Sentences with phrase «ranking officials in state»

The summit discussions shaped the development of a state plan that was vetted by high - ranking officials in state government and a team of parents, thus ensuring that the plan was politically achievable and realistic for meeting the needs of parents and their very young children.

But as a high ranking official in the state Democratic Party, its amazing that she is openly taking sides in a primary.

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Malik is one of the highest - ranking biopharma officials to date named in the probe by dozens of state attorneys general for alleged price fixing; Mylan is strongly denying the claims.

US officials also believe that Chapo Isidro was previously a high - ranking leader of the Beltrán Leyva Organization (BLO) and was considered the «right hand man» of Alfredo Beltrán Leyva, who was arrested in 2008 and sentenced to life in prison in the United States earlier this year.

But a first - place ranking in the cost of living category demands that state officials ramp up their efforts to attract new companies.

The highest ranking Islamic official in Egypt has stated that virtual currencies are incompatible with Sharia Law.

Yet another high - ranking police official in the Indian state of Gujurat has been taken into custody in connection with a $ 1 million bitcoin extortion scheme.

High - ranking military officials from 30 nations fighting the Islamic State met Feb. 22 in Kuwait City, AFP reported.

With the official approval, Brownback leaves his home state at a particularly low point; after the failure of his signature tax plan, he ranks among the least - popular governors in the US.

Many of the key contributors became high ranking officials in the subsequent Bush administration, including the vice president, secretary of defense, deputy secretary of state, under secreatary of state for global affairs, the president's chief of staff, the president of the World Bank and the US ambassador to Afghanistan, Iraq and to the UN (amongst others).

In its wake, alleged victims of sexual abuse are suing the archdiocese and other high - ranking church officials because the report states the archdiocese knowingly withheld the identity of predator priests.

He knew plenty of gay conservatives, some of whom were high - ranking officials in the Reagan administration, but all of whom were «in a constant state of panic about being discovered.»

That was an ignominious end to the dream run for State going from unranked to # 1 quicker than anyone in AP poll history and being the first team ever ranked # 1 in a College Football Playoff official ranking to later getting blown out in a bowl game by Georgia Tech.

I find this shocking, especially since we know that the maternal death rate has been rising in recent years — something that isn't happening in other countries» [9] Currently, according to the World Health Organization and several United Nations agencies, the United States ranks behind no fewer than forty other nations in preventing maternal deaths (based upon an official but unreliable number).

With high - ranking government officials and members of Maduro's family sanctioned or indicted in connection to drug - trafficking crimes, Venezuela has been dubbed a «narco - state.»

State Secretary of State Lorraine Cortes - Vazquez, the highest - ranking Hispanic official in the Paterson administration, told el Diaro / La Prensa she is leaving her post to return to the private sector, taking a cjob as the executive vice president for the AARP in Washington, D.C.

In the days following the end of the DNC, Trump has picked a fight with that aforementioned «Gold Star» Muslim - American family; he has called on the state of Russia to «hack» into the Clinton campaign's email server; he has put into question America's resolve to affirm its treaty obligations to its NATO allies; he has first refused, and then under pressure accepted, to endorse the highest - ranking official of his own party, Speaker of the House Paul Ryan; and he has even begun to state that the election results this November may «be rigged.»

«The prospect of State Senator Eric Schneiderman, an avid proponent of same - gender «marriage,» becoming the highest ranking law - enforcement official in New York state, raises the specter of thousands of Bible - adherents eventually becoming criminalized for their religious beliefs and practices.&rState Senator Eric Schneiderman, an avid proponent of same - gender «marriage,» becoming the highest ranking law - enforcement official in New York state, raises the specter of thousands of Bible - adherents eventually becoming criminalized for their religious beliefs and practices.&rstate, raises the specter of thousands of Bible - adherents eventually becoming criminalized for their religious beliefs and practices.»

That law allowed for the pensions of subsequently elected legislators to be taken after a criminal conviction, and defined «public official» in a way that also included rank - and - file state employees but excluded police officers, firefighters and teachers.

But lawyer Richard Morvillo assured a federal judge that Howe will tell the truth when he takes the stand next week in the bribery trial of a former high - ranking state official and three business executives.

Tedisco said the Majority's plan does not contain provisions for pension forfeiture for convicted felon elected officials who betray their oath of office, term limits for leaders, truth in spending to bring sunlight to state spending in the shadows to end quid pro-quos, or giving rank and file members the ability to bring legislation to the Floor for a vote and diminish the unbridled power that's been given to legislative leaders.

These include: pension forfeiture for convicted felon elected officials who betray their oath of office, term limits for leaders, truth in spending to bring sunlight to state spending in the shadows to end quid pro-quos, equal staffing and resources for members, and giving rank and file members the ability to bring legislation to the Floor for an up or down vote.

ALBANY — Outgoing state education commissioner John King hopes to help school leaders in other states navigate the difficult transition to the Common Core standards and related standardized testing in his new position as the second - highest ranking official in the U.S. Department of Education.

Early this week, according to a knowledgeable Democratic source, members of the state Senate's black caucus held a private meeting to discuss the ongoing leadership crisis in their chamber, which — even if it resolves in favor of the Democrats — could result in the ouster of the highest - ranking black elected official in New York.

