Sentences with phrase «public treasury»

He disclosed that those in that category had been advising the government that it should merely ask the looters of public treasury to return the money and go free.

Using tax credits to fund the scholarships, instead of direct payments from public treasuries, enabled lawmakers to work around state bans on the use of public funds to support religious institutions.

President Buhari has promised to sell them, and return the funds into public treasury.

The corporate education project has nothing to do with growing new generations of smarter, socially aware, independent - thinking citizens, but is designed to raid public treasuries through wholesale contracting - out of public schooling.

In recognition of the resolution of all outstanding issues and finalisation of new investment agreement terms, Simfer paid $ 700 million to the Guinean Public Treasury.

These, of course, differ markedly from the market signals of the 20th century — low energy prices, steady population growth, climbing personal incomes, growing public treasuries, and competitiveness in core industries.

Those are higher energy prices, higher land prices, climbing population, static personal incomes, declining public treasuries, and lack of competitiveness in core industries.

The AASA / ITEP report also claims that TCS policies «divert over $ 1 billion per year toward private schools» instead of public treasuries and district schools.

When the scandal broke, the BC Liberals repaid $ 70,000 to the public treasury.

As the CCPA calculated in our recent tax paper, if B.C. taxed today at the same rates that prevailed in the year 2000, the public treasury would be $ 3.5 billion richer.

These have their place, if they do not invade the public treasury or displace public instruction.

The document clearly states «no money shall be taken from the public treasury, directly or indirectly, in aid of any church, sect or denomination of religion.»

In response to this warning, the editors pointed out that our laws do not «ban God from public life,» but they do ban the bishops from «the public treasury» (March 4, 1959).

No access to the public treasury, which we know how well to abuse and plunder?

It can only exist until the majority discovers it can vote itself largess out of the public treasury» - unknown (frequently attributed to Alexander Fraser Tytler or Alexis de Tocqueville).

It can only exist until the majority discovers it can vote itself largess out of the public treasury.

The third is that the same principle you cited applies - «It can only exist until the [majority stakeholders] discover they can vote themselves largess out of the public treasury.»

But at what cost to the public treasury, and at what burden to the local taxpayer?

«The economic situation my government and I inherited was not the best; both in terms of the growth of our economy and the balances available in the public treasury.

People don't give money to politicians unless they expect much more in return, usually from the public treasury.

And that the citizens of this commonwealth may be assured, from time to time, that the moneys remaining in the public treasury, upon the settlement and liquidation of the public accounts, are their property, no man shall be eligible as treasurer and receiver - general more than five years successively.]

In the said comments, Mr. Tinubu said «The prior government used the public treasury as a private hedge fund or a charity that limited its giving only to themselves,» he said.

Abolish the shadow government of so - called «public authorities» and off - budget, under the radar private corporations draining the public treasuries like the SUNY Research Foundation and HRI (Health Research Incorporated).

Ekiti State Governor Ayodele Fayose has faulted President Muhammadu Buhari's claim that many of those who looted the public treasuries in the government of former President Goodluck Jonathan had started returning the stolen funds to the government, saying the President should rather stay at home to govern the country instead of junketing around the globe and acting like a saint before the international community.

While the additional jobs are a boost for the local economy, their cost to the public treasury has not yet been calculated — or at least disclosed.

«There seems to be a preponderance of the People Democratic Party members standing trial because they had been in power for 16 years, they had access to the public treasury and abused the trust reposed in them.

Money has been sloshing into the public treasury faster than City Hall can spend it, though not for want of trying.

In her judgment Justice Shagari agreed with SERAP that «the Federal Government has a legally binding obligations to tell Nigerians the names of all suspected looters of the public treasury past and present.»

(o) The unprecedented looting of the public treasury via the NNPC took place under the rogue regime of President Goodluck Jonathan has continued unabated under the President Buhari who is currently waging a war against corruption.

Under the proposed law, sponsored by Linus Okorie (PDP, Ebonyi), suspected looters of the public treasury would enjoy full and complete amnesty; not face any probe, inquiry or prosecution; and «shall not be compelled to disclose the source of their looted funds», as long as they invest their ill - gotten wealth in Nigeria.

«In her judgment delivered on 5th July 2017 Justice Shagari agreed with SERAP that «the Federal Government has legally binding obligations to tell Nigerians the names of all suspected looters of the public treasury past and present.

Borno state governor, Kashim Shettima, has told governors in the country to stop looting from the public treasury.

«This is about protecting the public treasury, passing laws in the right manner and certainly the roles and duties of the county comptroller that I was elected to protect and carry forward,» Antonacci said.

Is this a small drain on the public treasury?

The statement partly read, «The PDP faction by its demand to return the country to the years where looting of the public treasury was the order of the day has taken its orchestrated plot to deflect attention from the economic mess it left behind to new insensitive and shameless heights.

But it's not a game changer, and Cuomo didn't so much attract SolarCity to Buffalo as he did raid the public treasury to make them an offer they couldn't refuse.

This is about protecting the public treasury, passing laws in the right manner.

Nevertheless, since releasing the list, the Federal Government has been severely criticised for failing to mention names of APC officials accused of looting public treasury or involved in corruption allegations.

But in February 2012 an official note from the Equatoguinean government to UNESCO stated that the funds were «no longer» provided by the Obiang Foundation, but by the Public Treasury of Equatorial Guinea.

Such a plan places the risk of financial shortfall squarely on the public treasury.

The wage increases were, at best, transfer payments from the public treasury to the teachers — a maneuvering of funds that will neither increase nor decrease the overall social welfare, given that typically a dollar in the hands of one party is worth as much as it is in the hands of another.

Unemployment hovers around 9 percent, salary increases are hard to come by, and public treasuries are steeped in debt.

The state justified denying the benefits on language in its constitution stating that «no money shall be taken from the public treasury, directly or indirectly, in aid of any church, sect or denomination of religion.»