Sentences with phrase «federal handcuffs»
-- a former U.S. secretary of education — who told his colleagues that adopting it would «put federal handcuffs on local school decisions.»
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Though Ridgewood - Bushwick has lost a lot of its city funding and Lopez could face federal handcuffs any day in the current storm of corruption arrests, he still has his followers on the ground.
Not exact matches
As federal agents led outspoken City Councilman Dan Halloran (R - Whitestone) out of his home in handcuffs early Tuesday, he reportedly remarked that he «had no idea» why he was being arrested.
The announcement by Assembly Democrats that Silver's 20 - year rule will end was a markedly different stance then last Thursday, when the speaker was taken into federal custody in handcuffs.
A day after federal agents put handcuffs on one of New York's most powerful lawmakers, U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara Friday denounced Albany's political culture that concentrates power with «the proverbial three men in a room.»
«Nigerians are aware that of all the people who have been facing the predicament of having worked for either the PDP or the previous federal government, our son has been the only one that was brought to court in handcuffs, paraded as a common criminal and treated without any dignity whatsoever,» the statement read.
A federal «maintenance of effort» (MOE) requirement in the Individuals With Disabilities Act (IDEA, the federal special - education law) that handcuffs states and districts by requiring that special - ed spending never decline from one year to the next.
The goal is not to slap handcuffs on people who unwittingly fail to comply with federal regulations.
On Wednesday, he was brought into federal court in California wearing handcuffs and pajamas before being released on a $ 10,000 bond.