Sentences with phrase «use chairmanships»

Rather than fight heavyweight Queens Boss Joe Crowley and Brooklyn's Vito Lopez for the top Finance and Land Use chairmanships, he glommed leadership roles on several heavy - duty committees and beefed up Joel Rivera's majority leadership post while getting him co-chairmanship of the Rules Committee.

Rural African electrification isn't a main topic of conversation in most utility boardrooms today, just as carbon mitigation wasn't when Rogers used his chairmanship of the Edison Electric Institute to wrangle support for cap - and - trade legislation.

And he would use his chairmanship of EEI to help the trade group's climate position evolve.

Not exact matches

But he could use his mastery of the chamber's byways, honed during his chairmanship of the Senate Rules Committee and years of running floor operations as his party's whip, to work the margins.

George Osborne, Britain's chancellor of the exchequer, has responded to the furore over Starbucks, Google and Amazon by promising to use the country's imminent chairmanship of the G8 club of rich countries to wage war on tax havens.

In the immediate aftermath of the fall of Communism in Central and Eastern Europe, Czechoslovakia in 1992 and Hungary in 1995 used the OSCE chairmanship to demonstrate their commitment to full membership in the family of European and Euro - Atlantic states and their ambition to respect and implement the Helsinki principles (even though those principles had been originally negotiated with the participation of Czechoslovakia's and Hungary's discredited Communist governments).

And what we've seen is lulus and committee chairmanship bonuses and an expansive use of per diems — wrongly used as a proxy for a legislative pay increase.

But Chope's used the Chamber to launch independent - minded assaults on establishment causes, and it's noticeable that he lost out in the tussle for the Public Administration Committee Chairmanship.

One way of expressing concern about the human rights situation, as highlighted by Ed Miliband today, would be for the UK use their time in Colombo to strip President Rajapaksa of the chairmanship of CHOGM — one of the calls we have been making of the UK government over recent weeks.

A Bronx Democratic insider alluded to rumors that Blake has eyed the seat of Congressman José Serrano, expected to retire in the next few years, and that Crespo «would probably feel a certain way» about the assemblyman using the vice chairmanship to help launch a run for the House.

In exchange, Council members from those boroughs expect to get chairmanships on key committees such as finance and land use.

Bart and John Haggerty also made attempts to wrest control of the Queens GOP from Maltese when they claimed that improper weighted voting was used to elect Maltese to he chairmanship in 2005, but the courts sided with Maltese.

«Meanwhile, we are using this opportunity to appeal for calm and understanding among APC's chairmanship and councillorship aspirants even as we assure that the much - awaited party primaries would be held in a transparent manner as against the insinuations coming from some quarters».

He has recently taken over the chairmanship of Conservative Way Forward and has plans to revitalise what used to be a hugely influential pressure group within the Conservative Party.

Italian Economics Minister Giulio Tremonti said that Italy would use its 2009 G7 chairmanship to push for a «New Bretton Woods.»

Following allegations that ADAM CLAYTON POWELL had misappropriated Committee funds for his personal use (see below «Family Scandal») and other charges including evading a subpoena in New York and failing to appear on a post judgment hearing involving the slander case he lost, in January 1967 the House Democratic Caucus stripped Powell of his committee chairmanship.

Queens Councilwoman Julissa Ferreras, who split with her county organization to back Mark - Viverito during the speaker battle, was appointed the head of the Finance Committee, while David Greenfield of Brooklyn was handed the chairmanship of Land Use.

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