Sentences with phrase «official backing of the government»

Richard Lee, the PR director of Entapay, appears to have subsequently distanced the company from the bold claims, stating «We never said that we had the official backing of the government.

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ONE of Western Australia's largest Aboriginal organisations has come back from a damaging federal government review and received a clean report card from the official regulator.

But some government officials, including some of Pruitt's own aides, pushed back against the spending requests and reportedly were sidelined as a result, pointing to an agency staff in disarray.

I remember meetings as far back as 2008, for example involving senior United States or European government officials looking to be debriefed on the Chinese economy, in which the foreign (and some Chinese) analysts present spoke jauntily about the great success of China's growth policies and the brilliant future ahead, while many of the Chinese economists present were much more cautious and even gloomy as they discussed the sheer intractability of China's economic distortions.

The sanctions were developed in recent weeks as part of a ready menu of potential military and economic measures for Trump to enact to strike back at Assad's government and his Russian patrons, according to a senior administration official.

Confiscating wealth only makes tyrants of those with the power to confiscate, the government officials who then assume the power to give or hold back, to confiscate or let stay.

The diplomats — officials in charge of New York consulates separate from United Nations missions — say they are hard pressed to explain to their governments and the news media back home why scores of people remain in detention, usually on minor immigration charges, at a time when the United States seeks the support of public opinion abroad for its war on terrorism.

Five months after Rory Lamont, the former Scotland full - back, lifted the lid in an exclusive Scotsman interview on a culture within sport that treated concussion as a temporary, minor injury, rugby unions, leading sports medics, government officials and other sporting bodies have begun to accept that some of their practices in managing head injuries were inadequate.

Although their official report isn't due to be published until the 23rd of April, on Wednesday the Guardian reported that the Joint Committee on Lords Reform has decided to back an «open preferential voting system» rather than the government's preferred Single Transferable Vote (STV) for electing members to a reformed House of Lords.

Both officials need a strong working relationship with the federal government and with each suffering from low job approval ratings, they should get back to working on behalf of New York's citizens, not their own political ambitions.»

«The fact the code now says Spads can instruct officials on matters of presentation feels like a step back towards the days of Alastair Campbell under Tony Blair, when the entire government communication service was placed under Campbell's control,» he said.

In addition to supporting the pension forfeiture, 66 percent of those polled also support banning political contributions by companies that do business with the level of government they contribute to, and 55 percent back banning elected officials from earning income outside of their government salary.

During his summing - up speech in Thursday's debate, deputy prime minister Nick Clegg was asked by Labour MP Andrew Gwynne to condemn the behaviour of No 10 officials who were reported as having said that Miliband was «giving succour» to the Assad regime by refusing to back the government over its plan for military action.

The New York State Association Of Counties released its to - do list of budget priorities for the coming fiscal year, with the local government officials backing a variety of measures aimed at easing the burden on municipal - level officials and taxpayerOf Counties released its to - do list of budget priorities for the coming fiscal year, with the local government officials backing a variety of measures aimed at easing the burden on municipal - level officials and taxpayerof budget priorities for the coming fiscal year, with the local government officials backing a variety of measures aimed at easing the burden on municipal - level officials and taxpayerof measures aimed at easing the burden on municipal - level officials and taxpayers.

A number of Conservative officials and advisers have been seconded from their important government roles to the Back Zac team.

David Cameron's official spokesman reiterated the prime minister's position on reform of the Lords but declined to say whether Cameron had spent the weekend trying to persuade dissenting colleagues to back the government motion.

The proposal is similar to a consolidation plan backed by officials in Onondaga County, which is recommending the folding of city and county government into one entity.

The U.S. solicitor general fired back that McDonnell's case was a routine example of an official taking personal benefits to influence government matters, and the evidence at the trial «amply supported» his conviction.

He said change must come from within the public services themselves, and called on ministers to back officials in experimenting with new ways of working - however, he rejected suggestions that the government had been using officials as scapegoats.

Also at 10:30 a.m., good government groups, Latino elected officials, and activists will call for immediate state action to prevent «looming danger» to New York from upcoming 2020 Census, back of Assembly chamber, 3rd floor, state Capitol, Albany.

«My name will be on the ballot, but this is all about you — taking our government back from our elected officials who have put our way of life on the chopping block,» Cobb said in a statement.

All official public bodies reports back to 1998 available here for England and much of Northern Ireland (the government has changed the link yet again).

«My name will be on the ballot, but this is all about the people of our region — about taking our government back from our elected officials who have put our way of life on the chopping block,» Cobb said in a statement.

Donovan, like Cuomo and other officials, have pointed to the amount of money New York sends to the federal government in taxes versus what it gets back in federal spending.

«The fact the code now says Spads can instruct officials on matters of presentation feels like a step back towards the days of Alastair Campbell under Tony Blair, when the entire government communication service was placed under Campbell's control.

