Sentences with phrase «certain number of official»

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The notes from the meeting show that a number of Fed officials feel that interest rates could begin to be raised from their current artificially low levels sooner than the current target of sometime in 2015 should certain economic factors continue to improve at a rapid pace.

Furthermore, I believe the numbers are based on actual complaints and so are likely skewed among certain demographic sectors (e.g. those already wary of law enforcement) while completely missing a significant number of incidents lacking official doc - umentation.

The US Presidential election uses an «electoral college» system, where each state gets a certain number of «electors» (votes), and those electors cast the official votes for President.

The upshot of that thread is a small number officials (mostly the President, legislators, judges and district attorneys) have absolutely immunity from civil or criminal liability for certain kinds of discretionary official acts.

«A certain number of people are irate about illegal conduct by elected officials, but there's no big hue and cry on the streets,» Kremer said.

Under the plan, a certain number of complaints from parents would trigger official intervention

During the luncheon an official of Westminster announced they had added a certain number of new recognized breeds to their list.

12 In the middle of the century, there were only a third as many women as men artists, but even this mildly encouraging statistic is deceptive when we discover that out of this relatively meager number, none had attended that major stepping stone to artistic success, the Ecole des Beaux - Arts, only 7 percent had received any official commission or had held any official office — and these might include the most menial sort of work — only 7 percent had ever received any Salon medal, and none had ever received the Legion of Honor.13 Deprived of encouragements, educational facilities and rewards, it is almost incredible that a certain percentage of women did persevere and seek a profession in the arts.