Sentences with phrase «during our last session in»

We would be grateful for confirmation of whether your Government will be supporting this resolution, alongside the growing number of countries that have pledged their support (over 80 countries did so during the last session in September 2013, I understand).

During our last session in April, the new majority forced a vote on two large - impact local laws.

Some limited restorative progress was made during the last session in the adoption of an A-F performance grading system for schools and districts tied to student achievement, but, true to form, most educators, administrators, and school boards have risen in opposition to this grading system and are working to overturn it or at least further water down its underlying standards and rigor.

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Sam Zeif, a senior at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida who survived last week's mass shooting, delivered an impassioned plea for stricter gun control during a White House listening session with President Donald Trump on Wednesday.

Last week, former FBI Director James Comey told the committee in a closed session that there may have been a third meeting between Sessions and Russian officials during the election.

The clip comes from a video uploaded to YouTube last July in which Trudeau affirmed, during a question and answer session with a crowd in Kelowna, B.C., that he is in favour of legalizing marijuana.

Lawmakers voted down a motion to consider the ban during a session that opened with a prayer for the 17 people killed by a former student last Wednesday at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland.

Prices of cryptocurrencies pointed lower overnight during the Asia trading session, after a strong recovery in the last...

The vote was taken in the Bundestag in Berlin during the last session of the German parliament before federal elections in September.

Dylann Roof has been found guilty of murdering nine black church members who were shot to death during a Bible study session in South Carolina last year.

The formal presentations were made last evening during the opening session of WFF's annual conference, which is being held March 13 -16 in Dallas at the Kay Bailey Hutchison Convention Center

I came across this recipe during a cooking demo at a conference I was fortunate to be invited to be a part of last month — the Florida Academy for Nutrition & Dietetics was hosting their annual meeting here in Orlando and my friend Alyssa (who happens to be this year's president) invited me to sit in on some sessions that interested me.

During an owners - only session at the NFL's owners» meetings in Phoenix last week, he said he'd like the league to reconsider its stance on marijuana use by players, and he wishes the NFL would ease up on its approach to investigating off - field incidents.

The Liverpool skipper has been out of action since injuring his foot during a training session last month but took part in last week's warm weather training camp in Tenerife.

During one of my parent group sessions at preschool last year, our parent facilitator shared a handout with us about the importance of caring for ourselves in the overall scheme of providing positive discipline for our children.

You will likely find it a great help during those sleepless last trimester nights, during marathon nursing sessions, for colicky dinner times and eventually to rest in while you nervously watch the door for when your teen is late in returning home from the movies.

But state Comptroller Tom DiNapoli, New York's chief bean counter, said during a CapTon interview last night that he doesn't believe state lawmakers will be forced to return to the Capitol prior to the January start of the 2018 session if Congress reaches a deal in the coming weeks on averting reductions to the Disproportionate Share Hospital payments and Children's Health Insurance Plan.

Gambling grilled Skelos on the tax code reform deal passed during last week's extraordinary session, repeatedly asking how it's possible that lawmakers» claims of an across - the - board tax cut while generating $ 1.9 billion in additional revenue could be true.

In 2008 several pieces of legislation were passed during a special session on ethics and accountability reform that lasted from February 10 to February 26.

WASHINGTON — In a feisty statement to be delivered to the House Intelligence Committee on Tuesday, Roger Stone, President Trump's longtime political adviser, denies any collusion with Russia during last year's presidential election and accuses panel members of «cowardice» for insisting that he testify behind closed doors rather than in a public sessioIn a feisty statement to be delivered to the House Intelligence Committee on Tuesday, Roger Stone, President Trump's longtime political adviser, denies any collusion with Russia during last year's presidential election and accuses panel members of «cowardice» for insisting that he testify behind closed doors rather than in a public sessioin a public session.

A Database of Deals providing data on the benefits received by each company was the subject of discussions between the legislature and advocates periodically during the session, and a bill reflecting those discussions was introduced in the last week and a half of the session -LRB-(A8175) Schimminger / S6613 - A (Croci)-RRB-.

During an interactive session with a group of civil society organisations under the auspices of, «The Situation Room» in Abuja last June, Idris had stated that the measure was intended to bring the police closer to Nigerians.

A bill proposing just that is still in its early stages and wasn't voted on during the last legislative session.

Although Southold Town Board members discussed reservations they have about a bill in the state Legislature to create a Peconic Bay Regional Transportation Council during a work session last month, Supervisor Scott Russell said Tuesday they haven't dismissed it altogether.

Gianaris said he and Libous, who lost his seat last year in a corruption conviction, used to share score updates and news on the Mets during slow periods in the legislative session.

Here's a full list of progressive legislation that passed the Assembly but died in the Senate during the last legislative session.

Hardhatters.com released a report showing that even though more Republicans serve in the Texas Legislature than Democrats, nearly half of the laws passed during last year's regular legislative session were either authored or co-authored by Democrats.

Speaking during a question - and - answer session at a thinktank in Brussels last month, he said: «Well let's just take one test — the exact same benefits.

A broader wage hike faltered during the session, despite a last - minute push from Gov. Andrew Cuomo with his allies in labor, the Hotel Trades Council.

