Sentences with phrase «with high government officials»

So, maintaining government protocols, which evidently rule out formal interviews with high government officials while drinking Sazeracs in music halls, I arrived at a nondescript, wood - paneled office in the DOT complex on Washington, D.C.'s New Jersey Avenue SE to see what was on her mind.

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Officials from the government shared their concerns about higher interest rates with a Bloomberg reporter, violating the convention of keeping politics out of the day - to - day handling of monetary policy.

In 1969, government officials noticed that 155 people with high incomes were legally using so many deductions and other tax breaks and that they were paying absolutely nothing in federal income taxes.

I wonder whether he also told Trump that Japan's high - ranking officials from foreign, defense and other government agencies were conducting consultations in Sendai, Japan last Thursday and Friday with their Chinese counterparts on contested maritime borders in the South China Sea.

The U.S. lawsuits said funds misappropriated from 1MDB were transferred to the co-founder of Petrosaudi, a company that had a joint venture with 1MDB, and thereafter to a high - ranking official in the Malaysian government it identified only as «Malaysian Official Oneofficial in the Malaysian government it identified only as «Malaysian Official OneOfficial One.»

Because of my high profile over the past few years, the government officials, the rich people, have not liked to interact with me.

It could be a House of Cards political thriller: A high - ranking elected official and his family are wined and dined by a rich and powerful foreign agent who does business with the government.

Women business owners had the opportunity to hear from and connect with government officials, industry thought leaders, high level corporate managers, and investors.

On a serious note, it pains me greatly to see our high - ranking government officials pandering to and dancing with these religious perverts and other enemies of liberty.

Sentenced to death in absentia after the war, Touvier» thanks to a network of sympathizers in the Church, and with the complicity of high - placed government officials» eluded capture until 1989.

The country's top executives, with MOAI Minister U Myint Hlaing and other government officials, recognized high - performing farmers and farmer groups, extraordinary farm products, and organizations — the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) included — that have supported the development of the country's agriculture sector.

She is always heading off somewhere: striking out on British Army or scientific expeditions to remote portions of the Belizean jungles; roaring up the Western Highway to Belmopan, the capital city, where her opinions are solicited with frequency by government ministers (she is now an official — albeit unpaid — land and resources adviser); or careering into Belize City, the country's population center, for a high - society cocktail party.

With high - ranking government officials and members of Maduro's family sanctioned or indicted in connection to drug - trafficking crimes, Venezuela has been dubbed a «narco - state.»

With the 2016 general elections just five months away, this paper can authoritatively report that, among those nursing ambition to step into the shoes of President Mahama include; cabinet and regional ministers, deputy ministers, high ranking government officials at the seat of government and some party gurus in the legislature.

Vice President Mike Pence has hired a lawyer known for defending government officials in high - profile investigations to help him with probes into whether there were ties between the 2016 Trump campaign and Russia, his office said.

A survey for the High Pay Centre showed huge public support for action against executive pay, with two - thirds of people demanding worker representation on remuneration committees, a move the government refused to enforce last week despite official recommendations.

Howe and his blunt emails pursuing «zitti» with Percoco are expected to be the centerpiece of the trial, but prosecutors have also signaled that testimony will involve several high - profile administration figures and focus on Percoco's power over officials the government says were «pressured.»

With the American federal government being criticized for a slow response, it has been up to the mayors of Puerto Rico to help the island and keep order and pressure on higher officials amid the devastation.

«If it is good enough for high - ranking government officials and dignitaries to ride around in cars with bullet - proof glass, then it should be for our cops who put their lives on the line and are being tracked down and murdered like prey With this move, New York is sending the message that all lives matter including the lives of those who wear the blue uniform and who day - in, day - out put their lives on the live to protect ours.&rawith bullet - proof glass, then it should be for our cops who put their lives on the line and are being tracked down and murdered like prey With this move, New York is sending the message that all lives matter including the lives of those who wear the blue uniform and who day - in, day - out put their lives on the live to protect ours.&raWith this move, New York is sending the message that all lives matter including the lives of those who wear the blue uniform and who day - in, day - out put their lives on the live to protect ours.»

