Sentences with phrase «part of the agenda at»

Part of the agenda at the SEC coaches» spring meetings is nominating names to eventually suggest to Hancock.

Additional discussion regarding SBAC and the growth model will be part of the agenda at the committee's next meeting on October 19.

Not exact matches

Rather, when clients looked at their agenda and saw that they had a meeting with the Wexley School for Girls, McAllister wanted them to get excited and to know that it would be the best part of their day.

A series of events, being co-hosted by the World Bank and WHO on 13 - 14 April, as part of the World Bank Group - International Monetary Fund Spring Meetings in Washington DC, is bringing ministers of finance, development agencies, academic experts and practitioners together to discuss how to put mental health at the centre of the health and development agenda globally and in countries.

The federal government will pledge action in the Throne Speech aimed at eliminating the gap between the sticker price of consumer goods sold in Canada and the U.S., sources say — part of a new populist agenda that will require little extra spending in cash - strapped Ottawa.

kermit «and praying is NOT an agenda to establish religion at all» True for the most part, but putting on a public display of your religion at a government business meeting is.

He may also be faced with incomprehension and hostility when he tries to persuade the school not to support «Red Nose Day» or «Jeans for Genes»; when he suggests that asking pupils to stand at the front of the class and shout out the names of intimate body parts is an invasion of their modesty; when he objects to the non-Catholic geography teacher's presentation of solutions for over-population, the «gay rights» agenda seeping in through text books, the chaplaincyco - ordinator's failure to get abortion agency leaflets removed from the library, or the school nurse's distribution of cards with information on how to get the morning - after pill.

Are we in danger of embracing issues and themes that, for better or worse, become part of the global agenda and hence become a fixed idea or an indispensable part of the agenda, indispensable at least for now?

However, when used in the service of a partisan political agenda, religion often succumbs to the deceit of human power, becoming just another political player and, at worst, part of the problem of human tyranny.

However, I think articles like this have an agenda, and it's not to comfort the victims family's, but are a self - serving attempt at creating answers that justify a senseless act as somehow part of a plan.

At the United Nations General Assembly, countries of the world formally adopted a set of 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) as part of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.

I was quite excited when I read the part of the agenda detailing that Matt will be at Roger's and Holland at Orland Park Mall.

As part of her research agenda, she mentors undergraduate and graduate students, presenting at annual conventions, regionally and nationally.

In line with AGENDA 50 - 50, the Regional Youth Wing under the auspices of the Eastern Regional Executive Committee of the ruling National Democratic Congress (NDC) today organised a football gala dubbed «JM Cup» at Mpraeso in the Mpraeso Constituency to rekindle the party's spirit in the Kwahu zone as part of the annual Kwahu easter festivity.

The high court ruling simply clarified that local authorities have no power to hold prayers as part of their formal meetings or to summon councillors to such a meeting at which prayers are on the agenda.

The Oxford historian Ewen Green went so far as to suggest that, «Thatcher herself played very little part in generating the ideas that were at the heart of the Thatcherite agenda».

I am no longer even a «conservative blogger with an agenda» but a lowly «small time hack» but at the same time I am lifted up as part of some grand nefarious GOP cabal that includes Lee Atwater, who died in 1991, and former House Speaker Newt Gingrich who last held office in 1999.

As part of our ongoing series on Mayor Bill de Blasio's record, this week we are taking a close look at his transportation agenda — everything from subways to bike lanes to ferries.

UPPER WEST SIDE — The four presumptive Democratic mayoral candidates pledged to undo major parts of Mayor Michael Bloomberg's education agenda at a forum that marked the symbolic kick - off of the 2013 race.

Part of making politics more sophisticated is admitting that when your party is in power as a junior partner in a coalition government, that it may have to support things that as a party it doesn't corporately agree with to gain influence on less palatable elements of the bigger partner's agenda and to implement at least part of its Part of making politics more sophisticated is admitting that when your party is in power as a junior partner in a coalition government, that it may have to support things that as a party it doesn't corporately agree with to gain influence on less palatable elements of the bigger partner's agenda and to implement at least part of its part of its own.

At the time, it was part of a civil rights agenda being set by the then Labour opposition, which included such things as the Human Right Act, and a (failed) «Ethical Foreign Policy» and was in stark contrast to the authoritarian approach of the then Conservative Government; Michael Howard's support for ID cards and Ken Clarke using PII Cetificates in the Matrix Churchill case spring to mind.

The governor, who spoke at an unrelated event at JFK airport to announce renovation plans, did not mention any ethics reforms as part of a session agenda.

Other business may be placed on the agenda only by direction of the Chairperson of the County Committee, the County Leader, the Executive Committee, the Committee on Resolutions, or by a petition submitted to the Chairperson or Secretary of the County Committee at least ten days prior to the date of such meeting signed by 500 members of the County Committee including at least 25 members from each of ten Assembly District parts within 60 days prior to its submission.

