Sentences with phrase «small number of officers»

The governor continued to appoint only a very small number of officers and had the right to make recess appointments.

«I confidently predict a very small number of officers... will go to prison for corruption,» he then says, apropos of nothing.

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In Indonesia, Uber's local staff reportedly made a number of small payments to police officers to get them to turn a blind eye to the fact that it was operating a support office for local drivers outside the registered business zones of the capital, Jakarta.

THE new Franchising Code of Conduct has a number of requirements that will benefit both franchisees and franchisors, says Australian Competition and Consumer Commission small business officer Siobhan O'Gara.

«Until now, we've only heard anecdotally about difficulties for regional small businesses in obtaining credit without any numbers to confirm this,» said Kausar Hamdani, senior vice president and Community Affairs officer at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.

A similar assumption underlies Facebook Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg's widely publicized 2011 commencement speech at Barnard, and her earlier TED talk, in which she lamented the dismally small number of women at the top and advised young women not to «leave before you leave.»

In New England the first group consisted of a small number of people such as the magistrates and other political officers, the ministers, the merchants, and the slowly increasing number of professional people such as doctors, lawyers, and teachers.

The race to be the city's chief fiscal officer has, like the public advocate contest, been a sleepy one, with the incumbent Democrat holding major financial and other advantages, and heavily favored, as the higher profile mayoral race has sucked up the attention of most of whatever small number of voters is paying attention to the municipal elections.

«It's very sad,» de Blasio said of the officers» gesture outside the funeral of Miosotis Familia, stressing it involved a «small number» of the estimated 25,000 cops who came.

«The human brain is phenomenally complex, so it is quite surprising that a small number of patterns can explain most of the gene variability across the brain,» says Christof Koch, Ph.D., President and Chief Scientific Officer at the Allen Institute for Brain Science.

Although the captain and first officer were able to safely deplane the aircraft by air stairs in order to conduct external safety inspections of the aircraft, airline officials believed that deplaning passengers by air stairs may have been unsuitable due to the inclement weather, as well as the number of passengers requiring wheelchairs and the number of small children on board.

It's not uncommon for financial officers of large or small corporations to own a significant number of shares in their company through stock option plans or direct share purchases.

Despite this, dogs remain heavily regulated: they must be licensed with local authorities, they can not go in public places without a leash (if at all), they must be vaccinated against rabies, you canâ $ ™ t live with more than a small number of them, animal control officers can seize and destroy them if they determine that they are a nuisance, and the threshold of making a determination that they are dangerous and subject to extermination puts dogs at a disadvantage, even when the facts show otherwise.

However, one might see this as more of an opportunity than a problem as markets have broadened to embrace both the small number of experts and a wide range of compliance officers of one kind and another.

We have recently written about the increases in the number of crimes recorded — at the same time as the budget for the police gets smaller and the number of officers on the street fewer.

And, even the small number of state law enforcement officers are heavily concentrated doing traffic enforcement on major state and federal highways.

We are already seeing a small number of Chief IP Officers, and the number of experts in the boardroom is bound to grow as the value of IP increases.

Gosh, those numbers seem like small potatoes now, at least in comparison to the record pay and stock grants that Chief Legal Officers (CLO's) enjoyed during the same time frame, according to Corporate Counsel's annual survey of general counsel compensation.

[217] Special Rapporteur Martin Scheinin wrote in his October 2009 report that, while there had been «a small number of cases where police officers have been subject to investigations and trial following torture complaints,» he was «troubled that complaints against SSI officers in this regard have produced no results,» and «gravely concerned» by information that terrorist suspects subjected to detention by SSI officers were at particular risk of torture.

Although the ongoing trope about the Chinese judiciary outside of China is that most Chinese judges are former People's Liberation Army officers, Judge Hu's survey found that most judges had at least an LLB or master's degree in law, with small numbers of judges with less than an LLB or a Ph.D..

A small number of law enforcement officers are federal employees with a direct line of command to the President (e.g. the Secret Service and the security guards in the...

A small number of people, such as police officers, judges, and prosecutors, take on the role of enforcing the power of the state.

Self - employment / freelance work is unlikely as the nature of the role means that the majority of recycling officers are employed by local authorities, with a small number employed in the private or charity sector.