Sentences with phrase «holding office because»

In addition, Mr. Berlusconi — who is barred from holding office because of a 2013 fraud conviction — has made it clear that he is the real power behind the coalition.

This is ridiculous, and is tantamount to not allowing someone to hold office because of their gender or skin color.

Not exact matches

In Sarah Palin I also do not trust, because she is a mere media hound and quitter, and should be considered unqualified to hold public office.

He can hold that the Church's ministry has failed because it has not proclaimed the principles loudly enough, or has failed in the appropriate calculation of relative emphasis in proclaiming the many principles which often dialectically neutralize one another, or has made too little courageous use of the possibilities of the pastoral office.

Their commands are obeyed and their judgments followed not because of the office they hold but because of their personal qualities on the one hand and the attitudes of belief, respect, fear, and trust they evoke on the other.

Declaring early in American history that the Constitution was «godless» because it failed to acknowledge the authority of Jesus Christ, the church up until a generation ago practiced «political dissent,» not allowing members to vote, hold public office, or take oaths of allegiance to the flag or the Constitution.

If the bishops persist in pressing them on abortion, Catholic politicians will either be «precluded from holding high public office, because attacked by their own church's officials and otherwise harassed by their coreligionists,» or else, if they are elected, it will be «precisely because they are portrayed by coreligionists as renegades from the church.»

'' We say, pronounce, sentence, and declare that you, the above - mentioned Galileo, because of the things deduced in the trial and confessed by you as above, have rendered yourself according to this Holy Office vehemently suspected of heresy, namely of having held and believed a doctine which is false and contrary to the divine and Holy Scripture: that the sun is the center of the world and does not move from east to west, and the earth moves and is not the center of the world, and that one may hold and defend as probable an opinion after it has been declared and defined contrary to Holy Scripture.»

Because of Christians, there are still laws in several states (though they're unconstitutional) that deny atheists from holding elected office.

And for the moralists among us, there is also the realization that the man only holds office today because of his deceptions.

Because of Parents have lots of house hold work, travelling, jogging, indoor activities, outdoor activities & Office works.

It never really bothered me that I had to hold the pump while pumping because I don't do it as much as office working mothers (another thing I'm so thankful for!)

In the political arena, at least, I have always been of the opinion that worshiping our political office holders is dangerous because there is no way of holding the people we worship accountable.

Umm... VJ... the only reason the NYS Republicans aren't having much in the way of legal problems at the moment, is because they have NO power, NO money and hold NO statewide offices.

A broader question: has the relative silence of the battier Tories and radical Hannanites during the campaign been a triumph of Central Office message control, or because the nutty brigade are holding their tongues (as opposed to speaking in them) and waiting for their chance?

Let's not compare Andrew Cuomo to Elliot Spitzer just because they held the same office and used their accomplishments in that office as part of the reason they deserved to be Governor of New York.

While this may have worked for him in his bid to be elected President, it is not going to work as President because one is held to a higher standard the moment one assumes the high office of President.

It especially bugs me when it comes from the mouth of a public representative because it shows that they are clearly unfit to hold public office.

Because, after all, comptroller of a city — even a big city like New York — is something of a demotion after you've held two statewide offices.

«The reality is nobody really thought we'd be talking about these issues because of the person who is now holding the office,» Stewart - Cousins said.

The Cuomo camp, which denies anyone connected to Schneiderman ever made such an ask, argues that even if the governor wanted to expand the power of the office he used to hold, he couldn't do so because acting unilaterally through executive order would be illegal.

«The reality is nobody really thought we'd be talking about these issues because of the person who is now holding the office,» said Senate Minority Leader Andrea Stewart - Cousins at a news conference this week pushing a bill that would require the release of Trump's state tax returns.

I love winning elections, not because I want to hold office but because I want to make a difference.

In any event, you should think about this logically: It would be pretty damn silly if we prevented people from holding office just because a foreign country claimed them as a citizen and refused to recognize any assertions to the contrary.

I am honored to be beside him in the storied history of Brooklyn as the first African - Americans to hold boroughwide office, and I know that many young men and women will reach a bit higher because of the heights that Ken reached in his career and his life,» Adams said in a statement.

The Information Commissioner's Office said it was seeking a warrant because Cambridge Analytica did not respond to its 7 March request to access records and data it held.

