Sentences with phrase «during his administration as»

Former President John Dramani Mahama has said he never considered the Ford Expedition that was given to him by a Burkinabe contractor during his administration as a personal gift.

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Members of the Trump administration walked out of the White House Correspondents» Dinner Saturday night during a performance by standup comic Michelle Wolf, who attacked the administration's relationship to the truth as well as the past behavior of the president, who did not attend the event for the second year in a row.

As the Trump administration nears a key deadline in its renegotiation of the North American Free Trade Agreement, a council of private sector executives is urging principals to use portions of the Trans - Pacific Partnership deal scrapped during President Donald Trump's first days in office.

«During the Trump Administration, we will shift from playing defense at the FCC to going on offense,» Ajit Pai said in December last year, a month before president - elect Donald Trump appointed him as the new chair of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC).

«We've gotten about as much money as we can out of the personal income tax,» says Rudolph Penner, director of the CBO during the Reagan administration and now a fellow at the Urban Institute.

And Jan Piercy, who led the charge for a student speaker at Wellesley's 1969 commencement, was appointed to the World Bank by President Clinton and served seven years as U.S. executive director during his administration.

As «second lady» during the Reagan administration, Mrs. Bush focused on raising awareness for literacy.

That view was on display during the presidential campaign when Trump railed against globalization and what he described as unfair trade deals negotiated by previous administrations.

«He has done incredible damage to our relationship with Mexico, some to Canada and a lot to the European Union, all of which was not necessary and not desirable,» said Shapiro, who served as a trade negotiator during PresidentBill Clinton's administration and helped complete the North American Free Trade Agreement.

During the Obama administration, Twitter was a regular participant in meetings meant to address technology concerns, especially given its use by groups such as Islamic State and the ease with which the site is used for online bullying.

During his first administration, 2005 to 2010, he made an official three - day visit as a guest of then - president Shimon Peres, during which he visited the Weizmann Institute, the Schneider Children's Hospital and the Yad Vashem Holocaust memDuring his first administration, 2005 to 2010, he made an official three - day visit as a guest of then - president Shimon Peres, during which he visited the Weizmann Institute, the Schneider Children's Hospital and the Yad Vashem Holocaust memduring which he visited the Weizmann Institute, the Schneider Children's Hospital and the Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial.

He served as station chief in Saudi Arabia and in a variety of posts, including deputy executive director, during the Bush administration.

During the Bush administration, she was marginalized as one who was not a team player.

It had a legacy identity, as a luxury car that was popular during the Kennedy Administration.

The net - neutrality laws passed during the Obama administration, formally known as the 2015 Open Internet Order, were approved in a 3 - 2 vote along party lines in February 2015, after months of heated debate and public outcries.

In an interview as her tenure ends, Lynch strongly defended the Justice Department's aggressive intervention in local law enforcement during the Obama administration, including the decision to repeatedly seek court - enforceable improvement plans with troubled police agencies.

He won fame and bipartisan respect during the George W. Bush administration when, as Deputy Attorney General, he threatened to resign rather than agree to re-authorize the illegal warrantless wiretapping program.

While Congress won't pass a bill that goes after the consumer bureau this go - around, the Trump administration has cut back on enforcement actions during Mick Mulvaney's tenure as acting director.

However, there is evidence that stocks have performed slightly better when a Democrat is president, especially when Congress is split, as it was during most of Barack Obama's administration.

During the Obama administration, Berkovitz served as the agency's general counsel from 2009 until 2013.

U.S. Equity Funds enjoyed a record - breaking surge of fresh money during the second week of March, as investors shrugged off an impending U.S. rate hike and the internal struggles of Trump's administration and chased a rally that saw the benchmark Dow Jones Industrial Average Index climb more than 400 points in a day.

During the Obama administration, F.B.I. background checks on prospective firearms buyers — a rough proxy for sales — surged nearly 50 percent in the month of the Sandy Hook attack in 2012, compared with the same month a year earlier, as calls rang out for tighter legislation.

During the financial crisis and its immediate aftermath, Dr. Piwowar served in a one - year fixed - term position at the White House as a senior economist at the President's Council of Economic Advisers (CEA) in both the George W. Bush and Barack Obama Administrations.

Weldon J. Rougeau, a long - time civil rights activist, has considered the issue of diversity from many perspectives — as director of the office of federal contract compliance programs at the U.S. Department of Labor during the Carter administration, as president of the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation and even as a prisoner for 78 days (58 of them in solitary confinement) in a Baton Rouge, La., jail cell when he was a student activist.

Daniel Fried, who retired in 2017 after a 40 - year State Department career that included serving as U.S. sanctions «coordinator» under President Obama, offered his sharp critique of the Obama administration's response to Russian actions during an interview on the Yahoo News podcast «Skullduggery.»

As a result, biotech and pharma stocks enjoyed big gains overall during the first year of the Trump administration.

CIA Director Mike Pompeo said during an appearance at the Center for Strategic and International Studies this month that it was «time to call out WikiLeaks for what it really is: a non-state, hostile intelligence service often abetted by state actors, like Russia,» and he criticized prior administrations as having been «squeamish» about going after publishers of state secrets.

Trump's business conflicts with America's national security interests can not be resolved so long as he or any member of his family maintains a financial interest in the Trump Organization during a Trump administration, or even if they leave open the possibility of returning to the company later.

