Sentences with phrase «officials after acting»

The United States, which in July said would take «strong and swift economic actions» if President Nicolas Maduro goes ahead with the Constituent Assembly, could also further sanction senior Venezuelan officials after acting against 13 prominent figures last week.

Not exact matches

After months (well, technically, closer to a decade) of wait for an official Republican plan to replace Obamacare, the House Energy and Commerce and Ways and Means committees unleashed legislation dubbed the American Health Care Act (AHCA) late Monday that would nix the existing health law's unpopular mandate to buy insurance and pare back its far more popular expansion of Medicaid for the working poor, among other provisions.

Nor, officials said, was Secretary of State Tillerson informed of the situation until days after the department's acting assistant secretary for Western Hemisphere affairs, Francisco Palmieri, finally called in the Cuban ambassador in Washington, José Ramón Cabañas, to present a diplomatic note of protest on Feb. 17.

Silver's counsel, Allen & Overy partner Michael Feldberg, previewed the defense strategy of attacking the definitive link between an official act and a thing of value to prove a bribery charge after McDonnell v. United States.

Browder said that to protect the vast amounts of money, some of which he said was in American banks, Putin launched a campaign to repeal the Magnitsky Act, a U.S. law that imposed sanctions on Russian officials whom the U.S. held responsible for the 2009 death of Russian lawyer Sergei Magnitsky, who died in a Russian jail after being retained by Browder to investigate corruption.

But after Constantine made Christianity the official state religion, Christians in Rome were less counter-cultural and more complicit in the acts of the empire.

after losing friends and all our safety personnel and the consideration of the families i see no good coming from this and only animousity and ill feelings and betrayal by our public officials in asllowing this to happen... it is deplorable and an insult to the 3,000 dead and the thousands affected by this horrible act and time must pass to heal the wounds before the issue is even discussed.

... [But] School officials started looking into the matter... after an unusual number of girls began filing into the school clinic to find out if they were pregnant» with many of the girls repeatedly returning for multiple tests, and acting disappointed when they found out they were not pregnant.

2 Games for which Alessandro Veronese of the Italian amateur soccer team Battaglia was suspended after kissing a female referee who had ejected him, an act judged «unusually intimate» by officials.

The board was acting after a survey of some 1,500 residents indicated that people wanted a pool and center, officials said.

Last December, after DuPage County board members denied a request to build a gas station and convenience store there, park district officials wanted to act fast.

Shortly after the ruling he fast - tracked the Localism Act's «general power of competence» which he claimed gave principal councils the power back to include acts of worship as part of their official meetings.

Brandon Bostian, the Amtrak engineer who drove a train that derailed in 2015 in Philadelphia and killed eight people, has been charged with involuntary manslaughter after victims» families took advantage of a law that forced officials to act.

In March, acting U.S. Attorney Joon H. Kim of the Southern District issued a statement declining to prosecute de Blasio, but referencing «several circumstances in which Mayor de Blasio and others acting on his behalf solicited donations from individuals who sought official favors from the City, after which the Mayor made or directed inquiries to relevant City agencies on behalf of those donors.»

NEW YORK, NY — Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced today that former New York State Senate Majority Leader DEAN SKELOS was sentenced today to five years in prison after having been found guilty by a federal jury of using his official position to obtain more than $ 300,000 in bribes and extortion payments that were paid to his son, ADAM SKELOS, in exchange for DEAN SKELOS's official acts.

What: Pleaded guilty to a felony charge of denying the public honest services in 2009 after admitting he acted as a consultant for Jamaica Hospital before a state agency official.

It took nearly a year and a half for state officials to warn residents to not drink the water, acting only after the E.P.A. — the very entity that the state now blames for the crisis — had issued such a warning.

The conviction was reversed for faulty jury instructions after the Supreme Court narrowed the definition of an «official act» that must be performed as part of a criminal quid pro quo arrangement.

At least not after the guidance the Supreme Court had handed down in the McDonnell case, which found the justices grappling with what counts as an «official act» under federal anti-bribery statute.

As the agency's special prosecutor, she was one of its highest - ranking officials, and after months of feeling that the agency's acting director had created a «frat - house culture,» including having an inappropriate relationship with a staffer, she confronted him.

The start - up grant was given to the party by the Electoral Commission in 2001 and 2002 in order to help officials understand regulations imposed after the Political Parties, Elections and Referendums Act (PPERA) was passed in 2000.

Journalists reacted with outrage today after the Met tried to use the Official Secrets Act to force the Guardian to reveals its sources in the phone - hacking investigation.

Former state education commissioner John King must recuse himself from decisions directly related to New York, even when he takes over as acting US secretary of education after Arne Duncan steps down, according to a federal official.

Lord Falconer's review comes after increasing concern about the act, following an official report into the killing of Naomi Bryant, which found her killer, Anthony Price, had been released from jail by officers more concerned with his rights than the public's safety.

That ruling, reached six months after the Skeloses were convicted, significantly narrowed the definition of an «official act» as it applies to federal bribery statutes and found that, while the McDonnell case was «distasteful,» it did not rise to the level of public corruption.

