Sentences with phrase «while presidents»

While these presidents won't need to use their shiny new resumes, I enjoyed learning more about their fascinating careers.

The makeup of the board has varied over the years; while some presidents stock it with intelligence experts from the private sector, others reward political allies as they might in other appointee positions.

While presidents are limited to two four - year terms, there aren't term limits for members of Congress.

While some presidents may feel that any Supreme Court, period, might be an obstacle or impediment to getting their way, no President, generally, is going to leave a vacancy unfilled if he has the ability to put forward a nominee.

While presidents have a lot of power with regards to executive orders, they can't actually make anything they want law.

«While presidents before him have backed down from their pledge to move the American embassy, once in office this president delivered.

While presidents are constrained by law and practical policy considerations, they get to pretty much decide what they think is best.

The president of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York serves continuously, while the presidents of the other regional Federal Reserve Banks rotate their service in one - year terms.

While presidents aren't required to have a physical or release the results, it has become standard practice.

Colbert, much like Wolf, mocked Bush's apparent distaste for facts, hammered the administration's actions in Iraq, and described Bush's then - 32 % approval rating as «backwash» — all while the president was sitting less than 10 feet away.

While the president's current tax plan still contains many unknowns, the Tax Policy Center conducted an analysis of Trump's campaign plan and its budget impact in October of 2016.

While the president's report does not propose any quick fixes for growth, it suggests that large - scale investment in infrastructure improvements, regulations that ensure the internet remains open to all, and protections for the increasing number of workers who wind up as contractors in the gig economy will be essential.

While President Trump has had plenty of controversy, the stock markets have performed well since he was sworn in on January 20.

While President Donald Trump's hotel in Washington did serve as a hub of inaugural activities it also stands as ground zero for what top Democrats and some ethics advisers see as his unique web of conflicts of interest.

While the president's advisory councils are largely ceremonial, the breakup sends a clear message — as does Dimon's very public support of the decision.

The First Lady has remained in New York City with her son Barron, reportedly to finish out his school year, while the President has relocated to the nation's capitol.

But while President Donald Trump's hotel in Washington did serve as a hub of Friday's inaugural activities, it also stands as ground zero for what top Democrats and some ethics advisers see as his unique web of conflicts of interest.

While the president is known for getting very little sleep, he's got nothing on the first lady, who tells Oprah she starts her days with a 4:30 a.m. workout before her kids wake up.

While President Obama has supported a few proposals that benefit high - growth, high - tech entrepreneurs (like the Jumpstart Our Business Startups Act, most of his policies have been hostile to the interests of Main Street business owners, particularly those running labor - intensive businesses with low - wage employees.

On April 18, China imposed preliminary antidumping tariffs of 178.6 percent on sorghum, a crop used to make alcohol and biofuels, while President Donald Trump's threat to impose tariffs on $ 150 billion worth of goods on everything from solar panels to aircraft to cars remains on the table.

Over the last two months, everyone from IMF head Christine Lagarde and Bank of England Governor Mark Carney have warned that a vote to leave would hit financial markets, while President Barack Obama and others, supported by a stream of studies from think - tanks banks and universities, have warned about the long - term damage to the U.K.'s economy.

Pence raised eyebrows in May when he launched the Great America Committee PAC, a move some observers suspected could be aimed at promoting a future presidential bid while President Donald Trump is mired in controversy.

While President Donald Trump campaigned on promises to reduce illegal immigration, these measures are affecting the legal ways people come to the country.

While President Trump has called Lockheed's F - 35 fighter - jet program too expensive, the Commander - in - Chief remains an invaluable — if fickle — ally for the company, which counts the U.S. government as its biggest customer.

The new U.S. administration has threatened an import tax while President Donald Trump has attacked some of the world's biggest companies for manufacturing abroad for U.S. consumers, stoking much alarm and triggering a rash of promises to invest more in the United States.

While the president was said to be upset with Flynn, he also expressed anger with other aides for «losing control» of the story and making his young administration look bad.

While the president is overseas, some White House officials will stay behind to work on the tax overhaul effort, including Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin and top economic advisor Gary Cohn.

