Sentences with phrase «official government act»

In what may have been the first official government act of Leftist McCarthyism in the sordid history of CAGW alarmism, «Gore suggested» says Findley, «that the professor had become the victim of Alzheimer's disease.»

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She, along with several of her classmates, have held gun control rallies in their Florida community and called on government officials to act now to prevent future mass shootings from taking place.

By parallel, if you forbid a company from competing for government contracts for 10 years, those are 10 years during which they will engage in precisely zero instances of attempted bribery or other acts of corruption, at least with regard to bribery or corruption of Canadian officials.

LONDON — A British teenager has been jailed for two years for compromising the email and phone accounts of senior U.S. government officials in what a judge called acts of «cyber-terrorism.»

The bill signing marks one of Obama's last official acts in a year beset by a partial government shutdown, a near - default by the Treasury, a calamitous health care rollout and near - perpetual congressional gridlock.

Even Uncle Sam is getting in on the act, allowing some government workers to charge official purchases on government - issued credit cards.

The memo stipulates that the federal government would not stand in the way of states that legalize marijuana so long as officials acted to keep it from migrating to places where it remained outlawed, and out of the hands of criminal gangs and children.

A China - based business source with knowledge of discussion among senior European officials said there had been a «clear effort» by the U.S. government over the past six months to introduce a coordinated approach to Chinese industrial policy, but that Trump's proposed metals tariffs under section 232 of the Trade Expansion Act of 1962 had undermined support from Europe.

Cummings said White House lawyers said this week that «several» Trump administration officials used private email accounts to conduct government business, which is in violation of the Presidential Records Act.

The documents — dating from 2006 to 2010 and obtained by The Canadian Press under the Access to Information Act — show officials getting increasingly exasperated with the Afghan government's lack of interest in investigating the crime.

Criticism of Consumer Financial Protection Bureau acting director Mick Mulvaney's recent comments to a banking group has largely focused on his advocating a pay - to - play system for interest groups to access government officials.

Documents obtained under the Access to Information Act show that Canadian government officials scrambled to respond.

FinancialStability.gov is now part of Treasury.gov and is the official government site providing information and data related to the 2008 Emergency Economic Stabilization Act (EESA) & Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP).

On June 22, CME Alberta's Acting Vice President, Mike Holden met with Government of Alberta officials to recommend changes to the proposed design of the Alberta Capital Investment Tax Credit (CITC).

The University of Alberta - based Parkland Institute released a new report this morning, Ending Pay to Play: The Need for Political Finance Reform in Alberta: «Given the consensus that exists between the government and official opposition to ban corporate and union donations, it should act immediately to do so.

Brazil's federal government must provide financial support to the nearly - bankrupt state of Rio de Janeiro in order to avoid the shame of a disappointing Olympics, according to a top official in the administration of Acting President Michel Temer.

You can do it in public, you just can't put up a permenant structure in a government building endorsing a religion or endorse it while acting in a capacity as a government official.

• The existence of a shadow government of unelected officials, acting independently or at times in cooperation with elected officials, presents the United States with a serious constitutional crisis:

So issues where the local government can't get their head out of their asses when its there responsibility to act and then blame the federal government, it leaves you and I the citizens to fend for ourselves, possibly for weeks at a time while the officials blame one another.

But along with the probing of terrorists» psyches, responsible government officials must also use and be prepared to use force against those whose willingness to commit inhumane acts is announced and well known.

«The people of God want pastors,» Francis continued, «not clergy acting like bureaucrats or government officials.»

Documents released under the Official Information Act show the Ministry for Primary Industries (MPI) went to some lengths to ensure the Chinese Government did not feel insulted by the way it made its January public announcement of the finding.

The Fox Valley Park District makes every effort to comply with the State of Illinois Public Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), which states that all persons are entitled to full and complete information regarding the affairs of government and the official acts and policies of those who represent them as public officials and public employees.

Military personnel, government officials, police officers, doctors, and nurses are just a few of the people who help others during acts of war and terrorism.

Indeed, until it was reformed in 1989, Section 2 of the Official Secrets Act 1911 made it a criminal offence for any civil servant or public contractor to reveal any information he or she had learned in the course of his or her work: an offence that successive governments continued to prosecute well into the 1980s, despite recommendations published in 1972 by the Franks Committee calling for reform.

And learn how social media tools helped people to overcome psychological barriers to acting against the government, to report human rights violations, to counter official messages, to collaborate and ultimately to overthrow an entrenched regime.

The court, for example, declared that the meeting with real estate lobbyists can not still qualify as an official act, and Silver's use of a government letterhead can't serve by itself as proof of an official act.

The Supreme Court said that in the future, bribery - related charges would require that any official act performed as part of a quid pro quo would have to involve a formal exercise of government power, not just a meeting or a phone call.

