Sentences with phrase «man in state government»

State Sen. Dean Skelos wasted no time «badgering» New York's largest political donor about getting his son a job, whining that his adult kid was «struggling and needed help» within weeks of becoming one of the three most powerful men in state government, jurors heard Thursday.
U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara and FBI officials charged that for more than a decade Silver, a lawyer, received kickbacks disguised as «attorney referral fees» through schemes that hinged on his power as one of the three most influential men in state government.

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The Small UAV Coalition echoed Johnson's concerns in a November letter to the FAA that said, «State and local governments have no authority to govern or regulate the operation of aircraft, both manned and unmanned, in the National Airspace System.»
«Russian state - sponsored actors are using compromised routers to conduct spoofing «man - in - the - middle» attacks to support espionage, extract intellectual property, maintain persistent access to victim networks and potentially lay a foundation for future offensive operations,» the British government said in a prepared statement.
Quebec's Liberal government adopted the requirement in 2011 that boards of state - owned enterprises include an equal number of women and men, thereby legislating «gender parity» for that group.
Between the Federal and State governments, 45 % of every dollar paid in dividends was given right back to the tax man.
In Saudi Arabia, there is no incentive for boys to work hard in school because the government will provide most men with jobs when they grow up, explains Madawi Al - Rasheed, the author of A Most Masculine State: Gender, Politics and Religion in Saudi Arabia and a visiting professor at the London School of EconomicIn Saudi Arabia, there is no incentive for boys to work hard in school because the government will provide most men with jobs when they grow up, explains Madawi Al - Rasheed, the author of A Most Masculine State: Gender, Politics and Religion in Saudi Arabia and a visiting professor at the London School of Economicin school because the government will provide most men with jobs when they grow up, explains Madawi Al - Rasheed, the author of A Most Masculine State: Gender, Politics and Religion in Saudi Arabia and a visiting professor at the London School of Economicin Saudi Arabia and a visiting professor at the London School of Economics.
Would a man who had the ear of the President of the United States and who was well known for his participation in shaping government policy and sitting in many government meetings with lots of insider information be allowed to continue investing, despite a volatile portfolio today?
On Monday, the Oklahoma government acknowledged the increasing danger of man - made earthquakes and said the state will take action to prepare for the quakes, which could do considerable damage since the state's building codes aren't as strict as those in states like California, where earthquakes have long been regular occurrences.
In this relationship between Church and state, the government fosters a marketplace of ideas where religious exploration and expression are open — where men and women of all faiths are able to reason together regarding how to flourish alongside one another.
The state (read: government), in turn, exists to enable that quest, protecting men and women as they exercise this human right.
So by stating that there must be a Christian presence in government you're kinda unconsciously outlining the mind controlling hypocrisy you're indoctrinated into, of early Byzantine cultists who subverted a good religion and plugged 2000 years of pagan rituals into a philosophy that was about love and created the most hypocritical, torturous, murderous, blasphemous, demonic and satanic era of human history, that would have made the devil himself, if he happens to be real, enthralled and delighted at the inhuman acts perpetrated by men who's skill lay only in great fornication and great defilements, that can only be possessed by those that truly revel in the pain and the blood of the innocent.
NCAA President Mark Emmert has announced a new commission to study how its handling of fouls called in men's basketball can help state governments determine the proper balance between religious freedom and civil rights: Continue Reading»
Neville i mentioned those people only because the discussion was talking about dominionism the combination of the church and state as a governing rule all those people were government leaders all of them suffered in there own way.Its was the suffering that prepared them for the roles that they were to play and there faith in God was what helped them get through.We are made stronger in our weakness no matter how important or unimportant we may appear to others.I guess it is easy to fall into the lie about political involvement that its hard to make change but some people have had a huge impact.Really it is God who deserves the praise he is the one that creats the opportunitys to make impact on the world as in our strength we can do nothing.In hebrews the great men and woman of faith there are those that seemed unimportant to the world and many suffered for there faith Our Lord knows everyone by name and every small act of faith we do he remembers because we do it out of our love for him that is what the christian walk is about living for Jesus and sharing that love with others.brentnz.
