Sentences with phrase «highest officials do»

Of course it is a real leap from sex scandals and bureaucratic mismanagement to the argument that the Catholic Church will go to murderous lengths to stifle evidence that contradicts its teaching, and that the church's highest officials do this cynically, knowing that the faith is a fraud.

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However, several high - ranking officials in the British military do not agree, and spoke out against Trump's ban.

There is no indication in the budget how these numbers are estimated, so I spoke to government officials, who indicated that these are «straight - line» estimates and do not take into account possible behavioural responses by these high income earners.

It is a one - of - a-kind event, a mixture of unalloyed commerce, high - minded do - gooderism, and brass - tacks policy discussions, attended by corporate bigwigs, journalists, academics, non-governmental organizations, and top government officials.

It could be a House of Cards political thriller: A high - ranking elected official and his family are wined and dined by a rich and powerful foreign agent who does business with the government.

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.

It's a bill that by almost every official analysis overwhelmingly benefits America's highest earners, and doesn't do much to simplify the tax code.

BOE's Carney Suggests Falling Unemployment Doesn't Mean Rates Will Rise Bank of England Gov. Carney said the U.K. central bank will look at a broad range of economic factors when assessing the need for higher interest rates, a sign that officials may be preparing to play down the link between BOE policy and falling unemployment.

Uganda's high officials, though, are likely to walk free, for the ICC has needed their cooperation to do its work.

He also added that one of the charges, endangerment of a child, does not apply to Lynn as he is too high up of an official to have had direct contact with children, something he says a 2005 grand jury had recognized.

Also, morality is not external (if byexternal that you mean something that you can know is right or wrong has to be determined by a larger body or set of policies created by someone else many years ago to be official), and morality does not necessarily flow from religion (plenty of Catholic priests, Islamic Imams, Protestant preachers wave their hands high in the air in the afternoon, at praise time, and when the lights go down they crawl on their bellies, and hands and knees like snakes and dogs).

In 1987, a Brazilian economist, member of an international financial institution, admirer of the Chilean experience of Pinochet, made the confidential statement that the critical problem of Brazil at that moment, under the presidency of Sarney, did not lie on a too high inflation rate, as the officials of the World Bank spread.

We don't know who he was exactly, but the title Luke gives him, most excellent Theophilus, hints that he may have been some sort of high ranking public official.

Days after the report was released, the NFL released an official statement acknowledging the findings, but also suggesting that they may not be representative of all of the league's players: «The report doesn't confirm that the condition is common in all football players; it reflects high occurrence in samples at the Boston brain bank that studies CTE,» they wrote.

Even in the period when Jerusalem was under the high priests, the Jews were nonetheless subject to foreign rule; and even if we concede for the sake of argument what notably was not true, that all the officials of the theocracy were high - minded men, still the people were never remote from the problem of what to do in face of a bad law.

Had Hitler won the war or cut a peace treaty in 1942, Herr Ratzinger would have done quite well as some top administrative manager or high ranking military official.

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Poor officiating decisions been this way all year the officials are performing terribly poor finishing been this way all year laca will do better next year auba is to new to the club and epl he is finding how mich effort you need the hard way he should of scored and that is a blatant foul on mustafi people keep saying he put his hands up when he was hit, well that is the natural reaction when back pedaling eyes on ball and someone plants there feet and pits a shoulder in your back your arms come up its nature but we suffered again from poor finishin i do nt care what sport that is high action especially football and hockey of you do nt finish your chances you create when on top the other side most likely will when they get theres its been ou achilles heel this year we.cant kill games because we have missed our created.chances

we need a reappraisal a strategy review and clearly many high rank officials do need to be accountable because the team isn't producing anything of merit, the managers transfer stratergy is a sham and the perception of brand arsenal is looking bleak — enuff is enuff.

It was Miller who, in 1990 as a senior at Muir High in Pasadena, beat Jones, then a freshman at Rio Mesa in Oxnard, in both the 100 and 200 meters at the prestigious Arcadia Invitational high school meet in Southern California and was told by a meet official, «It's a good thing you beat her now, because I don't think you'll ever beat her again.&raHigh in Pasadena, beat Jones, then a freshman at Rio Mesa in Oxnard, in both the 100 and 200 meters at the prestigious Arcadia Invitational high school meet in Southern California and was told by a meet official, «It's a good thing you beat her now, because I don't think you'll ever beat her again.&rahigh school meet in Southern California and was told by a meet official, «It's a good thing you beat her now, because I don't think you'll ever beat her again.»

(If the officials were any good, they wouldn't be doing high school; if the coach was any good, he wouldn't either.)

