Sentences with phrase «less authority for»

«One major problem today is that principals are being held more and more accountable, but given less and less authority for accomplishing the task,» says Burns.

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Joseph Lhota, the former chairman of New York's Metropolitan Transit Authority (MTA)-- he resigned just a few days ago in preparation for a mayoral bid — jumped into action after the storm and got the subways running again within less than three days.

When accountants get a reputation for inept audits or less - than - pristine standards, state and federal tax authorities may focus their attention on all of the firm's clients.

The proposed rule would also apply to governmental jurisdictions or transit authorities that provide commuter rail service — none of which is small for purposes of the SBA (i.e., no entity serves a locality with a population less Start Printed Page 38437than 50,000).

Federal laws now grant the IRS the authority to agree to settle your debt for less than the actual amount you owe, even if it's a significant amount.

Notwithstanding the authority of the committee under the Plan, except in connection with any corporate transaction involving Walmart, the terms of outstanding plan awards may not be amended to reduce the exercise price of outstanding stock options or stock appreciation rights or cancel outstanding stock options or stock appreciation rights in exchange for cash, other plan awards or stock options or stock appreciation rights with an exercise price that is less than the exercise price of the original stock options or stock appreciation rights without the prior approval of Walmart stockholders.

I used this process for my new gaming site project (link) and scored some high authority followers in less than a week of deployment and with less than an hour of work.

Throughout the book, «laity involvement» means a desire for less episcopal authority, a diminution of the sacramental priesthood, and a conviction that the special place accorded to Latin in the liturgy and in the universal Church is a threat to «the Spirit of Vatican II.»

The CLC released a statement last Friday, before the Solicitors Regulation Authority was made aware of the critcism but after some initial concern regarding their involvement: «The Christian Legal Centre... has only been assisting Mr Evans and Ms James for less than a month.

This would not end disagreements about homosexuality and the nature of Biblical authority, but it might provide a context in which these disagreements could be less threatening and Methodists might be more willing to make room for differences.

Charlemagne's successors were less powerful and as they became unable to hold overbearing archbishops in check, bishops appealed to the Pope for support and this increased papal authority.

As Dan has told me on many occasions, for him, it is far less insulting to be under the authority of a woman than it is to be subjected to the suggestion that his fragile ego can not handle it.

Butler shows how in the early national period, as the line of distinction between religion and the civil authorities («separation of church and state») developed and the citizenry relied ever less on the government for things spiritual or ecclesiastical, church life prospered.

With less than three weeks until the Pope's arrival, Chilean authorities said they were working with the Roman Catholic Church to prepare for an onslaught of tourists at the peak of the austral summer, a traditional time for vacationing in both countries.

There were many others less lucky, such as the great Sufi mystic al - Hallaj, who was executed for blasphemy after running through the streets of Basra shouting «ana» l - haqq»» literally, «I am the truth»» the statement having been interpreted by the authorities, probably correctly, as meaning «I am God.»

But is it less bizarre for these lawyers to suppose that «the people» in 1787 «transferred all of their governing power» over their own children to these artificial authorities?

I might be ecelectic, but what makes me consistent is my belief is something that combines the belief of Scripture with that of Englightenment philosophy: nurturing life is goodness, simply, and helping others to see a model that thinking for ourselves can help heal the world of all past injustices - so that we all learn to WANT to be good... within reason and by our own choice...: you have a society like that, you'll have less injustices, less violence, less money - grubbing by people who hold themselves as representatives of «authority» -(which side are you on, by the way, if you see the world as so divided in such a bipolar reality...?)

When Richard Neuhaus left Lutheranism for Rome, I suggested — in print no less — it was largely a quest for authority, and I predicted few of his Lutheran colleagues would follow.

The questions we must address are therefore three: Is it ever permissible for public authority to give the wrongdoer less than he deserves?

No lesser a Christian than Martin Luther understood our predicament: Anyone, he wrote in ìOn Temporal Authority, î who tried ìto rule the world by the gospel and to abolish all temporal law and the sword on the plea that all are baptized and Christian, and that, according to the gospel, there shall be among them no law or sword» or the need for either»... would be loosing the ropes and chains of the savage wild beasts and letting them bite and mangle everyone, meanwhile insisting that they were harmless, tame, and gentle creatures; but I would have the proof in my wounds.î I do not believe that Hauerwas sees America's enemies as harmless, tame, and gentle creatures.

Six hundred thousand people were arrested in this country last year for possessing or selling marijuana, a drug most authorities regard as less harmful

Young people tend to think out religious and moral questions for themselves, with less reliance on churchly authority.

Six hundred thousand people were arrested in this country last year for possessing or selling marijuana, a drug most authorities regard as less harmful - than alcohol.

The Fascist regime itself, whatever its negative features, probably contributed to that «passive revolution» in another of the senses in which Gramsci used the term, in which important social changes can go on even under reactionary and repressive regimes — the gradual erosion of particularistic and traditional authority structures and the development of more egalitarian social forms — though it may be in the nature of the less effective Italian Fascist regime to have served more as a guardian for such structures and less as a corrosive to them than in the more efficient fascist regimes in Germany and Japan.

