Sentences with phrase «into state awards»

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May's government also faced questions from the opposition Labour Party about why it awarded the company 1.3 billion pounds of state contracts after Carillion fell into financial difficulty in July last year.

SmarteRita, the new great - tasting, award - winning ready to drink low calorie margarita has expanded distribution beyond the launch state of Texas into 3 new states, Illinois, Minnesota and Colorado.

The three - time James Beard Award semi-finalist, Tiffany, moved to NYC at age 18 from her native state, Hawaii, to pursue a career in acting before diving into the world of pastry, climbing the ranks of kitchens from CRU to Allen & Delancy before relocating to the nation's capital.

Michigan State quarterback Connor Cook will take some individual hardware into the College Football Playoff: the Johnny Unitas Golden Arm Award.

Applications are separated into seven classes, with five classes based on population, one class for armed forces recreation and one class for state park systems awarded on odd numbered years.

The DuSable Museum of African - American History has been awarded a $ 10 million state grant that will allow it to expand into a nearby Park District maintenance barn.

Finger Lakes Gaming and Raceway filed a lawsuit arguing that the state casino location board hadn't taken into account how the license awarded to the Lago casino project in Seneca County would affect existing gambling venues.

NIAGARA FALLS, NY - On May 12, 2015, Governor Andrew Cuomo announced that the adaptive reuse of the former South Junior High School in Niagara Falls (561 Portage Road) into a 61 - unit mixed - income affordable housing development is moving forward with a $ 6.4 million award from New York State Housing and Community Renewal.

At the same time, the award of honours for service to the monarch evolved into service to the state (although the senior orders of chivalry remain the exclusive preserve of the monarch).

The State Department of Transportation wants to start awarding construction contracts late this year to turn the Scajaquada Expressway into Scajaquada Boulevard.

The investigations into the state's contracting also identified allegations of a «pay - to - play» system in which government contracts were allegedly awarded to big campaign donors.

How can we expect a president who admits to accepting a $ 100,000 gift from a foreign contractor who was awarded a government contract through the efforts of the President, to have the courage and desire to stop his Ministers and other officials from dipping their hands into the state coffers?»

From the President who has refused to act on investigative reports submitted to him on grievous allegations of diverting over a billion naira meant for resettlement of Internal Displaced Persons (IDPs) by the Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Babachir Lawal under the Presidential Initiative for the North East (PINE) and the miraculous discovery of 13billion naira in an apartment at Ikoyi, Lagos under the supervision of the Director of the Nigerian Intelligence Agency (NIA), Ayodele Oke, to the Head of Service of the Federation, Oyo - Ita Winifred Ekanem, who connived with others to reinstate into active duty and promote Abdulrasheed Maina, the former Chairman of the Pension Reform Task Team, who allegedly stole over 6billion naira pension fund; the Chief of Staff to President Buhari now renamed the «Thief of Staff», Abba Kyari, who allegedly received a bribe of 500million naira to negotiate a fine reduction for MTN Nigeria, and has continuously been in the heart of every sharp practices in the Presidency; the Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Dr. Ibe Kachikwu who allegedly received a kickback of 3.8 billion naira in exchange for marginal oilfield using his brother, Dumebi Kachikwu as front; the Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami, who was the brain behind the reinstatement of Abdulrasheed Maina; the Chief of Army Staff, General Tukur Buratai who during his time as the Director of Procurement at the Army Headquarters allegedly diverted funds meant to equip the Military into buying choice properties worth millions of dollar in Dubai; the Minister for Solid Minerals, Dr. Kayode Fayemi who allegedly embezled State Universal Education Board (SUBEB) funds as the Governor of Ekiti State; the Minister for Interior, Abdulrahman Bello Dambazau who was indicted by a Presidential investigative committee probing Arm procurement for awarding ghost contracts worth $ 930,500,690 with others while as the Chief of Army Staff between 2008 - 2010 and one of the brains behind the reinstatement of Abdulrasheed Maina; the Minister of Transportation, Rotimi Amaechi alleged to have stolent 142billion naira as the Governor of Rivers State.

To fulfill the state's commitment to an LED manufacturing firm that is building a factory in suburban Syracuse, the Cuomo administration is tapping into a $ 500 million award the region secured last year as part of the Upstate Revitalization Initiative.

When the bill comes into effect, all the electoral votes from those states would be awarded to the presidential candidate who receives the most popular votes in all 50 states (and DC).

It is only in the context of de Blasio's and Cuomo's dogfight that New Yorkers can truly understand Emmy award - winning actress Cynthia Nixon's entrance into the New York State Democratic gubernatorial primary.

Having said that, and in light of the investigation into the awarding of contracts at the Solar City facility in Buffalo, we hope that New York State and relevant agencies do everything in their power to provide a transparent bidding process,» said Joshua Reap, a government affairs director for the group.

ALBANY — State officials have been formally banned from speaking with Todd Howe, a lobbyist at the center of a federal criminal probe into how SUNY Polytechnic Institute awarded several development contracts.

A state assemblywoman's desire to use Academy Award - winning movie «Spotlight» to boost her fight to help child sexual abuse victims has run into a roadblock — her own chamber's leadership.

Among the gold medals awarded to Bill de Blasio on Thursday was one for limbo - dancing his way past election laws so he and his allies could funnel money into 2014 state legislative campaigns at a rate 10 times the supposed limit.

More than a dozen funding streams from various state agencies were consolidated into one process under one application, repackaged into a single, efficient process that culminates in an annual ceremony where Cuomo handed out the awards.

