Sentences with phrase «were in government during»

The report resulted in nationwide controversy, with operatives of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) who were in government during the CAN 2008 tournament claiming Woyome did no work to be paid that whopping sum of money.

Officials of the New Patriotic Party who were in government during the CAN 2008 tournament said Woyome did no work to be paid that whopping sum of money.

Not exact matches

But the Israeli government remains defiant about maintaining its freedom of action to make war on Iran, and it is counting on the influence of right - wing extremist views in U.S. politics to bring pressure to bear on Obama to fall into line with a possible Israeli attack during the election campaign this fall....

By parallel, if you forbid a company from competing for government contracts for 10 years, those are 10 years during which they will engage in precisely zero instances of attempted bribery or other acts of corruption, at least with regard to bribery or corruption of Canadian officials.

He asked Sessions what he would do if there was evidence that anyone from the Trump campaign had been in touch with the Russian government during the campaign.

'' [Petraeus] not only shared [classified information] with someone who was not allowed to have it, but we found it in a search warrant under the insulation in his attic, and then he lied to us about it in the investigation,» Comey said during a Thursday hearing before the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee.

So much of our computer networks and critical infrastructure are in the private sector, which means that government can not do this alone,» Obama said during his speech at the White House Summit on Cybersecurity and Consumer Protection Summit.

Christian Estrosi, regional government head in the greater Nice area, said policing was lighter than Prime Minister Manuel Valls claimed, and that concrete blocks were not deployed to seal roads off during the national holiday festivities of July 14.

During his roughly 15 years in government, he's been a Senate staffer and worked at the FCC and the Justice Department.

The government forecasts the economy will grow 4.5 - 5.5 percent this year, although expectations are for the figure to come at the low end of the range, in danger of its slowest growth since 2009, during the Global Financial Crisis, when the economy contracted.

We don't know the death toll for the ethnic Uighur insurgency in Xinjiang, where local officials, in the words of one government terrorism expert, «bend figures as much as during the Great Leap Forward,» nor do we know how many people are currently held in «re-education camps.»

He is also planning to remain the voice of Starbucks» social impact efforts, like when he asked his employees to write «Come Together» on cups during the government shutdown in 2011 or his decision to offer full - and part - time employees tuition for a college education.

The government forecasts growth of 4.5 - 5.5 percent this year, although expectations are for the figure to come at the low end of the range, putting Malaysia in danger of its slowest growth since 2009, during the Global Financial Crisis, when the economy contracted.

Launched in October 2008 under Bush - era Treasury secretary Henry Paulson during the panic that followed the implosion of Lehman Bros., TARP was initially designed to prop up bank balance sheets via the government purchase of equity stakes or the acquisition of illiquid assets.

During my tenure with a government agency, there was a comely woman in my department.

The basic problem is that during each recession, governments increase their debt load to stimulate the economy and maintain (or even increase) services, but rarely cut back on their debt loads or services during the prosperous times — creating a long - term upward trend in indebtedness that Tony Boeckh of The Boeckh Investment Letter calls the «debt supercycle.»

Furthermore, the Christy Clark government reviewed GHG policies in 2015, during which potential LNG emissions were a primary focus.

Figures released by the Mexican government showed there were 336 homicides in the city during the first five months of 2015 — a 63 % increase over the same period in 2014.

The simplified explanation for this aberrant investing disaster was a dramatic rise in interest rates during the period: Rates on long - term government bonds went from 4 % at year - end 1964 to more than 15 % in 1981.

U.S. and Soviet spies during the Cold War assumed it wasn't just their enemy but their own government keeping tabs on them, so maybe this really isn't paranoia at all, but just the facts of life in the brave new world of meta data - crunching by the world's superpowers.

Doug Gurr, Amazon's U.K. Country Manager, said the company was pleased that both the British government and the EU have prioritized an early agreement on the position of non-U.K. EU citizens in Britain and UK citizens in Europe during the Brexit negotiations.

The Union's opening gambit in what Tusk said would at times be a «confrontational» negotiation with May's government also rammed home Brussels» insistence that while it was open to letting Britain retain some rights in the EU during a transition after 2019, it would do so only on its own terms.

But the reaction among stock investors, in the words of a slogan coined by the British government during World War II, has been «Keep calm and carry on.»

Marissa Mayer, chief executive of Yahoo, was asked during the Techcrunch Disrupt conference in San Francisco why she didn't inform Americans that the federal government was seeking data.

Mortgage insurance was conceived in the 1930s by the U.S. government's Federal Housing Administration to promote home ownership during the Great Depression.

The worst temptation for a government caught in this dilemma is to continue to rely on the old investment - driven model to maintain growth during the transition period.

According to the Kurdish Regional Government, 3,543 women in total went missing during IS» takeover of Sinjar.

During the day, I am often moving between meetings, about 50 percent with City government colleagues and partners working on City tech projects, and 50 percent with startups, organizations, and individuals in the tech community.

The government is considering criminalising abuse of Parliamentary candidates during campaigning and elections, after Labour MP Jo Cox was murdered in the days leading up to the Brexit referendum in 2016.

