Sentences with phrase «called on government officials»

He called on government officials in other states with residents that appear to have «likely victims» to get involved, including California, Missouri, Texas, Ohio and Pennsylvania.

This past month, Community Board 3 called on government officials to establish a construction command center to coordinate projects on the Lower East Side.

She, along with several of her classmates, have held gun control rallies in their Florida community and called on government officials to act now to prevent future mass shootings from taking place.

Not exact matches

Among the entourage of government officials and prominent business leaders who accompanied Prime Minister Stephen Harper on an early - August trade mission to Brazil was the chief executive officer of a relatively obscure Canadian company called Weatherhaven.

The official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said many governments, including the Organization of American States and the Latin American community, «have called on the United States to close down the detention facility and we look forward to their continued cooperation.»

Back in April, Luxembourg's crown prince, his wife and government officials paid a visit to Planetary Resources, putting on white gowns, gloves, wispy caps and baby blue bootees — a distinctly unroyal outfit sometimes called a «bunny suit» — to take a close look at where the company is assembling small satellites.

I recall that on one visit a government official handed me the World Hank's Bangladesh 2020 report, which called for the country to convert more and more of its tiny farms to large, efficient, export - minded agribusinesses.

A Christian charity has called on the government to produce an official measurement of food insecurity... More

The NDC youth wing has served notice to embark on a protest against what they call lawless attacks by New Patriotic Party (NPP) supporters on former government officials, and some citizens working in government institutions.

At Silver's trial jurors were told they could convict based on «any action under color of official authority» by Silver, but the 2d Circuit said the Supreme Court ruling required a «formal exercise of government power,» rather than lesser acts like just making a phone call or having a meeting.

The Supreme Court, in a case last year involving former Virginia Gov. Robert McDonnell, ruled that corruption convictions could only be based on performance of an «official act» that represented a formal exercise of government power — not just a phone call or a meeting with a lobbyist.

A livid Abronye DC told Accra News on Thursday June 15 that the exercise would be a futile one because government officials supposed to be supporting the retrieval of state cars are rather supporting wrongdoing by calling for the return of the cars to those thought to be in illegal possession of them.

A good - government group immediately called for an investigation by the state's Joint Commission on Public Ethics, which is charged with overseeing the disclosures and policing New York's government officials.

The Joint Committee chaired by both Hon. Aminu Sani Jaji of Committee on National Security and Intelligence and Hon. Oluwole Oke of the Committee on Public Procurement had recently called for submission of written memoranda / position papers from top government officials and 241 firms.

However, oddly, only under the section on» Sole Source Procurement» does Schwartz mention the need to ensure that bidding specifications are not written to favor a particular bidder, or to call for potential bidders to reveal their connections to government officials.

Fellow Tory Andrew Mitchell called for the UK government to pass on details of the Belhaj apology to US officials examining the conduct of Gina Haspel, who is expected to be confirmed as the next director of the CIA.

Cuomo, in his third and fourth stops this week around the state to give his annual State of the State speech, proposed a plan that would put the onus on county executives or county managers to call together all officials from their counties to devise ways to share government services to cut expenses.

Campaigners are calling on the UK government to explain the reasons behind a spike in tax credit errors after official figures found inaccuracies by claimants had risen by more than a third in the space of a year.

He said change must come from within the public services themselves, and called on ministers to back officials in experimenting with new ways of working - however, he rejected suggestions that the government had been using officials as scapegoats.

At 2 p.m., key elected officials representing all levels of state government join reform advocates in calling on their colleagues to support efforts to end political corruption, City Hall steps, Manhattan.

The comments of the MP, who is notorious for inflammatory language, has attracted the anger of government officials such as Gender and Social Protection Minister, Nana Oye Lithur and Foreign Affairs Minister Hannah Tetteh, who have called on the MP to retract and apologise.

New York's top open government official is calling on the NYPD to reverse a policy of sealing internal disciplinary records for officers.

Business News of Sunday, 20 May 2018 Source: dailyguideafrica.com play videoForest actors and government officials at the Tropical Africa Alliance Global Assembly 2018 Forest actors and government officials, who recently met in Accra during the Tropical Africa Alliance (TFA) Global Assembly 2018, have called on African governments to move beyond policy commitments and supply chain transparency and focus on implementation transparency in the fight against deforestation.

Therefore, alleging that President Buhari signs memos brought to him by government officials or a so - called cabal without reading them, immediately casts doubts on the credibility of the ubiquitous unnamed sources that the reporters of these articles quote.»

According to a Welsh Government spokesperson, Carwyn Jones is allowed to use his official phone to call, text email and tweet on party matters because it's important that the First Minister only ever uses a secure device that's protected against hacking.

Business News of Sunday, 20 May 2018 Source: dailyguideafrica.com play videoForest actors and government officials at the Tropical Africa Alliance Global Assembly 2018 Forest actors and government officials, who recently met in Accra during the Tropical Africa Alliance (TFA) Global Assembly 2018, have called on African governments to...

