Sentences with phrase «local government officials because»

The bill, under which the VLTs would have been operated by the Catskill Regional Off - Track Betting Corp., was opposed at the time by Ulster County leaders and other local government officials because they feared it could damage the county's chances of securing a casino license.

Not exact matches

Local government officials have approached his organization, because they worry whether their next development project will be the target of public protests, Ma said.

He said, «We condemn this act in its entirety because we think that the APC - led state and local government officials should have put the interest of the people beyond and above any other consideration.

Term limits, which are common at the state and local government level, also often impose de facto age limits, because most very elderly elected officials mandated to be so old by being re-elected many times after being first elected at a much younger age.

Because there are upper - age limits for government officials in many U.S. state and local governments.

It says officials in Whitehall are advising local authorities not to fund «fake charities» because they campaign to influence government policy.

The registration data were not affected because officials had forwarded those that had been concluded to the national headquarters in Abuja, while the ongoing collations were being backed up or shared with registration points at local government level.

But there is persistent concern about the quality of some of the construction and this is because, local officials sometimes take bribes and allow construction companies to build things below standard and so we have a situation in the Sichuan province where the earthquake occurred, where schools were collapsing and collapsed at a much greater rate than other government buildings and the suspicion is of course that local officials have taken bribes and allowed the schools to be built this way.

«The reason is because some local government officials are investing in those small coal mining companies,» he said, adding that the collusion of the local government and small coal miners thwarts Beijing's efforts to shut down the low - tech coal companies whose operations often harm the environment.

Democrats can make such claims because they have nothing against the federal government in theory, however much state and local school officials have been complaining about NCLB in practice.

The licensing by government (at federal, state and local levels) for large - scale breeding kennels has created a systemic problem where other officials assume a kennel is in compliance or treating animals properly because the business was given a «stamp of approval» from a designated state or federal authority.

That's about the most the city can do, though, because state law prevents local governments from passing gun control ordinances, lest officials face firing and heavy fines.

The agent said she could only get the junk listings because sellers had to get a permit to list from the local government and all the decent properties were snagged by relatives of the government official.