Sentences with phrase «taken by the president»

Russian efforts to get the EU's eastern partners to defect from the partnership has been greeted in Brussels with surprise and indignation, and attributed largely to the hard line taken by President Putin on the former Soviet space.

«The action taken by the President can not in the remotest sense by any shred of legal reasoning or imagination amounts to a slap in the face of the judiciary,» he said.

«New York faces a difficult economic situation and our taxpayers are being overburdened by actions taken by President Trump and Republican legislators, and both of these issues need to be addressed by state government this year,» Stewart - Cousins said in a statement.

Some saw the prompt action taken by the president as part of his zero tolerance for corrupt advances under his administration.

New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman on Monday once again signaled his opposition to actions taken by President Donald Trump's administration on labor and immigration issues.

It also lauded steps taken by President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo - Addo to establish the Office of the Independent Prosecutor, and pledged to support the President in that regard.

While commending the decision taken by the President to suspend the Regional Minister, Haruna Iddrisu stated that, it was imperative that the President does not breach the Constitution in his effort to address the situation.

The Campaign Coordinator at the Integrated Social Development Center (ISODEC), Dr. Steve Manteaw, has described as commendable, steps taken by President Akufo Addo to address allegations of corruption leveled against some of his appointees.

While commending the decision taken by the President to suspend the Regional Minister, Haruna Iddrisu stated that, it was imperative that the President...

Having already expressed our organization's condemnation of those killings we are in full support of the position taken by the president on this issue.

In recent weeks, there had been chatter in state political circles that Gibson, who demonstrated an ability to win as a Republican in a congressional district twice taken by President Barack Obama, would be a credible candidate for statewide office.

He said that the step taken by President Muhammadu Buhari to suspend the SGF and the Director General, National Intelligence Agency would send strong signals on his unwavering commitment to tackle corruption and ensure good governance.

-- Not later than June 30, 2018, and every 4 years thereafter, the President shall transmit to the Congress a report providing notice of any determination made under subsection (c), explaining the reasons for such determination, and identifying the actions taken by the President under subsection (d).

International trips taken by the president can take months of preparation but trips such as this one only offer a small window of time for preparation and the filmmakers here pointedly show that in scenes where security teams feel overwhelmed in making these last - minute plans.

Not exact matches

«We immediately began an investigation, and through contacts with the card networks and the card issuers and our processor, determined that this was an action taken by Visa — it was not done by Coinbase,» Dan Romero, vice president and general manager at Coinbase, told Fortune.

The sit - down between Cook and Trump will take place in the Oval Office on Wednesday afternoon and be closed to the press, according to the president's official schedule released by the White House.

«By taking the pledge, Senator Gillibrand is taking a firm stand against Big Money,» ECU President Tiffany Muller said in a statement announcing the group's endorsement of Gillibrand.

A man with a security credential takes a selfie at the podium as Trump, flanked by campaign manager Paul Manafort and daughter Ivanka, checks the podium early Thursday afternoon in preparation for accepting the GOP nomination to be President.

The change also follows a public stance taken by the White House, with President Obama saying in November he favors maintaining net neutrality by using the heavy regulatory approach of Title II.

FCC Chairman Ajit Pai, named by President Donald Trump in January, is planning to take a new look at the current overall limit on companies owning stations serving no more than 39 % of U.S. television households.

A key moment in this shift was the opening speech at Davos in 2017 by the Chinese President Xi Jinping, where he introduced China as a global superpower at the same time that the U.S. was taking a more inward - looking approach.

Investors flocking into bitcoin are taking a risk by buying at such high prices, the vice president of the European Central Bank (ECB) Vitor Constancio told CNBC Wednesday.

Matthew Myers, president of the Campaign for Tobacco - Free Kids, commended the FDA's action, but said the regulator must do more «by taking off the market Juul flavors like mango and cool cucumber that clearly appeal to kids».

In a statement, President Obama said of the astronaut and public servant, «John always had the right stuff, inspiring generations of scientists, engineers and astronauts who will take us to Mars and beyond — not just to visit, but to stay... The last of America's first astronauts has left us, but propelled by their example we know that our future here on Earth compels us to keep reaching for the heavens.

The president of the company takes the role of the HiPPO («Highest Paid Person's Opinion»), a term coined by Google Analytics expert Avinash Kaushik.

Later in the afternoon, speaking at a Miami event sponsored by the U.S. - Cuba Democracy PAC, Romney said that if he becomes president, «it is my expectation that Fidel Castro will finally be taken off this planet.»

President Donald Trump's decision to meet with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un took his own administration - and the world - by surprise, here's why.

