Sentences with phrase «first year of the investigation»

One evening, during the first year of the investigation, I saw spread out on the reception table of the Occidental offices a copy of the London Times newspaper with a great, big, bold headline that said, «Occidental puts profit before safety.»

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Its investigation revealed that robberies of Uber drivers in Brazil's largest city rose ten-fold and attacks of drivers increased from an average of 13 per month in the first seven months of 2016 to 141 per month for the rest of the year.

The charges against Duhaime are not related to bribery overseas (they concern a project in Montreal), but it is worth noting that SNC - Lavalin first caught the attention of the RCMP just over a year ago due to an investigation into — guess what?

The biggest share of legal payments in the first quarter of this year — about $ 348,000 — went to Jones Day, a law firm representing the campaign in the investigations by Special Counsel Robert Mueller and several congressional committees into Russian interference in the 2016 election.

Inside the FBI, which Trump has attacked as part of his effort to undercut Mueller's investigation throughout his first year in office, the feeling is that the Nunes fight could provide a small victory — at least for now.

In the first half of 2008, WTO antidumping investigations were up 30 % from a year earlier.

First detained in October 2016 as part of a visa investigation, he was later accused of involvement with two organisations Turkey considers to be terrorist in nature and behind a botched coup earlier that year.

It also caught the attention of researchers, who spent three years and $ 1.1 million compiling «the world's first systematic global investigation into the responses of Christian communities to the violation of their religious freedom.»

The Catholic Herald reported it fairly straight, giving the bare facts with what seemed at first (and still seems to most) the inevitable conclusion: «Pope Benedict XVI has told the 86 year old founder of the Legionaries of Christ, one of the Church's most dynamic new orders, to stop saying Mass in public following an investigation into charges of sexual abuse.

... wow, lot's of mis - statements here by people speculating about the Bible and Jesus, including those of you who think the books of the Bible were written a few hundred years ago (Moses penned it around 1400BC)... the Bible is a collection of the most investigated writings of all time, so there is a tremendous amount of credible archeological and scientific material in this world available for review rooted in verifiable investigations... my response, read the Bible, do your own investigation, determine the Truth for yourself... hopefully, anne rice's denouncement of faith in the God of the Bible (it's difficult for me to believe she ever had Saving Faith in the first place) will bring some readers to investigate and find the Truth... God will call the Elect, not one more, not one less...

Since the investigation footage first aired on Four Corners in May, Animals Australia has stood alongside Andrew Wilkie and Nick Xenophon, and their Live Export Prohibition bill, which calls for a phase out of the live trade over three years with the strictest provisions for the handling of animals during the transition.

His career highlights at S.I. include road trips in search of sports on the equator, the world's most dangerous sport and Roman gladiators as the first sports superstars, a lengthy meditation on Don King's hair, the second - ever descent of Africa's Zambezi River, a weighty essay on the 580 - pound sumo wrestler Konishiki, an investigation into the questionable around - the - world run by Robert Garside, a look inside the mind games at the 1987 world chess championship between Garry Kasparov and Anatoly Karpov in Seville, Spain, three weeks in the Sahara covering the 2002 Paris - to - Dakar Rally, a trudge through Panama's Darien jungle retracing Vasco Núñez de Balboa's 1513 expedition, and a journey into the world of Jeopardy! His essay on George Steinbrenner and the New York Yankees» line of succession was called the «scoop of the year» in the 2008 Houghton - Mifflin collection The Best American Sports Writing.

So to explore this crazy thing we call love, Jenkins has been spearheading the Metaphysics of Love Project, a three - year interdisciplinary investigation into the nature of romantic love; I attended the first workshop a few weeks ago.

A year and a half after first opening in the Flatiron district of Manhattan, The Wing, a high - profile members - only association for women, is the subject of an investigation by the New York City Commission on Human Rights for possible discrimination violations.

A former aide to Hillary ClintonHillary Diane Rodham ClintonTrump Jr. met with Gulf adviser who offered help to win election: report Voters Dems need aren't impressed by anti-waterboarding showboating After year of investigation, Trump can rightly claim some vindication MORE criticized Sen. Kirsten GillibrandKirsten Elizabeth GillibrandOvernight Health Care — Sponsored by PCMA — Trump hits federally funded clinics with new abortion restrictions Dem senators ask drug companies to list prices in ads Gillibrand to publish children's book about suffragists MORE on Thursday after the New York Democrat became the first of many senators to join a successful push to force the resignation of Sen. Al FrankenAlan (Al) Stuart Franken100 days after House passage, Gillibrand calls on Senate to act on sexual harassment reform Eric Schneiderman and #MeToo pose challenges for both parties Senate confirms Trump judicial pick over objections of home - state senator MORE (D - Minn.).

