Sentences with phrase «even as a council member»

The bill passed easily, even as some council members, including Daniel R. Garodnick, a Manhattan Democrat, questioned its legality, saying it amounted to a public gift for private employees.

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Even the UN Security Council, which offers to its members the «best way to protect their own sovereign rights and national interests» by exercising the veto power, counts the votes of an absent member as an abstention.

Tragedy struck the Lagos State Executive Council Thursday evening as a member of the council Deji Tinubu slumped anCouncil Thursday evening as a member of the council Deji Tinubu slumped ancouncil Deji Tinubu slumped and died.

Some in the Council even see the suggestion of more hearings as an attempt by state leaders to «embarrass» the Democratically elected members of the New York City Council.

I know that he will work even harder for this community as the next City Council member.»

Even for those not surprised, there is still a desire to see and hear de Blasio think through whether as mayor, and at the top of the chain of command, he should react differently than he would as a council member or public advocate.

The NYPD denied collaborating with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) at a rally for an immigrant activist detained by ICE last month, even as New York City Council members insisted the police department was working with federal immigration authorities that day.

Christine Quinn I'd like to be remembered as somebody who helped further unite the council and make the council even more effective, someone who empowered council members so that each member could accomplish more, not only for their district, but also on citywide issues.

That's almost exactly two years after McLaughlin pleaded guilty to stealing $ 2.2 million in cash, carks and perks — both as a state lawmaker (he even bilked a little league team out of taxpayer - funded member item money) and as president of the New York City Central Labor Council.

It should be clear to the Met Council, who singled me out, that even as a member of the IDC without the support of a majority of state Senators these bills will not pass.

On Thursday evening, five City council members hoping to succeed Christine Quinn as Council Speaker participated in a publiccouncil members hoping to succeed Christine Quinn as Council Speaker participated in a publicCouncil Speaker participated in a public forum.

Hawkins was polling 9 % statewide even before a widely - praised debate performance, and has earned endorsements from a spectrum of people and organizations, including Ralph Nader, Seattle socialist city council member Kshama Sawant, education analyst Diane Ravitch, and former Mobil Oil VP - turned - renewable energy activist Lou Allstadt; as well as Albany weekly paper Metroland, 6 teachers» unions, 6 Democratic Party clubs, Socialist Alternative, and a number of groups leading the fight against school privatization, such as United Opt Out and the New York Badass Teacher Association.

City Council member Margaret Chin was sworn in last Tuesday evening, 55 years to the day that she arrived in New York City as an immigrant from Hong Kong.

The three have been at odds over the past few months, as the Council has protested police brutality and pushed ahead with proposed reforms, even after Lynch accused City Hall of having «blood» on its hands, and Bratton suggested members focus on showing «additional support» instead.

But, Council members expressed concern that crucial priorities remained unfunded, or underfunded, even as the latest budget plan increased projected

They also emphasize the Council member's responsibility as an elected representative to get what she can for her community, even if it frustrates some constituents who want more.

Even after, he said, he identified himself as a council members — he also said he was wearing a suit, not exactly the standard garb of the Occupy Wall Street crowd — the police kept pushing.

«Unfortunately, even as we face this dangerous reality for our city, there remains — especially from some members of our City Council — a continuous piling on of new burdens and second - guessing for our police officers,» Lynch said.

The development, known as Astoria Cove, is viewed as a coup by the de Blasio administration and left - leaning City Council members — a about - face on the part of City Councilmembers occasioned by a 7 percent increase in the amount of affordable housing housing to built — and an agreement to use organized labor during the construction phase, even as speculation builds that the developer, Alma Realty, could flip the property and some activists question whether enough affordable housing will be built.

And council members Peter Koo and Peter Vallone of Queens say they haven't endorsed Hizzoner, even though they were named as backers in an August press release from de Blasio's campaign.

In May, the UFT held a mayoral forum that one newspaper described as a contest among the candidates to «prove that they despise former Council member Eva Moskowitz even more than the UFT does.»

Trivial observations (e.g., long lists of Member States that have at any one time been involved in access to documents litigation without any convincing conclusion following from such an enumeration) are succeeded by confused conceptualisations (e.g., the EU institutions are introduced twice as a distinct category of actor), or even outright overdramatization, such as when the authors argue that «[a] t one stroke, any authority of the Member States -LSB-...] over the release of documents transmitted to the EU was set aside [by Regulation 1049/01]» (p. 216), but neglect to mention that the Member States as legislators in the Council agreed to this revision themselves, or that the Council engaged in successive internal negotiations to settle the question of what was to be considered a «Member State document».

As such, the Court of Appeal accepted the City's submission the Application Judge had erred in characterizing the By - Law — specifically finding that the concepts of purpose and motive were confused in the analysis: ``... the motives of individual Council members (or even the Council as a whole) do not of itself establish the pith and substance of the By - Law»As such, the Court of Appeal accepted the City's submission the Application Judge had erred in characterizing the By - Law — specifically finding that the concepts of purpose and motive were confused in the analysis: ``... the motives of individual Council members (or even the Council as a whole) do not of itself establish the pith and substance of the By - Law»as a whole) do not of itself establish the pith and substance of the By - Law».

He even tried his hand at politics, serving two terms as a city council member in North College Hill near Cincinnati.