Sentences with phrase «because council members»

Thiele said he was challenging the premise of the regional council system, which he said smacked of «cronyism» because the council members steer subsidies to their pet projects.

The board said that, because the council members were Advance Group clients and NYCLASS was also a client of the group, the contributions were «coordinated» and violated campaign finance law.

I think that's so important because council members must work across mayoral terms.

The third meeting is always the most significant because council members...

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It was precisely because of this evidence that the United States and its partners passed multiple U.N. Security Council resolutions, implemented devastating sanctions, and devised the JCPOA, which puts much more severe restrictions on Iran's nuclear program than it would have faced as a member of the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty in good standing.

At the time, consumer advocate groups asked IIROC to replace Mr. Papineau, who was also a member of IIROC's Quebec District Council, because of TD's criticisms of the banking and investment industry mediator.

However, by the end of the year, the church council forced Calvin to resign his position and leave Geneva because he wanted to force church members to sign his doctrinal statement and articles of church organization (which few people wanted to do), and because he refused to serve communion with unleavened bread on Easter Sunday.

Finally, in Chapter VII the Charter gave the Security Council the power to authorize force in cases of threats to international peace and security, without clearly defining what such threats might look like and without taking account of the fact that the states who are members of the Security Council at any given time might have different views on this matter because of their own perception of their national interests.

Following the lead of Archbishop Lefebvre, the clergy of the Priestly Society of St. Pius X (SSPX)-- the ordained members of the Lefebvrist movement — have long claimed that what the Council taught on religious freedom is false because it contradicted settled Catholic teaching — a claim that has more to do with the agitations of post-1789 French politics than with a serious account of the history of Catholic church - state doctrine.

Our middle son is a member of the Council, a worship leader and a Sunday school teacher, and out of respect for his need for space and because I knew there were a few people in the congregation for whom my transition would be a problem, I have stayed away.

But because city staff said the direction council members wanted them to take was unclear, the council asked for revisions to the weed control ordinance, which identifies designated natural landscape areas as land owned by the city, the Naperville Park District or forest preserve districts.

Although we have publicised these details, we wonder how many URC members are aware that their Mission Committee instructed the boycott to be called off because it felt the Mission Council was duty bound to act on a resolution, even though it had been superseded by events.

But Giarrante said that there is no support among council members for a year - round facility, in part because it would make the project too expensive.

Mark Hibbs, Ariel (Eli) Levite and Pierre Goldschmidt state in their analysis that the «IAEA track will prove absolutely essential to making the diplomatic track a success, because it will test Iran's sincerity in reaching an agreement with the six powers (the five permanent members of the Security Council and Germany) negotiating with Tehran».

«At this point of this interview I would rather resign as the Ellicott District Council Member if this man and his team came to City Hall because all of the council members who are there right now have worked hard to bring inclusion and diversity to this city,» PridgeCouncil Member if this man and his team came to City Hall because all of the council members who are there right now have worked hard to bring inclusion and diversity to this city,» Pridgecouncil members who are there right now have worked hard to bring inclusion and diversity to this city,» Pridgen said.

They accomplished this difficult negotiation weeks before the deadline (it's the earliest budget since 1992), likely in part because the Mayor and Council Members need to go out and campaign for re-election.

And critically, several sources said, Heastie and other Democrats from the Bronx are open to pushing the former Brooklyn council member because of the move's secondary effects.

He insisted his proposal leaves open the question of where to put the new facilities because of the Council's long - established practice of giving its members veto authority over zoning changes in their district.

While a vast majority of New York Democrats support both, the issue is especially problematic for Mr. Williams because he is a member of the council's Progressive Caucus, which includes many LGBT and pro-choice advocates, and is hoping to play a significant role in the speaker's race.

Several council members who would speak only on background because of the ongoing negotiations said talks have accelerated in the past few weeks.

Also, I think that we should be very cautious about trying to draw up a new doctrine, because it seems to me that as soon as a new doctrine is established, a case comes up that flies completely in its face, but I do hope that other members of the Security Council will see that there has been success in removing a dictator, and in giving that country a chance of peaceful and democratic progress, which will be good for the world.

The revelation comes despite the admission from the council that foster parents should not be barred from looking after adopted children because they are members of Ukip.

De Blasio said in May that the NYPD is doing an «outstanding» job as it is and that because officers are spending less time on unnecessary stop and frisks and low - level marijuana arrests, they are freed up to do more of the community policing Council members are seeking the additonal headcount to perform.

Mulgrew laid out a strategy to ramp up the union's activism to engage City Council members in every borough and district, because, he said, the Council has the responsibility of approving or rejecting the mayor's budget.