The normal process for taking applications for parking permits has been put on hold because of the uncertainty over the fee increase, according to the town clerk's office, which issues parking permits.

Former AG Dennis Vacco — the last Republican to hold that statewide office, before he was ousted in a squeaker of a race by Democrat Eliot Spitzer in 1998 — told CapTon's Kaitlyn Ross this afternoon that he likes his fellow Buffalonian because he «comes with a different perspective.»

Update: Cuomo spokesman Josh Vlasto responds, saying the use of the funds doesn't violate state law because it's related to the holding of a public office.

«I am honored to be beside him in the storied history of Brooklyn as the first African - Americans to hold borough - wide office, and I know that many young men and women will reach a bit higher because of the heights that Ken reached in his career and his life.»

The Deputy Ranking Member on Constitutional Affairs, Dr. Dominic Ayine, is seeking a declaration that Mr. Amidu, who is 66 - years - old, can not hold public office because he has exceeded the mandated age limit per the 1992 constitution.

And House members — because they already hold federal office — can transfer their House committee coffers to a Senate campaign account.

We are not saying she's done it, but in the rule of natural justice, we must all admit that anybody alleged to have gotten involved in any act of misconduct must give way for fair trial or justice to take place because you might impede with evidence if you continue to hold office.»

The Republican gubernatorial hopeful, citing six recent state Board of Elections decisions tossing Democratic Senate candidates off the WEP ballot line because of unlawful nominating petitions, said that both the US Attorney's Office and district attorneys where the Senate races are being held should seek to hold those responsible criminally liable.

Several races could also influence the state's political landscape, because they involve Republicans who, based on the results on Tuesday, could mount future election challenges to Democrats who hold statewide office.

Let's not pretend that simply because Democrats hold many state offices progressive policies have actually been attempted.

It seems unlikely that Nixon opposed Quinn's 2013 candidacy because she did not like the idea of a «qualified lesbian» running the Big Apple (and even less likely, that this objection was rooted in a belief that only unqualified lesbians are fit to hold public office).

There are in these positions because the laws written to alow for them to hold office and a constituency that supports them.

The Center for Progressive Governance (CenProG) received the announcement of the nomination of Martin Alamisi Amidu as Special Prosecutor with utmost shock and will like to call on Parliament to reject the president's nominee because he is too bitter, vengeful and does not in any way reflect the independence of the office he will be holding in the event parliament approves his nomination.

Because state law prohibits individuals from holding public offices while serving as a commissioner of elections, he will be vacating these committee posts.

Giordano, 71, said he feels positive about the upcoming vote because he's been a Republican committee member for two decades and has held elected office for five years.

Democrats feel especially possessive of the office because a Republican has not held it for almost 60 years.

City Councilwoman Helen Sears (D - Jackson Heights) said Tuesday that she could not understand why supporters of her opponent, Danny Dromm, held a protest outside her office last week where attendees claimed she had not denounced an anonymous mailing attacking Dromm, because she released a statement condemning the apparent smear campaign two days earlier.

Syracuse City Court Judge Rory McMahon ordered Micah Dexter held in the Onondaga County Justice Center pending sentencing because the district attorney's office confirmed that Dexter had an outstanding arrest warrant from another state, McMahon said.

Wu will also get a big turnout downtown because he would be the first Chinese - American to hold statewide office.

Holding an office that you only inhabit because of people's votes — and can lose if the people decide to vote you out — is humbling and inspiring, a daily reminder of the power of democracy.

Swierczewski said he hoped the PACB could schedule another meeting by year's end to vote again on the Lighthouse Point subsidies, as well as $ 1.85 million for an office complex in downtown Albany that, according to Conwall, ESD held back because it needed to analyze the results of a public hearing.

The argument of the jurisdiction does not hold water for me taking the fact that the president sworn into office the foreign Affairs Minister Shirley Ayorkor Botchway at the Ghanaian Embassy in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia when he assumed officer as president January last year because at the time she was already in Ethiopia on a national assignment.

But insiders say that the program was held up because DOE's Office of Fusion Energy Sciences objected to another DOE agency spending money on fusion when it was struggling to meet its commitments to ITER and other projects.

Some enquiries I receive can not be answered here in the European office, either because the required reference material is held at head office, or it is necessary to contact the manufacturing facility.