Sentences with phrase «elected bodies at»

Indeed, in consultations for the Report on greater regional autonomy it was noted that there was «wide support for the retention of a representative and democratically - elected body at the national level to address government and to coordinate Indigenous advocacy».

However, the Report on greater regional autonomy found «wide support for the retention of a representative and democratically - elected body at the national level to address Government and to coordinate Indigenous advocacy [and]... to provide «balance» between different Indigenous groups and interests across the country.»

Not exact matches

Dozens of Muslims nations elect parliaments, yes, but to date there is always a strong man who can demand submission from the entire body of elected officials at will.

Mr Awah, at the ongoing AASU Delegates Congress in Khartoum, Sudan has fraudulently chosen his friends and cronies as official representatives of national student unions across Africa including Ghana, Liberia, Sierra Leone among others for the purposes of electing his friends into office as his tenure as Secretary General of the continental student body ends this weekend.

As federal elected officials face noisy constituents at town hall meetings nationwide, New York's senior U.S. Senator and that body's minority leader took questions Wednesday about his own ability to be reached.

Gillibrand appeared at a fundraiser this week for the Initiative, which aims to elect at least 21 women to the Council in the year 2021, when most of the seats in the 51 - person body will be open because of term limits.

In 1974 he succeeded Britain's Sir Stanley Rous to be elected Fifa president, marshalling support among those unhappy at the perceived European domination of the world governing body.

The chief place where parliamentary systems win out over the separately elected executive branch (at least in terms of preventing a government shutdown) is that the government (i.e. executive) is chosen by the legislative body.

Hundreds of people have also showed up at School Board and Common Council meetings imploring elected representatives on those bodies to take action.

As a national organizer of our party, we wish to remind him of his role as a leader and must remain as neutral as possible till the party elects a new leader at congress, at a later date to be determined by the same body of which he is part,» the statement added.

He studied government at Harvard, where he was elected president of the undergraduate council, the main body of student government, in his senior year.

There are a number of requirements to be aware of, namely the board must include two elected parent trustees (where the trustees have not appointed local governing bodies or there is no provision made for at least two parent local governors on each local governing body), no more than a third of the board can be employees of the academy trust and the number of trustees who are local authority associated persons must not represent 19.9 % or more of the total number of trustees.

«These elected, parent - majority bodies make critical decisions about school programs, budgets, and leadership at most CPS schools,» she says.

The major education reforms of the past 35 years — education vouchers, charter schools, tuition tax credits, and education savings accounts — all seek to remove public schools from the control of elected bodies; to subject them to the «laws» of the «market»; and to put them at the service of the economic elite.

Electing to improve handling instead of simply adding power, the group made a number of modifications to help the Fox - body Mustang dance, including stiffer springs and bushings, four - wheel disc brakes, and adjustable Koni dampers at each corner.

We've got the long - awaited reveal of the Porsche Panamera... body, President - Elect Obama makes his will known, and we take some time to find humor at the expense of others in our current deep economic crisis.

If a book is slated to be discussed in high school or college English courses, or if it's marketed as a book club selection, the author and publisher may elect to include a section at the end of the body text that introduces questions about the story and facilitates an academic discussion of the themes, characters, and deeper meanings.

At present, if there is a dispute, ultimately the Commons wins, since it is the elected body.

At the Supreme Court level, nine states used the gubernatorial appointment process with some form of confirmation of candidates by the legislature or another elected body, according to the Brennan Center.

Alexa Hui, a senior and student body president at St. Thomas Aquinas, is embarking on a broad effort to reach elected officials with thousands of postcards, signed by students, teachers and parents.

Yet «client satisfaction» is based on the satisfaction of «peak bodies from mining and local government; State and Commonwealth agencies; native title representative bodies; individual native title claimants; businesses engaged in mining; development and environmental consultancies; individual local governments; large commercial developers; pastoralists; environmental non-profit groups; various elected officials at all levels of government; and lawyers and consultants working in native title.»

Victoria is to establish a new representative body for the State's Aboriginal communities in response to the disbanding of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission (ATSIC) which will leave Indigenous people with no elected, cultural representation at the national level.