Sentences with phrase «only official acts»

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The White House only found out about the meeting when former acting attorney general Sally Yates informed officials two days later.

At the end of the day, ambitious endeavors like the Uniform Regulation of Virtual Currency Businesses Act can only be profitable for American consumers and entrepreneurs if both US officials and innovators can get on the same page.

The Official Residences Act gives the Prime Minister wide latitude to hire household staff «as necessary» — as of July there would seem to have been at least six people minding 24 Sussex, including the chef — but Trudeau is only months removed from taking his own stand on family assistance.

Democrats also say that the dossier was not the only evidence that federal officials used to obtain the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act warrant on Page.

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 precisely for this reason all Christians do not only receive a complete and supposedly concrete natural law which is communicated to them by the official representatives of the Church, they also find out for them - selves the actual requirements of public life, so that all may have as much freedom as possible, a freedom that can act with God in view and thus create that personal finality which receives God himself as its eternal meaning.

He asks, «Am I ever acting only as a private person or only in an official capacity?

Bayern Munich have already signed Hummels and Sanches yet the window opens in 2 months time, we must act quickly and sign players now so in July it will only be about making it official!

«The FA reminds all fans to only purchase FA Cup final tickets through official sources and that ticket touting is a breach of the Violent Crime Reduction Act.»

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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.

The news is significant, not only as it temporarily exonerates Silver — once one of the state's most powerful elected officials — though he can be retried, and the acting U.S. attorney has indicated he will, in fact, seek to take another legal crack at the former Manhattan Democratic lawmaker.

«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.

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.

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 jury only has to find that Silver provided official acts of some kind in order to convict him, Williams complained.

The charge against him read in part, «That you, Robert Obuoha, on or about the 12th day of February, 2016 in Port Harcourt at the Port Harcourt Judicial Division did corruptly give N150, 000 only to Mr. Ishaq Salihu, a public officer and Zonal Head of Operations, Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, South - South Zone, for the purpose of recharge cards and with a view to influencing his decision in a case wherein you are being investigated and thereby committed an offence, official corruption, contrary to Section 13 (1)(a) of the Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Act, 2003 and punishable under section 13 (1) of the same Act.»

But 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.

In the Skelos case, jurors were told that an «official act» can encompass «acts customarily performed by a public official,» including those that further long - term goals or are only steps toward achieving some outcome — language that the Supreme Court later found wasn't specific enough.

«The only exception to this rule is that legislators and their staff acting in their official capacity are expressly exempted from the procurement lobbying law and may communicate with anyone regarding the Casino License RFA.»

«Plan B» involved exploiting a loophole in the Political Parties, Elections and Referendums Act which states that the Electoral Commission can only give official designation to a «lead» campaign group on one side if there's a credible campaign on the other side to officially designate.

Not only that, on April 20, 2016, the EFCC under current Acting Chairman Ibrahim Magu further cleared CCT boss through an official letter with reference number EFCC / P / NHRU / 688 / V.30 / 99 which stated inter alia, «We would like to reiterate the Commission's position in regard to this matter as earlier communicated to you and state that the allegations levelled against Justice Umar were mere suspicion and consequently insufficient to successfully prosecute the offence».

«That you, Bala A. Mohammed, while being the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja, sometime in 2014 in Abuja within the Judicial Division of the High Court of the Federal Capital Territory did accept gratification of a house worth N550, 000,000 (Five Hundred and Fifty Million Naira) only situated at No. 2599 & 2600 Cadastral Zone A04 Asokoro District, Abuja from Aso Savings & Loans Plc as reward for performing your official duties and you thereby committed an offence contrary to Section 18 (b) of the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Act 2000 and punishable under Section 18 (d) of the same Act.»

Thanks to the Library Protection Act, the B&ECPL escaped the worst of Erie County's «Red Budget / Green Budget» disaster of 2004/2005, but Library officials knew it was only a matter of time before the deep cuts that devastated almost all County services would be inflicted on the Library.

Complaints about short - term apartment - rental services such as Airbnb soared in the past year — but there were only 12 inspectors to act on them, a city official said Tuesday.

Not only that, on April 20, 2016, the EFCC under current Acting Chairman Ibrahim Magu further cleared CCT boss through an official letter with reference number EFCC / P / NHRU / 688 / V.30 / 99

Lynch said the mayor, as well as other elected officials, only pays lip service to supporting the police, but fails to act when it counts.

«The Moreland Act commission by law is only supposed to investigate the executive branch and, frankly, the bulk of fundraising has been by statewide officials.

But at a time of national insecurity concerning the fate of the Affordable Care Act, Medicare, and Medicaid, and only a temporary solution in place for the Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP), we believe it is critical for New York's elected officials to clearly share their thinking about the NYHA, one that has the support of 31 State Senators and has passed the Assembly during each of the past three years.