And Derek Draper and Damian McBride have been creating it in large quantities, and they're by no means the first or the most obvious examples, given the loans - for - peerages scandal, various bits of chicanery around the Iraq war and subsequent investigations (e.g. David Kelly), ministerial expense fraud (or at least it would be fraud if you or I tried the same thing on our tax returns), pretty much anything to do with Peter Mandelson and the various leaks, briefings and spin cycles that have characterised the Labour party for the last fifteen years.

Rep. Chris Collins dramatically increased his campaign fundraising in the first half of the year, and he took more money from health care and pharmaceutical companies than any other special interest at a time when he's under investigation for his ties to an Australian biotech firm.

But the landscape seemed to begin to shift in the Democrat's direction in January of this year, after Mr. Grimm physically threatened NY1 reporter Michael Scotto when the journalist tried to ask about a four - year investigation into the Republican's financing of his first campaign.

Trump's relationship with Moscow has stalked the first year of his presidency, with key former aides under a US investigation for alleged collaboration with the Kremlin.

In November 2007 Norman's first book, about his investigations into the death of Dr David Kelly - «The Strange Death of David Kelly» - was published by Methuen and was runner - up for the Channel 4 Political Book of the Year Award.

The Republican senators have been fairly disciplined in the weeks since news reports first described the alleged scheme, unlike the state Assembly, where internal divisions weighed on the majority Democrats earlier this year as they grappled with the reported investigation and eventual arrest of former speaker Sheldon Silver.

Nassau County is rolling out its first digital system for tracking and approving contracts, part of a larger overhaul of procurement policies that follows nearly two years of criminal investigations into how agreements were awarded.

Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie, facing the first high - profile claim of member sexual misconduct since ascending to his post last year, ordered Wozniak to stop speaking publicly about the investigation and to «cease making disparaging statements» about the aide.

«I hope she'll evolve and do more oversight of and investigations into city services and corporate misconduct rather than coming across like merely a vice president or deputy mayor,» said Mark Green, the city's first public advocate and an endorser of one of Ms. James» rivals last year.

The investigation, which is being led by the U.S. Department of Labor, was revealed last month when a federal grand jury subpoena was sent to the Rockland County PEF union formerly headed by Deborah J. Lee, whose purchases first drew scrutiny within her union's ranks two years ago.

The nonprofit, along with Councilmember Ritchie Torres, recently announced an investigation into Kushner Companies for allegedly failing to register stabilized units with the Department of Buildings, which TRD first detailed last year.

In the first five months of this year, 56 percent CPS investigations were not completed on time.

However, Mr. Casely - Hayford who had earlier expressed his belief that problems with contaminated fuel at BOST might have begun when the company was first set up, thinks a comprehensive investigation would help clear any lingering doubts about the activities of the company over the years.

In his first public comments since the revelation of the federal investigation, the governor offered a qualified declaration of support of Mr. Percoco, who was in his small inner circle during his first five years in office.

WASHINGTON — Rep. Chris Collins dramatically increased his campaign fundraising in the first half of the year, and he took more money from health care and pharmaceutical companies than any other special interest at a time when he's under investigation for his ties to an Australian biotech firm.

But it does «completely vindicate» climate scientists, said liberal blogger Joe Romm, who first broke the story on his website, Climate Progress, and who lamented the lack of attention the investigations have received compared to the uproar accompanying their release two years ago.

Lawyer Philip Cooney, a CEQ chief of staff and a 15 - year veteran of the American Petroleum Institute, spent the first term of the administration editing science reports from various agencies on climate change to downplay the role of greenhouse gas emissions — emphasizing elements of uncertainty from a 2001 National Research Council report on climate change, according to an investigation by the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.

Now, in a landmark research paper culminating 20 years of scientific investigation, researchers at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem show for the first time how bacterial superantigen toxins work, and how antagonists they designed can block toxin action and save lives.

