Sentences with phrase «of federal character»

And his appointments were generally meritorious yet representative of the federal character.

Members of the House of Representatives have decried an alleged violation of the federal character principle in recruitment by Ministries, Departments and Agencies of the Federal...

President Muhammadu Buhari has approved the appointment of Dr Shettima Bukar - Abba as the Acting Executive Chairman of the Federal Character Commission (FCC).

«We all know this is not a good time for such rally with unmitigated attendance of killings, mass destruction of properties as well as disregard to the principle of federal character through lopsided federal appointment among other reasons.

The statement issued and signed by the Forum's Chairman and the Secretary, Solomon Asemota, SAN, and Pastor Bosun Emmanuel, respectively, noted that «such a conspiracy could exist is confirmed by the flagrant violation of the Federal Character Principle in the Constitution by the Buhari Administration.»

And having done so without the necessity of altering to any degree their social economic patterns, they saw no reason for changing their traditional notions of the federal character of the national government, the benefits of Negro slavery, or the superiority of a rural - agricultural way of life.

Not exact matches

Eve Costopoulos claims Shkreli (SHKREL» - ee) led a «campaign of harassment and character assassination» in her lawsuit filed in federal court in Manhattan Thursday.

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So far 47 states and the District of Columbia have sought federal funds for character education programs in schools.

Agbakoba in a statemet on Monday alleged that the appointment made by the Federal Government of Nigeria, contravenes the provisions of S. 14 of the Constitution and also the Federal Character Commission, Act and the provisions of Sections 42 of the Constitution of Nigeria that prohibits discrimination of any of Nigeria's ethnic groups such as, in this case, the South East.

And while it's an uphill battle facing a heavily entrenched foe, outreach efforts will give Staten Island and Brooklyn voters — both old and new — food for thought the next time they go to the polls: ranging from alleged campaign finance fraud; to Grimm's threatening of a reporter with physical violence; to his latest federal fraud and tax charges, he is quite a colorful character with a very colorful history just begging to be lampooned.

Apropos nothing, Edmond Dantes was definitely NOT the «Strong Federal Power supporter» type of character:)

In the high - stakes world of federal electoral campaigning, where every word and every character matters, candidates can't afford to neglect technologies and software that their opponents are using.

The Governor who also call for the review of the existing federal character principles call on all stakeholders to embrace good governance in their domains in a bid to have a better society.

At the highest level, we must reorganise or reconfigure to reflect federal character because of our constitution.

But the 1999 Constitution explicitly stipulates in Chapter 14 subsection 3 that the «composition of the Government of the Federation or any of its agencies and the conduct of its affairs shall... reflect the federal character of Nigeria and the need to promote national unity, and also to command national loyalty, thereby ensuring that there shall be no predominance of persons from a few states or from a few ethnic or other sectional groups...» Buhari is breaching this with impunity in his appointments.

Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers State has faulted the non-representation of the state in the Federal Character Commission, FCC.

A federal high court sitting in Abuja on Thursday dismissed two defamation suits filed by sacked national chairman of the PDP, Ali Modu Sheriff who claimed his character was defamed by publications signed by Borno State Attorney General and Commissioner for Justice, Barister Kaka Shehu Lawan.

Tell me why we must have three senators from every state of the federation, isn't that just based on some defined federal character principle and not population size or merit?

What has the number of polling unit in a particular area got to do with the retarding federal character that promote incompetency?

He stated that, «With the appointment of Ahmed Rufai Abubakar as the NIA Director General, all heads of security agencies are now northerners and the question is, is this what those who enshrined federal character in our constitution envisaged?

The below charts and tables present a range of federal R&D data series, including research budgets by agency, character and discipline.

Historical Trends in Federal R&D (1953 ---RRB-: This is the primary AAAS data set, including data from AAAS reports over the years on federal R&D spending by agency, function, and character, and as a share Federal R&D (1953 ---RRB-: This is the primary AAAS data set, including data from AAAS reports over the years on federal R&D spending by agency, function, and character, and as a share federal R&D spending by agency, function, and character, and as a share of GDP.

