Sentences with phrase «other high officials»

In this detailed inside story of a war - torn White House, Bob Woodward reveals how White House Chief of Staff Andrew Card, with the indirect support of other high officials, tried for 18 months to get Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld replaced.

Not exact matches

Quite apart from the argument over OSFI - style oversight, the former federal official and others stress this segment of the market at least requires more transparency and clearer data so regulators and the Bank of Canada can better understand the credit landscape and the extent of high - risk loans issued by private lenders.

Hoffman and other high - ranking officials took turns filling the void, but he says it was «only so long before clients started to feel there was no one giving them full - time attention.»

In 1969, government officials noticed that 155 people with high incomes were legally using so many deductions and other tax breaks and that they were paying absolutely nothing in federal income taxes.

I wonder whether he also told Trump that Japan's high - ranking officials from foreign, defense and other government agencies were conducting consultations in Sendai, Japan last Thursday and Friday with their Chinese counterparts on contested maritime borders in the South China Sea.

Barack Obama, Bill Clinton, and other high - ranking current or former U.S. government officials have visited or praised Gülen - related persons and entities.

Shulkin's job of overseeing the nation's biggest integrated health - care system was widely considered to be hanging by a thread, along with that of other high - level officials in the Trump administration.

The White House proposed «red flag» laws that would allow law enforcement officials to remove firearms from people who are deemed a danger to themselves or others in hopes of preventing shootings like the one at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School.

Icahn says neither he nor anyone in his office has spoken with Trump or any other high - ranking White House official since August.

One of the high - profile evacuees was none other than shock radio host Rush Limbaugh, who obliquely announced he was leaving after previously urging his listeners in Florida to ignore official warnings.

As U.S. Trade Representative Robert E. Lighthizer, Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin and other officials head to Beijing this week for high - stakes trade talks with Chinese counterparts, they seek to correct an economic relationship with China that has become increasingly unbalanced — and, over the long term, dangerous — for the United States and other nations.

The Court was less than clear about the precise contours of the «high duty» it imposed on other government officials.

On a serious note, it pains me greatly to see our high - ranking government officials pandering to and dancing with these religious perverts and other enemies of liberty.

«If there is any fixed star in our const.itutional constellation, it is that no official, high or petty, can prescribe what shall be orthodox in politics, nationalism, religion, or other matters of opinion or force citizens to confess by word or act their faith therein.»

But again you are incorrect we see from history that Christianity was embraced by Kings, high - servants of kings, roman officials and military, other people of «great influence»

Among the «high crimes and misdemeanors» that, under other political circumstances, would surely constitute the Constitutional grounds for impeachment are these: the President and his top officials pressured the Central Intelligence Agency to put together a National Intelligence Estimate (NIE) on Iraq's nuclear weapons that both the administration and the Agency knew to be patently dishonest.

While two officers served short sentences in El Salvador, Montano and other high - level officials were never tried by Salvadoran authorities in the priests» killings.

Many of the key contributors became high ranking officials in the subsequent Bush administration, including the vice president, secretary of defense, deputy secretary of state, under secreatary of state for global affairs, the president's chief of staff, the president of the World Bank and the US ambassador to Afghanistan, Iraq and to the UN (amongst others).

In its wake, alleged victims of sexual abuse are suing the archdiocese and other high - ranking church officials because the report states the archdiocese knowingly withheld the identity of predator priests.

The document was sent to all member churches, asking them «to prepare an official response to this text at the highest appropriate level of authority, whether it be a council, synod, conference, assembly or other body.»

Other persons, including high officials of the Church, have said that Liberation Theology is dying.

It may be an arrangement that factors out different aspects of the school's common life to the reign of each model of excellent schooling: the research university model may reign for faculty, for example, or for faculty in certain fields (say, church history, or biblical studies) but not in others (say, practical theology), while paideia reigns as the model for students, or only for students with a declared vocation to ordained ministry (so that other students aspiring to graduate school are free to attempt to meet standards set by the research university model); or research university values may be celebrated in relation to the school's official «academic» program, including both classroom expectations and the selection and rewarding of faculty, while the school's extracurricular life is shaped by commitments coming from the model provided by paideia so that, for example, common worship is made central to their common life and a high premium is placed on the school being a residential community.

The country's top executives, with MOAI Minister U Myint Hlaing and other government officials, recognized high - performing farmers and farmer groups, extraordinary farm products, and organizations — the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) included — that have supported the development of the country's agriculture sector.

Poor officiating decisions been this way all year the officials are performing terribly poor finishing been this way all year laca will do better next year auba is to new to the club and epl he is finding how mich effort you need the hard way he should of scored and that is a blatant foul on mustafi people keep saying he put his hands up when he was hit, well that is the natural reaction when back pedaling eyes on ball and someone plants there feet and pits a shoulder in your back your arms come up its nature but we suffered again from poor finishin i do nt care what sport that is high action especially football and hockey of you do nt finish your chances you create when on top the other side most likely will when they get theres its been ou achilles heel this year we.cant kill games because we have missed our created.chances

Besides watching every game on film and fielding the complaints of outraged general managers, Kuharich assigns officials to games — there are 45 NFL officials of whom 35 are used every weekend — keeps tabs on other officials, college and high school, who would like to get into professional football and, of course, makes certain that the officials he has now are always in control of the game.

And though the Bears received a trophy — «I mean, it must be about three feet high,» Herrera marveled in his collect call that night — there was no formal presentation or other official act recognizing that Bowie had won Texas's inaugural baseball championship.

