Sentences with phrase «number of government offices»

When a scheme to unite a number of government offices on the site of Somerset House in the Strand was projected, his position did not give him automatic authority over the construction; however when William Robinson, secretary to the board, who had been put in charge of the new building, died in 1775, Chambers became its architect.

The newly built, Swiss International Lenana hotel is an upscale hotel with 133 rooms and suites located on Ralph Bunche Road, which is known for its close proximity to the central business district, a number of government offices and embassies.

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A report last month from the U.S. Government Accountability Office found that between 2007 and 2011 the «number of overall defendants in patent infringement lawsuits increased by about 129 percent.»

Sopko wrote that historically, the number of districts controlled or influenced by the government has been falling since his office began reporting on it, while the number controlled or influenced by the insurgents has been rising — «a fact that should cause even more concern about its disappearance from public disclosure and discussion.»

Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D - Calif., chief sponsor of legislation that Democrats are pushing following Orlando, got numbers in March from the nonpartisan Government Accountability Office, an investigative arm of Congress.

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Well, although a number of states have stringent concealed carry laws, Illinois was the only state in the nation with such a sweeping ban, according to the U.S. Government Accountability Office.

The line represents the number of months between the general election that put the minority government into office, and the next, or subsequent, general election.

A number of top government officials have joined Goldman after leaving office.

However, rarely due they spend the total amount authorized, due to a number of reasons, as outlined by the Parliamentary Budget Office (Parliamentary Budget Officer 2015 «Why does the Government lapse money and why does it matter?).

The Parliamentary Budget Office (PBO) recently released its assessment of the federal government's Fall Economic Statement and offered a number of issues for consideration by parliamentarians.

From 2002 through 2013, the number of Americans whose Social Security benefits were offset to pay student loan debt increased five-fold from about 31,000 to 155,000, according to the U.S. Government Accountability Office.

1 A recent Government Accounting Office (GAO) report, Defense Force Management: DOD's Policy on Homosexuality, noted statistics regarding the number of homosexuals that have been discharged from the military.

The number of independent contractors in Australia has fallen in recent years — 1.11 million contractors in 2010 to 986,000 by 2013 — which the Abbott government has blamed on a «concerted attack» by the Tax Office and the Fair Work building and construction taskforce under the previous Labor government to push people into more union - friendly arrangements.

Similarly the creation of the Office of Security and Counter Terrorism increases its strategic capacity and provides support across a number of government departments.

While it will have niche appeal at the outset, we should also expect the Government to continue the last Government's attempts to expand the number of Mayors» Offices of Data Analytics — currently being developed in London, for example.

And of course there is no point continuing to collect obsolete measures such as the number of candles required to light government offices.

The speaker warned that the alternative to a quota system, or an aggressive effort to encourage women to run for office, would be seeing the number of women in city government continue to shrink.

The office of member of the European parliament is also incompatible with a number of other functions, including being a member of a national government.

After spending exactly one month in office, Cuomo has made a number of agency appointments, but he has not yet replaced all the holdovers from the previous administration (s) in the upper echelons of state government.

Take it as read each of the candidates will campaign against the government's crazy police cuts which will see up to 16,000 officers, a similar number of back office roles and 1,800 PCSOs face the chop.

The New York state comptroller's office this week comes out with some numbers of great interest to local governments.

The proposed merger calls for the consolidation of government between the city and county, as well as the consolidation of a number of offices, such as the Syracuse Police Department and the Onondaga County Sheriff's Office.

A government where energy performance is measured by the power in our homes, offices and not by the increase in the number of plants with no crude or gas to fuel.

Cuomo's office released a by - the - numbers breakdown of the impact of the American Health Care Act would have on New York, such as a $ 4.7 billion shift in Medicaid costs to the state from county governments, a $ 355 million reduction in payments to hospitals and a $ 2.3 billion hit to Medicaid funding overall.

For example, an absolute threshold in the number of votes (e.g. requiring a certain proportion of the whole population or of registered voters to be elected rather than a plurality of the vote) can seem intuitively appealing but has never, to my knowledge, been implemented for a national election, precisely because leaving an important office unfilled is a problem (unless, of course, you subscribe to radical small - government ideas, in which case the question seems moot and you might just as well do away with elections or democracy itself).