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters)- U.S. immigration authorities have detained a 23 - year - old Mexican man who was brought to the United States illegally as a child and given a work permit during the Obama administration, according to a lawsuit challenging the detention in Seattle federal court.

«The reality, as we have seen in the first 100 days, is that it's a lot harder for the administration to achieve their policy goals and deal with Congress than they probably thought during the campaign,» he said.

«But in terms of the language used during the campaign and at the beginning of the administration, it's not as far - reaching as some people could have expected.»

As the Trump administration rolls back the greater regulatory scrutiny the for - profit college industry has faced during the last several years, it is private equity that stands to benefit the most, posing continuing dangers to students, taxpayers, and the integrity of the federal financial aid system.

The United States and China had clashed on issues from cybersecurity to trade in the final years of the Obama administration, although they had struck a landmark climate deal during Barack Obama's 2014 visit to Beijing that served as a prelude to the Paris climate accord.

Mormon fundamentalism (also called fundamentalist Mormonism) is a belief in the validity of selected fundamental aspects of Mormonism as taught and practiced in the nineteenth century, particularly during the administration of Brigham Young, an early president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter - day Saints (LDS Church).

Rogers, who worked with the Obama administration during the planning of his first inauguration in 2009, will become Director of the Office of Faith - Based and Neighborhood Partnerships, a job that includes working with outside religious groups and acting as the top White House official on religious issues.

Created during the Clinton administration in 1998, the IRF exists as part of a larger American foreign policy strategy of promoting international religious freedom.

Trump and Liberty University President Jerry Falwell were thick as thieves during the presidential campaign, and Falwell reportedly even politely declined a job offer from the Trump Administration.

But even during the Carter administration, the U.S. paid little heed to such criticisms, lauding Colombia as a showcase of democracy.

Carol Lancaster, who teaches at Georgetown University, has worked on U.S. policy toward Africa as a fellow of various Washington think tanks, as deputy assistant secretary of state for Africa in the Carter administration, and as deputy administrator of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) during the Clinton administration.

During the twilight years of the Clinton administration, a conservative republican thinktank presented the President with a bold statement of principles conceived to advance America's interests as the dominant global empire.

Interesting fact: In response to the USDA's subsidized school lunch program during the Reagan administration, ketchup was counted as one of the two servings of fruit or vegetables for a reimbursable lunch.

Human resources aside, kitchen fires are another shared bane of the restaurant and hospitality trade, with the U.S. Fire Administration reporting «cooking» as the cause for the majority of fires during the 3 - year reporting period.

What the organic livestock standard says The Organic Livestock and Poultry Production rule, commonly referred to as the Organic Animal Welfare Rule, is the result of 14 years of public and transparent work within the process established by Congress, and reflects deep engagement and input by organic stakeholders during multiple administrations, both Republican and Democrat.

Segura flipped on the game and saw her country reflected like never before in the faces of its team: Jewish Mexican - American Jonathan Bornstein, Jersey boy Michael Bradley and Nigerian - American Oguchi Onyewu placing their hands over their hearts during The Star - Spangled Banner even as the Obama Administration announced plans to use drones along the southern border that the relatives of U.S. players José Torres and Herculez Gomez had crossed.

Indications suggest that the enforcement of Title IX will not get easier, and perhaps might even become much harder if the Department of Education does not prioritize it as it had done during the last presidential administration.

Concussion or Sports - Related Head Injury: Code 20 -2-324.1 (2013) requires each local board of education, administration of a nonpublic school and governing body of a charter school to adopt and implement a concussion management and return to play policy that includes the following components: 1) an information sheet to all youth athletes» parents or legal guardians informing them of the nature and risk of concussion and head injury, 2) requirement for removal from play and examination by a health care provider for those exhibiting symptoms of a concussion during a game, competition, tryout or practice and 3) for those youth that have sustained a concussion (as determined by a health care provider), the coach or other designated personnel shall not permit the youth athlete to return to play until they receive clearance from a health care provider for a full or graduated return to play.

But as I explained here in «Yes, School Meal Standards Just Got Weaker — But Not As Much As You Think,» that May announcement really only locked in the status quo on standards that had already been relaxed during the Obama administratioas I explained here in «Yes, School Meal Standards Just Got Weaker — But Not As Much As You Think,» that May announcement really only locked in the status quo on standards that had already been relaxed during the Obama administratioAs Much As You Think,» that May announcement really only locked in the status quo on standards that had already been relaxed during the Obama administratioAs You Think,» that May announcement really only locked in the status quo on standards that had already been relaxed during the Obama administration.

In the case of severely food allergic students, a FAPE usually includes the provision of «related aids and services» such as administration of medication, changes to the classroom environment, menu substitutions, or other health - related needs that require attention during the school day.6

Former SNA President Dorothy Caldwell, who has been on the front lines of child nutrition for 37 years, said she is worried SNA leadership has been «naive» in its approach, allowing the National School Lunch Program to be unnecessarily politicized as it was during Newt Gingrich's effort to block the grant program during the Clinton administration, when she was a USDA official.

It was during the Reagan administration that the government tried to classify ketchup as the «vegetable» component of school lunches, in a failed attempt to save $ 1 billion in education funding, and not much has improved since then.