Sentences with phrase «power over state governments»

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That is a question no - one seems to be asking in the debate over solar - power subsidies, or the bigger question of who pays for the state government's debt binge.

The deal would maintain the government's so - called golden share in Embraer, a former state enterprise, giving it veto power over certain strategic decisions, including Boeing's current push for a tie - up.

For instance, the criminal case against former minister of economic development Aleksey Ulyukayev — initiated in 2016 by Igor Sechin, head of the state - owned oil company Rosneft — was evidently part of Sechin's struggle against Prime Minister Dmitriy Medvedev's government over power and resources.

African governments have also suffered from deliberate efforts, at the behest of aid agencies with powers over development dogmas, to «shrink the state.»

Most important, Taylor argues, «the practice of execution is a terrorizing tactic that over time creates illegitimate state power»; the eventual result is a corrupt and undemocratic political system — in fact, what else can you expect when you give the government absolute power over life and death?

Similarly, they did not merely say there should be separation of church and state; rather, they actually separated them by (1) establishing a secular government on the power of «We the people» (not a deity), (2) saying nothing to connect that government to god (s) or religion, (3) saying nothing to give that government power over matters of god (s) or religion, and (4), indeed, saying nothing substantive about god (s) or religion at all except in a provision precluding any religious test for public office.

In its current ossified form, the British state offers an unpalatable mix of medieval hierarchy and techno - authoritarianism, symbolised in recent weeks by an enthroned Queen Elizabeth II announcing plans to deepen the government's already vast powers of electronic surveillance over her subjects.

Klein can over play his hand one way: Being seen as denying significant power to Sen. Andrea Stewart - Cousins, the Democratic minority leader who would be the first black woman to hold the majority leader post in state government.

The leaders in the Republican - led Senate and Democratic - controlled Assembly on Monday indicated they would push to change Gov. Andrew Cuomo's plan to require local governments to develop ways of sharing services and scale back his efforts to expand his office's powers over the state budget.

Over the past two decades, the government has proceeded to take over control of all state institutions and resources to maintain its hold onto poOver the past two decades, the government has proceeded to take over control of all state institutions and resources to maintain its hold onto poover control of all state institutions and resources to maintain its hold onto power.

At 9 a.m., the state Senate Committees on Investigations and Government Operations, on Energy and Telecommunications, and on Aging hold a joint public hearing on the power outages in the Hudson Valley over the past two weeks, Legislative Office Building, Van Buren Hearing Room A, second floor, Albany.

The package would require public disclosure of every legislator's outside clients and income, establish an ethics commission with robust investigative powers over both the legislative and executive branches — and institute other measures to introduce badly needed transparency and accountability into our state government.

The House of Representatives, the White House and several states on Wednesday settled a lawsuit over appropriations for the 2010 health law, resolving years of fighting over the balance of powers between the branches of government.

We'll look at the main areas being suggested for further devolution in Scotland by the Smith Commission — powers over the economy and the Welfare State — and examine how they apply to Wales; and then look at how devolution to England and the recommendations of UK Government's Cabinet committee under William Hague will impact on the workings of the UK, and what its future should be.

Not just New Labour's overwhelming desire to amass all sorts of information about the individual and New Labour's managerial model of how to govern but also, in particular, a steady shift away from «justice» and towards «control»: towards the arbitrary, unconstrained use of power through the regular invocation of states of exception (terror legislation and Iceland is in this category); the creation of catch - all legislation whose operational interpretation is at the whim of the police (photography, questioning individual police officers); government attempts to constrain the judiciary through tick - the - box sentencing guidelines, and at an individual level examples such as David Milliband's quite disgraceful prevarication over torture allegations.

Consider the time he waited to indict Shelly Silver, the decades - long speaker of the Assembly, a sphinx - like figure who stood as permanent pillar of power over successive governments in Albany, until the day after Silver stood on stage with Cuomo at the annual State of the State address.

