Sentences with phrase «general conference with»

Mine was spent decorating sugar cookies and watching the the LDS General Conference with family.

Update (May 19): The United Methodist Church, under rising pressure from both sides to decide whether to allow same - sex marriage or non-celibate gay clergy, squeaked out of this year's General Conference with a decision to punt the question to a committee.

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The administration paired the letter with a scathing review by Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein of how Comey handled the investigation into Democrat Hillary Clinton's email practices, including his decision to hold a news conference announcing its findings and releasing «derogatory information» about Clinton.

The founders point out how attendance at conferences in general has gone up dramatically over the last five years because people are making these digital connections with brands and peer - to - peer, and want to meet people in real life.

OPEC is working on a «very long - term» deal to try to extend its alliance with other oil producers, Secretary General Mohammad Barkindo said at an energy conference in Baghdad, Iraq on Wednesday.

Officials believe Cambridge Analytica will only be one of the first stories of companies misusing customer data, with the conference calling on social media companies to change their business models to adapt to the EU General Data Protection Regulation.

Its research activities seek to develop actionable, prescriptive theory that can guide general managers in the decisions they must make, re-invigorating general management research by following a proven research process, refining it through collaboration with practitioners, and then distributing it to a broad audience In pursuit of these goals, the Forum both hosts conferences to bring together academic experts, leading practitioners, and Harvard Business School alumni to develop current ideas and engages in extensive publishing activities.

Pictured at the 2016 Brainstorm: HEALTH conference (clockwise from top right): Dr. Elizabeth Blackburn, President, The Salk Institute; Deborah DiSanzo, General Manager, IBM Watson Health with Jonathan Bush, Chief Executive Officer, athenahealth; Sir Andrew Witty, Chief Executive Officer, GlaxoSmithKline with Dr. Seth Berkley, Chief Executive Officer, Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance; Sean Parker, President, The Parker Foundation

The conference was seen at the time as something of a diplomatic triumph for the Rudd government, with Rudd highlighting Australia's new approach to climate change by formally ratifying the Kyoto protocol, personally handing the document to UN secretary general Ban Ki - moon, and using the conference to signal a new diplomatic shift towards Asia.

Wilson accepted this as a fait accompli and rammed it through the 1989 Annual Council against intense Latin opposition, with the added stipulation that this decision was final and therefore did not have to be taken to the General Conference session.

Ruff preached at numerous Baptist General Conference churches and also on the Moody Radio Show (WMBI) with the full support of her denomination and Bible Institute.

The Lausanne conference had two main roots — one in the World Missionary Conference in Edinburgh in the spring of 1910, which revealed how widely on the foreign missionary fields the spirit of federation and unity was operating, and the other in the General Convention of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the fall of 1910, which called for a commission on a world conference on Faith and Order, having to do with the whole church, at home aconference had two main roots — one in the World Missionary Conference in Edinburgh in the spring of 1910, which revealed how widely on the foreign missionary fields the spirit of federation and unity was operating, and the other in the General Convention of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the fall of 1910, which called for a commission on a world conference on Faith and Order, having to do with the whole church, at home aConference in Edinburgh in the spring of 1910, which revealed how widely on the foreign missionary fields the spirit of federation and unity was operating, and the other in the General Convention of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the fall of 1910, which called for a commission on a world conference on Faith and Order, having to do with the whole church, at home aconference on Faith and Order, having to do with the whole church, at home and abroad.

My first encounter with the «backlash» you mentioned took place in the mid-90's when John Piper launched a public crusade to get me fired from Bethel University and to have my church kicked out of the Baptist General Conference on the grounds that I was a «heretic.»

In his opening address to the World Conference on Church and Society, Visser» t Hooft, General Secretary of the World Council of Churches, said, «We do not speak because we want to have a say in the affairs of the world, but because we can not live with God, with other fellowmen, with ourselves, if we keep silent».

At the 1988 General Conference of the United Methodist Church in St. Louis, legislation affirming that «we do not condone the practice of homosexuality and consider this practice incompatible with Christian teaching» was adopted by a 765 - 181 vote of the delegates.

The merging General Conference voted to begin negotiations with the Free Methodists (these are still in progress).

«Just as Catholics for a Free Choice and other such groups suggest to the general public that not all Catholics agree with positions adopted by their bishops on birth control, abortion and in - vitro fertilization, so will the Religious Right serve to suggest that not all Catholics accept the positions of church leaders in social justice matters,» writes Richard J. Dowling, executive director of the Maryland Catholic Conference.

But at bottom there is no dodging the fact that the General Conference used this language with the intention that it have a genital referent.

In the light of these general comments, it is important to say that encouragement by the Bishops Conference of England and Wales to engagement with this report has been extremely valuable.

All Exhibitors participating in the North Coast Wine Industry Expo Trade Show & Conference are required to carry general liability coverage from an insurance company in good standing with minimum policy limits of $ 1,000,000 per occurrence and $ 2,000,000 in all.

With speakers who are some of the industry's biggest names like Jean - Marie Arnaud, General Director OIV; David Richardson; Regulatory & Commercial Affairs Director, The Wine and Spirit Trade Association (WSTA); Andrew Catchpole, Editor, Harpers Wine & Spirit Magazine and The Drinks Wholesaler; Andrew Shaw, Group Wine Buying Director, Conviviality PLC; Florian Ceschi, Director, Ciatti Europe, and many other prominent industry representatives, this is not a conference worth missing.

To ensure consolidation and linkaging with local governments and other groups, a one - day conference was held before the general assembly.

