Sentences with phrase «rubber stamped by»

«Details of the sham agreement are spreading far and wide and I am now being contacted by boat builders who fear Tasmania's wooden boat building industry will be ruined... Despite the fact that 90 per cent of two key iconic species, Celery Top Pine and King Bill Pine, are already in reserves the Greens are still not satisfied... More than 70 per cent of remaining sources of these timbers are in the 430,000 hectares rubber stamped by former Wilderness Society director Jonathan West in his flimsy advice accepted by the Prime Minister and the Premier last week... The wooden boat industry has an estimated annual value of $ 50 million but without a timber supply it has no future.»

All these are also mandatory and rubber stamped by law.

It has emerged the former Prime Minister's resignation honours list is set to be simply rubber stamped by the committee appointed to scrutinise it.

It's already been rubber stamped by UEFA, we fell foul over other matters, matters that were one - offs.

Not because of the name (as in the calender or trade names) but because of the worship of God thru pagan worship traditions rubber stamped by the church.

The state council eventually passed them, leaving Nuinsco in need of what traditionally has been a simple rubber stamp by the local parliament.

Not exact matches

According to a former cabinet minister who spoke on condition of anonymity, the ministers acted as a symbolic «rubber stamp» — the cabinet has no actual approval power — and accepted the plans presented to them by the military.

Milly Itzhak started out carving her rubber - block stamps by hand before moving on to laser - engraving.

A minority government would breathe new life into Alberta's Legislative Assembly, which has largely become a rubber - stamp for decisions made behind closed doors by PC cabinet ministers and MLAs.

Earlier this week he told the same court that the proposed merger should be rubber - stamped by the US government, as the creation of such an entity would help rival Facebook and Google's dominance of the online advertising industry.

If enough of congress voted on it (greater than 2 / 3rds majority), we elect a racist president, and the Supreme Court just rubber stamped it without reading, the 13th amendment COULD be repealed, and slavery could be «allowed» again by federal law.

But my job — assigned by the government — consisted of little more than rubber - stamping newly - created communist rules and regulations.

Readers can't know to what degree the document's apparent rubber - stamping of the culture of death was intended by its authors, or to what degree it simply follows from sloppy thinking and careless rhetoric.

By 1983, the stadium debt had been paid off without a singular donor making a contribution large enough to justify making the stadium his or her namesake, so ISU president Robert Parks proposed — and the Board of Regents rubber - stamped — the compromise «Cyclone Stadium / Jack Trice Field.»

When does the transfer window close in England, Spain, Italy, France and Germany?By Gerard BrandLast Updated: 31/01/16 4:44 pmWhen does the transfer window shut across Europe?As the January transfer window creaks shut, we look at the closing times across the continent — and why some deals can be rubber - stamped after the deadline... When does the transfer window close?Not all transfer window shutting times are aligned across Europe, but the Spanish FA announced earlier this week they would delay their window by 24 hours, meaning a new time of 11 pm on Monday, February 1.

The hosts were in command of the last - 16 tie following last week's 3 - 0 victory in the opening encounter, and despite a late leveller from the visiting side, goals by Vazquez in both halves rubber - stamped their passage to the next stage.

However, Infantino believes the implementation of VAR, rubber - stamped by the FIFA council last month, was a necessary measure as the governing body looks to give its match officials every assistance in making correct decisions.

March 19 — Despite reservations far and wide, as anticipated FIFA's ruling Council has rubber - stamped the decision earlier this month by football's lawmakers to approve video assistant referees for the World Cup and beyond.

UK institutional checks have been hollowed out and replaced by a spurious rubber stamp, giving the green light to investors.

«By a Large extent, parliament is a rubber stamp where the sitting government always uses its way to pass a bill or agreements that turn out to be saddled with corrupt practices or improprieties.

Within the USA, the Authorization for Use of Military Force Against Terrorists is so broad as to be a rubber - stamp for any action by the president.

The fourth EU money laundering directive, about to be rubber - stamped after political agreement was reached in December, will call on banks to carry out due diligence on MPs, judges, peers, council chiefs, diplomats and anyone else «who are or have been entrusted by the member state with prominent public functions».

By using a private member's bill rubber - stamped by the Conservatives, the Tories have created the possibility of a major piece of constitutional legislation getting through the Commons without any of the usual scrutinBy using a private member's bill rubber - stamped by the Conservatives, the Tories have created the possibility of a major piece of constitutional legislation getting through the Commons without any of the usual scrutinby the Conservatives, the Tories have created the possibility of a major piece of constitutional legislation getting through the Commons without any of the usual scrutiny.

