Sentences with phrase «elected body of»

To this end, Tilonia has set up a children's parliament where an elected body of girls and boys aged between 10 to 14 years make sure that the schools are properly run — an innovative step to better child - empowerment.

There should be something written that explains if animal control is managed by an elected body of officials or an agency of the government, and defines the roles and responsibilities of animal control if the services are provided by a nonprofit or for - profit organization or individual.

Despite an obligation to be exclusively engaged in research and university lecturing for 40 hours a week, most grant - holders (PhD students and postdocs) are not represented on the elected body of their centres.

None of the changes to downgrade the powers of the elected bodies of the party — notably the conference and NEC — and restrict members» rights to select candidates for public office could have been adopted without support from the trade union bureaucracy.

Labour has three democratically elected bodies all of which could play a role — its national executive, the national policy forum (NPF) and party conference.

Not exact matches

In cities and towns where voters opposed legalization, elected bodies such as town councils or boards of selectmen can impose a ban without polling residents.

«I thought it belonged to God and, if not, then to the duly elected members of the governing body.»

Isn't supporting the needs of a body of voters the EXACT role an elected represenative is supposed to play.

The separation between church and state is slowly being dissolved, an atheist will NEVER be elected president, Christians believe that a woman should not be able to make decisions about her own body, religion is responsible for untold amounts of hate, violence, and bigotry.

An indirect one where a representative elected body (like the US house of Representatives) selects the President would also be an option.

the number of the elect is indeed small, only 2 of the original slaves in Egypt made it into the promised land, Joshua and Caleb, the rest were scattered (their bodies) in the desert.

Duke became a powerful advocate for those suffering mental health issues, and became so admired in Hollywood for her body of work that she was elected President of the Screen Actors Guild.

Obviously, in each case the Court deferred to the decisions of democratically elected legislative bodies.

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.

In other words, God does not predestine or elect people to be in Christ; no, God elects Jesus, and by default, all who join with Jesus by faith also become elect as members of the «body of Christ.»

That is, all who become members of the body of Christ are also elected or chosen by God to serve God's purposes in this world.

When people elect to become body donors, they give the last gift of which they are capable, and they do so for the benefit of persons they will never see.

Recently, Benjamin Sasse of Nebraska has been defending the peculiar inefficiency — yes, inefficiency — of the body to which he was elected, while invoking obscure moral philosophers on the Senate floor.

(10) While this «Position paper» (and others since issued) does not hold the constitutional status of the Statement of Fundamental Truths approved by the AGs highest body, the biennial General Council in session (typically four to nine thousand voters), the paper does bear the approval of the (roughly two hundred man - no women) General and Executive Presbyteries all of whom are elected by General Council membership.

By joining with Christ, the Elect One, through faith, we automatically become members of His Body, the church, and thus become numbered among the elect (Vance: Other Side of Calvinism, Elect One, through faith, we automatically become members of His Body, the church, and thus become numbered among the elect (Vance: Other Side of Calvinism, elect (Vance: Other Side of Calvinism, 379).

Few denominational leaders are either celebrities or well - known spiritual guides in their own church bodies; the media have created spokespersons entirely outside the line of appointed and elected officialdom who tend to speak for the churches.

Its members should be democratically elected, with broad representation of the organic sector (producers, distributors, processors, input manufacturers, importers and exporters, certification bodies, the provincial or territorial government).

Aleksander Ceferin has been elected new Uefa president, promising a «wind of change» within European football's governing body.

Despite the harsh charges leveled in the lawsuit, Benjamin said seeking to have the courts take over a governmental body run by elected officials — even a government steeped in allegations of fraud — is fraught with legal questions.

However, because of ongoing concerns that a high number and proportion of boys» ice hockey injuries are attributable to body checking, the AAP has elected to reassess its 2000 recommendation that «body checking should not be allowed in youth hockey for children age 15 years or younger.»

In a previous interview, Leno also said: «If you want to be an elected official of a taxing body with a $ 25 million operating budget, then everyone should dot their I's and cross their T's.»

«If you want to be an elected official of a taxing body with a $ 25 million operating budget, then everyone should dot their Is and cross their Ts,» Leno said.