After Percoco returned to the state payroll in December 2014, following Cuomo's re-election, prosecutors showed jurors what they insisted were official acts that Percoco took on behalf of Cor.

McDonnell's bribery conviction was tossed last month after the Supreme Court ruled that his conduct — accepting lavish gifts from a businessman in exchange for meetings and a lunch at the governor's mansion — fell short of bribery because the government could not prove he accepted the gifts in exchange for an «official act,» like legislation.

Kim did indicate questionable dealings on de Blasio's part, including «several circumstances in which Mayor de Blasio and others acting on his behalf solicited donations from individuals who sought official favors from the city, after which the mayor made or directed inquiries to relevant city agencies on behalf of those donors.»

Several Labour MPs - including leadership candidate Jeremy Corbyn and former minister Diane Abbott - voted against the bill, despite the party's official stance being to abstain after an amendment tabled by acting Labour leader Harriet Harman was defeated.

This was my first official act when I joined the Rye City Council in June 2012 after a corruption scandal.

DOT officials announced on Feb. 2 that all of the remaining signs would be taken down to make way for a new tourism campaign and signage — a day after Highway Administration acting Administrator Brandye Hendrickson sent a letter to DOT and New York State Thruway Authority officials, saying the federal government would withhold an estimated $ 14 million from the nearly $ 1 billion it gives New York annually for bridge and highway improvements.

Top education officials in New York on Tuesday called for the passage of the Dream Act in the state Senate after the Assembly approved the legislation a day earlier.

A NY1 / Marist poll conducted just hours after Rep. Anthony Weiner's bombshell press conference yesterday finds New Yorkers are actually fairly forgiving of elected officials acting badly — up to a point.

NEW YORK — Solicitor General Barbara Underwood will be the acting New York attorney general after Eric Schneiderman announced he will resign amid accusations he physically abused four women, officials announced Tuesday.

As Kim noted in his statement, federal prosecutors «conducted a thorough investigation into several circumstances in which Mayor de Blasio and others acting on his behalf solicited donations from individuals who sought official favors from the City, after which the Mayor made or directed inquiries to relevant City agencies on behalf of those donors.»

This comes a day after Deputy Attorney General, Joseph Kpemeka indicated that officials suspected of corrupt acts in previous administration will soon be put before court.

After years of inaction, local and state officials are acting to stem the flow of sewage overflows into the badly polluted Scajaquada Creek.

Meanwhile, less than 24 hours after the attacks, the acting President, Yemi Osinbajo, arrived in Maiduguri on Thursday for a one - day official visit, defying the presumed security threat in the state.

After an official investigation concluded last week that the state Legislature, under Silver's direction, paid two female staffers $ 103,000 to stay quiet about Lopez's crude come - ons, two other staffers believe they would not have been harassed had the speaker acted more aggressively, the New York Post reported.

Though previously sentenced to 12 years in prison, Silver appealed his 2015 conviction after a landmark Supreme Court decision changed the definition of what constitutes «official acts» by politicians in corruption cases.

The top court decision, which came shortly after the Skelos and Silver verdicts, clarified what constitutes an «official act» of corruption and defense lawyers in both cases contend that the ruling invalidates legal instructions given to their Manhattan juries.

Labour officials took charge of the process after it was alleged the Unite union had acted unfairly to get its favoured candidate chosen.

The publication of the data comes after last year's spending was released under the Freedom of Information Act, revealing # 25m of previously secret spending by Whitehall officials in the year that the government implemented its deficit reduction programme.

We also filed a scientific petition with California officials to place wolves on the state's endangered list and prepare a recovery plan — and in early June 2014 the California Fish and Game Commission voted to protect wolves under the state Endangered Species Act, just hours after scientists confirmed that OR - 7 — the wolf that wandered into California in late 2011 and returned periodically — had sired pups in southern Oregon.

After five years of acting and activism, including star turns in Hidden Figures and the Oscar winning Moonlight, Monáe's third official full - length offering, Dirty Computer, arrives in glorious widescreen technicolor.

But after adding more categories, including career tributes and TV and acting prizes, the ceremony now functions as the first official stop on the long awards season trail.

Their official story, assembled from selective or alternative facts — Ted heroically tried to save the woman, but a concussion prevented him from acting rationally in the hours after the incident.

Following on from the arrival of a UK poster this past weekend, a new international trailer has debuted for Woody Allen's Irrational Man, which you can watch below after the official synopsis... Woody Allen's IRRATIONAL MAN is about a tormented philosophy professor who finds a will to live when he commits an existential act.

After winning three Oscars for his performances in My Left Foot in 1989, There Will Be Blood in 2007 and Lincoln in 2012, not to mention landing nominations for Gangs Of New York in 2002 and In the Name Of The Father in 1993, acclaimed actor Daniel Day - Lewis is retiring from acting, as indicated in an official statement released by one of his representatives.

Washington — By 1978, three years after the enactment of P.L. 94 - 142, the Education for All Handicapped Children Act, school officials had successfully adopted most of the law's procedural safeguards, according to a federally - supported study of several school districts over a period of four years.