Sentences with phrase «strong arm of the state»

One thoughtless sexual adventure can lead to a lifetime responsibility — enforced by the strong arm of the state.

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On the weekend before his State of the Union address on Wednesday, Mr. Obama strong - armed Democratic senators to re-appoint Ben Bernanke as Federal Reserve Chairman.

That game had so much awesome in it, from the surreal devastation of Katrina, to the incredible welcome and hospitality from the Arizona State fans, to the incredible game with not one but TWO blocked kicks returned for TDs in the 4th quarter, and all culminating with JaMarcus Russell and his arm - cannon so strong that it bent time and space (when he released that ball, I am 100 % confident that physics did not allow for the ball to get there in time, but it did anyway).

«One of my office's top priorities is to restore New Yorkers» faith in their state government, and that means we need to arm our top ethics body with strong and effective leaders,» Schneiderman said.

He said Cuomo briefly impounded money due NYRA from Aqueduct's casino in 2012 as a strong - arm tactic to make NYRA accept state control of its board.

The impression a dispassionate observer would have from the failure of security and law enforcement during the Bayelsa election (which was conducted in Nigeria's smallest state with the lowest number of registered voters) would be that the federal government permitted or condoned the strong - arm tactics of the ruling party's candidate in his ultimately vain effort to secure that state's rulership by force.

The report suggests that Germany has been enjoying a sweetheart deal with Gazprom, gaining a competitive advantage in gas costs at the expense of fellow EU economies and leaving front line states at the mercy of Moscow's strong - arm tactics.

To keep a close liaison and coordination with state security elements for the activities — the use of armed escort as much as possible and maintaining strong security training and awareness for the personnel; careful selection of all election related sites and the maintenance of security for polling staff, electoral materials and equipment and situational awareness through a well - developed public information strategy to support election operation and ensure timely distribution of security information / advisories; identify hotspots (fragile security locations) in coordination with the Security Agencies and the most likely threats in each constituency and provide a clear order of priority for concerted efforts to be made to mitigate and manage these concerns and to allow resources to be targeted for maximum effect.

Militarism is the belief or the desire of a government or a people that a state should maintain a strong military capability to use it aggressively to expand or promote national interests; examples of militarist states include the United States, Russia and France.1 It may also imply the glorification of the military and of the ideals of a professional military class and the «predominance of the armed forces in the administration or policy of the state «2 (see also: stratocracy and military jstates include the United States, Russia and France.1 It may also imply the glorification of the military and of the ideals of a professional military class and the «predominance of the armed forces in the administration or policy of the state «2 (see also: stratocracy and military jStates, Russia and France.1 It may also imply the glorification of the military and of the ideals of a professional military class and the «predominance of the armed forces in the administration or policy of the state «2 (see also: stratocracy and military junta).

NEW YORK — Dean Skelos, the former leader of the New York State Senate, was sentenced Thursday to five years in prison for extorting about $ 340,000 from businesses whom he strong - armed to hire his son.

These strong - arm tactics have at least allowed the heads of state to take their turns at the podium and hold forth on their personal commitment to sustainable development.

At trial, the government had accused the elder Skelos of strong - arming three companies with a stake in state legislation — a major real estate developer, an environmental technology company and a medical malpractice insurer — into giving his son about $ 300,000 through consulting work, a no - show job and a payment of $ 20,000.

A centrist, he has boasted of his track record of delivering state budgets on time or close to it, cajoling or strong - arming New York's legislative leaders into agreements.

But the state's major unions, spearheaded by 1199 of the Service Employees, strong - armed party activists to endorse Cuomo, threatening to quit the party and take millions in dues with them.

Everything that you expect to see visualized in «Solo,» based on your experience with previously stated «Star Wars» mythology, gets served up on a silver platter, from young Han Solo's first meeting with Chewbacca to Han winning the Millennium Falcon in a card game from its original owner, Lando Calrissian, and making the Kessel Run in less than 12 parsecs (that parsecs are a unit of distance, not time, is properly explained at last), to the fact that Wookiees hate to lose at three - dimensional chess and are strong enough to rip people's arms from their sockets.

Deprived of the Bolshoi's free accommodation and financial backing and with an ailing mother to support, Dominika is strong - armed by her uncle Vanya — the Chekhov joke never lands — to join one of the state schools which train «sparrows», a name given to the women who are ruthlessly drilled in techniques of seduction, blackmail and sexual entrapment in the service of the intelligence agencies.

And that's why the National Disability Rights Network, Disability Rights Education and Defense Fund, and Association of University Centers on Disabilities linked arms with the nation's major civil rights groups to demand that the new version of NCLB, the Every Student Succeeds Act, include annual standardized assessments to measure student progress and that state compliance be overseen by the strong arm of the U.S. Department of Education.

's most recent post, about the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation's $ 45 million worth of bogus Measures of Effective Teaching (MET) studies that were recently honored with a 2013 Bunkum (i.e., meaningless, irrelevant, junk) Award by the National Education Policy Center (NEPC), it seems that the Bill & Melinda Gates foundation are, once - again, «strong - arming states [and in this case a large city district] into adoption of policies tying teacher evaluation to measures of students» growth.»

The suit, filed in Massachusetts state court, accuses Google of using its Android mobile operating system to strong - arm handset manufacturers into using Google's location technology rather than Skyhook's.

There exist a number of clear frameworks developed by international legal scholars and other critical researchers that provide a strong and compelling set of tools for identifying when «armed attack» has occurred in cyberspace (or anywhere, for that matter) and, thus, when a state can respond in self — defense with military force.

On a list containing the top ten best auto insurance companies in the U.S. based on affordability, value of services, and quality of customer service, State Farm ranks third, with still some customers complaining of long wait times for reimbursement, and others reporting strong - arm tactics by agents trying to evade payouts.

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