Sentences with phrase «taken against the officials»

Flint Mayor Karen Weaver, who was uninvolved, is in support of criminal action being taken against the officials and said she was glad people were being held accountable.

Not exact matches

The United States, which in July said would take «strong and swift economic actions» if President Nicolas Maduro goes ahead with the Constituent Assembly, could also further sanction senior Venezuelan officials after acting against 13 prominent figures last week.

«Clearly, the C.F.T.C. has taken a strong stance against Wall Street after the financial crisis, but in a broader context we do worry that the revolving door can make enforcement officials more sympathetic to the companies they oversee,» said Michael Smallberg, an investigator at Project on Government Oversight, a nonprofit group.

Valleywag points out that this whole situation is really weird: «So, our elected officials, in their effort to find a scapegoat for crimes against sex workers like the murder of Julissa Brisman, have taken a site that never made a dime from the hookups it helped set up, and turned it into a full - time, for - profit sex money machine.»

The ordinance seeks to establish regulation and a permitting process that would enable the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency or Department of Public Works to take action against scooters from companies that don't have an official permit from the city.

In the four weeks since Florida passed a «red flag» law authorizing police to seize weapons from people who could pose a threat to themselves or others, law enforcement officials in Broward County have taken action against 13 people.

BEIJING The Chinese industry body which recommended targeting scrap aluminium in retaliatory trade action against the United States is already exploring what other measures could be taken, an official said on Monday.

A self - described «real Indian» who is running against Massachusetts Democratic Senator Elizabeth Warren is suing after city officials demanded he take down his signs calling her a «fake Indian.»

EX-IM's due diligence will come up against the same set of micro - and macro-economic facts that Kenyan officials appear impatient about — oil projects are expensive, complex and can take a long time.

Prominent Republicans warned President Donald Trump on Wednesday against taking further trade actions that could harm American workers, even as top administration officials meeting in Davos, Switzerland, rose to the defense of the president's «America...

Prior to this, banking officials in the state of Tennessee began taking matters into their own hands and refused to wait for the federal government or the Federal Reserve to take regulatory action against bitcoin.

It wasn't until the 1980's that the various synods of Lutherans took official positions against the antisemitic writings of Martin Luther.

Vatican officials failed to take action against a priest accused of sexually abusing two teenage girls in Minnesota despite repeated warnings from a local bishop starting in 2005, attorneys for one of the alleged victims said Monday.

Vatican officials have so far been reluctant to take action against bishops accused of concealing abuse.

Since the beginning of last week, ISIS has taken thousands of people hostage from the outskirts of Mosul into the main parts of the city, and United Nations officials fear that the plan is «to use them as human shields against the Iraqi forces advance on Mosul.»

Church authorities have taken action against some theologians who have dissented from the official teaching on matters of sexual morality.

In a joint statement, they said: «Turkish officials who participate in the detainment of any innocent American citizen should face international consequences, and the actions against Pastor Brunson, in particular, qualify as hostage - taking.»

American pastor Mark Driscoll is to take a six week sabbatical from preaching whilst officials at Mars Hill Church investigate allegations made against him.

Pre-shipment: An overseas country has an official requirement to have the export of wheat fumigated with methyl bromide as a phytosanitary precaution against the introduction of unspecified stored product pests, such as red flour beetle or rice weevil - any fumigation must take place within 21 days of export.

Having been burned multiple times, from Ray Rice to Josh Brown, the NFL is taking its time in its official probe of the domestic violence accusations against the Cowboys» rookie running back.

Adams said he saw the broadcast angle only after the referees left the scorer's table, and considered taking an unprecedented step — calling the officials back over to the monitor — before deciding against it.

Terra Nova officials could have perhaps not taken a forfeit by sitting out one half of the team against Gunderson and then the other half the following week, but principal Megan Carey decided to take the forfeit after meeting with CCS commissioner Duane Morgan and league commissioner Terry Stogner.

Arsenal took the advantage from the bad officials against Burnley last season, but they got hit unfairly by Watford and Richarlison in this season.

If Huddersfield's misery had been increased by the first - half injuries suffered by Quaner and Pritchard, the latter against his former team, another picked up by referee Mike Jones during the warm - up had earlier led to fourth official Kevin Friend instead taking charge.

We certainly benefitted in the famous 5 - 7 against Reading when Theo scored in the sixth minute of added time of normal time (to take us into extra time) after just four were originally signalled by the fourth official.