While the president is adding his voice to the citizens and tech companies who have come out against the FCC proposals, the sole decision remains with the FCC itself.

While the president - elect hasn't specifically said he'd cut alternative energy credits, they could become a target in his plan to slash government spending.

The declines came while President Donald Trump discussed fraught international issues with French President Emmanuel Macron at the White House, such as the Iran nuclear deal, which faces a key deadline next month.

While the president of MTV announced in 2015 that they planned on «retooling» the show, it actually evolved into «Teen Mom NJ.»

While President Obama's supporters and detractors don't agree on much, they can probably agree on this: an uninterrupted, 17 - day long break would certainly be nice.

But if Cohn were to stick around while the president imposed tariffs, which Cohn had vehemently opposed, he would have to answer for them on the Sunday interview shows and in appearances before Congress.

While President Trump sought to allay jittery currency markets that monetary policy had not changed, candidate Trump supported the Federal Reserve's suppression of interest rates and did not want to see a rising dollar:

While the president is not particularly known for keeping a cool head in tough situations, a couple of developments seem to have particularly irked him of late: the recent increased scrutiny of Cohen, and the reemergence of former FBI Director James Comey in the media.

While the president has persistently argued for steel and aluminum tariffs as a way to create jobs in beleaguered American industries, the formal legal rationale for the measures is actually national security.

Oil's recovery, buoyed by potential supply risks, was capped by rising U.S. inventories while President Donald Trump neared a decision on whether to reimpose sanctions on Iran.

While President Obama proposed to save $ 28 million in his budget by cutting or eliminating a handful of programs, Representative Sam Graves, Republican of Missouri, declared that the president's cuts did not go far enough.

«Ayatollah Khamenei watches America allow Iran to expand its power while our President writes him missives ensuring we will protect Iran's interests.

While President Trump was campaigning on the wall, Helen Thorpe spent a year inside a «newcomer class» for teenage refugees from Africa, Southeast Asia, the Middle East and Central America.

House leaders have an ambitious goal of passing the tax bill by Thanksgiving, while President Trump wants to sign it into law by Christmas.

But the proposal languished in Congress, and while President Trump told the Justice Department last month to issue new regulations, thus far it has not.

What is even more puzzling is that while the President of the Treasury Board claims control over spending by pointing to the decline in the Estimates of $ 10.4 billion, or 4 per cent, the June 2011 Budget shows an increase of $ 9.7 billion, or 3.6 per cent, in expenses between 2010 - 11 and 2011 - 12.

While the president attacks 99 percent of his opponents by mercilessly strafing them in speeches, sound bites and tweets (and has a one - size - fits - all approach to firebombing Democrats, disobedient Republicans, Gold Star families, war heroes, etc.), Daniels fends off her online critics with self - deprecating humor, and has made a point of refraining from saying anything bad about the president himself — which has probably kept him from retaliating and going after her personally.

For while President Trump is incompetent at countless aspects of his job, he is proving wildly successful in one respect: naming youthful conservative nominees to the federal bench in record - setting numbers.

Remarkable how many on the right didn't seem upset by Ronald Reagan's religious ambiguity and his not attending church much while President.

While President Bush endorsed the 2005 Partial Birth Abortion Ban Act, which I supported, he also championed a pre-emptive war in Iraq that costs hundreds of thousands of lives.

On the basis of the First Amendment, as well as the general principles of the Constitution, he opposed public payment for chaplains in Congress and the military, spoke out against national proclamations of days of prayer (though as president he did «recommend» them) and while president vetoed congressional efforts to incorporate churches in the District of Columbia (fullest statement, V: 103 - 105) At the same time, Madison frequently opined that it was appropriate for private citizens to support chaplains and various kinds of semiorganized public religion through voluntary contributions (V: 104,105)

All of this was going on while President Bush defiantly declared in a press conference that «we do not torture,» which reminds me of Bill Clinton's infamous words, «I did not have sex with that woman.»

The problem is that while the president is correct in his concern to limit the growth of the budget, he is cruelly deficient in his concern for justice.