Sentences with phrase «run by a local government»

Economic - development agencies run by local governments doled out $ 1.5 billion in tax breaks to 4,486 projects in 2011, an increase of 16 percent in net exemptions since 2010, according to the state comptroller's office.

The founders of American public education promised fantastic returns on investment from Prussian - inspired schools run by local governments.

Some of them are run by local governments» animal control services and others act as completely independent entities.

The cost varies based on which vaccinations are given and whether they are done at a veterinarian's office or a low - cost vaccination clinic run by a local government or humane organization.

The cases are brought by businesses who believe they have unfairly missed out in a tender process run by a local government or public sector body.

Not exact matches

You can go to family - run clinics or hospitals run by family, local, or prefectural governments.

Notably, local media has reported that roughly 30 percent of the initial investment fund was put up by the Yuhang District Government, while the fund at large will be run by Hangzhou Xiongan Investment Management Co..

He went on to say that the agency, created under the Dodd - Frank financial overhaul, is run by «essentially a one - person dictator» and added he had «probably had more complaints about the CFPB in my office, from small local banks and credit agencies, than every other government agency put together.»

In England the government runs the rating system, which has specific age levels as to suitability and is backed up by local police enforcement.

According to the AP, Libya's government is ran by local militia groups, and they profit from the trafficking.

Then, after a few months, at best only three years, of a public career in which He was hailed by a crowd which proved fickle and had won the adherence of a coterie of men and women who did not fully understand Him, He ran afoul of the leaders of the organized religion of His people, was accused by them of fomenting rebellion against the civil government, that of Rome, and was crucified by the order of the local representative of that government.

And by governance on a daily basis, mean from the how from kings, aristocrats, down through every layer of bureaucracy till you get to your local tax collector, what / why / how these people ran the government administration on a day to day basis, from dealing with a rival city who recently stole one of your citizens crops, to pirates interfering with trade on the Mediterranean, to drought, city administration, what to do with tax money, neighborly disputes, superstition, weather, crime, theft, laws and battles of ideology, to political rivalries and infighting, to a foreigner spreading strange religious ideas in the city (or dealing with somebody accused of a crime they claim they did not commit), I mean everything and everything these officials may have dealt with, daily, and how they changed over time.

Firefighters, who were at the Capitol today to lobby for two priority bills, say that like local governments they are hindered by a 2 percent property tax cap and are increasingly running the risk of slashing EMS services if the money to pay for services isn't there.

At the lowest level of municipal government, the city is still managed by its medieval patchwork of contrade, neighbourhood - based collectives that raise money to be spent on local projects, including the lavish feasts that run for days after a contrada's horse has won the Palio.

The agencies will study options for using facilities owned by state or local governments or the possibility of using privately - run sites.

It's easier to run a local campaign during a by - election, when voters are picking an MP, not a government.

As for cost - cutting, far from falling, the administration or running costs of UK civil departments actually rose by about two - fifths in constant - price terms over the three decades from 1980 to 2010 — a performance not very different from the trajectory of administration costs of English local government over the same period.

He said, «We will use local, state and federal power to take over Ekiti from a rapacious government being run by a brigand in Ekiti.

Our reporting is not partisan but might look that way to outsiders who are not aware that 97 % of our local government is run by Democrats.

«Although the CBC opposed this legislation, it was approved and has been used by 137 local governments and the State to lower short - run pension costs,» Kellermann wrote.

This is his «passion» and the initiatives it has spawned are visible across government: from the new academy schools run by teachers rather than local authorities, via the health service mutuals planned in the NHS white paper, to the renewed emphasis on charities and volunteer groups.

The «bosslets» who ran these agencies weren't appointed by the governor, but were instead named by legislators or local officials, adding to the complexity and opaqueness of government.

His 18 months running the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government has been dominated by the fallout from the fatal Grenfell Tower fire, and pressing for more house building despite resistance from the Treasury.

A fiscal monitoring system run by the state comptroller's office will publicly identify local governments that may be heading towards a fiscal cliff.

SOMERSET — Fresh off the stunning approval of a cut - rate electricity deal between a Canadian government - run power monopoly and New York City by the New York State Public Service Commission, local leaders are calling for the deal to be blocked before local jobs are lost.

The Swanage School is independently run and outside local authority control but funded by the government.

