Sentences with phrase «settlement in»

The case represents the largest - ever shipping pollution settlement in New Jersey or Delaware history, according to the U.S. Department of Justice.

In case you're thinking of signing up for Dennis Tito's 2018 voyage to the Red Planet, better remember Biosphere 2, a prototype Martian settlement in the Arizona desert.

Moreover, although the two countries reached a friendly settlement in 2013 and Colombia announced the halt of the aerial spraying last May, Mena's model is not specific to the herbicide and may be applied to similar situations.

Multiple waves of human settlement in the Caribbean occurred over the past six to seven thousand years.

Plus, it was only about 40 to 50 miles from our base camp in Kangerlussuaq, a settlement in the western part of Greenland.

With no settlement in sight, the European Parliament's budgets committee voted in December to dock 59 million Ecus (# 44 million) from this year's fusion programme.

An analysis of pottery and animal remains from the Durrington Walls settlement in Wiltshire, UK, suggests that Neolithic people met there to revel

«There's a spectrum to it, for sure, but that's a universal: everyone has missed settlement in their [previous] mapping.»

Furthermore, the changes to the landscape that have resulted from European settlement in Tasmania may have indirectly altered devil population dynamics and migration patterns, possibly creating conditions conducive for transmissible cancer emergence and spread.

Clear evidence of prehistoric conflict can be difficult to discern in other parts of the world, but the arid climate and sparse settlement in the Southwest have left pueblo ruins, cultural artifacts, and even human remains remarkably intact.

Although the epidemic exploded out of Brazil, the scientists also found a remote possibility of early settlement in the Caribbean.

The controversial water contaminant was made famous by Erin Brockovich and a small Mojave Desert town that won the largest tort injury settlement in U.S. history.

A previously excavated cow skull from a roughly 5,400 - to 5,000 - year - old settlement in France contains a surgically created hole on the right side, a new study finds.

Mr. Klein estimated that case resulted in a settlement in excess of $ 1 million.

We are going to do that by delivering the devolution settlement in Wales, delivering the devolution settlement in Scotland, keeping all the pledges that were made.»

The racial divide in Albany is no less than in most other traditional cities, yet there is a tolerance planted here, perhaps from the diversity associated with Dutch settlement in the 1600s.

An aide said $ 750,000 of the down payment came from the sale of the Manhattan Beach home inherited by Jamie Markowitz after her parents died, while the rest came from savings and a settlement in a slip - and - fall case.

The administration of Mayor Bill de Blasio is taking its own steps to ensure teens are no longer jailed at Rikers after reaching a settlement in the class action lawsuit brought by The Legal Aid Society and a number of private law firms.

He said the party's leadership wanted peace and settlement in the Kogi State chapter of the party.

Schneiderman and City Council Speaker Melissa Mark - Viverito announced the settlement in a press conference at the attorney general's office in Lower Manhattan.

The terms of the settlement in that case included a process for dealing with persistently abusive guards, new protocols for dealing with inmates, and the installation of hundreds of new video cameras throughout the facility.

In 2010, Ministers announced that HMRC would re-invest nearly # 1 billion of the savings from its spending review settlement in initiatives to tackle non-compliance in the tax system.

Nassau Comptroller Jack Schnirman said the county has $ 46 million in unassigned available fund reserves and that paying the settlement in cash will drain those funds to $ 1 million.

However, the JCOPE investigation revealed that the victims did not request confidentiality; rather, the speaker chose not to disclose the settlement in order to protect his senior member and prevent media scrutiny.

NYSUT, meanwhile, again urged the state to fully fund schools under the terms of a 2007 settlement in the high - profile Campaign for Fiscal Equity case, which required the state to fix its school funding formula and fulfill its constitutional obligation to provide a «sound, basic education» to all children.

Syria President Bashar al - Assad should be at the «initial negotiations» into a peace settlement in the country, MPs have been told.

WAMC's David Guistina talks with Mike Spain of the Times Union about a federal investigation into payments made to Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver by a small law firm and Albany County legislature rejecting a proposed settlement in a federal civil rights lawsuit about the county under representing minorities in the redistricting plan.

As the dispute concerning a 2009 affordable housing settlement in Westchester County continues, a Congresswoman and the governor have come up with a plan to allot federal money to local communities.

The money is coming from the state's share of the $ 25 billion National Mortgage Settlement in 2013.

State workers who are still on the payroll also are being compensated under the settlement in the form of extra days of vacation or personal leave.

If the borrowing request is rejected, Nassau would pay the settlement in cash from a fund set aside by the administration of former County Executive Edward Mangano.

«I support gradually escalating sanctions, including boycotts and divestment, until Israel stops expanding the settlements on the West Bank, ends the blockade of Gaza, and starts honestly negotiating a settlement in accord with international law, a two - state solution based on the pre-1967 borders.

The agreement to pay for the settlement in cash protects the taxpayers» interests, present and future.»

Gov. Andrew Cuomo criticized his Republican rival's handling of a complicated federal housing settlement in Westchester County for not complying with a mandate from the Department of Housing and Urban Development.

The secret settlement in Assemblyman Vito Lopez's sexual harassment case stuck taxpayers with an extra bill of nearly $ 2,400 for mediation services from a California - based firm.

But on that question, Astorino and Cuomo blasted each other for their stances on a 2009 affordable housing settlement in Westchester County with the federal government.

they chanted, demanding the state honor a settlement in the Campaign for Fiscal Equity lawsuit that requires it to provide more aid to under - funded school districts.

Fitzpatrick said his response included a proposed settlement in which both sides would drop their claims.

As I predicted earlier today, AG / Governor - elect Andrew Cuomo has announced yet another settlement in connection with his pay - to - play pension fund probe, this time with a lobbyist with long - standing ties to his father, former Gov. Mario Cuomo.

NEW YORK, NY — The state Metropolitan Transportation Authority and the Empire Center for Public Policy have reached an out - of - court settlement in which the MTA acknowledges its failure to respond «in a timely manner» to the Center's Freedom of Inf

«During that period of time the first ever Gurkhas to have rights of settlement in Britain has been agreed and 6,000 have now applied successfully and come into the country.»

Hawkins said that Astorino is wrong to resist HUD's 2009 fair housing settlement in Westchester County, but that Cuomo has been wrong as well for doing nothing to desegregate New York.

When Labour established the current devolution settlement in the 1990s, there were obvious flaws.

New York's Utica City School District has reached a settlement in a federal lawsuit that says it discriminated against refugee students and did not let them enroll at Thomas R. Proctor High School, shown here.

Miliband's second question is about the need for a political settlement in Afghanistan.

A federal magistrate judge in Brooklyn gave preliminary approval to a class - action settlement in which the city agreed to pay a total of $ 5 million to 470 people who were put in solitary confinement on Rikers Island under a now - scuttled policy between Nov. 23, 2012, and Sept. 16, 2015.

New York City has announced a settlement in the lawsuit that accused police of improperly spying on Muslims.

A federal judge on Monday finalized a $ 25 million settlement in the consumer fraud case brought by Attorney General Eric Schneiderman against Trump University.

I remember the story of the roadside Mosque in one settlement in which a black plastic bag was noticed by the congregation as the Imam led in prayer.

The Office of House Employment Counsel brokered a settlement in 2006 over allegations that Queens Democratic Rep. Gregory Meeks fired a staffer in retaliation for reporting that she was sexually assaulted at a business tied to a campaign contributor.