Sentences with phrase «public officials said»

Asked how the ban will be enforced, public officials said they will rely on residents to police each other.

kinda funny adelina... im not an atheist and im offended by public officials saying any religious statement from the government pulpit.

What public officials say matters.

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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.

DNR officials said in a news release that part of the withdrawal would serve residential customers in Mount Pleasant, satisfying the public use requirement.

The FBI is investigating whether Donald Trump's associates coordinated with Russian officials in an effort to sway the 2016 presidential election, Director James Comey said Monday in an extraordinary public confirmation of a probe the president has refused to acknowledge, dismissed as fake news and blamed on Democrats.

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 same can not be said for the Trump administration's top health officials — a substantial departure from the Obama administration's prominent public information campaigns and unusual considering the federal government is still tasked with enforcing the law.

The official said the EPA chief has alienated colleagues by jockeying for the role of attorney general, a position currently held by Jeff Sessions, who has come under frequent public criticism from Trump.

Bollore, whose logistics empire is a powerhouse in former French colonies across West Africa, is suspected of corrupting foreign public officials and complicity in corruption, his lawyer has said.

«They gave immunity to the very person you would most want to prosecute, which is the person who destroyed official public records after there was a subpoena and after there was a prosecution order,» Gowdy said.

And CEO Bill Doyle is making overtures to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who has final say on the deal, before any official offer is made public.

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.

Local government officials have approached his organization, because they worry whether their next development project will be the target of public protests, Ma said.

Guy Verhofstadt, European Parliament's Brexit coordinator, said that public comments made by EU officials are calls to negotiate rather than criticism.

The Fed should follow rules when making policy to give the public a better understanding of the central bank's actions, Fed official Loretta Mester said.

President Donald Trump will not assert executive privilege to block fired FBI Director James Comey from testifying on Capitol Hill, the White House said Monday, setting the stage for a dramatic public airing of the former top law enforcement official's dealings with the commander in chief.

«Among Mr. Giuliani's missions,» The Times said, «was the job of convincing public officials that they could trust Purdue because they could trust him.»

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.

The integration will allow passengers to plan trips that combine public transportation with Uber rides and walking, TransLoc officials said.

WASHINGTON, Nov 1 - The federal government will cover 100 percent of emergency power and public transportation costs through Nov. 9 for the areas of New York and New Jersey that were hit hard by superstorm Sandy, officials said on Thursday.

«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.

The other is the argument by public safety officials who say that fingerprinting drivers is necessary for safety.

Earlier in the day, Paypal said it had canceled plans to open a facility in Charlotte, N.C. for 400 employees after officials in that state passed a law that withdrew protections for transgender people to use public restrooms that match their gender identities.

Despite the public outcry, many analysts think Britain will still sanction the takeover, since officials have already said any threats to media competition will be resolved with Sky News» spin - off.

«If I'm a senior official in Moscow, I'm feeling pretty good about this division and the public disarray on the US's Russia policy,» Kauzlarich said.

«In response to intense public demand to make a film or television series about the coup bid, our firm has taken the decision to make the film «Valley of the Wolves — Coup»,» the production company Pana Film said in a statement on its official Twitter account late Monday.

Still, public health officials say the possibility of infection warrants preventive measures, and some Olympic athletes attending are taking some creative — some might even say extreme — steps to protect themselves.

«We can define a conflict of interest as a situation in which a person has a private or personal interest sufficient to appear to influence the objective exercise of his or her official duties as, say, a public official, an employee, or a professional.»

California and federal officials have cracked down on a major compounding pharmacy they say posed a threat to public safety, but their actions are worsening shortages of medications that doctors rely on to keep their patients out of pain.

Whitmarsh declined an interview, but did say his correspondence with the government began after reading in the media that officials said the Public Service Agency could do the review because they said they weren't involved in the firings.

But in our interview, Baquet did say there were a few instances while he was managing editor in which he regretted holding back details from the public due to ominous warnings from intelligence officials over potential consequences.

The idea was to establish a record that will allow for better questions from senators when Cohen is summoned back for public testimony, the official said.

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.

«I sat here and watched my house start coming apart,» Kendrick said, who sheltered with city officials in public building a block from his house.

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

«It's about time that our public officials started telling us the truth,» said one former Trump adviser who remains close to the White House.

The Financial Services Authority, Indonesia's financial services regulator known as the OJK, is preparing a regulation that would allow local financial technology companies to lend money directly to customers to provide more financing choices for the public, its senior officials said on Tuesday (14/02).

A brief report issued by Tianshan Net, an official news Web site for Xinjiang, said that in Hanairike Township in Hotan, a crowd wielding weapons «assembled in a disturbance, and the public security authorities took emergency action and detained people taking part, rapidly quelling them.»

It was not immediately clear what they were searching for, but the officials said that there was no immediate threat to public safety.

There is no comprehensive public accounting of the Saudi government's investments in the United States, although American officials say $ 750 billion is a plausible figure.

Government officials say the new head of the top U.S. public health agency has asked for a cut to his record - setting pay.

T - Mobile's John Legere and Sprint's Marcelo Claure met with FCC officials and laid out much the same case that the companies have presented in public since announcing T - Mobile's proposed purchase of its smaller rival on April 29, said the official.

During an intense hour of oral arguments, Massachusetts officials said the issue was more about public safety and pedestrian access on local sidewalks.

A wise public official after observing politics in an American city for a number of years said that he would prefer having the city run by elected officials with all the dangers which that involves to administration by political experts; for the politicians often have a human kindness and mercy which the experts lack.

When saying Merry Christmas has become a bad thing, when we can no longer have the peoples vote counted and respected by judges and elected officials, when health care for aids and other associated dieses is covered, when kids in school have to be subjected to demonstrations of gay bedroom life when the mayor of NY will no longer without reason and against the law rent churches public buildings, when teen pregnancies up 45 percent will be paid for by us the people of the US with all the cost completely covered.

The diplomats — officials in charge of New York consulates separate from United Nations missions — say they are hard pressed to explain to their governments and the news media back home why scores of people remain in detention, usually on minor immigration charges, at a time when the United States seeks the support of public opinion abroad for its war on terrorism.

Here the Pope says yes: «When it is not possible to overturn or completely abrogate a pro-abortion law, an elected official, whose absolute personal opposition to procured abortion was well known, could licitly support proposals aimed at limiting the harm done by such a law and at lessening its negative consequences at the level of general opinion and public morality.»

Against a background of these events and actions, in which more than fifty congregations are now involved and in which hundreds of people have gained experience in dealing with elected and appointed authorities, the story of the Nehemiah Project can he understood As Saul Alinsky said: «The relevant skill in modern urban life is that of knowing how to hold public officials accountable» — and that, as we shall see, is what EBC and the Nehemiah Project have been all about.