Amtrak, a for - profit public corporation run and funded in part by the federal government, owns Penn Station and Albany and Trenton spend tens of millions of dollars each year to rent concourses for their state and local train systems.

The local «shared services panel» required by the new law, which must include representatives from each town, village and city, is unlikely to approve the Consensus commission proposal to create a new government to run Syracuse and Onondaga County.

Noting that there were challenges and issues that had emanated in the run up to the local government elections, Governor Ambode, nonetheless urged members to stand by the decisions of the party leaders, which according to him would bring about the best for all.

In episode 101, the series premiere, state representative Tommy Caffee is blackmailed for lucrative government contracts by a local Irish mob boss when his long lost brother Michael returns to Providence after seven years on the run from the law.

Stop me if you've heard this one before: a gruff CIA agent who suffers from PTSD and sees re-animated corpses at random moments is ordered to travel to the UK and hire Stanley Kubrick to film a fake moon landing that the American government can use in case the Apollo 11 mission turns out to be a tragic failure, only the agent (who is played by Ron Perlman, by the way) ends up giving a suitcase full of cash to a failed band manager and his perpetually stoned friend who looks a little bit like Stanley Kubrick, and those two idiots get robbed by the local mafia thugs right before Agent Ron Perlman realizes his mistake and threatens to kill everyone involved — and THEN the idiotic band manager (who is played by Rupert Grint, by the way) proposes that they all head off to film the fake moon landing with the help of a artistic hippie commune run by an egotistical dolt who can't understand why he can't put giant jellyfish on the moon.

Russell Hobby says: «It's getting more expensive to run schools and the government needs to recognise this, including meeting the shortfalls in funding for sixth forms, early years and for services previously provided by local authorities.

They are funded directly by the government and run independently of local education authorities.

Are operations more efficient when schools are run mainly by one tier of government instead of by an often fractious federal - state - local partnership?

The letter laid out a plan «to remold the entire American system» into a centralized one run by «a system of labor - market boards at the local, state and federal levels» where curriculum and «job matching» will be handled by government functionaries.

The fact that councils can no longer open new schools is the subject of a long - running campaign by the Local Government Association, which has warned that there aren't enough «viable» academy chains to take on extra schools.

Secondly, since local government is political by definition, when it runs schools, its politics will influence performance, whether by design or by default.

Roy Perry, chairman of the Local Government Association's children and young people board, said councils had a proven record in school improvement with more than 80 % of council run schools rated good or outstanding by Ofsted.

The government's academies and free schools programme - where schools are run by independent organisations but outside of local authority influence - aims to improve failing schools.

The Swanage School is independently run and outside local authority control but funded by the government.

The ATL motion approved today calls on the union's leadership to lobby the government to restore and fund local authority supply lists — platforms run by councils that allow supply teachers to find vacancies without using a costly agency.

The Local Government Association says 91 % of council maintained schools are rated good or outstanding by education watchdog Ofsted - so they should be allowed «to play a direct role in raising education standards and improving life chances, including taking on the running of failing academies».

The government has said that all schools will either have to convert to academy status - which sees them funded by the Department for Education but run by a governing body or trust independent from the local authority - by 2020 or commit to doing so by 2022.

«The fig leaf of «parental choice», «school autonomy» and «raising standards» has finally been dropped and the government's real agenda has been laid bare — all schools removed from collaborative structures within a local authority family of schools, all schools instead run by remote academy trusts, unaccountable to parents, staff or local communities.»

Free schools are funded by central government but not run by local authorities.

The government is planning to increase their powers to intervene in failing and «coasting» local authority maintained schools, as well as academies, but concerns about their different approaches have been raised by organisations such as United Learning, an academy trust that runs schools in all eight regions.

Yet for all the rhetoric about high - quality careers education being essential, it is unlikely the government will support the development of CEG in schools or local careers services run by professionals.

But one would have to be really affluent to afford to run a Mega Cruiser in Japan, given the exorbitant taxes imposed by the local government for big, heavy vehicles with large displacement engines.

They are often run by federal, state and local governments, charities and non-profits.

It has been a long and difficult uphill climb by local animal advocates to convince county government officials of the necessity of both an outside group to run the shelter, and the need for a new building to replace the current shelter which is an outdated breeding ground for many problems.