Sentences with phrase «say over whether»

Before that, she was at the Justice Department, where she was deputy director of the Office of Information and Privacy and had final say over whether Justice Department records could be made public.

We put pressure on Nebraska's Public Service Commission, which had the final say over whether the pipeline would be permitted to be built in Nebraska, in advance of their hearings in August.

Importantly, the state rule stipulates that it is the DEA that has the final say over whether an individual North Dakota farmer's bid to grow hemp will be permitted.

He thinks: This is a choice, I'm making a choice and nobody in the world has any say over whether or not I make this choice.

For example, principals will have final say over whether a teacher is hired for or transferred to their school.

Richard Watts of the Local Government Association said that local authorities «must have a say over whether or not selective schools are introduced in non-selective areas».

Nearly 100 MPs, many of them thought to be Tory backbenchers, voted in favour of giving ministers rather than judges the final say over whether deportation would breach the human rights of foreign criminals.

David Davis has called for the Commons to be given the final say over whether prisoners should have the right to vote.

Moreover, some said they felt misled because they initially were told the Legislature would have final say over whether the county could accept any money from the hospital.

Raab's amendment demanded that judges be given the final say over whether deportation violates foreign criminal's right to family life.

Ministers are set for a showdown with Tory rebels over the immigration bill after it was confirmed a crucial amendment backed by restive backbenchers will be debated in the Commons.The amendment, supported by dozens of Tory MPs, would give ministers rather than judges the final say over whether deportation would breach the human rights of foreign criminals.Commons Speaker John Bercow selected the amendment tabled by Esher and Walton MP Dominic Raab in the first group for debate, meaning there will be time for a vote.

Concessions last week giving the final say over whether an inquest should be held without a jury led to a spat over whether or not judges would act independently of the government.

But this argument ignores the fact that children often have no say over whether they are exposed to passive smoke in the car; do children not have the right to travel in a healthy environment?

But as the landlord of the property, the city has final say over whether the park would make a good use of city land.

As the landlord, the city has final say over whether the park would make a good use of city land.

However, the club's president Vadim Vasilyev was allegedly not at the meeting, though he will have the final say over whether the deal is sanctioned.

Your religion doesn't even have any say over whether someone who doesn't subscribe to it can commit murder (we have laws to cover that, but your religion should stay out of it).

What about those zealots who want to forbid women to control their own bodies and have the final say over whether or not to continue an unplanned pregnancy?

«If it's just straight health insurance, which I would bet it is,» says Suzanne Lucas, an Inc.com columnist and human resources expert, «then this is just a policy, and they're not going to have a say over whether it's Jane, who's happily married, or Stacey, who's a lesbian.»

Not exact matches

«If that rhetoric continues to heat up over the summer, that's going to create some degree of uncertainty as to whether the U.S. would become a bit more closed or introduce trade friction with its trading partners,» de la Durantaye says.

When I asked him about his role as CEO and especially what his priorities are right now, and whether they've changed over the years, he said he was focused on four areas.

«Whether any of today's cryptocurrencies will survive over the long run seems unlikely to me, although parts of them may evolve and survive,» Strongin said.

It's impossible to say whether a fiscal crisis, or growing outrage over the alarming numbers, might prompt corrective action before that happens.

Whether it was during the Let's Talk TV hearings last fall, where many Canadians said they wanted to be able to pay for only the channels they wanted, or the actual announcement of such rules, a spooky bogeyman has been invoked over and over.

Besides figuring out whether a family member can take over the company's operations, succession advisors say clans must also come up with a consensus about a transfer of ownership, as well as implement a plan that allows the founder to extract their equity from the firm.

«Increased regulation, in China, Europe, and the U.S. have left sellers wary of pursing Chinese bidders due to concerns over whether deals will be able to close, despite higher premiums often being available,» the report said.

Still, experts said those comments were likely to hurt the government's case in the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, which heard arguments on Tuesday night over whether the TRO should be upheld while the order's legality is established.

