Sentences with phrase «by the administration as»

In February of last year, Trump described the removal of authorized immigration by his administration as «a military operation,» a comment that contrasted with other officials in his administration, who stressed that deportations would not be pursued en masse or in the style of a military operation.

The 30 percent tariff on solar panels is among the first unilateral trade restrictions imposed by the administration as part of a broader protectionist agenda to help U.S. manufacturers, but which has alarmed Asian trading partners that produce lower cost goods.

Reed is calling on the Governor to look at the science used by the administration as a model to allow development of the Marcellus Shale in New York.

East New York was identified by the administration as one of the potential places to accommodate denser development.

The state comptroller's office has released reports questioning the economic development spending by the administration as well as the use of state funds to promote the START - UP NY advertising campaign.

Obama's opening to Cuba, negotiated in secret with the help of the Vatican and which culminated in a presidential trip to Havana in March 2016, was regarded by his administration as one of its signature foreign policy achievements, ending an embargo of more than a half century, which had failed to produce a softening of the communist regime.

But he took the measure out of his last revenue bill — a move that was characterized by the administration as a concession to legislators.

The duo engaged each other on discussions bothering on the aleged misappropriation of fund by the Suswam administration to the tune of N107 billion; the rate of underdevelopment by his administration as well as neglect of the people by the same government in terms of payment of salaries and pensions.

Yet even smaller positive effects were championed by the administration as justification for expanding Head Start....

Building upon proposed federally mandated protections, the Conservation Law Foundation (CLF), the National Wildlife Federation (NWF) and the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC), working together with Deepwater Wind, Energy Management, Inc. (owner of Cape Wind in Massachusetts) and NRG Bluewater Wind, have drafted a set of protective measures that these developers will voluntarily implement over the next four years in areas designated by the administration as Mid-Atlantic Wind Energy Areas, which stretch from New Jersey to Virginia (map available here: http://on.doi.gov/UWoNPF).

I have seen so many great businessmen, nice people, being treated by the administration as if they were gangsters, that an objective criterion, like the level of investment appears appropriate.

* Any entries that are deemed by the administration as not meeting the Entry Requirements will not be approved and will not be eligible to win.

Not exact matches

Members of the Trump administration walked out of the White House Correspondents» Dinner Saturday night during a performance by standup comic Michelle Wolf, who attacked the administration's relationship to the truth as well as the past behavior of the president, who did not attend the event for the second year in a row.

This is further complicated by the fact that Graham is close friends with secretary of defense Robert McNamara, who is the one who commissioned the Pentagon Papers as, he said, a record for future administrations to study.

It also suggests that if Lumosity does intend to validate these claims, its games will be classified as a drug and must therefore be approved by the Food and Drug Administration.

Nevertheless, new regulations recently proposed by the Obama administration governing methane gas could hinder a recovery in natural gas production as prices begin to strengthen over the coming months.

The delay came as the free trade wing of the White House, led by Cohn, disagreed with trade hawks in the administration on whether to impose tariffs.

«Today's agreement by the State of Qatar is a strong first step in a process for commercial transparency and accountability, and we remain committed to working with the administration to address the harmful trade violations by the United Arab Emirates as well,» Delta CEO Ed Bastian said in a statement.

Immigration advocates criticized the move as unnecessary, but the Trump administration and others were quick to point out that the National Guard has been deployed to the border in the past — most recently by former presidents Barack Obama and George W. Bush.

And Jan Piercy, who led the charge for a student speaker at Wellesley's 1969 commencement, was appointed to the World Bank by President Clinton and served seven years as U.S. executive director during his administration.

A judge ruled in favor of the House in 2016, but an appeal filed by the Obama administration allowed the CSR payments to continue as the case moved its way through the courts.

The uncertainty around whether the Trump administration will continue these payments — known as cost - sharing - reduction payments — has left insurers jittery and contemplating leaving the individual insurance exchanges created by the Affordable Care Act, or Obamacare.

In their letter, the senators said Icahn should be re-classified by the Trump administration as a special government employee, making him subject to ethics requirements.

Speaking at the Dubai Airshow Monday, Boom Chief Executive Blake Scholl said that could soon change as laws set out by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) are currently up for renegotiation.

As a result, the number of people who say they have used heroin in the past year jumped by more than 50 percent between 2002 to 2011, according the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration.

