Sentences with phrase «acting leader after»

Margaret Beckett was acting leader after John Smith's 1994 death.

Frist came the defeat in South Thanet, the resignation that never quite was, and the unresignation that meant Evans was not going to be acting leader after all.

Not exact matches

Xi's comments, reported by China's CCTV, came shortly after Trump added to his recent aggressive tweets by saying that U.S. military options were «locked and loaded» if North Korean leader Kim Jong Un acted unwisely.

Republican leaders have significant differences on what the party's policy agenda will entail for 2018 after securing a major legislative victory in overhauling the federal tax code with a law that included a blow to the Affordable Care Act.

After all, the purpose of analytics is not simply to study a problem but to solve it — and this requires leaders at all levels of the organization ready and willing to act.

On Tuesday, moments after finding out about the layoffs and leadership upheaval at the Downtown Project in Las Vegas, I asked Tony Hsieh by phone why he stepped down as leader of the utopian startup city he had founded, and why he had continued act as head of the ambitious experiment in the desert despite having already handed over the reins to his lawyer and a team of executives.

Congress so far has been slow to act, though House leaders are expected to add more money to a relief bill after Rosselló's request.

Just this month, two top American cardinals, Roger Mahony of Los Angeles and Timothy Dolan of New York, were called on to give legal testimony over lawsuits related to abuse of children, and the leader of Scotland's Catholic Church, Cardinal Keith O'Brien, resigned after allegations he had acted improperly toward four men studying for the priesthood decades ago.

So, Democrats — including several Catholics, such as Senator Tim Kaine, who are «personally» though not professionally opposed to abortion — voted to filibuster the Pain Capable Unborn Child Protection Act, and the Republican leaders who could have moved a bump stock ban bill to the floor after the Las Vegas massacre did not.

Human nature is such that when a strong leader becomes convinced of the supreme importance of one teaching or of one strand, he makes that one the most important; and since such definiteness and such focus as act to differentiate certain believers from others are very dear to human nature, one new sect after another is founded.

Still, I found it frustrating to listen to speaker after speaker blame men for their failure to act as the leaders «God equipped them to be.»

Democratic Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer on Monday said he's hopeful there can be a bipartisan deal to make improvements to the Affordable Care Act after efforts in the Republican - controlled chamber last week to do so faltered.

The next afternoon Mugabe called her from a public phone to offer his thanks and enquire after her baby.This memory of an act of thoughtfulness from Mugabe clearly shaped Holland's early views of the guerilla leader, but it is also led to a simple question, which recurs throughout her many interviews with those who knew him best as a child and in his early life.

We can only hope that Pakistan's democratization process will move forward; and civilian leaders who assume power after the forthcoming general elections will act as pragmatically as Jinnah and show the due political resolve to institutionalize his secular, progressive ideals of statehood.

Dropping a hint, after NPP acting National Chairman's roundly condemned destabilizing statement, that leaders of the biggest opposition can not guarantee what will happen if the NPP loses the November elections another «militant» member of the opposition party, Hopeson Yaovi Adorye on Tuesday stated on UTV that the party and its 2016 flag bearer have resolved not to waste their time complaining about any supposed unfair treatment in the upcoming elections.

On Monday October 6th, just days after Chris Grayling published Tory plans to scrap the Human Rights Act, a foreign leader was already using them to defend himself against charges of crimes against humanity.

After a year in which Dean Skelos and Sheldon Silver, respective legislative leaders of both the State Senate and State Assembly, were convicted for defrauding the public for personal gain, politicians in Albany have once again refused to act on preventing corruption and enacting needed ethics reform and running a more open government.

In response, Flanagan steered a series of SAFE Act reforms through the Senate after he replaced Dean Skelos as majority leader in May.

Governor Cuomo has signed the Iran Divestment Act that easily passed both the Assembly and Senate earlier this week after an agreement was reached between Speaker Sheldon Silver and Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos last year.

Flanagan in May had pledged to push for SAFE Act changes after he replaced fellow Long Island Republican Dean Skelos as the majority leader, who stepped down following a corruption arrest.

NEW YORK, NY — Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced today that former New York State Senate Majority Leader DEAN SKELOS was sentenced today to five years in prison after having been found guilty by a federal jury of using his official position to obtain more than $ 300,000 in bribes and extortion payments that were paid to his son, ADAM SKELOS, in exchange for DEAN SKELOS's official acts.

Commission members, Cuomo and legislative leaders are negotiating to craft a new package of ethics laws that would include some parts of an anticorruption bill known as the Public Trust Act that the governor proposed after several corruption cases involving state lawmakers.

The GOP - led Senate did approve at package of changes to the SAFE Act after Flanagan was elected majority leader, partially in response to concerns raised by upstate Republicans and gun - rights advocates who question his vote in favor of the SAFE Act.

After a now infamous picture of a man appearing to defecate in front a local building circulated online, a petition was started urging city leaders to act.

