Sentences with phrase «whose high official»

For example, they occur in the Dialogues of Pope Gregory, 2 the Great, a man whose high official position is surpassed only by the magnitude of his services to humanity.

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Tillerson's departure just over a year into the Trump administration puts him on a short list of high - level government officials whose tenure have been incredibly brief.

Smalley and other officials have pointed out that the Art Institute of Chicago, the Field Museum and other major cultural facilities routinely appoint directors from the highest ranks of industry and society whose sole function is to produce donations.

SERAP argues that the public interest in publishing the names of the high - ranking government officials from whom funds were received outweighs any considerations to withhold the information, as there would be no prejudice against those whose names are published as long as the information is appropriately framed and truthful.»

Officials lauded the performing arts program at the high school, whose theater program has won several national awards over the years, and said the new center will help students develop their talents more.

According to records and the officials familiar with the case, prosecutors also turned loose two men poised to execute a home - invasion robbery of a drug dealer whose plan they overheard on a wire and allowed drug activity to continue that involved the distribution of cocaine in Long Island high schools.

The decision from the Second Circuit Court of Appeals was sparked by the U.S. Supreme Court's decision in the case of former Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell, whose conviction was overturned by the nation's highest court in a ruling that narrowed the definition of the types of official acts that could be considered as part of quid pro quo arrangements.

The machinations with Singh are a stain that involved other high - level town officials and the indictment of Nassau County Executive Edward Mangano, whose base of power is rooted in the town.

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.

The high - octane moves, insiders say, show the preferential treatment that DOE officials — including deputy schools chancellor Kathleen Grimm — give Success Academy, whose 22 schools serve just 6,700 of the city's 1.1 million students.

But the stunning success of the high - function toilet holds lessons for anyone — from public health officials to marketing experts — whose work involves understanding and changing human behaviour and decision making.

Meryl Streep plays Graham, an heiress and socialite whose ownership of The Washington Post regularly clashes with a circle of friends populated by D.C. insiders and high - ranking government officials, such as Robert McNamara (Bruce Greenwood).

And because its makers never met a Soviet stereotype they didn't love and decide to immediately shoehorn into the screenplay, Lawrence's Dominika is a prima ballerina whose uncle (Matthias Schoenaerts), a high - ranking intelligence official, coerces her into espionage.

As in the previous film, the discovery of one clue sends him scurrying after another, eventually driving him to seek out a concealed book whose location is known only to the country's highest governing official.

Dr Raju, whose portfolio covers all aspects of India's schools and higher education policy, led the high - level delegation, which included senior government officials and 22 Vice-Chancellors.

When asked whose thinking had influenced the plan, the senior campaign official listed former Obama higher education officials (including Rohit Chopra, formerly of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, and Bob Shireman, who oversaw many of Obama's first - term higher education accomplishments) and college presidents who have long supported the administration's focus on holding colleges accountable, such as SUNY's Nancy Zimpher.

Several years ago, many organizations, including the National Governors Association and the Council of Chief State School Officers, whose members are top - ranking state education officials, independently noticed that the content and scoring of high school «exit» tests varied widely between states.

As we learned both from Adelanto and from the first - ever Trigger attempt in Compton, rescission drives are often backed by district officials (who have a financial stake in each of their campuses) and teachers unions (whose members stand to lose their jobs if new management finds they don't meet higher educational standards).

In her 2013 book, Reign of Error, Diane Ravitch — an education historian and former federal education official who originally supported but later became a critic of reforms like No Child Left Behind — cites surprising evidence that a nation's higher position on an international ranking of test scores actually predicted lower per capita GDP decades later, compared with countries whose test scores ranked worse.

It was built for Barry High OBE, who had just celebrated his 100th birthday and whose landmark centenary is the official inspiration behind the one - of - a-kind Lexus LS 600h L.

The absence of program effect with the official arrest data may be explained by a significant, 9-fold higher rate of official arrest records prior to randomization (0.44 vs 0.05) found for treatment group 4 mothers who were unmarried and of low SES and whose children remained in Chemung County compared with their treatment group 1 and 2 counterparts.