From 2011 to 2015, DEAN SKELOS served as Majority Leader and Co-Majority Leader of the New York State Senate, a position that gave him significant power over the operation of New York State government.

He said the administration also made impacts through the National Home Grown School Feeding Programme, which feeds 3,065,000 pupils in 14 states and has employed 36,000 cooks across the country; the Conditional Cash Transfer that has seen about over 30,000 households benefit from the N5, 000 monthly stipend; the Government Enterprise and Empowerment Programme under which about 120,000 people have benefited from the cooperative loans; and the N - power that has employed 200,000 people.

He said, «We will use local, state and federal power to take over Ekiti from a rapacious government being run by a brigand in Ekiti.

Speaking on the recent renouncement of cultism in the state by over 500 suspected cultists, the CP expressed happiness that the Bayelsa State government through the House of Assembly amended the anti - cultism law which gave the police certain powers in collaboration with the magistrate to make sure people who are involved in cultism, secret society and those who harbour them are brought to state by over 500 suspected cultists, the CP expressed happiness that the Bayelsa State government through the House of Assembly amended the anti - cultism law which gave the police certain powers in collaboration with the magistrate to make sure people who are involved in cultism, secret society and those who harbour them are brought to State government through the House of Assembly amended the anti - cultism law which gave the police certain powers in collaboration with the magistrate to make sure people who are involved in cultism, secret society and those who harbour them are brought to book.

The mayor said she was referring to all parts of state government, then added that New York law affords the governor a lot of power over legislative decisions.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo's efforts over the years to consolidate power in the executive branch have been widely reported — and criticized by state lawmakers and good government watchdogs, who say the executive branch in New York is inherently powerful enough.

The Coalition government has stated that the proposed abolition of CMEC and transfer of its powers to the DWP will enable Ministers to have more direct control, responsibility, and accountability over the: delivery of child maintenance strategic and operational policy, and ongoing and future reform of child maintenance.

At the same time, Fiala may be hoping voters want a lawmaker in Albany — regardless of party — who can bring the same level of contacts and influence in state government that Libous had amassed over decades in power.

One of the counts reads: «That you, Dr. Muazu Babangida Aliyu, being the governor (also known as chief servant) of Niger State from 2007 to 2015; Umar Mohammed Nasko, being the former Commissioner for Environment / Chief of Staff to Dr. Muazu Babangida Aliyu, sometime between April 7, 2015 and December 7, 2015 in Minna within the jurisdiction of this honourable court while being entrusted with dominion over money belonging to Niger State Government dishonestly converted to your own use the sum of N1, 090, 000,000, which formed part of the proceeds of the sale of 16 per cent shares of Niger State in the North South Power Company Limited and thereby committed an offence punishable under Section 312 of the Penal Code.»

To prove the bribery scheme, the government will be tasked with convincing that Mr. Silver was engaged in a quid pro quo with Mr. Taub and the real estate industry, trading the power he wielded over state money and laws that govern real estate for money.

Someone asked me why I am supporting devolution of power when I know that I am contesting to be governor in my state and I told him that I am not contesting to sit over the local government money.

Speaking at the hearing conducted by the Senate's Joint Committee on INEC; and Judiciary, Human Rights and Legal Matters, Saraki stated that the National Assembly had powers to legislate over the electoral body and other agencies of government.

The «beating, radical heart» of the government was shifting power away from the centre to ordinary people, allowing them more choice over services, greater transparency about state spending and greater ability to get involved in running and shaping local services in their communities, he said.

The state government became panicky over Lamido's alleged call on his supporters to cause trouble during the local government election if the party in power tried to manipulate the process and its outcome.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo's goal of seeking broader authority over moving money between state authorities and inking certain contracts isn't about power, but streamling government, he told reporters at a cabinet meeting earlier this afternoon.