Ibrahim Magu, the Acting Chairman of the EFCC, denied claims it was on a witchhunt of leaders of the opposition PDP after its continued detention of Metuh and release of Jafaru Isa, an All Progressives Congress chieftain.

Governor Cuomo appeared with leaders of New York's congressional delegation to urge Congress to finally act on a federal aid package for victims of Superstorm Sandy, seven weeks after the destructive storm.

After the deputy leader urged his followers to support Labour's campaign on the Freedom of Information Act, Dr Clarke replied: «Are the «rabble» welcome too?»

The mayor said that if lawmakers don't act on reforms, they'll lose a shot at redemption after a year in which leaders in both houses of the Legislature have been arrested on federal corruption charges.

Mr. Silver, who resigned on Monday as speaker after being arrested on federal corruption charges in January, was accused of essentially facilitating the harassment by not acting forcefully to prevent Mr. Lopez's behavior as leader of the Assembly, which was also named as a defendant in one of the lawsuits.

Jeremy Corbyn has taken another major step forward in his campaign to become Labour leader after the Communication Workers Union announced that it is to endorse him to act as the antidote to the Blairite «virus» in the party.

In the days after the Budget, unease grew as Harriet Harman, the party's acting leader, and Chris Leslie, the shadow chancellor, signalled that Labour would not oppose Conservative policies such as the 1 per cent cap on public - sector pay rises for four years and the reduced benefit cap of # 20,000 (# 23,000 in London).

A Communique issued after the Forum, the Parties agreed to among others the establishment of Peace Committees in Communities, Political Leaders Publicly denouncing trouble makers from their Parties and Holding Political Parties accountable for acts carried out in their name.

Senate Republicans will continue to push for changes to the gun control law known as the SAFE Act after Gov. Andrew Cuomo's office and Majority Leader John Flanagan reached an agreement to not enact a provision of the measure.

Flanagan backed the SAFE Act in 2013, and had pledged to enact changes after he was elected majority leader.

But Republican leaders withdrew their support of him after Conservative Party leaders raised objections that the mayor had officiated two same sex marriages (in keeping with the law, by the way) and refusing to endorse repeal of the 2011 Marriage Equality Act.

The agreement comes after Flanagan, a Long Island lawmaker, had pledged to upstate members and Republican county leaders, to enact SAFE Act in part to alleviate concerns he had supported the measure in 2013.

As Europe ramped up security for the holiday just days after the truck attack that left 12 dead at a Berlin Christmas market, the leader of the world's 1.2 billion Catholics said he hoped for «peace to those who have lost a person dear to them as a result of brutal acts of terrorism».

Acting Labour leader Harriet Harman is facing a backlash from her party's leadership candidates after she endorsed of key Tory welfare cuts.

«We have got to look deep in our souls, but we shouldn't open our veins,» said Harriet Harman, the acting leader of the Labour party, as she implored her colleagues to stop bloodletting after the party's loss and the resignation of Ed Miliband.

The pronouncements by the leaders came just a week after the Senate rejected the DREAM Act bill, which would have set aside $ 25 million for college tuition assistance to the children of undocumented immigrants.

Since the office of Lieutenant Governor fell vacant after Lt. Gov. David Paterson succeeded to the governorship upon Gov. Eliot Spitzer's resignation, the majority leaders (Bruno, Skelos and Smith) have acted as lieutenant governors.

Local leaders in Saratoga County are taking steps to distance the county from provisions under New York's SAFE Act, one year after its enactment.

Several Labour MPs - including leadership candidate Jeremy Corbyn and former minister Diane Abbott - voted against the bill, despite the party's official stance being to abstain after an amendment tabled by acting Labour leader Harriet Harman was defeated.

Nick Clegg, the Liberal Democrat leader, has commissioned a review into the new intrusive capabilities of British intelligence agencies and the legal framework in which they operate, after failing to persuade David Cameron that the coalition government should act now to tighten the accountability of Britain's spies.

WASHINGTON, D.C. — The effort to kill the Affordable Care Act is dead in the water after House Republican leaders cancelled a scheduled vote on Friday afternoon to repeal the legislation.

After failing to act when Ken Livingstone directly contravened party rules, and dithering over whether to attend the TUC rally, Labour has another leader who'd rather duck a difficult decision than show real leadership.»

The Tory party leader's remarks came after Ukip threatened to use the Freedom of Information Act to force him to reveal the names of individuals who have secretly lent money to the Conservative party.

Minority leader Andrea Stewart - Cousins, a Democrat from the Bronx, said, «arrest after arrest has shattered the public's faith in good government,» and that the Legislature should act to avoid «another session of empty promises in the wake of yet another scandal,» referencing the arrest of former Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver.

A senior Labour MP has urged Jeremy Corbyn to act on abuse within Labour ranks after his re-election as party leader.

Sen. Patty Murray, joined by Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid (r.) and Sen. Chuck Schumer (l.), speaks to reporters after the Senate voted to end debate on the makeover of the No Child Left Behind Act on Tuesday.