Sentences with phrase «root out public»

And in July 2013 he established a high - powered commission, stacked with a number of state prosecutors, to root out public corruption.

New York State's Moreland Commission, in an effort to root out public corruption, is looking into lawmakers» outside income.

Rockland County Executive Ed Day said, «As I have been saying since I became county executive, we will stop at nothing to root out public corruption in every corner of this county.

Sources told CBS 2's Marcia Kramer on Monday the Legislature is expected to make it easier for local lawmen to root out public corruption.

We will continue to root out public corruption wherever we find it.

Cahill said he also is concerned Schneiderman has not done enough to root out public corruption.

«It is deeply disturbing that the Board of Elections would consider gutting one of the few tools that exist to root out public corruption in New York — or sideline a dedicated professional like Risa Sugarman who is committed to upholding the rule of law.»

«We will keep working to root out public corruption and hold those responsible accountable.»

The joint effort by Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli and Attorney General Eric Schneiderman to root out public corruiption is «complimentary» to Gov. Andrew Cuomo's plan to overhaul ethics in state government, DiNapoli said in an interview on The Capitol Pressroom today.

Cuomo says he did not want to compromise on a reform package that includes public campaign financing, and new prosecutorial powers for the state's district attorneys to root out public corruption.

It's is a win - win for taxpaying New Yorkers — it roots out public corruption and rewards the good people who blow the whistle on fraud.»

«For those of us who care deeply about reform, rooting out public corruption, and holding Wall Street accountable, Sean Coffey provides a fresh perspective and effective leadership.»

«On July 31, 2009, I was indicted by a Bronx County Grand Jury for committing perjury in a 2008 civil matter, held prior to my election to the Assembly... Thereafter, I agreed to cooperate with the Bronx District Attorney's Office and, later, the United States Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York, in conjunction with various investigations aimed at rooting out public corruption,» Castro said.

Thereafter, I agreed to cooperate with the Bronx District Attorney's Office and, later, the United States Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York, in conjunction with various investigations aimed at rooting out public corruption.

Not exact matches

«Jokowi,» as he's known, cleaned up the city and rooted out corruption, thrilling an Indonesian public weary of the status quo.

The overvaluation of productivity is so great in our age that even truly productive men give up the roots of a genuinely lived life and wear themselves out turning all experience to value as public communication.

A grass - roots movement to abolish secret government, to bring the CIA and other illegal spying operations and private armies out of the closet of imperial power and into the light, to break the hold of the military - industrial complex, and to establish genuine public financing of elections may be at least theoretically conceivable.

Now, I know what you're thinking: «If the professionals are betting the dog, shouldn't larger bets balance out the sheer volume of wagers from the public meaning the house actually needs to root for...

Now, I know what you're thinking: «If the professionals are betting the dog, shouldn't larger bets balance out the sheer volume of wagers from the public meaning the house actually needs to root for for New England?»

Danger in the Reeds is a series of documentary videos developed to educate the public about an aggressive invading plant, Phragmites australis, which is pushing out the natural diversity with dense, monoculture stands of tall reeds with deeply penetrating roots.

«This is the most damaging scam I can recall... Parliament and the public need to know what went wrong and whether the perpetrators have been rooted out.

«It is deeply debilitating and demoralising for teachers that any attempt to have a public debate about developing the teaching profession and the quality of teaching inevitably is hijacked by commentators and presented as a system to «root out incompetent teachers» and present our public education system as failing.

«We have to address and root out this racism and it especially has no place in our public schools,» remarked Scott.

To root out corruption, we need committed and robust action, crucially including the public disclosure of beneficial ownership of companies and trusts.

Barring a version of the Voight - Kampf test to root out sociopaths and bar them from running for public office, it seems almost impossible to stop the flow of bad behavior.

«We must have a zero tolerance for public corruption and we will continue to partner with law enforcement to root out fraud and protect the taxpayers.»

Ken Ofori - Atta, who was appointed after President Nana Akufo - Addo took office in January, said the measures being taken by the government included rooting out ghost workers and ensuring all state contracts went to public tender.

