Sentence examples for specific officials from inspiring English sources
The two-hour round table was held on background, meaning that the bloggers could describe the sessions, but not attribute quotes to specific officials.
In a few countries, representations about conditions of service and applications for advice and help outside the normal service channels may be made through specific officials.
But the latest report, a 500-page document issued Tuesday by the Rwandan Justice Ministry, for the first time cites specific officials and hints the potential that indictments might be issued.
If a Chinese paper dwells on the names of specific officials who allowed the construction of unsafe schools, it might be scoring a point for accountability, but the investigative coup also leaves the paper vulnerable to petty political retribution.
Elaine Weinstein thanked several members of Congress for their attempts to press for her husband's release, as well as "specific officials" of the FBI, but reserved damning words for other sectors of the government.
These included the ineffective security provided by the host nation; staffing shortfalls, including high turnover among American diplomatic security personnel; faulty fire-safety and security equipment, including surveillance cameras; and poor performance by specific officials.
Under federal law, gratuities to a public official are illegal only when they are given in exchange for a specific official action, whether that action is taken or merely promised.
1807, 114 L.Ed.2d 307, because the offense is completed when the public official receives payment in return for his agreement to perform specific official acts; fulfillment of the quid pro quo is not an element of the offense.
Likewise, McDonnell's argument is that Congress can only prohibit bribery when there is an explicit quid pro quo a payment or gift in return for a specific official act.
Hong Kong's leader named a panel of international experts today to draft contingency plans for another SARS outbreak next winter, but said no specific official would be investigated in the government's handling of the disease here this spring.
The point in controversy here is that the instructions went on to suggest that §201(c)(1)(A), unlike the bribery statute, did not require any connection between respondents intent and a specific official act.
