Sentences with phrase «attempts by the administration»

The new positions represent the latest attempt by the administration to address the bedbug problem at the Rath Building and numerous complaints from employees regarding the main county building's cle...

The incident with Knutson echoes a similar recent attempt by administration officials to muzzle another government scientist who spoke out about global warming.

Any attempt by this administration to suppress science must be met with massive resistance and rejection

«This is a blatant attempt by the administration to strip detained immigrants of even the pretense of due process rights,» McCarthy told the Post.

Consult with counsel about how Board rules apply to attempts by an administration to support students advocating one position or another.

Not exact matches

But the deployment could stretch US resources thin, and complicate efforts by the Trump administration to increase troop numbers in Afghanistan in an attempt to beat back recent Taliban gains.

Flynn was the first member of the Trump administration to plead guilty to a crime uncovered by the special counsel Robert Mueller's ongoing, wide - ranging investigation into Russian attempts to influence the 2016 US presidential election and whether any Trump campaign aides colluded with Moscow.

TIJUANA, Mexico (AP)-- Packed into five old school buses, hundreds of Central American migrants arrived at the US border Sunday for a rally, to be followed by a planned mass attempt to apply for asylum, in a direct challenge to the Trump administration.

The report also faults the US intelligence community and the Obama administration for their handling of the Russia investigation and attempts by Russia to interfere in the election.

This could be seen as attempting to thwart the policy of a president who has frequently excoriated specific companies by name, and whose administration will powerfully influence the regulation of healthcare.

The newly approved legislation would attempt to ease the burden on the country's nearly 6,000 banks by offering them a choice: If they want to avoid many of the regulatory barriers imposed during the Obama administration, they would have to significantly increase their emergency financial surpluses.

Her remarks suggest that any attempts by the U.S. Congress to legislate comprehensive privacy protections would face hurdles from the Trump administration.

After rejecting Brooksley Born's attempt to regulate credit - default swaps at the Commodity Futures Trading Commission in 1998, he served his banking benefactors by passionately supporting Robert Rubin and Larry Summers in pressing the Clinton Administration to repeal Glass - Steagall, opening the door to make consumer banking dependent on wild financial gambling by the likes of Citibank and what has become Bank of America.

While cable news has been reporting 24/7 on the Special Counsel probe into Russia's attempts to subvert democracy in the U.S., reporting on massive infiltration into the Trump administration by Koch - related individuals has been left to more courageous voices.

The administration's program attempts to help these financial firms by guaranteeing losses on SBA loans and reducing the fees they pay to provide this type of debt.

Nina Shea of the Hudson Institute has recounted her attempts to get the Bush administration to focus on the plight of Iraq's Christians, only to be told by Condoleezza Rice that assistance for Christians would make the United States appear sectarian.

[T] he exposure of persistent human rights violations by the contras has led the Administration not to pressure contra leaders to enforce international codes of conduct,» the Americas Watch Report cited earlier states, «but to drown U.S. public opinion with praise for the «freedom fighters,» and to attempt to discredit all reports of their violations as inspired by communist or Sandinista propaganda.

As we describe in our 2014 report for the National Marriage Project, «Facilitating Forever,» community organizations receiving federal funding approved by both Democrat and Republican administrations have attempted to foster stable marriages and families in at - risk populations for over a decade.

When challenged by the facts or with the law, the administration responds with attempts to undermine the free press and the judiciary, even going so far as to call the free press «an enemy of the people.»

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.

Since the current administration's attempts to repeal Obamacare have failed so far, women can still get reimbursed for breast pumps as long as they pick one covered by their provider.

«We see this as a subtle attempt by this intolerant Akufo - Addo administration to frustrate and thwart our efforts at organising this demonstration.

The Appellate Division of the state Supreme Court has denied a motion by de Blasio's administration to challenge a recent court decision vacating the mayor's attempted ban on the containers.

In primis, the attempt by the Obama and Netanyahu administrations to prevent the participation of major international and regional players, in a bid to further isolate Tehran and strengthen the perception of separation from the rest of the world to the Iranian leadership, and the Iranian people.

The current proposals are bound to meet a largely partisan reception, and will be depicted by some as a politically motivated attempt to create difficulties for a future Labour administration (though it should be noted that Labour's catastrophic performance in Scotland in the general election alters the territorial political dynamic that underpinned debates about EVEL quite considerably), and by others as an attempt to diminish the role of Scottish MPs.

But every time congestion pricing has come up — and not just recently — it's been shot down by legislators in Albany, from John Lindsay's attempt in the 1970s to Michael Bloomberg's close - but - no - cigar efforts during his administration, which ultimately died (thanks to Sheldon Silver) in 2008.

We have already notified the security agencies on rumored attempts to invade Ga Paramount Stool House, and we are by this release notifying the President of the State to keep his word, and bring to order individuals within his administration trying to meddle in Ga Chieftaincy affairs.

