Sentences with phrase «of preventing»

(However, the Tories achieved their aim of preventing electoral reform and are also likely to get their way on Scottish independence.)

Kabir Marafa, Senator representing Zamfara Central, has accused Senate President, Bukola Saraki of preventing members from expressing themselves at the Nigerian Senate.

NMCIR is at the frontline of preventing deportations, and has been for the last 20 years.

«Because of its increased presence, it is important to educate our community of the signs and symptoms in hopes of preventing more of these cases»

The Cuomo administration said the order, issued earlier this year with the objective of preventing discrimination, is moving forward, but it is having discussions with business groups concerned about the plan.

According to him, the group is out to formulate and device methods of preventing and resolving conflicts with the goal of creating and sustaining peaceful coexistence, arrest the drift in the North, restore individual and group confidence, create functional regional unity, among others.

So what you achieve in reaching the goals you suggest might not be worth it overall in terms of preventing the aftermath to be more tedious and complicated, and further obscure for the public just what went on.

The chief place where parliamentary systems win out over the separately elected executive branch (at least in terms of preventing a government shutdown) is that the government (i.e. executive) is chosen by the legislative body.

He was out of order in arguing the case in 2013 on the basis of preventing a democratically elected future mayor from having a say over rail travel simply because he was from a different party.

It would be a small price to pay for Britain's reputation, its own sense of inner decency and the long - term security advantages of preventing regional instability in the Middle East and Europe.

State Attorney General Eric Schneiderman has sent cease - and - desist letters to seven companies marketing products with false claims of preventing Zika virus, the mosquito - borne illness that has created a global public health crisis this year.

I asked in the Commons last Wednesday where this year's tranche of Preventing Violent Extremism (PVE) money has gone.

«They look like a swoop on the South, a jihad designed to foist Northern domination, or even subjugation, on the South in pursuance of the Sarduna's agenda, announced as far back as 1960, tosubjugate the South and reduce it to a conquered territory, with the object of preventing it from havingcontrol over its future,» an agenda which President Buhari, in a speech in May 2015 as President - elect, re-echoed and vowed to carry to a finish.

He said NADMO will henceforth be giving permits to private developers as means of preventing construction on waterways.

Wike had accused the Rivers APC of preventing Osinbajo from inaugurating the remaining projects executed by his administration.

Whitehall officials are considering an unorthodox method of preventing another wave of immigration from the continent: pointing out that Britain is not all that Great, after all.

New York hospitals are trying new ways of preventing infections, as data show rates of hospital - acquired infections in state are declining but still higher than national average.

Most of the bodies I've mentioned above were set up after this disaster in the hope of preventing such an event from occurring again.

The news story may have been small, but it played on strong narratives, such as the Home Office's policy of preventing controversial figures from coming to the UK and frictions with the Islamic community.

The claim in the video is that this specific rule change was created with the intent of preventing a vote in the house on a «clean Continuing Resolution» bill from the Senate.

Better ways of preventing foot problems in dialysis patients with diabetes could reduce the 100 or so associated amputations that take place every week in the UK, according to Diabetes UK - funded research being presented this week at the European Association for the Study of Diabetes (EASD) in Lisbon.

The joint committee on human rights was similarly critical, demanding that the bill be amended «so that reasonable force can only be used as a last resort, only for the purposes of preventing harm to the child or others and that only the minimum force necessary should be used».

These powers were intentionally separated with the intent of preventing any one branch of government from being able to wage war.

For, the thought of preventing eligible voters from exercising their democratic rights is criminal, and ought to be condemned with no uncertain terms, for every eligible voter must feel free to exercise his / her democratic right without any interference from any quarters.

«The pain and damage of this flawed federal policy is especially repulsive in this case of preventing a child from getting life saving treatment,» Cuomo said in a statement.

«All New Yorkers are supportive of preventing any lawmaker from collecting their pension if convicted of a felony,» said Orange County Republican Chairwoman Courtney Greene.

The new «Proactive Preservation» program will essentially allow the Department of Housing Preservation and Development to more aggressively identify and inspect distressed properties, intervening to make repairs if necessary, in the hopes of preventing another Milbank scenario from taking place.

