Sentences with phrase «by the past administrations in»

«I therefore urge the Kogi State governor not to sell, as planned, the following edifices or legacies built by the past administrations in the Confluence State as doing so will portray Yahaya Bello as a prodigal son of the state.

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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.

In the past two years, aided by a grant from the Small Business Administration, the network has helped a niche - group of energy entrepreneurs secure some $ 32 million in federal contracts and create an estimated 400 jobIn the past two years, aided by a grant from the Small Business Administration, the network has helped a niche - group of energy entrepreneurs secure some $ 32 million in federal contracts and create an estimated 400 jobin federal contracts and create an estimated 400 jobs.

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.

There are a lot of facts that support that, of all the terrorist activities in this country since 9/11, most have been caused by American citizens radicalized by policies implemented by past administrations.

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.

Energy Secretary Rick Perry commissioned the study in April to evaluate whether «regulatory burdens» imposed by past administrations — including that of President Barack Obama — had forced the premature retirement of baseload power plants that provide nonstop power, like those fired by coal and nuclear fuel.

Second, approval rates by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration have steadily risen over the past two decades, climbing from 23 percent in 1994 to 89 percent and 77 percent in 2014 and 2015, respectively.

During past administrations, the press secretary spent hours prepping for the briefing, often by querying the president personally in order to speak properly on his behalf.

In the past, the United States General Services Administration has supported work flexibility by hiring for a variety of full - time, telecommuting jobs.

Tylenol was buffeted by a series of quality - related product recalls and shortages in recent years as it overhauled manufacturing under a consent decree from the Food and Drug Administration, with full production in the U.S. only resuming within the past year.

«Each time that I have listened to the president reflect on his Christian faith, I'm struck by the quiet poignancy of his words as he speaks from the heart,» said Stephen Schneck, a professor from Catholic University who has advised the administration in the past.

Speaking at a press conference on Thursday June 20 organized by the National Democratic Congress [NDC] to react to some comments made by President Akufo - Addo at a media encounter at the Flagstaff House in Accra, the minority leader said the NDC will resist the «blackmail witch - hunting» of the head of the election management body who was appointed by the past Mahama administration.

Erie County Legislator Lynne Dixon sent a letter to County Executive Mark Poloncarz asking the administration to release and detail all of the harassment settlements in Erie County government that have been paid for by taxpayers over the past five years.

According to him «If past administrations invested heavily in the ICT sector, the country would by now be earning more revenue from the sector than oil, with solid hopes of prosperity for the people.»

• More than $ 478,000 in new operational funding for the Buffalo and Erie County Public Library (funding for the B&ECPL has been increased by $ 2.3 million over the past five budget years under the Poloncarz administration);

It is shameful and embarrassing that having been in power close to two years with massive borrowing (over GHC 40 billion), goodwill, huge oil revenue, revenue generating policies bequeathed to it by the past administration, the Akufo - Addo government is unable to point to cogent and data driven achievements.

The revelations on the sorry state of things in the past, which have emanated from the investigative panel so far, point clearly to the kind of legacy bequeathed to this administration by the past government.

Under the previous town administration, various town accounts were tapped in past years to pay for day - to - day operating expenses and other items that should have been covered by general budget or other funds, and now that the process of determining which fund is owed what is done, repayments have begun.

The administration this past year responded by creating some vacancies in Auerbach's own department.

The tightly scripted address — introduced by a long video lauding the administration's record — was interrupted early on by Assemblyman Charles Barron, a Brooklyn Democrat who has clashed with Cuomo in the past.

For the past one year, since power was handed to the current administration, I am yet to read a record of the list of water projects initiated, even if not completed, to allay the fears of the millions of Ghanaians who are faced with the dangers of water rationing coming in the wake of Ghana's escape from the grip of power rationing through conscious investments made in the energy sector by the John Dramani Mahama administration.

Speaking with newsmen in Port Harcourt on Friday night, Wike said the $ 43m was part of the proceeds from the sale of a gas turbine by the immediate past administration, adding that the gas turbine was initially built by the Peter Odili administration.

Despite further concerns that those placed in the community homes may end up homeless, dead, or in psychiatric hospitals — concerns supported by past incidents — the Cuomo administration will likely move forward with this plan to empty adult homes of the mentally ill.

In accordance with the national need of vocational training for economic development, and the way it has been by society in the past few years, the aim of the Mahama administration was to inform, educate and train youth GhanIn accordance with the national need of vocational training for economic development, and the way it has been by society in the past few years, the aim of the Mahama administration was to inform, educate and train youth Ghanin the past few years, the aim of the Mahama administration was to inform, educate and train youth Ghana.

Government officials have hinted that the address on Thursday will highlight the massive infrastructural projects embarked on by the NDC in the past eight years of both the John Atta Mills and the John Mahama administration.

