Sentences with phrase «formal act of»

As the first formal act of the Childress Institute, I am asking for contributions to reimburse Wendy Perry and Rod McCall for their travel expenses to Washington, D.C. I did not discuss reimbursing them prior to my invitation, and they have both spent their own money for hotel reservations and airfare.

On 11 June, which was Trinity Sunday, a formal act of possession was conducted.

Effectively, this was the first formal act of major political authority leading to the dismemberment of the univocal structure for the Church throughout Europe, other than the East.

Horeb, the mountain of God (according to E and the Deuteronomic editors), is the same as Sinai, the sacred mountain (J and P), which was the site of Israel's first formal act of Covenant organization.

Not exact matches

the failure rate of new ventures (startups had no formal rules and acted like smaller versions of large companies),

But whether or not the shooter actually had any formal ties with ISIS, the title of Rukmini Callimachi's New York Times report says it all: «Was Orlando Shooter Really Acting for ISIS?

Cramer also asked whether it «could be an ACA,» referring to the acronym for the formal name of Obamacare, the Affordable Care Act.

(a) Schedule 2.7 (a) of the Disclosure Schedule contains a list setting forth each employee benefit plan, program, policy or arrangement (including any «employee benefit plan» as defined in Section 3 (3) of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, as amended («ERISA»)(«ERISA Plan»)-RRB-, including, without limitation, employee pension benefit plans, as defined in Section 3 (2) of ERISA, multi-employer plans, as defined in Section 3 (37) of ERISA, employee welfare benefit plans, as defined in Section 3 (1) of ERISA, deferred compensation plans, stock option plans, bonus plans, stock purchase plans, fringe benefit plans, life, hospitalization, disability and other insurance plans, severance or termination pay plans and policies, sick pay plans and vacation plans or arrangements, whether or not an ERISA Plan (including any funding mechanism therefore now in effect or required in the future as a result of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement or otherwise), whether formal or informal, oral or written, under which (i) any current or former employee, director or individual consultant of the Company (collectively, the «Company Employees») has any present or future right to benefits and which are contributed to, sponsored by or maintained by the Company or (ii) the Company or any ERISA Affiliate (as hereinafter defined) has had, has or may have any actual or contingent present or future liability or obligation.

For instructions on how to make a formal request of access to personal information pursuant to the Privacy Act, please visit the website of the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada at http://www.privcom.gc.ca.

The FORM Act required the FOMC to adopt a specific, formal monetary policy rule, of the FOMC's own choosing, and report to Congress when monetary policy deviates from the rule — although this requirement is not to be «construed to prevent» the FOMC from allowing such deviations.

Thus the activity proper to purity (in scholastic terms, its formal effect) is the unification of the inner powers of the soul in a single act of appetition of extraordinary richness and intensity.

Thus, by making a formal - material distinction, one can combine a certain particularity and avoid the kind of conception of «decisive act» which Ogden would have to judge mythological.

Greek existence came into being through an act of aesthetic distancing of nature and the gods, which freed the Greek to become aware of the formal properties of the world.

In stating in summary fashion the Christian conception of the Kingdom of God we are not pretending that we can see perfectly what this means, nor are we saying that we can arrive at a formal principle which can act as a rule by which all Christian value judgments can be simply made.

It makes possible its highest act, of which its formal nature is capable, but which is not demanded of it.

The ethical principles growing out of the biopolitical theology that is here being defended can be stated in a formal, abstract way as follows: Always act in such a way as to maximize maximizing enjoyments.

As with the Protestant alienation a century earlier, the severance of formal ties has been the achievement of enlightened and observant clergy, or members of religious orders, acting in order to shelter their upgrading institutions from church authorities who were seen as anti-intellectual, intrusively authoritarian, and unable to offer any resources but their own unimpressive governance.

Obligation to obedience depended no longer upon content but upon formal authority; not what was commanded determined the will of the person acting, but the fact that such and such was commanded.

«Formal discourse becomes politically powerful when it becomes ideology; when it articulates and fuses into effective formulations opinions and attitudes that are otherwise too scattered and vague to be acted upon; when it mobilizes a general mood, «a set of disconnected, unrealized private emotions,» into «a public possession, a social fact»; when it crystallizes otherwise inchoate social and political discontent and thereby shapes what is otherwise instinctive and directs it to attainable goals, when it clarifies, symbolizes, and elevates to structured consciousness the mingled urges that stir within us.

The course is monitored as part of the programme of diocesan advisory visits and subject to formal inspection every three years under the provisions of the Education and Inspection Act, 2005, section 48.

And a falsehood which fosters formal cooperation with seriously wrong acts does, as the Catechism says, «irreparable harm -LSB-... to] the whole of society».

Last week a formal complaint was registered by the taxman that Barcelona had evaded payment of that sum on $ 38m of hitherto «secret» payments made between 2011 and 2013 to «companies» acting on behalf of Brazilian superstar Neymar and his father / adviser.

Adoption is defined in the dictionary as «to take and rear (the child of other parents) as one's own child, specifically by a formal legal act.»

