Sentences with phrase «leader under arrest»

Three months after the Assembly dealt with its biggest leadership crisis in two decades, the upper chamber in Albany is suddenly facing a similar problem: A leader under arrest, a challenge for the ruling party, and the lack of an obvious successor after Dean G. Skelos, the Republican majority leader, was arrested on Monday, along with his son, Adam, on corruption and fraud charges in Manhattan.

Not exact matches

Fresh concerns are being raised over the welfare of Eritrea's Tewahdo Orthodox Church leader, who has been living effectively under house arrest for more than ten years.

As one example, a man named Jacques Gruet was arrested and, under torture, confessed to writing an anonymous letter in opposition to the church leaders.

There are grave concerns for the wellbeing of an elderly Orthodox Church leader in Eritrea held under house arrest for ten years.

Aung San Suu Kyi was elected as leader in 1990, however the military didn't like that and put her under house arrest for 21 years.

His reputation as a moderniser was criticised by those who remember how, as Minister, he failed to oppose the death penalty of Julián Grimau (a communist leader accused of crimes during the civil war), as well as his failure to publicly decry the murder of Enrique Ruano, a student killed whilst under arrest (and the subsequent publication of Ruano's private diaries to portrait him as someone with mental problems).

Under the weight of his May 2015 arrest and chaos that followed, Skelos decided to step down as GOP leader days after he was charged.

Lawmakers — as well as Cuomo — had been under pressure to approve some form of ethics and anti-corruption legislation in Albany after a parade of corruption arrests that engulfed the Capitol in recent years, including the convictions of the two former state legislative leaders last year, Dean Skelos and Sheldon Silver.

I expressed my views in this regard on WhatsApp last weekend, «Any country in which its elites consider re-electing a president like Buhari just as thousands of citizens are murdered across the country with not a single person arrested; a president who can not make an intelligent conversation on any policy or global issue with other global leaders; a president whose EFCC and DSS engage in open confrontation; a regime which crippled the economy and relies on cyclical movements in oil prices as its sole economic lever; a regime under which 10 million jobs are lost; and key accusations against top officials are treated with levity; just as the regime appears complicit in the invasion of its senate by thugs and seizure of mace... such a country is in serious trouble, that is if it isn't doomed.

Secondary jobs held by state legislators have come under increased scrutiny in recent years after the arrests of former Senate majority leader Joe Bruno, former Assembly speaker Sheldon Silver, Senator Carl Kruger and Assemblyman Anthony Seminerio on charges related to their outside income.

The Forum for Democratic Change (FDC) party leader had been under heavy police guard since he was placed under house arrest on Saturday, shortly before the election results were announced.

An FBI sweep catches mob leaders, and while they are under arrest and their criminal enterprise is jeopardized, the mob wives take over.

The leaders of Pakistan's Bar are under arrest, including the current and former presidents of the Supreme Court Bar Association.

Arrests were made under these laws and many Aboriginal leaders languished in prisons further escalating the impact on the wider community.

Venezuela placed the opposition leader Leopoldo López under house arrest, hoping to keep him quiet.

With the country in crisis, its most vocal opposition leader, Leopoldo López, is under house arrest, unable to act.