Sentences with phrase «representatives earlier this decade»

Some biomedical lobbyists are already worried about Toomey, who opposed funding specific NIH grants while serving in the House of Representatives earlier this decade.

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Early this week I was with an Australian government representative in Beijing whom I have known for many years and he told me that iron ore prices were currently around $ 83 (I think they dropped another $ 2 last week), and that while some people in Canberra were reluctant to say it too loudly, he and others were increasingly in agreement with my lower forecast of less than $ 50 well before the end of the decade, in part because supply has come off much more slowly than predicted, but mainly because they now recognize that China's rebalancing was indeed going to be a far bigger deal for Chinese demand than sell - side research had predicted.

«Representative of these various types were men like Roger L. Shinn, who succeeded Niebuhr at Union in the chair of Applied Christianity; George William Webber, founder of the East Harlem Protestant Parish and later president of New York Biblical Seminary; Truman Douglass, leading spirit in the affairs of the National Council of Churches and pioneer in church involvement in human issues; and Martin Luther King, Jr. «73 Niebuhr was at the apex of his influence in the early 1950s and was to remain there for over a decade longer.

Its worship may be more varied today than it was in earlier decades, and its leadership may now be more representative of its members as a whole, but the fundamental patterns of congregational culture that most of us encountered as children will probably cloak our aging and burial.

Earlier this week, The New York Times reported that Pence is making moves to keep President Donald Trump from getting too involved in the governor's race, mostly because Pence had served with Putnam more than a decade ago in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Over the past three decades, representatives of all major Mesozoic bird groups have been reported from the Early Cretaceous Jehol Biota of northeastern China.

The canvas Morse had prepared measured six by nine feet, making it greater in size than his House of Representatives of a decade earlier.

In early March, at the 59th Session of the Commission on the Status of Women, UN representatives, politicians, and civil society practitioners gathered to take stock of the progress made towards gender equality two decades after the landmark Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action.