Sentences with phrase «state department leaders»

The office's tasks — to advise State Department leaders on religion - related policy matters and to help diplomats navigate religious dynamics overseas — and its million - dollar budget should be moved under the Office of International Religious Freedom (IRF), according to a proposal laid out this fall.

Secretary of State Rex Tillerson wants to combine its office and duties with the Office of Religion and Global Affairs, created four years ago to advise State Department leaders on religion - related policy matters and to help diplomats navigate religious dynamics overseas.

Not exact matches

Without thanking Trump or mentioning him by name, the outgoing Cabinet secretary expressed appreciation for «selfless leaders» at the State Department and other agencies, his voice breaking at times.

More than 1,200 veterans representing every branch of the military sent a letter to House and Senate leaders on February 12, saying that «strategic investments in the State Department and USAID will be essential if we are to solidify our hard - fought gains and prevent other bad actors from filling the void» around the world.

To keep a step ahead of emerging scams, the Call Center also collaborates with a number of key leaders and community partners including the Attorney General's Office, the Federal Trade Commission, the Washington State Department of Financial Institutions, the FINRA Investor Education Foundation, the Washington State Crime Prevention Association, the Better Business Bureau, and the U.S. Postal Inspection Service.

After six long years, the specter of the Department of Labor's fiduciary rule has finally taken shape, although as one BD leader put it, the industry is still in a «state of flux» as it determines how to comply with all aspects of the rule.

Despite the U.S. Department of Commerce's decision to hit all other Canadian producers with countervailing duties of 19.88 per cent starting this year, many industry insiders and political leaders are hopeful Atlantic Canadian companies can be exempted from tariffs on softwood lumber exports to the United States.

announced the reconfiguration of the Senate NATO Observer Group on Wednesday afternoon, stressing that Senate leaders, senior officials from the State and Defense departments, as well as U.S. Ambassador to NATO Kay Bailey Hutchison, were fully behind the effort.

Despite top terrorist groups» affiliation - sometimes tenuous - with al Qaeda, some do not fit the mold created by its former head, bin Laden, and current leader, Ayman al - Zawahri, said Benjamin, the former State Department counterterrorism coordinator.

Clinton's former State Department advisors organized meetings with top Roman Catholic and evangelical leaders to discuss the global development policies of a potential Clinton administration.

On Monday, the Russian leaders visited the US Capitol and met with State Department officials and the UN Commission on International Religious Freedom.

It goes without saying that the Catholic Church does not have any female leaders in the organization, and it is very apparent that the Penn State University organization and the Athletics Department lacked this type of leadership as well.

While church leaders kept silent on the State Department's charge of discrimination, some populist Christian groups scrawled slogans calling for justice and rights for Christians on the walls of central Karachi and Lahore.

Some members have held high - level meetings with foreign leaders, urged U.S. embassies to investigate situations of repression, and lobbied the White House and State Department to address particular issues in bilateral discussions.

Just before the crusade, Protestant, Catholic and Jewish leaders in the city issued a strong statement denouncing those «who cast doubt upon the loyalty of the state department and officials in other departments of government, and many of our proven patriots and statesmen of long standing (February 28, 1962).

The State Department faces backlash for nominating a longtime Samaritan's Purse leader as the next director general of the United Nations» International Organization for Migration (IOM) last week.

State Department officials plan to continue to speak with Saudi leaders and issue a statement...

Fox tells the story from beginning to end: childhood in the German - American parsonage; nine grades of school followed by three years in a denominational «college» that was not yet a college and three year's in Eden Seminary, with graduation at 21; a five - month pastorate due to his father's death; Yale Divinity School, where despite academic probation because he had no accredited degree, he earned the B.D. and M.A.; the Detroit pastorate (1915 - 1918) in which he encountered industrial America and the race problem; his growing reputation as lecturer and writer (especially for The Christian Century); the teaching career at Union Theological Seminary (1928 - 1960); marriage and family; the landmark books Moral Man and Immoral Society and The Nature and Destiny of Man; the founding of the Fellowship of Socialist Christians and its journal Radical Religion; the gradual move from Socialist to liberal Democratic politics, and from leader of the Fellowship of Reconciliation to critic of pacifism; the break with Charles Clayton Morrison's Christian Century and the inauguration of Christianity and Crisis; the founding of the Union for Democratic Action, then later of Americans for Democratic Action; participation in the ecumenical movement, especially the Oxford Conference and the Amsterdam Assembly; increasing friendship with government officials and service with George Kennan's policy - planning group in the State Department; the first stroke in 1952 and the subsequent struggles with ill health; retirement from Union in 1960, followed by short appointments at Harvard, at the Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions, and at Columbia's Institute of War and Peace Studies; intense suffering from ill health; and death in Stockbridge, Massachusetts, in 1971.

As a leader and proud school foodservice director, Long worked with the local technical college and school nutrition state department to develop a Culinary Assistant and Manager Certificate program that school nutrition employees were able to take for free.

Our department serves as a leader in advocating for strong conservation laws and programs, and public participation is the key to accomplishing Mass Audubon's objectives at the State House.

Also at 10:30 a.m., Sen. Jim Tedisco and local leaders will announce $ 1.5 million in new state funding to provide much - needed renovations to significantly enhance public safety at the Glenville Police Department, Town Hall, 18 Glenridge Rd., Glenville.

The state Labor Department is investigating whether Niagara County leaders broke a law when they allegedly denied sick time to a county Health Department worker last year, a move that she estimates cost her $ 12,000.

A key labor union for the New York Police Department on Wednesday threw its support to Republican state Senate hopeful Chris McGrath in the race to replace disgraced former Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos.

