Sentences with phrase «from local assemblies»

One example is Japan, where the national government uses the parliamentary system, but the prefectural and municipal governments have governors and mayors elected independently from local assemblies and councils.

The wagon's arrival enabled Ford to drop the UK - sourced Sierra wagon from local assembly, simplifying model sourcing.

Not exact matches

In 1991, Jeff Moler, CEO of Protek Electronics Inc., a $ 9 - million electronics designer and manufacturer in Sarasota, Fla., received a call from the local Easter Seals office offering physically and mentally challenged individuals for Moler's assembly line.

That is the reason I wrote the members of the New York Senate and Assembly to join legislators from Kansas, Georgia, North Carolina, Washington and Wisconsin by sponsoring the New York Jump - Start Our Business Start - ups (NY JOBS) Act to help local small businesses raise capital through Equity crowdfunding!

Third and fourth reads of the text have proven to be useful in understanding the «downfall» of the early church; roots of error and departure from NT expectations for a local assembly that have bloomed into flowers with an unpleasant aroma that must be a stench in the nostrils of God.

Not only was I asked to speak to religious groups, from local congregations to denominational assemblies, but I was even asked to preach — at a time when I had no church affiliation.

Marcus could read and write — though he could not write well, and had no inclinations to authorship, even in that publishing center of the western Mediterranean in the days of Nero — and so, as one of the few in the local congregation of Christians who could both read and write, he was commissioned to put together in his free time — probably late evenings, after the assembly of the Christians had broken up — the fragmentary translations of narratives from the story of Jesus and his teaching which were in circulation in the Roman church.

After nearly a decade of service in the West African Muslim nation, the Fultons, missionaries from an Assemblies of God church in Britain, experienced a string of difficulties, including a disagreement that led them to part with their local church.

Decisions had to be made from time to time as to where or when services of the church would be held; the church needed to be told of the impending visit of an apostle, or of some prophet or teacher from abroad; a question has been raised as to the good faith of one of these visitors, and there must be some discussion of the point and a decision on it; a fellow Christian from another church is on a journey and needs hospitality; a member of the local congregation planning to visit a church abroad needs a letter of introduction to that church, which someone must be authorized to provide; a serious dispute about property rights or some other legal matter has arisen between two of the brothers and the church must name someone to help them settle the issue or must in some other way deal with it; a new local magistrate has begun to prosecute Christians for violating the law against unlicensed assembly, and consideration must be given to ways and means of meeting this crisis; charges have been brought against one of the members by another member, and these must be investigated and perhaps some disciplinary action taken; one of the members has died, and the church is called on for some special action in behalf of his family in the emergency; differences of opinion exist in the church on certain questions of morals or belief (such as marriage and divorce, or the resurrection), differences which local prophets and teachers are apparently unable to compose, and a letter must be written to the apostle — who will write this letter and what exactly will it say?

The World Health Assembly adopted Resolution 47.5 in 1994 stating the importance of, «fostering appropriate complementary feeding practices from the age of about six months, emphasizing continued breast - feeding and frequent feeding with safe and adequate amounts of local foods.»

The land assembly and planning application was a tortuous and frustrating process for Spurs, which found itself tied up in rows over transport upgrades, purchase orders and opposition in the courts from local businesses who suddenly found their premises earmarked for demolition.

The state Assembly last year adopted a sanctuary state measure to prevent state and local law enforcement officers from making arrests based on immigration status and from enforcing federal immigration laws.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo on Wednesday said he would review a bill that would prohibit New York state and local police from participating in immigration enforcement efforts with federal law enforcement, a measure that passed the Democratic - led Assembly this week.

Other local Assembly members from the surrounding suburbs are happy to fill in.

But a cap on school and local property taxes is unlikely to get off the ground in the Assembly, where a critical mass of lawmakers hails from New York City — and where property taxes aren't the overwhelming issue that they are in the suburbs.

Nearly 2,000 workers from Transit Workers Union Local 100 (TWU Local 100) traveled to Albany on March 27th to meet with members of the state legislature in the Senate and Assembly for the organization's annual «Lobby Day.»

To give just some examples, all regional planning and housing powers will be repatriated from unelected regional assemblies to democratically accountable local councils, communities will be able to develop neighbourhood plans and councils will have greater flexibility regarding housing allocations and tenancies.

The comments come as the Liberal Democrats reel from a horrific series of election results, where they were wiped out in the local elections in England as well as the Scottish parliamentary and Welsh Assembly elections.

Conservative Assembly Member Kemi Badenoch told Johnson that the cereal cafe protesters were not actually from the local area and asked him about the police's apparent reluctance to crack down on the cereal protesters.

The plan, though, has met opposition from the Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation, the neighborhood's Community Board and local elected officials, including Assembly member Deborah Glickhave.

He challenged Gordon Brown to reverse the transfer of power from democratically elected local councils to unelected regional assemblies.

[37] The campaign has support from both religious and non-religious organizations at both the national and local level including the Accord Coalition, the Association of Teachers and Lecturers, the British Humanist Association, British Muslims for Secular Democracy, ICoCo Foundation, the Centre for Studies on Inclusive Education, Ekklesia, the Hindu Academy, the Liberal Democrat Education Association, Richmond Inclusive Schools Campaign, the Runnymede Trust, the Socialist Educational Association, the General Assembly of Unitarian and Free Christian Churches.

«I am flattered and humbled by the sheer volume of calls from local elected officials, civic and community leaders and activists who have all urged me to run for the 25th Assembly seat.

