Sentences with phrase «new narrower definition»

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Her latest book, Teach Your Children Well, also a New York Times bestseller, tackles our current narrow definition of success — how it unnecessarily stresses academically talented kids and marginalizes many more whose talents and interests are less amenable to measurement.

NEW YORK (AP)-- The second trial for New York's former assembly speaker is likely to be a repeat of a 2015 trial but with language that will conform to a U.S. Supreme Court ruling narrowing the definition of corruptiNEW YORK (AP)-- The second trial for New York's former assembly speaker is likely to be a repeat of a 2015 trial but with language that will conform to a U.S. Supreme Court ruling narrowing the definition of corruptiNew York's former assembly speaker is likely to be a repeat of a 2015 trial but with language that will conform to a U.S. Supreme Court ruling narrowing the definition of corruption.

The Second Circuit Court of Appeals on Thursday threw out the 2015 conviction of former New York State Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver on honest services fraud because the charge to the jury did not comport with the Supreme Court's 2016 decision in the case of former Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell, which narrowed the definition of an «official act.»

The case, now being deliberated by a jury, is one of the first major public corruption trials in New York since a landmark 2016 Supreme Court ruling significantly narrowed the definition of what actually constitutes public corruption.

Prosecutors in New York said they were hopeful that their evidence would stand up under the narrower definition of official action, which the Supreme Court defined as a decision or action on a «question, matter, cause, suit, proceeding or controversy» involving «a formal exercise of governmental power.»

Both are facing new charges after their convictions on fraud and corruption were overturned last year based on a narrowed definition of theft of honest services.

Silver's attorney, Steven Molo, relied on the McDonnell case — which drastically narrowed the definition of corruption — when arguments began before a three - judge panel of the Second Circuit Court of Appeals in Manhattan on Thursday, the New York Times reported.

Another bill passed unanimously in both houses would narrow the definition of a safety - net hospital and instruct the state health commissioner to raise reimbursement rates for hospitals that meet the new criteria.

She released a new TV ad today that continues her ongoing effort to link Martins with disgraced former Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos, who lost his job in a federal corruption scandal — though his conviction was recently overturned, thanks to a U.S. Supreme Court decision that significantly narrowed the definition of an «official act» in connection with public corruption.

Democrats are in favor of leniency and they want a more narrow definition of violent crime, so that youth do not go to prison for throwing rocks in windows, per The New York Times.

The legislation, which passed unanimously and now heads to Gov. Andrew Cuomo's desk, would narrow the definition of a safety - net hospital and instruct the state health commissioner to raise reimbursement rates for hospitals that meet the new criteria.

A federal appeals court on Thursday overturned the 2015 corruption conviction of Sheldon Silver, once the powerful speaker of the New York State Assembly, saying the judge's jury instructions were in error in light of a United States Supreme Court decision that has since narrowed the legal definition of corruption.

NEW YORK (AP)-- The corruption conviction of former Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver was overturned Thursday by a federal appeals court that cited a recent Supreme Court ruling that narrowed the definition of what it takes to convict a public official.

A seminal report from the National Research Council (NRC) published in 2005, called Bridges to Independence: Fostering the Independence of New Investigators in Biomedical Research, suggests that the traditional definition of an independent researcher — as an individual, usually in a tenure - track position, who has received his or her first RO1 research project grant (or equivalent) as a principal investigator — is too narrow.

Jack Geiger, professor of community medicine at the City University of New York, calls the report «timid» for taking too narrow a definition of the harm done by the experiments.

The new law narrows the definition of archeological projects eligible for funding, requiring them to be «related to transportation projects,» and broadens the eligibility of environmental projects.

It's not like there's a very narrow definition of Tekken that the team follows, they're actually quite open to new ideas.

As we look to expand into new product lines and into new jurisdictions, I actually find that law firms can provide a lot of value outside of the narrowest definition of a law firm.

The newest types of resume parsing systems can also determine not only the skills you performed but when and how often you performed them, plus they can infer based upon meaning of words and concepts instead of relying on a narrow definition.