Sentences with phrase «for high officials»

If you see the oppression of the poor, and the violent perversion of justice and righteousness in a province, do not marvel at the matter; for high official watches over high official, and higher officials are over them.

Not exact matches

NEW YORK, May 1 - The S&P 500 edged higher on Tuesday after comments from a Trump administration official on trade with China and the Mexican economy minister on the renegotiation of the North American Free Trade Agreement provided cause for optimism.

The change is key as Fed officials consider 2 percent to be a healthy level of inflation and a key for continuing to push rates higher.

«For electric vehicles in China, we have a new technology model every two years,» says Dong Yang, a high - ranking Communist Party official at the China Association of Automotive Manufacturers, the auto lobby.

Malik is one of the highest - ranking biopharma officials to date named in the probe by dozens of state attorneys general for alleged price fixing; Mylan is strongly denying the claims.

The meeting was held before Trump instructed officials to consider tariffs on an additional $ 100 billion in Chinese imports, bringing the value of the nation's products set for higher duties to about $ 150 billion.

BEIJING — A high - powered U.S. delegation arrived in Beijing on Thursday for talks with Chinese officials on defusing tensions that are propelling the world's two largest economies toward a trade war.

The M142 High Mobility Artillery Rocket System (HIMARS) is no longer reserved for bombarding the bejesus out of ISIS militants in Syria from the cover of the war - torn country's rolling deserts: Marine Corps officials are experimenting with firing the guided artillery system from the deck of an amphibious ship in the middle of the ocean.

Consumer prices across the euro area reached a high not seen for almost four years, jumping 1.1 percent in December, official figures say.

A high - powered U.S. delegation arrived in Beijing for talks with Chinese officials aimed at defusing the tensions, though analysts say they appear unlikely to yield a breakthrough given the two sides» intensifying rivalry in strategic technologies, where China lags behind the U.S..

In fact, millions of people stand to see higher tax bills because of the elimination or curtailment of deductions such as one for state and local taxes, according to the Joint Committee on Taxation, the nonpartisan official scorekeeper for Congress.

Government officials also floated the possibility of significantly higher fees for companies seeking temporary foreign workers.

Add to this that English is the official language, business laws are based on British laws with protections for investors, and the lower cost of living and you can enjoy a high quality of life for much less.

In his job as an activist at the Center for Popular Democracy, Barkan led a successful effort to get Fed officials thinking more about low - income Americans as they conduct monetary policy, often arguing against interest rate hikes in the face of high underemployment and weak wage growth.

There are also diplomatic and official passports given to high - ranking politicians and economic bureaucrats, but even these are only valid for five years and must be returned after each travel.

For years, Republican officials have demanded that the Obama administration hold China accountable for currency manipulation, and even President George W. Bush wasn't afraid to rely on higher tariffs to support U.S. steelmakeFor years, Republican officials have demanded that the Obama administration hold China accountable for currency manipulation, and even President George W. Bush wasn't afraid to rely on higher tariffs to support U.S. steelmakefor currency manipulation, and even President George W. Bush wasn't afraid to rely on higher tariffs to support U.S. steelmakers.

The official purchasing managers» index released today for November jumped to beat economists» expectations, while a measure of non-manufacturing sectors of construction and consumer services hit its highest mark since mid-2014.

Long known for its wood sticks (and official game pucks), Sher - wood has only a small share of the high - end composite market and knew it would make little sense to launch a me - too product in a category that Bauer and CCM dominate.

By contrast, just two officials forecast a funds rate below the median, suggesting the tail risk for markets is for higher, not lower, rates.

While New Zealand's official cash rate is already at a record - low 2 % after the latest cut in August, it is still the highest in the developed world — a major draw for yield - hungry investors and a complication for the central bank as a higher kiwi further dampens imported - led inflation.

Administration officials initially blamed a high volume of interest from ordinary Americans for the frozen screens that many people encountered.

Asked for the rationale behind these decisions, an OCC official explained that regulators deemed the potential for error higher in cases where the servicer actually denied a request.

Several Republican politicians and government officials including President Donald Trump have suggested that mental illness was to blame for the shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School on Wednesday that left 17 people dead — but researchers say evidence suggests there is no traceable link between mental illness and gun violence, and that a much more widespread issue is to blame.

China's uneven economic recovery signals a looming dilemma for policymakers as official data released at the weekend showed inflation at a 10 - month high in February while factory output and consumer spending were weaker than forecast.

