Sentences with phrase «authority had sought»

The local authority had sought to advertise the child for adoption prior to the completion of the assessments of the family and before the case had been to the adoption panel.

As part of those efforts, the authorities have sought to determine whether fingerprints and DNA found on bomb fragments were from Ms. Russell.

So far, the authorities have sought to cool what they call speculative demand with stricter lending rules and by taxing foreign buyers.

Perhaps unsurprisingly, some local authorities have sought to remove this risk by applying in advance to the LVT for a dispensation from the requirement to comply with sub-paras 4 (4) to 4 (7) of Sch 2 of the regulations.

The Solicitors Regulation Authority has sought assurances from law firms linked to the leaked Panama Papers that they are looking into the matter fully as it emerges that a former partner at one of those firms, Simmons & Simmons, is helping to lead the government investigation.

Not exact matches

The Environmental Protection Authority has recommended approval of global miner Cliffs Natural Resources» plans to extend its Koolyanobbing iron ore operations, as Mineral Resources continues to seek approval for its own expansion plans in the same region.

All individual authorities — the Labor Department, the IRS, the states — have their own particular mix of criteria, but each of them seeks to clarify two essential facts: whether the worker is under your control, and who has the most power in the relationship.

The NSA then has up to 180 - days to query the telecom companies for more data — on socially connected persons of interest, so - called one - to - two degree «hops» on their networks — before seeking a renewed authority from a FISA court.

The arrests follow a purge that has seen more than 80 executives at PDVSA and its suppliers jailed for alleged corruption as the state firm's new chief, Major General Manuel Quevedo, has sought to stamp his authority on the sector - the financial lifeblood of Venezuela's unraveling socialist government.

«It would be absurd to posit that the authority the government sought was anything other than obnoxious to the law.»

Chinese authorities had been propping up the yuan, contributing to an almost $ 300 billion drop in foreign - exchange reserves over the last four quarters, as policy makers sought to deter capital outflows and encourage global usage of the currency.

The new lawsuit, with six other states joining Texas, did not directly seek to challenge what those other judges had done (Judge Hanen would have no authority to overturn those orders because they deal with the shutdown of DACA not its original form).

However, the Minister had to seek authority from Parliament to issue any new debt beyond an existing $ 4 billion of non-lapsing borrowing authority.

According to an Arab financier and a former businessman from the North African country, Trump made entreaties to Qaddafi and other members of his government, beginning in 2008, in which he sought deals that would bring cash to the Trump Organization from a sovereign wealth fund called the Libyan Investment Authority.

HONG KONG — China on Thursday sought to calm fears that the country's depreciating currency had set off, as authorities defended the devaluation decision.

But the Obama administration is currently seeking Trade - Promotion Authority (also known as «fast track») which would let the executive sideline Congress by forcing a yes - no vote instead of allowing changes to the agreement.

Not surprisingly, data released this month from the the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority's Investor Education Foundation, which seeks to promote financial literacy, reveal high school students who are required to take personal finance courses have better average credit scores and lower debt delinquency rates as young adults.

Shulkin has sought to fire at least six of his senior managers and said as recently as Wednesday that he has assurances from White House chief of staff John F. Kelly that terminating disloyal staffers is within his authority.

Central Americans who traveled in a caravan through Mexico to the border with San Diego have begun turning themselves in to U.S. authorities to seek asylum in a challenge to the Trump administration.

The Bermuda Monetary Authority has published a consultation paper that is seeking public feedback on a proposed regulation on cryptocurrencies.

You see, I am a pacifist — not in the sense that I do not believe that the government has been given authority to wage war but that as a Christian, I do not believe I should every personally seek to kill anyone for any reason.

For in spite of its prima facie attraction, and even if there is such a «primal» experience, that experience would not be accessible in any philosophically helpful way, could not be exploited without reliance upon the very analyses and arguments whose lack of immediacy and authority the appeal is seeking to escape, could not (even for oneself) sustain translation into the discursive and dialectical combat zone of philosophy, and could not by itself alone provide a nonarbitrary basis for determining what in it is essential to experience merely as such.

Pictures of the terror by which rulers in the ancient world sought to maintain their authority ought not to be applied to God's exercise of his rule and should not, in my opinion, be used to suggest that Jesus taught that the wicked would burn for ever in hell.

However, in seeking unity of thought as a basis for legislation, freedom of thought must be ensured for all those participating and no authority should bring to bear any pressure which would restrict the liberty of thought.

As god is currently being sought in Africa, if you know of his whereabouts please let the authorities know... May be hes having tea with the pope?

The government says over time some actions have been taken by the communities under state pressure to end the discrimination but that federal authorities are seeking a court order to prevent future discrimination by the defendants.