We have seen this approach from opposing teams before (Stoke) and although I understand why Wenger is pleased when his team takes the high ground, is it time for us to start being smarter and make sure that the officials do not let other sides give us the rough treatment and kick us out of our football flow?

@SeedyJ Bonus payments and such are a high risk, I suspect this has more to do with a mutual hatred for Arsenal that other clubs and officials share.

«To play football at the highest level is all I have ever wanted to do,» he told United's official website.

Substantive research already exists showing nut free schools (not early childhood, but mid elementary onwards) actually do more harm than good, to the extent that the official anaphylaxis prevention guidelines have been updated by the Australasian Society of Clinical Immunology and Allergy to explicitly state that food bans in upper primary and high schools do not work, and can actually cause problems.

«Shanghai does not need so - called # 1 schools,» said Yi Hougin, a high level official of Shanghai Education Commission.

Federal officials don't track how many people in the U.S. have been harmed, but a recent government study estimated 410,000 babies are born each year at risk for mercury poisoning because of high levels in their mothers» bodies.

They don't make the headlines, their names are not in the box scores and they don't make the all - star teams, but perhaps the most important individuals in high school sports are the contest officials.

Neither, for that matter, does the assassination of General Hadia al - Feitouri, a high ranking Defense Ministry official, by unidentified gunmen only a day after the new National Assembly assumed power.

The answer doesn't mention actual situations where this has occurred with high - ranking officials (or if such examples exist).

The high court found that «official acts» can be just about anything a politician does and that raises significant constitutional concerns.

NYS has a standardized testing problem, a NYSUT official writes: Many students do poorly on tests for grades 3 - 8, but pass high school Regents exams.

Despite sources telling NBC 4 that Mangano is expected to appear at the federal courthouse in Central Islip Thursday, a spokesman for the Republican official, Brian Nevin, told NBC 4 New York, «County Executive Mangano has the highest integrity, has done nothing wrong, has not been contacted, and the accusations are preposterous.»

Judge Caproni, in her decision, did not say she thought Silver's case was closely related to McDonnell's, but did concede that the way jurors were told to define «official acts» in corruption cases could be questioned by a higher court, in light of the McDonnell case.

So, if high winds cause bridge closures, hundreds will be re-routed on a long drive to get to the official proceedings — that is, of course, if flooding doesn't close the local roads.

In its ruling, the high court narrowed the definition of what constitutes an «official act» by a politician, making it more difficult for prosecutors to obtain convictions in cases in which it can not be made clear to jurors exactly what a politician did in return for money or services received from someone or an entity hoping to improperly influence government.

They (corrupt officials) are degrading our capacity to control our own development, and to be able to do so with our heads high and not with our hands up, begging people to come and help us.

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.

Cuomo administration officials said the governor's plan does not take dollars away from low - income students and will allow even more low - income families to take advantage of state and federal financial aid that's available for higher education.

He said some longtime, high - ranking officials at the agency left their jobs because of the «culture of fear» Wildstein created as he did Christie's bidding.

The latest criminal charges added to the indictment allege that Silver did certain «official favors» for an investor in 2006 to gain access to a variety of low - risk, high - yield investment opportunities not available to the general public.

I did not recognise, at the point that this visit was arranged, a need to disclose to my officials and the High Commission that Abid Hussain and I have a common business interest as minority shareholders in a small food company... I sincerely regret that I did not consider the significance of this relationship with Mr Hussain when the arrangements for the visit were being made... I am sorry.

«As elected officials we must hold ourselves to a higher standard; these comments do not do that.»

The latest version of the indictment added accusations that he did «official» favors for an investor who gave him access to high - yield investment opportunities.

DeRosa told the Post, «Elected officials don't get a pass just because they were elected — in fact, they should be held to a higher standard.»

Standing with firefighter - union officials outside an Upper East Side firehouse, Mr. Schumer, a New York Democrat, said the registry would work by collecting anonymous data from firefighters diagnosed with cancer, a disease he said affects them at higher rates than it does the overall population.

The timeline raises questions of whether high - level state officials were aware of the situation; and, if so, why did they not act upon it earlier?

In 2015, Mr Kenyatta did act, he suspended and eventually removed five ministers and other high ranking officials over corruption allegations but this bold initiative which improved Kenya's standing in the latest Transparency International was misinterpreted by the opposition and its allies.

Bronx Democrat Ritchie Torres, a gay Councilman who believes NYC isn't doing enough to combat disproportionately high rates of depression, poverty and suicide in the LGBT community, is introducing a bill that would force officials to act.

In fact, the more disaffected members of the electorate (read: the majority of voters) might very well identify with Rice's explanation, although we do generally hold elected officials to a higher standard.