The budget office also pointed to the benefits the revenue would have on property tax bills, along with school and local government aid — something of a long - form version (with numbers) of the referendum language voters will see in November.

The government has been blamed for the fall in the number of post office branches, and the implications this has for local communities.

With youth unemployment hitting a record high and the total number of people out of work the highest since the Tories were last in office, the Public and Commercial Services union says the government must take urgent action to reverse the damage it is doing to our economy.

On Sept. 22, eight people were charged by Bharara's office; a ninth, lobbyist Todd Howe, pleaded guilty on a number of federal charges and is cooperating with the government.

But the number that stunned good government advocate Susan Lerner, executive director of the group Common Cause New York, was the district office's astronomical rent.

On - topic questions included the timing of the effectiveness of the laws signed today and when ICE will close it's office on Rikers Island, how many people currently on Rikers Island will be covered by these laws, details of Carlos Rodriguez (who was held on Rikers Island for eight months on an ICE detainer) path to this country and his thoughts during his eight month detention, what Mayor de Blasio would like to see the federal government do about immigration and what he will do absent such action, what he would tell Republicans who think his approach is a dangerous precedent, de Blasio and Melissa Mark - Viverito's positions on municipal IDs and voting rights for non-citizens, the number of people arrested on misdemeanors and then subject to ICE detainers and whether persons arrested on felony charges must first go through the justice system before being subject to an ICE detainer.

A number of MPs, including government ministers, hire members of their family to work in their offices.

But these very high numbers for the end of the last government's term of office are why under the last government, we saw a worrying collapse in public confidence in our ability to control inward migration.

Mr. Kofi Osei - Ameyaw, Director - General and the Board of NLA constituted by President Akufo - Addo's Government have done so well within the few months in office to achieved a number of unprecedented reforms and great innovations at the NLA which honestly deserves commendations.

I am assuming based on the fact that the Trump Organization had so much trouble getting these trademarks through until the President had taken office and the large number was approved nearly simultaneously indicates foul play and an attempt to curry favor on the part of the Chinese government.

In the ruling of the court Suit Number HRC / 50/12 among the terms of settlements, point 6 said, the government of Ghana shall ensure that, it takes steps to commence the building of permanent principal offices of the Binduri District Assembly at Binduri in compliance with L.I 2146».

Ahmed arrived at the anti-graft agency's office around 9.48 am with four other officials of the medical centre in a convoy of three vehicles with Federal Government number plates belonging to the centre.

Jimino, a Republican in office since 2001, is highlighting a number of cost - saving initiatives and a focus on continued economic growth to spread those costs of government over a wider base.

If you take these little in - town districts off the table, the actual number of local governments falls to around 4,200, according to the office of the state comptroller.

Many, especially the opposition National Democratic Congress, have been taunting the Akufo - Addo - led government to state the number of jobs created since he assumed office.

The comptroller's office said a series of upcoming audits will examine the cybersecurity of computer - based systems used to «monitor, modify, regulate or manage municipal water facilities» in the wake of recent cyberattacks that have disrupted a number of local governments, including a municipal - owned dam in the Hudson Valley.

The Council recently passed a slew of bills aimed at tackling sexual harassment in government offices, including one that mandates annual reporting on the number of complaints and substantiated cases.

Gardiner's town government went though quite a shakeup this past Election Day, with two multi-term incumbents turned out of office and a number of former Democratic candidates successfully running on Republican and other party lines.

Who can forget his «I am the government» statement in the intoxicating days of sky - high poll numbers during his first year in office?

Since then, the total number of employees housed within Congressional Research Service, the Government Accountability Office, and the Congressional Budget Office has continued to decrease, said Reynolds.

Cybercrime alone — including stolen credit card numbers and industrial espionage — now costs the UK # 27 billion a year, according to the government's Office of Cyber Security and Information Assurance.

The Socialist - dominated government's priority, when it took office in 1997, was to increase the number of grants available, rather than boost pay.

Earlier this year, AAAS and 125 other scientific organizations had expressed «deep concerns» about recent travel restrictions, set forth by the U.S. Office of Management and Budget (OMB) and the Congress, which have sharply reduced the number of government researchers at scholarly meetings.

Since the start of the free schools programme, the government has acquired a huge number of land and buildings — both permanent and temporary — across a wide variety of types, from local authority and central government buildings, to office blocks, health buildings, churches and retail units.