Sentences with phrase «few of the reporters»

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Along with Harris, the two pitched the idea of a standalone political news and commentary site to the Washington Post in 2006 but were ultimately disillusioned with the response, so they took the idea to Allbritton — and eventually hired more than a few senior reporters and editors away from both the Washington Post and other newspapers.

Bank of Canada Governor Stephen Poloz discussed this issue with a few Canadian reporters at the annual meetings of the International Monetary Fund and World Bank in Washington over the weekend.

After threatening to possibly meet North Korea's provocations with «fire and fury» on Tuesday, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson told reporters on Wednesday that «Americans should sleep well at night, [and have] have no concerns about this particular rhetoric of the last few days.»

He told reporters after his speech that he hoped a few of the smart people in the room to dig into the questions he raised.

«The Commission has already expressed concerns on a few occasions about the state of the rule of law in Poland,» Mina Andreeva, a spokesperson for the commission told reporters on Monday.

«Americans should sleep well at night, have no concerns about this particular rhetoric of the last few days,» Tillerson told reporters on his plane after a stop in Southeast Asia.

«I was here visiting just a few days before the visit of President Obama, and I remember at the time there was much talk about Cuba strengthening relations with both the European Union and the United States,» Mogherini said, when asked by reporters about the Trump administration's partial rollback of a fragile detente between the old Cold War foes.

As he geared up to sing a song he had apparently authored («My Chinese Dream»)-- karaoke style — to a few dozen reporters in a conference at a hotel on Central Park South, one thing about this eccentric Chinese millionaire seemed clear — Chen Guangbiao isn't afraid of the limelight.

But a few weeks later the governor of the Saudi Arabia Monetary Authority, Muhammad al Jasser, insisted to news reporters in Kuwait that Saudi Arabia had not purchased the gold cited in the June reports but rather had that extra gold all along in what he called «other accounts» — that is, in accounts not reported officially, just as the true status of China's gold accounts was not reported officially for six years, if the true status is being reported even now.

It was a transparent political stunt, but most media outlets lapped it up as a sidebar to their coverage of the day's market gyrations. [A few reporters wondered aloud about its real significance, and about what it meant for the independence of the central bank — more on this below.]

Over the last few years Canadian HR Reporter webinars have been recognized as an industry standard and include partnerships with a number of leading organizations including the Human Resources Professionals Association, the Human Resources Institute of Alberta, the Human Resources Association of New Brunswick and the Canadian Human Rights Commission.

To continue a bit with the end of that last idea: so if a group of people are on the scene of some event covered by the news, then obviously there would be great value in knowing some directly transferred assessment values from their brains, rather than what today we get as a summary from a few reporters plus maybe a few witnesses that still have to express what they saw.

It's a simple structural feature that would have been scrapped with the rest of the wreckage had it not been filmed by a few Christian reporters, after being pointed out by some Christian first - responders.

But over the past few years, Buzzfeed News» investigative journalism team has slowly turned into one of the better ones in the business, with a staff of ace reporters getting international scoops of world - shaking nature.

(So that when you read a news story, for instance, you might also get a composite assessment value that was assigned directly from other readers without them ever having to express such assessment via speaking, writing, etc. if a group of people are on the scene of some event covered by the news, then obviously there would be great value in knowing some directly transferred assessment values from their brains, rather than what today we get as a summary from a few reporters plus maybe a few witnesses that still have to express what they saw.)

Until a few years ago, journalists writing on religion were called religious reporters, until some objected that they were nothing of the sort.

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After his velocity was down and his command was off, he told reporters that he didn't know he was pitching until a few hours before the game, and that he had worked out hard the previous day in anticipation of a day off.

There was no one there except for airline workers, a few reporters and photographers and a handful of p.r. men.

As you would expect, it's a mix of astonishment and admonishment, but few commentators have come out as pointedly as ESPN reporter Wendi Nix.

He never did learn algebra, though, and after flunking that subject in his first year at Logansport High, he dropped out of school, working for the next few years at various jobs until he finally settled in as a court reporter in South Bend.

Point is you nor any one of us for that matter have a CLUE what the players think of each other based on a few snippets to a reporter.

He spoke to reporters for a few minutes, and it was about what you would expect if you read ESPN's lengthy profile of A-Rod from last week: he knows he screwed up, he's paid the price, and he wants to move forward and help the Yankees win.

That paper's reporters did the math: No fewer than one of every seven scholarship players on last season's team has been arrested while enrolled at your university.

After spending a few minutes talking to a reporter, Walters took the stage in front of his team and paused.