Under the deal between state lawmakers and Cuomo, the state bears more of the responsibility, a contrast from the ride - hailing service bill proposed in the New York State Assembly that would have given local municipalities more control in regulation.

** Neath Port Talbot figures date from December 2013 and are taken from the survey of local authorities by the Assembly's research service.

In an embarrassment for the political establishment, Guillermo Philpotts, a perennial candidate for local office, secured the Democratic nomination for a Crown Heights Assembly race this afternoon, beating back a last - ditch effort from ex-Democratic boss Clarence Norman to keep him off the ballot line, sources say.

«I am flattered and humbled by the sheer volume of calls from local elected officials, civic and community leaders and activists who have all urged me to run for the 25th Assembly seat,» Iannece said.

Addressing major stakeholders in the state, including the Deputy Senate President, Ike Ekweremadu; members of the National and State Assemblies; Council Chairmen and members of the State Executive Council; as well as Peoples Democratic Party chieftains at the Government House, the governor explained: «On Sunday, April 24, 2016, by 7 pm, the night before this carnage took place, I got security information from Uzo - Uwani Local Government Transition Chairman, Hon. Cornell Onwubuya that such an incident was likely to take place in the state.

The BNP's only member on the London assembly has been suspended from his local council seat for a month by the GLA.

Former Gov. George Pataki, whose political focus has been more national than local of late, will take time off from his push to repeal «ObamaCare» to join former Assembly Minority Leader / ex-WNY Rep. Tom Reynolds in headlining a fundraiser for the Republic Assembly Campaign Committee.

«To avoid this, and in line with our great party's practice of publicizing the conduct of primaries (right from the conduct of primary for presidential election to the primaries for election at the state level — gubernatorial and National assembly), the same tradition must continue with the primaries into local governments.

While the nominees from the East are Dim Nda Diche and Silas Egbuna, Sunday Vanguard, however, gathered that the governor prefers Simon Achuba (a two term House of Assembly member and former deputy Speaker from Ibaji Local Government).

In Northern Ireland local and Assembly elections (and Scottish local elections), voting is done on a single transferable vote basis which sees more than one candidate elected from a single constituency.

Councillors elected in this election will serve an extended five - year term, after local government minister Carl Sargeant announced the next elections would be moved from 2016 to 2017 to avoid clashing with the National Assembly for Wales election, 2016 which in turn had been delayed a year to avoid clashing with the United Kingdom general election, 2015.

Ms. Niou's growing list of endorsements from leading Assembly Democrats, unions and elected officials have made it increasingly clear that, though the local Democratic establishment backed Ms. Cancel, the larger party power structure favors Ms. Niou.

So the design of the GLA was designed to keep the mayor (and especially the constituency Assembly members) from interfering in purely local issues.

John Bell the local candidate was selected for Clwyd South, John stood for the Constituency in the Welsh Assembly Elections achieving a 6.6 % swing from Labour to Conservatives and increased our share of the vote by 10.2 % whilst increasing the Conservative vote by some 60 %.

Local Governance Think Tank, Centre for Local Governance Advocacy, has called for sanctions against the Northern Regional Coordinating Council for demanding five thousand Ghana cedis each from the 26 assemblies in the region, to support the President's tour of the area this week.

Nine Senators and Assembly members from the local delegation, both Democrat and Republican, have come out in support of the measure.

Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo and the Senate Republican majority, led by Skelos, of Rockville Centre, supported expansion of the state practice to local governments, but the Assembly blocked it from passage in the state budget on April 1.

PLATTSBURGH — A bill proposed by Assembly Democrats would revert the STAR rebate tax credit program from the state back to local control.

The Legislature is likely to once again move the state and local primary day from Sept. 11, Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie said Monday.

The Assembly bill, which stands little chance of being approved in the Republican - led Senate, would prohibit state and local law enforcement from participating in federal immigration enforcement — part of a raft of measures approved on Monday in the chamber seeking to counter President Donald Trump's immigration policies.

But Mr. Wright's name is noticeably absent from the list of 62 Democratic sponsors of the Assembly bill that would allow for local control.

These measures passed by the county legislature require approval from the state legislature and that will require the assistance of local assembly members and Senator David Carlucci.

Specifically, Klein's bill (S. 6343 / NYS Assembly same - as A.6442 - A / Cook) requires municipalities that sell, transfer, or lease land from a community garden for a different purpose to use a small portion (10 %) of the sale price to purchase or create a new garden, sustain another existing garden, or support local groups that maintain these gardens.

«This debt was accrued for the provision of various services such as fumigation, compensation for GYEDA [Ghana Youth Employment Development Agency], sanitation garbs, the provision of landfill management services, as well as debts arising from contracts with the ministry of Local Government and Rural Development and Metropolitan Municipal, and District Assemblies.»

PRESS RELEASE FROM ASSEMBLYMAN SKOUFIS Assemblyman James Skoufis (D - Woodbury) announced that the Assembly and Senate both passed legislation he authored to provide mandate relief to taxpayers by streamlining local assessor and tax collector offices.

The state Assembly passed a bill last week that would give New York so - called «sanctuary state» status, shielding illegal immigrants in many of their dealings with state and local governments from federal law - enforcement agencies that might deport them.

According to a news release from Speaker Sheldon Silver: The $ 133 billion Assembly budget proposal... restores $ 36 million and rejects the executive budget proposal to redirect Title XX discretionary funds typically allotted to these senior centers to local child welfare services... (and) protects several senior programs slated for elimination in the executive budget by restoring 75 percent for programs.