Sentences with phrase «first significant authority»

Educators say the state was slow to roll out rules for the system, which gives schools their first significant authority over spending since the late 1970s, when the state took over education funding after a taxpayer revolt and lawsuits challenging funding disparities.

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When you first earn a link from a new domain, that link will pass significant authority to your site.

The Philadelphia Regional Port Authority (PRPA) has said «significant progress» is being made in its plan to develop its Southport Marine Terminal Complex, the first major expansion of the Port of Philadelphia in over 50 years.

Since his first arrest, Byle has been plagued by problems with Turkish authorities, including a five - year court battle for residency that ended, seemingly, in January 2015, when a court ruled that the government had not shown significant evidence that he was «a threat to national security and public morals» or that he had ever even committed a crime.

Sixty - five local authorities have been invited to bid to take part in the first round of funding allocation, of which 15 will be selected for # 2 million capital funding as well as «significant funding».

New York City's public housing authority will see at least $ 35 million less in federal aid this year, in what appears to be the first significant funding cuts to the city under President Donald Trump.

Following the global report indicating that Ghana's market has been flooded with toxic diesel, it has been reported that data from the National Petroleum Authority (NPA) has revealed that Bulk Oil Storage and Transport Company Limited (BOST), the state owned strategic reserve holder, accounts for a significant 25 % of the total quantity of diesel imported into the country for the first six months of 2016.

Following the global report indicating that Ghana's market has been flooded with toxic diesel, it has been reported that data from the National Petroleum Authority (NPA) has revealed that Bulk Oil Storage and Transport Company Limited (BOST), the state owned strategic reserve holder, accounts for a significant 25 % of the total quantity of diesel imported into the country for the first...

Combined with the considerable budgetary powers handed to him by two of his predecessors (budget - planning supremacy courtesy of George Pataki, and the ability to ram it down the Legislature's throat after the April 1 deadline courtesy David Paterson), the governor's first term has brought a significant consolidation of his authority.

Insofar as a social movement is «an organized, sustained, self - conscious challenge to existing authorities» (Tilly, 1984), the Tunisian and Egyptian revolutions included a multiplicity of informal and formal institutions and alliances: students, unions, professionals, religious groups, etc.And while the master frames calling for the ouster of Mubarak and Ben Ali were no doubt unifying discursive devices that were readily supported by most if not all of the protestors, secondary frames — calls for democracy, social justice, freedom, and dignity — presented significant points of divergence not only in and between Islamist and non-Islamist groups, but between the secular - liberal youth who are credited with initiating the mass protests in the first place.

«We want as many schools as possible to take advantage of the significant benefits academy status brings because it means more schools run by great heads and teachers, not local authority or Whitehall bureaucrats, and more children getting a first - class education.

I hope that this book gets the very wide audience it deserves because what it has to say is of relevance to virtually all of us as individuals, and takes on even great significance when one adds in the fact that (according to well - documented and much repeated research, first performed by Stanley Milgram in the 1960s) about two - thirds of the general population will follow the orders of somebody in authority, even if it is to inflict significant harm on others.

First of all, there is a significant change in the way authorities have been acting due to corruption and corporate crimes prosecution.

The COCAR Fall Forum received significant press coverage, and the Oklahoma educational television authority broadcast the first two hours.