Akufo - Addo's action corroborated a statement he made during the NPP's 25th annual delegates conference in the Central Region last Saturday, when he said, his government will take allegations of corruption against its officials seriously, and expects that persons who make such allegations present evidence to back their claims.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo just unveiled Step One in what will be a multi-pronged reform proposal in the wake of last week's back - to - back corruption cases: Empowering local district attorneys to better ferret out and prosecute wrongdoing by dirty elected officials at all levels of government in New York.

He said he used official figures and plausible assumptions to reach the estimate, but a government source dismissed that figure as based on «back - of - an - envelope calculations».

When the Assembly came to order on June 17 for a session that would last until 5:09 a.m. the next day, it still needed to pass an anti-heroin package, a roll - back of the state's Blue Laws, the legalization of daily fantasy sports, a constitutional amendment that could make more elected officials convicted of felonies forfeit their pensions, a government transparency measure, and 57 other bills.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo on Monday rounded up three of the dozens of local government officials supporting his property tax freeze on Monday for a press conference to push back against growing criticism that his tax relief plan ignores the real drivers of high taxes.

Nearly 70 percent of the roughly 30,000 miles of levees in the U.S. are not trusted by government flood officials to hold back floodwaters

Local officials, charged with meeting aggressive economic targets for their region's industry, tend to ignore national environmental regulations, covering up spills and building new power plants behind the backs of central government regulators.

There is also the not unimportant matter of the need to communicate to people all over the globe the complexities of American life, thus contradicting the deliberate «pro-American» falsifications spread by the US film and music industries, media and government (see the delusional State of the Union address), as well as its «anti-American» counterpart abroad (which portrays a contented, prosperous population solidly backing official chauvinism and militarism).

Russian official Alexander Torshin, appearing in Moscow in 2016, was sanctioned by the U.S. government in April, suspending years of travel back to 2009 during which he cultivated ties with American conservatives.

When a 2008 initiative, Measure 10, which would have banned the use of tax money for campaigns or lobbying and restricted political contributions by government contractors was defeated, its committee chair Jim Anderson noted, «We'll be able to prepare accordingly next time, knowing that the real opposition to ethics reform in South Dakota is NEA union officials back east.»

The origins of standardized testing go back to the Confucian era in China, when would - be government officials were screened for their aptitudes.

The cash was allocated as part of the government's drive to force all schools to become academies, which has since been abandoned, and officials say the funding has been taken back because of the policy change.

With its powerful statement this week, the NAACP sent a message to elected officials and state and local governments — that they are accountable for educating children of color, and need to get back on the job.

[1] Each wave of reform has been led by different combinations of leaders and stakeholders: government officials, educators, parents, and activists (focused on equity); business leaders and policymakers (focused on excellence / accountability); and parents (focused on choice and pushing back against assessment).

In the past, of course, we had the revolving door, but generally high - ranking officials left the government and went back to their cushy positions in banking, corporations, etc..

However, the «official» guidelines of a government - backed loan program can look a bit aggressive to banks — especially conservative ones.

OTTAWA — Canada's government - backed mortgage insurer said it will cap the amount of mortgage - backed securities it is willing to guarantee, in the latest move by officials here to temper Canada's housing sector.

VINELAND — The Cumberland County Society of the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals» shelter is not closing at the end of the year, as announced back in October.The SPCA is working with government officials in Cumberland and Salem counties on a financial reprieve that would keep the shelter open.

With the official backing of both the government of Belize and the leading association of private sector tourism stakeholders, the new Destination App is the only app tourists will need to plan and enjoy a world - class vacation in Belize.

After years of negotiation, in November 1996, government officials settled with Gherini for 14 million dollars which included 2 million dollars in back interest, clearing the way for the park to be opened to the public.

WHILE President Aquino, Hagedorn and other government officials believed that the underground river has a great chance of making it into the top 7, Filipinos in the country and abroad need to back this crusade by voting through text.

Painted from historical photographs taken from old magazines, family albums and the propagandist publications distributed by the government during the Cultural Revolution, At a time of immense and rapid socio - economic change in China, these works look back at its past, marking a fragile line with delicate layers of ash between individual memory and official historical record.

Unprecedented in North Africa and Western Asia — where official censorship and a lack of government and private funding often pose challenges for contemporary art events — MP5 was backed by the Brussels - based non-profit Young Arab Theatre Fund, which is supported by the Ford Foundation and Open Society to foster contemporary art in the Arab world.

While only a few of the smallest projects have been finished, the vast constellation of proposals — backed by what one official called a «strange polyamorous relationship» of the city, state and federal governments — will most likely take years and billions of dollars to complete, if indeed that is ever achieved.

This is an important film with an important message that not only calls to task the officials who squelched the Zero Emission Vehicle mandate, but all of the other accomplices, government, the car companies, Big Oil, even Eco-darling Hydrogen as well as consumers, who turned their backs on the car and embrace embracing instead the SUV.