At the time NRA president Sandra Froman said, " When these Bush Administration officials affirmed that the Second Amendment protects an individual right, the enemies of freedom were outraged because they fear the Second Amendment for what it really is – a shield against oppression.

The primary opposition candidate was the U. S .- backed Arturo Cruz, who succumbed to pressure from the United States government not to take part in the 1984 elections ; later US officials were quoted as saying, " the ( Reagan ) Administration never contemplated letting Cruz stay in the race, because then the Sandinistas could justifiably claim that the elections were legitimate.

Rod Blagojevich, Federal Aviation Administration and Department of Homeland Security officials and virtually everyone else in the metropolitan area.

Moreover, immediately after the Clinton administration allowed Aristide to return to office, in a series of private meetings, Administration officials admonished Aristide to put aside the rhetoric of class warfare and seek instead to reconcile Haiti ’ s tiny elite sector and poor majority.

Administration officials demanded that Aristide reach out to some of his political opponents in setting up his new government to set up a broad-based coalition regime.

With Postmaster General James A. Farley and WPA administrator Harry Hopkins cutting deals with state and local Democratic officials, Roosevelt used federal discretionary spending, especially the Works Progress Administration ( 1935 – 1942 ) as a national political machine.

Also representing the Village are 7 Administration officials headed by Village Administrator Lynn Pincomb, 5 members of the Zoning Board of Appeals including Chairman Ron Prior, Village Justice Stephen Kunken, Court Clerk Kristen Gerken and prosecuting attorney Andrew Lawrence.

" Two unnamed former Bush Administration officials say that the briefing was detailed and graphic, and at the time she didn't raise substantial objections.

Gambino also made a sizable profit during World War II by bribing Office of Price Administration ( OPA ) officials for ration stamps, which he then sold on the black market.

The Bush Administration is alleged to have forced officials to hide its true cost, which later was triple its original claim.

Most of Liddy's ideas were rejected by Attorney General John N. Mitchell, but a few were given the go-ahead by Nixon Administration officials, including the break-in at Daniel Ellsberg's psychiatrist's office in Los Angeles.

Administration: Under the head of administration would be classed as the chief director of the arsenal, officials military and civil, non-commissioned officers and military artificers, civilian foremen, workmen and laborers, with the clerks and writers necessary for the office work of the establishments.

Khalilzad was one of the first high-level Administration officials to warn that sectarian violence was overtaking the insurgency as the number one threat to Iraq's stability.

The agency produced electronic and printed materials, most notably a product known as The Washington File information service, intended to provide, in the words of the agency " both time-sensitive and in-depth information in five languages ," incorporation full transcripts of speeches, Congressional testimony, articles by Administration officials, and materials providing analysis of key issues.

During the Bush Administration, federal officials stepped up the crack down on medical marijuana in California.

* Special Counsel, Nicholas J. Bua ( November 13, 1991 ) relating to allegations that high-ranking officials of the United States Department of Justice during the Reagan Administration ( 1981 – 89 ) had acted improperly for personal gain to bankrupt Inslaw Inc .. Bua was appointed by Attorney General William Barr to advise Barr on whether or not an independent prosecutor ought to be appointed to investigate the allegations.

The foundation runs three major programs: the Wexner Heritage Program for North American Jewish volunteers ; the Graduate Fellowship for students pursuing a master's degree in the rabbinate, cantorate, or Jewish studies ; and an Israel Fellowship which funds Israeli public officials for a master's degree in Public Administration from Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government.

In the many discussions that I held with such officials up to the Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration and the President's Science Adviser, not one Victorian demurrer was ever voiced ; and a great deal of helpful encouragement was given ... The idea of government censorship of the Pioneer 10 plaque is now so well documented and firmly entrenched that no statement from the designers of the plaque to the contrary can play any role in influencing the prevailing opinion.

On November 27, 2009, Quebec's officials and Canadian Grand Prix organizers announced they have reached a settlement with Formula One Administration and signed a new five-year contract spanning the 2010-2014 seasons.

The Administration of Justice Act allowed the governor to move trials of accused royal officials to another colony or even to Great Britain if he believed the official could not get a fair trial in Massachusetts.

Feith is one of several Bush Administration officials under consideration for investigation of possible war crimes in a Spanish court, headed by Baltasar Garzón under claims of universal jurisdiction.

Security files were moved to the White House and Administration officials were banned from testifying before Congress on security related matters.

In the book, Kean and Hamilton charge that the 9 / 11 Commission was " set up to fail ," and write that the commission was so frustrated with repeated misstatements by officials from The Pentagon and the Federal Aviation Administration during the investigation that it considered a separate investigation into possible obstruction of justice by Pentagon and FAA officials.

