Sentences with phrase «high official positions»

I am wondering how many modern states keep this principle, by not allowing electoral riggers for accessing high official positions.

For example, they occur in the Dialogues of Pope Gregory, 2 the Great, a man whose high official position is surpassed only by the magnitude of his services to humanity.

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Woods earned his new position — the highest he has been in the OWGR for two years — with a successful return to official PGA Tour competition after a year and his first cut made since the 2015 Wyndham Championship.

«Sadly, we're getting confronted with public officials who are alleged to have abused their positions of trust, in this case the highest - ranking elected official in Nassau County and in the Town of Oyster Bay, for their own corrupt benefit, thereby abusing the public trust,» Robert L. Capers, U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of New York, said at a news conference.

ALBANY — Outgoing state education commissioner John King hopes to help school leaders in other states navigate the difficult transition to the Common Core standards and related standardized testing in his new position as the second - highest ranking official in the U.S. Department of Education.

She is one of the highest - ranking officials in the de Blasio administration to leave her position, and the first deputy mayor to do so.

«This premise is hypocritical, wrong and ignores the fact that women have preeminent positions within the administration and were three out of four court of appeals nominations — not to mention that the Governor's running mate and second highest ranking official in the entire state is a woman,» Lever later added.

«I feel very privileged to be able to articulate my positions and my opinions on a myriad of subjects, and now I've been encouraged by many people in the general public, as well as Democratic funders and high level elected officials on both sides of the party line to seriously consider running,» the former star of «The Nanny» told reporters at the National Press Club in Washington.

In a statement, Sweeney Jr. said Mangano and Venditto «abused their positions as the highest ranking elected officials in Nassau County and the Town of Oyster Bay, respectively — at least, until today.»

Kaloyeros was suspended from his position Thursday without pay after being charged by both U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara and Attorney General Eric Schneiderman as part of a corruption scheme that allegedly involved Joe Percoco, a high - ranking official in Gov. Andrew Cuomo's administration, and Todd Howe, a longtime associate of the governor.

«I don't think anyone is happy in the political establishment given the repercussions to other members of the Legislature and other elected officials in high positions,» Arzt said.

A 13 - count federal indictment alleges that Mangano, the highest - ranking elected official in Nassau County, and Venditto used their positions to help the federally indicted Singh, who was identified by sources, to procure lucrative county contracts and loans guaranteed by the town of Oyster Bay.

«Today's arrest and allegations are certainly disturbing and each and every elected public official should be held to the highest standards and those who lack transparency and take advantage of a position of power should be held accountable and there is no difference in this situation,» Kennedy said.

In the case of the other woman, prosecutors said, Mr. Silver «used his official position» to help her get a state job, «over which he exercised a particularly high level of control.»

The mayor was accused of giving a retired police official a high - level position in his administration after Rechnitz called him and requested the appointment as a «personal favor.»

These people will eventually see that our state and federal officials will keep the political appointees on the payroll, and these appointees receive the higher paying positions.

The city Investigation Department, which routinely vets appointments to high - level municipal positions, recommended that Mr. Ponte not promote William Clemons, a veteran correction official whom the commissioner wanted to make his chief of department, the highest uniformed position.

Democratic officials have rejected Bernie Sanders» request to remove two high - profile Hillary Clinton supporters from leadership positions at the party's summer convention.

University officials hope to restart the hiring process midway through 2010, but probable additional budget cuts and Campos's high start - up costs make him pessimistic about his chances of winning either that position or another one in this economy.

A higher - education lobbyist who follows biomedical issues said shortly before the vote on Smith's bill that her organization wasn't even aware of the narrow definition of STEM fields, and another said her organization had taken no official position on the issue.

The state's official position is that Yucca Mountain is a singularly bad site to house the nation's high - level nuclear waste and spent nuclear fuel for several reasons:

A: There have been many negative things said about eggs over the years and their relationship to having high cholesterol levels in the body, but recently the official position has changed and most dietary recommendations include eggs as part of a healthy diet.

Six high - ranking positions in the Education Department remain vacant, and department officials say the White House is to blame.

In her 2013 book, Reign of Error, Diane Ravitch — an education historian and former federal education official who originally supported but later became a critic of reforms like No Child Left Behind — cites surprising evidence that a nation's higher position on an international ranking of test scores actually predicted lower per capita GDP decades later, compared with countries whose test scores ranked worse.

In this position she, «Managed alternate - route certification contracts for Milwaukee Public Schools and Arizona statewide initiative,» was «Responsible for the goal - setting and official launch process of all new TNTP Academy contracts, working closely with state and city Departments of Education, including Georgia, Pittsburgh, PA, and Charlotte, NC,» and «Maintained high - level client relationships to ensure investment and support of data - driven work.»

In the past, of course, we had the revolving door, but generally high - ranking officials left the government and went back to their cushy positions in banking, corporations, etc..

Now, ahead of the droptop's official introduction tomorrow at the Geneva Motor Show, the automaker has given us a few more shots of the softop C7 showing off the car's rump albeit from a high, strategically positioned angle.

Artifacts gave her name and her position: she was Lady Dai, the wife of a high official during the early Han dynasty.

A few days ago, Iranian parliamentarian, Alaeddin Boroujerdi told media that Iran's «highest level» officials wish to ban Telegram by April 20 due to the app's monopoly position within the country and concerns that Telegram's cryptocurrency may «undermine the national currency» in Iran.

At my previous place of work, I was promoted to the position of an executive secretary owing to my ability to gauge and meet high level management's official needs and my professionalism in carrying out the core secretarial functions of the office.

Doctors, clergymen, police officers, teachers, federal employees, including White House staffers, National Security Agency employees, FBI agents and Senior State Department officials have purchased bogus degrees to seek employment, promotions, higher positions and better pay.