Sentences with phrase «powerful public positions»

«The standard to maintain one of the most powerful public positions in our state is something higher than «I have not yet been convicted of a crime,» Bharara said.

Not exact matches

Former Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver dodged a prison sentence in 2015 thanks to a U.S. Supreme Court decision redefining public corruption — but experts said he still faces a mountain of evidence at retrial that he used his powerful position for personal gain.

Other Republicans say they fear that an expected multimillion - dollar media blitz from the state's powerful public - employee unions might panic some upstate senators into backing higher taxes, undermining Skelos» position.

Maybe this is his strategy — stay out of the last leadership race — it's likely to produce a dud, get the position of party chairman, make challenging powerful speeches and articles (he has identified the English democratic defecit, Toque, in his New Statesman article, which is about the best on the issue from any MP see: http://www.newstatesman.com/uk-politics/2010/08/labour-party-english-england), make more of a public name for himself, then stand when the prospects of victory are real.

Dr Bawumia who is gunning for the second most powerful position in Ghana for the second consecutive times, at a public lecture he delivered on Thursday themed: «The State of the Ghanaian Economy — A Foundation of Concrete or Straw.»

New York Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver was arrested Thursday on public corruption charges and accused of using his position as one of the most powerful men in Albany to obtain millions of dollars in bribes and kickbacks masked as legitimate income.

As a former New York City councilwoman and the leader of a network of schools larger than many public school districts, Moskowitz is in a powerful position to influence education policy.

While I do not want to minimize the important and timely federal investment in public education, I worry that those cynics of public education — many of whom occupy powerful political positions — are just waiting in the wings to declare this investment a failure.

«It's not a very powerful office but it is an important position in public education,» he said.

In this position, Lowery will lead Ed Trust's P - 12 team by developing and implementing powerful strategies to focus national attention on inequities in public education as well as the actions necessary to close gaps in opportunity and to improve achievement.

If you hold a highly recognized position (powerful network and influence), if you know key influencers (friends in high places), if you are associated with powerful communities, if you have prestigious degrees or posts, or if you otherwise have public - facing work — yes, you play the field at an advantage.

Their belief in the justice of their cause was absolute and they could take this position because while they worried about influencing public opinion, they could afford to make powerful enemies in industry and government for their activism was unconnected to their professional lives.

Very powerful voices have observed that such a position may be misconceived, not least when, for certain purposes the public or Parliament should be treated as the AG's client.

It is useful to quote key observations by Stadlen J [at paras 126 - 129]: «In my view, notwithstanding the absence in the FTPP proceedings of some of the statutory and non-statutory safeguards which apply to criminal proceedings... [I] n deciding whether it would be fair to admit the hearsay evidence, the requirements both of Article 6 and of the common law obliged the FTPP to take into account the absence of all those [safeguards]... [I] n my judgment, no reasonable panel in the position of the FTPP could have reasonably concluded that there were factors outweighing the powerful factors pointing against the admission of the hearsay evidence... The means by which the claimant can challenge the hearsay evidence are... not in my judgment capable of outweighing those factors... The reality would appear to be that the factor which the FTPP considered decisive in favour of admitting the hearsay evidence was the serious nature of the allegations against the claimant coupled with the public interest in investigating such allegations and the FTPP's duty to protect the public interest in protecting patients, maintaining public confidence in the profession and declaring and upholding proper standards of behaviour... However, that factor on its own does not in my view diminish the weight which must be attached to the procedural safeguards to which a person accused of such allegations is entitled both at common law and under Article 6... The more serious the allegation, the greater the importance of ensuring that the accused doctor is afforded fair and proper procedural safeguards.