Sentences with phrase «th head of the nation»

WASHINGTON — President Obama pressured the heads of the nation's biggest banks on Monday to take «extraordinary» steps to revive lending for small businesses and homeowners, drawing a firm commitment from one large bank to make more loans and vaguer assurances from others.

In the Old Testament, for instance, it deals with very practical matters of individuals — even prescriptions for what to do after things as intimate and personal as a «wet dream» — all the way up to the conduct of the heads of nations.

W. Deen Muhammad, one of the most eminent Muslim leaders in America, is the son of Elijah Muhammad, the longtime head of the Nation of Islam (NOI) who died in 1975.

One hot night that summer President Harding died in San Francisco, and Calvin Coolidge became head of the nation.

Simeon is showing that he understands that Christ is coming, not to deliver the Jews from their enemies, and place Israel at the head of the nations over all the Gentile nations, but instead, that this salvation is for all people and will bring revelation to the Gentiles.

The White House announced a dozen appointments to its faith advisory council on Friday, with the leader of the nation's largest evangelical group and the head of the nation's leading Christian denomination serving lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgendered people are both on the list.

Once the monarchy had to all intents and purposes disappeared the High Priest came to the fore as the head of the nation.

Th head of the nation's second - largest supermarket said consumers are having to make tough choices under constrained budgets and Coles will continue investing in price while holding tough talks with local and international suppliers.

The presence on the flight over of Louis Farrakhan, head of the Nation of Islam, produced a heady frisson of Afrocentrism, but Marley remained spiritually steadfast.

But what seemed most significant about his response was that the head of the nation's third largest school district made a front page appearance at all (this sentence as published has been corrected in this text)

In addition to these State duties, The Monarch has a less formal role as «Head of Nation».

Asked about Clinton's comments, the head of the nation's largest LGBT rights organization — which has endorsed Clinton — avoided criticizing Clinton directly.

«I'm calling on President Barack Obama — President Barack Obama, a black man who identifies as black, who is the head of this nation and has all kinds of executive powers — to demand that the DOJ open an investigation today,» she continued.

The head of the nation's second largest teachers» union was in New Haven, Conn., recently.

Bent on getting many of his tribesmen, cronies and family into his already oversize government, MrAkufo - Addo, sources in government disclosed to TheaL - hAJJ, was persuaded to appoint an above - the - age retired Civil Servant as head of the nation's exchequer even though he was «disqualified» from occupying that position.

Instantly, Mr. O'Neill became immersed in his first major test as head of the nation's largest police force, a trial by fire no one would seek.

Four days after officially taking over as head of the nation's largest municipal police department, NYPD Commissioner James O'Neill was sworn in today at a ceremony at police headquarters in Manhattan.

«Around the time of the election, we did see some people who would call out that they were Trump supporters, but since then, I don't know if people necessarily need to say online that they support him — he's the head of our nation whether you like it or not,» Davis Edwards said.

Mr. Petruzielo, 54, announced last week that he will be leaving his post as head of the nation's fifth - largest school system for the greener pastures of Cherokee County, Ga., a small but growing suburb of Atlanta, where he will head the 24,000 - student school system.

In a new book and an interview, the former head of the nation's largest school system confronts teacher performance.

As the head of the nation's largest Hispanic civil rights and advocacy organization, I believe that calling for Latino families to opt out of annual assessments that provide important information about our students» educational progress is at best unfair and at worst disgraceful.

David Berliner Regents» Professor Emeritus, Arizona State University «The Mismeasure of Education is a magnificent work, an elegantly written, brilliantly argued and erudite exposition on why the «what,» «how» and «why» of effective teaching can not be adequately demonstrated by sets of algorithms spawned in the ideological laboratories of scientific management at the behest of billionaire investors... This book will serve as a sword of Damocles, hanging over the head of the nation's educational tribunals and their adsentatores, ingratiators and sycophants in the business community... The Mismeasure of Education will have a profound resonance with those who are fed up with the hijacking of our nation's education system.

From his perch as head of the nation's largest school district, Klein wielded outsize influence, campaigning to persuade districts and states across the nation to adopt the testing and accountability policies he had established in New York.

In a recent speech, the head of the nation's cabinet - level housing agency said it should easier, not harder, for well - qualified borrowers to get a mortgage loan in 2015.

As head of the nation's largest animal protection organization, with more than 1.3 million supporters in the Golden State alone, Pacelle will provide attendees the latest information on The HSUS» «Making History!»

As head of the nation's largest city, de Blasio is throwing significant weight behind a movement by local governments to directly target fossil fuel companies for the role their products play in fueling global warming.

