Sentences with phrase «illegal attempt»

This past Monday, more than a month after the uneventful hearing, committee Democrats announced they had asked the agency's inspector general, an in - house watchdog, «to investigate potentially illegal attempts by senior EPA officials, particularly Ryan T. Jackson, the EPA's Chief of Staff, to interfere with Democratic witness, Dr. Deborah Swackhamer's, testimony to the Science Committee last month.»

Book piracy, phishing scams and other illegal attempts to poach sales are surprisingly sophisticated — and increasingly successful.

Esquilin and Achieve Hartford Inc. not only supported Superintendent Kishimoto's failed attempt to close Clark Elementary and hand the building over to Achievement First, Inc. but also supported the outrageous and potentially illegal attempt to hand S.A.N.D. Elementary School over to Steve Perry's private charter school company as part of a that secret Sheff lawsuit deal.

In January 2018, the opposition - led Venezuelan parliament invalidated the petro, calling it an illegal attempt to mortgage the country's oil reserves.

Of course there are instances where an anti-competitive business combination constructed as an ancillary restraint will survive antitrust tests, but this situation with the three incumbent consumer credit repositories looks like an illegal attempt to stifle competition — namely FICO — and create a vertical monopoly atop the existing horizontal data franchise shared by the three firms.

Could we have made an illegal attempt to negotiate with the Dortmund star?

Attorney General Eric Schneiderman announced a lawsuit Thursday against the board of directors for Brooklyn Child & Family Services, Inc. and Project Teen Aid Housing Development Fund Corp., alleging mismanagement and illegal attempts to sell two townhouses they operated.

Also, recall that despite the Malloy Administration's illegal attempt to take over the Bridgeport school system, Bridgeport's Mayor and Fairfield County corporate executives were able to push out the former superintendent and bring in Vallas.

Rembember that their previous head, Alex Johnston, was a key player in the illegal attempt to take over the Bridgeport school board.

Among these practices have been illegal attempts to exclude special education students.

I guess Scully missed about 99 % of the facts surrounding the events leading up to the Malloy Administration's illegal attempt to take over the Bridgeport Schools, nor has he actually been to a board meeting or he'd realize that his comments about a «failing» board are completely untrue.

And as if the language on the «Commissioner's Network» schools was not shocking enough, Section 18 also includes the language attempting to legalize the state of Connecticut's illegal attempt to take over the Bridgeport School System.

'' [T] his situation with the three incumbent consumer credit depositories looks like an illegal attempt to stifle competition — namely FICO — and create a vertical monopoly atop the existing horizontal data franchise shared by the three firms,» he adds.

Last month we heard the story of Activision and Bungie's illegal attempt to strip ex-composer Martin O'Donnell of his shares in the company and O'Donnell's subsequent victory in court over the matter.

«illegal attempt to strip ex-composer»?

«We are very pleased to recoup a portion of the costs associated in fighting off the DEA's illegal attempt to ban nutritious hemp seed,» said David Bronner, President of Dr. Bronner's Magic Soaps.