The Journal says the subpoenas come as New York plans to issue a memo raising questions over whether Bitcoin companies are following state law.

Instead, senior loan officers have authority over whether to make loans, and the company uses proprietary algorithms that look at applicants» credit history to determine their credit worthiness, SoFi said.

«When you consider this survey went out a few days after the election and an election that to all pundits was a surprise and provided results people didn't expect, I wonder over time whether the exuberance may dissipate,» Wynn said.

Last year, the Irish High Court said that it would ask the European Court of Justice (ECJ) to decide whether the legal mechanism Facebook uses to send European's personal data over to the U.S. is valid or not.

The California - based company apologized over the issue on Dec. 28, cut battery replacement costs and said it will change its software to show users whether their phone battery is good.

«We have had consistent growth, and, you know, whether it's an up quarter or a down quarter, whether it's highly competitive or not, our growth continues and I'm very, very pleased that we now have over 73 million customers,» Legere said.

Kelly and Trump are said to be at odds over whether Pruitt should be forced to step aside, with the EPA official also battered by scandal.

Just over a year ago, the company trumpeted a study that said a whopping 92 % of Twitter users took immediate action after seeing tweets related to a TV show, whether that meant tuning into it or looking it up.

LONDON — Chancellor Philip Hammond has said that Britain needs a «grown - up» debate over whether pay for public sector workers should be increased, arguing that the government must «hold its nerve» on austerity.

«Looking at recent frenzy over virtual currencies worldwide, I worry whether there is some dose of irrational exuberance there,» Bank of Korea Governor Lee Ju - yeol said over a year - end event with reporters on Wednesday night.

Over half of consumers say online reviews are the most influential factor deciding whether to make a purchase, so local service businesses already working to build their online reputations are ahead of the curve.

«Often just keeping [retirement] top of mind and checking in on it regularly, whether that's quarterly or twice a year, can really help to nudge you over the line to, even if you have [a fund], to... make sure you're putting the most into it that you can afford, for your future,» he said.

Larry Levitt, a senior vice president at the Kaiser Family Foundation, a nonpartisan health - policy think tank, said the new version should end debate over whether sick people are protected under Graham - Cassidy.

To ease U.K. regulators» minds over the Murdoch clan having too much influence, Fox has proposed splitting Sky News off from Sky, and Disney has even said it might step in to buy Sky News, whether or not its wider Fox takeover goes ahead.

The United States and its allies are considering whether to hit Syria over a suspected poison gas attack that medical relief organizations say killed dozens of people in the rebel - held town of Douma near Damascus on Saturday.

«When you put all that together, it should be additive to the growth profile relative to what those companies can do on their own,» George said when asked about whether the companies» heyday was over because of the rise of the internet.

Responding to a question about whether his companies had suffered blowback over his stated politics, Thiel said, «I don't think so.»

To tide you over, he says, «you have to have funding from other sources or be able to get other funding quickly, whether that's revenue or equity investments or something else.»

In talks with fund officials over the past year, Goldman executives presented an analysis of the fund's allocations based on publicly available data and suggested areas it could improve, such as where to spend the risk budget and whether to be more active or passive in certain portfolios, said the comptroller staffers, who spoke on the condition they not be named.

The accident, though, will likely shift the U.S. debate over Keystone away from whether or not building the pipeline would have any significant impact on greenhouse gases (the U.S. State Department says it won't, environmentalists disagree), to whether or not Western Canada's oil is a particularly hazardous fuel.

«By the end of the year many of those factors will be clear,» he said about doubts over whether the bank will be able to deliver enduring profitability and the impact of new regulations.

«The main dynamic which is facing all of the producers, whether they are OPEC or non-OPEC, was that had the current market situation remained in place we would have gone into 2017 and probably through most of 2017 with the oil market still in considerably surplus supply over demand, and that would be the fourth year in a row where that situation prevailed,» Atkinson said.

Roughly 40 percent of voters said they approved of the job Obama is doing as president, though they were split over whether they expected the economy to improve or worsen in the coming year.