Sentences with phrase «even committee work»

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And because executives are invited to sit on the compensation committees of other companies, it often works out this way — even if they don't have a personal relationship with the CEO they're evaluating.

In the latest broadcast, which aired Tuesday evening in Britain, Nix downplayed his private testimony before the House Intelligence Committee in December when he was asked about his firm's work for Trump's presidential campaign.

But Congress» committee, assuming it works, wouldn't even rescue the red zone plans, much less the remaining 1,200.

Armed men abducted a German nurse working for the International Committee of the Red Cross on Wednesday evening from a compound in Somalia's capital Mogadishu, the aid group said Thursday.

The committee held most of its hearings in secret and worked closely with the administration, even deleting at its request 200 pages from the published text.

With stunning consistency, virtually every indicator of civic engagement currently available shows the same pattern of increase followed by stagnation and decline — newspaper reading; TV news watching; attending political meetings; petition signing; running for public office; attending public meetings; serving as an officer or committee member in any local clubs or organizations; writing letters to the editor; participating in local meetings of national organizations; attending religious services; socializing informally with friends, relatives or neighbors; attending club meetings; joining unions; entertaining friends at home; participating in picnics; eating the evening meal with the whole family; going out to bars, nightclubs, discos or taverns; playing cards; sending greeting cards; attending parties; playing sports; donating money as a percentage of income; working on community projects; giving blood.

Mr. Iddrisu indicated that the Minister of Energy, Boakye Agyarko «in a most bizarre and shameful twist,... addressed a press conference on July 4, 2017, claiming that even before his own committee would get to work, the BNI and National Security have exonerated the BOST Managing Director, Mr Alfred Obeng Boateng, and absolved him of all wrongdoing.»

So, I think the timing of the bill is somehow a problem because even the committee on constitution review had brought serious update on the work it is doing to the Senate before this bill was introduced by Omo - Agege.

But the mayor has since endorsed Obama, and told BuzzFeed's Zeke Miller that he recently sat down with Gillibrand and offered to be on her campaign committee and even do advance work for her, if necessary.

The chairmen of the committees already receive higher stipends for other work; the money is then funneled to the vice chairmen, even though there is nothing in state law that explicitly allows, or forbids, such a pass - through.

Even those anoraks who apparently sit glued to the Parliamentary Channel will find scarce coverage of the work of select committees and, in a dozen years as a chairman of legislative committees, I can think of no single occasion upon which a television camera has been present.

Gerard Terry, an influential political operative and chairman of the North Hempstead Democratic Committee, has for years received government work paying him hundreds of thousands of dollars even as he compiled an income tax debt of $ 1.4 million and battled lawsuits alleging fraud and failure to pay back loans, a Newsday review of public records shows.

This is our disagreement with him, the BoT of every party is the conscience of the party, if we had it in place, some of these problems we are having here and there would not even arise but today, because Oyegun enjoys the power he gives himself in the National Working Committee, he is not interested in having the BoT check his excesses.

Town Board member Bill Ruland said as the hearing drew to a close that it was clear from the public comments that the issue needed to be visited again and include involvement of people with expertise on the subject, including the working group, the town's agricultural advisory committee and others who offered their help Tuesday evening.

Baez has always had an explanation for her attendance... what you fail to realize is that even with the attendence record she has brought so much resources to her district... do your your homework... cabrera knows the system cause he worked in it... ha what a joke what about maria understand her district cause she was one of us... a single mom struggling to raise her daughter... 1199... working families... Bronx Democratic County Committee... all those organization & company based their decision on political moves not on her track record... cabrera is an outsider... Mujers For Baez!

Committee chair Frank Field wanted to know if the department for work and pensions collected data not just for the total number of people who waited longer than six weeks but also how many waited eight, nine or even ten weeks.

Gerard Terry, an influential political operative and chairman of the North Hempstead Democratic Committee, has for years received government work paying him hundreds of thousands of dollars even as he compiled an income tax debt of $ 1.4 million and battled lawsuits alleging fraud and failure to pay back loans.

Appelbaum, who is also a member of the Democratic National Convention executive committee, praised Cuomo for progressive accomplishments during his first two terms — like the legalization of same - sex marriage, enactment of a statewide paid family leave program, and a $ 15 - an - hour minimum wage — even while working with a Republican - controlled state Senate.

(Note: For the 1000 page bills, usually staff from various officies will pool their work, or, even in some cases, the staff will be attached to the committee, rather than the member.)

Gillibrand was a hardworking lawyer (partner in David Boies» law firm); elected TWICE in a heavily Republican district; serves on the Armed Services Committee; ranks among the top ten fundraisers in the House; was hired by President Clinton to work at HUD; fought for the rights of abused women; is a genuine working Mom who gave birth to her second child just last March, making her only the sixth woman in the House to do so while serving in office; she has voted in every single election (unlike Kennedy who has missed even GENERAL elections); magna cum laude graduate of Dartmouth... Need I say more?

It seems apparent to anyone following public reports that the Committee's work has been done with the blessing of, or perhaps even at the direction of, the Governor's office.

But Mr. Bawa again said, «before this committee can work properly, even people within BOST would have to volunteer information about what they know about this transaction.»

Even if the amendments gain city approval, Brink said the Edgewater and every other development project will still have to work through city committees and the Common Council and get all the necessary votes.

As of this week, the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee is hiring full - time operatives to do political organizing work in 20 key Republican - held districts — an unusually early investment in House races that do not even have declared candidates yet.

The committee never quite succeeded because even as it was working to undermine my confidence, I was working to build it up.

