Sentences with phrase «whose official position»

Moreover, it has a lasting tradition in the history of the church, whose official position has always been to shield homosexuals from the application of civil authority.

Not exact matches

(The Post reports that Kelly is the rare official whose position is safe.)

What you can not do is use political power and official govt position to bully and discriminate against those whose views do not agree with yours.

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.

Zhou told jurors that defense lawyers purposely sought to confuse them over the past month - and - a-half in what he said, in the end, is a «simple case» of a top government official allegedly selling his position of power in the Cuomo administration to executives whose companies allegedly got millions of dollars» worth of insider help from Percoco with everything from stalled government payments for a Syracuse construction project to help with an Orange County gas - fired power plant development.

The officials whose positions were declared vacant are the Zonal vice chairman, Ibrahim Ahovi and the state youth leader, Emmanuel Jimoh.

In fact, SILVER's outside income included millions of dollars of fees obtained through Glenwood and Witkoff, both of which had significant business before the state, and Dr. Taub, to whose benefit SILVER provided state funding and other benefits related to SILVER's official position.

The Nigeria police is so predictable in terms of setting up innocent persons whose only crime is that they are independent voices from the positions expressed in official quarters inside the presidency which controls the police like rubber stamps.

Nassau District Attorney Madeline Singas, whose office filed briefs arguing to uphold the convictions, said Thursday that «instead of revitalizing the New Cassel community, these corrupt officials used their positions of power to line their own pockets.

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.

Likewise, the works exhibited are positioned as «objects» caught in motion, images whose trajectories operate to articulate power structures, disrupt official histories, colonial legacies, and other forms of epistemological violence.

Through relentless pressure on the media to present the issue «objectively,» and by challenging the consensus on climate change science by misstating both the nature of what «consensus» means and what this particular consensus is, ExxonMobil and its allies have confused the public and given cover to a few senior elected and appointed government officials whose positions and opinions enable them to damage U.S. credibility abroad.

In my view it was problematic from day one that CEQ officials, whose essential job was to advance the President's policy and political position on global climate change, were at the table participating directly in the governance of the Climate Change Science Program and shaping its communication of climate change research.