Sentences with phrase «said he acted as»

The judge, Maria Sizintseva, said they acted as part of an organised crime group and had tried to put pressure on witnesses.

Liberal Democrat leader says he acted as soon as he knew about «specific» allegations of inappropriate sexual advances

Crist confirmed that he spoke with Doug Band, a counselor to former President Clinton, who Crist said acted as an intermediary, relaying information about whether or not Meek would end his Senate bid.

Prosecutors Monday focused heavily on the energy company dealings, but Howe said he acted as a middleman for an alleged $ 35,000 bribe from Syracuse developers Steven Aiello and Joseph Gerardi of Cor Development allegedly paid to Percoco.

The BOE said it acts as a repository of county party documents, but does not rule on their validity.

(Calhoun referred to a Carnegie Foundation white paper that he said acts as a blueprint for his district's continuous improvement efforts.)

However, he noted that climate models are continually being reworked and a lot will depend on how fast Arctic sea ice melts, which he says acts as «an air conditioner for the hemisphere,» reflecting incoming solar radiation right back into space.

For instance, I said you act as though being placed in moderation prevents you from making a point.

We do not know enough to determine under what circumstance CO2 is a forcing or a feedback relative to temperature sometimes it maybe both sometimes over large areas it may even be a coolant e.g. if you think it is the main driver (which I don't) you would have to say it acted as a coolant for several thousand years from the Holocene climate optimum to the LIA — see Fig 6 in the last post at http://climatesense-norpag.blogspot.com I quoted the end Permian Siberian traps as a possible example of CO2 as a forcing but even here CO2 was rising rapidly before the volcanic event.

Alleged personal bias by Blight, whom he says acted as counsel against one of his witnesses in an unrelated proceeding.

While securities work has generally been slow, the firm says it acted as counsel for marijuana - infused products company Nutritional High International Inc. in the company's first public offering.

Not exact matches

After Verizon beat the FCC in court in 2014, then - FCC chair Tom Wheeler turned to Title II of the 1934 Communications Act to achieve his goal of mandating net neutrality (the court had said that, without broadband providers being classified as common carriers, the FCC did not have the authority to force them to maintain an open internet).

«The FCA and PRA are not alleging that he acted with a lack of integrity or that he lacks fitness and propriety to continue to perform his role as Group Chief Executive Officer,» the company said Friday, adding its board «continues to have unanimous confidence in Mr. Staley.»

Career coach Aurora Meneghello of Repurpose Your Purpose says the best way to respond is to be authentic with your answer as it will act as «a filter that repels bad matches but attracts bosses and coworkers who share your values and approach to the job.»

To push the corporate world in the right direction, she says, the company will be «naming and shaming» those who have failed to act as it pulls its funding.

Alluding to his own experiences as an investor, Buffett said that when these opportunities arise, you must act quickly.

«The ballooning costs of healthcare act as a hungry tapeworm on the American economy,» Buffett said in the statement.

Helena Morrissey of the London - based Legal and General is making a big push for sustainable investing, saying at a conference Monday that individual investors are becoming increasingly wary of putting their money in the market as they fear companies will act in ways that run counter to the investor's own moral beliefs.

Massoumi says he's found that a critical hiring strategy is subjecting new hires to a role - playing scenario, in which someone applying for an enterprise - sales role, for instance, might have to pitch ZocDoc to another employee acting as a member of a hospital system.

The magnitude of the decline in home prices acted as a «shock» to household balance sheets, said Marple, tightening the credit available to homeowners and creating a sense of general uncertainty about the future.

«If only the markets acted as beautifully as this,» says Swanson.

Wikileaks, in a brief statement Friday on Twitter, made the same point: «Discovery is going to be amazing fun,» said the anti-secrecy group, which has been accused of acting as a cutout for the Kremlin.

The British company said the exploit, which it described as a «criminal act,» had been active for four hours on Sunday.

They act as more than just outside accounting help,» says Koziel.

«As these, and other AI applications gain more experience in the field, their ability to learn and act will continually lead to improvements in precision, efficiency and outcomes,» say the authors.

But the act of taking out my phone, saying «hi» to Richard and speaking to him as if he were a real call served its purpose, giving me a reason to smile when times were tough.

As drivers who use Uber know, this has never been the case in the U.K.,» Tom Elvidge, Uber UK's acting general manager, said in a statement.