Outspoken in the world of conservative politics and public policy, the Koch brothers, who have a combined net worth of $ 95.8 billion, are advocates for smaller government and routinely fund political campaigns, although they took a step back during the 2016 election cycle.

Some of the cuts were expected as the government seeks to reduce troops levels from a wartime high of 570,000, which it reached during peak fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan.

During a fundraiser in early 2012, Romney told a group of wealthy donors behind closed doors that 47 percent of the nation is willingly dependent on the government.

[28][29] During hearings for government loans to Ford, he and other industry leaders were criticized for flying to Washington, D.C. in corporate jets.

A loan based on financial need for which the federal government generally pays the interest that accrues while the borrower is in an in - school, grace, or deferment status, and during certain period...

• Subsidized federal loans accrue interest while you're in school and during your six - month grace period after leaving school, but the government pays the interest so it won't affect the total amount you owe at repayment.

MOSCOW Grain exporters in southern Russia are seeking government assurances that shipments will not be disrupted during the World Cup soccer finals because of tight security on roads and at ports, industry sources said.

«What one would expect during a period of economic growth is that the government would lay the basis for future prosperity using the financial resources made available to it during good times,» Ralston said in his Feb. 20 response in the legislature to the budget, according to the day's Hansard.

«Each company is moving forward with some assumption of risk but a presumption of the U.S. government coming through with frameworks that allow that to happen,» Dr. Richards said in October during a visit at his company's Florida headquarters.

Interest rates in the US were reduced to historically low levels during 2001, while discretionary tax cuts and government spending increases (along with the automatic stabilisers) have shifted the fiscal position in a markedly expansionary direction.

Indeed, the downturn in the US government - bond market at the end of 2016 and earlier this year benefited many fixed income arbitrage managers who were able to take advantage of the price decline in US Treasuries during those periods.

Even during the government shutdown in October, he said, «there wasn't a huge impact beyond the beltway and business pretty much ignored it.»

With this type, the government pays the accrued interest while you are in school and during periods of deferment (times when you can not pay your loans).

The main difference between this type is that the government does not pay the accrued interest while you are in school and during periods of deferment.

Such risks and uncertainties include, but are not limited to: our ability to achieve our financial, strategic and operational plans or initiatives; our ability to predict and manage medical costs and price effectively and develop and maintain good relationships with physicians, hospitals and other health care providers; the impact of modifications to our operations and processes; our ability to identify potential strategic acquisitions or transactions and realize the expected benefits of such transactions, including with respect to the Merger; the substantial level of government regulation over our business and the potential effects of new laws or regulations or changes in existing laws or regulations; the outcome of litigation, regulatory audits, investigations, actions and / or guaranty fund assessments; uncertainties surrounding participation in government - sponsored programs such as Medicare; the effectiveness and security of our information technology and other business systems; unfavorable industry, economic or political conditions, including foreign currency movements; acts of war, terrorism, natural disasters or pandemics; our ability to obtain shareholder or regulatory approvals required for the Merger or the requirement to accept conditions that could reduce the anticipated benefits of the Merger as a condition to obtaining regulatory approvals; a longer time than anticipated to consummate the proposed Merger; problems regarding the successful integration of the businesses of Express Scripts and Cigna; unexpected costs regarding the proposed Merger; diversion of management's attention from ongoing business operations and opportunities during the pendency of the Merger; potential litigation associated with the proposed Merger; the ability to retain key personnel; the availability of financing, including relating to the proposed Merger; effects on the businesses as a result of uncertainty surrounding the proposed Merger; as well as more specific risks and uncertainties discussed in our most recent report on Form 10 - K and subsequent reports on Forms 10 - Q and 8 - K available on the Investor Relations section of www.cigna.com as well as on Express Scripts» most recent report on Form 10 - K and subsequent reports on Forms 10 - Q and 8 - K available on the Investor Relations section of www.express-scripts.com.

Including Mr. Harper's vow in 2008 that a government led by him would «never» go into deficit, this is the second time in three years that the Conservatives have made a balanced - budget promise during an election campaign only to abandon it after being reelected.

In other words, over the next five years, this government is planning to spend more money on income splitting for a small number of well off families, a promise made during the 2011 election, than on supporting economic growth and job creation through new spending on research and infrastructure and lowering taxes on investment.

Taken together with the federal government's pledge to reduce domestic roaming rates during its Speech from the Throne, the CRTC's moves are the strongest signals yet that Ottawa is laying the groundwork for much tighter regulation of BCE Inc., Telus Corp. and Rogers Communications Inc., the three dominant players in the $ 20 - billion wireless market.

Following the financial crisis of 2008, the government passed new laws circumscribing how lenders could be compensated, and public pressure provided an additional incentive for lenders to reign in the practices that had made them rich during the housing boom.

What was also palpable during the interactions with founders and government officials was the can - do, must - do attitude and discipline in the face of 360 - degree geopolitical adversity.

During his visit to the Irving Refinery on August 8th, Prime Minister Stephen Harper stated that the Energy East pipeline was not just about moving Alberta's energy to markets, but that the government would, make sure «that Canadians themselves benefit from these projects and from that gain in energy security.»