ONITSHA — A human rights group, International Society for Civil Liberties and the rule of Law, Intersociety has said that it is far better for the detained leader of Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, Nnamdi Kanu to be kept in the prison custody than to remain in the captivity of the Department of State Services, DSS.

A Federal High Court judge has ordered that the custody of the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra and founder of Radio Biafra, Nnamdi Kanu, be relinquished by the Department of State Services.

ALBANY, N.Y., March 28 (Reuters)- The merger of New York state's banking and insurance departments might not create the powerful agency first advertised, according to Governor Andrew Cuomo's recent budget deal with legislative leaders.

Warren said she also is concerned that Trump's lack of staffing and expertise at the State Department could undercut his planned meeting with North Korea's leader Kim Jong Un.

A top Senate aide to former majority leader Dean Skelos set up a meeting on fracking with the state Department of Health for AbTech Industries without disclosing the company was paying Skelos» son, Adam, $ 10,000 a month, a former state health official testified Wednesday at the Skelos corruption trial.

The education department, abiding by legislation passed in 2015, identified 144 schools (which became 145 after one split) as «struggling» or «persistently struggling» — 124 were listed as struggling, which had two years to turnaround, and 21 schools were identified as persistently struggling, which have one year to improve or face being taken over by an independent receiver chosen by local leaders but approved by the state.

Joining Cuomo on the tour were Bronx Borough President Rubén Díaz Jr.; City Councilmember Ritchie Torres; Danny Barber, leader of the Citywide Council of Presidents (CCOP) and head of the Jackson Houses tenant association; and Dr. Howard Zucker, Commissioner of the New York State Department of Health (DOH).

Putin felt that Mendeleve was a terrible foreign policy leader and Hillary's State Department was dancing mental circles around Mendelev at all avenues.

Leaders of Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, and Director, Radio Biafra, Mr. Nnamdi Kanu and Col. Sambo Dasuki (retd), former National Security Adviser, NSA, are still being held by the Department of State Security, DSS, despite being granted bail by courts of competent jurisdiction.

State Assemblyman William Scarborough (D - Jamaica), the Queens chapter of the National Action Network and community leaders rallied outside the department's offices last Friday and accused the city of willfully ignoring fixes to the rising water table.

ALBANY — The state Education Department is losing its leader right before what should be an important legislative session for education issues.

ALBANY — Governor Andrew Cuomo and legislative leaders have agreed on a framework for the state budget with at least a $ 1.4 billion increase in school aid, a plan to allow the state education department to develop the new teacher evaluation system and tighter disclosure requirements for lawmakers.

ALBANY — Outgoing state education commissioner John King hopes to help school leaders in other states navigate the difficult transition to the Common Core standards and related standardized testing in his new position as the second - highest ranking official in the U.S. Department of Education.

The next leader of the state's sprawling public university system is an engineer and inventor who, in addition to serving as and undersecretary of the U.S. Department of Energy, helped develop technology that aided the 3 - D glasses used in films like «Avatar.»

She already has support from three influential labor unions — the Communications Workers of America, the New York State Nurses Association and the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union — whose local leaders joined her on stage, along with about half a dozen City Council members.

The trial of the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, Mr Nnamdi Kanu, met a brick wall today, as the Department of State Service (DSS) could not produce him in court.

It took more than a year for village leaders, the state Health Department and the EPA to warn residents to stop drinking the water.

Union leaders and teachers will be gathering on the steps of the State Education Department.

Last year, President Donald Trump signed legislation revoking an Obama - era Labor Department rule designed to provide a legal safe haven for the state programs, which Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell called «more government at the expense of the private sector and American workers.»

«Admittedly, we came under intense persuasive pressure from genuinely concerned national, political, traditional, religious and cultural leaders prominent among which were; a section of the Northern Governors Forum under its Chairman, Gov. Kashim Shettima of Borno state, northern traditional rulers and the Department of State Servicesstate, northern traditional rulers and the Department of State ServicesState Services DSS.

Some municipal leaders are asking the state Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) to be the lead agency, and the New Paltz Town Board says it's willing to take on the role itself if the environmental departmentDepartment of Environmental Conservation (DEC) to be the lead agency, and the New Paltz Town Board says it's willing to take on the role itself if the environmental departmentdepartment declines.

A New York City Police Department detective says he has 300 signatures on a petition calling for the removal of Dean Skelos» name from a Rockville Centre sports complex and park after the former State Senate Republican leader was convicted of public corruption.

Mayor Stephanie Miner and the Rebuild New York Now coalition have teamed up to call on state leaders to increase funding for the New York State Department of Transportation in order to spearhead new projstate leaders to increase funding for the New York State Department of Transportation in order to spearhead new projState Department of Transportation in order to spearhead new projects.

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Quigley joined with a number of local northern Manhattan elected officials, including New York State Assemblymember Robert Rodriguez and New York City Councilmember Melissa Mark - Viverito, community leaders such as Department of Youth and Community Development's Commissioner Jeanne B. Mullgrav and Supportive Children's Advocacy Network (SCAN)'s Executive Director Lewis Zuchman, and a host of residents, including local schoolchildren, for the center's unveiling in a late afternoon reception.

On Tuesday, August 19, Bronx Borough President Ruben Diaz Jr., New York State Department of Labor Commissioner Peter Rivera and Marlene Cintron, president of the Bronx Overall Economic Development Corporation (BOEDC), will join numerous elected officials and community and business leaders to celebrate the opening of New York Works, the State Department of Labor's Division of Business Services» satellite office at BOEDC.

The state Education Department is developing the lessons now with the New York Alliance for Donation based on a bill sponsored by Ortiz and Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan (R - East Northport).