Sentences with phrase «department following criticism»

Last month, Quinn announced city lawmakers had reached a deal to install an inspector general to monitor the nation's biggest police department following criticism over the NYPD «s stop and frisk policy and widespread surveillance of Muslims.

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Lynch leaves office following a nearly two - year tenure marked by massacres carried out by violent extremists, including the shootings at a nightclub in Orlando, Florida; persistent hacking from overseas, including Russian government efforts to meddle in the U.S. presidential election; and an election - season investigation into Hillary Clinton's email server that entangled the Justice Department in presidential politics and led to criticism for her ill - timed meeting on an airport tarmac with former President Bill Clinton.

The Labor Department first proposed an expanded fiduciary definition under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act, or ERISA, in 2010, but withdrew the proposal the following year amid broad criticism that it would impose onerous restrictions on the industry that would cause financial professionals to abandon the retirement space, leaving low and moderate - income Americans in the lurch.

The AG's department, led by the Minister for Justice, Marietta Brew Appiah - Oppong, was met with criticism and accusations of corruption following a decision to discontinue an application to examine the one - time NDC financier orally.

The AG's department, led by the Minister for Justice, Marietta Brew Appiah - Oppong, was met with criticism and accusations of corruption following a decision to discontinue an application to...

A spokesperson for Mr. Zeldin offered the following response to the candidates» criticisms: «The Congressman did vote to expand Pell Grants and cosponsored bills that supported advance energy research at BNL and Stony Brook, while opposing cuts to the Department of Science.

The Legislature's changes followed widespread criticism of the tests themselves and a botched implementation of the Common Core Learning Standards by the State Education Department.

The Department for Education (DfE) took the decision to publish minutes of head teacher board meetings in January 2015, following criticism that RSCs were unaccountable.

Our criticism of the nationalization of standards, curriculum, and assessments elicited the following statement from Peter Cunningham, spokesperson for the U.S. Department of Education: «Just for the record: we are for high standards, not national standards and we are for a well - rounded curriculum, not a national curriculum.

It followed criticism from the National Audit Office, the government's spending watchdog, that the department had not communicated the scale or urgency of the budget cuts.