Sentences with phrase «in official positions»

It was meant to highlight the role of artists in terms of communicating politics that can't otherwise be stated by those in official positions of power.

Park was accused of allowing a non-governmental friend to weigh in and influence topics from her wardrobe to who would be placed in official positions; she is also accused of extorting millions from South Korean companies with the help of this friend.

Customers with Mt. Gox accounts will not be receiving their bitcoins or possibly even other currencies in what is effectively an insolvency, though no - one in an official position is using that word.

The signatures on this petition were collected and witnessed by Highways Superintentent, Wayne Ballard, who presumably in his official position should know if there are two apartments at 500 Corporate Way.

«Science» was in my official position title and job description — four times!

Eligibility for teacher cancellation is based on the duties presented in an official position description, not on the position title.

Sakurai: First of all, in regard to cutting characters: at this point there's nothing I can say in any official position regarding that process.

BEIJING — Having covered China's stance on global warming since 1988, I've gotten attuned to the need to tread carefully when something is said that feels like a shift in the official position of this greenhouse gas giant.

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American culture, I explained, judges extra-marital affairs very harshly, so a senior official caught in such a position could easily be subject to blackmail - something that a CIA director, of all people, must avoid.

«He just did not want to be in that position... and he was not good at hiding his body language for that,» said a former administration official who knows Cohn.

He should be staying at the White House, taking phone calls, getting briefed, talking to his Cabinet, talking to local officials, and putting his administration in a position to respond where needed.»

Tillerson and the Chinese officials he met - Foreign Minister Wang Yi and State Councillor Yang Jiechi - struck a positive note, only hinting at differences in their positions.

«If you are in a position of public trust, and you talk to, meet, or collude with a foreign power» while trying to subvert normal state channels, «you are, in the eyes of the FBI and CIA, a traitor,» said Glenn Carle, a former top counterterrorism official at the CIA.

Speaking on the BBC's World At One, Crabb said: «If they want to take a position that is different from that of the official government line, then they should not be in the cabinet.

«We intend to meet with officials in Washington to understand their position and reiterate our commitment to bring the Dakota Access Pipeline into operation,» Warren added.

As The New York Times points out, this puts the Russian governement in an unusual position, as the messaging app has been known to be used by Russian government officials, including President Vladimir Putin's press office.

«Once you've highlighted an issue and brought it to people's attention and shined a spotlight, and elected officials or people who are in a position to start bringing about change are ready to sit down with you,» Obama said, «then you can't just keep on yelling at them.»

Positioning in the currency markets saw the pound slip in early trade on Wednesday morning before finding its feet and trading mostly flat against the U.S. dollar in the run - up to the official triggering of Article 50 — which kickstarted the negotiations between the U.K. and Brussels shortly before 12:30 p.m. London time.

White House lawyers and other officials studied the option of overriding the ban but did not develop a strong legal position or an effective political sales pitch in an election year, a source familiar with the discussions said.

But Peskov said the Kremlin's position, as in the past, is that it categorically rules out that any Russian official could have been involved in hacking related to the 2016 U.S. presidential election.

How they can do it: The Steelers already have the best skill position duo in the football in Le'Veon Bell and Antonio Brown, and would have beaten the Patriots in the regular season if not for a controversial call from the officials.

Stronger manufacturing activity data from the U.S. Thursday, in the form of the Philadelphia Federal Reserve's regional business survey, allowed investors to add long positions in the greenback, which has fallen more than 1.4 % this week in the wake of President Donald Trump's decision to fire his FBI Director, James Comey, and revelations that his campaign team may have had extensive contacts with Russian officials - despite his repeated denials - in the run up to last year's elections.

The EU's position is «close to the US», according to a senior official, although the Europeans insist this should be handled in accordance with World Trade Organisation rules.

That's how an economic development official in Tucson, Ariz., the governor of Delaware and the mayor of Detroit, respectively, are vying for position in a crowded race to attract Amazon's second headquarters in what one site selection consultant describes as a «once in a generation opportunity.»

We participate in the policymaking process by informing public officials about our positions on issues significant to our customers and our business.

On the basis of the above facts, GEI acknowledged in its settlement agreement that the consulting agreements, even those pursuant to which no amounts were actually paid, violated the anti-bribery provision of the CFPOA, as they constituted agreements to provide, directly or indirectly, a benefit to a foreign public official so as to induce the official to use his position to influence decisions of a foreign state for which he performs duties and functions.