Downriver of Grand Coulee, each dam's reservoir is closely regulated by the Bonneville Power Administration ( BPA ), the U. S. Army Corps of Engineers, and various Washington public utility districts to ensure flow, flood control, and power generation objectives are met.

For pharmaceutical grade gelatins strict regulations from the Food and Drug Administration ( FDA ), the European CPMP's regulation and European Pharmacopoeia must be met.

By the end of the Johnson Administration, 226 out of 252 major legislative requests ( over a four-year period ) had been met, federal Aid to the poor had risen from $ 9. 9 billion in 1960 to $ 30 billion by 1968, one million Americans had been retrained under previously non-existent federal programs, and two million children had benefited from the Head Start program.

In 1953 Albion Patterson, director in Chile of the US International Cooperation Administration ( the organization which would become USAID ), met with Theodore Schultz, chair of the University of Chicago economics department, and came up with a plan to counter the developmentalism of which Chile was a leading example.

The writers also met several leading senior civil servants under the auspices of the Royal Institute of Public Administration, a think-tank for the public service sector, which led to the development of some plot lines.

Instead, he joined the legal staff of the Food and Drug Administration where he met Herbert Hoover, who became his idol.

In 1971, P & G met with the Food and Drug Administration ( FDA ) to examine what sort of testing would be required to introduce olestra as a food additive.

When Great Britain conquered the present-day Sudan, the British Commander in Chief met Sultan Adam Suleiman in 1932, seeking his advice for his knowledge of the best places in terms of availability of water sources and land topography in order to establish the British Administration Headquarter in Darfur.

The US Federal Aviation Administration will consider applicants with PRK once they are fully healed and stabilized, provided there are no complications and all other visual standards are met.

The severe economic downturn in almost the entire western hemisphere was addressed by Orfila with efforts to renegotiate Latin American debt repayments ; this met with opposition in the Reagan Administration on this, as well, and on 26 October 1983, the OAS voted to condemn the U. S. invasion of Grenada, making Orfila's policy rift with Reagan final.

It is “ not a reward for the search, but compensation for search ’ s successful conclusion .” This standard for utility cannot be met until a “ specific benefit exists in currently available form .” In In re Brana, United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit has ruled that utility requirement for biomedical invention does not require formal approval by the Food and Drug Administration.

It was met with bitter denunciation by the Israeli government and many Palestinians, with the Palestinian Authority staying non-committal, but it was warmly welcomed by many European governments and some significant elements of the Bush Administration, including Secretary of State Colin Powell.

According to the Spanish daily El País, files released by the US National Archives and Records Administration show that, following the left-wing Carnation Revolution coup in Portugal on 25 April 1974, Arias met with the United States Deputy Secretary of State Robert S. Ingersoll in March 1975 and offered to invade Portugal in order to stop the spread of Communism.

During his early years as a psychiatrist at the Veterans Administration Hospital in LA, he met Dr. G. L. Harrington, an older psychiatrist who Glasser credits as his " mentor.

While appearing with a Works Progress Administration theatre company in the late 1930s, he met his future wife, Alice Wiley.

On International Day Against Homophobia and Transphobia platforms dealing with LGBT rights have met Minister of Administration Arsen Bauk where he has announced further changes in existing laws that will expand LGBT rights, plus new law regulating same-sex partnerships.

Shortly after the first moon landing, the Goldensons met with scientists and engineers from NASA, the National Institute of Health and the Veterans Administration in order to study how technology used in space exploration could be used to assist the disabled.

Arrival of the United States Railroad Administration in 1917 began a series of pointed reminders that Monson Railroad's oil headlights and link-and-pin couplers no longer met federal safety standards.

Administration officials acknowledged that U. S. officials, including officials at the Embassy in Caracas, met with opposition leaders throughout this period.

On May 4, 2005, local radio reported that the Federal Highway Administration said the tests by three independent contractors showed that welds pulled from three 500 pound steel chunks of the bridge " either met or exceeded required specifications.

The General Services Administration planned to raze the graffiti-covered hotel, but this was met with fierce opposition from local residents.

Dexter promised reforms to the expense system, and the first bill he introduced in the spring of 2010 was An Act to Establish a Management Commission for the Effective Administration of the House of Assembly, saying " I promised Nova Scotians that their demands for an open and transparent system for MLA expenses would be met.

In New York in the 1930s Jones worked with young people on the Works Progress Administration, the largest New Deal agency, through which he met Langston Hughes, who cast him in his 1938 play, Don't You Want to Be Free?

In February 2009, Halperin met with students and faculty at the NHIOP and gave a public lecture titled " The Obama Administration — The Story So Far ".