Sentences with phrase «of petitions»

The communication, he said, contained copies of the petitions from the Chiefs and people of the Western, Northern, Brong - Ahafo and Volta Regions «from where the demands from the creation of new regions had been the most vociferous».

Some committee members have grumbled that Altieri, a captain and 30 - plus - year member of the Ulster County sheriff's department, is being shortchanged because some of his petitions aren't being circulated.

Bernie Sanders supporters carry boxes of petitions into the State Board of Elections Thursday Feb. 4, 2016 in Albany, NY.

«I am not the Secretary, I don't know the number of petitions but will call those who are involved and then we will solve it.

Spitzer: She got a bunch of petitions for me, she signed petitions, last week was all about the petition drive.

Outside the offices of the Board of Elections, with boxes of petitions in tow, Spitzer thanked the signers.

Vanguard however gathered that the attitude of many of the officers and soldiers being referred to, particularly those serving in the Southern part of the country, is not unconnected with recent investigations into the conduct of security personnel during the last general elections in the country whereby personnel who were performing their duties in accordance with the «laws of the land» are the victims of petitions and investigation, after allegedly «taking sides».

Lawyers acting for the Cuomo campaign didn't contest the validity of the petitions in this trial, but argued that the Vermont native failed to meet a five - year in - state residency requirement for state candidates.

Because a percentage of the petitions will always be thrown out, a party trying to qualify must gather close to 120,000 petitions to succeed.

Last week, State Supreme Court justice Denise Hartman invalidated all of his petitions because she said he failed to meet New York's five - year residency requirement.

What is the ratio of petitions that have met the threshold and effected change, versus those that met the petition threshold and did not have an effect?

They couldn't rule on whether or not people were actually sworn and they couldn't rule on whether or not a whole series of signatures on one of the petitions was actually the same individual's writing.»

The government hopes the introduction of citizen's juries and greater use of petitions and consultations will lead to lowered crime, improved public health and an end to disillusionment with politics.

The former Rockland Independence Party chairwoman, whose son - in - law is county legislator Frank Sparaco (Republican) of Clarkstown, admitted to lying to a grand jury who was investigating improprieties involving the signing of petitions for the party's ballot line during the Assembly race -LSB-...]

We may also share your name (including title), mailing address, State Assembly, Senate District and / or Congressional District, with government organizations (legislators, mayors or governors) for the purposes of one of our petitions.

But as the day wore on, college students and others packed the hallways carrying signs and boxes of petitions.

Tedra Cobb delivered thousands of petitions signatures to put on the ballot as a Democratic candidate in November's general election.

The board ruled on the night of Thursday, July 25 that over 3,337 signatures submitted for Lacorte and an undisclosed number of petitions for Leon were ineligible for inclusion in their candidacy petitions and had to be thrown out.

In response, Rockland Democratic Party Executive Director Theodore Collins, himself disqualified from an effort to get on the ballot in the Spring Valley trustee race, hit back hard against Lacorte, pointing out the candidate declined to participate in a pre-filing review of his petitions offered through the County Democrats.

Council Member Alan Gerson (D - Manhattan) has been kicked off the ballot for a technical error involving the misprinting of one of his petitions, the New York City Board of Elections has confirmed.

Standing outside the Board of Elections office in downtown Manhattan with four boxes full of petitions, Spitzer thanked the citizens of the city for «an outpouring of support.»

Earlier in the year, the EFCC had received a series of petitions against Elechi's government, causing the commission to invite the ex-governor and his son, Nnanna.

While clerks stamped the many pages of his ballot, Spitzer turned at one point to the press, brandishing a thick bound stack of petitions.

Fellow County Executive candidates Ilan Schoenberger and Ed Day have commented on the matter as well, offering support for a fair petitioning process while remaining mum on the validity of the petitions themselves.

«Following spate of petitions and complaints from stakeholders in the banking, insurance and financial institutions, I hereby direct the suspension of the on - going retrenchment pending the outcome of the conciliatory meetings in the industry.

In the statement signed by Abdullahi Garba of the DSS said that the DSS had invited the concerned judicial officers for interrogations after series of petitions were sent against them.

Two of the petitions are from the Progressive People's Party PPP and the youth wing of the CPP while one is from the Minority in Parliament.

It's great that Maloney is «stepping up her game» — that huge number of petitions is ridiculous overkill, petition wars are dumb and don't really measure voter sentiment, so much as the ability to get volunteers — but honestly she has zero to worry about.

At 9:30 a.m., NYC Councilman Barry Grodenchik and state Sen. Leroy Comrie hold press conference with parents who collected hundreds of petitions in opposition to a charter school co-location, 213 - 10 92nd Ave., Queens.

Prior to this I have raised this observation and I too have received a lot of petitions in my office on this same matter.

According to Keyamo, «My Lord, in a criminal charge, you can not ask a witness to present copies of petitions in court.

The governor added: «Most importantly, that the EFCC Acting Chairman, Ibrahim Magu even said the commission do not have any petition against APC chieftains when indeed there are loads of petitions against ministers serving in Buhari's government and other notable APC chieftains goes to show the hypocrisy of the fight against corruption.

Must the requisite number of petitions be contemporaneous with each other, substantially contemporaneous, or strung out over several years?

Jang, who was governor from 2007 to 2015, was said to have been invited following a series of petitions written against him.

In a five - page letter to Odigie - Oyegun, Banire had recommended «the rejection of the recommendations of the Appeal Committee and the dismissal of the petitions as same are lacking in merit.»

Many of these petitions were submitted by individual property owners or small businesses, but it appears that even more came from large developers and landlords like Leonard Litwin and Baruch Singer.

In one of the petitions, which was made available to one of our correspondents, the petitioners said the party might soon squander the opportunity it secured following the Supreme Court judgment, which sacked the former governor of Borno State.

The Board of Elections will hold a hearing for Masterpole on Thursday and one for Davis on Friday to determine the validity of their petitions.

On Tuesday, the Board of Elections Cover Sheet Review Committee found that the Bronx Democrats had made errors of three volumes of petitions involving judicial delegates:

Russo was upbeat Friday, despite the fate of his petitions, saying the process allowed his campaign to reach out to voters.

The court dismissed fraud allegations, but Martins pursued a line - by - line review of petitions, from Nassau, Suffolk and Queens, that were still being scrutinized at the time Suozzi withdrew them.

The total is three times the required amount to qualify, though the Cuomo campaign could legally challenge the validity of the petitions.

On the other hand, Madam Charlotte Osei has written two separate letters to the President and the Chief Justice demanding copies of the petitions sent to their respective offices requesting her removal.

«As you are aware the National Assembly has received a lot of petitions and complaints over the conducts of the panel and activities of the firms being probed.

«I've passed a lot of petitions,» Welch wrote in his email.

Or maybe Erik Dilan gets the line, but then declines the designation of his petitions — and the petition's committee on vacancies replaces Erik with his father.

Since 2011, 29 decertification petitions were filed in New York state (excluding New York City) and two of those petitions came from Albany addresses, including the latest from The Desmond.

By contrast the number of petitions presented to Downing Street increased rapidly over the last 50 years.

But with hundreds of petitions to the commissioner filed every year for a wide variety of actions, there is no guarantee of a specific time frame, it said.

We will have two sets of petitions — one set of petitions is primarily for the west side of the district and another set for the east side of the district.