Sentences with phrase «as the conference came»

The Copenhagen Accord was cobbled together in a back room by the leaders of the U.S., China, India, South Africa, and Brazil as a last - minute face - saving measure as that conference came to its chaotic close.

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Here are a few things I learned at the J.P. Morgan Health Conference this week: (1) Vice-presidential motorcades tie up as much traffic as presidential ones; (2) San Francisco hotels have no compunction about charging pharma - sphere prices, especially when the city is overrun by pharma executives; (3) no one will ever know if you brought more than one blue blazer to a four - day meeting; and (4) in my next life I want to come back as Bryan Roberts.

As I write this, the conference is less than halfway over, and there are plenty of non-political talks and performances coming up.

As CEO and professional speaker Jess Ekstrom points out, 90 percent of her leads come from connections made at conferences.

When it comes to investing in clean tech, «larger or more diverse economies stand to benefit more; smaller provinces, whose industrial structure is not as diverse, tend to have smaller economic multipliers,» explains the Conference Board of Canada in a report.

Since my company often doesn't have the budget to pay for expensive conferences, I come up with creative speaking proposals and try to use that as a way to get into the conference and get in front of an influential audience.

Speakers will be coming from as far away as Iceland and New Zealand for the conference, which runs from November 13 to 15.

As head of the IMF, Strauss - Kahn isn't allowed to comment directly on French politics, but he came pretty close during a Paris G20 press conference, addressing issues that would appear to be of more interest to French voters than the content of the international economic gathering.

Larry Ellison, Oracle's executive chairman, said Sunday during the company's annual customer conference in San Francisco that he considers Amazon to be Oracle's number one competitor when it comes to the business of selling computing capacity on demand, also known as cloud computing.

EMC, as of last month, is part of the bigger Dell Technologies entity, and this news comes as the combined company is hosting its coming out party at the Dell EMC World tech conference in Austin, Texas.

The watershed moment for Spencer and his National Policy Institute came just after the 2016 election that elevated Trump to the presidency — in a video from The Atlantic that was viewed by millions of people, Spencer was seen delivering a speech at an NPI conference in Washington, DC where he used Nazi salutes, imagery, and phrases to celebrate Trump's victory as a victory for his cause.

While business groups in Indiana, such as the Indiana Chamber of Commerce, have come out decisively against the law, Indianapolis, the center of business conference activity in the state, is now fighting to make sure that businesses don't abandon the city's vital convention industry.

The changes come even as Powell conceded during his first press conference that the likely economic effects of the new fiscal - policy measures were «very uncertain.»

Mobile World Congress in Barcelona was coming up, which would serve as the perfect trial by fire — the long flight across the Atlantic would let me test the tablet's entertainment functionality while the conference itself, from which I'd have to file stories, would serve as a good work scenario.

Indeed, Atlanta now has 11 innovation centers, where startups and enterprise companies can connect and engage, as well as conferences like Venture Atlanta and SuperNova South, where investors, founders and corporations can come together to network and be the first to see the newest, hottest technologies.

He'd come to the conference precisely to find folks like Rusk — which, as he defines them, are entrepreneurs with a message but no bullhorn.

The song was a foreshadowing clue to the electric car makers new «Ludicrous Mode» acceleration upgrade, which came in addition to announcements for a new Model S and plans for a roadster as key highlights from Friday's conference call.

This analogy came to mind as I listened to Ardath Albee at the Intelligent Content Conference.

Today's infographic comes from Cambridge House as a part of the lead - up to their flagship conference, the Vancouver Resource Investment Conferconference, the Vancouver Resource Investment ConferenceConference 2018.

«[But] as you move forward depending on when the tax cut comes in, we would benefit from the lower rate and the competitive forces will come in from there,» Lake said at Goldman's U.S. Financial Services Conference.

In a conference call, Didi president Jean Liu said that Apple's investment comes as part of an ongoing funding round for Didi that has yet to close.

When it was announced in January, the expansion drew criticism almost immediately, especially coming as it did only three days after the press conference at which Trump unveiled his half - hearted plan to resolve his conflicts of interest.

Just as the Chinese National Day «golden week» holiday came to an end, over 40,000 industry leaders, technology professionals and developers from 58 countries have descended on Hangzhou for what will be the conference of the year for many.

'» David Neeleman came up with key ideas for JetBlue — such as satellite TV at every seat and at - home reservationists — through networking at conferences and elsewhere.

The BlackRock GPS — which combines traditional economic indicators with big data signals such as web searches and text mining of corporate conference calls — suggests a higher growth rate over the coming 12 months than currently reflected in consensus estimates.

Coming off a year that saw a record number of new drug approvals, significant scientific breakthroughs and a year - end tax reform package that both significantly lowers corporate taxes and provides the long - awaited tax repatriation holiday, it's not surprising that biotech investors, executives and advisers were in a good mood as they gathered in San Francisco this year for the J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference.

Yellen came in as an articulate central banker — she had crafted the Fed's more - open communications policy for Bernanke — but in her first news conference in March 2014, she inadvertently suggested that the first interest rate hike since 2006 was coming sooner than expected.

But on Wednesday, when Zuckerberg took questions from reporters for 45 minutes on a conference call to address his latest scandal — the Cambridge Analytica privacy fiasco — he didn't come across as defensive, unapologetic or naive.