Officials are putting together a draft package to be rubber - stamped by the two sides.

A cronyism row which saw an SNP cabinet secretary rubber - stamp a # 150,000 grant to the organisers of the T in the Park music festival after a meeting brokered by a former party adviser may have caused First Minister Nicola Sturgeon the inconvenience of having to answer some awkward questions in the Scottish Parliament but it has done her party no discernible harm.

By hastily rubber - stamping this deeply problematic proposal, the Committee has taken a step toward a future in which the lives of terminally - ill persons are treated as expendable, and in which insurance companies will be at liberty to make cost - saving coverage decisions that steer vulnerable individuals toward physician - assisted death.

This preemptive strike on Comptroller Elliott Auerbach's payroll was launched in County Executive Mike Hein's 2016 budget, dutifully rubber - stamped by a compliant legislature that year and last.

Potential candidates for the Cuban National Assembly - the pseudo-parliament which rubber - stamps legislation - are vetted stringently by the Communist Party.

By custom, the City Council rubber - stamps the county party leaders» picks for election commissioners.

For the first time since he became leader, Jeremy Corbyn's supporters will be in a position to dictate not only party policy but also the rules by which it is rubber - stamped by conference or the membership.

In the 48 hours or so before the April 1 deadline, the governor and the legislative leaders go behind closed doors and hammer out a deal — to be rubber - stamped by the rest of the Legislature.

Rather, deals should be made by a handful of leaders behind closed doors and rubber - stamped by the Senate and Assembly.

It was so very interesting to watch, observe and see Senator Greg Ball, a Republican, accomplishing his agenda by including exactly what he wanted into the gun legislation bill, and then — oh, how he played Columbo like a real master, using the Democratic Conference as a rubber stamp!

His appointee to a powerless position on the mayor - controlled Board of Education has attracted an outsize amount of attention by doing his best to open up, and slow down, what is ultimately a rubber - stamp process of the administration's charter - school - friendly policies.

Rather than a proper check on executive authority, the Commons was widely viewed — most of all by Labour ministers — as a bureaucratic rubber - stamp.

The Court, as expected, rubber - stamped the rules proposed yesterday by the Democratic and Republican Parties.

We are expecting all sitting MEPs to be rubber - stamped toplisted by the Regional Selection Committees.

So, when they brought the MTEF, we said that we will subject it to critical analyses and not rubber stamp it and then it was in the media that National Assembly should be blamed for not passing the budget in time, I responded by telling them they brought empty documents.

Quoting the relevant portions of Justice Kolawole's judgment, Falana said by acknowledging that the National Assembly was not a rubber stamp parliament, the court recognised the duty of the legislature «to debate and make its informed inputs» into the President's budget proposals.

The new budget plan, which is expected to be rubber - stamped later this month by the Parliament, boosts federal spending by 5 % for three of Germany's major research and granting institutions: the Max Planck Society; the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG), Germany's basic research granting agency; and a bit more for the Fraunhofer Gesellschaft applied science agency.

But for acceptances, it likely means that the paper was rubber - stamped without being read by anyone.

But the proposal, which is unlikely to be rubber - stamped by Congress in its current form, is light on details about cuts to specific programs within federal agencies.

Nanocombinatorics: The new analytical method utilizes a technique invented at Northwestern called polymer pen lithography, where basically a rubber stamp having as many as 11 million sharp pyramids is mounted on a transparent glass backing and precisely controlled by an atomic force microscope to generate desired patterns on a surface.

And the very next day, NPR's CEO, Vivian Schiller, not only rubber - stamped his termination, but added insult to injury when she implied that Juan might be mentally unstable by suggesting that he should've kept the comment between himself and his psychiatrist.

In PIP + people not employed by UFT or DOE observe U rated teachers and basically rubber stamp the U's in most cases.

Seasonal Story Starters Writing Get students started on story writing by using rubber stamps of objects in a rebus story format.

The contributions of students are minimized or tokenized by adults by asking students to «rubber stamp» ideas developed by adults, or by inviting students to sit on committees without real power or responsibility.

Torches and pitchforks have been brandished by the automotive press to hunt out the witches over at Porsche AG that rubber - stamped this abomination's approval.

An honest, case - by - case assessment of all books seems more appropriate than rubber - stamps and blanket policies.

Of course, it's going to get you shunned and banned by all right thinking lockstep rubber stamp «journalists».