Sentences with phrase «used by government officials»

In responding to Katrina, they were sometimes refused or poorly used by government officials, even though they provided most of the initial evacuation capacity, sheltering, feeding, health care, and rebuilding, and much of the search and rescue, cleanup, and post-Katrina funding.

He said the model is the most luxurious car in the brand's line - up and is used by government officials.

The calculations used by government officials compare the cost of flood defences with the value of what is being protected.

He said, «Information revealed that thugs allegedly used by government officials attacked the labour leaders and some union members who gathered to prosecute the commencement of the strike.»

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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.

If you don't know the name Lenco, you know the Pittsfield, Massachusetts - based company's signature vehicle — an armored truck used by police, the military, and government officials called the BearCat.

Secusmart's technology is being used to protect the devices of government officials in both Canada and Germany, including the BlackBerry device used by German Chancellor Angela Merkel.

This past week, Trump used his official government Twitter account to criticize Nordstrom after the retailer said it had dropped a line of clothing and accessories sold by his daughter Ivanka.

• Secret deal places no legal limits on use of data by Israelis • Only official US government communications protected • Agency insists it complies with rules governing privacy

Government officials have accused the opposition coalition of using fake news to win votes and warned that any news about the indebted 1MDB state fund that has not been verified by the governmenGovernment officials have accused the opposition coalition of using fake news to win votes and warned that any news about the indebted 1MDB state fund that has not been verified by the governmentgovernment is fake.

Consistent with the Hoover Report's recommendations that the United States had to reconsider «long - standing American concepts of fair play» and «learn to subvert, sabotage and destroy our enemies,» the shadow government built alliances between U.S. government officials, the Mafia, and international drug cartels; assassinated many thousands of civilians in Southeast Asia; carried out or attempted assassination of foreign leaders; trained death squads and secret police forces; worked to shore up unpopular dictators like the Shah of Iran and the Somoza dictatorship in prerevolutionary Nicaragua; worked to destabilize «unfriendly» governments such as Allende in Chile and the Sandinistas in Nicaragua; cooperated with the Colombian drug cartel to plot the assassination of the former U.S. ambassador to Costa Rica, Lewis Tambs, with the intention of justifying a U.S. invasion of Nicaragua by blaming his death on the Sandinistas; contracted with the Reagan administration and the National Security Council to find ways of circumventing a congressional ban prohibiting aid to the contras, including the trading of arms to Iran in exchange for hostages and money for the contras; illegally shipped weapons from the United States to the contras and allowed returning planes to use the same protected flight paths to transport drugs into the United States; 11 targeted the U.S. people for disinformation campaigns; and helped prepare contingency plans for declaring a form of martial law in the United States that would have formally suspended constitutional freedoms.

In an earlier attack he argues that (for some reason) using the «if, then» argument (if torturing a man will held defend our troops, then we ought to torture him) to support the use of torture by government officials on our enemies, isn't legitimate, because (crazy logical leap) many interrogators say torture doesn't work -LRB-!?).

While some charges of inefficiency probably had merit, Colleen Roach, a former U.S. employee of UNESCO, wrote that the main argument used by U.S. officials to attack UNESCO was «its supposed intent of promoting government - controlled media.

Chen is already complaining about «greedy» Australian agents and urging farmers to consider the long - term future of the trade rather than short - term profits — near identical language to that used by steel mills and government officials when Chinese demand was supercharging the iron ore price eight years ago.

A child seats may show no defects and must carry a visible seal of approval for use on board an aircraft by the European Union or an official government agency.

If approved by all government agencies involved, the contract would mark a breakthrough for the fair, which has been stalled for lack of an agreement with park officials over use of the Burnham Harbor - Soldier Field area.

Officials from both local government bodies will meet over the next month to work out a possible arrangement to build parking lots on the township property and on the pool site by 2001 for each other's use, they said.

The 16 - seater Falcon 900 EX EASY Presidential jet is used by the presidency and senior government officials on national and international assignments.

State Comptroller Tom DiNapoli's spokeswoman Jennifer Freeman noted that email trails are often used by investigators to catch government officials engaged in wrongdoing, and if those trails are no longer available, it could curtail corruption - busting probes.

US government officials have insisted there have been «significant misimpressions» about Prism, which reportedly uses personal material like photos, emails and videos held by internet companies.

Officials will focus on creating «jobs, jobs, jobs»; restructure government so it is organized «by function rather than subject matter»; and use «a comprehensive approach, not agency silos.»

The court, for example, declared that the meeting with real estate lobbyists can not still qualify as an official act, and Silver's use of a government letterhead can't serve by itself as proof of an official act.

In June 2009, Sir Michael Scholar, head of the UK Statistics Authority, wrote to Harman to warn her that different headline figures used by the ONS and Government Equalities Office with regards to pay differentiation between men and women might undermine public trust in official statistics.

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But in a 2016 ruling in a Virginia case, the high court said «official acts» by an elected official had to include specific use of government power, rather than acts that could be perceived as «constituent services.»

