Sentences with phrase «asked other council»

Chin said she asked other council members to join her call for leniency.

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They indicated that they were asking themselves, and would be considering further, «Has the time come for the Orthodox churches and other members to review their relations with the World Council of Churches?»

When asked this question, John Zizioulas and other authoritative representatives of the Ecumenical Patriarchate responded that the Council as a process, not as an event with an identifiable outcome, is itself the vision.

At a meeting of the National Council of Churches he asked, not for any legal restriction but a «a voluntary agreement among religious leaders of all faiths that from now on they would not resort to conversions because the social logic of conversions is not valid now», that the promise of liberation from caste structure has not been fulfilled as proved by the fact that it persists in all religious communities; and any attempt to organize Hinduism as a religious community like others of the prophetic tradition has been a failure.

The document was sent to all member churches, asking them «to prepare an official response to this text at the highest appropriate level of authority, whether it be a council, synod, conference, assembly or other body.»

On the other hand, when Korn / Ferry was asked to find someone to head the Women's International Professional Tennis Council, a body created two years ago to provide a neutral meeting ground for the various factions in women's tennis — the ITF, the WITA and the tournament directors — it came up with Jane Brown, a woman of great experience in several areas of tennis administration.

To help others become aware, The Ad Council, the U.S. Forest Service, and the National Association of State Foresters ask for your support in raising awareness for Fire Prevention Month.

Last March, RFKM helped pass a resolution through the Montgomery County Council of PTAs asking, among other things, that MCPS not serve foods with artificial food dyes.

Speaking at a conference hosted by the Local Government Network, Mr Denham said: «Local taxpayers should be vigilant if they are asked to accept reduced services because their council won't take tough decisions to introduce shared services, sharing senior staff with other local authorities, PCTs [primary care trusts] or other bidders, or through making the best use of public buildings.

Using other online tools such as email and Facebook and even offline tools like phone calls and text messages, they urged supporters to ask Susan to use her relationship with NYC Council Speaker (and expected candidate for NYC Mayor in 2013) Christine Quinn to allow the council to vote on paid sick days legisCouncil Speaker (and expected candidate for NYC Mayor in 2013) Christine Quinn to allow the council to vote on paid sick days legiscouncil to vote on paid sick days legislation.

Arguably, Labour should have asked its volunteers not to head to Eastleigh, where the impact of their valiant efforts was always going to be minimal, but to Derbyshire, Staffordshire, Kent and other areas which have county council elections in a couple of months.

Messages were sent to council chiefs, government officials and others asking for US$ 3,500.

City Council Speaker Christine Quinn, Manhattan Borough President Scott Stringer and other local leaders slammed the city for recently asking the NYPD to submit a budget reduction plan — especially after Saturday morning's attack in TriBeCa and the brutal sexual assault of an elderly birdwatcher in Central Park earlier this month.

Other speakers at the budget hearing asked the council not to burden the city's taxpayers with a large tax increase.

She will inevitably be asked the same question as every other council speaker: will you run for mayor?

NYRA Chief Council Patrick Kehoe lamented no one is asking other private firms in the racing business to divulge salaries.

The Disciplinary Committee took the decision first to suspend Afoko after the National Council of Elders in September, wrote to it asking amongst others that he should step aside until after the 2016 elections.

When council Speaker Corey Johnson and other members were asked for comment, council spokesperson Robin Levine offered a blanket statement: «The committee on for - hire vehicles will be exploring this and many other issues in the months ahead.»

Representatives of the Milwaukee Building and Construction Trades Council, Teamsters Local 200, and International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Local 494, among others, asked the committee members to approve the revised agreement, saying the project would create hundreds of jobs for construction workers.

«It really is troublesome to me when the conversation that we're hearing from our governor sounds more like the conversation that we're hearing in Wisconsin and other states where, again, the working class are asked to give back, give back, give back and yet the wealthy are asked to pay less,» said council member Melissa Mark - Viverito.

Amid a preliminary budget hearing where the City Council's Committee on Governmental Operations heard testimony from several city agencies and other entities under its purview, representatives from the Office of Administrative Trials and Hearings, or OATH, did not ask for massive new resources, but explained the impact of an increased budget and an increased caseload, while also asking for more personnel.

