Sentences with phrase «influenced by contributions»

When The Post raised the issue earlier this week, Shafran insisted «the governor's decisions are not influenced by contributions, as testimony in the trials showed.»

Hein, questioned by the Freeman, insisted that he was not influenced by contributions in any event and that said contributions had nothing to do with county policy.

Influenced by the contribution of modern science, there is a reluctance to advocate a literalist translation of the world.

The contribution of the psychological experts has been enormous here, and any sound statement of the meaning of human life, like any implementation of that meaning in personal existence and in social relationships, must be influenced by this contribution.

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Governments have made efforts to improve accountability by requiring lobbyists to register their activity and making campaign contributions public, predicated on the idea that transparency will reduce the risk of undue influence.

According to Trevor Potter, a former chairman of the Federal Election Commission who also appeared on 60 Minutes, the money may very well constitute «a coordinated, illegal, «in - kind» contribution by Cohen for the purpose of influencing the election.»

«Any payment by a person such as Cohen on behalf of or in consultation with a candidate to influence an election is an in - kind «contribution'to the candidate under campaign finance law subject to a $ 2,700 limit and disclosure requirements,» he said.

Any payment by a person such as Cohen on behalf of or in consultation with a candidate to influence an election is an in - kind «contribution» to the candidate under campaign finance law subject to a $ 2,700 limit and disclosure requirements.

The major contribution of interpersonal psychology to a comprehensive philosophy of human nature is that what a person becomes is decisively influenced by his relationships with other persons — chiefly those in his family in the first few years of life.

And so, although we are not aware of being significantly influenced by Schaeffer, it is easy to agree with the Rutherford folk that his contribution was, and is, enormous.

Despite its influence in the discipline, The Sacred Canopy has been superseded by many contributions to the sociology of religion in more recent years.

When our contribution is united with and influenced by Jesus» contribution, that judgment is already positive and remains only a question of degree.

Harris says he's trying to «have our cake and eat it» by marrying the benefits of small church («intimate, relationally strong, your contribution matters») with big church («finances, staffing, influence»).

By undercutting the moral basis of representativeness in religious programming on television, the paid - time religious broadcasters have removed one of the major contributions that religious groups could have made in influencing television in America: that of acting as agents in challenging the television industry to act within its moral responsibility as a utility for genuine social communication.

In memory of Julie, an award was set up by the Baby Feeding Law Group to be given to Health Visitors and Health Visitor Teams who showed the qualities Julie called for in that they have made a significant contribution to the protection of breastfeeding and who facilitate universal access to support that is independent of commercial influence.

The contribution of bacteria through vaginal delivery followed by exclusive breastfeeding promotes specific microbial profiles that facilitate optimal nutrient metabolism and early systemic immune training.23 The potential short - and long - term effects of perturbations of the gut microbiome of infancy, as influenced by operative delivery or formula feeding, are beginning to be examined.

In other words, there is one collective human civilisation which is an accumulation of contributions from a series of distinct but intertwined geo - cultural domains, themselves influenced by different sub-cultures.

Companies routinely circumvent New York's campaign contribution limits by giving through multiple LLC entities, which has degraded the integrity of our elections and given certain interests outsized influence in both chambers of the legislature.

«We urge the Elections Committee to pass Senator Squadron's legislation, and the full Senate and Assembly to pass this critical reform that would improve our campaign finance and ethics laws by reducing the influence of big contributions on the decisions made by our elected officials.»

If there is anything recent events have taught us, it's that we need to limit the outsized influence of wealthy corporate donors, who have been able to influence lawmakers by making virtually unlimited campaign contributions to candidates — often without even disclosing their identities.

The criticism Teachout was making was not over direct contributions like the checks cut by the Soros family to her campaign, but the influence of big money flowing to super PACs.

«The process was tainted due to the influence of campaign contributions given to New York State Governor Andrew Cuomo,» according to the civil lawsuit filed by LI Clean Tech.

In addition, Schneiderman wants to limit the influence of large donors on campaigns by enacting public campaign financing and limiting contributions.

In real terms, these rules which exist in virtually every jurisdiction, include laws and regulations which forbid the unauthorized use of state resources for political purposes, contributions from dubious sources, violation of campaign funding limits as prescribed by enabling laws, the use of money to influence voters and election outcomes, non-disclosure of campaign spending, abuse of media, broadcasting and political advertising rules, and rules on declaration of assets, academic qualifications, health and other disclosures and internal party guidelines and rules.

But any effort to fix the system would be complicated by loopholes that permit wealthy individuals and moneyed interests to exert outsize influence, including through 527 groups, which can accept unlimited contributions.

Gibson has countered Eldridge's accusations of being under the influence of corporate money, especially in regards to his positions on energy, by pointing to his challengers» own investments in oil and gas companies and his acceptance of individual contributions from wealthy corporate executives.

The bill passed by the Senate includes anti-nepotism provisions, today: · Prohibits gifts from lobbyists and their clients of more than nominal value, including travel, lodging and other expenses, and broaden the types of lobbying activities that lobbyists must disclose; · Prohibits elected government officials and candidates for elected local, state or federal office from appearing in taxpayer - funded advertisements; · Closes the «revolving door» loophole by prohibiting former legislative employees from directly lobbying the Legislature for two years, and expands the revolving door restrictions for Executive Chamber employees to preclude appearances before any state agency; · Prohibits non-legislative employees from using their authority or influence to «compel or induce» any other employee to make political contributions; · Prohibits state employees from participating in any personnel decision or contracting matter concerning a relative.