Mayor de Blasio, meanwhile, used his official Twitter account to issue a reminder about the start of Daylight Savings Time, blast the Republican plan to replace ObamaCare and wish a «Happy 14th Birthday» to the 311 government - answer system created by former Mayor Michael Bloomberg.

The book reveals the dirty tricks that were used to destabilise the Conservative Party, including the newspaper's bribery of US government officials, the abuse of parliamentary privileges by New Labour MPs and financial intimidation by former Government minister, Clgovernment officials, the abuse of parliamentary privileges by New Labour MPs and financial intimidation by former Government minister, ClGovernment minister, Clare Short.

However, if that approval was preceded by payments from Russian interests to high US government officials who directed or influenced that approval, or payments to the spouses of those officials, or payments to that official's private charity, then it becomes a case of those officials accepting bribes and using their considerable power in their own financial and political interests instead of the interests of the US citizens.

Three people familiar with the firings said that Tuffey and Sardinia were among several Thruway Authority officials who were interviewed last year by Inspector General Catherine Leahy - Scott, whose office was probing allegations that a high - ranking authority official may have used a government - issued cellphone to place calls to a suspected prostitute.

A religious group under the auspices of the Niger Delta Christian Leaders Forum was on Thursday prevented from using the International Event Centre in Akure, the state capital by officials of the state government.

We can presume, surely, that this is the only draft Constitution (using the term in a modern sense) to have been authored in our island home by an official government!

Speaking of aircraft, federal officials signed off on the use of a government plane by the treasury secretary and his wife last month to Kentucky.

A Nigerian defence official has indicated that the government will not use force to rescue the girls being held captive by Islamist militant Boko Haram.

The bill passed by the Senate includes anti-nepotism provisions, today: · Prohibits gifts from lobbyists and their clients of more than nominal value, including travel, lodging and other expenses, and broaden the types of lobbying activities that lobbyists must disclose; · Prohibits elected government officials and candidates for elected local, state or federal office from appearing in taxpayer - funded advertisements; · Closes the «revolving door» loophole by prohibiting former legislative employees from directly lobbying the Legislature for two years, and expands the revolving door restrictions for Executive Chamber employees to preclude appearances before any state agency; · Prohibits non-legislative employees from using their authority or influence to «compel or induce» any other employee to make political contributions; · Prohibits state employees from participating in any personnel decision or contracting matter concerning a relative.

Government watchdog groups also noted that evidence showed Percoco and other Cuomo staffers using private email to conduct public business, a lobbyist saying he was advised by an administration official that registering as a lobbyist would make it more difficult to operate, and a contributor being coached on how to hide donations to Cuomo to avoid campaign limits.

Major electricity providers and some government officials in West Virginia, the state leading the charge against federal climate change regulations, want to use carbon trading to meet their greenhouse gas reduction targets, according to public records obtained by ClimateWire.

In late July, 17 officials from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in Atlanta, Georgia, descended onto the TAMU campus to assess whether the school was complying with regulations that govern «select agents,» toxins, such as Ebola and monkeypox, that are considered potential bioweapons and whose use is strictly controlled by the U.S. government.

Convened in part by the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy, the meeting will bring together academics, government officials, industry experts, and patient advocates to discuss the use of naloxone both in and out of conventional medical settings.

Political corruption is the use of power by government officials for illegitimate private gain.

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It was an honor denied by the U.S. government for which he fought, and «The Tillman Story» becomes an infuriating story of how officials used intimidation and invalidation to manage the perception of his death.

Aim being to come up with plan / strategy, that can be used by government and county officials security personnel (military and police) and community members for the protection of the women and girls from sexual violence or rape, and also prevent their recurrence and most importantly, the prosecution of the perpetrators.

When a 2008 initiative, Measure 10, which would have banned the use of tax money for campaigns or lobbying and restricted political contributions by government contractors was defeated, its committee chair Jim Anderson noted, «We'll be able to prepare accordingly next time, knowing that the real opposition to ethics reform in South Dakota is NEA union officials back east.»

In response to a verified request by law enforcement or other government officials relating to a criminal investigation or alleged illegal activity, we can, and you authorize us to, disclose your name, e-mail address and Website use history, with or without a subpoena.

This would be separate from the official performance data published by the government, which is currently used to generate school rankings.

Use of the Materials by the Government constitutes acknowledgment of Association of School Business Officials Maryland and the District of Columbia proprietary rights in them.

There are 4 main languages spoken in Bonaire, Dutch is the official one used in government and legal transactions, while Papiamentu is used in daily exchanges and spoken by the locals.

most companies don't get accused by senior government officials of using predatory tactics to lure children into online gambling.

The sites were gathered and located using data which exists in the public domain, exposed and mobilized by Henner, including official US military and veterans» websites, news articles, and both leaked and official government documents and reports.

The help should be presented directly to the user; independently of the governments so that the money is actually used to help the farmers rather than be diverted, wasted, misused or stolen by the government and its officials.