Sentences with phrase «former leader calls»

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The current executive, in a letter of its own, call on their former leaders to «rejoin the fold.»

Larry Summers, a former Clinton Treasury secretary, had harsh words for Trump on Wednesday, calling on all the business leaders to step down.

But the North's decision to send former military intelligence chief Kim Yong Chol as delegation leader to the closing ceremony has enraged families of 46 sailors killed in the torpedo attack on their ship and threatens the mood of rapprochement that Seoul wants to create at what it calls the «Peace Games».

US military leaders have roundly rebuked the deadly violence that unfolded at the white - nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, last weekend, and a US Marine general specifically called out a former service member believed to be involved with a white supremacist group.

Carney's forceful letter to Jenkin comes the day after former Conservative leaders Lord Howard and Iain Duncan Smith launched an aggressive attack on the Remain camp, calling out its «startling dishonesty» and the «woeful failure» of the Bank of England to present a fair economic argument.

Calls for peace talks with the Taliban continue in Afghanistan especially by one former insurgent group leader who has been brought into the political process.

It is no surprise, then, that financial analysts were tough on HP's board during a conference call Thursday to hear why Meg Whitman, the former CEO of eBay, was picked as HP's new leader.

Christian Post: Iowa Evangelical Leaders Call on Santorum or Bachmann to Exit GOP Race «If you can't beat»em, then join»em,» seems to be the strategy of an Iowa pastor who only weeks ago asked former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum to withdraw from the Republican presidential primary before deciding later to endorse his candidacy.

«Most evangelicals — leaders from all seven denominations — have expressed concerns,» Sergey Rakhuba, president of Mission Eurasia and a former Moscow church - planter, told CT. «They're calling on the global Christian community to pray that Putin can intervene and God can miraculously work in this process.»

(As CT previously noted, former president Duane Litfin signed a 2008 Christian response letter to a statement from 138 Muslim leaders calling for interfaith cooperation.

Earlier this month, former Senate majority leader Bill Frist, now the chairman of a Christian global health nonprofit called Hope Through Healing Hands, penned an op - ed for CT similarly decrying Trump's cuts.

Former Barca boss Guardiola, who is now in charge of Premier League leaders Manchester City, also called on Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy to answer questions after violent scenes broke out during Catalonia's unofficial independence referendum.

«It's not something she plans to do or wishes to do,» a Number 10 source told the BBC, in response to a call by former Tory leader Lord Hague.

Former minister Stephen Byers has called on fellow supporters of Tony Blair to unite behind new Labour leader Gordon Brown.

Ghana's opposition leader Nana Akufo - Addo has backed numerous calls for the former terror suspects to be returned.

He calls the former Majority Leader «a good man,» adding that he hopes the «justice system works quickly» and exonerates him.

Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver and Senate Democratic Conference Leader John Sampson aren't taking kindly to being called «enemies of reform» by former NYC Mayor Ed Koch.

Former Liberal Democrat leader and member of the Commons foreign affairs committee Sir Menzies Campbell called for Israel's ambassador to be summoned to the Foreign Office to answer any allegations.

NYC real estate developer and mega-donor Leonard Litwin, who made an art of exploiting the so - called LLC loophole and whose company, Glenwood Management, played a big role in the corruption scandal involving former Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos, has died at the age of 102.

Anyway, it looks like both sides are calling in the big guns in advance of tonight's Wednesday's dueling chairmanship votes — one that will see Ragusa re-elected to another two - year term, the other resulting in the election of former NYC Council Minority Leader / 2005 NYC mayoral contender and 2010 LG candidate Tom Ognibene.

Former Assembly Minority Leader and unsuccessful 2006 gubernatorial candidate John Faso was my guest yesterday on «Capital Tonight» following his change - of - heart endorsement of Rick Lazio for governor and call for his fellow Republicans to unite around the ex-Long Island congressman or risk another crushing defeat.

Former Labour minister Jack Straw was forced to withdraw a remark calling leader of the House Andrew Lansley «a tad disingenuous».

The federal government refused to grant immunity to Nassau County Executive Edward Mangano, who has threatened to take the Fifth Amendment if called to testify at the political corruption trial of former state Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos.

Senate Minority Leader Andrea Stewart - Cousins in a statement Thursday called for an independent investigation of Bronx Democrat Jeff Klein in the wake of a sexual misconduct allegation made against him by a former staffer.

Senate Republicans have been reluctant to support increases, with former Senate Republican Leader Dean Skelos famously calling the last minimum wage increase passed in 2013 a «job killer.»

The labor - aligned Working Families Party in a statement Friday called on Independent Democratic Conference Leader Jeff Klein to step aside from his leadership post as an investigation is conducted into an allegation that he forcibly kissed a former legislative staffer.

