Sentences with phrase «most powerful officials»

By targeting the right people with the right information, our personal Facebook data can be used to sway elections of our most powerful officials.

Sheldon Silver is one of the three most powerful officials in state government, along with the governor and Senate majority leader.

The verdict capped a dramatic fall from grace for the 71 - year - old Silver, one of the state's most powerful officials during his 21 years in the Speaker's chair and nearly four decades in the Assembly.

But previous scandals and convictions have failed to dramatically change the state's political culture, and most of the state's most powerful officials — including Silver's successor as Assembly speaker, Carl Heastie, and Gov. Andrew Cuomo, who said earlier changes had prompted the case against Silver — aren't yet pressing for more reforms.

Silver, 73, the state's most powerful Democrat, was convicted in 2015 of accepting $ 4 million in kickbacks and bribes while speaker making him one of the three most powerful officials in Albany.

Silver enjoyed a reputation as one of the two most powerful officials in New York government and he was never reluctant to use his influence to punish detractors or anyone who asked too many questions.

He is called Ahok, and until a few weeks ago he was one of Indonesia's most powerful officials, the governor of Jakarta.

Yet some of the most powerful officials crafting Trump's economic policies have deep roots in the global, corporate realm.

Vestager, arguably the most powerful official in the EU due to her individual power to rule on competition cases across the 28 - nation bloc, makes no secret of her reliance on others at times to provide the evidence that can justify her inquiries.

As the most powerful official in the state by far, he can apply significant pressure on the IDC to partner with Democrats or dissolve altogether.

The 2018 Formula 1 season is about to kick off and this year the Mercedes - AMG GT R will be the most powerful Official FIA...

We saw it under the bonnet of Ford's wild «King Cobra» Mustang concept at last November's SEMA aftermarket show in Las Vegas and now motoring.com.au can confirm the most powerful official supercharger kit ever offered by the Blue Oval will be available for Ford's new Mustang in Australia.

Not exact matches

Described by observers as the most powerful Chinese official in decades, Xi last year was recognized as only the fourth person to earn the designation of «core» leader.

One of the most powerful aspects of the hyper - active and serendipitous environment at 1871 are the hundreds of planned, programmed and accidental interactions, intersections and connections that are constantly taking place between the 1,600 + members, mentors, sponsors, investors, partners, educators, government officials and just plain - old visitors and guests who spend time here at the fast - beating heart of Chicago's technology ecosystem.

According to one of Murdoch's chief lieutenants of his China project, Bruce Dover, who wrote a hilarious book, Rupert Murdoch's China Adventures: How the World's Most Powerful Media Mogul Lost a Fortune and Found a Wife, Murdoch spared no effort to win the goodwill of senior Chinese officials.

Europe is preparing to find successors for many of its most powerful economic officials, including the influential head of the European Central Bank.

Or that Indian officials pointed out that Modi hadn't gone for Chinese President Xi Jinping, the world's most powerful person.

It was an ignominious end; Dix was then B.C.'s most powerful non-elected official.

The Future Investment Initiative (FII) by the Public Investment Fund of Saudi Arabia (PIF) is a pioneering global investment event connecting the world's most powerful investors, business leaders, thought leaders and public officials with the pathbreaking innovations defining the future.

I think the most powerful arguments against unrestricted legal abortion are made by Feminists for Life, which organized in 1972 when the National Organization for Women would not reconsider its official position on abortion.

Silver, the ex-Assembly speaker and formerly one of the most powerful elected officials in New York, was convicted in November of fraud and extortion charges.

Mel Miller, 78, was once one of Albany's most powerful elected officials — a member of the storied «three men in a room» who made all the state's big decisions behind closed doors.

In her first major appearance since Wednesday's vote crowning her the second - most - powerful elected official in the city, the progressive firebrand told Mr. Sharpton's National Action Network in Harlem that this year's election victories signaled a sea change in New York that the mainstream media resisted.

He's one of the most powerful individuals in the city right now, but Mayor Bloomberg is looking to expand his influence when he leaves office, saying that whatever constrictions he has as an elected official will be removed when 2014 rolls around.