«authority would need to be regulated by law, to observe consistently the principles of subsidiarity and solidarity, to seek to establish the common good, and to make a commitment to securing authentic integral human development inspired by the values of charity in truth» (n. 34).

For this reason the authorities of the Church can really seek a dialogue with all Christians who form the Church and have a share in her royal priesthood.

After all, Piper has said in the past that a woman in an abusive relationship should «endure verbal abuse for a season» and «perhaps being smacked one night,» before seeking help — not from authorities, but from her (male - led) church.

They sought total authority and banned religion that would compete with that authority.

They sought total authority, which means getting rid of religions which would compete with that authority.

Therefore Paul is not seeking to invoke apostolic authority by appealing to Jerusalem; he has already established that he speaks with apostolic authority himself.

«The ambassador has urgently contacted Saudi authorities and will make strong representations, including to key figures in the Saudi government, seeking leniency,» said Kate Sieper, a foreign affairs spokeswoman.

The entry point into the debate has varied, but there has always been an awareness in the Church that the search for visible unity and the communion the churches seek, is connected inextricably with the authority with which the Church interprets and lives up to its traditions, but also the way in which we act as Christians in the world.

A widely reported 18 - page Cuban court decision, acquired and published by Cafe Fuerte, a U.S. - based news blog that focuses on Cuba, indicated that Gross had sought to avoid detection from Cuban authorities and used tourists to carry in sophisticated satellite equipment and other communications gear.

That was the dilemma after praying and seeking the Lord he shows me a couple of things one is God calls the shots not satan satans demons bow to Gods authority and must get his permission so they beg Jesus to send the demons into the pigs.Jesus allows it so we can see satans purpose is always to destroy life.God is still the same yesterday today and forever he is the giver of life.We do know that the pigs were owned by the gentile nations and may well have been offered or about to be offered to there gods which would mean they would belong to satan.Like the example Jesus said about taxes should he pay them and he said give to caesar what is caesars.Or the other option was that it showed Gods mercy to the man that had been healed by delivering him of the demons and he was also protecting the people in the area from the influence of the demons.So God is still the same he is unchangeable and definitely not bipolar.I would say if anyone was bipolar in this situation it is David and he like us struggled with the same choice to walk according to the flesh or walk according to the spirit of God.brentnz

Not understanding the necessary interworking of traditional, Biblical, and contemporary sources (even in a theology that seeks Biblical authority as its ultimate norm), certain evangelicals have fallen prey to a new form of «traditionalism»; others have retreated to a «Biblicism»; still others have found themselves in theological bondage to contemporary standards.

Traditionalists, like Harold Lindsell, have been quick to challenge such an approach, for it undercuts Biblical authority.14 But feminists as well, like Nancy Hardesty, are aware of the implications of this position and have sought alternate approaches:

At Jerusalem itself the continued presence of the majority of the apostles simplified the question of authority, because they seem to have acted on all important questions as a body which sought and obtained the consent of the Church as a whole (Acts 6: 12 - 16, 15:22) under the joint guidance of the Spirit (Acts 15:28, cf. 6:3).

English authorities would not permit such deviation from the law of the land; therefore, they sought to force the Separatists into line.

With the great leaders of the first generation for the most part dead or in extreme old age, and Jerusalem in ruins, the Judaean church ceased to occupy the centre of the stage, and the new and by now overwhelmingly Gentile churches entered upon a period of consolidation and further expansion in which guidance and authority had to be sought elsewhere.

To be shocked that predatory people would seek to use the authority of God to destroy is to assume that somehow Jesus» warnings do not apply to us.

He was facing claims that a Catholic president would be unduly influenced by the Vatican and Catholic authorities, and Kennedy sought to calm those fears.

I have undermined the authority of mysticism, you say, and the next thing I shall probably do is to seek to discredit that of philosophy.

None of us, Peter says, has the moral authority to deny baptism to those who seek it, even if they do not follow the ancient laws.

Generally social religion of the sort described which depends on public approval seeks the esteem of those parts of society which have been established in power and enjoy the prestige attached to customary authority.

This is a plain statement about how silly it is for man to seek to judge someone based on earthly standards, especially when only Jesus himself has the authority to judge anyone, He is the only moral authority.

When he sought reinstatement as a Parisian civil servant — a job he had despised in younger days — the authorities disqualified him for moral turpitude.

[25] It was an entirely objective assessment of the state of affairs that drove Newman to seek that episcopal authority where historically it had existed and where in the present, it could be found exercised.

Their target is the general educated reader who seeks to understand «the Bible as a work of great literary force and authority, a work of which it is entirely credible that it should have shaped the minds and lives of intelligent men and women for two millennia or more.