This «wasta» leads to distorted «rules of the game», where the prevalence of informal institutions associated with neo-patrimonialism influences actors» cost - benefit calculations in a way that makes it more promising to act according to the informal, rather than formal, rules of the game.

It is clear that the Scotland Act is passed by the UK Parliament, which can abolish the Assembly, just as it can repeal the 1972 European Communities Act, so in all of these cases formal Parliamentary Sovereignty is preserved.

At some point today, Eric Schneiderman will deliver his formal letter of resignation and Barbara Underwood will become Acting Attorney General for the State of New York.

The Supreme Court said that in the future, bribery - related charges would require that any official act performed as part of a quid pro quo would have to involve a formal exercise of government power, not just a meeting or a phone call.

For example, if Cohen could succeed in persuading administration officials to approve the merger AT&T is seeking with Time Warner, then that conduct could be the kind of formal government action that could constitute an official act.

The appeals court said Judge Valerie E. Caproni's instructions to jurors in 2015 did not comply with a later U.S. Supreme Court decision that narrowed the acts required to convict public officials in a quid pro quo bribery scheme to formal exercises of government power, not just meetings or telephone calls.

The 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals found that there was sufficient evidence to convict the veteran legislator in two corruption schemes, but jury instructions didn't comply with a new Supreme Court decision narrowing the type of acts required of public officials in a quid - pro-quo bribery scheme to formal exercises of government power.

At Silver's trial jurors were told they could convict based on «any action under color of official authority» by Silver, but the 2d Circuit said the Supreme Court ruling required a «formal exercise of government power,» rather than lesser acts like just making a phone call or having a meeting.

The Supreme Court held that these acts were not official acts for purposes of proving bribery because they did not constitute some formal exercise of government power.

The Supreme Court, in a case last year involving former Virginia Gov. Robert McDonnell, ruled that corruption convictions could only be based on performance of an «official act» that represented a formal exercise of government power — not just a phone call or a meeting with a lobbyist.

A formal consultation will be launched in the spring, but the change only requires the government to enact section 202 of the Equality Act so it should be in place quickly.

The Supreme Court, in overturning the conviction, narrowed what could be considered an «official act» when related to accusations of corruption — only concrete, formal government actions, not things like setting up meetings or other acts of political courtesies are «official acts,» the court said.

The speech read by the Acting GOC at the inauguration of the court martial reads, «Following the directive from Army Headquarters (AHQ) that a standing General Court Martial (GCM) be set up for Op Lafiya Dole to try offences committed by personnel within the Theatre of Operation, I issued a Convening Order for a GCM on 5 August 2016 and the members were directed to assemble today at this venue for the formal inauguration of the GCM.

But the Supreme Court, in overturning the conviction, narrowed what could be considered an «official act» when related to accusations of corruption — only concrete, formal government actions, not things like setting up meetings or other acts of political courtesies are «official acts,» the court said.

«Using one's influence as a high ranking state official to push through county legislation and to bestow a county - issued contract are indisputably formal exercises of governmental power constituting official acts under McDonnell,» the decisions states.

But the commissioners say they'll only act only if Rodriguez or someone else with knowledge of the alleged job offer files a formal complaint that details the course of events.

The function of the Second Deputy Speaker is to assist the Deputy Speaker in the Main Committee and, in the absence of the Deputy Speaker, to act as Deputy Speaker.257 In the absence of both the Speaker and the Deputy Speaker the Second Deputy Speaker may perform the duties of Speaker, as Acting Speaker.258 At the request of the Speaker, he or she may take the Chair of the House (as Deputy Speaker) 259 without formal communication to the House.

In the more formal language of the act itself, the main aim is to «limit... access to services, facilities and employment by reference to immigration status».

This is the UK, so of course there is no formal rule, but based on the 2010 coalition government between the Conservatives and Liberal Democrats, we would expect a full formal coalition to produce a cabinet containing members of both parties, all acting under the convention of collective responsibility.

My thoughts however centre today on the president's erstwhile anticorruption campaign which some might argue came to a formal end with his letters to the National Assembly exonerating his Secretary to the Government of the Federation, David Babachir Lawal and re-nominating Acting EFCC Chairman, Ibrahim Magu.

«We think this formal agreement will make a big difference in terms of improving water quality in the Buffalo area and finally getting this area in compliance with the Clean Water Act,» she said.

The court unanimously determined that a public official must decide or act in a way that involves a formal exercise of governmental power, or agree to do so, to qualify as having taken an official action, Chief Justice John Roberts wrote.

But no — he's going to tell a couple of Senecas how they're supposed to act at a formal event.

At the end of the Akwasidae celebrations, Nana Appiah Mensah again led each of the acts for a formal and personal introduction to Otumfuo where they had closed door meetings.

Mario Musolino, the acting commissioner of the state Department of Labor, will then issue a formal wage order based on the panel's report.

The U.S. Supreme Court ruled last year that a «quid pro quo» bribery scheme had to involve a so - called «official act» that was a formal exercise of government power.

«Mr Pickles has unilaterally declared that the Localism Act restores the right of councils to pray during formal business.