Still, the announcement coming out of Facebook's annual developers» conference today caused Match's stock price to plunge more than 20 percent to $ 36.71 during trading hours, as of this writing.

And I speak and have helped with organizing Christianity21 — a conference Tony runs — because I hope to help create a place where people from diverse Christian camps — such as Tony (who came from the Congregational Church and now blogs for a progressive platform) and me (who grew up in the Southern Baptist tradition who identifies as a moderate) can come and share ideas and interact respectfully.

«All the time not having a clue that they were being whispered against, campaigned against by both Catholics & Anglicans who made it palpably clear that this initiative was detrimental to the «dialogue towards unity» and temporarily compromised their positions as oecumenical ambassadors - that this was a counter-productive «wacked - out» scheme by an ailing Pope who merely needed to be placated until he died - hence delaying tactics, obfuscations, procedurality, red tape and making everything as difficult and administratively untenable as possible; with patronising sympathy and hand - wringing at their lot while sneering, dismissing and chuckling to themselves that the whole thing will eventually come to naught... that the administration will crumble via crises and power politics andpersonality clashes and outright frustration at the situation... and ultimately the Ordinariate will be re-integrated into the Conference system and those not happy about it will crawl back to their friends in the C of E.

The talks of the conference have sought to explain what it means to say we have faith in God by looking at the evidence for His existence and his eternal plan to found the Church as man's true environment in which he comes into contact with his creator.

As the Episcopal Conferences had been — to put it politely — very reserved on the proposal, these new spiritual movements saw their hour had come.

One clue came from a study promoted in 1933 by the much - needed National Conference of Jews and Christians (as the National Conference of Christians and Jews was then called): Claris Edwin Silcox and Galen M. Fisher's Catholics, Jews and Protestants: A Study of Relationships in the United States and Canada (Institute of Social and Religious Research and Harper & Brothers, 1934).

Francis» comments to an international conference on Monday comes as the largely Roman Catholic Poland considers legislation that would outlaw blaming Poles for the crimes of the Holocaust.

Then the conference was divided into small groups of twenty or twenty - five, so that everyone had an opportunity to contribute to the discussion, which enriched the findings that came out of these discussions, representing, as far as possible, the general mind of the gathering.

The Anglo - Catholics are not alone in this by any means, but their cause was greatly discounted by such an unreasonable protest, which looked as if it was the last chance, coming at the close of the conference, and they wanted to make use of that chance.

A conference of the NCC of India, on renewal in mission, came to the finding that conversion to Christ is «not moving from one culture to another or from one community to another community as it is understood in the communal sense in India today» (Renewal in Mission p. 220).

The growing use of the internet, especially in social networking, meant that through the debates of the US Bishops» Conference (commendably held in public session) the general Catholic public became increasingly aware of just what thinking was behind what was coming to be known by consensus as the «lame - duck translation», an expression popularised by Fr Zuhlsdorf who has spent many years analysing «What does the prayer really say?»

-LSB-...] Global governance can be «described» as the new global political regime which informally came about in the course of the post-Cold War conference process of the United Nations (1990 - 96), when a new «global consensus» was built, not primarily by governments themselves but through a historical and strategic partnership between the UN and so - called «non-state actors», mainly powerful western - based NGOs.

The institute is undoubtedly an ego trip for Schuller, and so is many a classroom lecture and magazine article and editorial column for you and me, but he came through time and again during the conference as a decent, warm, ordinary and enthusiastic human being.

In spite of the fact that Karl Barth in the Commission on the Life and Work of Women at the Amsterdam Conference attempted to put the relation of women to the work of the Church on the theological basis of Adam's rib and Ephesians 5:23 («For the husband is the head of the wife as Christ is the head of the church» [R.S.V.]-RRB-, most of us still believe that Paul comes nearest to the mind of Christ in Galatians 3:28.

Speaking on a conference call with far - right pastor Rick Scarborough, Gohmert warned listeners that the nation could be coming «toward the end of [its] existence,» as evidenced by its leaders and citizens allegedly neglecting to remain true to biblical teachings.

Included as a part of these standards should be the serving of a minimum number of hours on the line during a set period, attending a certain minimum number of training conferences a year, and complying with requests to come in for special individual conferences relative to problem areas.

Each person comes with his own defensive system which be uses at home and which he will employ in the conference as it gets underway.

At a 1981 Concern for Dying conference, Margaret Battin, who has written texts on ethical issues in suicide, envisioned a time in the distant future when Christians would come to treat suicide as a kind of sacrament involving a serious grappling with ultimate questions.

Speaking of the Melbourne Conference, C.S.Song said that it would mobilize everything in its power to claim the world as its mission field, and in all likelihood, come up with a well balanced manifesto on the missionary task of the church.

The theme of the Melbourne Conference in 1980 was, «Your Kingdom Come»;, and the next one in San Antonio in 1989 had as its theme, «Your Will Be Done - Mission in Christ's Way».

In the next few decades, the ecclesiocentrism of this passage (and the whole Tambaram conference) would be challenged by a missiology / theology that came to be known as the missio dei.

Avoiding commitment as to any specific attitude which the church and Christian men ought to adopt toward war when war comes, the conference report contented itself with exhibiting the various views which Christians actually hold on that subject and with saying that while the church could neither affirm that any one of these was right and the others wrong nor acquiesce in the permanent continuance of these differences, it should promote the study of the problem with a view to a better understanding of the purpose of God.