Sentences with phrase «key officials of»

The Lagos State Government has appointed some key officials of the National Union of Road Transport Workers (NURTW) as ambassadors of the campaign against rape, domestic violence, child abuse, maltreatment and neglect in the State.

People had expected prompt prosecution and incarceration of offenders, to deter others, but what we witnessed was a situation where some key officials of this administration were involved in unwholesome acts, capable of tarnishing the image of government.

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The change is key as Fed officials consider 2 percent to be a healthy level of inflation and a key for continuing to push rates higher.

A key one is for officials or their allies to complain that a threat, hate speech or celebration of violence violates the company's terms of service, rather than any law.

Special Counsel Robert Mueller's investigation into whether President Donald Trump obstructed justice is said to be close to completion, but he may set it aside while he finishes other key parts of his probe, such as possible collusion and the hacking of Democrats, according to current and former U.S. officials.

It said some officials believed he decided not to come because he felt the arrangements for the visit were too low key, and would instead send Secretary of State Rex Tillerson to open the embassy.

An official familiar with the proposal said U.S. President Donald Trump's request for the Pentagon included more money for shipbuilding, military aircraft and establishing «a more robust presence in key international waterways and choke points» such as the Strait of Hormuz and the disputed South China Sea.

Trump agreed to exclude Canada and Mexico from the duties because of their status as key regional allies and partners with the U.S. in renegotiating a new North American Free Trade Agreement, said the official, who spoke on condition of anonymity.

But administration officials said that action on other key tax code elements would ensure the plan would largely help the middle class instead of the affluent.

U.S. officials on Monday banned American companies from selling to Chinese phone maker ZTE, hinting at further protectionist measures and stripping American chip leader Qualcomm of a key customer.

Ambassador Sergei Kislyak's accounts of two conversations with Sessions, then a U.S. senator and key foreign policy adviser to Republican candidate Donald Trump, were intercepted by U.S. intelligence agencies, the officials told the Post.

To government officials and consumer watchdogs alike, it's a sign that a key element of Washington's chief mechanism for overseeing Facebook — and many of its privacy - infringing tech industry peers — isn't sufficiently independent and may lack teeth.

In interviews in the days after Morneau's Oct. 24 economic statement, several key cabinet ministers and well - placed government officials all insisted the brakes haven't been applied to a string of ambitious and inherently risky policy unveilings, planned for the coming months and beyond.

Over the past several weeks, we have been meeting with senior officials of Finance, Industry Canada, PCO and CRA to explain the thinking behind the key messages in CATA's 2012 Budget Commentary.

It's important to understand that the USCI isn't a random concoction of data, but rather the gold standard for measuring current economic growth, as it summarizes the key coincident economic indicators used to determine the official start and end dates of U.S. recessions; namely, the broad measures of output, employment, income and sales.

Its key commitment of balancing the budget in 2015 - 16 is at risk, although Finance officials will be under pressure to come up with innovative ways to show a balanced budget for 2015 - 16.

As a result, bilateral ties between the two countries have become highly personalized with Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese President Xi Jinping directing government commissions, sitting officials, and heads of state corporations to develop financial and trade deals — most of which are large - scale, top - down investments of Chinese money into key sectors of the Russian economy.

I found Miles» post informative in explaining the key difference between the official Canadian and American measures of unemployment.

There was absolutely no interest in a significant assistance plan for Russia, nor did key officials on Russian policy have any knowledge of economics.

Harford County officials plan to postpone by a month a planned sale of bonds to finance two key public safety - related projects and other capital improvements.

President Donald Trump seemed to waver last week on a couple of key official economic positions.

The way forward is for Canadian and U.S. officials to work together on the key areas of perimeter security, expediting access at the border, regulatory cooperation and a collaborative approach on energy and the environment.

The key requirement remained controls over the use of jointly borrowed money, these officials said.

ATHENS, Greece (AP)-- Government officials in Greece signaled Saturday that implementation of a migration agreement between the European Union and Turkey could only occur gradually, with key details still to be worked out on how migrants newly arriving...

A cornerstone of Lakshman Achuthan's argument is that four key indicators used by the NBER to make official recession calls are, as he put it, «rolling over.»

«We are working with third parties to develop a list of key issues, which we will refine over time, reads the official blog post.

It's conspicuously vague on dates in several key places and overall tends to downplay or omit information that doesn't fit its desired narrative (that politically motivated FBI and DOJ officials supposedly abused the FISA process in the surveillance of Carter Page).

