Sentences with phrase «influenced by the investigation»

Her early work was influenced by the investigation into the limits of the language.

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Flynn was the first member of the Trump administration to plead guilty to a crime uncovered by the special counsel Robert Mueller's ongoing, wide - ranging investigation into Russian attempts to influence the 2016 US presidential election and whether any Trump campaign aides colluded with Moscow.

Thursday's sanctions target Russians indicted last month as part of the special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation into Russia's election meddling on charges of conspiracy to interfere in the election by waging a social - media influence operation to sow discord and sway public opinion in the US in favor of Trump.

AggregateIQ is also under investigation by privacy commissioners in Ottawa, B.C. and the United Kingdom for its alleged role in the controversy that has engulfed Cambridge Analytica, which has been accused of improperly using private Facebook information from millions of users to influence voters and give the «Leave» side a win in the U.K.'s 2016 Brexit referendum.

A Privacy International investigation in December 2017 accused Harris Media of influencing the Kenyan presidential election in favour of the incumbent, Uhuru Kenyatta, by creating online video content discrediting his challenger, opposition leader Raila Odinga.

Trump either decides not to fire Rosenstein or is somehow stopped from doing so; the Mueller investigation continues unhampered, and the FBI remains relatively untainted by political influence.

Comey told ABC News's George Stephanopoulos in an interview with 20/20 to be aired Sunday evening that his decision to publicly announce the FBI had reopened its investigation into Clinton's emails just days before the election was likely influenced by the fact that he thought she would win.

Missions helped to preserve languages that were threatened by a rising linguafranca, extended the influence of the vernacular through careful methodical and systematic investigations in the field, and helped to establish connections within the wider family of languages.

«Reports that District Attorney Cyrus Vance could have been improperly influenced by Mr. Weinstein and / or his representatives, and that senior officials within the DA's office may have sought to intimidate Battilana are particularly disturbing and merit investigation,» the letter says.

The investigation by JCOPE, according to the panel, began after lobbyists or clients of lobbyists who were seeking to influence New York City officials, donated to the Campaign for One New York at the request of either de Blasio himself or Ross Offinger, the mayor's top fundraiser and treasurer of the group.

A federal investigation into corruption in Suffolk County law enforcement has expanded, as the Justice Department examines at least a half - dozen cases to determine whether political considerations influenced decisions made by the local district attorney's office.

House Republicans are investigating whether Schneiderman's investigation into the energy company and its claims of impacting the climate was influenced by environmental groups.

«There can be no question that a full ethics investigation into this improper exertion of state legislative influence by Senator Libous is required, either by virtue of this complaint or on the Commission's own initiative, in order to hold the state senator fully accountable to the standards of ethical conduct and public integrity state law requires of all members of the legislature.»

When he was state attorney general, Cuomo's investigation of the connection between political influence and investment decisions by then - Comptroller Alan Hevesi led to Paladin being ordered to reduce the fees it was charging to the pension fund.

The case against the Manganos and Venditto is the latest to go to trial following federal investigations into influence - peddling by officials.

Brian Paddick, a former deputy assistant commissioner at Scotland Yard who is also taking the police to court, suggested that his former colleagues» decision to cut short their original investigation may have been influenced by their links with the News of the World.

The next month, an investigation by acting DA Madeline Singas concluded Nassau's contracting process is a «recipe for corruption» because it's not insulated «from improper influence, manipulation, collusion and fraud.»

A federal investigation into corruption in Suffolk County, N.Y., law enforcement has expanded, as the Justice Department examines at least a half - dozen cases to determine whether political considerations influenced decisions made by the Suffolk district attorney's office, according to two people in law enforcement and three who have been questioned by the Justice Department.

«With ongoing federal investigations into potential ethics violations by several state lawmakers, this report highlights that there are many legal channels through which special interests exert their influence in Sacramento,» Kathay Feng, executive director of CA Common Cause, said in a press release.

The indictment stems from a long - running investigation by U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara into whether Libous used his influence to obtain a job for his son, Matthew with a Westchester - based law firm.

«Reports that District Attorney Cyrus Vance could have been improperly influenced by Mr. Weinstein and / or his representatives, and that senior officials within the DA's office may have sought to intimidate Battilana are particularly disturbing and merit investigation,» Time's Up wrote in a letter to Cuomo, published in New York magazine's The Cut.

«By a 57 - 38 percent margin, voters believe the Attorney General's investigation will be fair and impartial, as opposed to being unduly influenced by politics,» says Siena pollster Steven GreenberBy a 57 - 38 percent margin, voters believe the Attorney General's investigation will be fair and impartial, as opposed to being unduly influenced by politics,» says Siena pollster Steven Greenberby politics,» says Siena pollster Steven Greenberg.

«Although our study's results may in part be explained by joint injuries associated with high - level physical activity in those with a lower 2D: 4D and the greater susceptibility of knee OA in response to injury than hip OA, they may also reflect hormonal influences on the growth of bone, cartilage, and soft tissue, which warrants further investigation.»

These investigations also gave the researchers greater insights into how the size of adhesive footpads is influenced and constrained by the animals» evolutionary history.

«We believe our study has the potential to open a complete new field of investigation in modern neuroscience by demonstrating that even the simplest functions of the motor cortex, such as creating body movements, are heavily influenced by the type of social relationships among the animals participating,» said senior author Miguel Nicolelis, M.D., Ph.D..

The report also delves into existing literature that traces how subjective judgments by latent fingerprint examiners can influence their findings, particularly when they are exposed in advance of their analysis to information about an underlying criminal investigation or shown an existing fingerprint of a suspect.

Jansson is also leading an investigation funded by the Office of Naval Research on how the gut microbiome influences the brain.

