Sentences with phrase «as female members»

We simply found the truth that male daters in this age group are not as active as female members.

As female members of the Assembly, we hope that our colleagues in the Democratic Majority will call for a vote and elect a new speaker; someone untarnished by the corrupt culture of Albany and who will not tolerate abuses toward women.

The juror who wrote the first note has not been identified by the court, but the parties made references to her as a female member of the jury of eight women and four men.

As you will see there is no need for the site to lure male members into buying memberships as their female member base speaks for itself.

For those who don't know, Ghost in the Shell will see Johansson as a female member of a covert ops unit of the Japanese National Public Safety Commission that specializes in fighting technology - related crime.

As a female member of the Defence Bar I have my own share of stories of the differences in perception of males and females in criminal law, but the commentary about Ms. Henein during the Ghomeshi case was beyond anything I could have imagined.

Not exact matches

Progress has been slow when it comes to getting more women into executive roles (the number of female board members is climbing but just 13 percent of these female board members are employed as executives).

Though Americans might not see AirAsia or Firefly's uniforms as particularly revealing, female flight crew members feature prominently in AirAsia's marketing materials.

«They see me as a member of their team and their family and they wanted to treat me like any other female in their organization that has a baby.

Still, the president might be wary of passing on the chance to nominate the first female Fed chair — and Summers, in particular, has a bit of a reputation as a member of the old boys club.

To a 12 - member team that CEO Jim Secord described to Inc.com as «not diverse» and «typical start - up: younger, tech savvy, male dominated,» the company added a middle - aged, female CPA with limited tech know - how, giving her a customer - support role.

Of the 990 companies in the three markets studied by Grant Thornton that had female board members, 127, or 13 %, were employed as executives.

As Michael leaves, Martello — Uber's newest board member — adds to the company's growing list of recent prominent female hires.

The female founders network has over 800 female founders as members.

Among other things, It uses such factors as a school's diversity — in female faculty, staff and board members — to judge the «quality» of a program.

Companies are now providing investors access to gender diversity criteria such as number of female employees, managers and board members; breadth and quality of programs addressing home / life balance; and gender parity / gender diversity.

Name: Kelly Blackett Title: Executive Vice President, Human Resources and Corporate Communications Areas of responsibility: Human resources, learning and development, corporate communications Years with CWB Financial Group: 3 Career history: 17 years with General Electric in Canada holding a series of progressively responsible human resources leadership roles at GE Capital and GE Corporate, supporting businesses within Canada as well as globally Education: Bachelor of Commerce with Distinction from the University of Alberta Community involvement: Sits on the Board of Trustees for the Stollery Children's Hospital Foundation, member of the MacEwan Business School Advisory Board, and past mentor with MORE, a program providing cross-business mentorship to female leaders in Edmonton's business community

Abdella is on one of her charity missions - part of her work as a devoted member of the Muslim Sisterhood, the female division of the Muslim Brotherhood, Egypt's oldest and largest opposition group.

Finally, by making it necessary that elections be conducted as contests of like against like (female against female, minority against minority, etc.) the system extended vast powers to the nominating process and enabled those in power to recruit just those board members most likely to agree with their purposes and keep them in power.

But don't they all have to do with how we relate to each other and to Jesus Christ — whether we relate vertically as child to parent, as serf to free person, as baron to king, as alien to citizen, as tribal member to colonial usurper, as subject - wife to master - husband, as Third World country to powerful nation, as sharecropper to landed gentry, as migrant laborer to union or employer, as novice nun to mother superior, as female to male, as poor parishioner to monsignor - pastor, and on and on; or whether we relate horizontally as the grown - up heir now equal to his father, as world citizen to world citizen, as worker to worker, as minister to minister, as partner wife to partner husband, as sister to sister, and sister to brother?

As Phelps» daughter reminded me, there is a venerable American history of religious protests against the coercive power of the federal government, running from the anti-slavery and female suffrage advocacy of nineteenth - century evangelicals to the civil rights agitation of rabbis and members of the black church.

I've listened to church members tell stories of transformation that occurred as they sat under the pastoral care of female small group leaders.

Conservative MP Chris Davies welcomed the progress the Church had made increasing female clergy members, but added: «What steps are the Church taking to ensure the diversity of those being considered for ordination better reflects the country as a whole?»

As a general rule of thumb, I would say that religions are at their best whenever they challenge their members to chafe against preexisting identities — for example, when St. Paul says that «in Christ there is neither Jew nor Greek, slave nor free, male nor female.»

I have referred in other postings to have been wounded by a female family member which was then treated in a church as me having been the one who have acted inappropriately with the presupposition of men having been in power and God dealing with men in the first instance.

Future theology, she wrote, might (1) develop the female nature of each member of the Trinity; (2) add a fourth member to the godhead in the person of the Virgin Mary; or (3) pick the Holy Spirit to describe as feminine.

The premier female match player of golf's modern era, Carner had excelled by following a simple dictum that she stressed to her 10 - member team: Treat each hole as an individual tournament.

