Sentences with phrase «for arms of the state»

Louis had earlier asked Cuomo about budget language that would pave the way for arms of the state to use eminent domain around Penn Station, the crucial transportation hub in midtown Manhattan.

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The new state of Chicago, for example, might hug the southern and southwest edges of Lake Michigan from Milwaukee to Michigan City, Ind., with an arm reaching west to take in Madison, Wis., and another arm reaching east to South Bend, Ind..

Citizens of the country have even developed a reputation for having their guns ready in the closet at a moment's notice, which has led some people to wonder if the Swiss are all required to own arms in order to protect their state.

In the United States economy, the twin arms of the unemployment rate and the stock market are, for the moment, working just fine.

Woolworths» liquor arm has resigned from the Liquor Stores Association of Western Australia, following the association's support for state government plans to restrict the growth of large liquor stores, such as Dan Murphy's and First Choice.

The go - to resource for the legal requirements in your particular industry or state is the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), the arm of the federal government that enforces health and safety laws.

«They wouldn't commit, and it was a sticking point,» said Max Bergmann, a former special assistant to the undersecretary of state for arms control and international security at the time those negotiations occurred.

For this reason, an entire cottage industry of armed cash pick - up and delivery companies has emerged in states like California, Colorado, Oregon, and Washington to bring millions in cash to entrepreneur's homes, private vaults, or banks or local federal reserve branches (some banks prefer to bring the cash straight to their federal account) for the ones with bank accounFor this reason, an entire cottage industry of armed cash pick - up and delivery companies has emerged in states like California, Colorado, Oregon, and Washington to bring millions in cash to entrepreneur's homes, private vaults, or banks or local federal reserve branches (some banks prefer to bring the cash straight to their federal account) for the ones with bank accounfor the ones with bank accounts.

As George W. Bush's undersecretary of state for arms control, Bolton was a supporter of the invasion of Iraq and was confident that Iraqi president Saddam Hussein possessed weapons of mass destruction.

Trump's decision to impose duties on up to $ 60 billion worth of Chinese imports, for example, comes at a time when Washington needs Beijing's help to rein in a nuclear - armed Pyongyang, said Wendy Sherman, a former under secretary of state for political affairs at the U.S. State Department who was the lead American negotiator for the Iran nuclear agreestate for political affairs at the U.S. State Department who was the lead American negotiator for the Iran nuclear agreeState Department who was the lead American negotiator for the Iran nuclear agreement.

«The forward and back motion of the right arm is in exactly opposite to that of right leg, and similarly for the left arm and leg,» George Tuthill, a physicist at Plymouth State University, who conducted research in statistical mechanics for over 30 years, told Business Insider.

Glickman, 27 at the time, quickly zeroed in on phone costs: like almost all countries other than the United States, Argentina had a state - run phone company that charged an arm and a leg for international calls, and Amex Argentina was running up a monthly bill of $ 25,000 in international calls.

With the rapidly rising price of college tuition, many top students are realizing you don't need to pay an arm and a leg for a quality education, and that state schools are just as great.

SINGAPORE, Aug 27 (Reuters)- Singapore state investor Temasek Holdings (Private) Ltd has partnered Asia - focused private equity firm MBK Partners to bid for the South Korea arm of British supermarket operator Tesco PLC, two people familiar with the matter told Reuters.

Schulman hopes that, armed with new federal funding to tackle these challenges, states will step up and begin filling the gaping holes in the American child care system — smoothing out the child care cliff while also making it easier for families access care in the first place, increasing the number of American kids who spend their days playing, coloring, building, and singing in a safe, caring environment their parents can actually afford.

On Friday, the overseas arm of UnionPay, the state - owned firm that dominates bank card payment processing in China, said it would prohibit the use of its cards for cross-border property acquisitions.

The president made those remarks ahead of a meeting with state governors, referencing reports that an armed sheriff's deputy waited outside for minutes as a gunman opened fire within Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School on February 14.

A spokeswoman for the European Commission, the EU's executive arm, endorsed member states» participation in the AIIB as a way of tackling global investment needs and as an opportunity for EU companies.

All have round - the - clock armed physical security and state - of - the - art electronic protection, and all are insured for the full value of their contents stored on your behalf.