The views and opinions expressed in this article are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the official policy or position of IBM.

Prior to joining BlackRock, she was a senior official at the International Monetary Fund (IMF), where she worked for 15 years in a range of positions related to economic analysis, policy making and global governance.

Although Nokia officials have denounced reports of bankruptcy, if they have another bad quarter their long - term position in the market could be even more questionable.

Given that prior position, A.T.F. officials had indicated privately in the months after the Las Vegas massacre that any ban of bump stocks would require new legislation.

The primer goes on to say that «it is not intended to describe the official policy or position of the CFTC, or to limit the CFTC's current or future positions or actions,» and, indeed, «the CFTC does not endorse the use or effectiveness of any of the financial products» listed in the document.

While the Wildrose Party «s new role as Official Opposition will mean additional staff and research funding, a party position was made vacant following the election of Shayne Saskiw in Lac La Biche - St.

Now it appears that the prickly America First advocate who played a crucial role in driving Cohn to quit could, in fact, be taking his old position: Trump administration officials are reportedly considering White House trade adviser Peter Navarro as one of the leading candidates to head the National Economic Council (NEC).

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«So, number one, the positions I hold on these issues is the Second Amendment, I've held since the day I entered office in the city of West Miami as an elected official,» Rubio responded.

«Elected officials who are Latter - day Saints make their own decisions and may not necessarily be in agreement with one another or even with a publicly stated church position,» the policy explains.

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What Lasch described in 1972 as «the familiar materials of popular discontent, quietly persisting through three decades of «affluence,»» are once again on the rise: «distrust of officials and official pronouncements; cynicism about the good faith of those in positions of great power; resentment of the rich; a conviction that most things in life are «fixed.

Although Obama could, theoretically, dodge either of these votes, he is largely expected to weigh in with his official position.

It is not without interest that such dissenters are frequently most enthusiastic about the Church taking official positions on innumerable issues in political dispute.

Christian honesty and Christian humility would prompt the question: «If I really were in that official's position, what would I risk doing?»

In the East, in the Byzantine realms, where the power and tradition of the Roman state survived in a continuous succession from the C ~ sars, the Church, true to the traditional position of the official religion of the Empire, was kept subordinate and ancillary to the statIn the East, in the Byzantine realms, where the power and tradition of the Roman state survived in a continuous succession from the C ~ sars, the Church, true to the traditional position of the official religion of the Empire, was kept subordinate and ancillary to the statin the Byzantine realms, where the power and tradition of the Roman state survived in a continuous succession from the C ~ sars, the Church, true to the traditional position of the official religion of the Empire, was kept subordinate and ancillary to the statin a continuous succession from the C ~ sars, the Church, true to the traditional position of the official religion of the Empire, was kept subordinate and ancillary to the state.

The Ofqual requirement to teach Catholicism in the context of the beliefs and practices of other Christian denominations further undermines the presentation of Catholic teaching in the official course books, especially when other denominations concur with secular society against the Catholic position.

While other scholars» have noted that women had been» active in ministry since the founding of the church, Blumhofer's analysis reveals that the official position was at best ambiguous.

If by the power of God's grace we are in a position to accept ourselves as pilgrims, as mortal men seeking their way with difficulty through the darkness, as failing again and again and yet bound in duty to an earthly task; if the Church effects that acceptance by celebrating the death of the Lord, and makes us men of prayer who are really conscious of the future judgment of God, if the Church sends its children strengthened with God's grace out into their own maturity which burdens them but sets them free, then the Church by its official ministry has done what it alone can and must do.

Since the church teaching office appears determined to maintain its present positions, and even to discipline some of the theologians who propose other views, those interested in changing the church's official positions must first deal with the ecclesiological question.

It is for this reason that teachers and other school officials who actively oppose the principles of free democracy as expressed in the Constitution (especially the Bill of Rights) should be excluded from positions in education.

Formal dialogue, in which authorized representatives of faith communities present their official positions, has never attracted me.

The argument against this modern position, which is often taught in even Catholic colleges to the students of theology, consists first in the stark coherence of St. John, and the spare, intense build - up to a confrontation with the official Jewish mind, or even the expectation of the people themselves, which could never have been the natural development of the mind of any orthodox Jew.

Caucuses are ways in which groups who find the official positions of the church wrong or inadequate can organize to give voice and influence to their views.