumers, and shareholder value, by working with law enforcement agencies and government officials to pursue a meaningful solution to the spike in smartphone thefts.

As a market leader, the group provides energy services and flexible project finance solutions to commercial businesses and federal, state and local governments.

One forum for this type of discussion is the April 2013 Pacific Energy Summit, co-sponsored by the Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada (APF Canada) and the U.S. - based National Bureau of Asian Research, that will bring together private sector, government and policy leaders from a number of Asian countries, as well as the United States and Canada, to discuss how to forge trans - Pacific co-operation for this new energy era.

Making his first overseas trip as secretary of state, the ex-CIA chief traded in a small, unmarked government jet, secret overseas voyages and hush - hush meetings with spy chiefs and the occasional rogue world leader for a decidedly conspicuous U.S. Air Force 757 with «United States of America» emblazoned across its fuselage, a traveling press corps and frequent public appearances.

The people you list were totalitarian leaders of nations who happened to head governments that did not endorse or give support to any religion as a matter of Marxist instruction because the state HAD used religion since the beginning of history to take advantage of people.

It is the duty of the Caliph or Imam, the leader in Islam, to consolidate public opinion, execute judgments, administer state machinery, encourage the faithful in the practice of their faith, such as prayers and the religious tax, and look after affairs of public interest with the guidance of a parliamentary democracy, the basis of government in Islam.

Even when the show premiered in the halcyon days of 1999, The West Wing was using rose - colored glasses through which to view the United States government, depicting our elected leaders as unfailingly brilliant, morally bulletproof paragons of virtue.

Neville i mentioned those people only because the discussion was talking about dominionism the combination of the church and state as a governing rule all those people were government leaders all of them suffered in there own way.Its was the suffering that prepared them for the roles that they were to play and there faith in God was what helped them get through.We are made stronger in our weakness no matter how important or unimportant we may appear to others.I guess it is easy to fall into the lie about political involvement that its hard to make change but some people have had a huge impact.Really it is God who deserves the praise he is the one that creats the opportunitys to make impact on the world as in our strength we can do nothing.In hebrews the great men and woman of faith there are those that seemed unimportant to the world and many suffered for there faith Our Lord knows everyone by name and every small act of faith we do he remembers because we do it out of our love for him that is what the christian walk is about living for Jesus and sharing that love with others.brentnz.

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.

Church leaders exhort the government to enforce a religious agenda, though this goal flouts the principle of religious liberty through separation of church and state (a principle which now sustains attacks as never before in this century).

Many religious leaders, as well as public officials, talk of friendship between church and state, and claim that in charging the government to be neutral regarding religion the founders meant «neutral among different sects.»

If the Black Muslim call for the establishment of «a separate state or territory» supported by the government once sounded improbable, it sounds almost rational today as some ethnic leaders and intellectuals rationalize and legitimate political and ideological group claims.

Fox tells the story from beginning to end: childhood in the German - American parsonage; nine grades of school followed by three years in a denominational «college» that was not yet a college and three year's in Eden Seminary, with graduation at 21; a five - month pastorate due to his father's death; Yale Divinity School, where despite academic probation because he had no accredited degree, he earned the B.D. and M.A.; the Detroit pastorate (1915 - 1918) in which he encountered industrial America and the race problem; his growing reputation as lecturer and writer (especially for The Christian Century); the teaching career at Union Theological Seminary (1928 - 1960); marriage and family; the landmark books Moral Man and Immoral Society and The Nature and Destiny of Man; the founding of the Fellowship of Socialist Christians and its journal Radical Religion; the gradual move from Socialist to liberal Democratic politics, and from leader of the Fellowship of Reconciliation to critic of pacifism; the break with Charles Clayton Morrison's Christian Century and the inauguration of Christianity and Crisis; the founding of the Union for Democratic Action, then later of Americans for Democratic Action; participation in the ecumenical movement, especially the Oxford Conference and the Amsterdam Assembly; increasing friendship with government officials and service with George Kennan's policy - planning group in the State Department; the first stroke in 1952 and the subsequent struggles with ill health; retirement from Union in 1960, followed by short appointments at Harvard, at the Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions, and at Columbia's Institute of War and Peace Studies; intense suffering from ill health; and death in Stockbridge, Massachusetts, in 1971.

Our hope is to have the U.S. government, in partnership with the many stakeholders in the food system, including producers, manufacturers, retailers, non-profits and food advocacy groups, faith organizations as well as leaders from state, tribal, and local government, join in using the Call to Action as an opportunity to further individual and collective actions on preventing food waste.

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In front of a packed audience in the State Dining Room at the White House on Tuesday, first lady Michelle Obama rolled out her national initiative to combat childhood obesity with a show of force that included medical, business and government leaders, grassroots activists, celebrity public service announcements, cartoon characters as nutrition experts, as well as those most directly affected — the kids themselves.

He also commended the Kano State government, which summoned a meeting of Christian and Islamic leaders, widower of the deceased, and security agencies, as soon as the sad event occurred on Friday.

My attention has been drawn to a video which captures the Member of Parliament for Dome / Kwabenya, Deputy Majority Leader and Minister of State at the Presidency in charge of Public Procurement, the Hon. Sarah Adwoa Safo claiming in the said video that the Community Senior High School constructed and commissioned in her constituency during the tenure of President John Dramani Mahama was as a result of her personal intervention with the World Bank, that the Senior High School was not from the then NDC Government and that with the exception of the Dome / Kwabenya Senior High School project, all the other schools constructed during the previous NDC administration were executed in NDC strongholds.