After arm - twisting by Gov. Ann W. Richards, who had lobbied to keep Apple from going to another state, Mr. Hays joined two other commissioners to approve nearly $ 1 million in tax incentives to Apple in return for the company's agreeing to build an office complex in this suburban county a few miles north of Austin.

This anti-Bitcoin memo, which is not up for a vote as a referendum by the citizens of New Jersey, is an authoritarian decree by a totally unaccountable arm of the state.

In March, as Prince Mohammed met with Mr. Trump and top national security officials in Washington, the State Department approved the sale of an estimated $ 670 million in anti-tank missiles in an arms package that also included spare parts for American - made tanks and helicopters that Saudi Arabia previously purchased.

It's a complete about - face for Ducey, who welcomed Uber into the state with open arms after the California Department of Motor Vehicles revoked the ride - hail company's vehicle registrations.

For example, in Syria, where the United States has long desired regime change, it has covertly armed a branch of Al - Qaeda, the organization it accused of attacking the Twin Towers in New York City on Sept. 11, 2001.

In the Texas case, plaintiff's lawyers are going for multimillions in damages, and to get that kind of money are claiming that not only the diocese but the National Conference of Catholic Bishops (NCCB) and its operating arm, the United States Catholic Conference (USCC), are liable for not properly supervising the priests in question.

After March 4, 2013, an International Arrest Warrant will be issued against these Defendants.The guilty verdict followed nearly a month of deliberations by more than thirty sworn Citizen Jurors of the 150 case exhibits produced by Court Prosecutors, The Court's judgement declares the wealth and property of the churches responsible for the Canadian genocide to be forfeited and placed under public ownership, as reparations for the families of the more than 50,000 children who died in the residential schools.To enforce its sentence, the Court has empowered citizens in Canada, the United States, England, Italy and a dozen other nations to act as its legal agents armed with warrants, and peacefully occupy and seize properties of the Roman Catholic, Anglican and United Church of Canada, which are the main agents in the deaths of these children

[16] He also quoted his predecessor Pope Paul VI who said that the doctrine of Blessed John Duns Scotus «can yield shining arms for combating and chasing away the dark clouds of atheism which casts its shadow upon our era», and continued to state that the doctrine «energetically builds up the Church, sustaining her in her urgent mission of the new evangelisation of the peoples of the earth.»

Recovery of that which has been wrongly taken and punishment of evildoing are not explicitly named as justifications for the use of armed force by states in international law, but arguably they have been subsumed into the concept of self - defense: the former being recast as defense against an armed attack still in progress, as in the recovery of Kuwait from Iraq in 1991, the latter being recast as the right of retaliation.

In the debates over humanitarian intervention in the 1990s some moralists made a distinction between «war,» which they understood as having to do with state uses of armed force for their own interests, and intervention by military force for humanitarian purposes, which they regarded as altruistic and not «war.»

The Revolution of 1989 in east and central Europe» a world - historical series of events ignited by moral passion, informed by moral conviction, sustained by deft and morally sophisticated politics, and supported by a resolute demonstration that the Soviet Union could not compete with the United States in a serious arms race» raised further questions about classic foreign - policy realism and its narrow focus on «hard power» as the analytic prism for understanding both the dynamics of world politics and the exigencies of American foreign policy.

The judge wrote: «There is another justification for the policy of excluding homosexuals from service in the United States Armed Forces... [F] ar and away the highest risk category for those who are HIV - positive, a population who will with a high degree of medical certainty one day contract AIDS, is homosexual men.»

Consistent with the Hoover Report's recommendations that the United States had to reconsider «long - standing American concepts of fair play» and «learn to subvert, sabotage and destroy our enemies,» the shadow government built alliances between U.S. government officials, the Mafia, and international drug cartels; assassinated many thousands of civilians in Southeast Asia; carried out or attempted assassination of foreign leaders; trained death squads and secret police forces; worked to shore up unpopular dictators like the Shah of Iran and the Somoza dictatorship in prerevolutionary Nicaragua; worked to destabilize «unfriendly» governments such as Allende in Chile and the Sandinistas in Nicaragua; cooperated with the Colombian drug cartel to plot the assassination of the former U.S. ambassador to Costa Rica, Lewis Tambs, with the intention of justifying a U.S. invasion of Nicaragua by blaming his death on the Sandinistas; contracted with the Reagan administration and the National Security Council to find ways of circumventing a congressional ban prohibiting aid to the contras, including the trading of arms to Iran in exchange for hostages and money for the contras; illegally shipped weapons from the United States to the contras and allowed returning planes to use the same protected flight paths to transport drugs into the United States; 11 targeted the U.S. people for disinformation campaigns; and helped prepare contingency plans for declaring a form of martial law in the United States that would have formally suspended constitutional freedoms.