He doesn't pursue dark magic; he isn't contemptuous of authority figures, even if he feels misunderstood by or is impatient with them; he is not consumed with the lust for power, far less with the ultimate goal of that path — rendering oneself immortal without reference to God.

Where however the preaching of the gospel is reverently heard and the sacraments are not neglected, there for the time being no deceitful or ambiguous form of the church is seen; and no one is permitted to spurn its authority, flout its warnings, resist its counsels, or make light of its chastisements — much less to desert it and break its unity.

«A family, no less than a State, is, as We have said, a true society, governed by an authority peculiar to itself... provided, therefore, the limits which are prescribed by the very purposes for which it exists be not transgressed, the family has at least equal rights with the State in the choice and pursuit of the things needful to its preservation and its just liberty.

I also guarantee, with no less authority, your sinuses will be cleared for the rest of the year!

We have not seen the best from Nasri yet but if he wants to stamp his authority on the LM berth, he has less than 3 games in which to do it, otherwise it will be a brutal fight for that spot.

Thus, corporal punishment in a high crime neighborhood as part of a controlling parenting style is more likely to be part of the parents» efforts to assure their children's safety, and less a part of the parents» need for control and authority.

The Department for Education is planning for a distribution of high needs funding to local authorities that is more formulaic, and less reliant on past levels of allocation that have become outdated, and on local decisions on spending that have partly determined how much is allocated.

It aided the Arab Spring, has been a constant thorn in the side of the Chinese authorities, has given Vladimir Putin and Mahmoud Ahmadinejad slight cause for concern, and it helped to organise the less - constructive London riots.

A study by the World Bank this year shows that less than 5 % of adults in Yemen have an account at a formal financial institution, which shows how difficult it would be for any monitoring and oversight authority to trace political finance within Yemen.

In the United States, this system of Government is called a Jeffersonian Democracy, which favors a weak centralized government (without writing tons, a Jeffersonian believes the Local Government should have more control over an individual by law as they are easier for the individual to fight) and as the scope of authority rises in a federal system, the government deals less and less with the individual and more and more with lower governments.

«By doing that, it's actually less expensive than what Mayor Bloomberg wants to do,» said Lhota, who stepped down as chairman of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority to run for mayor.

The US authorities initially claimed he was an «enemy combatant» in the global war on terror and for years our government more or less accepted this.

Citing «decades of dysfunction and waste» by the state, the mayor called on Albany lawmakers Tuesday to cede control of juvenile justice services to local authorities, arguing that they can do a better job for less.

Commissioning contracts for local services at the local authority level tends to be only two or three years long, with the vast majority being far less.

On Aug. 18, both men released a joint letter calling for lesser toll hikes, while also knocking the authority for not keeping its financials in order.

The lobbying association for New York's newspapers is urging lawmakers to reject parts of Cuomo's proposed $ 152 billion state budget, contending the package would make some state contracts less transparent and would give the administration «virtually unconstrained authority» over public works projects.

As noted last week, the State Liquor Authority rejected Eastwood's application for a full bar, ruling that the business is too close (less than 200 feet) from a church and a synagogue.

During her press conference outside PS 13, Ms. Malliotakis unveiled her Albany reform agenda, including: Requiring a two - thirds legislative majority to pass new taxes and fees; capping the rise in spending at the rate of inflation or 2 percent, whichever is less; requiring legislators to disclose outside sources of income; requiring public authorities like the MTA to undergo an independent financial audit, and calling for a constitutional convention to address items that have bedeviled the state recently, such as appointing a lieutenant governor and breaking a Senate tie.

Bloomberg is calling on Albany lawmakers to cede control of the system to local authorities, arguing the city can do a significantly better job for less.

These plants account for about half of LIPA's total tax bill, and the Authority anticipates it will use those plants less and less.

Developing land owned by the New York City Housing Authority has the potential to generate much - needed revenue for the public housing agency while simultaneously creating more affordable housing, but those benefits drop off abruptly in less affluent neighborhoods, according to a report released today by NYU's Furman Center.

Less than two weeks after the New York State Liquor Authority revoked the liquor license for Vineyard 48, the Cutchogue winery is back open for business while it appeals the ruling in state court.

On transit, he said the next mayor must start a public conversation about how to improve the current funding scheme for the cash - strapped Metropolitan Transportation Authority, which he ran for a little less than a year before stepping down to campaign for mayor.

«Further we believe that even if the [School Construction Authority] were to adhere to its stated construction schedule and the verbally proposed September 1 move - in dates — less than a week before schools open — it would preclude the schools from setting up operations in time for the 2015 - 2016 school year,» CEC 3's letter stated.

It's about respect for the people, their development.We go to school so we can give back to society one day and help the less privileged and not prove to them how intelligent and superior we are when we are in a position of authority.»

Veronica Vanterpool, a transportation authority board member picked by the mayor, said Mr. Cuomo spent time on superficial things, like adding lights on bridges, instead of critical but less sexy fixes like upgrading antiquated signals that are to blame for many delays.