Plus, now with a new speaker, will the Assembly pass Mixed Martial Arts and at least part of the Women's Equality Agenda?

IDC Sen. Tony Avell» a proposal aimed at giving families increased flexibility to allow workers to accrue sick - time benefits in order to care for a loved one is also part of the agenda.

His other preoccupation lately has been his appearance at some churches and funerals as part of his visibility agenda with the «Try me» cliché.

Cuomo, at a rally of upstate Democrats earlier this month, indicated he plans to make the push for the women's agenda part of his campaign.

Cuomo proposed new legislation to extend the storage timeline for forensic sexual offense evidence kits, or rape kits, at hospitals as part of his 2018 Women's Agenda.

Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo presents the fourth part of his «2015 Opportunity Agenda» during a presentation at New York University on Saturday, Jan. 17, 2015.

At least part of the reason is that key officials — including two - thirds of the Albany's ruling troika — either dislike or are indifferent to Mayor Bill de Blasio, whose legislative agenda was the biggest casualty in this year's legislative session.

For example, much of Ed Davey's chapter on localism sits very comfortably within the coalition's decentralising agenda, and government environment policy, like the Green Investment Bank, at least in part reflects Baroness Susan Kramer's essay on using the market to tackle climate change and pollution.

As a result, they are likely to demand that candidates to replace him as leader commit to keeping his policy agenda, or at least specific parts of it.

Mayoral control of city schools expires in only one week, but that didn't stop de Blasio from pushing his progressive agenda at swanky beachfront hotels and eateries as part of the 85th - annual meeting of the United States Conference of Mayors.

FLATIRON — City Council Speaker and mayoral candidate Christine Quinn pledged to create a new CUNY campus at the Brooklyn Navy Yard and build a tech hub in Long Island City as part of a sweeping agenda laid out on Wednesday.

Here's hoping that the apparent rhetorical reluctance to put ethics reform at the top of the governor's legislative agenda does not reflect a lack of interest on his part to advance meaningful measures to reform Albany.

We need someone who's going to go down there and not be part of the Republican agenda that is anti-New York City,» he told the Observer after casting a ballot for himself at his alma mater, Fort Hamilton High School in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn.

Cuomo, who said during his re-election campaign that passing the Dream Act — which would provide the funding — was part of his agenda, plans to release his executive budget and «opportunity agenda» at his State of State address Wednesday.

Jon Cruddas, the Labour policy chief, is widely thought to view euroscepticism as part of his Blue Labour agenda and even figures like Chuka Umunna have expressed support for an In / Out referendum to settle the issue (I should know - he knocked on my door at election time and told me so).

The CITES office in Geneva confirmed that Monaco has submitted a formal bid to add bluefin tuna to the Annex I list of threatened species and that the proposal will be part of the formal agenda at the next general conference in Doha, Qatar, in March 2010.

Part of DARPA's research agenda is devoted to improving the decision - making capability of forces at both the tactical and strategic levels.

The legislators hint at part of their agenda by describing how the assessment should examine «the relationship, or lack of relationship, of our research universities with other parts of our national research enterprise, including the federally - funded National Laboratories.»

The session was part of a two - day conference tied to a National Research Council study aimed at developing a research agenda for reducing aviation's carbon footprint.

With Republicans striking out at President Obama's climate change agenda as part of an effort to unseat vulnerable Senate Democrats in November, the administration is hardly advertising its effort.

As with Frances Ha, men are part of the equation but not central to it — at heart, both films are about unsettled women whose agendas sometimes undermine their loyalty to their friends.

Acknowledging that his own left - wing political agenda informed part of the film's narrative, Liman, whose father was an interrogator in the Iran - Contra trial, praises the perqs of studio filmmaking (while toning down the anti-Universal sentiments he expressed to the media last year), illustrates the importance of directing a French crew in their native tongue, laughs at how coveted the «f» word was by the actors (the film was allowed only one because of the PG - 13 rating), and so on.

The popularity of reality TV is part of it, sure, but you only have to look at the Occupy protests in the west recently to see that disparity of wealth is social issue that's high on the agenda.

To arrive at this conclusion, she excludes the value of medical programs and other government services, the very items that later become part of her policy agenda.

If you think about it, we made significant changes to public policy in education in 2010 as a part of our First to the Top agenda proposed by Gov Bredesen — a Democrat, followed by nightmarish changes to the teachers» environment in 2011 by eliminating collective bargaining, tenure, and removing TEA from their seat at the table, all in the name of «reform.»

Overview Participants heard from a diverse set of influential policymakers at both the state and local levels and participate in three site visits as part of our packed agenda.

At the union's annual convention last week in Denver, where Eskelsen García was officially elected, some teachers said it's time for a leader who will play hardball with the feds and push back against Education Secretary Arne Duncan's agenda, which includes evaluating teachers in part by student test scores and supporting the growth of charter schools, often staffed by non-union teachers.