Sentences with phrase «to represent one's state»

As the chief legal officer for the state, the attorney general provides legal opinions to state officials and represents the state in both civil and criminal matters.

In addition, I wrote to the senators who represent my state and encouraged them to join the effort to stop the killing.

Attorneys representing the state and the parents of scholarship recipients argued the union had no standing to sue because no scholarship money actually enters or leaves the state treasury.

Keep in mind that previously there were 50 different standards so the examples of old standards do not represent every state.

Common Core was created by organizations representing state governors and education officials.

Build a strong national coalition with members representing every state, empower members to make a distinctive impact in their respective states and, collectively, make an impact at the national level.

How could he effectively represent the state while ripping into the very people who control it?

The plan to extend the current board structure for another year represents a state capital snapshot in time.

As such, the model currents do not necessarily accurately represent the state of ocean surface currents on any specific date, at any selected location.

Those are individuals representing the state federally, not at the state level of legislation.

It's an honor to be here representing the state.

The third number represents the state's minimum required coverage for property damage.

The message is simultaneously religious and political, and represents both state endorsement of religion and religious endorsement of the state.

Several prominent Democratic leaders have been critical of the party for not doing enough to ensure its slate of candidates represents the state's diversity.

Further is the worry that instead of giving to a state these projects were giving to the person representing the state.

, this bag represents my state of mind today.

But for now, the standards represent state - of - the - art research on what constitutes good teaching.

The gold ball represents the state's gold production and its wealth of sunshine.

This assures that any such research represents the state of the art at any given time.

Before this, all adventure games are only text based, so that this game truly represents state of the arts for its era and is destined to become a classic.

However, when your check engine light comes on, it usually represents a state of panic.

Are games such as these better equipped to represent the state of modern war?

The records obtained by Newsday through the state attorney general's office, which represents the state in court settlements, show two cases in the State Legislature.

In the U.S. the states are the fundamental building blocks of the federal system and so, since senators represent states at the national level, they are pivotal in creating policy.

The association represents state school boards associations and their more than 90,000 local school board members throughout the U.S.

Moot Courts - The Center conducts 15 to 25 moot courts each Supreme Court Term for state attorneys and other attorneys representing state agencies and officials in the Supreme Court.

As debate over the reauthorization of federal vocational - education programs began in the Senate last month, groups representing state education agencies were lobbying to preserve a strong state role they say is threatened in the House version of the bill.

The union representing state troopers on Monday announced its support for Republican John Cahill in his bid to oust Attorney General Eric Schneiderman.

Among the payments approved by Comptroller Tom DiNapoli's office in recent weeks was a $ 9,000 fee for a law firm representing the state Senate in a personnel matter.

Among several consultancies, Massey has retained the November Team, a firm that handled Lhota's 2013 campaign communications and also represents the State Republican Party.

«I would say to my clients: «You have to protect yourself... by using the water that is appropriated,»» said John McClow, a prominent water rights attorney who represented the state on the Upper Colorado River Commission, the interstate water management coalition, and now serves on the Colorado Water Conservation Board.

«In 2015, it's simply unacceptable that a leader who better represents our state's diversity, and is the first and only female leader in our state's history, is being excluded from the current budget negotiations,» the caucus said.

The governor's office has repeatedly said that Michaels does not represent the state with his opinions about global warming.

As I noted, this is actually the second such e-mail the comptroller has sent supporter since announcing late last month that he had hired a firm to represent the state pension fund in the suit.

Peter Barry, a State University at Albany police officer, was elected president of the Police Benevolent Association of New York State Law Enforcement, which represents State University Police, the Environmental Conservation Police, New York State Park Police, and New York State Forest Rangers.

Youths in Bauch State have warned Senators representing the state at the national assembly not to join any plan to impeach President Muhammadu Buhari.

They also represent the state courts in their relations with the federal court system and serve as the principal mouthpiece for the state courts on Capitol Hill.

Cuomo, who in his first term had a decidedly strained relationship with public - sector labor groups who represent state employees as well as teachers, said there's an «anti-union movement» afoot in the coutnry.

The Public Employees Federation (PEF), which represents state Department of Transportation engineers who are sidelined by design - build, has gone so far as to level claims that the use of design - build jeopardizes public safety.

SANCHEZ: Chris Minnich is head of the Council of Chief State School Officers, which represents state superintendents of education.

Legal Assistance to Institutionalized Persons, Location 2011 — Present «Legal Aid» Clinical Intern Accountable for representing state prisoners in civil and criminal claims, including post-conviction relief and appeals.

The endorsement from the 345,000 - member union was a welcome one for Mr. Cuomo, coming on the heels of rejections from the two largest unions representing state government workers.

Attorney General Derek Schmidt, whose office represented the state in the case, said that's less than 1 percent of annual school funding and not enough to justify closing the schools.