Sentences with phrase «public officials at»

Roosevelt's dictum has long been undermined by collective bargaining between employees and public officials at all levels of government.

«It should not be asking too much to expect public officials at least to obey the law.

In a statement released Tuesday afternoon, State Sen. David Carlucci (D - Rockland / Westchester) said, «Like many New Yorkers, I am shocked and outraged over the alleged misconduct undertaken by various public officials at the state, city, and local government.

Other studies have looked solely at federal convictions or public officials at all levels of government.

Instead, a sanitized press release from the governor's office, put together by the former congressman and his wife Ilene, (unread) quoted the man who did not speak as stating, «This glorious day is the fulfillment of a 30 - year dream made possible by the passion and persistence of so many dedicated people, from hard - working public officials at every level to government to devoted community groups across the region.»

I work hard, and I think that's what we need to have in our public officials at every level.

«It should not be asking too much to expect public officials at least to obey the law,» said U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara in a statement.

These are essentially questions of public policy, and if real solutions are going to be found to the problems of disadvantaged children, these questions will need to be addressed, in a creative and committed way, by public officials at all levels — by school superintendents, school - board members, mayors, governors, and cabinet secretaries — as well as by individual citizens, community groups, and philanthropists across the country.

They will argue that Percoco, who left government at one point to work on Cuomo's campaign, wasn't a public official at the time he received the alleged bribes.

«With her great intellect, vision and collaborative nature, Chairman Zibelman has been the right public official at the right time for negotiating truly ground - breaking and challenging terrain,» AEE's Frantzis said.

Not exact matches

He can only regain credibility if he abandons such public naivete, said Steve Sestanovich, a senior fellow for Russian studies at the Council on Foreign Relations and a former State Department official.

On any given day now you can expect to hear at least one economist, public official or financial commentator express grave concern about the mountain of debt Canadians now carry.

John McCarrick, the deputy assistant secretary at the State Department's Bureau of Energy Resources, said his staff helped pave the way for some of the energy supply agreements by meeting with private and public officials in Europe and Asia to promote the strategic value of U.S. energy.

«If you are in a position of public trust, and you talk to, meet, or collude with a foreign power» while trying to subvert normal state channels, «you are, in the eyes of the FBI and CIA, a traitor,» said Glenn Carle, a former top counterterrorism official at the CIA.

The Arthur Liman Public Interest Program at Yale first collected data from state and federal corrections officials in 2014 and again, in more detail, last year, taking what amounts to a comprehensive census on the use of solitary confinement in the U.S. Researchers found that in the fall of 2015, at least 67,442 U.S. prisoners were kept in some kind of restricted housing.

Last month, public health officials cheered as the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) unveiled a surprise proposal aimed at making cigarettes as minimally addictive as possible.

Interior Department officials said the revisions to the Obama - era plans were aimed at increasing flexibility on public lands where the birds reside — not undoing protections outright.

The White House has not put out an official statement confirming the order, just as it has not confirmed that it has frozen grants and contracts at the age ncy, that the agency is not allowed to communicate with the public, or that the EPA will be barred from funding original science.

Japan's Finance Ministry proposed crafting a cover story with a school operator at the heart of a political scandal to justify a discount in the price of public land sold to the school, a ministry official said on Monday.

For example, the CFPOA and FCPA both pursue bribes only to public officials, while the U.K. legislation outlaws any improper payment, including a bribe to a procurement officer at another company.

«If public health and emergency management officials determine that taking potassium iodide is appropriate, the pills will be provided to people at no cost,» the document says, also noting that the pills should only be taken at the instruction of a doctor or safety officials.

ICE officials and Sessions had laid into Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf for warning the local immigrant community about the impending raid, claiming that the tip - off helped lead to «864 criminal aliens and public safety threats» remaining at large.

Interview summaries released previously by the FBI also show at least one official in the State Department telling investigators that there was pressure by senior department officials to mislead the public about the presence of classified information in Clinton's emails ahead of their public release.

Yet, at the same time, perjury is rarely taken seriously, by either law - enforcement officials or the public.

«I started Facebook, and at the end of the day I'm responsible for what happens on our platform» Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg posted after days of the public and government officials waiting for him to speak up about the Cambridge Analytica scandal since it broke Friday.

Over the next two weeks, academics, innovators, business leaders, public officials and youth organization representatives will convene at workshops in San Francisco, Sao Paulo, London, Johannesburg, Oslo, Abu Dhabi, Mumbai and Shanghai to identify tangible opportunities related to five risks threatening our communities: extreme weather, continued lock - in to fossil fuels, urban breakdown, lack of fresh water and continued rise in non-communicable diseases.