The United States of America have exhibited, perhaps, the first example of governments erected on the simple principles of nature; and if men are now sufficiently enlightened to disabuse themselves of artifice, imposture, hypocrisy, and superstition, they will consider this event as an era in their history.
That means abandoning one - size - fits - all attempts to address poverty and looking to the states, where a lot of the creativity in American government resides these days, for approaches that actually empower the poor, because they treat poor people as men and women with potential to be unleashed, not simply as clients to be maintained.
Also, the government of this nation was created by men who looked at their contemporary examples of religion - led states in Europe and realized that true freedom depended on keeping religion and government separate.
WHEREAS, the senate of the United States, devoutly recognizing the Supreme Authority and Just Government of Almighty God, in all the affairs of men and of nations, has by a resolution, required the President to designate and set apart a day for National prayer and humiliation:
Sometimes I am tempted to make up some such activities, to see what happens (like the man who answered «Principal purpose of visit» when asked on a US immigration form whether he was concerned in plots to overthrow the government of the United States).
Fox tells the story from beginning to end: childhood in the German - American parsonage; nine grades of school followed by three years in a denominational «college» that was not yet a college and three year's in Eden Seminary, with graduation at 21; a five - month pastorate due to his father's death; Yale Divinity School, where despite academic probation because he had no accredited degree, he earned the B.D. and M.A.; the Detroit pastorate (1915 - 1918) in which he encountered industrial America and the race problem; his growing reputation as lecturer and writer (especially for The Christian Century); the teaching career at Union Theological Seminary (1928 - 1960); marriage and family; the landmark books Moral Man and Immoral Society and The Nature and Destiny of Man; the founding of the Fellowship of Socialist Christians and its journal Radical Religion; the gradual move from Socialist to liberal Democratic politics, and from leader of the Fellowship of Reconciliation to critic of pacifism; the break with Charles Clayton Morrison's Christian Century and the inauguration of Christianity and Crisis; the founding of the Union for Democratic Action, then later of Americans for Democratic Action; participation in the ecumenical movement, especially the Oxford Conference and the Amsterdam Assembly; increasing friendship with government officials and service with George Kennan's policy - planning group in the State Department; the first stroke in 1952 and the subsequent struggles with ill health; retirement from Union in 1960, followed by short appointments at Harvard, at the Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions, and at Columbia's Institute of War and Peace Studies; intense suffering from ill health; and death in Stockbridge, Massachusetts, in 1971.
The government of Turkey has identified the man suspected to have gunned down 39 people at a nightclub on New Year's Eve in Istanbul, a state media reported on Wednesday.
At issue were comments O'Luck made on the Times» City Room blog in February 2009, in which he said that if government programs that benefit businesses owned by women and minorities weren't around «white men and the connected would have access to nearly 100 % of all city, state, and federal government dollars spent.»
«Today, I am asking you to help me oust disgraced Pedro Espada from the State Senate by investing in Gustavo Rivera, a wonderful man with the right resume of community work and government experience.
Senator Kirsten Gillibrand says that more women politicians on the state and local levels would lead to better government accountability, especially during a time when men are behaving badly in both New York City and Albany.
The trial detailed addendums such as meals and a fishing trip to curry favor with Percoco, a man who prosecutors sought to portray as an influencer in Cuomo's hierarchy both when he was in and out of state government.
Has anyone heard of the Graduates - in - Agriculture Scheme in several states of the federation, a self - driven, government - assisted programme by which our young men and women are stopping their endless wait for white - collar jobs and creating wealth for themselves and the nation?»
Leaders of prominent good government groups gathered at the state Capitol to decry not only the inability of Cuomo and legislative leaders to achieve ethics reform in the budget process, but also the lack of transparency in the ongoing three - men - in - a-room negotiations.
Making the disclosure on Wednesday at a press conference in office in Amawbia, near Awka, the state capital, the Commissioner stated that three policemen would man each of the 1,448 polling units in the seven local government area involved in the poll.
Five men with a combined 109 years of experience in the ways of state government, unable to do one of the few things they were elected to do: Pass a budget.
Government watch dog groups say the arrest of one of the two most powerful men in the New York legislature on fraud and corruption charges highlights the need for better state laws against wrong doing.
