Sentences with phrase «asking member states»

«It is a great challenge to improve the health of our people,» he said while asking member states to do more in terms of funding so as to confront health emergencies.

It currently runs as a kind of backstop for the organization's original automated system, and the CTBTO has asked the member states to approve it officially as a replacement.

At the World Health Assembly in May, you asked member states to increase their contributions by 5 %; they rejected that.

The Recommendation had also asked Member States to strike a balance between a right to publish information about a planned action and the risks that negative publicity can unfairly affect defendants.

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In a statement, leaders will ask the Commission «to examine the need and ways to screen investments from third countries in strategic sectors, while fully respecting members states» competences,» a reference to national sovereignty on the issue.

Members of the Alaska House of Representatives recently passed a resolution asking the federal government not to crackdown or interfere in any way with states that have legalized marijuana of which, of course, Alaska is one.

«If creditors blink now, other member states will rightly ask why they have to continue paying their loans back,» adds Mr Loynes.

GENEVA Russia and China are asking U.N. member states to back a draft statement expressing «unwavering support» for the Iran nuclear deal, a senior Russian diplomat said on Tuesday, in a bid to put pressure on U.S. President Donald Trump not to withdraw from it.

CDT anticipates that members of Congress will ask about Facebook's approach and commitment to the privacy of its users, its advertising - driven business model and susceptibility to abuse, and whether the company now believes it is time to support a comprehensive privacy law in the United States.

The discussion started off asking why the number of women on public boards was so low — around 18 % (or lower)-- Gouw stated that this is typically because when there are open spots on boards, the typically all - male board members reach out to their own networks and it propagates adding more men to boards.

Roundup By Antonio Guerrero Digging deep: Companies mining in Zambia face high taxes The World Bank is asking members to support a controversial $ 3.75 billion loan to Eskom, South Africa's state - run power utility.

Usually he has asked each member of the class to state specifically his criteria of greatness, and then to pick out those that rank highest on this basis.

«We respectfully ask you to consider Brunson's case and how the recent treatment of Brunson places significant strain not only on him and his family, but also on the robust bilateral relationship between the United States and Turkey,» read the letter to Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and signed by 78 members of Congress.

For York, American churches produce few martyrs because its members are so willing to do violence when the state asks them to.

He'd probably just look at you blankly and state, «I'm Jewish if that's what you're asking...» As were his twelve apostles, and all his followers... It wasn't until well after his death non jews were allowed to become members.

To help us illustrate the importance of your donation to the Annual Fund, we reached out to some of our 2016 State Ambassadors to ask them why they have volunteered their time to help raise awareness of the Annual Fund with their fellow SNA members.

Reportedly, when asked, at least one advisory board member has been quoted as saying that she never even read the book, while another has stated that he looked at it, but offered no input.

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A bipartisan group of senators and members of Congress from the eight Great Lakes states have written letters to the Office of Management and Budget and the U.S. Army asking for the study's inclusion.

Or, ask a member of the New York State Democratic Committee for a copy of the letter we mailed to them a week ago Wednesday.

The Group also asked Trump to instruct the US Secretary of State to temporarily ban those named on the list and their family members from entering the US, pending the final determination of the cases against them.»

The release of Bloomberg's aid ask comes as he is meeting with members of the New York congressional delegation and Gov. Andrew Cuomo, who has pegged the entire state recovery cost at at least $ 30 billion, to discuss the ongoing post-storm response.

Ranking Senate Transportation Committee member Martin Dilan today sent a letter to state Department of Transportation Commissioner Joan McDonald asking her to review safety protocols along a stretch of the Bronx River Parkway where seven family members died Sunday in a car accident.

In several waves of the survey, respondents in all existing member states were asked to say, for each of a number of prospective member states, whether they would be in favour or against that country «becoming part of the European Union in the future».

The Nurse Practitioner Association New York State is asking that its members be given the right to execute do not resuscitate, or DNR, orders, which allow medical staff to let patients die if their heart or breathing stops, as doctors do.

The committee members called for the next committee meeting to discuss ad spending, proposing a ban on communications prior to endorsements being made and asked that «focus resources» on the state Senate, narrowly controlled by Republicans.

«I fully support the efforts of spearheaded by courageous members of the State Senate to pass common sense gun laws in New York and today I'm asking all of my supporters to call Senator Golden's office and ask him to do the same.»

«Despite that we have over 9,000 Youth Corps members in Ekiti State and it has been the general practice to engage the NYSC members in elections across the country, the APC in collusion with INEC has asked that students of the Federal University, Oye Ekiti (FUOYE) be recruited as INEC ad - hoc staff for the election, instead of youth corps members.»

