Sentences with phrase «abrupt firing»

I have a blind friend who wishes to contact your board of trustees with her concerns about the recent unusually abrupt firing / reduction of much needed field staff.

The abrupt firing of Comey throws into question the future of a counterintelligence investigation... [Read more...]

Since then, Mr. Thompson has instituted what he has called tougher measures on transparency and management and has endured criticism over the authority's abrupt firing late last year of 19 employees.

Mayor de Blasio ducked a barrage of questions Wednesday about the federal probe into his fund - raising operation and the abrupt firing of a city official tied to the controversial sale of a Lower East Side nursing home.

Following the abrupt firing of Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, President Donald Trump signaled he's prepared to dismiss aides with whom he's clashed — including national security adviser H.R. McMaster — as he works to surround himself with advisers more aligned with his populist agenda and freewheeling style.

A controversy erupted on Friday in Washington over the abrupt firing of the House chaplain by Speaker Paul Ryan.

The president did not mention his abrupt firing earlier this week of Secretary of State Rex Tillerson by tweet, the personnel turmoil engulfing his administration, special counsel Robert S. Mueller III's investigation of Russian interference in the 2016 presidential campaign or reports of his alleged affair with adult film star Stormy Daniels — and his lawyer paying her to keep silent about the relationship.

Kelly, rattled by President Trump's abrupt firing of Secretary of State Rex Tillerson via Twitter earlier in the week, had told colleagues to start looking for new jobs, the Journal reported.

Nevertheless, Tuesday's abrupt firing throws into question the future of the investigation into the Trump campaign's possible connections to Russia and immediately raised suspicions of an underhanded effort to stymie a probe that has shadowed the administration from the outset.

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Fire and Fury author Michael Wolff's time on MSNBC's Morning Joe came to an abrupt end on Thursday morning, after host Mika Brzezinski called him out over recent rumors involving President Donald Trump and U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, Nikki Haley.

The abrupt decision to end the websites DNAinfo and Gothamist led to the firing or more than 100 reporters in New York City and other communities in the country that provided hyper local coverage of neighborhoods.

Syracuse University Chancellor Kent Syverud had an abrupt response for anyone calling him to fire a vocal, radically liberal professor: «No,» Syverud wrote in an email to the campus community last week.

President Trump — rather than deliver an «Apprentice» - style firing — left the axed U.S. attorney to announce that his acclaimed run atop the nation's No. 1 federal court district had reached an abrupt end.

Neurons in the hippocampus code smooth changes in the shape of a room by an abrupt change from a firing pattern characteristic of one distinct shape category to another.

That proved too dangerous, though, and then a deadly fire on the Hindenburg in 1937 brought the hydrogen fad to an abrupt end.

Historical wildfire observations exhibit an abrupt transition in the mid-1980s from a regime of infrequent large wildfires of short (average of 1 week) duration to one with much more frequent and longer burning (5 weeks) fires.

The abrupt closure, which saw the company's employees in New York and Los Angeles suddenly fired last Friday, has left scores of artists and agents struggling to secure unpaid fees and salaries.

The abrupt party scene is quickly interrupted by a cataclysmic rain of fire, culminating with a giant hellmouth opening up in front of Franco's house, swallowing most of the revelers inside and drastically slowing the film's pace.

But the abrupt nature of these shorts is what lends If These Walls Could Talk its cumulative power — the film fuels discussion by not putting out the fires.

The meeting comes to an abrupt end has Harrison flies in and opens fire.

After the 75th Hunger Games comes to an abrupt end in the upcoming sequel Catching Fire (Exclusive Clips Here), Katness Everdeen (Jennifer Lawrence) finds herself as the face of the rebellion against the Capital Regime.

Abrupt increases in Amazonian tree mortality due to drought — fire interactions.

1 Positive 1.1 Carbon cycle feedbacks 1.1.1 Arctic methane release 1.1.1.1 Methane release from melting permafrost peat bogs 1.1.1.2 Methane release from hydrates 1.1.2 Abrupt increases in atmospheric methane 1.1.3 Decomposition 1.1.4 Peat decomposition 1.1.5 Rainforest drying 1.1.6 Forest fires 1.1.7 Desertification 1.1.8 CO2 in the oceans 1.1.9 Modelling results 1.1.9.1 Implications for climate policy 1.2 Cloud feedback 1.3 Gas release 1.4 Ice - albedo feedback 1.5 Water vapor feedback 2 Negative 2.1 Carbon cycle 2.1.1 Le Chatelier's principle 2.1.2 Chemical weathering 2.1.3 Net Primary Productivity 2.2 Lapse rate 2.3 Blackbody radiation

At the regional level (see Chapters 4, 10, 11, 12 and 14), important aspects of the carbon — climate interaction include the role of fire (Denman et al., 2007 Section 7.3.3.1.4) in transient response and possible abrupt land - cover transitions from forest to grassland or grassland to semi-arid conditions (Claussen et al., 1999; Eastman et al., 2001; Cowling et al., 2004; Rial et al., 2004).

Ecological surprises include rapid and abrupt changes in temperature and precipitation, leading to an increase in extreme events such as floods, fires and landslides, increases in eutrophication, invasion by alien species, or rapid and sudden increases in disease (Carpenter et al., 2005).

The Columbian Encounter and the Little Ice Age: Abrupt Land Use Change, Fire, and Greenhouse Forcing http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00045608.2010.502432#.VB-uuBaTItg

The culprit for this abrupt reversal, Gower explained, is forest fires.

Unfortunately for the Sharmas, their dreams came to an abrupt end when, under the cloud of a fraud investigation, they were suspended and then fired.

We need better surveys and clearer thinking for us to understand the actual incidence of abrupt terminations of law firms and the performance - or capability - related causes of those firings.