The news is significant, not only as it temporarily exonerates Silver — once one of the state's most powerful elected officials — though he can be retried, and the acting U.S. attorney has indicated he will, in fact, seek to take another legal crack at the former Manhattan Democratic lawmaker.

Now, the conference again has near - unilateral power to replace Schneiderman, whose alleged abuse of women was exposed in an explosive report published in The New Yorker in which four women alleged that the state's most powerful law enforcement official had slapped, choked and spit on them.

Our city has long struggled on the federal terrain — urban issues just aren't sexy to Republican congressmen from the Ozarks — but with Mr. Schumer as one of the most powerful elected officials in the country, we're bound to do a little bit better.

He became immersed in the political life of New York's sleepy capital city, acting more like a small - state governor than one of the most powerful elected officials in the nation.

The father and son are accused of using Dean Skelos» influence as one of the three most powerful elected officials in the state — alongside the Assembly speaker and governor — to pressure companies into giving Adam jobs for which he either wasn't qualified or just didn't do.

ALBANY — Former Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, once among the state's most powerful elected officials, had his federal conviction on corruption charges vacated by an appellate court on Thursday.

Indeed, she notes that it was in October that year [right before the November elections] that the country's second most powerful military official arrived in Washington, and in full military uniform presented a letter of invitation to Clinton.

The WFP's labor wing wanted to back the governor because he was the overwhelming favorite and they needed to stay on good terms with the state's most powerful, and nakedly vindictive, elected official.

After his boss's election in 2010, David joined the administration as its principal adviser on civil rights; after Cuomo's second win, in 2014, David ascended to his current official posting as Cuomo's chief in - house lawyer — arguably the third most powerful position in Albany.

Democrat strategists — as well as the party's most powerful elected official — hope they've read their last story about a divided party.

In another indication that the world's most powerful politician has few qualms about battling local public officials, Trump again has sued the Palm Beach County Property Appraiser over the valuation of his Trump National Golf Club.

The names are mostly unknown to the almost 20 million residents in New York who will have no say over who one of the most powerful elected officials in the state will be.

The mayor still lacks the official support of two of the city's most powerful players — SEIU 1199, which counts 200,000 members, and the smaller, but politically powerful, Hotel Trades Council.

The woman told Channel 4 News she was forced to run back to her room on the night of the dinner as the then most powerful party official followed her after she left the table.

Councilmember Mark - Viverito's election made her the first Puerto Rican and first Hispanic to hold city - wide office, and made her, arguably, the second most powerful elected official in the city, behind only Mayor Bill de Blasio.

New York's most powerful Republican official, Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan, and his hometown Suffolk GOP chairman John Jay LaValle, whose county will have the most votes at the party's nominating convention, disagree on who should be the next governor.

Mr. Heastie becomes one of the three most powerful elected officials in the state at a particularly precarious time.

Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie has been the most powerful Bronx official since he wrested control of the county's Democrats in 2008, but he hasn't had much of a chance to shape its delegation in the Senate.

Health industry officials in the Capitol have long whispered about Sachs» work on behalf of some of the most powerful players in the health care industry, including NYU Langone Medical Center, Mount Sinai Medical Center, Maimonides Medical Center, Montefiore Medical Center, Brooklyn Hospital Center and Strong Memorial Hospital in Rochester.

ALBANY — Former Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, once among the state's most powerful elected officials, has had his conviction on corruption charges overturned by an appellate court.

The most powerful opponents of the energy highway are protest groups and local elected officials from communities all along some of the earlier proposed routes.

Milano said he also would like to see term limits for elected officials in Congress, calling politicians «the most powerful executives in our country.»

Dean Skelos became New York state's most powerful Republican official when he was elected in January as majority leader.

And the business leaders, organizing as the Committee to Save New York, have found a surprising ally: one of the most powerful union officials in the state.

Corey Johnson was officially elected NYC Council Speaker on Wednesday, making him the second most powerful elected official in New York after Mayor Bill De Blasio.

She had the backing of the Queens County Democratic Party organization, the most powerful of the city's political machines, which put her in the speaker's chair back in early 2006; and more than 50 elected officials as well as a host of celebrities and activists.