Sentences with phrase «members of the panel said»

Members of the panel said that some states add weighted rewards for schools when at - risk or minority students succeed, as a way to make sure schools don't pull back on efforts to help them.

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One of the two remaining members of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission says she will not seek a second term, a move that could leave the five - member panel with a single commissioner and further hobble its ability to make decisions.

Even after the remaining funds were frozen, no charges were filed against Ding, Gao, or the players with them, so Philippine police didn't make any arrests, says Sergio Osmeña III, a former senator who last year was a member of the inquiry panel.

«There are at least 50 active funds in Turkey looking at investments,» says A. Mete Cakmakci, a member of the Istanbul Venture Capital Initiative, a Turkish investment fund, at a panel discussion at the Dell women's event earlier this month.

Republican Senator James Inhofe of Oklahoma, a member of the Armed Services Committee, said it was too soon to say whether that panel would become involved in reviewing or investigating the allegations.

«The welfare ministry is in a difficult position — it will not and can not say, «public pensions are in trouble and you won't be receiving much,»» said Hideyuki Morito, a member of a government panel on pensions and professor of law at Keio University.

«Every member of our judging panel has signed on because they recognize the value of discovering the young minds who will change the future landscape of Canadian businesses by thinking green,» said Shelley Broader, president and CEO of Walmart Canada.

«All of the harmful effects on the environment and on health needs to be priced into food products,» said Hajer, who is a member of U.N.'s International Resource Panel, which comprises 34 top scientists and 30 governments.

I recently heard it said on a television discussion that since Jefferson believed in slavery he meant «all men are created equal» to apply only to whites; nor was that view contradicted by any member of the distinguished panel.

Speaking on Premier's «News Hour», he said: «One of the issues that survivors and survivor organisations had with the whole process was that the panel seemed to be selected without any sort of due regard or even due diligence, in terms of the constitution of those panel members; and there are certainly one or two panel members that many survivors have issues with as being part of it.

Commission members are to open their April plenary by meeting with victims privately, and discussions are continuing to create an «international survivor advisory panel» to advise the commission and make sure the voices of victims are heard in all its deliberations, the statement said.

In interpreting the awards to the presentation luncheon in Los Angeles, panel member Dean Leonidas Contos, now president of Hellenic University in Brookline, Massachusetts, said:

«Fonterra can comfortably pursue both [higher milk prices and shareholder returns] because its milk price is rules - based and subject to oversight by a panel chaired by an independent director of Fonterra [and with a majority of its members being independent] coupled with oversight by NZ's competition regulator through a very public process,» he said.

Australian Farm Institute Executive Director Mick Keogh and former Regional Australia Institute CEO Su McCluskey (also a member of the Harper Panel) are said to be front runners for the ACCC's «Agricultural Commissioner» role, recommended in July's AG White Paper.

Now, however, «the protection from pads is so good that you probably could go down to 10 inches easily,» says Dave Dryden, King's predecessor as goalie - equipment czar and a member of the NHL's injury panel.

The advisory panel charged with monitoring the ecological health of Crystal Lake was disrupted Monday night when two members said they were resigning and the chairman said he would step down from his post.

He says the other members of the panel have «several careers worth of experience» and will find the best candidate to return the job to the GOP.

An aide to the prime minister said the decision to introduce the panels, which will be dominated by ordinary members of the public, were in recognition of the fact that «politics is changing».

«As we all know, the subway system has suffered from years of overcrowding and decades of neglected maintenance, resulting in choleric breakdowns and delays,» said Scott Rechler, an MTA board member and Fix NYC panel member.

I've been monitoring traffic congestion for nearly a half century and it's the worst it's ever been,» said «Gridlock» Sam Schwartz, a member of the governor's Fix NYC panel and former city traffic commissioner, who described the effects of the congestion as «devastating» during a briefing with reporters on the plan on Friday.

The L.M.D.C. statement about Menin's being removed from the grant advisory panel saying that the Mayor and the Governor have appointed new members to us smacks of obfuscatory backroom maneuvering and simply adds up to the L.M.D.C. trying to pass the onus for a non-transparent decision onto their political patrons.

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The governor says he told commission members when he disbanded the panel that they should turn over any possible evidence of wrongdoing to law enforcement.

Reached by phone Thursday, MTA vice chairman and Fix NYC panel member Fernando Ferrer said the report will, as expected, involve a cordon around the central business district and some sort of fee on for - hire vehicles, but he declined to discuss details.

