Sentences with phrase «time government official»

Though there have been other student loan scams, this is the first time a government official was charged in such an ordeal.

Every time Government officials come to Yuendumu to «consult» with us, they don't listen to us.

Not exact matches

The widely read Global Times is run by the ruling Communist Party's official People's Daily, although its stance does not necessarily reflect Chinese government policy.

«I've had the opportunity to consult with the senior officials of the security and police agencies of the government of Canada, and on the basis of all available information at the present time there would appear to be no national security connection to this particular incident,» Goodale said.

«The evidence for economic reform to date is scant and based on purported private statements rather than government pronouncements,» wrote Bruce Klingner, a research fellow at the Heritage Foundation and former CIA official, in an October op - ed for the Los Angeles Times.

«You have to stop thinking of relating metallic value to value of the medal,» said Jim Greensfelder, a one - time Proctor & Gamble executive, software entrepreneur and former elected city government official who wrote «the bible» on the history of the modern Olympic Games medals.

Reporters who spend a long time on the beat often find themselves getting close to or friendly with senior government officials, and even the president himself — relationships that can make it hard to be tough in their reporting.

Further, with government approval at an all time low and an upcoming election with two of the most disliked candidates in decades, we may simply be no longer able to rely on the actions of our elected officials to regulate social goods.

Citing anonymous government officials, the New York Times is reporting that federal prosecutors with the FBI and the Department of Justice have recommended that Petraeus be charged with a felony for providing classified information to his mistress and biographer, Paula Broadwell, who was also an Army Reserve officer.

As The New York Times points out, this puts the Russian governement in an unusual position, as the messaging app has been known to be used by Russian government officials, including President Vladimir Putin's press office.

A government official briefed on the inquiry told the Times the FBI was looking into the attempted cyber attack but was not carrying out similar investigations at other news organizations.

(President Xi Jinping made this point recently at the Communist Party's congress, a speech nearly every Chinese government official and business executive references each time they speak publicly.)

Other reasons the company could be faltering in China include the government's «official bias toward bolstering homegrown competition,» according to the Times, as well as scalpers, who tend to buy new cars early on and resell them, thus deflating actual sales figures.

As tax revenues have shrunk, the city's financial obligations have grown — mainly to an ever - expanding pool of 30,000 retirees, promised life - time pensions and health benefits by short - sighted government officials over decades who consistently failed to fund those future obligations.

Country officials have seemingly backdated the disclosure times of vulnerabilities that government hackers may want to use.

«Most really hesitate to ask because they are afraid of looking stingy,» Elisabeth Manzon, a French food projects government official told The New York Times.

One of the most powerful aspects of the hyper - active and serendipitous environment at 1871 are the hundreds of planned, programmed and accidental interactions, intersections and connections that are constantly taking place between the 1,600 + members, mentors, sponsors, investors, partners, educators, government officials and just plain - old visitors and guests who spend time here at the fast - beating heart of Chicago's technology ecosystem.

The indictment marks the first time that the U.S. government has brought charges against foreign officials for cyber spying.

Officials in Washington, D.C., and San Juan have expected for some time that Puerto Rico would default Monday on debt owed by its Government Development Bank.

The reports from various organizations, as well as the official government scorekeeper, the Joint Committee on Taxation, showed the Senate TCJA would produce only a modest boost to the US economy that would fade over time.

His successor, Ron Mock, was named six months before he took over, and Leech spent a lot of time introducing Mock to the province's government officials and teachers» unions (two important stakeholders for OTPP) to make sure they were comfortable with him.

The newly unsealed charge, filed October 3 by the special counsel Robert Mueller's office, said that on January 27 Papadopoulos lied to FBI agents about «the timing, extent, and nature of his relationships and interactions with certain foreign nationals whom he understood to have close connections with senior Russian government officials.»

But this time, with the US considering its response to another attack against civilians blamed on the Syrian government, Russian officials threatened to shoot down US missiles, and potentially the ships that launched them, if they attacked Syria.

The appointment, announced on Wednesday, Netflix, gives the video streaming giant a high - profile former government official at a time of increased regulatory scrutiny of some of the nation's biggest technology companies.

