Sentences with phrase «pro quo from»

It would be very hard to observe quid pro quo from irked authors, because it would be remote in time and space from you, when you submit a proposal to NSF say or are up for tenure and people ask about you.

Bingler v. Johnson clearly established that fellowships are «relatively disinterested, no - strings educational grants, with no requirement of any substantial clear quid pro quo from the recipients.»

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«The patent system is based on a «bargain,» or quid pro quo: the inventor is granted exclusive rights in a new and useful invention for a limited period in exchange for disclosure of the invention so that society can benefit from this knowledge,» the court said.

The official said that at one point an FBI colleague received a call from Kennedy in which Kennedy «asked his assistance in altering the email's classification in exchange for a «quid pro quo.»»

What distinguishes taxes from user fees or social insurance premiums is the absence of a quid pro quo between the taxpayer and the government.

The quid pro quo was that IPIC would receive assets of equivalent value from the Malaysian fund by the end of June this year.

Transfer payment: A payment from one party to another without quid pro quo, such as watered costs in the form of economic rent, interest and other payments to the financial and property sectors.

The quid pro quo is that developed nations are to transfer hundreds of billions to the poor countries, in essence, a bribe to keep from fully exploiting the bounteous resources of the continent.

Moreover, the Jews understood from the start that there was a quid pro quo involved in the covenant.

The patients came to Silver from Dr. Robert Taub, a then - Columbia University physician, who in turn received $ 500,000 in state research grants at Silver's direction in a quid pro quo scheme, according to the federal indictment.

«You've heard witness after witness say there was no quid pro quo,» Steven Molo, a lawyer for the Democratic assemblyman from the Lower East side, said during his closing argument Monday in federal court in Lower Manhattan.

The decision from the Second Circuit Court of Appeals was sparked by the U.S. Supreme Court's decision in the case of former Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell, whose conviction was overturned by the nation's highest court in a ruling that narrowed the definition of the types of official acts that could be considered as part of quid pro quo arrangements.

A top State Department official offered a bribe — a «quid pro quo» — to an FBI official in an attempt to declassify certain emails from Hillary Clinton's private server that were previously deemed classified, according to FBI documents released today.

The SEC complaint, filed Thursday in U.S. District Court in Manhattan, alleged that Quadrangle improperly obtained a $ 100 million investment from the New York state pension fund with «quid pro quo» arrangements.

As a quid pro quo to the Power Authority taking care of George's friends and family club members, George, his oversight committee, looked the other way and abrogated his responsibility to not only the taxpayers of his district but to all Western New Yorkers by letting the Cuomo / Silver progressive establishment cartel, in two successive budget bills in 2011 and 2012, sweep $ 600,000,000 from the bank account of the Power Authority to the General Fund of the State of New York — monies that should have been used for the economic benefit of Western New Yorkers.

It rode the Sheldon Silver gravy train for years, reaping a steady stream of asbestos - litigation clients from referrals fed to him in an illegal quid pro quo, but since the former Assembly speaker's January arrest, the law firm of Weitz & Luxenberg has seen a 17 percent drop in new cases, The Post has learned.

Prosecutors argued that this amounted to an illegal quid pro quo for Silver, who the government said steered hundreds of thousands of dollars in state research grants to Taub to keep the patients coming — something the prosecution noted Silver never publicized, allegedly because he wanted to keep attention away from the illicit arrangement.

As the two investigations diverged, the U.S. attorney's office focused almost exclusively on potential quid pro quo arrangements with de Blasio donors from the 2013 campaign, while Vance's office remained focused on complaints referred by the state Board of Elections over whether the mayor violated contribution limits in steering money to Democratic State Senate candidates in 2014.

De Blasio has also consistently made a moral and ethical distinction around the issues money from the Campaign for One New York was used to support, pre-K and affordable housing, to argue that there was no quid pro quo.

But last year, Joseph Bruno, the former GOP leader of New York's Senate, was acquitted of federal corruption charges after prosecutors failed to convince a jury that the Rensselaer County Republican's payments from a businessman who received state grants amounted to a quid pro quo bribery scheme.

The Lower East Side assemblyman's attorneys had tried to keep from jurors certain pieces of evidence, including his allegedly incomplete financial disclosure forms and his attempts to halt construction of a methadone clinic in an alleged quid pro quo with a real estate developer.

Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh is said to expect a «quid pro quo» from the United States to make the deal work, new documents show.

But, Yang noted, the «quid pro quo» Ramesh asks for in his opening letter — particularly, stiffer mitigation targets from the United States — isn't likely to be met.

In Revenue Ruling 57 - 127, the IRS Commissioner determined that funds from a government foundation used by an individual for the purpose of conducting a research project free from direction and control of the institution were not to be considered a fellowship because the foundation reserved rights in patents resulting from the research, thereby establishing a quid pro quo.

The fellowship grant in Spiegelman was considered noncompensatory because it resulted from the «detached and disinterested» largesse of the grantor, requiring no substantial quid pro quo.

But what is conspicuously absent from that discussion is the quid pro quo.

The reason why charter schools have expanded in some states comes from a quid pro quo calculus of being silent on other issues.

The worst book I've read in a decade was from a major legacy publisher and was glowingly reviewed in major fiction review journals because its author works for a major fiction review journal (rhymes with View Pork Mimes) and the quid pro quo rule was in effect.

They also ban quid pro quo gifts to the university from lenders.

If a grateful reader were to send a member a «gift,» it's easy to feel that there was no consideration, but in fact, quid pro quo means «this for that,» and what looks like a gift from a stranger is really taxable income.

Quid pro quo is POV from a 3rd party, usually the auditor.

history lesson - its commonly believed to of derived from the saying «Quid Pro Quo» meaning something exchanged for something similar such as in the past when money was just a ticket to cash in for gold (the real currency).

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Not long after the release of Ross Gelbspan's 1997 «The Heat is On» book, words in its book jacket sleeve about him being a «Pulitzer - winning journalist exposing industry efforts to confuse the public about global warming» drew a response from skeptic climate scientist Dr S. Fred Singer, who categorically denied any quid pro quo arrangement with «big coal & oil», while also directly saying Gelbspan was not a Pulitzer winner.

It deals with the «secret commissions» of agents, and once again, it's designed to prohibit quid pro quo transactions from people in positions of advantage.

The quid pro quo is that companies will receive «cooperation credit» from the SFO, which may prove beneficial when it considers any potential prosecution.