Sentences with phrase «for members of government»

Regrettably, this kind of surveillance leads directly to real moral and legal hazard for members of a government that have permitted it to start.
On the subject of social justice is it socially just for members of the government to behave as bad if not worse than the crooks in our prisons.
He's on trial before a special court reserved for members of government and faces two years in prison if found guilty of failing to reduce the size of the banking sector.
It is, to say the least, unusual for a member of a government to be trampling all over the Chancellor's turf but the Deputy Prime Minister will be very direct in a speech he'll give to the Resolution Foundation later today.

Not exact matches

Treasury secretary Steven Mnuchin may have helped to bring unwelcome attention to the travel expenses of Donald Trump's cabinet members with his since - withdrawn request for a government plane to use on his honeymoon with wife Louise Linton, but an official review has found that his expenses since February have been legit — if somewhat expensive.
A member of the German liberal party blamed the country's Socialist Party for the recent collapse in coalition talks to form a new government.
Karen Thomas, senior executive vice president for government relations and public policy at the Independent Community Bankers of America, said most of its members still feel it's too risky to take the plunge.
Amy Cuddy, a faculty member at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard, has conducted an experiment with her graduate students demonstrating that holding an assertive body posture for as little as two minutes increases the amount of testosterone in the body, in men and women.
It has prompted renewed calls from Scottish nationalists for a vote on independence, and members of the Scottish, Welsh and Northern Irish governments have complained the national government has not involved them enough its Brexit negotiation preparations.
The hope here should be that this sets the standard for notification among members of the financial services community, so that government agencies don't decide what companies have to do.
Last week, in prelude to the official findings, Robert Goodwill, the United Kingdom's minister of state for transport, told government members that the pilot may have misidentified the object that hit the plane.
Nevertheless, Liberland has a government of 10 to 20 members, an economy based around cryptocurrency and bitcoins, and has already received hundreds of thousands of applications for citizenship.
Although members of The People's Vote are quick to point out that they're asking for a different kind of vote, pro-Brexit leaders in the Conservative party, which controls the government, say the public doesn't want to vote on Brexit again.
«Aside from that, the number of districts controlled or influenced by the Afghan government had been one of the last remaining publicly available indicators for members of Congress — many of whose staff do not have access to the classified annexes to SIGAR reports — and for the American public of how the 16 - year - long US effort to secure Afghanistan is faring,» he added.
Vladislav Reznik, now the deputy head of the finance committee in Russia's lower house of parliament and a member of the Putin - aligned United Russia Party, faces charges accusing him of giving allies of the criminal organization's alleged leader, Gennady Petrov, positions in the Russian government in exchange for a share of the organization's assets.
Members of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, Demand Progress and other digital rights activists are calling for a «day of action» on Feb. 11 when they hope to rouse the internet community into collectively speaking out against the NSA and the government's other intrusive surveillance tactics.
«The number of districts controlled or influenced by the Afghan government had been one of the last remaining publicly available indicators for members of Congress — many of whose staff do not have access to the classified annexes to SIGAR reports — and for the American public of how the 16 - year - long US effort to secure Afghanistan is faring,» he added.
If you are a banker, or by some other qualification a member of what Taibbi dubs here «the grifter class» for whom «government is a slavish lapdog that the financial companies... use as a tool for making money» — well, you and the author are not going to get along.
A senior Turkish official said Turkish intelligence cracked the app earlier this year and was able to use it to trace tens of thousands of members of a religious movement the government blames for last month's failed coup.
A series of smaller incidents, like the booting of a caucus member for raising concerns about health care in his riding, further fuelled the decline in support for the government.
In the 1990s, when he worked for BMO Nesbitt Burns, he was a key member of the consortium of bankers that organized the sale of the Canadian National Railway on behalf of Jean Chrétien's government.)
P0ke was never arrested for accessing the government databases, but Topiary, actually an 18 - year - old member of Anonymous and LulzSec spokesman from Scotland named Jake Davis, was arrested in July 2011.
The onslaught of investigations has fueled some resentment within JPMorgan, where executives and board members are questioning whether the bank has become something of a punching bag for the government.
Its website notes that it «facilitates cooperation for U.S. members with the Russian Government, Russian Regional Administrations, U.S. Consulates in Russia, Chambers of Commerce in Russia, and corporate leaders from CIS [Commonwealth of Independent States] countries.»
The disclosure forms released Friday for less senior White House staff members were not reviewed by the federal Office of Government Ethics.
It was criticized at the time by members of Congress for providing millions of dollars in bonuses to executives even as the company was being propped up by government support.
A four - member Commonwealth ministerial team meeting in Pakistan to assess the political situation has said that it wants a time - frame for the return of democracy to the country, and is offering the military government up to two years to achieve that goal.
