Sentences with phrase «soon after i took office»

Deteriorating transit conditions have led to renewed criticism of Christie for canceling a new Hudson River rail tunnel project soon after taking office in 2010, saying the cost to his state was too high.

Republicans have wanted to unravel Dodd - Frank essentially since it became law, and President Donald Trump vowed to «do a big number» on it soon after taking office.

President Donald J. Trump ordered the DOL to delay and further study the rule soon after taking office.

The DOL rule was created by the Obama administration, but Trump ordered the DOL to delay and further study the rule soon after taking office.

The de Blasio administration began increasing and reorganizing the NYPD's counterterrorism abilities soon after taking office, but the effort gained steam after the Charlie Hebdo terrorism attacks in Paris 15 months ago.

And it will be doubly important this year, given the likelihood that Republican President - elect Donald Trump will appoint a conservative tie - breaking ninth member to the U.S. Supreme Court soon after taking office, with the potential for a handful of similar picks in the years to come.

Keeping a campaign promise to name a woman, Gov. Mario M. Cuomo, soon after taking office in 1983, appointed Ms. Kaye, a fellow Democrat and then a commercial litigator, as an associate judge of the Court of Appeals.

Soon after taking office, Christie let it be known that his office would make public corruption a high priority, second only to terrorism.

The freshman senator was criticized by Republicans and some good government groups last summer after the Daily News revealed that soon after taking office he pressed state Workers Compensation Board officials to take action favored by his multi-million-dollar law firm.

The action was similar to one taken in 1993 by Attorney General Janet Reno, who soon after taking office in the Clinton administration sought the resignations of the U.S. attorneys appointed by President George H.W. Bush.

Regardless of whether the President - elect concurs with Hansen's recommendations about energy policy, we would like to see the Hansens invited to the White House to brief the new President and First Lady soon after they take office.

Despite promising to keep Medicare Locals (it's quite breathtaking to watch the commitment now), the Abbott Government abolished the fledgling organisations soon after it took office....

Not exact matches

Modi's initial outreach to China soon after coming to office in May 2014 failed to produce any substantive outcome, and he has since decided to take a more hard - nosed approach.

You will be able to handover your donations until approximately 20 minutes before kick - off, and they will then be taken to the foodbank office in Parsons Green as soon as possible after the game.

As Home Secretary, I travelled to the US soon after my appointment and again when the Obama administration took office to build relationships and understanding.

Olatoye took over at NYCHA in 2014, soon after Mayor de Blasio took office and appointed her to the position, facing

Unfortunately, Gordon Brown's miserable announcement on electoral reform (a referendum on the non-proportional AV system, after the next election, which presumably will be canned as soon as the Tories take office) had served to puncture everyone's enthusiasm, and apparently fill the room with a mixture of disappointment and fury.

It was formed soon after he won election, before he even took office, with the stated purpose of pushing his agenda.

Soon after, he was sworn into office by the President, in fulfillment of his pledge and Martin Alamisi Burns Kaiser Amidu, the man who earned the nickname Citizen Vigilante, took the oath of office with a pledge to smoke out corruption.

Soon after President Richard Nixon took office in 1969, it was widely reported that his administration was considering a federal VAT with the revenue to be shared with state and local governments to reduce their reliance on property taxes and to fund education spending.

The Stimulus package, passed soon after Obama took office, set aside about $ 150 million for the PACE program.

Soon after Richard Nixon created the US Environmental Protection Agency in late 1970, he followed his increasing environmental interest by taking a position as a manager in their new Office of Research and Development in Washington, DC, for multidisciplinary research on implementation of environmental pollution control.

(Note: There is some noise that President Obama, finally, after five years in office, may soon try to take some action on this issue.

I took that pic on Monday morning, after he got done whipping up the bones of our soon - to - be home office / guest bedroom closets.

It went something like this: hotel check - in, locate room, locate wifi service, attempt connection to wifi, wonder why the connection is taking so long, try again, locate phone, call front desk, get told «the internet is broken for a while», decide to hot - spot the mobile phone because some emails really needed to be sent, go «la la la» about the roaming costs, locate iron, wonder why iron temperature dial just spins around and around, swear as iron spews water instead of steam, find reading glasses, curse middle - aged need for reading glasses, realise iron temperature dial is indecipherably in Chinese, decide ironing front of shirt is good enough when wearing jacket, order room service lunch, start shower, realise can't read impossible small toiletry bottle labels, damply retrieve glasses from near iron and successfully avoid shampooing hair with body lotion, change (into slightly damp shirt), retrieve glasses from shower, start teleconference, eat lunch, remember to mute phone, meet colleague in lobby at 1 pm, continue teleconference, get in taxi, endure 75 stop - start minutes to a inconveniently located client, watch unread emails climb over 150, continue to ignore roaming costs, regret tuna panini lunch choice as taxi warmth, stop - start juddering, jet - lag, guilt about unread emails and traffic fumes combine in a very unpleasant way, stumble out of over-warm taxi and almost catch hypothermia while trying to locate a very small client office in a very large anonymous business park, almost hug client with relief when they appear to escort us the last 50 metres, surprisingly have very positive client meeting (i.e. didn't throw up in the meeting), almost catch hypothermia again waiting for taxi which despite having two functioning GPS devices can't locate us on a main road, understand why as within 30 seconds we are almost rendered unconscious by the in - car exhaust fumes, discover that the taxi ride back to the CBD is even slower and more juddering at peak hour (and no, that was not a carbon monoxide induced hallucination), rescheduled the second client from 5 pm to 5.30, to 6 pm and finally 6.30 pm, killed time by drafting this guest blog (possibly carbon monoxide induced), watch unread emails climb higher, exit taxi and inhale relatively fresher air from kamikaze motor scooters, enter office and grumpily work with client until 9 pm, decline client's gracious offer of expensive dinner, noting it is already midnight my time, observe client fail to correctly set office alarm and endure high decibel «warning, warning» sounds that are clearly designed to send security rushing... soon... any second now... develop new form of nausea and headache from piercing, screeching, sounds - like - a-wailing-baby-please-please-make-it-stop-alarm, note the client is relishing the extra (free) time with us and is still talking about work, admire the client's ability to focus under extreme aural pressure, decide the client may be a little too work focussed, realise that I probably am too given I have just finished work at 9 pm... but then remember the 200 unread emails in my inbox and decide I can resolve that incongruency later (in a quieter space), become sure that there are only two possibilities — there are no security staff or they are deaf — while my colleague frantically tries to call someone who knows what to do, conclude after three calls that no - one does, and then finally someone finally does and... it stops.