ROCKY HILL — Town officials are scrambling to address homeowners» complaints of noise and fumes from truckers using the Wal - Mart parking lot at Town Line Plaza as a rest stop.Although the problem has persisted for many months, it became public this week...

But it let the public know what its officials had at stake in the policies for which they advocated.

20.02.18... The Estonian state needs to understand the necessity of a state reform that would cut the number of officials exercising public authority by half, prominent lawyer and former Minister of Justice Jüri Raidla said in a speech at a meeting dedicated to the centennial of the Republic of Estonia on Monday.

In Denver, Amazon and local officials talked at length about public transit options and the creation of bike lanes, said Mr. Bailey.

Donations to legal defense funds for public officials usually are capped at a certain amount.

And after years of public battles and a very messy public separation from his second wife — which resulted in him moving out of Gracie Mansion, the mayor's official residence — his poll numbers sank and many New Yorkers were eager for a change at City Hall.

The South Florida Sun Sentinel interviewed a dozen relatives, friends, clergy and public officials who were at the ballroom that night.

Village officials hope making the payment will help stave off future downgrades, but the entire hotel boondoggle is already a prime example of a government's misguided priorities in public investment, which comes at the expense of taxpayers.

The 359 - page report was made public as U.S. officials were in Mexico City for the latest round of talks aimed at renegotiating the 1994 North American Free Trade Agreement.

All public officials with total cryptocurrency holdings amounting to at least 10 million won are required to declare their holdings.

To quote the official website, the incentives and bonuses, will be made public only at the time of token sales.

Backup generators roared to life at the island's largest public hospital and at its main international airport, where officials reported no cancellations or delays.

How does he feel entitled to make any claim to be a better Catholic than Santorum (for that is what he's implicitly claiming) on questions that the church rightly leaves to the prudential judgment of voters and public officials, within broad boundaries, when in the next breath he confesses his complete failure to be any kind of Catholic at all on a question on which the church speaks with categorical moral authority?

For instance, in a colorful case involving a city ordinance restricting the practice of animal sacrifice, the Court severely criticized officials for acting out of animosity towards the Santeria religion, which engages in the ritualistic slaughter of pigeons, goats, and turtles (among other animals) and at least sometimes leaves the carcasses along roadsides and in other public places.

If so, it is deeply inconsistent for such officials to grant themselves the right to public religious legitimation and blessing while denying them to the rest of the population, who seek them at public occasions meaningful to their own lives.

At the hands of bureaucrats, bosses, and judges, Christian merchants, universities, schools, hospitals, charities, campus fellowships, students, public officials, employees, and citizens have been fired, fined, shut down, threatened with a loss of accreditation, and evicted for living out traditional convictions about marriage and sexuality.

And I did not want to add to comments that drug up what the courts and public officials have already judged on for years, at the possible expense of hurting Tony's family more than all of them have already suffered.

If we take a look at our Catholic brothers and sisters, we can see how Pope Francis has quickly shifted the public perception of the Catholic Church, even though many of his official positions related to contentious issues remain the same.

Here the church may lend its official public support; supply monies; provide clerical and lay leadership, volunteers, and facilities to programs aimed at redressing social problems in the community which are contributory factors in producing mental illness.

When the Nazi officials on trial at Nuremberg argued in their defense that they had merely obeyed the laws of the state, public opinion quickly agreed that there ought to be a law proscribing such crimes against humanity.

This hubris is in contradistinction to the clear teaching of the Catechism of the Catholic Church» for the Catechism, while assuming a serious dialogue among government officials, just war analysts, and the public, nonetheless teaches (at § 2309) that «the evaluation of these [just war] conditions for moral legitimacy belongs to the prudential judgment of those who have responsibility for the common good.»

The greatest present bar to a mature religious orientation in public education is the assumption that the church and the synagogue are the only appropriate channels for religion, and that anything done about religion in the schools must be accomplished through these channels or at least with the official approval and sanction of the recognized religious officials.

I can not but voice my concern at the increasing marginalisation of religion, particularly of Christianity... relegating it] to the purely private sphere... [such] that Christians in public roles should be required at times to act against their conscience... and the official teaching of the Church.

As a public education official, I am appalled at the prospect of combing through the curriculum one more time to remove potentially offensive elements.