Sentences with phrase «about a dozen members»

At Wednesday's board meeting, about a dozen members of the public spoke out against the fare and toll increases.

Washington (CNN)- About a dozen members of Congress were invited to meet at the White House Thursday with senior adviser Valerie Jarrett and the first lady's chief of staff Tina Tchen to address the issue of sexual assault in the military, a senior administration official said.

Just days before the Oscars, the «Wrinkle in Time» director and a handful of other Time's Up members — Shonda Rhimes, Laura Dern, Tessa Thompson, Bad Robot co-CEO Katie McGrath and attorney Tina Tchen — met with about a dozen members of the media on Thursday to discuss what the group has accomplished in its first 60 days.

About a dozen members of the community complained to the board about the decision.

Likewise, only about a dozen members of the governing board voted on the «consensus statement» on climate change by the American Meteorological Society (AMS).

Pianist, music geek and congressman (not necessarily in that order) Ted Deutch, D - Boca Raton, was one of about a dozen members of Congress asked by Spotify to put together a playlist.

About a dozen members of the radical feminist group Code Pink protested Saudi Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman's meeting on Monday at Hollywood talent agency WME.

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Urovant is one of the member companies under Vivek Ramaswamy's Roivant Sciences umbrella, which contains about a half dozen firms, each of which is focused on a different disease treatment space.

About a half - dozen members of Hydro One's senior team huddled around the long, rectangular table in the executive committee boardroom on the eighth floor of their downtown Toronto office.

Second, today Herzer — who had insisted her previous litigation wasn't about money — filed a new $ 210 million lawsuit against Redstone's daughter Shari, her two adult sons, and a half - dozen members of Redstone's nursing and household staff.

The next day, March 29, DeLaurentis gathered about four dozen members of the embassy's American staff — everyone in the building who had a security clearance.

Jennifer and Andy Taylor did it, along with about two dozen friends, family members and volunteers.

This Friday December 29th at 6:00 PM members of more than two dozen New York City and other community groups who are seriously concerned about the situation in Puerto Rico, now that more than 100 days have passed since the devastation that hurricane Maria brought to the island, will converge on the south side of Union Square to have their voices heard.

Each can shelter about 800 evacuees, will have a couple dozen staff members from the district and Parks and Recreation Department, and be ready with food to last four or five days, said BPS chief operating officer Mark Mullins.

For nearly a dozen years I was a member of the Committee to Visit the Divinity School, of Harvard University, a quaint but sometimes useful device dating back to early days when the Commonwealth of Massachusetts had its suspicions about Harvard and exercised them through insisting on such inspection.

By Christmas, dozens of cases were brought against Christians and members of other religions, and though some have been dismissed, arrests and fines have been made in about half of all cases.

The money goes to pay for the buiding, the utilities, the maintenance, salaries for the staff (2 people including the pastor who makes less than the average member), supplies and office equipment, donations that our church sends to other churches around the world, money we send to a native American school in New Mexico, and about a dozen other groupls that we help to support.

I'm standing with about two dozen other members, all of us just finished with a morning workout.

In short, although thousands of «alumni» and friends of the institute have been pleading and praying that the troublesome disclosures would cease so the seminars can continue untarnished, it is the present and former staff members themselves who are demanding answers to dozens of questions about how the large sums of institute money are spent.

The King of the Wire puts his faith in the King of Kings.Just before Nik Wallenda steps onto the wire tonight in an attempt to become the first person to walk a tightrope across the mouth of the Horseshoe Falls, he'll form a circle with a dozen close friends and members of his close - knit Christian family and they'll say a prayer to Jesus Christ.The cross Wallenda wears around his neck every time he walks on a wire isn't just a fashion statement, it's a message about the religious beliefs the American performer holds close to his heart.

But in the third round McCauley, about to be defeated in front of a dozen family members who were watching him fight for the first time, saw an opening: Watkins briefly lowered his hands, McCauley unleashed a left hook and a straight right that dropped him, and the ref stopped the fight with less than a minute remaining.

More than a dozen Jets players and members of the organization have negative things to say about Tebow, according to Manish Mehta.

State Democratic Party Chairman Jay Jacobs told me yesterday that the threshold for getting a resolution onto the agenda is pretty low, requiring about a dozen state committee member signatures.

About two weeks before the contract began, a union representing nearly two dozen members of the force called for the removal of the chief, citing crime statistics that the campus, in turn, said the union «misrepresented,» Kingston's Daily Freeman reported.

A group of about a dozen community activists disrupted a Buffalo Common Council committee meeting yesterday to protest the cancellation of the Police Oversight Committee meeting and to urge council members to reschedule the session for September as opposed to waiting until January.

But the mainstream Democrats» patience reached a breaking point when they found that the Independent Democratic Conference was permitted to introduce its own blueprint of budget priorities on the Senate floor, while the regular Democrats — who have about two dozen members — were prevented from doing so.