The trial also offered testimony that a lobbyist conducted government business with a number of high - ranking Administration officials through private emails — not through government email addresses — in an apparent attempt to avoid the state's openness laws celebrated during Sunshine Week.

Political activity is far more «professional» at the local government level in urban areas where there are far fewer governments and far fewer elected officials per capita, and a far greater supply of people with higher education and high level managerial and professional work experience.

«an informed, high - level official of the U.S. government» determines the target is an imminent threat, when capture would be infeasible and when the operation is «conducted consistent with applicable law of war principles.»

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.

Alexis Kirschbaum, an Advanced Placement United States Government teacher at Staten Island Technical High School, said, «I am excited that our school will be participating in Governor Cuomo's educational initiative and that our students will have this incredible opportunity to be actively engaged with their government Government teacher at Staten Island Technical High School, said, «I am excited that our school will be participating in Governor Cuomo's educational initiative and that our students will have this incredible opportunity to be actively engaged with their government government officials.

Officials said that's led to some of the highest property taxes in the country as local governments struggle to keep up with their exploding pension bills.

He said, «President Muhammadu Buhari has directed all relevant agencies to compile documents on names of all looters with a view to promptly enforcing the judgment of a Federal High Court in Lagos ordering the government to release to Nigerians information about the names of high ranking public officials from whom public funds were recovered.&raHigh Court in Lagos ordering the government to release to Nigerians information about the names of high ranking public officials from whom public funds were recovered.&rahigh ranking public officials from whom public funds were recovered.»

The focus on higher education the first day is a break with tradition, as lawmakers have generally scheduled the first day of the joint legislative hearings on the budget to be «tin cup» day — when mayors and local government officials discuss the impact of the spending proposal on their municipality.

De Blasio is giving the public unprecedented access to his swearing - in ceremony at City Hall on Jan. 1 — an event typically filled with VIPs, elected officials and high - ranking government staffers.

Ken Girardin, an analyst with the Empire Center for Public Policy, an Albany think tank that advocates for lower taxes and restrained government spending, said, «These higher pay figures reflect bad decisions by both local officials, who signed off on costly deals with the PBA, and state officials, who refuse to fix the state's binding arbitration system that's rigged» to benefit unions.

In the past few years, several high profile cases of state elected officials being arrested and charged with corruption have further eroded public trust in government.

«With regard to petroleum, the world total is limited and the price is very high,» says Lai Hun Suen, a professor of sustainable development at Chongqing University and a municipal government official.

A high - level roundtable would be established in each area, perhaps under the National Academy of Sciences, with representatives of private business, nongovernmental organizations, government officials, scientists and engineers.

The country's top executives, with MOAI Minister U Myint Hlaing and other government officials, recognized high - performing farmers and farmer groups, extraordinary farm products, and organizations — the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) included — that have supported the development of the country's agriculture sector.

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).

They remake themselves as a successful businessman with high - falutin» connections and an English noblewoman, but are soon caught by overeager FBI agent Richie DiMaso (Bradley Cooper) and forced into wearing wires and extending their scam to entrap government officials.

The script never convincingly squares this film's vision of Cap as a guy who's willing to go it alone against government forces (led by William Hurt's Thaddeus «Thunderbolt» Ross) who want to regulate super-heroic interventions with the Captain America of «The Winter Soldier,» who decided he'd rather go against his own government than allow one of its highest ranking military officials to order extrajudicial assassinations.

In the Open Ceremony of the World Education Forum 2015 on May 19 there were more than 100 government ministers, along with high - level government officials, Nobel Prize Laureates, heads of international and non-governmental organizations, academics, representatives of the private sector, researchers, youth leaders, media activists, and other key stakeholders.

In particular, independent research — once viewed as controversial but now increasingly acknowledged by elected and appointed officials in the highest levels of government — has revealed a state of affairs in which three in ten students fail to finish high school with a diploma and in which barely half of historically disadvantaged minority students graduate.