While much went unresolved during the combative close to New York's 2017 legislative session, legislation aimed at increasing access to prescription drugs quietly flew through the state Senate and Assembly, passing unanimously in both houses last week and now awaiting action by Cuomo.

... Those words were just spoken to me by Deputy Senate Majority Leader Jeff Klein, who assured me that a repeat of last week's extraordinary session, during which the Democrats didn't have enough members on hand to pass any deals — had there been any, which there weren't — is not in the cards.

Fresh from attending the Paris Climate Change Conference, State Comptroller Tom DiNapoli went to Buffalo last night to help launch the NY Renews campaign, which will press to get climate - related measures passed during the next session of the Legislature in Albany.

Members of the public spoke before representatives of the governor's Common Core Task Force during a listening session at Binghamton University last night — one of 10 regional sessions that were organized to receive public input on the controversial curriculum, which New York adopted in 2010.

The proposal, which would allow high - achieving charter schools to develop their own teacher certification requirements, was quietly floated in the last hours of the 2017 legislative session and appeared this week on the agenda for an emergency meeting of the SUNY board of trustees» charter school committee, convened three days after public notice was first issued during a holiday week.

Albany insiders say they would not be surprised to see de Blasio's top end - of - session priorities — renewal of mayoral control and the rent laws and 421 - a — result in deals that last just two years, forcing the mayor back to the Capitol, hat in hand, during his 2017 re-election year.

* During the lame duck Congressional session last year, 15 House Republicans and eight Senate Republicans crossed over to support a repeal of «Don't Ask Don't Tell» that banned gays from serving openly in the military.

Republicans have made much of the fact that they've been willing and able to work with Cuomo — how helpful they were to him in the last session, boasting first about the budget and later during the July afterglow.

During the upcoming session, charter groups will focus on boosting facilities funding and the state's per - pupil funding formula after notching a modest victory with a 50 - school increase in the statewide charter cap last year.

Last night, during its final meeting before the summer hiatus, Community Board 7 held a closed - door executive session and voted overwhelmingly to direct District Manager Fernando Tirado to take a leave of absence while he runs for senate in the 33rd District.

Trump made the pitch during a listening session with victims of school gun violence following last week's deadly school shooting in Parkland, Florida, which left 17 dead.

During last year's legislative session, I strongly supported the successful effort to reduce the middle - class income tax rates to their lowest levels in 70 years.

The Kirkcaldy and Cowdenbeath, who has only spoken in the Commons on four occasions since May 2010, notched up # 1.37 million in earnings outside his day job as a Labour backbencher during the last session of parliament.

During the last legislative session, lawmakers and Gov. Andrew Cuomo agreed for two years to not hold teachers accountable for test results turned in by their students.

During a session last week, members heard stories of building closings, staff cuts, program cuts, even cuts in the number of class periods a day.

During the last two weeks of the session — a crucial time, during which in 2011 the governor as able to wrangle votes needed to pass same - sex marriage — the governor took a trip to Niagara Falls and appeared in New York City for an airport groundbreaking and, away from the Capitol, a speech on ethics legislDuring the last two weeks of the session — a crucial time, during which in 2011 the governor as able to wrangle votes needed to pass same - sex marriage — the governor took a trip to Niagara Falls and appeared in New York City for an airport groundbreaking and, away from the Capitol, a speech on ethics legislduring which in 2011 the governor as able to wrangle votes needed to pass same - sex marriage — the governor took a trip to Niagara Falls and appeared in New York City for an airport groundbreaking and, away from the Capitol, a speech on ethics legislation.

Klein, who is 54, has not responded to Gay City News» requests for comment — either during the legislative session or now as the primary campaign is winding up — but in a recent debate on NY1 defended his progressive credentials by pointing to his key role in enacting the governor's new gun control law early last year and in funding pre-K education this year.

During a raucous session of PMQs in which the Speaker intervened several times to call order, Clegg said: «It was simply a moral outrage that last year the Labour government imprisoned behind bars 1,000 children who were innocent of any wrongdoing whatsoever.

In addition, there are three downstate Assembly vacancies that will be filled in the upcoming Sept. 13 special elections for the seats that were held by Darryl Towns (now Cuomo's housing czar), Audrey Pheffer (now Queens County clerk), and Nettie Mayersohn (she retired during the last sessionIn addition, there are three downstate Assembly vacancies that will be filled in the upcoming Sept. 13 special elections for the seats that were held by Darryl Towns (now Cuomo's housing czar), Audrey Pheffer (now Queens County clerk), and Nettie Mayersohn (she retired during the last sessionin the upcoming Sept. 13 special elections for the seats that were held by Darryl Towns (now Cuomo's housing czar), Audrey Pheffer (now Queens County clerk), and Nettie Mayersohn (she retired during the last session).

Some leading legislators have left the door open for changes in the evaluation law during their next session, which begins in January.State Sen. John Flanagan (R - East Northport), during an interview last week with National Public Radio on WCNY in Syracuse, said he believes any required changes probably could be made by the Regents and their staff in the Education Department.

Although the charter sector ultimately gained an advocate in Governor Andrew Cuomo and successfully lobbied for a sweeping pro-charter law passed during the last legislative session, Moskowitz said she refers to this spring as «the dark period.»