To our knowledge no nurse in our agency has been employed because of political affiliation.

Upon such sale, there shall be returned to any State or public agency which has contributed financial assistance under Section 3 of this joint resolution a proper share of the net proceeds of the sale.

But he emphasized that the agency must train people within its own employ to fulfill what Field handles, and he said he personally `` regrets very much that the agency has not done this in the past ''.

It has been said that twelve cases related in The Labours of Hercules ( 1947 ) must refer to a different retirement, but the fact that Poirot specifically says that he intends to grow marrows indicates that these stories also take place before Roger Ackroyd, and presumably Poirot closed his agency once he had completed them.

The Cayman Island Investment Bureau, a government agency, has been established with the mandate of promoting investment and economic development in the territory.

Originally a neutral term, since the mid-1960s it has acquired a somewhat derogatory meaning, implying a paranoid tendency to see the influence of some malign covert agency in events.

An economy based on economic planning ( either through the state, an association of worker cooperatives or another economic entity that has jurisdiction over the means of production ) appropriates its resources as needed, so that allocation comes in the form of internal transfers rather than market transactions involving the purchasing of assets by one government agency or firm by another.

To date, no regular scientific agency has established the validity of his theories of prenatal perception and engrams, or cellular memory, or Dianetic reverie, or the effects of Scientology auditing routines.

" USAID's Kent R. Hill states that the agency has been misrepresented: " USAID strongly supports spraying as a preventative measure for malaria and will support the use of DDT when it is scientifically sound and warranted.

While FBI investigators have insisted from the beginning that Cooper probably did not survive his risky jump, the agency maintains an active case file — which has grown to more than 60 volumes — and continues to solicit creative ideas and new leads from the public.

ARPA / DARPA is well known as a high-tech government agency, and as such has many appearances in popular fiction.

The second mystery often begins in the Brown garage on Rover Avenue, where Encyclopedia has set up his own detective agency to help neighborhood children solve cases for " 25 cents per day, plus expenses-No case too small.

The agency has fifty-six field offices located in major cities throughout the United States, and more than 400 resident agencies in lesser cities and areas across the nation.

The agency also has 223 field offices and 13 laboratories located throughout the 50 states, the United States Virgin Islands, and Puerto Rico.

Although there have been some reports suggesting that Toronto may be one of the world's most diverse cities ( see Demographics of Toronto ), the United Nations agency has never designated any city as being the most multicultural or diverse.

Thomas H. Bender has argued that synthesis raises its own unresolved issues such as teleology, causation, agency, and subjective meaning ; and inclusion and exclusion.

The ISO 3166 / MA has further associated members who do not participate in the votes but who, through their expertise, have significant influence on the decision-taking procedure in the maintenance agency.

The journal Nature has reported that the IAEA response to the Fukushima I nuclear accidents in Japan was " sluggish and sometimes confusing ", drawing calls for the agency to " take a more proactive role in nuclear safety ".

" Virtually anyone who suspects that someone has mental problems and needs help could file an application to a state-licensed healthcare agency for a court-ordered evaluation.

The transit agency started using this fuel in 2004, prior to the widespread adoption of ultra-low sulfur diesel, which has since become the standard.

Due to her experience with cancer she has founded a cancer awareness agency, Keep Abreast.

Since 2000, the Greater London Authority has been the transport authority and the executive agency has been called Transport for London ; ending the 67 year use of the London Transport name.

This view has been criticised by some Marxists ( especially Trotskyists ) who characterized this approach as ' substitutionism '- or what they saw as the misguided and apparently non-Marxist belief that other groups in society could ' substitute ' for the revolutionary agency of the working class.

Charlie Marble was back and forth on several occasions, first to confer with Andy on the advisability of cancelling the Las Vegas engagement -- they decided it was wise -- and later to announce that a prominent comedian, also an agency client, had agreed to fill the casino's open date.

After the revolution Egypt ’ s foreign exchange reserves fell from $ 36 billion in December 2010 to only $ 16. 3 billion in January 2012, also in February 2012 Standard & Poor ’ s rating agency lowered the Egypt ’ s credit rating from B + to B in the long term.

Political freedom ( also known as political autonomy or political agency ) is a central concept in Western history and political thought, and one of the most important ( real or ideal ) features of democratic societies.

The Marlins also lost key parts of their second championship team, Ugueth Urbina and Iván Rodríguez left via free agency ( signed by the Detroit Tigers ).

Himmler also gained authority over all of Germany's uniformed law enforcement agencies, which were amalgamated into the new Ordnungspolizei ( Orpo: Order Police ), which became an agency of the SS under Kurt Daluege.

The agency was also " an institution unknown to Roman law " as no " individual could conclude a binding contract on behalf of another as his agent ".

He earns over £ 25, 000 per engagement for his " insights and his own opinions on the expanding European Union, the future of the world in the 21st century, and also about Britain ", according to his agency.

The State Security Administration ( Uprava državne bezbednosti / sigurnosti / varnosti, UDBA ) was also formed as the new secret police, along with a security agency, the Department of People's Security ( Organ Zaštite Naroda ( Armije ), OZNA ).

Khadamat-e Aetela ' at-e Dawlati, almost always known by its acronym KHAD ( or KhAD ), is the main security agency and intelligence agency of Afghanistan, and also served as the secret police during the Soviet occupation.

* Monitor ( NHS ), a United Kingdom government agency also known as the Independent Regulator for NHS Foundation Trusts

However, it also contains many other fictional elements: countries such as Wakanda and Latveria ( very small nations ), and organizations like the espionage agency S. H. I. E. L. D.

The agency also undertakes inspections and provides search and rescue services.

Since 1996, however, the collection has also included oral histories of senior NASA administrators and officials, astronauts, and project managers, part of a broader project to document the lives of key agency individuals.

Osiris was considered not only a merciful judge of the dead in the afterlife, but also the underworld agency that granted all life, including sprouting vegetation and the fertile flooding of the Nile River.

The Civil Aviation Administration of China ( CAAC ), also called the General Administration of Civil Aviation of China, was established as a government agency in 1949 to operate China's commercial air fleet.

Whereas classical political philosophy is primarily defined by a concern for Hellenic and Enlightenment thought, political scientists are also marked by a great concern for " modernity " and the contemporary nation state, along with the study of classical thought, and as such share a greater deal of terminology with sociologists ( e. g. structure and agency ).

The theologian Antoine Vergote also emphasized the " cultural reality " of religion, which he defined as " the entirety of the linguistic expressions, emotions and, actions and signs that refer to a supernatural being or supernatural beings "; he took the term " supernatural " simply to mean whatever transcends the powers of nature or human agency.

The state also owns a public news agency ROMPRES.

Mark Yarhouse, of Pat Robertson's Regent University, wrote that " psychologists have an ethical responsibility to allow individuals to pursue treatment aimed at curbing experiences of same-sex attraction or modifying same-sex behaviors, not only because it affirms the client's rights to dignity, autonomy, and agency, as persons presumed capable of freely choosing among treatment modalities and behavior, but also because it demonstrates regard for diversity.

The Supreme Commander (), a four-star general or flag officer is also the head of said agency, and he is the highest ranking professional officer on active duty.

The Washington Times was founded in 1982 by News World Communications, an international media conglomerate associated with the Unification Church which also owns newspapers in South Korea, Japan, and South America, as well as the news agency United Press International.

The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees ( UNHCR ), also known as The UN Refugee Agency is a United Nations agency mandated to protect and support refugees at the request of a government or the UN itself and assists in their voluntary repatriation, local integration or resettlement to a third country.