Sentence examples for make the comptroller from inspiring English sources
New York's lawmakers should make the comptroller answerable to an independent board of investment advisers.
Mr. DiNapoli has moved forward in trying to make the comptroller's office more open and accountable to the public.
He promises to make the comptroller's office more streamlined, to upgrade its technology, to hedge more cautiously against deep downturns, and to use his audit power to help agencies work better.
The committee pondered Mr. Bloomberg's desire to put a deputy mayor first in the line of succession, as well as the possibilities of making the comptroller or the holder of a newly created vice mayor's post the successor, rather than the public advocate.
This ad hews to Mr. Pataki's strategy to defang Mr. McCall on education, which analysts have perceived as a potent issue for voters, especially among the blacks and Hispanics who make up the comptroller's base.
The decision by the comptroller, Alan G. Hevesi, will make the state one of the largest private investors in Israeli industries at a time when foreign investment in the violence-wracked country has been shrinking.
Both companies have connections to previous investments made through the comptroller's program.
This started Aug. 6 when a group of service providers filed a lawsuit alleging that the comptroller had failed to make the payments and was putting care for thousands of developmentally disabled Illinoisans in jeopardy.
However, the passions of the present moment make the 2006 election look like a sleepy race for town comptroller.
Mr. Thompson, a former New York City comptroller, made his pledge after delivering a speech to a civic group in which he proposed to increase the number of police officers to 37,000 from the current level of 35,000, and to make the boroughs outside of Manhattan bigger hubs for back-office jobs.
In fairness, neither mayor nor comptroller made the night electric; Mr. Bloomberg in particular tended to dole out energy a miserly watt at a time.
