Sentences with phrase «group at a news conference»

Democratic lawmakers and the New York Public Interest Research Group at a news conference in Albany this morning called on the Cuomo administration to scrap the environmental impact statement and start again.

It is against this backdrop leadership of the Northern Progressive Youth Group at a news conference appealed to government to initiate processes that could lead to the split of the Tamale South constituency.

Speaking for the group at a news conference attended by many of them, Ogor said, «By this turn of events, we can tell you that there is vacancy in Aso Rock.

Lynnea Smith and John Fogarty represented the group at a news conference at the National Press Club where the U.S. Public Interest Research Group issued a report critical of the billions of dollars of taxpayer subsidies to the energy industry embodied in the House Energy Bill.

Not exact matches

Stephen Poloz, governor of the Bank of Canada, right, looks on as Joe Oliver, Canada's finance minister, speaks at a news conference during the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and World Bank Group Spring Meetings in Washington, D.C., U.S., on Friday, April 11, 2014.

But one day later, he doubled down on his initial response, declaring furiously at a news conference on Tuesday: «You had a group on one side that was bad.

A spokeswoman for the nonprofit group said it would answer questions at a news conference Thursday.

A demonstrator from the group CodePink holds up a banner as National Rifle Association Executive Vice President Wayne LaPierre delivers remarks during a news conference at the Willard Hotel on December 21, 2012, in Washington, D.C. — one week after Adam Lanza used an assault - style rifle to slaughter 20 schoolchildren and six adults at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut.

Besides being compensated by the same group for her time and expenses in appearing at a news conference in New York a few years ago, «that is the only time [she] received compensation for her effort,» Mokotoff wrote in an e-mail.

In a brief news conference at the prison where she's being held, Bibi said Saturday that the allegations against her are lies fabricated by a group of women who don't like her.

The league took a step Monday to show it isn't hiding by inviting a nonprofit group dealing with concussion prevention in youth sports to hold a news conference at Super Bowl media headquarters in Manhattan.

Before he can fully push his women's agenda with the Legislature, there needs to be a consensus with the variety of women's groups on the key issues, Gov. Andrew Cuomo told reporters at a news conference today.

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Dick Dadey, executive director of Citizens Union, a government reform group, was one of those present at the October 13 news conference.

And that kind of selective carving out of boundaries is what groups like the The Asian American Community Coalition on Redistricting and Democracy spoke out against at a Nov. 16 news conference.

National Coordinator of the group, Mr Larry Oguego, announced this at a news conference in Onitsha on Tuesday.

«Cities that have adopted instant runoff voting to eliminate runoffs have not only saved millions of dollars but have also improved their democracies by making sure that we are electing our leaders in an election where the most voters, the most diverse voters, are at the polls at one time,» said Grace Ramsey, deputy outreach director for FairVote, a nonpartisan advocacy group, at the news conference.

The Delaware Riverkeeper, Maya K. van Rossum, told lawmakers at the news conference how her group and several municipalities had used the environmental clause in Pennsylvania's Constitution to challenge a pro-fracking law that would have pre-empted local zoning and imposed a gag order on health professionals.

Good government groups, many of which were represented at Wednesday's news conference, applauded Schneiderman's proposal to modernize the state electoral system.

At noon, officials from immigrant advocacy groups that support the New York Immigration Coalition's «New Yorkers for Real Immigration Reform» campaign hold a news conference to discuss the U.S. Senate's vote yesterday to approve legislation that would overhaul federal immigration laws; 12th floor, 137 - 139 W. 25th St., Manhattan.

Trump angrily listed more than two dozen veterans» groups that he said had received $ 5.6 million thanks to his fund - raising and personal largess during a contentious news conference at which he repeatedly railed against reporters who questioned him.

The party at a news conference in Accra said operations of Invincible and Delta Forces are similar to how Nigerian terrorist group, Boko Haram, started.

At 11:30 a.m., US Health and Human Services Secretary Sylvia Mathews Burwell, state Medicaid Director Jason Helgerson and Montefiore Medical Center President and CEO Steven M. Safyer discuss health care quality and spending during a news conference; atrium, first floor, Montefiore Medical Group's Bronx East practice, 2300 Westchester Ave., the Bronx.

Flanagan appeared at a news conference held by a coalition of business groups and the fiscal watchdog the Empire Center, which released a report and website showing the regional and statewide savings from limiting local levy increases at 2 percent or the rate of inflation (Overall since the cap has been in place, the Empire Center says $ 7.6 million billion has been saved).

At 9 a.m., actor Gbenga Akinnagbe, NYC Councilman Robert Corny and representatives of the groups Black Lives Matter and The Coalition for African Peace and Justice hold a news conference to call for federal officials to send humanitarian aid and take further action in response to attacks in Nigeria by supporters of the Islamic extremist group Boko Haram; steps, City Hall, Manhattan.

