Sentences with phrase «laws at their behest»

Prosecutors allege Kruger introduced legislation delaying the effective date of an expansion in the state's bottle return law at the behest of Lipsky and several beverage companies who employed him.

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Late last night, the Review - Journal reported that the purchase was «put together at the behest» of Adelson by his son - in - law Patrick Dumont, who serves as senior VP of finance and strategy at Adelson's Las Vegas Sands Corp. (LVS).

After a meeting called at the behest of President John Mahama, the Council advised the general public to be cautious, curious, and report any suspicious activities to law enforcement agencies.

In the recent blowup over the unverifiable allegation by a White House spokesman that GCHQ was spying on Trump before the election at the behest of the previous administration, the GCHQ issued a rare statement claiming that because of Five Eyes agreement (which dates to the 1970s) they do not participate in circumventing the laws of other participating nations.

Largely forgotten now is that just before all the drama, Democrats — during their brief period of total control — enacted a number of laws that the GOP had previously blocked at the business community's behest.

For centuries, our senior police constables have made operational decisions not at the behest of government and the political whims of the day, but based on their professional view of how best to uphold the law and keep the peace, dealing with everything from petty theft to major terrorist plots.

Yahoo has secretly scanned hundreds of millions of incoming emails at the behest of US intelligence or law enforcement, according to a report.

He went on to study law at California's Loyola Marymount college (at his father's behest) before attaining his first movie job as a University Studios prop man.

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.

At the behest of his best friends Frank (Ferrell), newly and unhappily married, and Beanie (Vaughn), a multimillionaire and family man chafing at the boredom of family life, the brokenhearted Mitch (Wilson) reluctantly agrees to turn his new bachelor pad into a frat house (some rigamarole about zoning laws prompts the switchover to Greek lifeAt the behest of his best friends Frank (Ferrell), newly and unhappily married, and Beanie (Vaughn), a multimillionaire and family man chafing at the boredom of family life, the brokenhearted Mitch (Wilson) reluctantly agrees to turn his new bachelor pad into a frat house (some rigamarole about zoning laws prompts the switchover to Greek lifeat the boredom of family life, the brokenhearted Mitch (Wilson) reluctantly agrees to turn his new bachelor pad into a frat house (some rigamarole about zoning laws prompts the switchover to Greek life).

Because state legislators, at the behest of the National Education Association's affiliate there, refused to pass a law back in February allowing the use of test score growth data in teacher evaluations.

Last month, a California court cited Brown v. Board as it struck down multiple state laws, passed at the behest of teachers» unions, which the court said unjustly protected incompetent teachers and unconscionably harmed children, especially the least fortunate.

The case is now moving to the supreme court at the behest of Wiley to amend this law.

A report published in the Netherlands in 2010 at the behest of the government eventually led to the abolition of the country's breed discriminatory law.

One of the likely implications of this phenomenon may turn out to be that if the HRA ceases to cast any such shadow — by virtue of being repealed at the behest of a future government — the common - law constitutional landscape that is left behind may be remarkably similar to the situation that has obtained during the era of the HRA.

Where the Government considers, most probably after consultation, that it is in the interest of businesses to amend UK regulatory law that was in place at the behest of EU law, that will only take place after the UK has legally left the EU.