· Amend The Penal Law To Prohibit Undisclosed Self - Dealing By Public Officials: To address the Supreme Court's decision in Skilling, which severely hampered the federal government's ability to prosecute cases involving deprivation of «honest services» by public officials, New York State should enact a felony - level crime of «Undisclosed Self - Dealing» to target public officials who further their own financial self - interest while purporting to be acting on behalf of their constituents or government Officials: To address the Supreme Court's decision in Skilling, which severely hampered the federal government's ability to prosecute cases involving deprivation of «honest services» by public officials, New York State should enact a felony - level crime of «Undisclosed Self - Dealing» to target public officials who further their own financial self - interest while purporting to be acting on behalf of their constituents or government officials, New York State should enact a felony - level crime of «Undisclosed Self - Dealing» to target public officials who further their own financial self - interest while purporting to be acting on behalf of their constituents or government officials who further their own financial self - interest while purporting to be acting on behalf of their constituents or government employer.

For example, if Cohen could succeed in persuading administration officials to approve the merger AT&T is seeking with Time Warner, then that conduct could be the kind of formal government action that could constitute an official act.

The appeals court said Judge Valerie E. Caproni's instructions to jurors in 2015 did not comply with a later U.S. Supreme Court decision that narrowed the acts required to convict public officials in a quid pro quo bribery scheme to formal exercises of government power, not just meetings or telephone calls.

They have since U-turned on both the timing and the scale of the austerity measures; Cable claims he was persuaded of the case for deep and early cuts, «not by other politicians, but by talking to the most senior officials in the government and the central bank [who said] that we had to act».

The 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals found that there was sufficient evidence to convict the veteran legislator in two corruption schemes, but jury instructions didn't comply with a new Supreme Court decision narrowing the type of acts required of public officials in a quid - pro-quo bribery scheme to formal exercises of government power.

At Silver's trial jurors were told they could convict based on «any action under color of official authority» by Silver, but the 2d Circuit said the Supreme Court ruling required a «formal exercise of government power,» rather than lesser acts like just making a phone call or having a meeting.

The Supreme Court held that these acts were not official acts for purposes of proving bribery because they did not constitute some formal exercise of government power.

The Supreme Court, in a case last year involving former Virginia Gov. Robert McDonnell, ruled that corruption convictions could only be based on performance of an «official act» that represented a formal exercise of government power — not just a phone call or a meeting with a lobbyist.

Silver's retrial began last week, and Skelos is scheduled to be retried later this year, both on the narrower theory that official acts must be formal government actions.

A Trump administration official said the administration wanted to stabilize health insurance markets, but refused to say if the government would promote enrollment this fall under the Affordable Care Act or pay for the activities of counselors who help people sign up for coverage.

Child Victims Act Since 2006 Safe Horizon has taken an increased leadership role in advocating for passage of the Child Victims Act by organizing an energetic, statewide coalition of survivors and advocates, leading press conferences with key government officials, advocating directly with lawmakers in Albany, and more.

Percoco's defense against the federal bribery charges — that one has to be a state employee in name, if not in fact, in order to act as a public official — troubles good government groups.

Since 2006 Safe Horizon has taken an increased leadership role in advocating for passage of the Child Victims Act by organizing an energetic, statewide coalition of survivors and advocates, leading press conferences with key government officials, advocating directly with lawmakers in Albany, and more.

But in a 2016 ruling in a Virginia case, the high court said «official acts» by an elected official had to include specific use of government power, rather than acts that could be perceived as «constituent services.»

Percoco's defense against the federal bribery charges — that one has to be a state employee in name to act as a public official — troubles good government groups.

The jury instructions in the Percoco case spell it out: «The Government must prove that Mr. Percoco knew that he was expected to perform an official action act in exchange for the property that he allegedly obtained from CPV and COR Development, respectively.»

«Although the government principally advanced a theory that Dean Skelos's arrangement for or participation in certain meeting constituted circumstantial evidence of a quid pro quo for legislative votes, it also argued in the alternative that the meetings themselves satisfied the official - act requirement,» the panel wrote in their decision.

«The Commanding Officer 93 Battalion, Lieutenant Colonel IB Gambari commands his unit effectively and professionally and was only being vilified by some people / government of Taraba State for his refusal to act outside his professional duties or do the biddings of some government officials.

«We were just joking in our office that everyone on the second floor should resign and become a volunteer paid by the campaign, because we don't know of any laws that prohibit volunteers from acting on behalf of an elected official,» said John Kaehny, executive director of good government group Reinvent Albany.

The Supreme Court, in overturning the conviction, narrowed what could be considered an «official act» when related to accusations of corruption — only concrete, formal government actions, not things like setting up meetings or other acts of political courtesies are «official acts,» the court said.

The ministry official, who is the Director of Public Relations and Protocol, Dama NPD, said the N13million loan request made to the Acting Director General of the National Broadcasting Commission (NBC) was to enable the Minister lead a delegation of other five officials of the ministry to cover the ticket, hotels and other logistics to attend the United Nations World Tourism Organisation conference in conjunction with the Government of the People's Republic of China, under the overall theme «Tourism for Peace and Development.»

In its ruling, the high court narrowed the definition of what constitutes an «official act» by a politician, making it more difficult for prosecutors to obtain convictions in cases in which it can not be made clear to jurors exactly what a politician did in return for money or services received from someone or an entity hoping to improperly influence government.