Last year, she told Council members that she would not allow a vote because the measures called for in the bills were being implemented by the Police Department via its own internal policy, a position that angered some on the Council.

Council members sounded off about some of the same issues, including the high cost of the bus passes given to students and the need to improve vocational education because there are jobs in the booming local construction industry and economy.

Ms. Simon said Mr. Lander, a progressive power broker in the City Council, backed Mr. Sikora because because the WFP endorsed Mr. Sikora, a member of the Communication Workers for America, first.

The source also denied claims that Castro was let go because of his support of Luthmann and said members who supported John Mancuso's in the City Council primary instead of Mendy Mirocznik were still on the board.

What's more, members of the State Senate, House of Delegates and Montgomery City Council have little to risk by running because they are not standing for re-election until 2018.

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Gallo said it is necessary to veto the resolution because «the prior administration and former members of the city council are all aware of the design defect, use of sub-standards materials and poor supervision and mismanagement over the project.»

Quinn never realized that some of her fellow council members really did not like her, and the ones that did like her was because they selfishly picked the fig tree like Dominic Recchia, who took a lot of cannoli's but couldn't deliver a provolone sandwich on Primary Day.

Block club leaders are hoping that we can have this passed because we want to make our streets safe for our seniors and our children,» said Rasheed Wyatt, University District Common Council member.

At a meeting Monday with a group of influential labor leaders representing some of the state's powerful unions, including 1199 SEIU, 32BJ, the Hotel Trades Council and the Communications Workers of America, Cuomo said he couldn't pass a budget with campaign finance reform because of Senate opposition, and pressed the leaders to rein in the restive members of the Working Families Party, who vote on the party's endorsement.

In a City Hall news conference on Tuesday afternoon (which is posted at the end of this story), Richards, who lost last week's Democratic primary against City Council President Lovely Warren, said his decision is a personal one, because his family has been dealing with a difficult health challenge for one of their family members.

Referring to an earlier petition submitted by the Council of Elders of the party for the suspension of Afoko, Dr. Atupare said they objected because Prof. Mike Oquaye and Ama Busia, both members of the disciplinary committee were also members of the Council of Elders who filed the petition.

At 10 a.m., a new report will show black and Latino homeowners in the outer NYC boroughs remain in the grips of the foreclosure crisis because the value of their homes is less than the outstanding balance on their mortgages; Council members will call on the city to use eminent domain to seize «toxic» mortgage and modify them, City Hall steps, Manhattan.

The problem is that I don't think you can actually do that because there are member items that span council district lines, there are member items that are shared by council members.

Unfortunately, it was never allowed to become what it was supposed to be, because the agenda was always driven by the so - called progressives running the staff,» said Mike McGuire, the director of the Mason Tenders District Council PAC and a founding WFP member who left the party.

The «Uniting for Peace» doctrine, invoked in November 1950 via its resolution 377A (V), allows the UN General Assembly to recommend collective action when the Security Council, because of lack of unanimity of the permanent members, fails to exercise its responsibility in a matter.

The current speaker, Melissa Mark - Viverito, who is to deliver her State of the City address on Thursday, can not run for re-election because of the term limits law; several other prominent Council members are also serving their last term.

According to a copy of one invitation shown to POLITICO, one Council member was invited because of the member's «particularly compassionate» stance toward the city's homeless.

But some council members have privately griped about wanting higher raises — which would be their first since 2006 — because they're being forced to give up annual «lulu» bonuses of $ 8,000 to $ 25,000 each for chairing committees.

It is a directive of the National Council and I think if you are a true party member, you have to respect our party because that is what our constitution says

«He was mistreated because he is a Council member, because his voice can speak louder than many protesters there.»

Former Member of Parliament for Ningo / Prampram Constituency Enoch Teye Mensah has said that he is contesting to be the Greater Accra Regional representative on the Council of State because he believes he can work with President Nana Addo to fulfil his campaign promises.

The move came after the Member of Parliament for Effutu, Afenyo Markin, called for the immediate withdrawal of the thousands of certificates issued by the University of Education, Winneba, since 2013, because they were authorized by a Council whose tenure of office had expired.

A 2014 analysis by Politico New York found more than 1,500 instances where council members had to recuse themselves because of a conflict.

After his sacking Professor Nutt described Government policy as «Luddite» and has warned that Council members will resign because of his treatment.

We need to have a wide range of programs because our children have a wide range of abilities,» said Ralph Yozzo, Adams» task force appointee and member of the Community Education Council for School District 16.