Although an aquatic center would be run by the Park District, which is a taxing body separate from the village, elected officials from both boards agreed they should work together since their funds come out of the same pockets.

The PPA will help represent the state pediatric dentistry association in promoting children's oral health issues with the state legislature and other elected bodies, state regulatory agencies (including Medicaid and health departments), licensing bureaus, professional health and child welfare organizations, oral health coalitions, foundations, institutions of dental education, publicly - funded safety net programs, and the private sector benefits industry.

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.

More tentatively, an elected body replacing the House of Lords could have the important function of serving as a single upper house for all these various national and regional assemblies.

Interestingly the comments from Chuka Umunna are not about devolving to LEPs (unelected, undemocratic bodies) but about the creation of combined authorities and directly elected metro mayors — a much better solution than some of the original suggestions to give power and resource to the LEPs.

The two great points of difference between a democracy and a republic are: first, the delegation of the government, in the latter, to a small number of citizens elected by the The effect of the first difference is, on the one hand, to refine and enlarge the public views, by passing them through the medium of a chosen body of citizens, whose wisdom may best discern the true interest of their country, and whose patriotism and love of justice will be least likely to sacrifice it to temporary or partial considerations.

The lines were proposed by the state Legislative Task Force on Demographic Research and Reapportionment, a body comprised of elected officials and members of the public selected by elected officials.

Somewhat over half of the members of these bodies are locally elected in constituencies using FPTP, as above.

What Albany needs desperately is a vastly improved independent ethics investigation body, the elimination of outside income for elected officials and better campaign finance laws that give challengers a fighting chance to oust entrenched incumbents.

The remaining 40 to 45 per cent of representatives for each body (the «additional members») are elected in large regional areas using a proportional representation system, so as to match every party's share of winning candidates to their votes share.

Larry Seabrook of the Bronx used to brag (dubiously) about being the first African - American to be elected to three different legislative bodies, though when you consider that the three districts he represented were all similarly - sized subsets of the same group of impoverished neighborhoods, his accomplishment becomes slightly less impressive than, say, Obama's.

The court is not concerned with the intention of the decision - maker, especially if this is a political decision by an elected body, but with the quality and legality of the way the decision has been made.

The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC, spoken as the D triple - C or the D - trip) is the Democratic Hill committee for the United States House of Representatives, working to elect Democrats to that body.

Given that the new body was to be elected using proportional representation (the result of successful bargaining with Labour in the Scottish Constitutional Convention), it was unlikely that any single party would ever win an overall majority.

However, the motion also identified that the health and social care bill contained gross breaches of the coalition agreement with a total absence of locally elected representatives on commissioning bodies, and the proposed abolition of those commissioning bodies (the primary care trusts).

It is deeply disturbing that BNP councillors have been elected in a number of local authorities and equally disturbing that they could potentially end up on governing bodies.

The decision to vest power in the Bank of England's Monetary Policy Committee was a major reform, as centrally held control of such monetary policy was historically vested in the elected body and was traditionally a major feature of Governmental power.

The PEP is a body consisting of 13 members appointed by elected officials, predominantly by the Mayor.

Of these, 80 % would be elected by a form of proportional representation, with 20 % appointed by an independent bodOf these, 80 % would be elected by a form of proportional representation, with 20 % appointed by an independent bodof proportional representation, with 20 % appointed by an independent body.

«It is in a view to bring an end to all these tradition of electoral manipulation that, we of the SPN will continue to canvass for the democratisation of state and national electoral bodies whose members will comprise of the elected representatives of trade unions, youth and professional organisations, trade and artisan associations including the community associations like residents association.

Farrell, a Democrat elected to the Assembly in 1974 and the third longest serving member of the body, is known for his diplomacy and good natured

Caroline Pidgeon, the deputy chairwoman of the transport committee in the London Assembly, an elected governing body that acts as a check on the mayor, said that all these factors have led to a «perfect storm» of congestion.

While not a very lofty body, I have participated in student government deliberative bodies (with $ 300K of budget authority, some quasi-judicial authority, control over a fair amount of real estate and a role in institutional governance committees) with about thirty elected representatives that operated with approval voting, feminist process and an...