The $ 549 price is «materially higher» than what Forte would have anticipated, but until Apple makes its official launch in China, he's not convinced that $ 549 is going to be the go - to - market off - contract price for the 5C in all countries.

Three Vatican officials, including the high - ranking Lucio Balda, are on trial for leaking sensitive information to two journalists, who are also on trial.

In the past, the most difficult hurdle for holding high - level official meetings between China and Taiwan has been Taiwan's status.

His comments were seen as negative for the single currency, which has fallen almost 3 percent from a 15 - month high of $ 1.37 hit earlier this month, as European officials step up the rhetoric on a strong euro.

She attracted global attention early in her tenure for the corruption prosecution of high - level officials at FIFA, international soccer's governing body.

Audrey Wall, the managing editor of The Council of State Governments» The Book of the States, has perfected the game of hunting down the salaries of high - ranking public officials for 17 editions of the book.

The book bashes the contractor for operating a revolving door for powerful government officials, hiring them for millions of dollars a year, then allegedly exploiting the connections to win business when they return to the highest echelons of government.

«By 11:41 a.m. today, just as most Canadians are getting ready for their lunch break on the first official work day of the year, the average of the 100 highest paid CEOs will have already pocketed what it takes the average Canadian an entire year, working full - time to earn,» says Mackenzie.

Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School will be closed Thursday and Friday and school activities at the Parkland school have been canceled for the rest of the week, Broward school district officials announced.

This «fantasy speech» by Joe Oliver and the high likelihood that all political leaders will indulge themselves in a bit of «fact fantasy» suggests to us that there is a need for an «official fact checker» to keep a little bit of honesty in the political debate.

Thai officials are pushing for Australia, Canada and the United States to give refuge to 2,700 Burmese dissident students — most of whom are in a United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees camp outside Bangkok.

A compromise plan to raise pay for all Erie County Child Protective Services caseworkers and supervisors would resolve major wage concerns in a high - turnover unit on the front lines of child abuse and neglect investigations, officials said.

Recently, there has been some discussion, prompted by senior staff at the International Monetary Fund (IMF), that central banks might aim for high inflation — say 4 per cent — as a way of giving them more scope to reduce official interest rates in future downturns.

Eureka High School in Eureka, Calif., postponed its drill that had been scheduled for Thursday, partly because officials were concerned about the mental state of students, said Fred Van Vleck, the district superintendent.

The problem for Chinese policymakers, which is increasingly apparent in their official statements, is that vigorously defending the renminbi carries a potentially high price in slower economic growth.

In the eyes of the DOJ, the merger — one of the largest «in American history,» an agency official told reporters — would result in «higher prices for consumers and less innovation for millions of Americans.»

I notice that TAU's two official reasons are: 1) insufficient market for CO2, and 2) lack of a high enough policy - driven carbon price.

The vast majority of Android mobile apps available on the official Google Play Store that are meant for the management of cryptocurrencies are vulnerable to the most common and well - known vulnerabilities, according to a report published today by Swiss cyber-security firm High - Tech Bridge.

A high - powered U.S. delegation arrived in Beijing on Thursday for talks with Chinese officials on defusing tensions that are propelling the world's two largest economies toward a trade war.

As U.S. Trade Representative Robert E. Lighthizer, Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin and other officials head to Beijing this week for high - stakes trade talks with Chinese counterparts, they seek to correct an economic relationship with China that has become increasingly unbalanced — and, over the long term, dangerous — for the United States and other nations.

Yet, official figures also showed inflation slow to catch up through higher wages for workers.

Officials and civic organizers in some of the 20 cities now vying to win Amazon's choice for its second headquarters are sounding alarms that accommodating this tech talent invasion could put a big strain on local residents already grappling with crawling commutes and high housing prices.

The nation's aging population, higher projected demand for tax efficient savings products and rising interest rates remain key to Athene's future growth, Athene officials said.

Eurozone officials are unanimous that it means a commitment to financial war against labor — to austerity and yet further economic shrinkage; to faster privatization selloffs (but not to Russians if they offer higher prices, as Gazprom did) and hence higher prices for hitherto public utilities; to no rejection of past insider privatization deals to higher value - added taxes on consumers; and to lower pensions for labor.

The BOE is talking openly about looking through higher inflation and not raising rates, and some Fed officials have talked about letting the US economy (and presumably inflation) run «hot» for a period, without raising rates much.

At the time, there were no official statistics comparing foreign debt levels in developed countries, and in their absence there was a tendency for people to assume the worst — that is, to assume that Australia was the highest on the list.