Sentences with phrase «over authority»

One of the few places legislators have direct influence over the authority is in the appointment of commissioners.

Then there is the constant uncertainty over the authority's finances.

The Borno youth vigilantes, commonly called Civilian JTF had Tuesday afternoon refuted ongoing media reports that Boko Haram insurgents have taken over the authority of Bama...

An appellate court handed the charter network its first victory over Mayor de Blasio in a battle over authority for prekindergarten classes.

In 1934, the AMM celebrated its centenary by creating the Madura Mission Sangam to which the AMM with the approval and urging of the ABCFM handed over its authority.30 The Madura Mission Sangam consisted of missionary, church and institutional delegates: twenty - four Indians, eighteen Americans, twenty - five men and seventeen women.31 It was organized in committees to carry out the work of all departments formerly in the AMM.

An appellate court handed the charter network its first victory over Mayor de Blasio in a battle over authority for prekindergarten classes.

Cuomo this week introduced legislation that would remake the MTA board's leadership that would allow him to gain full control over the authority.

The issue remains the same which is «would our president give over his authority to someone else because of his religion?»

His friend and Youth for Christ co-worker Chuck Templeton had been challenging him with questions over the authority of the Bible.

A long - awaited management reorganization plan released Monday by Jesse Madison, the Chicago Park District «s chief executive, prompted rare conciliatory comments from park board President Walter Netsch, with whom Madison had been battling over authority at the agency.

His aides review and comment on PACB resolutions, but he has no voting or pre-audit power over authority spending.

As chairman of the New York State Senate Energy Committee which is charged with oversight of the New York State Power Authority, George exercised undue and unusual influence over the Authority in securing jobs for his friends and family, many of whom we will reveal next week.

But some officials in Hempstead — with whom Maragos has feuded over his authority to audit the town's animal shelter — have grumbled privately that the comptroller employs one of his family members in his office.

Since then, Mr. Thompson has instituted what he has called tougher measures on transparency and management and has endured criticism over the authority's abrupt firing late last year of 19 employees.

ALBANY — From Hudson Valley trains to Nassau County bus shelters and Coney Island subways, Joseph J. Lhota, the chairman of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, seemed to have an answer Thursday for every question at a hearing over the authority's part of the proposed state budget.

But by April of the following year, after facing strident resistance from lawmakers over the authority of the commission, Cuomo announced the investigation would disband after a deal was reached with legislators over a new package of ethics reforms Cuomo said obviated the need for the commission.

«A lot of the policies of the department have just been stepping over the authority of a locally - elected school board to make decisions that are in the best interest of their community and students,» said Erika Hoffman, legislative advocate for the California School Boards Association.

Sixty - three women were burned to death as witches in the small town of Wisensteig in Germany in 1563 at a time of intense debate over the authority of God over the weather....

In 2011 API brought suit with other parties against the EPA over its authority to regulate greenhouse gases, stating that «EPA professes to be 90 to 99 % certain that «anthropogenic emissions of greenhouse gases are primarily responsible for «unusually high planetary temperatures», but the record does not remotely support this level of certainty» (Goldman and Rogerson 2013), a statement that flew in the face of the prevailing scientific consensus (IPCC 2007).

Former city comptroller Bill Thompson took over the authority's board last March and he named Gayle Horwitz president of the Authority last week.

Willis plays the police chief who leads the first response team, but after a bad hostage experience in Los Angeles, he has retired to Ventura County to avoid just such adventures, and hands over authority to the sheriff's department.

But on Tuesday afternoon, Mr. Cuomo pressed for even greater control over the authority's board.

The governors of New York and New Jersey exert influence over the authority's operations, however, as indicated in emails published recently by the public radio station WNYC, which show intense interaction between the Cuomo administration and Foye in the wake of the George Washington Bridge scandal.

The larger issue is how a company can attract and keep the best managers when they know the real boss isn't going anywhere, and when he does, a family member may have the inside track to taking over authority.

But that was in the backdrop of taking over authority that had been run by Labour for 34 years,» he says.

But that was in the backdrop of taking over authority that had been run by Labour for 34 years,» he points out.