«Mr. Washburn is a leading authority in the area of Indian Law and policy, and we are confident in his service as a member of the arbitration panel,» Seneca Nation President Todd Gates said.

Last month, the House Ethics panel said its members had voted unanimously to defer a separate investigation of federal tax charges against Grimm, which flowed from an ongoing investigation of his campaign fundraising.

As a member of the Board of Regents My Brothers Keeper Blue Ribbon Panel on improving outcomes for boys and young men of color, we highlighted the need for more advanced programing in a report issued late last year,» said Assemblyman Mosley.

She said she had confidence in the ability of the panel members to give the matter what she described as fair hearing, adding, «there is no problem.»

So I say to Governor Cuomo and the members of the Assembly and Senate: if you make the shared services panels permanent you must include school, fire and other special districts on it as well.

The Senate Ethics Committee chairwoman, Elaine Phillips (R - Nassau), says the panel, which includes three members of Klein's IDC, also can not investigate the charges.

But Mark Green, the former New York City public advocate who was a member of Mr. Cuomo's first Moreland Commission, which investigated the performance of the state's power utilities after Hurricane Sandy, said the advertisement ran the risk of politicizing the new panel.

Professor David Nutt, a member of the panel and former chairman of the Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs, said the people surveyed had «a rational attitude to cannabis» but rather less so towards other drugs.

Any member of a panel who is or was a relative, partner, associate, employer or employee of any person who appears before said panel for the purpose of being screened shall disclose such relationship to the Administrator and shall be disqualified from voting with respect to such person; the Committee on the Judiciary may establish guidelines which are more restrictive in order to prevent conflicts of interest.

Before the focus of US Attorney Preet Bharara's probe emerged this week, Moreland Commission members said they had considered the speaker's outside income a high priority up until the point that the panel was disbanded by Cuomo in a budget deal with Silver and the state Senate.

By inference, the loud - mouth NPP politician was simply saying that the majority of the nine - member panel sitting on the case are in support of the NPP's petition and thus no matter the evidence before them, they will vote in favour of the petitioners (the NPP), an action which will be tantamount to a miscarriage of justice and is also an affront to Ghana's security and stability.

Watson also hit out, saying: «I find it incomprehensible that our elected lay members on the disciplinary panel found Ken Livingstone guilty of such serious charges, and then concluded that he can remain a member of the Labour party.»

Responding, Abubakar Malami, chairman of the committee, said the panel comprised 12 ex-officio members and eight external members of proven integrity and competence.

The proceedings of a new state commission designed to examine public corruption and campaign finance practices will not necessarily take place in public, its director said after the 25 - member panel met behind closed doors and without public notice.

The Panel for Educational Policy, a 13 - person body that votes on billions of dollars in school spending, is under - trained in financial oversight and pressured to do whatever de Blasio asks, members say.

Response: Mr McLoughlin, who is a member of a new internal panel examining all Tories» expenses claims, says all of his own claims towards his second home were for routine maintenance and to tackle wear and tear.

Michael Whyland said Silver envisions an eight - member panel appointed by leaders of each legislative conference, ensuring four Republicans and four Democrats.

However, speaking on condition of anonymity, the aide said that it makes sense for lawmakers to plan in advance on the handling of bills on which several committees might feel a need to hold a public hearing — and, rather than each committee holding a separate hearing, there could be one hearing by members of the various panels.

Springfield City Council President James Ferrera, who named the members of the Special Committee on School Safety on Monday, said he expects the panel will delve deeply into the subject and issue periodic reports and recommendations.

Members of the panel did not want to comment on what they view as the chief problems facing the state's education system, Chairman Parsons says he does not want to be divisive and wants to get organized first.

«Such can not be said of this panel that is overshadowed with massive moral burdens and conflict of interest as a result of the chairman being a card carrying member of a political party called APC.»

The five member panel of judges, presided over by Justice Jones Dotse did not give any reasons for the court's decision but said they will file it later.

«Mr. Washburn is a leading authority in the area of Indian Law and policy, and we are confident in his service as a member of the arbitration panel,» said Seneca Nation President Todd Gates.

The NPP says some members of the five - member panel...

The written summons to appear before the five - member ethics panel illustrated a deficiency in the law, said McKenna at the meeting and in subsequent interviews, because it did not specify the nature of the complaint against him.

The ranking member of the NYS Senate Environmental Conservation Committee, Manhattan Democrat Brad Hoylman, convened the panel after two top Republican senators said recently that this winter's cold temperatures and snow prompted them to question whether climate change is occurring.