The Women's Business Council - Southwest presents this gala recognizes and honors WBEs and Sustaining (Corporate) Members for their exemplary contributions in achieving the Council's mission of advancing and enhancing business opportunities between WBEs, corporate America, and the government.
Leading members of Quebec's legal community are applauding the $ 1 billion that the provincial government set aside in this week's budget for projects aimed at modernizing the justice system.
The Philippine press is reporting that industry sources said that a consortium that is vying for the Light Railway Transit extension contract is on the verge of breaking up as two members (AMA Group Holdings and SNC Lavalin) are engaged in a dispute over who should supply the equipment and trains and how much funding the Philippine government should source.
That's because nearly all members of Canada's vast punditocracy have declared that a minority government is, first, inherently unstable, and second, disappointing for Harper insofar as it is not the majority he is said to have wanted when he called the election.
That led several Democratic members of Congress to push for a federal review of the government's methodology.
A prominent former senator for Puerto Rico, Ramón Luis Nieves, told members of Congress at a November 2 hearing that the government's official death count can't be trusted.
Members of the Board of Trade's Government Budget and Finance Committee travelled to Victoria today for the provincial budget lockup, where they received an advanced copy of the budget and assessed it on three criteria: Economic Vision, Fiscal Prudence, and Tax Competitiveness.
Another announcement that will benefit Greater Vancouver Board of Trade Members is today's affirmation that the Provincial Government will cut the small business corporate income tax rate from 2.5 per cent to 2 per cent, which will make B.C. the second-most competitive tax environment for small business in the country.
Mr. Corbett is a Member of the Australian Indigenous Chamber of Commerce Advisory Board and a former founding director of Outback Stores, a commercial venture supported by the government to provide retail facilities for communities in remote Australia.
Earlier this summer the Federal Government announced a series of proposed changes that stand to impact how small businesses operate; specifically, how small businesses pay tax, how they manage money / capital, and how family members can engage in the business and / or plan for retirement.
It would cost about 6,000 UGX (~ $ 2.20) to travel to the nearest government hospital from the area — a significant amount of money for poor members of this community.
Either it means that other members of his party — the finance minister, who is against the referendum — will come in and not hold a referendum at all, and try to keep Greece on the austerity plan, or there will be a fall in the government, a no - confidence vote, and people will presumably vote for the Conservative Party, which is very much like the Republican Party in the United States.
Throughout the year, WBENC and its 14 Regional Partner Organizations provide opportunities for interactions between more than 650 member corporations, government agencies and thousands of certified WBEs at business building events and other forums.
«It's certainly very hypocritical for the Conservative government to say that a member of parliament that advocates on behalf of a business in his or her constituency who advocates in favour of temporary foreign workers who meet the criteria as set out in the program, if somehow that's illegitimate for a member of parliament to advocate for a temporary foreign worker permit in his constituency,» Mr. LeBlanc explained, «then the Conservatives should ask themselves why under their watch the number of temporary foreign workers has doubled.
The Canadian Association of International Development Professionals has been trying to talk to government for some years about the importance of the trade in services (like those of our members) in building relationships and Canadian exports and developing high value added jobs for Canada's well educated and multi-ethnic work force.
It's viewed better as a group of people, group of members who come together with a common goal and agenda, and a common sort of direction for how they want to help Bitcoin grow, help promote Bitcoin, in the face of challenges and push - backs from governments and other aspects of society.
«For every e-sports company, it would all of a sudden be a battle royale with every state with casinos and Native American tribes,» some of which operate casinos on tribal land to provide employment and revenue for their government and their tribe membeFor every e-sports company, it would all of a sudden be a battle royale with every state with casinos and Native American tribes,» some of which operate casinos on tribal land to provide employment and revenue for their government and their tribe membefor their government and their tribe members.
Mr. Schäuble, a member of Ms. Merkel's conservative Christian Democratic Union, told The Wall Street Journal last week that «as soon as we have a joint EU fiscal policy, we can consider joint liability» for governments» borrowing.
BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP)-- Three small opposition parties are calling for a boycott of a government - sponsored referendum seeking support for opposing any future European Union plans to resettle refugees among member countries.
The federal government covers the cost of prescription drugs for members of the Armed Forces and the RCMP, veterans and Indigenous people.
1936: Bill No. 76 of 1936: A Bill Providing for the Recall of Members of the Legislative Assembly was introduced by the Social Credit government and passed after their surprising win in the 1935 election.
He asked delegation members for assistance in lifting his travel ban, which he said was imposed because investigators consider him a witness in a corruption investigation of government officials involving the transfer of some of his company's minerals exploration licenses.
-- Lethbridge - East MLA Bridget Pastoor scored a win for the Liberal Opposition this week when the Assembly approved her motion to ``... urge the Government to establish an independent Commission to review the current salaries and benefits for Members of the Legislative Assembly...» It is important to note that as this was a Private Member's Motion, it is non-binding.
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