Last year, OPM reports it pursued 8520 cases in which serious questions about a federal worker's character and conduct had been raised; between 100 and 200 of those cases resulted in a government - wide debarment.

After being typecast as a gangster he gradually expanded the scope of his roles, and, in the»40s, gave memorable «good guy» performances as in a number of psychological dramas; he played federal agents, scientists, Biblical characters, business men, bank clerks, among other characters.

The film features an ensemble cast of characters to tell the story of why so many citizens decided to rise up, and how the riot expanded so quickly to become so massive that the President had to send in federal troops to get things under control.

Perry returns to his signature character of Madea — the sassy, say - anything elderly aunt with a penchant for handguns and stern moralizing — who here is tasked with sheltering the family of accountant George Needleman (Eugene Levy), who is caught up in the federal investigation of a Ponzi scheme.

Raynor and his character's adopted younger brother (Myles Truitt), come across a mysterious alien weapon, which a group of criminals, federal agents, and a gang of otherworldy soldiers want to hunt them down for.

Filmmaker Baran bo Odar, making his English - language debut here, delivers an opening stretch that doesn't exactly bode well for what's to come, as the narrative emphasizes the surprisingly complicated antics of a whole raft of scarcely - developed characters - including Dermot Mulroney's sketchy casino owner, Michelle Monaghan and David Harbour's dogged federal officers, and Gabrielle Union's concerned nurse.

After all, while their respective characters, Larry Gigli («rhymes with «really,»» as he says early on) and Ricki, do engage in the expected love - hate sparring, they are both mob enforcers assigned an unusual task: to kidnap and then more or less babysit Brian (Justin Bartha), the younger brother of a federal prosecutor out to nail their big boss.

Character - driven investigative thriller set in the world of counterintelligence focuses on former CIA agent Erica Wolfe, the most notorious traitor in modern history and most hated woman in America, who is brought out of a federal supermax prison by the FBI to help stop some of the most dangerous acts of espionage threatening the United States today.

Murray's character yells at Cherry Jones as Hallie Flanagan, director of the Federal Theater Project.

The What Works Clearinghouse, part of the federal government's Institute of Education Sciences, released in September 2006 its review of 55 studies of character education programs, which looked at «student outcomes related to positive character development, prosocial behavior, and academic performance.»

I witnessed one facet of the resurgence of the character education movement in the federal government's adoption of it during the Clinton administration.

Publish a Privacy Act Notice in the Federal Register explaining the existence, character and uses of a new or revised SOR

-- To the extent that compliance with subsection (b)(2)(C) or (b)(7) would significantly alter the historic or antiquated character of a historical or antiquated rail passenger car, or a rail station served exclusively by such cars, or would result in violation of any rule, regulation, standard, or order issued by the Secretary of Transportation under the Federal Railroad Safety Act of 1970, such compliance shall not be required.

As journalist Annie Cheney found while reporting on this subject over the course of three years, when there's that much money to be made with no federal regulation, there are all sorts of shady (and fascinating) characters who are willing to employ questionable practices — from deception and outright theft — to acquire, market, and distribute human bodies and parts.

The real characters of Massachusetts governor Calvin Coolidge, who used the police strike to launch his national political career, Babe Ruth and a young federal attorney named John E. Hoover, add to the realism of the novel.

The federal budget on March 21 included a proposal to put an end to investment funds that «seek to reduce tax by converting, through the use of derivative contracts, the returns on an investment that would have the character of ordinary income to capital gains.»

Each Fund reports the character of distributions for federal income tax purposes each calendar year on Form 1099 - DIV.

Even after the Ministerio Publico Federal (the Federal Prosecutor Bureau) declared that no crime had been committed in any of the above - mentioned cases and issued a technical note clarifying that nudity and representations of sexuality are permitted in cultural and artistic exhibitions, the consequences continue to unfold: the state of Espirito Santo has passed a law prohibiting the exhibition of photographs, texts, drawings, paintings, films and videos containing nude scenes or references to sexual acts in public spaces; city councilors of the state of Rio Grande do Sul are currently trying to ban books in public libraries that, they argue, expose children to «permissive ideologies, [detrimental] to the formation of character.»