If confirmed by the U.S. Senate, Fed Governor Jerome Powell, President Trump's nominee to succeed her, will take over when her four - year term as chair expires on Feb. 3.

Williams, who will leave his current job as San Francisco Fed president in June to take over at the New York Fed, also said he expects the Fed's shrinking balance sheet will help steepen the curve by putting upward pressure on longer - term rates.

But it's unlikely the CFPB will take an active role in regulating lawsuit lenders under acting director Mick Mulvaney, or under a future permanent director appointed by President Donald Trump, said Nora Freeman Engstrom, professor of law at Stanford Law School.

President Trump has taken multiple steps to roll back Obamacare, including by issuing executive orders that undermine its regulations and cutting off payments to health insurers.

«A simple, inexpensive distributed denial of service attack can be carried out by almost anyone with access to a computer — and take a site completely offline before its owners even know they've been attacked,» said Jared Cohen, the president of Jigsaw, a unit of Google parent Alphabet.

«Our hope is that by moving her closer to the NYSE she will encourage more companies to take action,» said Cyrus Taraporevala, SSGA's president and CEO, in a statement.

Association president Gary Smith, of Brookfield Financial, opened the conference by imploring federal and provincial governments to play more of a role, lauding those provinces like Ontario that have launched venture funds, and taking credit for the repeal of Section 116 of the Income Tax Act in the Harper government's spring budget.

When Trump won the election, Zuckerberg appeared to take a veiled jab at the president - elect by saying that «progress does not move in a straight line.»

«Arnold is praying that President Trump can start improving his own approval ratings, which were the worst in history for an incoming president, by taking his job seriously and working inclusively,» Ketchell told President Trump can start improving his own approval ratings, which were the worst in history for an incoming president, by taking his job seriously and working inclusively,» Ketchell told president, by taking his job seriously and working inclusively,» Ketchell told ABC News.

«Having been hammered by political punters backing Jeremy Corbyn at 200/1 to be Labour leader, Donald Trump at 150/1 to be US President, Brexit and a Tory General Election victory both at 6/1, we're taking no chances this time round,» William Hill spokesman Graham Sharpe said.

President Donald Trump opened his remarks at the National Prayer Breakfast Thursday morning by plugging the latest incarnation of The Apprentice while taking a dig at Arnold Schwarzenegger, the show's host.

As Confederate statues and memorials are being removed across the U.S. following the violence at a weekend rally by white nationalists in Charlottesville, Va., President Donald Trump took to Twitter Thursday morning to complain about the actions, calling it «sad» and saying the «culture of our great country [is] being ripped apart.»

The CHOICE Act also takes away the independence of the CFPB by subjecting the director to being fired by the president for no reason.

The Senate and president should take a little trip down memory lane and recall what occurred leading up to 2008 before making a monumental mistake by adopting the CHOICE Act.

Between now and the next round of negotiations in Mexico City in November, don't be surprised to see President Trump take a chapter out of Nixon's playbook by using the «madman theory» to categorically launch an offensive attack against Canada and Mexico in an all - or - nothing bid for a «win - lose - lose» NAFTA.

In just a few months, we have learned that Flynn lied to Mike Pence, Vice President - elect, about obtaining a security clearance for Flynn's son during the presidential transition; that during the same period, as President Obama was imposing sanctions on Russia for election meddling, Flynn communicated with the Russian ambassador about those sanctions, hinting that President Trump would take a softer line, and then lied to Pence about it (and stood by while Pence publicly repeated that lie); that Flynn was not truthful when questioned by the FBI about the same topic; and that Flynn spoke at a gala for RT, the Kremlin - backed propaganda network and received payments from RT, but dissembled about the source of the payments and seems to have failed to follow U.S. regulations about reporting them.

Yesterday, President Obama urged private companies to take over the job of transporting humans into space, a move that was heralded by the burgeoning private space industry.

President Donald Trump's reported labelling of Haiti and the entire continent of Africa as «shithole countries» has prompted a major backlash on Yelp, where reviewers have been taking revenge by using the term to describe Trump hotels.

«The president will not have the meeting without seeing concrete steps and concrete actions take place by North...

(President Obama's 2015 budget proposal, however, took aim at strategies used by upper - income claimants to bolster their benefits.)

Google's vice president of virtual reality products, Clay Bavor, said that the new yet - unnamed new VR headset would be «easy to use,» in contrast to many VR headsets that take time to set up and must be connected by a wire to a computer.

It took President Barack Obama more than a year from his inauguration to get the Affordable Care Act passed by the skin of its teeth — despite enjoying massive Congressional majorities.

President Trump's pick for national security advisor signals a willingness by the administration to take a more hard - line stand against adversaries like Iran or Venezuela — and that could mean higher oil prices.