Since 2010, in compliance with the Help America Vote Act, three versions of each vote are kept — the paper ballot, which is preserved for two years and only opened if ordered by a judge, and two digital images, the «official» record and a «redundant backup.»

Echenberg added that their investigation is ongoing and noted that Ashe has only limited «official act» diplomatic immunity, which wouldn't apply to bribery charges.

An illegal act by an officeholder constitutes political corruption only if the act is directly related to their official duties, is done under color of law or involves trading in influence.

The culprit was indeed a doctor, Dr. Edwin J. Goodman and he hoped to profit from his brainchild as follows, from the preamble to the bill» A bill for an act introducing a new mathematical truth and offered as a contribution to education to be used only by the State of Indiana free of cost by paying any royalties whatever on the same, provided it is accepted and adopted by the official action of the legislature in 1897.»

As Capitol Connection previously reported, King was initially set to serve only as acting secretary during the final year of Obama's presidency, but the president is now moving forward with an official nomination, in part due to the support of Senate education committee chair Lamar Alexander (R - TN).

Anti-Tamil legislation was passed over the next 35 years, including the Sinhala Only Official Languages Act, economic conditions worsened, and class divides widened, all of which resulted in riots and rebellions from both the Tamil and Sinhalese populations.

Its KDDI that will act as the official carrier partner though on offer will be only the Wi - Fi only version of the XOOM, one that will be sans 3G or 4G.

The Animal Pedigree Act provides that only one official registry per breed may exist in Canada, and other breeds not recognized by CKC are registered by other registries such as the Canine Federation of Canada and the Working Canine Association of Canada.

A Qualified Rewards Member includes any member of The Ritz - Carlton Rewards Program unless he / she is: (1) a government employee, official or anyone acting on behalf of a government agency or department booking an event on behalf of his / her employing entity; (2) an employee, or someone acting on behalf of a state - owned or state - controlled entity («SOE») booking an event on behalf of his / her employing entity; (3) an intermediary booking an event on behalf of a non-U.S. government entity or SOE; or (4) only for hotels in Asia Pacific: an intermediary booking an event on behalf of any government entity (whether U.S. or non-U.S.) or an SOE.

In an official Blizzard update on the World of Warcraft forums, it was revealed that the act of Deathwing — the malicious, fire - spitting bastard of a dragon — rising from the depths of the earth only to impose his superiority over the land of Azeroth will be represented in - game by a black sky and entire zones suffering sudden deaths at once.

The massive world to explore, the freedom to do whatever you want in it, the little efforts gone into character animation; practically every facet of this game makes me want to inject it straight into my veins, and the newest trailer only accentuated that feeling, with first looks at the Goron and Zora races, official confirmation of fully - fledged voice acting and a proper introduction to Zelda herself, who many fans have already sworn to protect because of how precious she is.

Valiant is a recent project which doesn't even have a trailer or official artwork (although there was a playable demo on Void's booth, developed in a whopping 42 days) with an interesting premise: an open world, 2 - player cooperative RPG set in a vast land with a very complex morality system, ranging not only from your dialogue actions or how violent you act in missions, but even if you initially ignore the plea for help from a sidequest - giving NPC.

We hope that BEYOND's recognition as an Official Selection of the Tribeca Film Festival will only act as a catalyst to create more emotionally - charged games that explore mature themes,» said David Cage, founder of Quantic Dream.

If those storms weren't a wake - up call to every elected official that we need to act on climate, we can only hope the congressional Republicans» choice of location will help open their eyes to the reality of what's at stake — but we certainly don't expect it.

In keeping with strictures of the BC Evidence Act 1881, and ultimately the UK Evidence Act 1845 before that, the only official version of a statute in BC remains the printed one issued by the QP itself.

But only a minority of U.S. States have endorsed the Uniform Electronic Legal Material Act proposed by the Uniform Law Commission to encourage the publication of official versions of online legal materials in a format that can be authenticated.

The article notes the official comment on the Uniform Act that says that the working group decided to apply its system test only once, to best evidence, rather than twice (i.e. repeating it as part of authentication).

Secondly, in terms of facts, it was uncontested that the Parliament was only informed three months after the adoption of the Council decision and the signing of the agreement, and even 17 days after these acts had been published in the Official Journal of the EU.

In 1969 New Brunswick enacted its first Official Languages Act, making it Canada's first and only officially bilingual province.

As noted in that post, consular officials are only entitled to functional immunity from prosecution, i.e immunity in respect of acts performed in the exercise of her consular functions, and may be arrested for grave crimes (pursuant to a decision of a competent judicial authority).

Acts under «color of any law» include acts not only done by federal, state, or local officials within the bounds or limits of their lawful authority, but also acts done without and beyond the bounds of their lawful authority; provided that, in order for unlawful acts of any official to be done under «color of any law,» the unlawful acts must be done while such official is purporting or pretending to act in the performance of his / her official duties.