For instance, Glaxo officials suggested Shi, who headed government affairs in China, had sent a video of Mark Reilly, who was the Glaxo chief executive in China at the time, having sex with his girlfriend to company officials in the UK.

The provincial government matched the gift, and by the time of the official opening, more than 130 individuals and corporations had also contributed to the future of the School and the building.

As the chart above illustrates, there is an interesting correlation between the seat - advantage a minority government holds over the official Opposition, and the length of time between general elections when the minority is in power.

It seems evident that minority governments with a comparatively narrow seat - advantage over the official Opposition usually stay in power for relatively brief periods of time.

At the very time EU and North American trade officials were working out how Europe could conform with the WTO decision, Sarkozy's government came up with a new ban on a Monsanto corn variety that had previously been approved for cultivation in France.

According to documents released on Oct. 30, 2017, in an interview conducted as part of Special Counsel Robert Mueller's investigation into Russian election interference, Papadopoulos misrepresented the timing of conversations with an individual known to be substantially connected to Russian government officials, his knowledge of the individual's Russian connections and the nature of his interactions with a female Russian national.

The outage comes at an especially embarrassing time, following an announcement from government officials that they had restored electricity to 50 percent of utility customers.

On Saturday, Trump lashed out on Twitter over a New York Times report that reported speculations that Cohen, his longtime personal lawyer who is under criminal investigation by the Department of Justice, could end up cooperating with government officials.

When your own government officials are reliant on leaks for information about the deal, perhaps it is time to acknowledge that a change in approach is needed.

ATHENS, Greece (AP)-- Greece's left - led government submitted to Parliament late Wednesday a new package of creditor - demanded tax hikes and reforms worth 1.8 billion euros ($ 2 billion), which it hopes to have approved by lawmakers in time for a meeting of European officials next week.

The Toronto Real Estate Board (TREB) says it met «multiple times» with Ontario government officials to provide input on ongoing consultations.

Regulation, royalties, environmentalists, corrupt government officials, politics, disillusioned locals, etc. are some of the huge headwinds, and increase the cost and the time of developing a mine incredibly.

Officials said 55 percent of the nearly 1.5 million customers have power, marking the first time the government has provided that statistic since Maria hit on Sept. 20 with winds of up to 154 mph.

I think that if interest rates begin to rise too soon, officials will believe that «Abenomics», the current government stimulus program, has not had time to work yet, so they will be convinced to push forward with a second round of yen printing.

Most of the time, these companies want consumers to believe they are legitimate, and they'll use official - sounding words, so students will believe they're affiliated with the government or the Department of Education.

After all, if the official plan to address a «price inflation» problem involves fixing prices and distributing «Whip Inflation Now» buttons, and at the same time the central bank and the government are experimenting with Keynesian demand - boosting strategies, then there's only one way for economic confidence to go, and that's down.

The teachers did not form a special class but were at the same time landowners, merchants, or government officials.

The issue was not whether «you can pray» (anyone can at any time), it is whether the Government should have prayer as part of it's official conduct.

When government officials begin to say such things, as ours clearly have, then that is the time for challenge, because when a government does that, it is beginning to play God over our lives, and the taste of such identification is a very heady thing.

But just the thought of getting audited, or getting some sort of official document from the most dreaded government agency of all time is enough to raise your stress level a bit.

• The existence of a shadow government of unelected officials, acting independently or at times in cooperation with elected officials, presents the United States with a serious constitutional crisis:

So issues where the local government can't get their head out of their asses when its there responsibility to act and then blame the federal government, it leaves you and I the citizens to fend for ourselves, possibly for weeks at a time while the officials blame one another.

In the early days the Chinese Muslims were mostly rich merchants; in Yuan times they were high government officials; and in Ming times they were leading intellectuals.

The diplomats — officials in charge of New York consulates separate from United Nations missions — say they are hard pressed to explain to their governments and the news media back home why scores of people remain in detention, usually on minor immigration charges, at a time when the United States seeks the support of public opinion abroad for its war on terrorism.

What they liked most was the president's warm words about Poland and her historical struggles for freedom, which sounded particularly topical at a time when the country and its government have been an object of massive and unjust attacks by EU officials.

Credible estimates of these are at least five times the official government debt.