However, as the atmospheric CO2 rises — due to the almost exponential increase in emissions from industrial sources — the influence of solar variability on the Earth's climate will most likely decrease, and its relative contribution will be far surpassed by «greenhouse» gases.

As Savolainen points out, the Madagascan culture is mainly influenced by Africa and, except for the language, few clear contributions remain from the initial Indonesian culture.»

But furthermore — and this is perhaps Darwin's greatest contribution — he developed a set of new principles that influence the thinking of every person: the living world, through evolution, can be explained without recourse to supernaturalism; essentialism or typology is invalid, and we must adopt population thinking, in which all individuals are unique (vital for education and the refutation of racism); natural selection, applied to social groups, is indeed sufficient to account for the origin and maintenance of altruistic ethical systems; cosmic teleology, an intrinsic process leading life automatically to ever greater perfection, is fallacious, with all seemingly teleological phenomena explicable by purely material processes; and determinism is thus repudiated, which places our fate squarely in our own evolved hands.

Sponsored by Genentech, this award is granted by the Protein Society in recognition of exceptional contributions in protein science which profoundly influence our understanding of biology.

In 2004, the National Research Council of Canada created its highest honour, the Herzberg Medal, to bestow upon a scientist whose research contributions are characterized by both excellence and influence.

A major contribution came from a group of investigators working in Vienna, including Stumpf and Wolfgang Petsche, who established the critical role of the medial septum in controlling hippocampal electrical activity, and worked out some of the pathways by which it exerts its influence.

The hunt for genes is complicated by not knowing the contribution of environmental factors that influence biology and behavior.

The 2011 Florida Legislature and Governor Rick Scott tied the future of nearly 200,000 professional educators to high - stakes standardized test scores, dramatically diminished their professional influence over classroom curriculum and cut their pay by 3 % calling it a «contribution» to the Florida Retirement System.

In 2017 she was awarded her second year as MVP by Microsoft for her International contributions to Education influence and was one of 20 educators selected to represent at the Learn What's Next event in New York.

«We're inspired by their contribution to influence the publishing industry.

We're inspired by their contribution to influence the publishing industry and knew it was time to recognize these individuals and organizations for their achievements,» says Robin Cutler, Director of IngramSpark.

The Roth IRA contribution limits for the years 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006 and 2007 were greatly influenced by the Economic Growth and Tax Relief Reconciliation Act of 2002, which advocated for the increase in these Roth IRA contribution limits.

Launched in 2014, the Art Icon award, supported by Swarovski, celebrates the work of an artist who has made a profound contribution to a particular medium, influencing their own and subsequent generations of artists.

Everywhere I turn I see work today that was influenced by Lyrical Abstraction and still they keep it covered up, ignore it, deny its contribution, deny its existence.

The Outstanding Contribution to Photography Award is given each year by the Sony World Photography Awards in recognition of a photographer's significant influence on the photographic industry.

The result of a collaboration with an international group of artists, it will include a cooking show by Will Benedict, a nature show by Korakrit Arunanondchai, a video by Mckenzie Wark, a visual essay by Aria Dean, a talk show by Hannah Black, a docu - short on «seasteading» in Tahiti by Daniel Keller, a report on «reparation hardware» by Ilana Harris Babou, a cartoon by Amalia Ulman, a docu - short on «economic utopias» by Christopher Kulendran Thomas, a Nollywood fictional drama exploring the influence of technology and digital culture in South Africa by the artist collective CUSS Group, and a contribution by the Women's History Museum.

The program includes a variety of formats, including a cooking show by Will Benedict and Steffen Jørgensen; a show on human - animal relations in Africa and Thailand by Korakrit Arunanondchai; a «general intellects» video with McKenzie Wark; a visual essay by Aria Dean; a docu - short on «seasteading» in Tahiti by Daniel Keller and Jacob Hurwitz Goodman; a report on «reparation hardware» by Ilana Harris - Babou; a cartoon by Amalia Ulman; a docu - short on «economic utopias» by Christopher Kulendran Thomas; a fictional drama by the South African collective CUSS Group exploring the influence of technology and digital culture in South Africa; and a contribution by the Women's History Museum.

With contributions by an international team of distinguised scholars and curators, this publication offers a thorough examination of the artist's work, life, iconography, and influences.

An essay by Khristaan D. Villela describes Covarrubias» contribution to Pre-Columbian studies, with special reference to how his research was assimilated by other Modernists and influenced modern art exhibitions.

«Stein's great contribution to weaving is her unique combination of refined traditional weaving techniques, possible only on a drawloom and used by few contemporary weavers, with modernist sensibilities influenced by Josef Albers, who trained in the German Bauhaus with its emphasis on simplicity, order, functionality, and modesty.»

Contributions include a concise and incisive overview of Borremans» practice; a revealing, in - depth interview between the main author of the book, Jeffrey Grove, and the artist, addressing process, influence and philosophical and critical issues; as well as more than 50 individual entries and mini-essays on individual works in the artist's oeuvre by notable writers, curators, filmmakers and musicians.

Moderated by Towey, this panel discussed each person's contributions to Black Mountain Songs as well as how their extensive research into Black Mountain College has influenced their own creative process.

This last decade, though we are slow to recognise it, has been remarkable for the contributions of several British abstract artists, most of them originally influenced by the American Abstract Expressionists, but by now a law to themselves.