A 27 - man executive has emerged as the All Progressives Congress held a peaceful Local Government Congress in Warri South Local Government Area of Delta State.
The three men were Igwe Cyprian Madu Nevobasi, Igwe Omeluenyi of Aguneese, Ezeani 111 of Mmaku Kingdom, in Awgu Local Government Area of Enugu State, Chief Emmanuel Okeke, and Hon U.S.A Igwesi, a former member of the House of Representatives.
Furthermore, the rise in the state pension age to 66 explicitly contradicts the government's own programme in the coalition agreement, which promised not to begin to raise the qualifying age until at least 2016 for men and 2020 for women.
Details are still emerging, but allegations already flying around include claims that he was forced to resign by the New Patriotic Party government, as President Akufo - Addo aims to get a more trustworthy party man in place at the leading state news company.
The Governor, who was represented by the Secretary to the State Government, Mr Tunji Bello, said the leaders of markets in the State had been warned and counseled several times on the need to rein in on their market men and women to desist from disturbing others through their trading activities on the roads, but some had become adamant.
The Ekiti State police command has confirmed the death of one of its men in the fracas that occurred in Igbara Odo community in Ekiti South West Local Government Area of Ekiti State, on Friday, by youths of the town.
New York State Government is famous for its «three men in a room» way of doing business.
A 73 year - old man, identified as Mr Obidiah Nwanegbo Eliaku of Akuzor in idemili North local government area of Anambra State has been found dead in his farmland.
Preet Bharara, the U.S. Attorney, has been very critical of the way government is run in New York State, which is essentially these three men in a room.
A middle - aged man identified as Akinsowon Kehinde on Sunday slumped and died at a petrol station in Ondo town, Ondo West Local Government of Ondo State,...
«Distinguished gentlemen of the Press, it has become imperative for me to urgently issue this press statement to notify all men and women of good conscience on untoward activities of the current government in Lagos State that is hell - bent on persecuting my family for no reason besides that I insisted on the need to observe the rule of law
None of King Cuomo's numbers ever add up,... If he just quit pizzin» away billions on sellin» himself as President, there'll be plenty of money to pay what the State shoulda been payin» from the get go,... This is exactly like the thousands of State Mandates that county, «n local governments end up payin» for,... The Problem here is King Cuomo, «n the 3 men in a room budget process,... Put the budget out in the daylight,....
The rice sellers in Sango - Ota market in Ado Odo / Ota Local Government Area of Ogun State on Wednesday blocked the Ota - end of the Lagos - Abeokuta Expressway for over 12 hours to protest over what they called invasion of their shops by the men of the Nigeria Customs Service.
The presidential spokesman said Buhari condoled with Audu's family, the government and people of Kogi State as well as all «our party members, men and women who stood with Audu in his bid return as Governor.
Lachman, who recently appeared on «Capital Tonight» with his co-author, ex-Newsday reporter Rob Polner, also wrote a book condemning state government called «Three Men in a Room ``.
For instance, let's look at what happened in Osun state where the men of Nigeria Police reportedly foiled an armed robbery operation at Ikirun with the Armour Personnel Carrier provided by the State Government to the postate where the men of Nigeria Police reportedly foiled an armed robbery operation at Ikirun with the Armour Personnel Carrier provided by the State Government to the poState Government to the police.
The state government will hold a series of pay equity hearings beginning Monday in New York City, which will examine the causes and scope of the pay gap between men and women.
In opening arguments today, prosecutors called Joe Percoco Cuomo's «right - hand man,» while defense attorneys deemed the former top administration aide, a mere public servant with limited influence over state government.
Silver and Skelos comprised two of the so - called «three men in a room» who control state government.
«I believe that fiscal reform can restore public trust in state government and enhance the state's ability to act in the best interest of all New Yorkers,» DiNapoli said to the crowd seated in the Grand Ballroom of the Yale Club - mostly men in suits from places like the Building Trades Employers» Association, Cablevision, Nicholas & Lence Communications, and Brown and Weinraub PLLC, whose companies spent thousands of dollars for tables of ten to attend the breakfast event.
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