Paterson was elected by the Democratic caucus of the Senate as Minority Leader on November 20, 2002, becoming both the first non-white state legislative leader and the highest - ranking African American elected official in the history of New York State, unseating the incumbent Minority Leader, Martin Costate legislative leader and the highest - ranking African American elected official in the history of New York State, unseating the incumbent Minority Leader, Martin CoState, unseating the incumbent Minority Leader, Martin Connor.

The trial also offered testimony that a lobbyist conducted government business with a number of high - ranking Administration officials through private emails — not through government email addresses — in an apparent attempt to avoid the state's openness laws celebrated during Sunshine Week.

«This premise is hypocritical, wrong and ignores the fact that women have preeminent positions within the administration and were three out of four court of appeals nominations — not to mention that the Governor's running mate and second highest ranking official in the entire state is a woman,» Lever later added.

«Barring an 11th - hour change of heart, Mr. Hevesi will become the highest - ranking state official convicted in the case and most likely to serve time in prison,» the Times story states.

One of them, protected for years by the Westchester County District Attorney's Office, is the son of a man who not long ago was one of the highest - ranking police officials in New York State (they protect their own).

To attend to the meeting are Commissioners of Health in all the states of the federation, Chief Medical Directors of Teaching Hospitals, high ranking officials of the Ministry of Health and other necessary stakeholders.

Cuomo was in the Democratic doghouse after his failed long - shot 2002 primary challenge to then - state Controller Carl McCall - at the time New York's highest - ranking black elected official and first black major party gubernatorial candidate.

The state's highest - ranking education official threw her support behind Mayor de Blasio's quest to remain in control of the city schools Saturday.

The showdown with the fire department culminated in a City Hall press conference where, before an audience of reporters and grim - faced firefighters, Gallo announced that he had requested a State Comptroller's Office audit of the department, vowed to seek a new Chief from outside the ranks and implied that issues in the department went beyond the two sacked officials.

Oh, and the «brains» of that operation was a Democratic state Senator, a former Senate Majority Leader * and one of the highest ranking African American elected officials in New York history, was bribing everyone he seemingly could find so that he could become the Republican nominee for NYC mayor.

Diane Russell, a Portland state representative who had promoted ranked choice across the country for Fair Vote, the national election reform advocacy group, helped convince officials in her home city to embrace it for mayoral elections in 2010, and began pushing for it at the State Hstate representative who had promoted ranked choice across the country for Fair Vote, the national election reform advocacy group, helped convince officials in her home city to embrace it for mayoral elections in 2010, and began pushing for it at the State HState House.

Governor Andrew Cuomo, a Democrat, included $ 1.5 billion for the funding competition in the just - passed state budget.Despite grumbling from rank - and - file lawmakers and some local officials, the money will be doled out to implement bids in three regions north of the Bronx and east of Buffalo.

In each restatement of the charges, federal prosecutors have refined the wording of their complex and wide - ranging case against two former high - ranking state officials and six other individuals.

When Mr. Dinkins called on him to head the commission, Mr. Mollen had months before stepped down as deputy mayor for public safety, after a long public career in which he had been a top city housing official in the 1960s and a high - ranking state judge in the 1970s and»80s.

But right now, the only vestige of either administration I see is former Secretary of State Randy Daniels, who was also the highest - ranking black official in Patakiland.

The state's highest ranking female elected official, Lt. Gov. Kathy Hochul, is defending the Cuomo's administration in the wake of a report that shows women employed by the executive chamber make just 73 percent of what men there earn.

They brought witnesses — including high - ranking officials still on Cuomo's staff — as well as evidence showing that Percoco kept using his state government office in Manhattan and at the Capitol — and his ability to influence Cuomo staffers — after he shifted over to Cuomo's campaign payroll in the spring of 2014.

The following table ranks each state based on total convictions and convictions per 10,000 residents of public officials in federal corruption cases between 1976 and 2010.

Todd Howe was included in a group of high - ranking state officials brainstorming how to keep a key employee of Gov. Andrew Cuomo from resigning in August 2014.

Not all local parties in swing states have gotten this much attention, particularly in states such as Michigan and Wisconsin where Democrats have won the last few presidential elections, high - ranking officials there told POLITICO.

The Speaker of the New York State Assembly is the highest official in the New York State Assembly, customarily elected from the ranks of the majority party.

«It should be noted that many of the CEOs in those key state - owned coal companies are at the same governmental ranking as top officials in the National Energy Administration,» said Tu.

«The Hunt» will follow a diverse band of Nazi Hunters living in 1977 New York City who discovers that a group of high - ranking Nazi officials are setting out to create a Fourth Reich in the United States.

But the state is one of the top - ranking states in the percentage of 4th graders who attend schools where physical conflicts are considered not a problem or only a minor problem by school officials.

When asked where the U.S. ranked relative to other countries in math, the average answer made by a nationally representative sample of Americans surveyed by Ednext was 19, a pretty good guess and barely higher than the official estimate offered by the Program for International Student Assessment (PISA), which reported that the United States stood somewhere between 22 and 28.

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