The judges said «closed material», which had not been made public for national security reasons, «provides valuable additional support for the conclusion that the decisions taken by the secretary of state not to suspend or cancel arms sales to Saudi Arabia were rational».

Never in the history of the United States presidency has there been more disrespect and vitriol for our Commander - in - Chief of our armed forces and a leader of the free world.

At one end of the media spectrum is the South African Broadcasting Corporation, SABC, the state monopoly for all television and almost all radio; it serves as an arm of the state, much more so than French television does and only slightly less so, if these things can be measured, than Soviet broadcasting.

«Wayne State — an arm of the Michigan State government — makes the remarkable claim that it violates university policies for InterVarsity Christian Fellowship to choose only Christian leaders rather than Jewish, Muslim or atheist ones,» says the lawsuit, filed by lawyers with Becket, a religious nonprofit.

Berrigan's complaint, in short, is that the reestablishment of a Jewish state (a justifiable goal) has come at a tremendous cost in human suffering, armed violence and moral decay; that the course of the new state has been a betrayal of everything the term «Israel» has stood for — justice, compassion, succoring the humiliated and injured; that a «settler state» was established through the expropriation of the people of the land, followed by an imperialist venture, based on the subjugation and exploitation of the conquered; and that, to add moral insult to physical and spiritual injury, the spokesmen of and for the state claim for it a special virtue and glorious achievement which may not be criticized.

With a mighty arm he had delivered them from the house of bondage, hence they were never to forget the state of the foreigner and of the slaves among them, for they had been slaves in the land of Egypt.

Having rejected the authority of the Church as the glue holding together Christendom, Protestantism was ineluctably drawn to the force of military might, to using the secular arm of the state as the source for order and unity.

He further ordered that emancipated Southern slaves «be received into the armed service of the United States,» a truly radical measure for the day and one that provoked great political opposition in parts of the North, and massacres of captured black Union troops by the armed forces of the South.

Bunge North America, the North American operating arm of Bunge Limited, announces the expansion of its Bunge Ingredient Innovation Center (BIIC) for Edible Oils & Carbohydrates in Bradley, Ill., to include a state - of - the - art Culinary Center that opened this July 2012.

Treasury signed a big sponsorship deal for the Wolf Blass brand in December with the China National Basketball Association — an arm of the United States NBA powerhouse competition — in a country with 300 million basketball fans.

He has the blocky build of a college lineman — which he was at Morgan State — and the agility of a high jumper (he jumped 6 feet 3 while in college), but his comparatively short arms made it difficult for him to fight Liston outside.

That game had so much awesome in it, from the surreal devastation of Katrina, to the incredible welcome and hospitality from the Arizona State fans, to the incredible game with not one but TWO blocked kicks returned for TDs in the 4th quarter, and all culminating with JaMarcus Russell and his arm - cannon so strong that it bent time and space (when he released that ball, I am 100 % confident that physics did not allow for the ball to get there in time, but it did anyway).

The 6» 5, 210 - pounder flashes a big arm, but he is several years away from being at the level at which he could be a starter for some of his top offers like Florida, Ohio State, Miami or Tennessee.

This would have brought tons of new revenue to a state badly in need of an economic shot in the arm, not just for Monmouth Park but for area restaurants, hotels and neighborhood establishments.

This year, for the first time, troops stationed in the United States will be included - thanks to the help of the Armed Services YMCA.

Tax reform is a mixed blessing for state and local government in Illinois, according to an analysis by the Illinois Economic and Fiscal Commission, an arm of the General Assembly.

A footnote in PESA 1996 stated «This covers the pay costs of civil servants and others (including casual staff) covered by running costs plus Ministry of Defence's operating costs regime» and we found that (for those years only) the paybill included the whole of the armed forces pay.

According to local sources in the Venezuelan state of Táchira, it is also increasingly easy for armed Colombian groups to recruit young, desperate Venezuelans.