2008 «Character Project» — USA Network Commission Honored Educator, The Society for Photographic Education, Cleveland, OH Oxbow School, Napa, CA — Visiting Artist Residency 2007 Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, MA - Edward E. Elson Artist - in - Residence 2006 Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY - Artist in Residence, «Expanding the Walls: Making Connections Between Photography, History, and Community» 2005 Addison Gallery of American Art, Phillips Academy, Andover, MA - Edward E. Elson Artist - in - Residence San Francisco Arts Education, San Francisco, CA - Artist - in - Residence 2003 Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, MI - Artist - in - Residence California State University, Monterey Bay, CA - Artist - in - Residence, The Reclamation Project 2002 John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship - Fellow in Photography David and Alfred Smart Museum of Art, The University of Chicago - Artist - in - Residence 2000 Federal Reserve Bank, Chicago, IL - Commission 1999 International Artist's Studio Program in Sweden (IASPIS), Stockholm, Sweden - Artist - in - Residence Percent for Art Commission, Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs - Midway Airport Center for Documentary Sudies at Duke University - «Idivisible» / A National Documentary Project Parrish Art Museum, Southampton, NY - Artist - in - Residence Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT - Artist - in - Residence 1998 National Portrait Gallery, London - Artist - in - Residence 1997 Addison Gallery of American Art, Phillips Academy, Andover, MA - Edward E. Elson Artist - in - Residence Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art, OH - Artist - in Residence 1996 High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA, «Picturing the South: The Commission Project» Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, CT, Residency Project Committee for Public Art Commission, Cleveland Public Library Virginia Beach Center for the Arts, VA / Colonial Boys and Girls Club, Norfolk, VA - Residency Workshop 1995 Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN - Artist - in - Residence Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, OH - Artist - in - Residence 1994 Percent for Art Commission, Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs - Mabel Manning Near West Side Branch Library 1993 The Museum of Modern Art, New York, MoMA Life Trustees Portrait Commission The George Gund Foundation, Cleveland, OH, Commissioned Project The Museum of Contemporary Photography, Columbia College and Providence - St.

[T] he original jurisdiction of the Supreme Court, in cases where a State is a party, refers to those cases in which, according to the grant of power made in the preceding clause, jurisdiction might be exercised in consequence of the character of the party, and an original suit might be instituted in any of the federal Courts, not to those cases in which an original suit might not be instituted in a federal Court.

Federal Rule of Evidence 404 governs the use of character evidence, past crimes, and other acts.

In Canada, federal and many provincial Elections Acts state that anyone who, before or during an election, knowingly makes or publishes a «false statement of fact» designed to affect the results of the election in relation to the personal character or conduct of a candidate is guilty of an offence.

But the personality and character of a federal court of appeals inevitably derive over time from its active judges, who sit together year after year in randomly selected panels of three and who, sitting together en banc, are the only organ of the court authorized to overrule published panel decisions.

These are important topics of discussion, not just for the legal profession, but also — and perhaps more importantly — for the character of Canadian federal traditions.

While the Supreme Court's Markman decision usefully removed claim construction from the black box of jury deliberations notwithstanding its «mongrel» mixed fact / law character, the Federal Circuit's adherence to the view that claim construction is a pure question of law subject to de novo appellate review produced -LSB-...]

The Court of Appeal disagreed with the tenants and the Attorney General, finding that s. 31 of the Sechelt Indian Band Self - Government Act «can only have been intended to preserve the character of the Sechelt Lands as reserve lands subject to federal jurisdiction» and that the lands continued, as they were before self - government, as lands reserved for Indians under s. 91 (24) of the Constitution.

The average federal posting character limitation per position is 5000, so there is plenty of room to elaborate.