«We're not the forces of darkness that the governor would have you believe,» Deutsch said at news conference outside the state Senate chamber that included advocacy groups and unions rallying against the cap proposal.

Karen Scharff, executive director of the labor - backed advocacy group Citizen Action, argued alongside Senate Democrats at a recent news conference that «we can not reduce corruption in Albany until we fix the corrupt campaign finance system.»

«We think there's an inherent corruption risk in having your state university system, which has a different set of rules than state agencies, be the one that's handing out enormous sums of money,» Kaehny said at a news conference in Albany where several watchdog groups called for the changes.

Democratic congressional candidate Anna Throne - Holst continued to attack Rep. Lee Zeldin for his gun control record as the advocacy group New Yorkers Against Gun Violence formally endorsed her at a news conference in Medford, Long Island.

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While Klein has made overtures to reunite the conferences in the past, as recently as May he told a bipartisan group of senators at a private dinner that «if I have anything to do with it, John Flanagan is going to be the leader for a long, long time,» according to several sources who spoke with the Daily News.

Democratic congressional candidate Anna Throne - Holst continued to attack Rep. Lee Zeldin (R - Shirley) for his gun control record as the advocacy group New Yorkers Against Gun Violence formally endorsed her at a news conference in Medford on Tuesday.

Cuomo, at a news conference at the fair grounds Wednesday, said he's appointing a group to come up with a plan to boost the fair's profile and incorporate private companies by the end of the year.

«The responses to the survey still indicate that there are significant problems... the Board of Elections has to begin to address,» Council Speaker Christine Quinn said at a news conference with Councilwoman Gale Brewer and good - government groups Tuesday.

At a press conference in Rockland on Friday, Rockland County Sheriff Lou Falco, Clarkstown Police Chief Michael Sullivan, Spring Valley Chief Paul Modica and South Nyack Police Chief Robert VanCura, joined a group of county legislators and party leaders to denounce the Journal News.

Mark Pascale, President of the City of Cohoes School Board was at a news conference organized by the group.

Tara Houska, right, a member of the group Eradicating Offensive Native Mascotry, calls for the Washington Redskins to change their name during a news conference on Tuesday, Sept. 16, 2014, at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C..

Nixon's first Albany appearance on Monday displayed her qualifications, speaking at a news conference called by the Alliance for Quality Education, an activist group she has worked with for years dedicated to ending the gap between the school budgets of poor communities without large property tax revenues and those of model schools in well - to - do communities.

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MRO spent four years mapping the region for rocks as small as 1.5 yards across that might damage the craft, Ray Arvidson, chair of the Phoenix landing site working group at Washington University in St. Louis's Earth and Planetary Remote Sensing Laboratory, said at the news conference.

At separate news conferences last week, both the Committee for Education Funding, an umbrella group in the field, and Representative Augustus F. Hawkins, the California Democrat who chairs the House Education and Labor Committee, unveiled proposals that would double the department's budget in fiscal 1991.

The trainers will use an 18 - minute video produced by Operation Lifesaver, a Washington nonprofit group, and will rely on advice from train engineers, according to Secretary of Transportation Federico F. Pena, who announced the program last week at a news conference.

CReATE, a volunteer group of local education professors and researchers, will detail their concerns about a planned Chicago Public Schools evaluation system at an 11:00 a.m. news conference Monday, March 26, at the Hull House Museum, 800 S. Halsted St.

Adrian van Hooydonk, Senior Vice President, BMW Group Design, speaks during a news conference unveiling the BMW i8 concept car at the 2012 Los Angeles Auto Show in Los Angeles, California.

«We're trying to take the sadness out of animal shelters forever by putting an end to euthanasia,» Lentz told a small group of supporters at a news conference.

Essam el - Erian, a top official with Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood, shown at a news conference at the Brotherhood's Cairo headquarters in January, was among the opposition group's members arrested earlier this month.

In an unusual move, the research group did not allow reporters to seek outside comment on their paper before its publication in the peer - reviewed journal Food and Chemical Toxicology and presentation at a news conference in London.

Steve Winberg, assistant secretary for fossil energy at the DOE, in March told the news group Axios at an energy conference in Houston, Texas, that the agency was prepared to set up funding opportunities for small - scale coal units.

Campaigners from Greenpeace, the environmental group, scaled the mountain in November 2002 and held a news conference via satellite with reporters at climate - treaty talks in Morocco.

As paidContent editor and conference chair Staci Kramer has described in her posts leading up to the conference, we're going to be looking at a wide range of topics related to the disruption in the media industry, from newspapers to e-books, with a great lineup of speakers including Media News Group CEO Jim Paton, Vox Media founder Jim Bankoff and Pottermore CEO Charlie Redmayne.