Sentences with phrase «who held the state»

The two Congress members are rivals with Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams, who held the State Senate seat before Hamilton and is seen as the Albany lawmaker's mentor and political patron.

who hold the State's purse strings.

Connecticut Attorney General George Jepsen, who can't take lobbyist donations of more than $ 100 for his own campaign or any donations from executives who hold state government contracts, raised money from them for Virginia AG Mark Herring's campaign.

Each district school board shall renew state - issued professional certificates for individuals who hold a state - issued professional certificate and are employed by that district pursuant to criteria established in subsections (2), (3), and (4) and rules of the State Board of Education.

She is among a select group of California attorneys who hold the state bar certification of Family Law Specialist.

Not exact matches

Since 1949, the only first - term Secretary of State who lasted less than three years was Alexander Haig, who held the role for 18 months under President Ronald Reagan.

But it also looked at who's putting that knowledge into action, factoring in the percentage of state residents who held to good financial habits (like building an emergency fund), as well as bad ones (spending more than they earn or using payday loans).

Lagarde, meanwhile, is regarded as a consensus - builder who can contend with the increasing dissatisfaction among EU member states — in three years Britain plans to hold a referendum on its membership — and bring positive change to the organization.

Dene Rogers, who held the top job at Sears since 2006, had told his board two years ago that he would be decamping with his family back to the United States once Sears weathered the recession and hired a management team that could take the business forward.

As of Tuesday, Zenefits employed 250 licensed brokers who hold an estimated 10,000 state licenses.

After MSNBC broadcast a clip of an interview with Trump, the billionaire businessman rowed back his remarks, first saying that the abortion issue should be handled by states and later that doctors who performed abortions should be the ones held responsible.

More broadly, the regulatory agencies in the United States and the Financial Stability Board internationally have work under way focusing on possible fire - sale risk associated with the growing share of less liquid bonds held in asset management portfolios on behalf of investors who may be counting on same - day redemption when valuations fall.

Astudillo, who was elected governor of the southwestern state last year, said Guerrero could not tackle the violence on its own, and argued bringing poppy cultivation into the open could weaken the hold gangsters have on local farmers.

President Trump fired Secretary of State Rex Tillerson Tuesday morning and said he will replace him with CIA Director Mike Pompeo, who will be supposedly succeeded at the agency by the deputy director Gina Haspel, the first woman to hold the position.

The state expects to spend $ 10 million a year in scholarships, which will be awarded to anyone who doesn't hold a college degree or certificate.

A new poll could signal trouble for Democratic Sen. Heidi Heitkamp, who is trying to hold onto her seat in a red state that President Trump won by...

He agreed with Olsen that markets will hold strong for the next two to four years irrespective of who takes power in the United States.

The disputed deal raises a stark question: Are China's economy and resources held hostage by privileged state corporations and their executives, who can use influence and gain access to easy credit in ways that undermine long - term growth?

Either it means that other members of his party — the finance minister, who is against the referendum — will come in and not hold a referendum at all, and try to keep Greece on the austerity plan, or there will be a fall in the government, a no - confidence vote, and people will presumably vote for the Conservative Party, which is very much like the Republican Party in the United States.

In yet another email exchange, Parrott notes that «all the investors will get this very quickly» in response to a message from Mary Goodman, a managing director at James Caird Asset Management (and a former Senior Advisor to Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner who later served as Special Assistant to the President for Financial Markets at the National Economic Council), who stated that the Net Worth Sweep «should lay to rest permanently the idea that the outstanding privately held pref will ever get turned back on.»

President Donald Trump's nominee for Secretary of State faces a challenging road to confirmation with Republicans holding only a slim majority in the Senate and Democrats who once voted for him now opposed.

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We observed yesterday in the markets, «plans», movements caused largely by the public holiday in the United States held the day of the president who had no activity

Marr also mischaracterizes Daniel Webster, who opposed slavery and opposed its extension into the territories but was willing to make political compromises about slavery to preserve the Union; who fully expected slavery to gradually disappear in the Southern states; who supported plans for the colonization of freedmen outside the United States; and who in general held views on the subject that were strikingly similar to those of his follower and ardent admirer, Abraham Listates; who supported plans for the colonization of freedmen outside the United States; and who in general held views on the subject that were strikingly similar to those of his follower and ardent admirer, Abraham LiStates; and who in general held views on the subject that were strikingly similar to those of his follower and ardent admirer, Abraham Lincoln.