A key component of this includes developing industrial hemp supply chains, and apart of our mission in this is to educate communities and officials about the potential hemp has to prop our economy in an environmental and profitable way.

Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke's wife, Lolita, played a key role in arranging aspects of her husband's official events during the first few months of the administration, according to documents obtained by a Montana - based advocacy group under the Freedom of...

However, I do think this preemptive move has cost SNB some credibility, because bank officials said just recently that the currency cap was one of the key pillars of their system.

Tencent said advertising in the timeline of WeChat, its mobile news app and revenue from official accounts for brands inside WeChat, were the key drivers.

This capacity has been further enhanced by a change in operating procedures, which has seen public announcements of every change in the official cash rate — the key policy interest rate — since January 1990.

Harris» campaigns for the President landed at a time Kenya was experiencing widespread media suppression and intimidation, the brutal murder of a key electoral official, and tit - for - tat accusations of hate speech by Kenyatta's team and Odinga himself.

That is the key thing for us, but I'll add that they are right to suspect that economic individualism was (and is) a real creed for not a few Americans, even though that actual creed went beyond what its purported official spokespersons put forth (I think usually sincerely) in the name of natural rights and constitutional liberty.

Veteran analyst of the press (and former presidential press secretary), Bill Moyers, considering a classic moment of media failure, concluded: «The disgraceful press reaction to Colin Powell's presentation at the United Nations [on February 5, 2003] seems like something out of Monty Python, with one key British report cited by Powell being nothing more than a student's thesis, downloaded from the Web — with the student later threatening to charge U.S. officials with «plagiarism.»»

Many of the key contributors became high ranking officials in the subsequent Bush administration, including the vice president, secretary of defense, deputy secretary of state, under secreatary of state for global affairs, the president's chief of staff, the president of the World Bank and the US ambassador to Afghanistan, Iraq and to the UN (amongst others).

Readers of a certain age will remember some of the key sentences: «I believe in an America where no public official either requests or accepts instruction from the Pope, the National Council of Churches, or any other ecclesiastical source....

The «Common Chest» was an actual piece of well - made furniture, and with its prescribed number of locks whose keys were held by specified officials representing various strata of society, it was to become a veritable symbol of the social and economic changes as it was set up in town after town in the coming decades.

Additionally, in describing one of Saul's campaigns, the scribe who copied what became the official modern version inadvertantly skipped over a phrase to another phrase that started with the same words and left a key explanation out.

Upon its official launch in Monte Carlo, Monaco in 2014 during the prestigious, Formula One Grand Prix weekend at the exclusive Ermanno Palace Penthouse, this luxury vodka subsequently appeared at a multitude of A-list events in key regions around the world, including New York City, Barcelona, Paris, Sweden and London.

He said while official cross border e-commerce channels [CBEC] accounted for a small amount — about 5 to 10 per cent — of Blackmore's, a2's and Bellamy's sales into China, they were «key to long - term success».

Trending Story: US wine exports set record as California drought persists Exports of wine from the US jumped by 16 % last year, show official figures that offer a boost to California's winemakers facing their worst drought in memory... Today's News Direct to consumer market key for Oregon wine Oregon wineries, with their premium - priced Pinot noir, -LSB-...]

Wine Institute and CAWG developed the report to provide an understanding of the industry's contributions to the California and U.S. economies for use in public policy discussions with state and federal legislators and other key officials.

Industry leaders presented the results at a press event held at Fort Mason in San Francisco, attended by the media, government officials, members of the wine community from throughout the state and other key stakeholders.

From launching a data - mining drive aiming to find supply - chain pressure points to sending officials to mobilize allies in key U.S. states, Mexico and Canada are bolstering their defenses of a regional trade pact President Donald Trump vows to rewrite.

Key government, IRRI, and AfricaRice officials attended the inauguration of the regional office that was held on 30 October 2013, as part of the IRRI Board of Trustees meeting in Bujumbura, Burundi.

The purpose of the trip was to learn first - hand about the act of vandalism, and to hear the views of the key officials on site.

During the session key officials and policymakers for agriculture, environment and biosafety were appraised of the latest developments on Golden Rice.

As reported by Mundo Deportivo, club officials are in Brazil to try and secure a deal to sign Gremio midfielder Arthur, with key individuals in the hierarchy part of the travelling group to try and wrap up the transfer.

It is not always on the injury front either, but can be key moments in key games going their way, decisions of the officials or even something as unpredictable as the fixtures falling the right way.