We have seen this approach from opposing teams before (Stoke) and although I understand why Wenger is pleased when his team takes the high ground, is it time for us to start being smarter and make sure that the officials do not let other sides give us the rough treatment and kick us out of our football flow?

@SeedyJ Bonus payments and such are a high risk, I suspect this has more to do with a mutual hatred for Arsenal that other clubs and officials share.

Referees and linesmen are ambitious, especially at the highest levels and that allows the corrupters to profit from their eagerness to advance, in order to influence the results of a game.Add in the already inherent subconscious bias referees bring to every game, the stresses that can disturb their concentration during a game, the fear they have of being demoted, the ubiquitous competition and rivalry that top level officials always have between them and others, and we have a great cocktail that can be easily exploited by dishonest forces.

If the situation with this last penalty is raised for analysis at high level there will be no consequence: nine out of ten officials will say it was a clear penalty and let's consider this: what if it was the other way around?

One way, I believe, to address the problem of under - reporting and increase the chances a concussion will be identified early on the sports sideline may be to rely less on athletes themselves to remove themselves from games or practices by reporting concussion symptoms (which the most recent study shows occurs at a shockingly low rate, [9] or on game officials and sideline observers to observe signs of concussion and call for a concussion assessment, but to employ technology to increase the chances that a concussion will be identified by employing impact sensors designed to monitor head impact exposure in terms of the force of hits (both linear and rotational), number, location, and cumulative impact, in real time at all levels of football, and in other helmeted and non-helmeted contact and collision sports, where practical, to help identify high - risk impacts and alert medical personnel on the sideline so they can consider performing a concussion assessment.

Smalley and other officials have pointed out that the Art Institute of Chicago, the Field Museum and other major cultural facilities routinely appoint directors from the highest ranks of industry and society whose sole function is to produce donations.

An African - American boy was reportedly punched in the head by teammates on his high school football team and subjected to hate speech, while game officials and coaches allegedly looked the other way.

At a recent Library Board meeting that drew City Council members, homeowners groups and other city leaders, library and park officials agreed to form a committee to explore using land south of 95th Street, near Neuqua Valley High School, for the proposed facility.

As I noted in an earlier post, Mission: Readiness, an organization of former high - ranking military officials concerned about obesity and other health problems in military recruits and personnel, has issued a hard - hitting defense of USDA's school nutrition standards.

As officials identified 17 people killed in the shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla., some of the victims, like teacher Scott Beigel, 35, were remembered for having tried to spare others in the moments of chaos that unfolded inside the school.

«We all remember her incoherent advocacy of this monstrous bill; we owe it to each other and our children to demand a higher standard from our elected officials.»

Also at noon, NYC Council Speaker Corey Johnson and other officials encourage low - income New Yorkers to refrain from requesting rapid tax refunds that charge high interest rates, City Hall steps, Manhattan.

Also at 11 a.m., state Sen. James Sanders and other elected officials, community groups and advocates for a Community Peace March and Call to Action Summit in light of recent killings of teenagers in Far Rockaway, Far Rockaway High School, 821 Bay 25th St., and Ocean Bay Community Center, 57 - 10 Beach Channel Drive, Queens.

SYRACUSE, N.Y. - Dozens of politicians, business leaders, union officials and others could be mentioned during the upcoming corruption trial of a high - ranking New York official, two Syracuse developers and another business executive, according to a list released by the court Friday.

At 7 p.m., state Senate Democratic Leader Andrea Stewart - Cousins, Sen. Todd Kaminsky, Board of Regents Chancellor Betty Rosa and other elected officials attend a forum on providing diploma options for students, South Side High School Auditorium, 140 Shepherd St., Rockville Centre.

The roundtable will assess the on - going fight against corruption, and is expected to come up with key programme agenda for among others mobilising Nigerians to get involved in the fight against corruption, and agenda for increasing the tempo of the anti-corruption fight including by revisiting outstanding cases of high - level official corruption and prosecuting high - ranking public officials.

Kaminsky and Brooks appeared with other Democratic Senate leaders Saturday afternoon in Rockville Centre at South Side High School to unveil the proposed legislation with school officials, students and the advocacy group Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America.

In fact, board members of the Friends of the High Line group and the Real Estate Board of New York have donated a combined $ 370,000 to her campaign and Jamestown has spent more than $ 670,000 lobbying to her and other officials.

ALBANY — Outgoing state education commissioner John King hopes to help school leaders in other states navigate the difficult transition to the Common Core standards and related standardized testing in his new position as the second - highest ranking official in the U.S. Department of Education.

Despite that drama and the nail - biting tension it caused for Chancellor Nancy Zimpher and other state higher education officials, it went down with a whimper, not included in the budget passed by the state Senate this week.

Some senior Cuomo aides, waiting for the next shoe to drop, have stopped taking calls from other high - level state officials and many, including longtime loyalists to the governor, are talking privately about lasting damage to their reputations from what they believe is Bharara's widening probe, the sources said.

McCray's excursions have included speaking engagements, award ceremonies and sit - downs with former presidential First Ladies Hillary Clinton and Rosalyn Carter and other high - profile elected officials.

Creeden was the fourth teenager in a row at CPAC to tell me they'd be willing to strengthen federal gun laws in the wake of last week's shooting rampage at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida — a stark contrast to the event's official speakers and many other CPAC attendees.

The machinations with Singh are a stain that involved other high - level town officials and the indictment of Nassau County Executive Edward Mangano, whose base of power is rooted in the town.