The drone industry largely sees itself as hamstrung by an overreaching and underfunded Federal Aviation Administration.

Just as the Republicans won back control of the Senate in 2014 in part by criticizing the Obama administration's lackluster response to Ebola, the GOP could get hit this fall for standing in the way of Zika funding.

That research will be crucial: An earlier effort by another company, Pathway Genomics, to create a «liquid biopsy» for cancer was greeted in September by a stern letter from the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) warning that the agency had «not found any published evidence that this test or any similar test has been clinically validated as a screening tool for early detection of cancer in high risk individuals.»

The US Food and Drug Administration issued a «preliminary finding» that the genetically modified insects, produced by Oxitec at its labs in Oxford, England, and shipped as eggs to Florida, would have essentially «no significant impact» on human health, animal health, or the ecosystem.

Supplements like nootropics are not regulated by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, as they don't claim to prevent, cure or diagnose disease.

That view was on display during the presidential campaign when Trump railed against globalization and what he described as unfair trade deals negotiated by previous administrations.

The submission comes as Verizon and other top Internet service providers like AT&T (t), Comcast (cmcsa), and Charter Communications (chtr) have won several victories over regulations adopted by the FCC under the Obama administration.

Jacobson, a career diplomat, was nominated for the post by President Barack Obama in June 2015, but her confirmation was held up for 10 months in the Senate — led by Republican Sen. Marco Rubio and Democratic Sen. Robert Menendez — over objections to the Obama administration's reestablishment of diplomatic ties with Cuba, which she helped negotiate as assistant secretary of state for Western Hemisphere affairs.

Trump has argued that the seven countries named in the executive order «are the same countries previously identified by the Obama administration as sources of terror.»

That lack of flexibility is likely if anything to lead to still tougher sanctions by the administration of U.S. President Donald Trump, who has described Maduro as a «bad leader who dreams of becoming a dictator.»

China is almost as angered by the Kim regime as is the Trump Administration.

Over the last two decades, such loans as a percentage of total bank commercial loans, have dropped to 30 percent of bank portfolios from 50 percent in 1995, according to recent research compiled by former Small Business Administration head Karen Mills and Harvard University.

«The SBA performs an important role for many small businesses, and the administration should make small businesses a higher priority by finding a new administrator as quickly as possible,» Graves says in a statement.

But markets in those days were significantly concerned by an administration unable to address its policy agenda, bogged down as it was with problems that had taken on a life of their own, and a Congress preoccupied with the issue.

During the Obama administration, Twitter was a regular participant in meetings meant to address technology concerns, especially given its use by groups such as Islamic State and the ease with which the site is used for online bullying.

Global production grew only 2 %, as the Obama administration announced strict new rules limiting carbon emissions by coal plants.

Lewandowski was soon hired by CNN as a conservative commentator but resigned in November 2016 amid speculation he would serve in the Trump administration, something that never came to fruition.

This week Donald Trump's administration released its objectives for the coming renegotiation of the North American Free Trade Agreement, as required by U.S. law.

The new title may also be a ploy to keep Wintour at Condé, as there have been rumors recently that the magazine world's most famous woman was being considered by the Obama administration for an ambassador position (even though this later turned out to be false).

But that is not the same as full retirement age as defined by the Social Security Administration.

Knight, a former Hill staffer who worked on the Bush administration's 2001 and 2003 tax cuts, was promoted from her position as special assistant for tax and retirement policy to deputy director for policy in February, and was recently praised by the council's new head, Larry Kudlow.

On Sunday, Beijing slapped extra tariffs of up to 25 % on 128 US products including frozen pork, as well as wine and certain fruits and nuts in response to steep US tariffs on imports of aluminum and steel announced last month by the Trump administration.

As enacted by the Bush administration, however, the program required agencies to admit to a history of discrimination before qualifying, while the number of industries in which women would be eligible for assistance was severely limited.

Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Commissioner Dr. Scott Gottlieb isn't mincing words about kratom, the increasingly popular herbal substance that's been hawked as an alternative to painkillers and anti-depressants by companies promoting its ostensible curative properties (and supposedly innate safety as a «natural,» plant - based product).

The administration has been rocked by high - profile departures — including Reince Priebus as chief of staff and James Comey as FBI director — since Trump took office in January 2017.