Sentences with phrase «wards of the state under»

In the case of the comptroller against the Department of Social Services, DSS is claiming that the financial information on about a dozen wards of the state under its administration is not subject to comptroller scrutiny.

Aboriginal stockmen were treated as wards of the state under the «protection» of the Crown.

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In the rural areas of the United States, hospitals under budget pressures often cut the maternity wards first.

My tweet of Friday April 20, 2018 was typical of the reaction, «Actually Buhari was describing himself - he didn't get a good education and has no certificate; he's lived on the Nigerian state all his life; he doesn't like work; and he's fixated on Nigeria's oil...» In truth, Buhari has not presented evidence of completing secondary school - in all the elections he contested, including in 2015 he tendered affidavits to INEC and has declined to perform the simple task of providing his school certificate; since he joined the army in 1961, he has been a «ward» of the Nigerian state and served in multiple states as military governor, as Minister of Petroleum and Chairman of NNPC board under illegal military regimes; he was himself an unconstitutional military head of state; he was Chairman of Petroleum Trust Fund (PTF) under the despotic and thieving dictator, Abacha; and is now back as civilian president.

«In Canada, the Indian Act is the central tool by which the federal government rendered itself the authority, under s. 91 (24), to completely manage the affairs of Indians, thus making hundreds of thousands of Aboriginal people wards of the federal state.»

Under colonial administration, Aboriginal communities did not control their own economic and social development destinies, particularly those with registered Indian status who were considered wards of the state.

A Children's Court order may have made you a State ward, placed you in the care of the Director - General or under the parental responsibility of the Minister.