As a former college lacrosse and high school field hockey player, and a member of ASTM International's subcommittee on standards for headgear and helmets, which is working with US Lacrosse on developing a new standard for headgear in women's lacrosse, I have reservations about whether requiring female lacrosse players to wear helmets will make the sports safer, or, as a result of the phenomenon called risk compensation (also called the «gladiator effect»), will actually result in more, rather than fewer, head injurieAs a former college lacrosse and high school field hockey player, and a member of ASTM International's subcommittee on standards for headgear and helmets, which is working with US Lacrosse on developing a new standard for headgear in women's lacrosse, I have reservations about whether requiring female lacrosse players to wear helmets will make the sports safer, or, as a result of the phenomenon called risk compensation (also called the «gladiator effect»), will actually result in more, rather than fewer, head injurieas a result of the phenomenon called risk compensation (also called the «gladiator effect»), will actually result in more, rather than fewer, head injuries.

Outside of Doteveryone, as a new member on Twitter's board, Lane Fox is determined to be a «noisy, female» voice informing the team of the abuse experienced by many women on the platform.

«The Commission finds that Gabryszak used the powers and resources of his position as a member of the Assembly to engage in knowing, intentional, and prolonged mistreatment of certain female members of his Assembly staff,» the report concluded.

Withholding information and suppressing engagement of the County Committee members did a disservice to the panel of accomplished female elected officials, as many of whom spoke to the importance of providing access, resources, and support to women seeking to enter politics.

Isaacs, who replaced Jennifer Saul (the NY GOP's female RNC committee member) as Manhattan chair in February 2011, has been raising campaign cash for candidates around the state to collect chits.

One study reports that as many as one in three US female service members has been sexually assaulted by a fellow service member.

With the Prime Minister attempting to draw a line under the affair and preserve one of the few female members of his Cabinet, some 78 % of voters taking part in the poll said that Mrs Miller should be sacked as Culture Secretary, against just 10 % who said she should stay.

His mother, Clara Thompson, was one of the first female NYPD officers to patrol the streets beginning in 1973, and served as a member of the NYPD for 21 years.

We have four very strong inspiring women including Theresa May as Home Secretary and Britain's first Muslim Cabinet member Sayeeda Warsi as Party Chairman — and I hope I don't need to remind readers that we gave the United Kingdom its first female Prime Minister.

Yesterday I noted a News of the World story that purported to suggest women weren't being adopted as Tory candidates because female Conservative members feared they might run away with their husbands and so on.

Mr. Lopez, who as the Democratic leader in Brooklyn and chairman of the Assembly's housing committee projected great influence across New York City and the state, resigned in May 2013 after a state ethics commission released a report about his alleged behavior including groping of female staff members and other unwanted sexual advances.

Her warm - up act included several female firsts: State Senator Andrea Stewart - Cousins, the first female legislative conference leader in the New York State, Assemblywoman Deborah Glick, the legislature's first openly lesbian member, and Public Advocate Letitia James, the first woman of color to hold citywide office in New York City, as well as city first lady Chirlane McCray and former congresswoman Gabby Giffords, who is now one of the country's best - known advocates for gun control.

At least 30 killed as violence erupts across two states after spiritual leader found guilty of assaulting two female sect members.

It said, the committee, to be presided over by a Supreme Court Judge, has two other Court of Appeal judges (male and female), as well as two other members nominated by the Council of State (female and male) as its membership.

And as recently as last fall, the former Assemblyman Steven T. McLaughlin, an outspoken Republican, was disciplined for asking a female staff member to send him naked pictures of herself.

Speakers also pointed out that a number of bills pertaining to issues specifically affecting women, citing access to feminine hygiene products as an example, were introduced by female Council members.

Staten Island District Attorney Dan Donovan, who served as special prosecutor for the case, wrote in a statement released on Wednesday morning that his investigation did not find Lopez's alleged harassment of two female staff members rose to the level of a criminal offense.

Washington, D.C. (AP) Michigan Rep. John Conyers says he is stepping aside as the top Democrat on the House Judiciary Committee amid a congressional investigation into allegations he sexually harassed female staff members.

Although the YMA admitted its first female member in 1857, it was not until 1886 that it became the Buffalo Library, and later the Buffalo Public Library, as the result of a contractual agreement with the City in 1897.

While there maybe some party members who will view this as a step too far, I feel we can no longer pursue a programme of positive affirmation just to increase the pool of would - be female candidates.

My party, at its grass roots, is dominated by active, enthusiastic and politically astute female members but, for whatever reason, not enough seek selection as candidates and few are adopted.

Smith's fears for the safety of young female activists emerged as the Women Liberal Democrats group wrote to Nick Clegg with concerns about the vigour of the party's investigations, saying its members had been «shocked and saddened» by the allegations against Rennard.

The statement came after a majority of Senate Democrats, led by female members, called for Franken to quit as a fresh accusation emerged about the senator.