(He even admitted to occasionally antagonizing fellow faculty members in hopes of avoiding committee work.)

But even as your responsibility for your research increases, new responsibilities, such as teaching, committee work, accounting, and writing grants, mean less time to spend in the laboratory.

Even some members of the commission's scientific committee, which tracks the health and populations of whale species worldwide, opposed the proposal, saying it undercut the committee's work, which included calculations of how many whales could be caught.

The 18 - member committee, which worked on the report for more than a year, identified specific steps that states, federal agencies and medical providers should take to stem the tide of abuse of substances including heroin, fentanyl and prescription drugs — even as they ensure pain patients have access to legal relief.

Her team coordinates the work of the committees, prepares the agenda, gathers materials for math kits to be given to families, locates test preparation videos, translates presentations, writes up the activity for Title I funding, orders food, designs the layout for the evening, arranges taxi rides for families that need transportation, and recruits families and staff to participate.

Working in Washington gives Marr the opportunity to examine USAID's work from a regional perspective, rather than country - specific, as well as engage government agencies, committees, and education panels — even Congress.

Even if you look beyond the fact that guidelines on «optimum hours» aren't backed by research advice, suggesting set times - as the inquiry committee points out - is about the quantity of work set, rather than the quality.

«I was so well grounded in this work that when I was analyzing data from public websites and bringing proposals, even before I was on the committee, that I knew how to ask for that information through that lens, and having that model gave me a clear sense of what was going right and what was going wrong,» Dexter says.

Even before coming to Harvard, during her years as a lawyer, she worked in LGBT rights as cochair of the New York City Bar Association's LGBT Rights Committee and conducted LGBT - related pro bono work as an attorney.

Even as Gov. Jerry Brown and legislative leaders continue to negotiate over the current budget impasse, the work of processing new laws continues and on Wednesday the education committees in both houses will be in session.

Backed by the knowledge that the Milner Core Knowledge Academy will, in fact, be part of the Commissioner's Network, the Hartford Board of Education has even created a committee to work with the state on implementing the school's upcoming transition to, what the CEO of the Jumoke Academy has called «The Jumoke Academy at Milner.»

On February 13, 2014, long before the Clark School Turnaround Committee had even begun the extensive process of assessing what would be the best solution to improve academic performance at their school, Andrew Ferguson and Oliver Barton, a Portfolio Director for the Hartford Board of Education, were already working on how best to insert Friendship Charter Schools successfully into the final plan.

Because of the hard work they did leading up to this meeting, student's met with a superintendent who was excited to hear from youth about how to move forward on the committee, contributed ideas of his own, and even held off another meeting to prioritize continuing the important conversation he was having with students.

The review board or committee will quickly see through unoriginal work, or may even confuse improperly worded papers with duplicate content.

Back then the International Committee for Visual Arts wanted the pavilion to house a project that integrated and merged art, architecture, and communication, even going so far as to dictate that «such «experimental co-operation» will form the fundamental premise of the Danish contribution to the Biennial», which specifically meant that Just would «work closely with an architect and a communicator / educator of his choice», as the press release issued back then said.

While his Pop and political works were intentionally provocative, even this last series could be surprisingly controversial: In 1988 the Metropolitan Museum of Art's acquisition committee was horrified by Saul's 10 - foot long version of Leutze's «Washington Crossing the Delaware» (they acquired his «View of San Francisco # 2,» 1986, instead).

The first time it might work, although even then there is the risk that the committee established to give judgement will end up dominated not by the most expert but by the most partisan.

From fundraising events to our sustainability committee's tireless work to make us even greener, Bullfrog is always out in our community, encouraging Canadians to make our voices heard on the environment by choosing green energy.

Information publicly available at the time of Dr. Michaels's testimony suggested that Dr. Michaels did significant work for and received substantial financial support from energy producers and transmitters, even though that work and support did not appear in the materials he submitted to the Committee.

Energy Guardian (2/14/13) reports: «Senate Environment and Public Works Chairman Barbara Boxer on Thursday put a new carbon emissions fee bill on track for committee action by this summer, even as the chances for the proposal to be enacted appeared slim... The fee is part of a package of two climate bills by Boxer, D - Calif., and Sen. Bernie Sanders, I - Vt., that sidesteps President Barack Obama's call for a market - based mechanism to cut greenhouse gas emissions.»

The Article 29 Working Party, the committee of Europe's privacy watchdogs, has said that IP addresses should be treated as personal data by ISPs and search engines, even if they are not always personal data.

I saw this when we worked together at the LSM, but even more clearly in the work he's been doing on the Steering Committee for the CBA's Futures Initiative.

However, as long it is structured as a fixed fee and taken in pre-petition, the Standing Committee opined this arrangement was acceptable even for future post-petition work.

2 For an extensive list of studies demonstrating the competence of juries, see, e.g., Testimony of Neil Vidmar, Russell M. Robinson, II Professor of Law, Duke Law School before The Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions, «Hearing on Medical Liability: New Ideas for Making the System Work Better for Patients,» June 22, 2006 at 10 («The overwhelming number of the judges gave the civil jury high marks for competence, diligence, and seriousness, even in complex cases... Systematic studies of jury responses to experts lead to the conclusion that jurors do not automatically defer to experts and that jurors have a basic understanding of the evidence in malpractice and other cases.

«The criminal rules working committee will proceed with the final subject areas in accordance with its mandate under the Rules of Court Project, but we thought it important to make the legal community aware of the settled policy positions in connection with challenge for cause proceedings even though it may take some time for the positions to be implemented in rule form.»