«It's hard to sit up here and stand in front of a camera every single time and say to you guys, «It's close,» because I sound a bit like a broken record after a few weeks,» McIlroy told reporters ahead of an early exit from Scotland.

Since a lot of people are in the mood of assuring things, I can assure you a few things as well: — The reporter that has been assuring Benzema to Arsenal is done, has already back tracked on a few things he's said... takes away from how assured he was in the first place — I can assure you 10 years ago, 0 people thought carragher could be a pundit, let alone be more tolerable than owen — I can assure you the Arsenal number 9 jersey is vacant, that keeps the dream alive — I can assure you the transfer misery will end in 13 days — I can assure you the next 13 days will feel like 13 years....

Severino, 24, has impressed since he came up, with Martinez telling reporters a few times in the last week that the decision to send him to Triple - A at the start of the season was about his development, and getting him everyday at bats.

Arsene Wenger turned up so early for his first press conference of the new season that he caught a few reporters by surprise.

To be quite frank just watching for a few minutes can drive you mad, as reporters in front of cameras confirm what «Sky Sources» ticker - tape says running across the bottom of the screen, and then breaking news highlights what everybody has just been going on about for the last couple of hours.

The Irreverent Reporter (IR) © catches up with a few other people who have been on the wrong end of Ashley's loaded gun

So when I read Penn's complaint to the Hollywood Reporter a few weeks ago that he'd been «taken for one half of everything I had in the divorce,» I had to laugh — «Well, what did you expect, if you carry on like that?»

After a few years as a newspaper reporter following college I learned to fly in Seattle (paid for the whole thing) then followed my helicopter dreams to the East Bay area if California, the Sacramento Valley, Â the flashy lights of Vegas, and into the trenches of Los Angeles.

If historical market concentration creates inter-company homogeneity, layoffs have deepened a kind of intra-newsroom homogeneity: fewer people, less diversity, fewer incentives for reporters to disagree with editors» orders and for editors to resist top - down control.

Several Sanders surrogates and campaign aides — including state Sen. Bill Perkins, of Harlem, who is one of the few New York Democratic elected officials to break ranks and endorse Sanders over Clinton — held a conference call with reporters today, calling Clinton out for waffling on the license issue, while also attacking Sanders» own record on immigration reform.

Reporters were very surprised a few years ago when we were staking out the leaders meeting in the hallway outside Governor Cuomo's office on the second floor of the Capitol for several hours with not a hint nor a peep from inside when suddenly Lanza came barreling out of Cuomo's office.

There are fewer independent, professional news reporters telling the American population about the world around them today than there were five years ago, fewer journalists trying to hold people in positions of power to account, fewer working to keep people informed about events of public importance.

In Union Square, where he was slated to start collecting signatures, Spitzer talked with few voters, spending the majority of his hour - long appearance answering questions from a group of about 50 reporters.

I did a short interview with a couple of their reporters a few weeks ago, and I'd love to listen to the results (and so would my mom)...

The prime minister, speaking to reporters in New York after meetings with world leaders, said he had talked to «every continent in the last few hours» over a number of proposals he is putting forward.

(A few moments later, he reversed himself, telling reporters, of JCOPE's inquiry, «I think it's quite clear there are double standards being held.

Our Reporter Roundtable takes on the stories they are working on in the last few days of the year.

«One of the fundamental shifts in state government over the past few years is we're not warring with the business community, we're not jockeying with the business community, we're working partnership with the business community,» Cuomo told reporters after the endorsement event.

Cuomo's email landed in the in - boxes of his fellow Democrats (and a few reporters) yesterday morning.

For a guy placing third in the polls, the candidate received a crush of media attention, with reporters, photos and videographers literally tripping over each other and street curbs to catch a few glimpses before he retreated into a black SUV.

-- School runs are out in a few hours, according to Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos, who also told reporters: «Most of the bills are being printed we passed at least two and were working on the third, and I think we'll finish the budget expeditiously.»

«The number of staff in local newsrooms is far fewer than it was even five or ten years ago,» Nathan Briant, local government reporter at the Oxford Mail, says.

If he was a geek, as he often said of himself, he was the kind of geek who made sure that the reporters who wrote about him, and there were quite a few, noticed the GEEK vanity license plate on his black Porsche Boxster.

His comments came in a gaggle with reporters following his speech at the winter conference of the New York Conference of Mayors at the Hotel Albany a few blocks from the Capitol.

When Flanagan finally took a few questions from a handful of reporters who staked out his Capitol office, he did so for only three minutes.