Sentences with phrase «number of official acts»

«There is no question that Silver took a number of official acts — most obviously passing legislation and approving state grants and tax - exempt financing — as part of a quid pro quo» in the charged schemes, the judge wrote.

The judge in the case noted that Silver took a «number of official acts — most obviously passing legislation and approving state grants and tax - exempt financing — as part of a quid pro quo, but there remained a «substantial question» on whether the court's jury instructions were valid in light of the McDonnell ruling.

«Silver's case is factually almost nothing like McDonnell; there is no question that Silver took a number of official acts — most obviously, passing legislation and approving state grants and tax - exempt financing — as part of a quid pro quo in the Mesothelioma and Real Estate Schemes,» Judge Caproni wrote.

Not exact matches

The orders - in - council, the official notifications of decisions recommended by the federal cabinet, are numbered 2015 - 1264 and 2015 - 1265 and set out that, pursuant to subsection 7 (1) of the Official Residences Act, two individuals were appointed last week as special assistants at the Prime Minister's reofficial notifications of decisions recommended by the federal cabinet, are numbered 2015 - 1264 and 2015 - 1265 and set out that, pursuant to subsection 7 (1) of the Official Residences Act, two individuals were appointed last week as special assistants at the Prime Minister's reOfficial Residences Act, two individuals were appointed last week as special assistants at the Prime Minister's residence.

This issue has been under review by officials of the Treasury Board Secretariat for a number of years, but the Treasury Board has failed to act on the recommendation of the Auditor General.

... [But] School officials started looking into the matter... after an unusual number of girls began filing into the school clinic to find out if they were pregnant» with many of the girls repeatedly returning for multiple tests, and acting disappointed when they found out they were not pregnant.

The upshot of that thread is a small number officials (mostly the President, legislators, judges and district attorneys) have absolutely immunity from civil or criminal liability for certain kinds of discretionary official acts.

While federal officials talk of repealing the Affordable Care Act, there's a soaring number of New Yorkers who are buying insurance through the state exchange.

Three environmental groups are suing a number of New York state officials and agencies over the planned use of Clean Water Act funds for the replacement Tappan Zee Bridge.

Mount Vernon, NY — Westchester County Legislators Lyndon Williams (D - Mount Vernon) and Ken Jenkins (D - Yonkers) joined a number of other elected officials along with community leaders at a rally Wednesday, October 29th to announce their support of the «Smart Schools Bond Act of 2014,» to fight «digital divide.»

Democratic Assemblyman from Orange County James Skoufis introduced his Integrity in Government Act standing with a number of local elected officials.

Fouling, indeed: That well describes what a good number of public officials have done to our political institutions by their repeated corrupt acts.

Mayor Rahm Emanuel and CPS officials often point to the district's increasing graduation rates, climbing ACT scores, growing college enrollment rates and the numbers of high school freshmen projected to be on track to graduate.

He therefore concludes that the OMT programme can be reviewed in this preliminary ruling, also because «the alternative — namely declaring an act such as the OMT programme not actionable — would entail the risk of excluding a significant number of decisions of the ECB from all judicial review merely on the ground that they have not been formally adopted and published in the Official Journal» (at 89).

I notice in a number of places in the Legislation Act that a power is given to an official to put this or that unrepealed act into e-LaAct that a power is given to an official to put this or that unrepealed act into e-Laact into e-Laws.

Claims of unlawful abduction, kidnapping and removal to Libya in March 2004 brought against a number of UK officials and departments were not barred by state immunity or by the act of state doctrine, the Court of Appeal has held in Belhaj & Anor v Jack Straw & Ors [2014] EWCA Civ 1394.