He recently described the Electoral Commission Chair Charlotte Osei, as an incompetent Chairperson appointed by the former NDC administration, alleging that the appointment of EC chair was an attempt by the NDC to rig the 2016 general elections.

He added: «The allegations in this article are categorically false and represent just the latest attempt by the media to divide this administration.»

The Wa Central MP, Rashid Pelpuo is unimpressed by attempts to commend the Akufo - Addo administration following the recent resignation of the immediate past Deputy Agriculture Minister, William Quaitoo.

In this case, it's a transparent attempt by Gov. Andrew Cuomo's administration and the Thruway Authority to change the subject — though, curiously, to another topic they don't want to discuss, namely, bridge tolls.

The appointee of the erstwhile National Democratic Congress (NDC) administration has said in a release that the claim by PIAC is an attempt to twist facts and achieve a politically motivated interest.

The governor, who spoke to newsmen through his Special Adviser on Electoral Matters, Chief Steve Asimobi, and the Special Adviser on Imo State Liason Office in Abuja, Dr. Edward Onyemaechi Ihejirika, said his administration would not condone attempts by some people opposed to his choice to cow him to submission.

The administration nixed attempts to hire an independent author, as had been reported by City & State, and also edited the document to remove quotes from a memorandum by REBNY's executive director talking about th eimportance of donating to Assembly Democrats to maintain positive legislative outcomes.

«The President Goodluck Jonathan administration frustrated and rebuffed all attempts by Amaechi and the Rivers State government to take possession of the helicopters.

The city comptroller says he wants answers on the slow pace of the administration's response to Superstorm Sandy — but he's been blowing off attempts by relief - program officials to provide those answers for months, sources told The Post.

He is further asking the court to hold that the attempt by the EFCC to force him to implicate the former President, Dr Jonathan, was contrary to Section 7 of the Administration of Criminal Justice Act, which has outlawed the practice of arresting a citizen as ransom for the alleged offence of another citizen.

The Akufo Addo administration again came under attack following the President's plagiarized speech and his attempt to skew the history of Ghana by downplaying the achievements of the nation's first President, Osagyefo Dr Kwame Nkrumah, and the recent disappearance of $ 30million worth of cocaine from the Tema ports.

Former Deputy Information Minister under the John Dramani Mahama led administration, Felix Ofosu Kwakye has described the supposed investigation carried out by the Bureau of National Investigation and the National Security as a farcical cover up attempted by the government.

Although the administration has lauded the deal as a potential source of $ 140 million in additional tax revenue over the course of 40 years, lawmakers have approached the plan with caution, criticizing Astorino's attempt to fast - track its approval by tying a Board of Legislators» decision to a required Dec. 27 budget deadline, and for not sending out a formal request for proposals.

According to GNA's checks, repeated attempts by the then District Chief Executive, Abudu Abdul - Karim who took over the administration in 2014 to get the contractor back to continue the project proved futile.

«This is a pathetic attempt at another political hit job on the police department by the de Blasio administration and it clearly missed their mark.»

«Hinton's hiring has people's jaws dropping because this is seen as an obvious attempt by Mercury to gain even more influence with the Cuomo administration, just what the governor said he'd stop,» a business lobbyist told The Post.

But an internal memorandum that appears to have been prepared by the Cuomo administration and was obtained by The New York Times provides a rare glimpse inside the negotiating room, where Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo; the Senate majority leader, Dean G. Skelos; Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver; and their aides are attempting to hammer out a budget deal before the March 31 deadline.

The report by the independent Authorities Budget Office says the Cuomo administration mishandled its attempts to use $ 500 million in federal Clean Water monies to help finance work on the massive Tappan Zee Bridge reconstruction.

We are still mulling over what he wrote, but we are struck by how cynical it was for the governor to begin his statement with a long attack on CUNY and an attempt to create a false equivalence between CUNY's problems and the $ 800m bid rigging scandal centered around SUNY Polytechnic, SUNY Research Foundation, and state controlled non-profits controlled by his administration.

An attempt to secure a Medicaid waiver for Puerto Rico, which could rescue the island's floundering health system, remains stalled by red tape despite its dire finances, frustrating Cuomo administration officials.

His most cynical and telling move last year was to charter a special state commission to investigate corruption in Albany, vesting it with independent subpoena powers, and then blocking attempts by that very commission to look into donors and activities that led back to his own administration.

Cuomo has made property tax relief a signature of his administration, and rolled out another proposal that will attempt to deepen the process by requiring county taxpayers to vote on consolidation plans.

The report, by the independent Authorities Budget Office, says the Cuomo Administration mishandled its attempts to use $ 500 million dollars in federal Clean Water monies to help finance work on the massive Tappan Zee Bridge reconstruction, including ignoring a warning letter from the EPA that the bridge project was an inappropriate use of the revolving loan fund, which is supposed to go to communities who need to clean up pollution.