DALLAS --(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Fiesta Restaurant Group, Inc. («Fiesta» or the «Company»)(NASDAQ: FRGI), parent company of the Pollo Tropical ® and Taco Cabana ® fast - casual restaurant brands, reported preliminary unaudited comparable restaurant sales results for the first quarter of 2018, which ended on April 1, 2018, in connection with its two brand General Manager Conferences this week and next.

Walsh agrees with the sentiment of a fellow Eastern Conference general manager, who looks out west at Shaq and Kobe Bryant and says, «As long as those two are together, we're all playing for second place.»

Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein joins FSR's Spring Conference to discuss America's legal priorities and the enforcement landscape with CEO Tim Pawlenty.

The Park District began studying the concept of a landfill several months ago at the mayor's behest, according to parks General Supt. David Doig, who appeared with Daley at a news conference heralding the new Diversey bike bridge over the Diversey Harbor Inlet.

2011 Midwifery Today conference, «Anthropology of Reproduction» (all day workshop); «Birth Models That Work»; «The Trouble with Transport»; «How to Give an Effective Presentation» (general session).

The Liberal Democrats are gearing up to launch an anti-libel agenda at the next general election, with an amendment to a policy motion on civil liberties being proposed to conference today by Richard Dawkins.

Under normal circumstances, if we left conference season 19 months before the general election with polls like this we'd expect the government to be re-elected — but these are not necessarily normal circumstances.

The conference speeches and by - elections indicate that debates over migration will only become more heated in the run up to the General Election and with the implementation of further restrictions on migrants» rights to citizenship and services.

Despite the Senate Republicans» attempts to marginalize her through partisan gerrymandering, she will prevail in any primary or general election with the full support of her Conference and our partners.»

Sen. Neil Breslin, who, as I mentioned earlier today, is facing an active primary challenger in Luke Martland, has been striving to put some distance between himself and the dysfunction of his Democratic conference at a time when voter disgust with Albany — and incumbents in general — is running very high.

While Cuomo has zero responsibility as attorney general for the budget, he did weigh in throughout this process — both from afar during press conferences with reporters, often in NYC or upstate while lawmakers were deliberating in Albany, and in private chats with the legislative leaders and the governor.

The Somos El Futuro Conference kicked off with some of the state's top Democrats — including Cuomo, NYC Comptroller Scott Stringer and Attorney General Eric Schneiderman — visibly absent.

Heastie was in Schenectady earlier today to tour General Electric Co., Proctors and the site of the proposed Rivers Resort and Casino as part of a broader upstate tour with members of his Democratic conference.

The NASUWT is a sponsor of the conference, run in partnership with the Fawcett Society and supported by Twitter and Facebook NASUWT General Secretary Chris Keates is speaking at the conference in London, which has brought together politicians, police, and leading experts in the fields of technology, the media, campaigning organisations and charities.

A party pursuing an agenda of increased tax and redistribution, regulation and nationalisation is never going to have a cosy relationship with media barons and big business in general (though it's worth noting that the corporate lobbyists who stayed away from last year's conference came flooding back this time) but it can reach people in other ways.

Last weekend, I discussed on Radio France International the meeting in Khartoum (Sudan) of thousands of politico - religious militants with strong links to the government: the general conference of the Islamist movement known as Al - Harakat Al - Islamiyyah is the most important political rally in the country of the last 10 - 15 years.

At 9:30 a.m., House Judiciary Democrats, led by Ranking Member Jerry Nadler, hold a press conference to discuss the obstruction of the special counsel's investigation with potential moves by Trump against Attorney General Sessions, DAG Rosenstein, and / or Special Counsel Robert Mueller himself, HVC Studio A, Washington, D.C.

Particularly with a general election less than two years away, conference as the platform for presenting ourselves as a party of real democracy, as well as being passionate about policy, is really important.

State Senate Deputy Democratic Minority Leader Michael Gianaris, who heads his conference's campaign operation, recently met with former U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder to talk about the need to flip New York to total Democratic control, and DNC Deputy Chair Keith Ellison will headline a fundraiser for the conference in June.

Former Attorney General Eric Schneiderman at a press conference with women's group leaders on Nov. 28, 2017.

The Democratic Rural Conference drew nearly all of New York State's major Democratic elected officials to its 2018 annual meeting, with Governor Andrew Cuomo, Lieutenant Governor Kathy Hochul, NYS Comptroller Tom DiNapoli, NYS Attorney General Eric Schneiderman, NYS Senate Democratic Leader Andrea Stewart - Cousins and U.S. Senator Kirsten Gillibrand leading the elected attendees.

Schroeder said eight years ago he appeared at one governmental press conference with the attorney general but they have not stood together since.

On a conference call with reporters, Yankees general manager Brian Cashman cited a diminished «price point» as one of the reasons for signing Chapman.

National Executive Committee, 4 November 2014 As usual the first meeting after conference was an extended session, setting strategy for the year ahead, with general election victory the over-riding objective.

The ministry official, who is the Director of Public Relations and Protocol, Dama NPD, said the N13million loan request made to the Acting Director General of the National Broadcasting Commission (NBC) was to enable the Minister lead a delegation of other five officials of the ministry to cover the ticket, hotels and other logistics to attend the United Nations World Tourism Organisation conference in conjunction with the Government of the People's Republic of China, under the overall theme «Tourism for Peace and Development.»

Also, the National Council of the party, at its 4th general meeting which was held yesterday at Alisa Hotel, noted with delight, how members of the party who are aspiring for various positions in the upcoming primaries, adhered strictly to the orders it gave regarding the display of campaign posters or banners at the just ended national delegates» conference.

The Labour conference is being held in Brighton this year, with Gordon Brown desperately trying to drum up party unity ahead of a historic general election.

Ed Miliband's clash with the unions will come to a head with a «special» party conference next spring, in a bid to get the confrontation out of the way 12 months before the next general election.