Nevertheless, in this space, I want to reflect on why the so - called «embittered sliver» — that 81 per cent of his PLP; not to mention all Labour MEPs, hundreds of Councillors, all living former leaders and all but three MSPs, and as recent polls indicate, an increasing portion of the membership — could possibly want to see the back of him.

Over the past week or so, Donovan has called GOP leaders, including former Gov. George Pataki, former Mayor Rudy Giuliani, and former Reps. Susan Molinari and Bill Paxon to inform them of his decision.

Independent Democratic Conference Leader Jeff Klein on Thursday called for an investigation by the Joint Commission on Public Ethics into the allegation of sexual misconduct made against him by a former legislative aide.

In 2008, former Democratic congressional candidate Jack Davis apologized for $ 10,000 in payments he made to the wives of Western New York's most influential Independence Party leaders that critics called «bribes.»

Tory leader's former rival calls for wider plebiscite as Cameron prepares to set out new policy on Europe after dropping pledge on Lisbon treaty

Ed Miliband, the former Labour leader, has called for Jeremy Corbyn to resign, saying he has lost the confidence of the party's MPs in parliament and his position has become untenable.

Two weeks ago, the Campaign for Labour Democracy's AGM passed a motion calling for Lutfur Rahman, the Mayor of Tower Hamlets, to be readmitted to the party and for a full investigation into events since the disastrous 2010 selection process that led to this former Labour council leader standing as an independent and winning against an imposed Labour candidate — Helal Abbas.

The former Liberal leader Lord Steel has called on the party to lift the threat of expulsion hanging over Lord Rennard.

Corruption Trials and Two Reform Reports Make the Case for Action Now In light of the corruption trials of two former legislative leaders taking place this week and New York State's D - minus grade in how it handles issues of integrity from a national comparison study, New York's leading good government groups today called upon the -LSB-...]

Pataki, who endorsed Lazio but was not on hand at the convention to see his preferred candidate become the party's designee, lauds the former Long Island congressman, calling him a «new leader with new ideas,» adding:

A former state Senate staffer is accusing Independent Democratic Conference Leader Jeff Klein of sexual misconduct, who in an extraordinary conference call Wednesday afternoon denied the incident occurred.

Committee members of the state Democratic Party, attending the annual spring meeting here in Albany this afternoon, just unanimously passed a resolution calling on scandal - scarred former Assemblyman Vito Lopez to resign his last remaining party posts: State committee member and district leader in the 53rd AD.

UPDATE2: Several WFP types noted a few other wins over the past year that I overlooked, including the ouster of former Senate Majority Leader Pedro Espada Jr. by Gustavo Rivera in a Democratic primary and the passage of so - called «Green Jobs» legislation.

Republican Chris McGrath, who lost his bid in April for the Senate seat held by disgraced former Majority Leader Dean Skelos, is calling for first passage of the amendment, which is mired in legislative gridlock in the Assembly and Senate.

In light of the corruption trials of two former legislative leaders taking place this week and New York State's D - minus grade in how it handles issues of integrity from a national comparison study, New York's leading good government groups today called upon the New York State legislature and governor to complete the job of reforming our laws governing public ethics.

The day began with Heaney calling on Faso, a former Assembly minority leader who likely enjoys higher name recognition with voters in the district given that he was once an elected official, to hold six debates ahead of the primary.

The former Ukip leader will present a 60 - minute programme every week from Monday to Thursday on LBC radio, which will include opinions, callers and a curious segment called Farage's «Final Thought».

Paddy Ashdown, the former Liberal Demcrat leader, called it «derisory» in an article for the Guardian.

This friendly chap is the former leader of the American Nazi Party, calls the holocaust a hoax, and...

He won support for his so - called «progressive alliance» plan from former Labour leader Ed Miliband.

World leaders joined former UN secretary general Kofi Annan to call for an end to the criminalisation of drug users in a Global Commission on Drug Policy report in 2011.

Hours after a joint letter calling for the extension of mayoral control in NYC was issued by the unlikely alliance of NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio and former Mayor Rudy Giuliani, state Republican leaders and Cuomo's office signaled that the issue would be put off until after the state budget was finalized, opening the door to months of protracted negotiations.

MoveOn, as you'll recall, has been playing an outsized role in former NYC Councilman Oliver Koppell's primary challenge to IDC Leader Jeff Klein, running an on - line petition calling on Koppell to get into the race, and then helping him raise campaign cash after he decided to go forward with a challenge.

A delegation of religious leaders from DR Congo led by the Electoral Commissioner of DR Congo, Nangaa Yobeluo Corneille have paid a courtesy call on former President John Dramani Mahama.