In an absolute monarchy, the monarch rules as an autocrat, with absolute power over the state and government — for example, the right to

In an absolute monarchy, the monarch rules as an autocrat, with absolute power over the state and government — for example, the right to The instrumental temperature record provides the temperature of Earth's climate system from the historical network of in situ measurements of surface air

As the Main Event Partner, Microsoft is looking to build partnerships that design solutions in the education sector with technology and the power that the cloud brings, through the Innovation Africa platform that has over 200 government officials comprising of ministers, secretaries of state, deputy ministers, permanent secretaries, and director generals from over 30 countries.

A general State education is a mere contrivance for moulding people to be exactly like one another; and as the mould in which it casts them is that which pleases the predominant power in the government... in proportion as it is efficient and successful, it establishes a despotism over the mind, leading by natural tendency to one over the body.

Because ESSA reins in the federal government's influence over local decisions about academic standards and accountability, states and districts will have more power to decide how best to gauge student progress toward becoming well - rounded.

Passage of the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) last December guaranteed that significant power is being handed from the federal government back to individual states to determine curriculum, assessment guidelines, and control over funding.

OUR friends over at Stop These Things (STT) analyse the dire power issues faced by Victoria and South Australia whose socialist state governments have embraced the unreliable - energy «de-evolution» with predictably devastating results...

The latest resolution calls on Trump and Congress to hand over the power to regulate and permit fossil fuel development on public lands to the states, where the industry has its greatest power and influence over government.

The five - year goal will require the cooperation of state - level administrations with which the central government shares control over the power industry, Taneja said.

Somehow the framers of the US constitution managed to gift the federal government with the power of coercion over individual states.

Governments benefit enormously from any type of alarmism (climactic, financial, security, health, whatever) that strikes the public fancy, as alarmism gives the impetus to further expand state power over the individual.

NOPSEMA has authority over off - shore oil and gas projects, but state governments have some powers too.

Government Power Over Climate Science: On November 15, 1995, the U.S. State Department sent a 30 page document to Sir John Houghton, leader of the IPCC Second Assessment's Chapter 8 (Science), stating «the executive summary and concluding sections of the chapter may need to be revised,» and pointed out a passage noting, «A major issue is whether or not we can state with confidence that we are able to attribute all or part of any observed climate change to human activiState Department sent a 30 page document to Sir John Houghton, leader of the IPCC Second Assessment's Chapter 8 (Science), stating «the executive summary and concluding sections of the chapter may need to be revised,» and pointed out a passage noting, «A major issue is whether or not we can state with confidence that we are able to attribute all or part of any observed climate change to human activistate with confidence that we are able to attribute all or part of any observed climate change to human activities.

This means that, from storage (its «salt battery») alone, Aurora will be capable of powering South Australia far in excess of State Government buildings, the equivalent of over 230,000 homes for 8 hours, or around 35 % of all of the households in South Australia.

The power station will provide the equivalent electricity needs of all of the State's schools, hospitals, police stations, and government buildings over a full year.

Senator Edwards stated «We are paying more for our power because of the influence of the renewable energy proponents over the Federal / State Labor governments and the Greens.»

In South Australia, concerns over high levels of renewables causing grid instability at times of summer peak demand, combined with a couple of large - scale power cuts, have led the state government to propose investing directly in battery storage and a gas - fired power plant.

Governments are starting to take notice, here in the UK AGW is being argued over both the two main political parties as to who is the greener and i know that individual US states and the democrats especially if they win power might also take a look at the US situation and do something there.

It will be a declaration, in my deliberate judgment, that the sovereign power of the people of the United States and Union must hereafter remain incapable of action over territory to which their rights in full dominion have been asserted with the most rigorous authority, and bow to a jurisdiction hitherto unknown, unacknowledged by any department of the government, denied by all through all time, unclaimed till now, and now declared to have been called into exercise not by any change in our Constitution, the laws of the Union or the States, but preexistent and paramount over the supreme law of the land.