«Reductionism by definition seeks to eliminate all «confounding» factors: any variables that might influence the outcome in addition to the main substance under investigation.

There's the ongoing special - counsel investigation into whether the Trump campaign aided a Russian campaign to aid Trump's candidacy and defeat his Democratic rival, Hillary Clinton; there's the associated inquiry into whether the president obstructed justice when he fired former FBI Director James Comey, whom he had asked not to investigate his former national - security adviser; there are the president's hush - money payments to women with whom he allegedly had extramarital affairs, made through his personal attorney, Michael Cohen, and facilitated by corporate cash paid to influence the White House; there is his ongoing effort to interfere with the Russia inquiry and politicize federal law enforcement; there are the foreign governments that seem to be utilizing the president's properties as vehicles for influencing administration policy; there's the emerging evidence that Trump campaign officials sought aid not only from Russia, but from other foreign countries, which may have affected Trump's foreign policy; there are the ongoing revelations of the president's Cabinet officials» misusing taxpayer funds; there is the accumulating evidence that administration decisions are made at the behest of private industry, in particular those in which Republican donors have significant interests.

by Walter Chaw The newest generation of young Gallic filmmakers is involved in reinvigorating many of the thriller's forms: the hybrid, HK - influenced actioner (Brotherhood of the Wolf); the Cronenbergian investigation of parasitic identification (A Matter of Taste); and the Hitchcockian psychosexual wrong - man intrigue (Mortal Transfer).

• Early Egyptian religion has had a profound impact / Influence on future civilizations Procedure: 1) You will be placed in a group by your instructor 2) you will travel to a station and begin your investigation (15 minutes at each station) 3) In your group you will discuss how religion has affected Egypt Socially, Politically, or economically 4) On your graphic organizer you will provide a theme for your reasoning (single idea / though / word / s) 5) On your graphic organizer you will cite specific evidence from the sources 6) On your graphic organizer you will discuss how you can connect that information to a historical event / time or a personal connection 7) On your graphic organizer you will write down some of your thought / your inner monologue (thoughts / opinions / questions / ideas) you had when you were reading 8) You will move onto the next station Focus Question: How did Egyptian Religion affect its civilization / culture as well as future civilizations?

A study by Bliss et al. (1995) found that the particular subject matter influenced the role of teacher leaders in providing leadership to teams of teachers, in an investigation of department chairs.

But two investigations by exam board OCR also influenced the Department for Education's decision after it upheld two accusations of exam malpractice in a single subject.

Jackie and Main Street Clothes lent by Vintage Martini and photographs and ephemera explore the influence of Jacqueline Kennedy on fashion retail during the early 1960s, joined by ephemera, mug shots, fingerprints, and documentation of crime scene locations from the Dallas Police Department investigation into the JFK assassination.

Tender Game is influenced by the artist's previous investigation into American car subculture, photographing the interiors of rides customized with counterfeit fashion design.

This inquiry stands at the core of the work of Canadian artist Kapwani Kiwanga whose practice interweaves a research - based investigation influenced by her earlier training in social sciences, with a more subjective and fictional observation of culture.

Strongly inflected by her longstanding involvement with philosophy and yoga, her pioneering investigations into the political, social, psychological, and spiritual potential of Conceptual art have had an incalculable influence on artists working today.

Highly influenced by phenomenological philosopher, Maurice Merleau - Ponty; Nesbit harnesses philosophical investigations of human perception to address issues within image making in an effort to not only exist as an object, or momentous glance, but as an invitation for a suspended visceral exchange.

Strongly inflected by her longstanding involvement with philosophy and yoga, her pioneering investigations into the political, social, psychological and spiritual potential of conceptual art have had an incalculable influence on artists working today.

The exhibition presents works by fourteen artists of European and American provenance over several generations who operate in terms of both form and contents between a conceptual reception of painting and an investigation of influences from the mass media.

While it appears that artist Mandla Reuter is influenced by this conceptually critical approach to art making and those artists associated with Institutional Critique, he reengages its spirit, fusing it with related and unrelated investigations, to occupy his own, unique position in the questioning of space and display, unearthing new questions in turn.

This investigation of spatial politics is influenced by her formal training in architecture and experiences of radical spaces through squatting and organising.

Influenced by the gonzo journalism of Hunter S. Thompson and the psychedelic investigations of Timothy Leary, Steffens's photographs offer a refreshingly cool, ground - level perspective on the counterculture of the 1960s and 70s.

Or do you see yourself as someone more influenced by Manet doing a twenty - first century interpretation of those investigations

Once things have settled, I suppose that because such an investigation can be provoked, scientist will be much more careful not to give way to biased research, and that again could happen to be of great relief to ordinary people who might have their life negatively influenced because of bad science adopted by policymakers as the «truth».

Dr. Shukla was one of twenty scientists who wrote a letter to President Obama, Attorney General Loretta Lynch, and White House science advisor John Holdren last month, endorsing a call by Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D - RI) for an investigation under the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO) of «corporations and other organizations that have knowingly deceived the American people about the risks of climate change, as a means to forestall America's response to climate change.»

One additional tool — recently proposed by Senator Sheldon Whitehouse — is a RICO (Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act) investigation of corporations and other organizations that have knowingly deceived the American people about the risks of climate change, as a means to forestall America's response to climate change.

CMD has been honored by the Milwaukee Press Club for one of its investigations into shadowy front groups influencing elections.

In 2015, IGES, with Shukla as its president, fell under congressional investigation for violating non-profit law with «partisan political activity» by «requesting a RICO («racketeering influenced and corrupt organization») investigation of companies and organizations that disagree with the Obama administration on climate change,» according to the House Science, Space and Technology committee.

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