«We need to try to really look at ways of preventing people from being homeless in the first place because it becomes much more expensive.»

In hopes of preventing the closure, Cuomo officials contacted Exelon in recent weeks to see whether it would consider taking over the operation of FitzPatrick, the source said.

We have spent too much time concentrating on the consequences of offending, instead of looking at the means of preventing it in the first place.

Insisting the time has come to reform «one of New York's most discriminatory laws,» State Assemblymember Dan Quart, who provided the estimate, called on Governor Andrew Cuomo to approve legislation that would classify folding knives as work tools and not weapons, in hopes of preventing the arrests of thousands of law - abiding citizens who carry the items for their job.

The topic of preventing the Ebola virus in New York State became part of the Governor's race, when the Republican candidate proposed that flights be banned from countries with Ebola outbreaks.

Bharara, whose investigations recently toppled former Speaker Sheldon Silver and ex-Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos in New York state, said the role of preventing corruption in statehouses is ultimately up to lawmakers, not prosecutors.

On why he wrote the book, he said it was in recognition of the Nigeria Police as the nation's core law enforcement agency which is constitutionally saddled with the responsibility of preventing and detecting crime, apprehension and prosecution of offenders, preservation of law and order.

The party plans to separate banks» retail functions from their investment function and make sure no institution is «too big to fail» as a means of preventing another bank bailout in the future.

That is one way of preventing a coup.

«Each year tens of thousands of bereaved families are forced to endure lengthy delays and an archaic, unaccountable and inefficient system which also leaves the coronial service unable to fulfil its vital function of preventing unnecessary deaths.»

President - elect Donald Trump tweeted early this morning that he would take steps to separate himself from his vast, global business empire in the hopes of preventing the appearance of a conflict of interest as he becomes president.

«The staff, particularly, are having to look after far too many people and they have not got time to devote to the real needs of preventing people from re-offending,» he told BBC Two's Daily Politics.

«Clearly what we don't want is sports administrators and politicians getting in the way of preventing people from competing,» said BOA chief executive Andrew Hunt.

While I'm sure that the US are aware of the costs of preventing NK to build more nuclear weapons, they are probably also be aware of the risks of let NK continue developing their nuclear weapons.

He added that the two church members are in his care, and the public flogging was his way of preventing them from going wayward.

Particularly, this takes the form of preventing Scottish MPs voting on English laws which won't affect their constituents.

«The Legislature did the best they could,» Hendrickson said Tuesday «They did a good job of preventing Governor Cuomo from committing grand larceny.

caste your mind backs, we bombed the Bosnian serbs and the Serbia itself which killed over 3028 innocent men, women and children with cluster bombs etc all in the name of preventing genocide in the Bosnian and Kosovo civil wars, are the same people who supported the illegal bombing of the Bosnian Serbian forces and Serbia itself against the bombing of fascist, genocidal isis, with the exception of George Galloway and tony benn I think you are, maybe I am wrong, am i.

The 66 - year - old former city councilman is running against incumbent Councilwoman Elizabeth Crowley (D - Middle Village) in the hopes of preventing a redistricting two years from now that could eliminate the relatively conservative population in the neighborhoods as a voting bloc.

He is also praying the court to restrain the respondents, whether by themselves, their servants, agents, privies whosoever from further constituting a threat to the life, liberty and freedom of the applicant either through arrest or by physical abuse or violence either generally or for the purpose of preventing or disturbing their free movement in any part of Nigeria.

«The most effectual means of preventing [the perversion of power into tyranny are] to illuminate, as far as practicable, the minds of the people at large, and more especially to give them knowledge of those facts which history exhibits, that possessed thereby of the experience of other ages and countries, they may be enabled to know ambition under all its shapes, and prompt to exert their natural powers to defeat its purposes.»

«So we need an education programme telling people this is an important way of preventing sight loss.»

Unpredictable lone - wolf attacks are terrorism's future — and the challenge of preventing them may get harder before it gets easier, the NYPD's counterterrorism chief said.