Team News & Lineups: Jose Mourinho will take charge of first competitive game as United manager while new signings, Zlatain Ibrahimovic, Henrikh Mkhitaryan, Eric Bailly are expected to make their official debuts for United against Leicester City.

Francesco Totti took to his official website to speak about the upcoming season, playing against Messi and the dream of...

The real surprise was that it had taken so long for an official to take action against pushing in the area — this was the first such punishment of the tournament, in match 41.

Buffon clearly thought otherwise, and took his remonstrations against the English official too far.

Official indifference to fathers» identity goes directly against the principle of families and individuals taking responsibility for their children and sharing this responsibility together.

The official indifference to the fathers identity goes directly against this government's agenda about families and individuals taking responsibility for their children and sharing this responsibility together.

Orland Park officials are considering taking legal action against the developer of a subdivision who they say may have told potential buyers that a golf course would be built behind their homes where an industrial park is planned.

Wheaton Park District officials Monday welcomed an announcement by the Du Page County state «s attorney «s office that it would not take legal action against the district for alleged violations of the state Open Meetings Act.

The case against the park district, brought in a civil action filed last May by the Cook County state's attorney's office, alleges that park district officials improperly took office in the Southwest suburb, misspent hundreds of thousands of dollars of taxpayers» money, failed to hold any recreational events and violated numerous governmental codes, including the Open Meetings Act.

This ruling was passed after a pressure group, Occupy Ghana filed a suit against the Auditor General praying the court to compel them not to only report on financial misappropriations by public officials but to take steps to retrieve all state finances that may have gone into wrong hands.

State health officials warned New Yorkers to take precautions against Zika virus and other mosquito - borne illnesses like West Nile virus, as the weather heats up.

Those events unfolded as the state teachers union on Wednesday filed the first official petition asking State Education Commissioner MaryEllen Elia to take action against the Buffalo board member.

The New York City tabloids, so often partners to Cuomo in his never - quite - explicit personal crusades against other New York officials, have taken Bharara's side in the battle, joining the Times in cheering him on and swatting at the governor.

But those days of the may be coming to an end: It took less than three hours from the allegations against Schneiderman emerged for multiple prominent officials such as Gov. Andrew Cuomo to call for his resignation.

David Weprin speaks as Queens Borough President Melinda Katz, City Councilman Barry Grodenchik, second from right, and other officials take a stand against adding tolls to East River bridges during a news conference near the Queensboro Plaza subway station on Sunday, Aug. 27, 2017.

On Tuesday, he took his campaign of affability a step further: he asked a group of city officials to join him at Yankee Stadium, for the team's opening home game against the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim, aides confirmed.

Considering that the attack which took place nearly 3 years ago was an open challenge to the Army engaged in a major anti-insurgency campaign in the «tribal region», a very strong official retaliation against terrorism would have been expected by observers.

Schumer last week told The Daily News he was taking a wait - and - see approach on whether he'd recommend Bharara, who has led successful prosecution efforts against top state elected officials from both parties, for another term in the new presidential administration.

NEW YORK (CBSNewYork / AP)-- Officials took action Thursday against four high - ranking NYPD members amid a federal corruption investigation.

The author Naomi Wolf accused Yale University officials of blocking her from filing a complaint against the famed literary critic and English professor Harold Bloom, whom she accused in a 2004 magazine article of having groped her when she was a college senior and taking a course of independent study with him.

Theresa May's official spokeswoman said «appropriate action» will be taken against anyone found to have been responsible for handing Sir Jeremy Heywood's internal memo to the Mail on Sunday.

Many Party members will take the same line as LabourList and want to convince themselves that elections in our Party are fair and above board.Sadly this is not the case.Last year after the CAC Election a number of delegates, from several different Regions, came forward and said full time officials encouraged them to vote against Katy and myself.This is totally against the Code of Conduct and, to me, is little different to ballot rigging.An investigation is underway.We have a good idea who was behind it.LeftFutures will keep you updated.

There is no question that campaign finance reform and taking a hard line against corrupt officials who abuse the public trust are the keys to achieving that goal.»

Currently, New York law blocks organizations or individuals from being able to sue banks for securities fraud, and only allows legal action against them to be taken by the State Attorney General's office, union officials said.

But the Observer did open up this year's list to elected officials, a departure from 2014, to take stock of some of the rising and falling stars whose names you might know, sizing them up against the strategists, lobbyists and industry types shaping the city in the shadows.