For decades Bill Gates and his billionaire buddies along with high ranking government officials have been «reforming» our public schools.

Today, government officials, along with leaders of corporations, foundations, universities, and other institutions, determine what all students «need» to know, and this becomes educational policy, expressed in standards, state - mandated textbooks, high stakes testing, and relentless control over teaching and learning.»

While a formal civics course is not offered until high school, kindergarten students learn to «identify personal traits, such as courage, honesty, and responsibility» and third - graders learn to «explain how local government officials are chosen, e.g., election, appointment,» according to the Idaho State Department of Education's social studies standards.22 By the time students reach 12th grade, they are more prepared to learn civics - related topics, such as the electoral process and role of political parties; the methods of public participation; and the rights and responsibilities of citizenship, than students with no prior exposure to a civics curriculum.

At a long table sat the high officials of the court, together with members of the government and of the entourage of Sheikh ul - Islam.

And when the body of a woman connected to one of the dead cops is found on the sidewalk below her apartment window, things get even more complicated, as a reputed «witness» — the wife of a high - ranking government official — becomes obsessed with the case, and with Espinosa.

While all of the essential elements are there, such as a loved one held hostage to force the main character's hand, a high - ranking government official with a lot to lose, plus a tribe of varied bad guys, it would be easy to think you've read this story somewhere before, except for the fact that the author does a great job of drawing the reader in through a very readable voice.

His contribution to the art is immense and that became an official reasoning of Belgium government so in 2007 the state honored Tuymans with the high - rank title of Commander, Order of Leopold.

And I couldn't help notice how the Power Dialog is echoed at the high school level by Change Climate Change, an initiative by some students at the Marlborough School in Los Angeles aiming to engage with government officials shaping their city's energy and climate policies.

To ensure that this issue continues to receive the highest level of attention, I direct: (1) relevant U.S. delegations attending meetings with Icelandic officials and senior Administration officials visiting Iceland to raise U.S. concerns regarding commercial whaling by Icelandic companies and seek ways to halt such action; (2) Cabinet secretaries to evaluate the appropriateness of visits to Iceland depending on continuation of the current suspension of fin whaling; (3) the Department of State to examine Arctic cooperation projects, and where appropriate, link U.S. cooperation to the Icelandic government changing its whaling policy and abiding by the IWC moratorium on commercial whaling; (4) the Departments of Commerce and State to consult with other international actors on efforts to end Icelandic commercial whaling and have Iceland abide by the IWC moratorium on commercial whaling; (5) the Department of State to inform the Government of Iceland that the United States will continue to monitor the activities of Icelandic companies that engage in commercial whaling; and (6) relevant U.S. agencies to continue to examine other options for responding to continued whaling bgovernment changing its whaling policy and abiding by the IWC moratorium on commercial whaling; (4) the Departments of Commerce and State to consult with other international actors on efforts to end Icelandic commercial whaling and have Iceland abide by the IWC moratorium on commercial whaling; (5) the Department of State to inform the Government of Iceland that the United States will continue to monitor the activities of Icelandic companies that engage in commercial whaling; and (6) relevant U.S. agencies to continue to examine other options for responding to continued whaling bGovernment of Iceland that the United States will continue to monitor the activities of Icelandic companies that engage in commercial whaling; and (6) relevant U.S. agencies to continue to examine other options for responding to continued whaling by Iceland.

Most high - end restaurants in China continue to serve shark fins to customers despite the Chinese government's move to phase out from official functions dishes with ingredients from threatened shark species.

It could be a House of Cards political thriller: A high - ranking elected official and his family are wined and dined by a rich and powerful foreign agent who does business with the government.

Many, including high American officials, have argued that in our new circumstances, discrimination against non-citizens (providing for their indefinite detention without charge, for example), or the erosion of fair hearing guarantees, or extraordinary rendition (which happened to the Canadian Maher Arar with the connivance of our government) are justified.