The group also includes Yuzo Kano, head of the nation's largest bitcoin exchange bitFlyer Inc., and members from the nation's largest banks Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group Inc., Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group Inc. and Mizuho Financial Group Inc..

Senate Confirms Jerome Powell as New Federal Reserve Chair «The Senate approved President Trump's nominee, current Federal Reserve Board Governor Jerome Powell, as the new head of the nation's central bank on Tuesday.

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She was heading to the nation's capital to hear Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder testify before Congress about the water crisis in her hometown of Flint, Michigan.

EU Parliament head Guy Verhofstadt told Business Insider that Brexit was an opportunity for the EU to become a tighter, more unified family of nations, but this ambition is under threat from populist, anti-EU movements in numerous member states.

«National Small Business Week is a chance to honor our nation's 28 million small businesses and renew our commitment to fostering the entrepreneurial spirit that is central to the American experience,» says SBA Administrator Maria Contreras - Sweet, the head of the U.S. Small Business Administration, in a statement.

Alison Evans, deputy head of Asia - Pacific country risk at IHS Markit, said Wednesday that the reaction probably meant that China was likely to continue to press for diplomacy over economic sanctions, which the United Nations, U.S. and Europe and a variety of other nations have already placed on NorthNations, U.S. and Europe and a variety of other nations have already placed on Northnations have already placed on North Korea.

What worries D'Alessandro most isn't so much the economic impact of disappearing head offices but the less measurable effect it has on the nation's pride and self - esteem.

«Anytime I have mixed readings we'd rather side cautiously,» Ari Wald, head of technical analysis at Oppenheimer, told CNBC's «Trading Nation» on Monday.

On the second leg of his trip, Trump headed to Israel to meet with leaders from Israel and Palestine, to try to reinvigorate the stalled peace process between the two nations.

The head of tax at the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), which advises developed nations on policy, said the UK could use its freedom from EU rules to slash corporate tax but the political price would be high.

Until now, there was no reimbursable way for pre-diabetic patients to receive care, said Mike Payne, head of medical affairs at Omada Health, the nation's largest federally recognized provider of diabetes prevention programs in the U.S. Medicare has always reimbursed providers to screen for diabetes and to treat those who have the disease, but there wasn't a way for providers to be reimbursed to stop that progression all together.

And with looming leadership changes at organizations key to global health and development aid — the heads of the United Nations, the World Health Organization, the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, and the World Bank — malaria champions say the risk of setbacks is unnerving.

«If what we as a nation are going to focus on is pulling stuff out of the ground, selling it to the world and then buying back the finished goods, I can tell you from a prosperity perspective which way we're going, and it's not up,» says John Ruffolo, head of the venture capital arm of OMERS.

On Wednesday, March 29, Britain's government will send a letter to the head of the EU, Donald Tusk, officially notifying him that the nation wishes to separate itself from the union.

For Inc.'s 30th anniversary, we decided to bring these two business thinkers together for a conversation that would serve as a kind of state - of - the - entrepreneurial nation — examining where we have been, where we are, where we are headed, and what it will take to succeed once we get there.

As Moody's points out, last year's deficit of 3.4 % of GDP was the highest of any industrialized nation except Japan, and the shortfall is headed skyward.

For Hu, it was a «legacy» visit, his swansong as the head of the world's most populous and potentially most powerful nation before stepping down as the leader of the Communist Party of China in 2012.

During the visit, Chen mentioned distributed ledger technology as one of the key components to the «development and application of fintech,» and highlighted that he and Xing Yujing, the head of the People's Bank of China Shenzhen Central Sub-Branch, agreed that mainland China should reinforce a solid relationship with the Hong Kong and Shenzhen financial sectors by engaging in «pilot schemes» in order to support «the process of the nation's reform and opening - up.»

Giving reasons why it introduced Tanda, Simon Khalaf, Head of Media Business & Products, told TechCrunch that: «Thirteen months ago, a national outlet reported 46 percent of our nation can't come up with a $ 400 emergency expense.»

As the world's biggest trading nation, China already sends huge volumes of goods to countries such as Canada, providing «numerous ways to disguise your drugs,» says John Coyne, a former Australian Federal Police intelligence agent who is now head of border security at the Australian Strategic Policy Institute.

South Africa Looks to Digital Currency There are many advantages to nation - states, both stated and unspoken, to head in the direction of a national digital currency.

Top Trump administration economic officials are headed to China in the second half of this week to discuss trade contentions between the two nations.

As head of the New York Fed I am vice-chairman of the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC), the body that sets our nation's monetary policy.

The head of Charles Schwab, one of the nation's largest investment advisors, tells us what his clients are doing with their money.