An air safety senior investigator will act as an adviser and a field service representative will support the airline, said spokeswoman Nathalie Siphengphet.

«When you have evidence of a problem like this, regardless of what the standards say, automakers should develop a better approach,» says David Friedman, who served as NHTSA's acting administrator in 2014 and is now director of cars and product policy and analysis at Consumers Union, the policy and mobilization division of Consumer Reports.

«Although it has acted swiftly on the latest UN sanctions, China is unlikely to go so far as to fully implement new sanctions that, in its judgment, would risk substantially undermining the economic well - being or social stability not just of North Korea, but also of the Chinese population near the North Korean border, which relies heavily on such trade,» she said.

The key elements of the ceremony — the host's tightrope act, the lengthy, some might say self - congratulatory, running time and the glamorously outfitted stars in the audience — are going to be the same as they ever were.

«This act of evil occurred as the victims and their families were in their place of sacred worship,» President Donald Trump said in a statement.

The report also says the industry still hasn't done enough to move away from «just merely acting as a source of capital and toward true strategic partnerships.»

Although Rushing's lawsuit points to Disney Princess Palace Pets as the gaming app that allegedly tracked her child, it also lists 42 other Disney apps that the plaintiffs say violate the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act, or COPPA.

But things went south, Torossian said, when Gates and Manafort asked him whether he could avoid registering with the Justice Department as a foreign agent in accordance with the Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA).

Obama had used the Antiquities Act more than any other president, his White House said in December, when he designated over 1.6 million acres of land in Utah and Nevada as national monuments, protecting two areas rich in Native American artifacts from mining, oil and gas drilling.

«These fighters will have a positive impact on Taiwan's self - defense and would act as a necessary deterrent to China's aggressive military posture across the Asia - Pacific region,» Senators John Cornyn, the assistant majority leader, and James Inhofe, a senior member of the Armed Services Committee, said in a letter to President Donald Trump.

On Wednesday, Trump is expected to sign an executive order related to the 1906 Antiquities Act, which enables the president to designate federal areas of land and water as national monuments to protect them from drilling, mining and development, the source said.

Energy investors are acting as if the next bust is already too close GM CEO ramping Bolt production, says transition to EVs «won't take decades»

And while the bill's supporters argue that the legislation is a sensible fix that gives states much - needed flexibility on health care programs, the AMA, AAMC, and AARP say it would benefit the young, the healthy, and the rich at the expense of the old, the sick, and the poor by taking hacksaw to the Medicaid program that covers low - income Americans and allowing states to opt out of benefits requirements and other regulations under Obamacare, formally known as the Affordable Care Act.

Access will be «limited to technical personnel and solely for the purpose of verifying that the new targeted production mechanism authorized by the USA FREEDOM Act is working as intended,» ODNI said in a statement.

On Friday, Facebook Inc said it took down a profile that the company believed belonged to San Bernardino shooter Tashfeen Malik, who with her husband is accused of killing 14 people in a mass shooting that the FBI is investigating as an «act of terrorism.»

The surest way to make net - neutrality laws legally enforceable, they said, was to reclassify ISPs as «telecommunication providers» using Title II of the Telecommunications Act.

Instead of viewing work and life as a balancing act, Bezos said that it's more productive to view them as two integrated parts.

In a statement provided by 21st Century Fox, founder and executive co-chairman Rupert Murdoch said: «To ensure continuity of all that is best about Fox News and what it stands for, I will take over as Chairman and acting CEO, with the support of our existing management team under Bill Shine, Jay Wallace and Mark Kranz.»

BMO economists Jennifer Lee and Benjamin Reitzes say that Brexit will be messy and will «act as a further dampener on North American growth.»

In a note released Monday morning, however, Tribune Publishing says that it was simply taking its time to review the offer, and that the board of directors is «committed to acting in the best interests of shareholders and will respond to Gannett as quickly as feasible.»

White House press secretary Sean Spicer said as much last week, and Pai seems ready to act as well.

«Find out whether [the advisor is] in sales, via a broker dealer / insurance company, or will they act like a fiduciary, such as many affiliated with RIAs will be,» he said.

During the trip, the cheerleaders say Redskins officials collected and held their passports, required them to go topless as «a contingent of sponsors and FedExField suite holders — all men — were granted up - close access to the photo shoots, and, in some case, made them act as «personal escorts» for male sponsors at a nightclub.»