Planned Parenthood sent a letter to the state Senate's Independent Democratic Conference asking its members to stop implying they had received endorsements from the organization.

I asked Lander what he made of the independent expenditures that REBNY has made, through their Jobs for New York PAC, on behalf of Council Member (and fellow Progressive) Margaret Chin, and if that violated the Progressive Caucus» stated principles on affordable housing.

Six weeks later, after being asked every week to do so by Maria Eagle when she met him at shadow cabinet meetings (I wasn't a member of the shadow cabinet, only the shadow secretaries of state sit in that meeting), Jeremy finally phoned me.

The Attorney General, who was a long time member of the State Senate, says it's a difficult decision because he still has many friends in office who have asked for his help in their campaigns.

Sources told NY1 on Tuesday night that James was calling state Assembly members and asking them for support in her bid to be attorney general.

The poll asked electors eligible to vote in the one - member - one - vote ballot to state their principal reasons for supporting their preferred candidate.

Those events unfolded as the state teachers union on Wednesday filed the first official petition asking State Education Commissioner MaryEllen Elia to take action against the Buffalo board mestate teachers union on Wednesday filed the first official petition asking State Education Commissioner MaryEllen Elia to take action against the Buffalo board meState Education Commissioner MaryEllen Elia to take action against the Buffalo board member.

«State Police personnel would call in to the aviation unit, say that they had a family member in the area and ask if they could be taken up for a ride during one of the routine traffic patrols in Jones Beach area of Nassau County,» the source said.

In his speech to the Palestinians on Friday the 16th of September, Abbas confirmed that he will be asking for admission of Palestine as a full member state of the United Nations on the 1967 borders.

After the Department of Commerce announced on March 27 that it would restore a question asking who is a citizen to the next census, New York Congress members have pushed back, stating that the question would undermine the reliability of the count - and that it would scare immigrants away from responding.

The authority to remove an elected School Board member from office falls to New York State Education Commissioner MaryEllen Elia, whose spokesperson said she could not comment on the situation because she may be asked to intervene.

On Tuesday, it was revealed members of the state Legislature were asked to preserve all records relating to the investigation of the now defunct anti-corruption panel Gov. Andrew Cuomo disbanded in April following an agreement on ethics legislation in the state budget.

Meanwhile, students, parents and community members organized by the Alliance for Quality Education, Citizen Action of New York and the New York City Coalition for Educational Justice delivered valentines to state lawmakers» local offices in the Capital District Buffalo, Syracuse, Binghamton, Queens, the Bronx, Brooklyn and Long Island asking them to reject Gov. Andrew Cuomo's proposed education aid cuts.

(When the Assembly Democrats» member on the Legislative Task Force for Redistricting was asked by New York Post state editor Fred Dicker last week if he'd heard any complaints about the process so far from his colleagues, task - force member Jack McEneny said, simply, «No.»)

NYSAC established the website www.mandaterelief.com to create a simple and effective way for county officials and residents to email their state senators and Assembly members, asking them to help enact mandate relief.

He went on to ask for letters of resignation from all of his top staff members and state - agency commissioners.

With Wilmorite representatives in the hot seat, state siting board members asked them to explain how they planned to make more money than Turning Stone and how they view competition with an existing casino only an hour away.

State Senator Bill Perkins, one of five members of the Public Authorities Control Board that is scheduled to take up the Tappan Zee loan at its meeting on Wednesday, sent a letter to Governor Andrew Cuomo on Tuesday afternoon asking him to withdraw his proposal for the loan, arguing that it violates state and federalState Senator Bill Perkins, one of five members of the Public Authorities Control Board that is scheduled to take up the Tappan Zee loan at its meeting on Wednesday, sent a letter to Governor Andrew Cuomo on Tuesday afternoon asking him to withdraw his proposal for the loan, arguing that it violates state and federalstate and federal law.

The last budget bill cleared the New York State Assembly just before 3 a.m. — blowing past the midnight deadline as Republican members asked questions and raised concerns about pieces of the rougly $ 150 billion spending plan.

Nor does it appear that the state official who appointed Ms. Mirrer to the panel, David M. Steiner, the state education commissioner, asked members of the panel to disclose any ties to Mr. Bloomberg.

In November, 12 of 18 members of the Suffolk County Legislature sent a letter to Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo asking for the state to set a regulation, as did the nonprofit Citizens Campaign for the Environment.

Mr Van Rompuy said leaders of the 28 member states had asked him to launch consultations on future policies.