The fraternity's Nu Mu Lambda chapter of Decatur, Georgia, held a voter registration drive in DeKalb County, Georgia in 2004, from which Georgia Secretary of State Cathy Cox rejected all 63 voter registration applications on the basis that the fraternity did not follow correct procedures, including obtaining specific pre-clearance from the state to conduct their drive.
Hillary Clinton promised the U.S. government that while she served as secretary of state the foundation would not accept new funding from foreign governments without seeking clearance from the State Department's ethics office.
The Clintons' ethics agreement allowed existing donors to keep giving, with clearance from the State Department.
An employee receives conditional clearance after the state department of education gets approval from the state criminal justice system, with full clearance given only after the F.B.I. has completed its inquiry.
Obstacles to the plans included seeking clearance from state and federal agencies, said Edward Sheeran, the mayor's special assistant for economic development.
The plans will also require state aid clearance from the European Commission.
The section determined which states must receive clearance from the Justice Department or a federal court in Washington before they made minor changes to voting procedures, like moving a polling place, or major ones, like redrawing electoral districts.
Other variables, such as Vdc = Volume of the central compartment; Vdarea = Volume calculated by the area method; Vdss = apparent volume of distribution at steady-state and CLB = clearance from the body were obtained with standard formulas, as proposed by [ 15, 16].
The research approved and received ethical clearance from the Health Research Committee in the ministry of health at Kassala State, eastern Sudan.
It had barred the Southern states from changing their election laws without first winning clearance from the Justice Department in Washington.
