Sentences with phrase «declaring such intentions»

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Among the points made was that, despite the bishops» declared intention, a statement such as «Political Responsibility,» issued by the United States Catholic Conference (USCC), is in fact a political platform, and it inevitably presents the Catholic Church as but another political interest group.

Consistent with the Hoover Report's recommendations that the United States had to reconsider «long - standing American concepts of fair play» and «learn to subvert, sabotage and destroy our enemies,» the shadow government built alliances between U.S. government officials, the Mafia, and international drug cartels; assassinated many thousands of civilians in Southeast Asia; carried out or attempted assassination of foreign leaders; trained death squads and secret police forces; worked to shore up unpopular dictators like the Shah of Iran and the Somoza dictatorship in prerevolutionary Nicaragua; worked to destabilize «unfriendly» governments such as Allende in Chile and the Sandinistas in Nicaragua; cooperated with the Colombian drug cartel to plot the assassination of the former U.S. ambassador to Costa Rica, Lewis Tambs, with the intention of justifying a U.S. invasion of Nicaragua by blaming his death on the Sandinistas; contracted with the Reagan administration and the National Security Council to find ways of circumventing a congressional ban prohibiting aid to the contras, including the trading of arms to Iran in exchange for hostages and money for the contras; illegally shipped weapons from the United States to the contras and allowed returning planes to use the same protected flight paths to transport drugs into the United States; 11 targeted the U.S. people for disinformation campaigns; and helped prepare contingency plans for declaring a form of martial law in the United States that would have formally suspended constitutional freedoms.

Bigwigs within the umbrella family such as George Spio - Gabrah, Prof. Joshua Alabi, Nii Amasah Namoale and a host of others have all declared their intention to contest the position.

He added, «The positions of the national chairman and the deputy national chairman are zoned to the southern states and as such is beyond the scope of the South - West zone to unilaterally adjudicate on, therefore we declare that all those gentlemen that have signified their intentions to contest for the above mentioned positions remain at liberty to continue to prosecute their ambitions without hindrance.

McDonnell has no such shame, proudly declaring his intention to invest and harnessing the support of «the Financial Times, the Economist, every single economist who appeared in front of the Treasury Select Committee».

The impetus for such cars is building, especially since Los Angeles declared its intention to become a zero - pollution car zone, meaning that electric cars will have to make up an increasingly large portion of all new - car purchases in the city beginning with 1999 car models.

Ban Ki - moon, the United Nations secretary general, spoke to delegates at the meeting on Friday by video link, declaring his intention to call a meeting of heads of state in 2014 to push such a treaty forward.

There is an escape clause in the act, however, giving a royal over the age of 25 the right to contract a valid marriage with whomever, provided notice is given to the Privy Council of the intention to marry despite refused consent and provided that both Houses of Parliament do not «expressly declare their disapprobation of such intended marriage.»

To prevent abuse, such as holding a Canadian passport out of convenience in order to benefit from generous taxpayer - funded benefits without contributing to Canadian society, permanent residents seeking citizenship would have to declare their intention to reside in Canada and make Canada their home before citizenship is granted.