About a dozen City Council members met in Albany Tuesday with Gov. Andrew Cuomo about the crisis in public housing — with Mayor Bill de Blasio nowhere to be About a dozen City Council members met in Albany Tuesday with Gov. Andrew Cuomo about the crisis in public housing — with Mayor Bill de Blasio nowhere to be about the crisis in public housing — with Mayor Bill de Blasio nowhere to be seen.

That did not stop dozens of members of the community from speaking out about the issue at the meeting.

Carl Paladino stiffed about a dozen consultants, vendors and staff members for some $ 130,000 in salaries, fees and expenses, and his campaign committee is in debt.

But on Saturday morning, as dozens of community members packed into a classroom to hear a presentation from the New Suffolk Waterfront Fund about the nonprofit's hotly contested plans for the relocation and renovation of the Galley Ho restaurant, the mood was more combative than cheerful.

She already has support from three influential labor unions — the Communications Workers of America, the New York State Nurses Association and the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union — whose local leaders joined her on stage, along with about half a dozen City Council members.

About a dozen local protesters appeared in the lobby of the New York State Education Department in Albany Wednesday demanding the immediate removal of Buffalo Board of Education member Carl Paladino.

WHAT: Dozens of union members will be visiting the homes of fellow union brothers and sisters talking about the importance of this year's election, and the candidacy of Congressman McMahon.

WBFO»S Focus on Education reporter Eileen Buckley attended a session at South Park High School where only about a dozen parents and community members attended.

About a dozen community members, many who belong to a neighborhood group called Red Hook Local Leaders, gathered Monday night to discuss ways to help Gurley's 2 - year - old daughter and her mother, Kimberly Michelle Ballinger, both of whom reportedly live in the Red Hook Houses.

A Private Members» Bill introduced in the House of Commons by Nick Hurd MP, it came about after an unprecedented five year campaign supported by dozens of voluntary organisations, trade unions and other representative groups, parish and town councils and tens of thousands of individuals.

More than two dozen senators and Assembly members from districts served by the agency got a chance to ask Lhota about the needs and problems of their particular districts.

Federal investigators» interest in the former gubernatorial aide came to light in late April, when the administration acknowledged that it had received a wide - ranging subpoena from Bharara's office seeking information about actions taken by a half - dozen current or former members of the administration, including Percoco, that might have benefited two dozen companies that had received state funds or other benefits.

As a member of the Senate leadership from 2008 to 2010, Valesky sponsored 53 bills that became law and had about a dozen staffers.

The armed Boko Haram member, who appeared with dozens of the girls in the background, accused the Federal Government of lying to the world about the mass abduction for the two years the girls had spent in captivity.

But Democrats are effectively split into three groups: about two dozen traditional members led by Andrea Stewart - Cousins of Westchester County; five Independent Democrats led by Jeffrey D. Klein of the Bronx and Westchester; and Simcha Felder of Brooklyn, who caucuses with Republicans to help form their slim majority.

A group of about a dozen community activists disrupted a Common Council committee meeting Tuesday to protest the cancellation of the Police Oversight Committee meeting and to urge council members to reschedule the session for September as opposed to waiting until January.

Only about a half - dozen PEF members have reported this phenomenon, said union spokeswoman Darcy Wells, who noted that 52,000 are eligible to vote on the contract.

According to information from the New York State Authorities Budget Office, only about a dozen authority board members would be covered by the order under the Cuomo administration's new interpretation — and at least one of them is among those who have donated to the governor.

Before the vote about two dozen community members spoke in favor of the resolution.

More than two dozen senators and Assembly members from districts served by the agency got a chance to ask Mr. Lhota about the needs and problems of their particular districts.

In addition to the face - off between Barack Obama and Mitt Romney, New Yorkers will have a chance to vote on about two dozen candidates for the U.S. House of Representatives, one U.S. Senator (Democratic incumbent Kirsten Gillibrand) and 213 members of the New York State legislature.

Council members Brad Lander (D - Brooklyn), Margaret Chin (D - Manhattan) and Antonio Reynoso (D - Brooklyn) held a rally with about 30 school children and dozens of environmentalists outside City Hall to announce a voting majority.

Signaling a formal start to the campaign season, Woodstock supervisor Jeremy Wilber and Town Board members Cathy Magarelli and Bill McKenna stated their cases for reelection at an August 19 forum that drew about two dozen residents, including acknowledged supporters of the three incumbents, to Town Hall.

Federal investigators» interest in Percoco came to light in late April, when the administration acknowledged that it had received a wide - ranging subpoena from the office of U.S. Attorney for the Southern District Preet Bharara seeking information about actions taken by a half - dozen current or former members of the administration, including Percoco, that might have benefited two dozen companies that had received state funds or other benefits.