Sentences with phrase «president of the friends of»

But Steven Whitney, president of Friends of Meigs Field, a group seeking to save the airport, said the financial losses resulting from Meigs» demise would far outweigh any gain from a new park.

«This bridge is being put in as part of the new stadium,» said Erma Tranter, president of Friends of the Parks.

Under the plan, the district would sell most of Northerly Island to the city, which would cover more than 90 percent of that cost with federal and state funds, to generate a district windfall of up to $ 100 million, said Steve Whitney, president of Friends of Meigs.

Cindy Mitchell, president of Friends of the Parks, announced the reward offer at a press conference Sunday in front of another sculpture of a woman and a bull in the park that was left unharmed.

Jessica is an honorary Vice President of Friends of Newport Transporter Bridge and Newport Male Voice Choir.

Freeport residents Lois Howes, left, president of Friends of Freeport, and Eva Rowan, embrace one another before a press conference to call upon Governor Cuomo for a further extension of the deadlines for New York Rising claims on Wilshire Court in Freeport Friday, May 18, 2018.

Stan Pasco, Rockland president of the Friends of the NRA said to the rally of men and women, «Our legal firearms never hurt you.

Tuesday morning, Bronx Park Commissioner Hector Aponte was joined by Congressman Jose Serrano, Senator Rev. Ruben Diaz, Assemblyman Marcos Crespo and Lucy Aponte, President of Friends of Soundview Park for the official ribbon cutting.

«You can't give up,» said Stu Lahn, president of Friends of Club 76, a group he and other members formed to try to save their beloved center.

Jack Baird, president of Friends of Blue Heron Park, said that he and his wife, Lois, worked since the 70s to protect the land net door to their house from developers.

«Queens Library at South Hollis is a second home to many and the most important place in our community,» said MARDOCHEE ESTIMABLE, President of the Friends of South Hollis Library.

Emily Martz shares a moment with Jesse Feiler, president of Friends of the Saranac Lake River Trail, at the City Rec Center in Plattsburgh on Earth Day.

«These are two vital priorities, but for us this is an issue of balance,» said Matthew Weiss, president of Friends of 20th Street Park, who has lived in the area for three years.

Joanne is interested in community issues and is also a Board member of the Geelong Chamber of Commerce, the Chamber representative of VECCI and President of the Friends of Bostock Association, which is the parent association of the Geelong Grammar junior school.

Priscilla Feral — the president of Friends of Animals, an international animal advocacy organization founded in 1957 — discusses FoA's late founder, Alice Herrington, outlining the characteristics that helped account for her pioneering inroads.

Kerry Neaf, president of the Friends of the City of Buffalo Animal Shelter, says she's excited to be able to share this joyous time at the shelter with the community.

Andrew Lloyd Webber, who owns several works by Spencer and considers both Stanley Spencer and Francis Bacon as two of the greatest British painters of the twentieth century as well as British sculptor Anthony Gormley, broadcaster Jon Snow and art historian James Fox, who recently became President of the Friends of Stanley Spencer Gallery.

«The fossil fuel industry and its shills are willing to exploit any crisis and go to any lengths in their effort to extract more dirty fuels and dismantle critical climate policies,» said Erich Pica, president of Friends of the Earth U.S. «Rather than promoting dirty fossil fuels like tar sands and fracked natural gas, Obama and Barroso should be doing everything they can to keep these fuels in the ground and help avert climate catastrophe.»

«Trump is trying to escalate fossil fuel use while people around the world are already dying as a result of climate change,» said Erich Pica, President of Friends of the Earth U.S. «Governments and civil societies at the COP should not bend a single millimeter to Trump's dangerous, anti-science, inhumane agenda.»

Erich Pica, President of Friends of the Earth said, «We are moving our money to a bank that can immediately serve our community in ways Wells Fargo and other large banks may never commit to.»

Silje Lundberg, president of Friends of the Earth Norway, said: «Despite repeated moratoriums and community resistance, the oil industry continues to push for access to these vulnerable areas and the oil and gas they contain.

Erich Pica, President of Friends of the Earth...

«Swift and strong climate action is necessary to mitigate the worst impacts of climate change and adapt to the new reality of rising seas and melting ice, superstorms and crippling drought,» says Erich Pica, the President of Friends of the Earth.

As president of Friends of the Earth U.S., I am proud to support, on behalf of our more than 250,000 members and activists and in solidarity with our friends from numerous activist organizations, a Robin Hood Tax.