Many on here may think that I take offense with anyone who holds to a traditional interpretation of scripture stating that * all * homosexual expression is sinful.

Later on the same topic Topher stated... Unless they are born again christians who hold the bible to be 100 % god's inerrant, infallible word, I don't want them anywhere near teaching my children.

There are states in the US where to hold a legislative office you are required to swear you believe in an all powerful god etc. (mostly the south, who seem to think separation of church and state is a suggestion).

Having carefully collected and sifted through the available intelligence, President Obama, who as head of state and Commander in Chief holds both the olive branch and the arrows, came to the conclusion that the United States should augment its force in Afghanistan with 30,000 new troops, though their stay will not be long.

This hold was not simply imposed from above but was the result of a new consensus, promoted by church and state but increasingly accepted and advanced by people who saw the advantages of limiting violence.

A long line of Supreme Court cases holds that states must pay unemployment compensation to employees who lose their jobs because of their religious beliefs.

It's a reminder that Islamism as much as communism is a modernist enterprise, led by intellectuals who hold that a total state can bring man to a deeper and truer freedom.

If the churches are to be outspoken in their call for non-violence and an international order, they may expect opposition, especially from those who want to hold on to the full sovereignty of the nation state.

Say a woman lives in Tennessee,, could a woman who wanted to terminate a pregnancy be allowed to leave the state and travel to California for a safe abortion, or would the state of Tennessee hold her against her will..

The British, who held a colonial mandate for Palestine until May 1948, opposed both the creation of a Jewish state and an Arab state in Palestine as well as unlimited immigration of Jewish refugees to the region.»

Sobs could be heard in many videos shared online from the thousands of residents who attended the ceremony held in Makurdi, Benue State capital to see the procession of coffins with crucifixes on them.

This became painfully clear in 1996 when the Supreme Court refused to hear an appeal of the Alaska Supreme Court's Swanner decision, which held that the state's interest in preventing discrimination against unmarried heterosexual couples is sufficiently great that it trumps the objections of landlords who believe they are forbidden by God to permit «fornication» on their property.

IE «willful» I will not go into deep explanation but simply stated, this passage is not speaking to people who commit sins on purpose but to people who practice sin as an accepted way of life.not people like you and I and the apostle Paul who says in Phillipians 312Not that I have already obtained it or have already become perfect, but I press on so that I may lay hold of that for which also I was laid hold of by Christ Jesus.

David Chappell of the University of Hawaii, who directed the conference, held up the Kyoto dialogue group as a model to be followed in the United States, where Buddhist - Christian discussion has been sporadic.

Maybe I am, but for the most part, those who have accussed me of that in the past, say I am that way because they don't like my positions and me stating my strong held postions.

Plato held that a State had the duty of prosecuting those who dissented from the official religion.

The same holds true for people who are not believers of any «religion» and choose to state so in our society.

Schlafly again turned to the grassroots, galvanizing family - oriented, religious women to flood state legislative halls and remind the lawmakers that the ERA threatened to mandate unisex bathrooms, same - sex marriage, no - holds - barred abortion, drafting women into the military, and eliminating alimony for cast - off middle - aged wives who had devoted themselves to their homes instead of building careers.

You and I see this differently than those who hold the deeds to those billions of $ $ $ of property, who love to point out that the tradition of tax exempt church properties, and essentially a state - paid «priesthood» goes back to ancient Rome.

Those readers who remember the Second Assembly of the World Council of Churches held in Evanston, Illinois, in 1954 — the only one held thus far in the United States — will recall the long debate which preceded it over the main theme, «Jesus Christ, the hope of the world.»

Yet some of the very theologians who are most insistent about this still hold that eschatological myths include a reference to «the final state of history» or «the chronological moment of the end,» with which, presumably, scientific theories about the future development of the universe are also somehow concerned.5

We must also note that the large majority of those who migrated from the Old World to the Thirteen Colonies did so from other than religious motives and that as late as A.D. i8oo less than one - tenth of the population of what by then had become the United States held membership in any of the churches.

Usually when we speak of authority we are referring either to the state, that is, the authority of the government vested in certain positions and so in the people who hold those positions, or to the legal authority that derives from ownership or contract.

Derek: It is good that most Christians in the United States — from the beginning of the republic until today — do not hold your pacifistic viewpoints on dealing with the devils who call themselves Islamic Jihadists.

The idea that marriages could be held together by law was the state of affairs that was represented to Jesus by the Pharisees who questioned him.

I have no idea how to state that without offending someone who holds religious beliefs.