From the first station constructed at the South Pole to today's Scott South Pole Station, the geographic South Pole has been a hub of scientific investigation for close to 60 years.

In the first year, NMSU research projects will include bio-inspired soil reinforcement, a study of the mechanisms of root growth and mechanical reinforcement in unsaturated soil; bio-enhanced removal of contaminants in groundwater; revegetation of degraded top soils, stripped lands or salinized and eroded soils; and development of self - motile probe for multi-sensor deployment for subsurface investigations.

Scientists also hope to gain crucial insights into autism's risk factors from several large new studies, including the federally funded Early Autism Risk Longitudinal Investigation, which will enroll 1,200 mothers of autistic children at the start of a subsequent pregnancy and then track the newborn child's first three years of development.

According to «Daily Star»,»ObamaSinglesDating.com» is facing an investigation for using Obama's name on their portal and posting an album of the US First Couple, including a photo with the Queen snapped in London earlier this year without any permission from the White House.

After all, this was her beloved hometown's first homicide in years, and there's no way she could leave the investigation on the shoulders of the only other two detectives on the force, veteran Ray Green (Gil Bellows) and newcomer Ben Wingate (Topher Grace).

In Strong Island, still another Sundance jury prize — winner and a standout of this year's True / False Film Fest slate, director Yance Ford employs direct address and first - person voice - over for an investigation and consideration of both his brother's murder, which took place more than two decades prior, and the ongoing fallout from a failure of justice for Ford's family and friends.

Spotlight Year: 2015 Director: Tom McCarthy Always a director who's drawn great performances from his ensembles — we'll set aside the disastrous The Cobbler for a moment — actor - turned - filmmaker Tom McCarthy has made his best drama since his first, 2003's The Station Agent, with this stripped - down depiction of the Boston Globe's 2001 investigation into the Catholic Church's cover - up of sexual misconduct.

«WALL - E» (Andrew Stanton) It's dispiriting to realize that the most completely realized American blockbuster of the year was, well, less than completely realized, but to be fair, «WALL - E» only falls slightly short in its second half because its first 45 minutes set such a high, near - unparalleled standard of technical wonder and ideological investigation.

It is not my intention to make an anecdotal, simplistic evaluation of our schooling systems but 40 years as a passionate and highly experienced teacher has pointed to these causes as two central issues, the first of which needs immediate and evaluative investigation.

After years of tireless investigation, scholarly mythbusters Subramony, Molenda, Betrus, and Thalheimer (2014a) aren't clear whether we'll ever know who first fabricated this «corrupted cone» (p. 15):

Although our study was intended as a 1 - year proof - of - concept research design, we have demonstrated sufficiently positive results for other researchers to pursue longitudinal investigations that track preservice teacher behaviors into their first few years of practice.

One of her first priorities this year is finding a solution to the patchy quality of alternative provision, an issue Schools Week has highlighted in a recent series of hard - hitting investigations.

In the case of the first title, ORNGE: The Star investigation that broke the story for example, the program didn't get charged for the time it took the journalist to take notes and write articles during the two years of the investigation.

Brad Geagley describes how a career working at Disney combined with a 40 year interest in Ancient Egypt combined into his first mystery, Year of the Hyenas, starring Semerket, Egypt's Clerk of Investigations and Secryear interest in Ancient Egypt combined into his first mystery, Year of the Hyenas, starring Semerket, Egypt's Clerk of Investigations and SecrYear of the Hyenas, starring Semerket, Egypt's Clerk of Investigations and Secrets.

It's been 10 years since detectives Rick Bentz and Reuben Montoya first delighted readers with their New Orleans exploits, but Lisa Jackson's dynamic duo show no signs of slowing down or getting stale in their latest venture, Devious.Still, even the very best can use a little help from time to time, and in their latest investigation, assistance comes in the form of Valerie Houston,...

Here is the Summary from my most recent investigation: «In the first 10 - 12 years and often sooner: more than two - thirds of the time, you will know if your portfolio is in danger.»

The creditor shall pay to the administrator a civil penalty equal to three times the amount of the investigation fee and the annual license fee for each year or portion thereof, the creditor, in violation of Section 5-19-22, has engaged in the business of making consumer loans or taking assignments of consumer credit contracts without first having obtained a license, but in no event shall a civil penalty exceed one hundred thousand dollars ($ 100,000).