«We have got to make sure in New York City that we now lead by example,» said Stringer, reiterating past attacks on de Blasio that his affordable housing plan does not reach deep enough into the lowest brackets of the poor, and that his administration has failed to properly utilize city - owned lots for housing.

The Bloomberg Administration bases the success of stop - and - frisk on a statistic — in the past 10 years, the city's murder rate has dropped by 50 percent compared with the prior decade.

Recognizing the educational challenges represented by children in poverty, who are not fluent in English or have other special needs, the Bloomberg administration — even as it relentlessly encouraged the growth of charter schools — built a citywide methodology designed to look past simple comparisons of average school scores on state tests.

The Governor, who was represented as the Special Guest at the forum by the Commissioner for Economic Planning & Budget, Mr. Akinyemi Ashade, expressed confidence in the regime of President Buhari to combat the fiscal failures of the past administration, which, he said, was responsible for the economy downturn we are experiencing following the crash in the price of crude oil — our major source of revenue.

He traced the delay in the payment of their salary to the meagre federal allocation which the State receives, adding that it is no more news that the immediate past administration also compounded the situation by plunging the State into almost unmanageable debt situation.

Measurements of dichloromethane in the atmosphere over the past two decades, provided by scientists from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) in the United States, were also analysed.

Measurements of VSLS in the atmosphere over the past two decades, provided by collaborators from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) in the United States, were also analysed.

Likewise, over the past decade, no new drugs have been approved by the Food and Drug Administration to help the 5 million Americans who suffer from Alzheimer's disease, a number expected to grow dramatically in the coming years, at a huge cost to the U.S. economy as well as to American families.

The paper focuses on treatments unapproved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and undertaken by NFL players in the past five years.

Wind turbines in the U.S. have grown both taller and stronger during the past decade, according to analysis by the Energy Information Administration

Already half of China's coastal wetlands have disappeared over the past 50 years, enclosed by seawalls or overrun by ports and other development, according to the analysis, released here Monday by China's State Forestry Administration (SFA), the Chinese Academy of Science's Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, and the Paulson Institute, a nonprofit based in Chicago.

The revenues generated — about $ 194 billion in the first year, rising up past $ 250 billion within a decade — would then be redistributed by the Social Security Administration in the form of quarterly checks to every U.S. household.

Taking that concept into biomedical research has yielded a breakthrough: This past May the mTOR inhibitor everolimus was approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for the treatment of advanced pNET, the first drug in this class approved for this disease.

And if a high proportion hail from industry, as has been the pattern in past Republican administrations, will they command the respect of the scientific establishment that conducts most of the research funded by their agencies?

Research has been conducted over the past two decades by The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to determine which plants can remove toxic chemicals from the air for the use in space stations.

From these findings one might conclude that the Obama administration is having a huge policy impact by getting states like Tennessee and Delaware to set standards they have been unwilling to establish in the past.

A survey in 2014 by the School of Education Administration and Management asked school administrators if they had been on the receiving end of abuse from the parent or guardian of a pupil or student in the school during the past year.

Melnick recommends using standard notice - and - comment rulemaking as a first step in overcoming the «reckless form of demagoguery» used by OCR in the past and the Trump administration today.

But anything from the administration that smacks of holding states accountable for improving student achievement will not get congressional backing, especially from Harkin (who has proven in the past that he will do anything asked of him by the National Education Association and American Federation of Teachers) and House Education and the Workforce Committee Chairman John Kline (who wants to ditch No Child altogether and go back to the bad old days of handing federal money freely to states).

The Obama administration's implicit support for states enacting Common Core, embedded through both Race to the Top and the No Child waiver gambit, is only the most - recent step in moving away from the patchwork of standards and curricula (often developed by teachers on their own in slapdash fashion) that has dominated American public education for most of the past two centuries.

It has been in the news the past few months, if only due to the numerous and highly public errors made by Educational Testing Service (ETS) in its first administration of the STAAR test.

After all, it was centrist Democrat reformers (along with liberal Democrat reform allies) who pushed the administration early on to call for a speedy reauthorization of No Child, and stood by over the past year as Duncan and his team at the U.S. Department of Education have engaged in what can be best called a misinformation campaign that has denigrated No Child's accountability measures as being broken.

Over the past two years, this administration has reduced Central Office positions by 400, or nearly a quarter of the staff; put in place modern financial and auditing systems; and slashed the structural deficit to reduce the financial risks facing the district.

As Dropout Nation has reported ad nauseam over the past four years, the administration has engaged in an exercise of shoddy policymaking that has damaged systemic reform by encouraging traditionalists in states such as Texas and California to weaken and ditch accountability altogether.