-- Erich Pica, president of Friends of the Earth, had the following to say in response to the State Department's release of the Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement: «It seems like Secretary Kerry and the State Department missed President Obama's State of the Union and inaugural address.

«In the United States the Resistance is strong to Trump and the xenophobia, racism, Islamophobia and sexism he embodies,» said Erich Pica, President of Friends of the Earth U.S. «By coming together in Brussels we have shown that civil society is united in fighting this extreme agenda across the globe.»

«What that bill did was essentially write nuclear and coal into U.S. energy production for the next 10 to 20 years, instead of phasing them out,» says Erich Pica, president of Friends of the Earth.

«I'm convinced that Driving University offers us a unique opportunity to help Virginia's libraries», says Bill Whitesides, President of Friends Of Virginia Libraries.

Not exact matches

«One of the last times I spoke with the president, he said Melania had seen me on «Fox & Friends,» and she told him there was this really handsome guy on television talking about him,» he said.

President Donald Trump called into Fox and Friends Thursday morning to talk about a range of topics from his visit with French President Emanuel Macron («we accomplished a lot, more than anyone knows») to Kanye West's tweets, to his support for YouTubers Diamond and Silk («Diamond and Silk are warriors!»).

When President Trump has his physical exam on Friday, there is little chance he will repeat the same story within a span of 10 minutes or fail to recognize old friends, as the explosive new book «Fire and Fury» by Michael Wolff asserts he has done in the past.

When Branson isn't risking his body in a hot air balloon or a wetsuit, he looks after it by playing daily tennis matches and swimming, kitesurfing, and paddleboarding in the waters off Necker Island, often in the company of friends like Google co-founder Larry Page and President Barack Obama.

«We call upon you, as our friend, our classmate, and as a fellow American, to resign in protest of President Trump's support of Nazism and white supremacy.

Desmarais» strong political views led critics to accuse him of persuading his friend, Nicolas Sarkozy, to adopt a pro-Canada foreign policy, when the French president professed his love for Canada during a recent visit to Quebec.

A confidant of Trump told The Associated Press that the president spent Thursday evening calling friends and outside advisers to judge their reaction to his remarks.

The patriarch of the Desmarais family, who counted former prime ministers and U.S. presidents as friends, died on Oct. 8 at his expansive estate in Quebec's Charlevoix region.

«Gwen was an extraordinary and special person — one of the nation's leading lights in journalism, a gracious and inspiring colleague, and a warm and steadfast friend,» Sharon Rockefeller, president and CEO of the flagship public television station WETA in Washington, said in a letter to staffers.

Cool was president of the Farmer's Market as a high school student, while also balancing schoolwork, clubs, and her friends.

But because of the fact that it's going on, and I think you'll understand this, I have decided that I won't be involved,» the president said in a telephone interview with «Fox & Friends.»

Role in PayPal: One of the co-founders, alongside Thiel, Elon Musk and Ken Howery and his friend from the University of Illinois, Max Levchin and Vice President of Marketing and Strategy.

For example, Francisco Perea served as a delegate to the U.S. House of Representatives from New Mexico and was a close friend of President Abraham Lincoln.

And aside from a face - to - face meeting with survivors, families, and friends of the victims, President Trump hasn't been particularly involved.

At the start of the Trump administration, IP3 found an ally in Tom Barrack, the new president's close friend and informal adviser and an ultra-wealthy investor in his own right.

Last year, President Trump called himself a «true friend» of the gun industry.

Scaramucci, who is known to friends as «The Mooch,» made clear in his first week that he sees it as his job to be a spirited defender of Trump, to be — above all else — in the president's corner.

Andrea Edmunds, president of PoshTots, a Richmond, Va., manufacturer of upscale nursery decor, recently received her 15 minutes of fame, leveraging a grainy screen grab from Friends into a major marketing campaign.

The president - elect talked like someone who wants to make friends in his victory speech in the wee hours of November 9.

«Our operations director is running surveys from the beach, our [senior vice president] of business development is having lunch with a friend in Connecticut because he is working from home, and our [senior vice president] of product development is taking a break to tend to his goats in Vermont,» Fitzgerald says.

«Absolutely I would vote for her, and she knows, and I would be able to call her a friend, we've known each other a very long time, long before President Clinton ran for the first time,» Norman told Tania Bryer, host of «CNBC Meets» in an interview held before Hilary Clinton announced her bid.

President Trump's Federal Communications Commission is fielding petitions from industry groups to allow them to increase the frequency of such calls, and to reach out to friends and family of Gus, too.