Sentences with phrase «few federal institutions»

In 1843, Bache, became superintendent of the US Coast Survey, one of the very few federal institutions charged with a mission to use scientific techniques.

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The statement continued, «Indeed, this is not about the church wanting to force anybody to do anything; it is instead about the federal government forcing the church — consisting of its faithful and all but a few of its institutions — to act against church teachings.»

Kahn rips a U.S. Environmental Protection Agency report that lists a representative sample of 175 academic institutions that regularly violate the Clean Air Act, the Clean Water Act, the Emergency Planning and Community Right - to - Know Act, the Resource Conservation Recovery Act, the Toxic Substance Control Act, the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act, to name just a few.

But when the budget numbers came out a few weeks later, the HBCU presidents weren't feeling the love: According to The Atlantic, Trump's first budget «slices federal education spending by 13.5 percent but claims to «maintain» minority institutions and HBCUs at around $ 492 million, the same amount the [Obama] administration initially budgeted.»

Many private lenders issue too few mortgage loans to be closely watched in the patchwork of state and federal oversight that bind banks and other larger financial institutions.

Since the passage of the Federal Reserve Act in 1913, few pieces of legislation have had as significant an impact on the Federal Reserve as the Depository Institutions Deregulation and Monetary Control Act.

Combined with a near - zero federal funds rate, that policy drove the level of excess reserves to unprecedented levels, meaning that few institutions had a need to borrow to make up a shortfall.

While we don't have it all by a long shot, we counted some $ 1.7 billion in private donations over the last few years to support stem cell research, most of it to establish stem cell programs free of federal funding restrictions at a number of different universities and other research institutions.

A few months after my appointment I approached Chief Judge Linden and Associate Chief Judge Lennox with a plan to take judges to visit federal and provincial institutions in the Kingston area.

Official Ottawa has become more obstructionist in responding to requests and this attitude has spread throughout government officialdom with a few notable exceptions; however the federal government retains the top specialization in constructing information roadblocks, «Federal institutions received lower grades than their provincial and municipal counterparts...» When requests are deemed acceptable, excessive amounts of money are being charged, who knew photocopying was such an expensive propofederal government retains the top specialization in constructing information roadblocks, «Federal institutions received lower grades than their provincial and municipal counterparts...» When requests are deemed acceptable, excessive amounts of money are being charged, who knew photocopying was such an expensive propoFederal institutions received lower grades than their provincial and municipal counterparts...» When requests are deemed acceptable, excessive amounts of money are being charged, who knew photocopying was such an expensive proposition?

Unless you were living under a rock (or working extra hours to pay your outlandish rock rent), you probably heard about the massive bailouts that the federal government rolled out over the past few years to help keep a few of the «too big to fail» investment companies and financial institutions afloat.