On Friday, Schneiderman said the Maziarz misdemeanor guilty plea «sends a strong message to every elected official that if you abuse the public trust you will be rooted out, and there will be a public accounting of your crime.»

In a prepared written statement, New York State Attorney General Eric Schneiderman offered this: «Today's guilty plea and full admission sends a strong message to every elected official that if you abuse the public trust, you will be rooted out, and there will be a public accounting of your crime.

Instead, Cuomo said the Moreland Commission on public corruption that he created was a better way to root out corruption than to provide a blanket referral to the attorney general.

Public corruption strikes at the very heart of our democracy, and we're committed to continuing to root it out across New York.»

The appointees «will focus exclusively on rooting out abuse and fraud by public officials so that New Yorkers can have confidence that taxpayer dollars are being spent wisely and everyone is playing by the same set of rules,» he said.

If the Government wants to grow its way out of recession, public services must be the roots.

The Joint Commission on Public Ethics, which is supposed to monitor Albany's politicians, needs to be stronger and more transparent; its failure is one reason Preet Bharara, the United States attorney for the Southern District of New York, has had to do the tough work of rooting out Albany corruption.

According to the Information Minister, Mustapha Hamid, the government is committed to rooting out corruption especially among state officials, and appreciates information from the public to help it take action.

DiFiore was Cuomo's pick to be the first chair of the Joint Commission on Public Ethics, the lame watchdog birthed in December 2011 that's failed miserably to root out corruption ever since.

Mr. Brodsky has also made several upstate campaign swings, emphasizing his work rooting out waste and mismanagement at various public authorities in the region.

The Moreland Commission — a special commission by Gov. Andrew Cuomo to root out corruption in state government — will hold its first public hearing tomorrow at Pace University.

After the investigation became public, the science committee held NSF's feet to the fire by requiring it to submit monthly progress reports on what steps it was taking to root out the problem.

At the Scripps Research Institute in La Jolla, then at the University of California, Irvine, and since 2001 as director of the Center for Infection and Immunity at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health, Lipkin has developed groundbreaking techniques that have helped a new generation of disease detectives sleuth out the infectious roots of mystery ills, chronic disease, and neuropsychiatric disorders like autism and OCD.

The 185,000 - plus students who opted out of the state English Language Arts [ELA] test last week did so because of more than three years of organizing by a genuinely grass - roots movement of public school parents.

Hosted by NYC Collaborates, «Diverse Schools: Opportunities and Challenges in Integrating NYC's Public Schools» discussed the historical roots of school segregation; these continue to play out across New York — even over 60 years after Brown v Board of Education - as well as the current challenges our school system faces and actionable solutions to spur integration.

The fate of Betsy DeVos» privatization agenda may hinge on the public's ability to root out the euphemisms and codewords used to disguise the failure of school vouchers.

Imagine a democrat brave enough to come out and support public education and willing to state unequivocally the root causes of our achievement gap

Although the corporate reform movement has made unprecedented gains in the last twenty years, its roots go back more than sixty years to Milton Friedman's essay, «The Role of Government in Education,» which laid out the call for privatizing public education in the United States.

He remained in the army after Germany's defeat and discovered his gift as a public speaker when he was assigned to a propaganda unit set up to encourage nationalism and root out Marxist inclinations among the troops.

Radio host Warren Meck has been leading the Massachusetts campaign to root out anti-religious bias in public schools - but he believes in working respectfully within the political system, so he's alarmed and offended when his efforts are undermined by someone inciting violent action.

I'm still not completely knowledgeable wrt Android, but my fears are that you could end up with a lot of rooted Nooks out there at the B&N stores or other public hotspots that are all running with Wifi ADB completely wide open.

As the book nears the finish Mike describes the value of the peer - review process in rooting out bad science but admits it is not perfect and it is much slower than the immediately available Internet pseudo-science that most in the public read.

A public courtroom setting, where all testimony is under oath, and there are two competing sides trying to get at the truth through cross examing, could go far at rooting out all of the conjecture that is being accepted as truth.