Bonnie Hunt, an award - winning actress from «Rain Main,» «The Green Mile» and Jerry Macguire is playing Inspector General Catherine Leahy Scott, whose investigation into the break resulted in reforms to the state prison system.

My file is filled with many award letters since fate brought me into my current assignment as an aide to a state's chief executive officer and I recall on one occasion I demanded to know how did I qualify for a particular award I was nominated for.

The state law — which went into effect in June 2011 — allows officials to leave out certain costs from the cap: a portion of the pension costs, capital expenditures and court awards from personal liability cases.

Delaney notes that even after the government awards a visa, there is no guarantee that the person who receives it can cross the border into the United States.

The awards program, created in 2005, analyzes companies from across the state then enters qualifying candidates into a two - part process to determine the final rankings.

Despite being up for the Academy Award, Farhadi, who was previously nominated in 2012 for A Separation, has said he will not be attending the ceremony in protest at President Trump's executive order preventing people from various majority muslim countries from travelling into the States.

Her Swarna Kamal citation states that the jury recommended her for the award for «highlighting facets of cinema beyond glamour and gossip by delving deeper into the contemporary relevance of iconic filmmakers».

Among the many bodies that give out awards during gong season in the States, the National Board of Review is possibly the most mysterious, rising out of the waves of film coverage like a leviathan, handing out its honours, then disappearing back into the depths.

Just as in Scott's 2000 Academy Award winner, the film jumps right into the action with a battle between the ruling state and some barbaric rebels.

Our schools in the United States operate primarily as meritocracies: Grades are earned, students are tracked into achievement groups, and awards and rewards are provided for those who perform satisfactorily.

As new state - created entities charged with running and turning around the state's worst schools, these districts are awarded certain authority and flexibility — such as the ability to turn schools into charters and to bypass collective bargaining agreements — that allow them to cut the red tape that has made so many schools dysfunctional in the first place.

Maynard Awards offering 100 % fee remission into our Sixth Form are offered to talented students from local state schools.

In response to a reporter's question on Jan. 19, he spoke directly to the situation in New York state, where Gov. David Paterson, a Democrat, is building a $ 750 million Race to the Top award into his fiscal 2011 budget proposal.

Our award - winning school programs are designed around state curriculum requirements and are easily integrated into music, art, social studies, English, foreign language, math, and PE curricula.

Funding that isn't released will go back into the state's SIG program and awarded to other schools, he said.

Speaking of awards, congrats to Lillian Mongeau for being a Livingston Award finalist for her deep dive into the state of US preschools.

Scholarship Name: Teacher Loan - For - Service Provider: The State of New Mexico Amount: Up to $ 4,000 Info and Availability: To receive this award you must be: — A New Mexico resident - Accepted into Teaching program or an alternative licensure teacher preparation program at a public college or university - Enrolled at least half - time - An undergraduate or graduate - Able to demonstrate financial need Contact Info: New Mexico Higher Education Department Attn: Financial Aid Division 2048 Galisteo Street Santa Fe, NM 87505 - 2100 More information

Based on the success of the first Phalen Leadership Academy, Phalen was awarded an Innovation School Fellowship from The Mind Trust, through which he took leadership of one of IPS» persistently low - performing schools and partnered with the district and The Mind Trust to transform the school into the state's first Innovation Network School.

Governor Baker could ask his state board to award a portion of the Title II funds to a group linked to the MIT Open CourseWare project for the explicit purpose of creating math and science lessons for grades 11 and 12 (unlinked to any set of standards) for Massachusetts high school math and science teachers to use to improve their students» chances of getting into and succeeding at good engineering schools.

's most recent post, about the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation's $ 45 million worth of bogus Measures of Effective Teaching (MET) studies that were recently honored with a 2013 Bunkum (i.e., meaningless, irrelevant, junk) Award by the National Education Policy Center (NEPC), it seems that the Bill & Melinda Gates foundation are, once - again, «strong - arming states [and in this case a large city district] into adoption of policies tying teacher evaluation to measures of students» growth.»

Editor's Choice Award Winner, 21st Annual San Diego State University Writers» Conference Spring Into Romance Contest Finalist, Romance Writers of America — San Diego Chapter Santa Fe Writer's Project Finalist, Literary Awards Program

PEEK: «a citation awarded to an American publisher for a children's book considered to be the most outstanding of those books originally published in a foreign language in a foreign country, and subsequently translated into English and published in the United States.»

He has been vested into the Order of St. George of the U.S. Armor Association, and the Order of St. Andrew of the U.S. Army Aviation Association, and been awarded Honorary Doctoral degrees by Norwich University, the nation's first and oldest private military college, and by Troy State University (Ala.).

The Batchelder Award is given to an American publisher for a children's book considered to be the most outstanding of those books originally published in a foreign language in a foreign country, and subsequently translated into English and published in the United States.

The Mildred L. Batchelder Award is an annual citation awarded to an American publisher for a children's book considered to be the most outstanding of those books originally published in a foreign language in a foreign country, and subsequently translated into English and published in the United States.

As the biography at his site states, David's books have been translated into several languages, made into animated films and musicals, and have won many prestigious illustration awards, including the 1998 Caldecott Honor for The Gardener written by his wife, Sarah Stewart, and the 2001 Caldecott Medal for So, You Want To Be President?

Mildred L. Batchelder Award The Mildred L. Batchelder Award is presented to a publisher for the most outstanding book originally published in a country other than the United States in a language other than English and subsequently translated into English for publication in the U.S..

If your family falls into a certain income level, you will be awarded money by either the state or federal government to help pay your schooling.

But it appeared to this young judge that the withholding of awards was a negative action and not a positive one, and that withholding did not fall into my earlier - stated positive position on judging.