... Delight in smooth - sounding platitudes, refusal to face unpleasant facts, desire for popularity and electoral success irrespective of the vital interests of the State, genuine love of peace and pathetic belief that love can be its sole foundation, obvious lack of intellectual vigour in both leaders of the British Coalition Government, marked ignorance of Europe and aversion from its problems in Mr. Baldwin, the strong and violent pacifism which at this time dominated the Labour - Socialist Party, the utter devotion of the Liberals to sentiment apart from reality, the failure and worse than failure of Mr. Lloyd George, the erstwhile great war - time leader, to address himself to the continuity of his work, the whole supported by overwhelming majorities in both Houses of Parliament: all these constituted a picture of British fatuity and fecklessness which, though devoid of guile, was not devoid of guilt, and, though free from wickedness or evil design, played a definite part in the unleashing upon the world of horrors and miseries which, even so far as they have unfolded, are already beyond comparison in human experience.

Senate Minority Leader Dean Skelos has seized on today's scathing IG report on AEG as proof that state government is suffering mightily under the «arrogance» of single - party rule.

Klein can over play his hand one way: Being seen as denying significant power to Sen. Andrea Stewart - Cousins, the Democratic minority leader who would be the first black woman to hold the majority leader post in state government.

Anthony Bonomo, described by one insider as «just one of those guys everyone in state government knows,» is believed by many to be cooperating with U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara's case against former State Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos and his son state government knows,» is believed by many to be cooperating with U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara's case against former State Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos and his son State Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos and his son Adam.

On Sept. 2, Senate Democratic leaders wrote to federal and state criminal prosecutors, as well as other government watchdogs, seeking investigations into a Texas - based firm with a $ 100,000 - a-year contract to run the Senate Republicans» official government website: Align Media LLC, and its owner, Justin Gargiulo, along with his other consulting firm, VoterTrove.

CMA deals mostly with information technology contracts from local and state governments, and hired former Senate majority leader Joe Bruno as its CEO after his retirement from the State Senate in state governments, and hired former Senate majority leader Joe Bruno as its CEO after his retirement from the State Senate in State Senate in 2008.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo and legislative leaders are negotiating a new anti-sexual harassment policy for state and local government officials as part of the state budget.

Silver, 74, has denied wrongdoing and his attorneys said Monday he had not abused his position as one of three of the most powerful leaders in state government for more than two decades.

A coalition of New York public health, environment and healthy schools advocacy groups have banded together as they push state government leaders to take action.

Modest changes were made to the state's property tax cap law last year, but not as much as some local government leaders had sought.

Led by Roy Stone, Private Secretary to the Chief Whip and Mike Winter, Head of the Leader of the House's office, they operate in the dark, agents of the secret state of the most over-centralised political system in the Western world without so much as a Parliamentary Business Committee (promised but not delivered by the last government) to hold them to account.

Senate Democratic Conference Leader John Sampson said his 32 - member majority conference will be voting «yes» on the budget extender bill next week — even if it includes public employee furloughs, as Gov. David Paterson has threatened — because he is «not in the business of shutting downs state government.»

Senate Majority Leader Pedro Espada Jr. is now keeping his cards fairly close to his vest as to whether he'll be voting «yes» or «no» on the next round of extenders, preferring, in his usual way, to keep everyone guessing as to whether he'll wreck havoc on state government.

County leaders are feeling the squeeze this year, as are other local government and school district officials, given the allowable growth in the state's cap on property taxes is less than 1 percentage point.

Cole, who has worked for both state and federal governments, most recently as the international division leader for Global New York at ESDC, acknowledged during a Capital Tonight interview that her quest to oust Collins from the most Republican - dominated House district in the state was a longshot.

On Tuesday government reform groups called on New York State Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan (R - 2) to bring to a vote a bill that would close what's known as the «LLC Loophole.»

«I've worked with Carlina Rivera on countless local issues over the years as a community activist, Democratic District Leader and most recently, in government,» said State Assemblymember Brian Kavanagh.

From 2011 to 2015, DEAN SKELOS served as Majority Leader and Co-Majority Leader of the New York State Senate, a position that gave him significant power over the operation of New York State government.

According to him, it was not within the purview of the current government or any government to sponsor religious leaders or Christians as a whole on pilgrimage because it is a deviation from the core mandate of the state.

State government appreciates this expertise as it contracts with human service organizations to deliver programs on its behalf, but government leaders

But now some Republicans are raising red flags over DeFrancisco, the Senate's deputy majority leader, saying he will be viewed as an Albany insider who will have little appeal to voters looking to reform a broken state government.

In his own state of the city address Tuesday evening, Common Council Majority Leader Rennie Scott - Childress (D - Ward 3) offered up a ringing defense of Mayor Steve Noble's progressive «One Kingston» agenda and called on Kingstonians to embrace local government as a force for positive change and economic growth.

The leader would not characterize her approach as distinctly feminine, but prides herself on being the first woman to head a conference in state government.

He has had a great working relationship with Governor Cuomo and he looks forward to working with Mayor de Blasio as well as other government leaders throughout the state in the coming years.»

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Skelos becomes the second of New York's most powerful political leaders in nine days to be sentenced to prison for public corruption crimes, a double - whammy that has cemented the state government's reputation as an organization plagued by corruption and prompted widespread calls for ethics reforms in Albany.

The arrest sent shock waves through Albany and came just a day after Silver shared the stage with Cuomo during his State of the State address, as Cuomo joked that he, Silver and the Senate majority leader were the «three amigos» of state governState of the State address, as Cuomo joked that he, Silver and the Senate majority leader were the «three amigos» of state governState address, as Cuomo joked that he, Silver and the Senate majority leader were the «three amigos» of state governstate government.

Bonomo, who was a star government witness against corrupt former Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos, was largely sidelined as CEO of Physicians» Reciprocal Insurers, the state's second - largest malpractice insurer, according to a January report by the Albany Times Union.