In a statement on Tuesday by his Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Mr. Femi Adesina, the President appealed to Nigerians to ignore what he called orchestrated attempts to sully the integrity of his ministers and other senior government officials.

While a Con Con, as it is often called, would provide a chance for enacting reforms on things like government ethics, term limits for elected officials, modernized voting and voter registration rules, and more, it would open up the entire state constitution to change.

«While we call on all men and women of conscience to call the EFCC and whoever is goading them along perilous path to order, we must warn that no harm must come the way of the illegally detained Ekiti State Government officials, who have health issues, which they will be hampered to manage effectively in EFCC's crushing detention.

As the outbreak in West Africa worsened, debates intensified among scientists, government officials, and company executives about bringing some of these unapproved products to Africa on a so - called compassionate use basis — after all, «something is better than nothing,» Ollman Saphire says.

As the outbreak worsened, debates intensified among scientists, government officials, and company executives about bringing some of these unapproved products to Africa on a so - called compassionate use basis.

A number of politicians have called for Japan to phase out nuclear power, though the government's official policy of increasing reliance on nuclear power has not changed.

But officials at the so - called mission agencies — labor, justice, treasury, education, health, housing, and so on — have historically paid relatively little attention to how researchers outside the government might be able to use their data.

«The American Academy of Sleep Medicine calls on ridesharing companies, government officials, medical professionals, and law enforcement officers to work together to address fatigue and sleepiness in the ridesharing industry,» said AASM President Dr. Ilene Rosen.

In his current posting as a commercial counselor at the U.S. Embassy in Kiev, the capital of Ukraine, the envoy is regularly called on to speak with Ukrainian government officials, address groups of business leaders in Russia, and give interviews to the press in those countries.

State officials are publicly calling on the federal government to help address the issue.

Local government officials and / or well - meaning citizens call for a ban on all dogs of the apparent breed involved in the incident, even if the dog involved is a mix of breeds.

With early leaks of the new Call of Duty trailer, Activison released the official trailer of the game, Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare is described as focusing on a private military company lead by Kevin Spacey's character that has turned on the US government.

The GTA series has drawn the ire of many special interest groups, parents and government officials who have called for changes to the content, rating and even outright bans on the sale of the games due to the depiction of violent crimes, racial stereotypes, and sexually explicit content to name a few.

He made the call in a presidential memorandum with no teeth or money behind it, which mainly serves to put pressure on government officials to focus existing programs in ways that give the country's largely urbanized populace opportunities to get wet or muddy, to see an orange newt wriggling on a leafy park path, to have a chance to toss a fishing line in a reclaimed urban river.

This is an important film with an important message that not only calls to task the officials who squelched the Zero Emission Vehicle mandate, but all of the other accomplices, government, the car companies, Big Oil, even Eco-darling Hydrogen as well as consumers, who turned their backs on the car and embrace embracing instead the SUV.

After he called on the United States to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in a December 2005 lecture, Dr. Hansen found that NASA officials began reviewing and filtering public statements and press interviews in an effort to limit his ability (as well as that of other government scientists) to publicly express scientific opinions that clashed with the Bush administration's views on global warming.»

But as the heat turns up before the Olympics, and some in the government call for improved reporting on pollution at least, officials are having a harder time of putting lipstick on the environmental pig.

At a panel in Bodrum, on Turkey's western Mediterranean coast, businesspeople, government officials, and members of environmental groups discussed the importance of the area's wetlands to its tourism industry and ecology and called for them to be protected so they don't end up dried out like so many lakes in central Anatolia.

China announced Sunday it will call on local government officials called «river chiefs» to clean and prevent further pollution from entering its waterways across the country.

I had a flashback to the brownie incident when I read that government officials in London swooped in on a local ice cream shop over the weekend to confiscate a line of ice cream called «Baby Gaga» that is made with human breast milk.

According to this story on Portflio.com today, «When the New York Times broke the story last week that Eli Lilly & Co. was in confidential settlement talks with the government, angry calls flew behind the scenes as the drug giant's executives accused federal officials of leaking the information.

Major exchanges and ICOs have been banned, while a Chinese official newspaper — People's Daily — on February 26 called the government to take a hard line on the blockchain technology.

On 6 January 2017, a Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) official responded to a December 2016 letter sent by Article 36 and six other UK members of Campaign to Stop Killer Robots to Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson that called on the government to establish national policy specifying «the measures necessary to ensure that weapons remain under human control in the future.&raquOn 6 January 2017, a Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) official responded to a December 2016 letter sent by Article 36 and six other UK members of Campaign to Stop Killer Robots to Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson that called on the government to establish national policy specifying «the measures necessary to ensure that weapons remain under human control in the future.&raquon the government to establish national policy specifying «the measures necessary to ensure that weapons remain under human control in the future.»

Zuckerberg told reporters on Wednesday in a conference call that he would be sending other Facebook officials to brief and testify before governments of other countries such as the United Kingdom.