Sentences with phrase «decades old government»

Synopsis: Frank Moses (Bruce Willis) is once again dragged out of retirement after being implicated in a decades old government cover - up.

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Power plants owned by Puerto Rico's bankrupt government - owned power authority, Prepa, are four decades old on average.

Despite more than paying for itself — by its own reckoning, Ex-Im Bank has returned $ 7 billion to the U.S. Treasury in the last two decades through interest on guaranteed loans and credit insurance — the 80 - year - old government - run financial institution is a sunset agency.

The 49 - year old Clement has a prominent place in Stephen Harper's government; he is arguably the most ambitious industry minister in a decade, pursuing new copyright legislation, anti-spam legislation, strategies to improve Canada's online business acumen and exploring more foreign investment in the wireless sector.

Trudeau initially defended the payments as having followed all the rules of a decades - old relocation policy that was last updated by the Harper government in 2011.

But voters will astonish us sometimes, and so they did on May 5 — so there is a strong possibility that that today's Throne Speech will also make history in part because it charts a policy course genuinely different from that all those old Tory governments wanted to take over the past four decades, and possibly because it says forthrightly what the government actually intends to do.

For many decades, Alberta's old Progressive Conservative government benefited greatly from large corporate donors which would help keep the governing party's campaign war - chest flush with cash.

The signings will be lawful under the decades - old American embargo provided that the salaries are paid directly to players and that no money goes directly to the government, making it unclear whether Cuba would agree to such an arrangement for players still in the country.

NEW YORK (AP) A jury has convicted former New York Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver of public corruption charges, dashing the 74 - year - old Democrat's second attempt to avoid prison after a decades - long career as one of the most powerful politicians in state government.

This decades - old assault on government employees has acquired new potency at a time of widespread economic suffering and populist rage.

A decade - old government must now counter calls of «time for a change», and everything David Cameron does is intended to send the message that his party has changed.

A jury convicted former New York Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver of public corruption charges Friday, dashing the 74 - year - old Democrat's second attempt to avoid years in prison after a decades - long career as one of the most powerful politicians in state government.

New York, NY (AP / WBEN)- A jury convicted former New York Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver of public corruption charges Friday, dashing the 74 - year - old Democrat's second attempt to avoid years in prison after a decades - long career as one of the most powerful politicians in state government.

A decade - old government can not see off calls of «time for a change» by sticking to «more of the same».

For AQE, which is pushing for education spending on par with a decade - old court ruling, the problem for them was Cuomo suggesting a short - term extender may be a viable option for the state budget considering the uncertainty emanating from Washington over the federal government's budget cuts.

«I'm sorry that my right honourable friend chose to leave the government and let me here in this House recognise his achievements in helping to make work pay, protecting the vulnerable and breaking the decades old cycle of welfare dependency...

NEW YORK — A jury convicted former New York Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver of public corruption charges Friday, dashing the 74 - year - old Democrat's second attempt to avoid years in prison after a decades - long career as one of the most powerful politicians in state government.

Bill Clinton's staff used a decades - old federal government program, originally created to keep former presidents out of the poorhouse, to subsidize his family's foundation and an associated business, and to support his wife's private email server, a POLITICO investigation has found.

The senator said at the age of 63 and after nearly four decades of government service she wanted to spend more time with her family, including taking care of her 88 year - old mother.

NEW YORK (AP)- A jury has convicted former New York Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver of public corruption charges, dashing the 74 - year - old Democrat's second attempt to avoid prison after a decades - long career as one of the most powerful politicians in state government.

For decades, the Tappan Zee Bridge was a symbol of government incompetence and procrastination but today's lowering of the main span of the old bridge marks the critical progress we have made,» Governor Cuomo said.

A decade after his death, his son was in Nicaragua, working in support of the kind of socialist government his father's old colleagues tried to prevent in Latin America.»

Prosecutors built a case around the 45 - year - old Democrat, who represented Brooklyn for over a decade, based on hours of audio and video recordings and the testimony of Boyland's former chief of staff, who pleaded guilty to bribery charges and testified for the government.

Two decades - old pieces of legislation — the Mineral Leasing Act of 1920 and the Mineral Leasing Act for Acquired Lands of 1947 — give the Department of the Interior's Bureau of Land Management responsibility for minerals leasing on more than 550 million acres of federally owned public lands, as well as state and private lands where mineral rights have been acquired by the federal government.

The agency is responding to a report written by 12 scientists who criticized the government's decades - old strategy for testing the safety of many chemicals found in the environment and consumer products

With 45 Years, he's made a mosaic of utterly mundane living that's overlaid with a mystery of nostalgic proportions; from a distance the movie's central proposition, that retiree Geoff Mercer (Tom Courtenay) should be the recipient of notice from the Swiss government about the freshly uncovered remains of his old girlfriend, who perished after falling into a glacial crevasse decades prior, appears ridiculous, perhaps even melodramatic.

Nearly two decades later, I'm still chastened by the book's central lesson: A government policy developed by mostly benevolent leaders hoping to improve the lives of the disadvantaged — in this case, by razing old, low - income, ostensibly decaying neighborhoods in favor of gigantic public - housing skyscrapers — did incalculable harm to those it was designed to help.

A decade after they were phased out, the government could reintroduce national tests for seven - year - olds.

According to a decades - old Supreme Court decision, catalog retailers and online retailers do not have to charge sales tax in states where they have no physical presence, but state governments realized that Amazon's distribution centers amounted to a physical presence.

Private mortgage insurance is a 60 - year old bedrock of the housing system that for decades has helped low down payment borrowers qualify for mortgage financing — more than 25 million borrowers to date — and has provided critical credit risk protection to the government and taxpayers through numerous housing cycles.

Government must take the lead (we can not expect corporations to support research that will benefit their competitors, unless they are regulated monopolies like the old Bell System), and research must be managed in a way that encourages long - term (decades) efforts on hard problems that are important, not academic «sand - boxes».

Many of these forest areas overlap with historical land claims made by Myanmar's ethnic minority groups who could permanently lose their land, further enflaming decades - old armed conflicts with the national government.

The world's governments have been talking about preventing climate change for more than two decades; they began negotiating the year that Anjali, then twenty - one years old, was born.

And his ideas about state sovereignty fly in the face of a decades - old consensus granting the federal government primacy in controlling pollution.

Republican operatives, not satisfied with the good publicity from their party's War on Women, are amplifying decades - old demands that the Federal government hand over billions of acres of Federal land to State and local officials.

So what's a duly elected government to do when its legislative agenda is thwarted time after time by activist judges empowered by a three - decade old constitutional experiment?

And I have highlighted the mystifying failure of the Canadian government to sign on to a UN torture prevention treaty that is more than a decade old.

The decades - old entrenched bureaucratic in - house status quo supporters need to be voted out by whatever means necessary in order for the industry performers who really do care about what they do for a living to avoid having their what - should - be-a-profession-but-which-is-not-a-profession undermined in the publics» view to the point that government action kicks in.

On another front, China is ending the decades - old system of government - owned housing for workers.

The «decades - old credit scoring model» currently used «does not take into account consumer data on rent, utility, and cell phone bill payments,» Republican Sen. Tim Scott of South Carolina wrote in August, when he unveiled a bill to require the federal government to vet credit standards used for residential mortgages.

What makes these loans potentially toxic for lenders and the government also makes them attractive for borrowers: a homeowner who is at least 62 years old gets a lump sum of money, a line of credit, or monthly income from their reverse mortgage, and potentially does not have to repay the loan for decades.