«I definitely think that discretionary funds will be wielded as a weapon in the fight for endorsements,» said one Democratic Council member, who, like nearly a dozen others who spoke to DNAinfo.com New York, asked for anonymity to avoid angering Quinn.

NEW YORK - Senator Jeff Klein (D - Bronx / Westchester) will join representatives from Westchester Residential Opportunities, Inc (WRO), Housing Action Council, Community Housing Innovation, Housing Development Services of Westchester, the New York State Banking Department, FDIC New York, Westchester homeowners and other elected officials in combating the current foreclosure crisis by asking experts tough questions regarding how Westchester residents can save their homes and neighborhoods.

«To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (1) what his estimate is of the number of boats in the UK that would require a licence or other form of authorisation to facilitate recreational fisheries under Article 47 of the Council Regulation establishing a community control system for ensuring compliance with the rules of the Common Fisheries Policy; [249749]

On Monday, Europhile Labour MP, Denis MacShane asked Gordon Brown in the House of Commons: «Does he share my dismay that when the issue [tough stance on Russia] was fought out at the Council of Europe the other week, the Russians» closest collaborators and fellow travellers in the debate were UK delegates from the Conservative party?»

He should also ask Engr Segun Oni that he cheated out of office why he dragged Justice Salami and others before the National Judicial Council,» the party said.

When asked what kinds of public expressions of support parents would be willing to make, most focus group participants said that they preferred to write letters and testify before Congress or the city council rather than participate in other forms of expression like demonstrating and voting.

If you can, please join other parents and community supporters by going to City Hall to stop by Council member offices to ask them to take immediate action to support schools.

And they can use the Whole Child Resolution Tool Kit to ask their school boards, town councils, and other policymakers in their communities to support a local resolution that addresses the needs of the whole child.

Today I am asking WNPR's Where We Live, WFSB's Face the State, FOXCT's The Real Story, CT Report with Steve Kotchko and other appropriate news forums to host a debate between myself and any one of the leaders of these corporate advocacy fronts such as Jeffrey Villar, the Executive Director of Connecticut Council for Education Reform and Jennifer Alexander, the Chief Executive Officer of ConnCAN.

We are often asked what other School Councils are doing, so that new ideas can be formed.

As such, Peters is asking other home buyers and sellers that have been directly affected by potentially improper business practices by licensed real estate agents to contact the council.

Householders were asked to indicate the acceptability of eight management options on a five - point Likert scale in response to the introductory statement: «If it was shown that cats were having a severe impact on garden birds and some form of management solution was considered necessary, please indicate whether you strongly agree, agree, disagree, strongly disagree or have no opinion about each of the following»: (a) people living in ecologically sensitive areas should not be allowed to own a cat; (b) no one living in a town or city should be allowed to own a cat; (c) all cats should be fitted with a bell or other anti-predation device; (d) cats should not be allowed to roam outside their owner's garden; (e) cats should not be allowed out during the day; (f) cats should be registered with the local council; (g) cats should undergo compulsory sterilisation; (h) cats should be de-clawed.»

The Sierra Club, the Natural Resources Defense Council, the League of Conservation Voters and 41 other environmental groups sent a letter to Congress this week, asking them to oppose «fast track» trade promotion authority for upcoming trade agreements like the Trans - Pacific Partnership (TPP).

Others shared the view of the Bar Council that, «It would be dangerous to ask a body responsible for structured sentencing, (which is largely a judicial concern), also to oversee the assessment of the impact of policy changes (which is largely a political concern).

If you would like some additional information on traffic ticket basics, including common topics such as «how to pay a traffic ticket», «how to ask for a Trial By Written Declaration», «traffic school», or other general or frequently asked questions, you can find them in the Traffic Self Help portion of the Judicial Council's website at: http://www.courts.ca.gov/selfhelp-traffic.htm.

«It already has shifted the way I engage with clients in terms of learning new ways to ask questions and I have brought up this training and concepts learned from it in our practice council and have encouraged others to participate in it».

If charged with unethical practice or asked to present evidence or to cooperate in any other way, in any professional standards proceeding or investigation, REALTORS ® shall place all pertinent facts before the proper tribunals of the Member Board or affiliated institute, society, or council in which membership is held and shall take no action to disrupt or obstruct such processes.