Sentences with phrase «assumed by the president»

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He could try and do this (assuming he becomes president) by doing a number of things, including stacking the court with judges favorable to his views.

BuzzFeed Entertainment Group will now become the umbrella for all entertainment news and will be headed by the president of BuzzFeed Motion Pictures, Ze Frank, who will assume the role of president of BuzzFeed Entertainment.

Shortly before assuming office last year, Trump broke with tradition by ordering all of former President Barack Obama's political appointees to leave their ambassadorships immediately after the inauguration.

Jerome Powell — known more casually as «Jay» — assumes the top Fed position following his nomination by President Donald Trump in November.

Powell — known more casually as «Jay» — assumes the top Fed position following his nomination by President Donald Trump in November.

On paper, the TransCanada Corporation now has the Trump administration's blessings to add hundreds of miles of pipeline to allow hundreds of thousands of gallons of crude produced by the Alberta tar sands to flow daily into the U.S., a permission twice denied by President Barack Obama two years ago (by veto and by outright denial of its permit), but it's premature to assume the project will actually get built.

The president of Shell says, «It may be tempting to assume there's something to be gained by taking more from the few...» My world is spinning.

Holmes concludes the book by describing the beliefs of modern presidents, from Dwight Eisenhower to George W. Bush, proving that since World War II the presidents have moved in a more orthodox and even evangelical direction, which seems ironic considering the assumed rise of secularity in America.

In these years, it became ever clearer that George W. Bush, Dick Cheney, and their supporters were claiming, and actively assuming, powers specifically denied to a president by our Constitution.

But the convention has continued inching right as a generation of pastors inspired by Southern Seminary president Al Mohler and other reform theologians assumes leadership.

Barnes will assume the role formerly held by Kelly Pawlak, who recently accepted the position of president and CEO of the National Ski Areas Association.

An aspiring President who threatens National Security even before assuming office can't be protected by that establishment.

In a statement signed by the Konkomba NDC youth president Mumuni Believer Likpalmor, he appealed to Konkomba politicians to assume politics of ideas than what Mr. Daniel Bugri Naabu has resorted to.

The Vice President (In that case Gerald Ford, had simply been installed by Nixon a few months earlier) just assumes office, without the formal endorsement of anyone.

The file, composed of highlighted and annotated blog items by Elizabeth Benjamin, one of Albany's dominant political reporters, paints a picture of an executive branch that's particularly averse to hints that Cuomo could be, as is widely assumed, conidering running for president in 2016.

The coalition's Executive Chairman, Comrade Debo Adeniran, said «if we can remember properly, on assuming office last year, President Buhari made it clear that his most important priority was to fight corruption at every level by plugging all those identified holes through which Nigeria's resources were being drained with reckless abandon.

The assumed change of mind by the president has set into motion series of reaction from various quarters of the public.

If Senate President Malcolm Smith's comments at the DRC straw poll over the weekend are any indication, redistricting reform isn't exactly popular in the Senate, either, where Democrats are eager to finally get back at the GOP by redrawing them out of existence — assuming they manage to hold onto the majority in November.

The nine - member panel, presided over by Justice Sophia Akuffo, also averred that the «Speaker of Parliament shall always, before assuming the functions of the Office of President when the President and the Vice-President are unable to perform their functions, take and subscribe to the oath set out in relation to the Office of President».

In 2007, President John Agyekum Kufuor's government secured a US$ 24 million loan to rehabilitate the structure for it to be used by the MPs but the project did not take off until Prof. Evans Atta Mills assumed office, by which time the cost had increased to US$ 63million.

But rising from a meeting in Taraba State on Friday, the CBCN in a communiqué signed by its president, Ignatius Kaigama, said Buhari had failed to live up to those words two years after assuming office.

Joined by Manhattan Borough President - Elect Gale Brewer, as well as City Councilmen Robert Jackson and Ydanis Rodriguez, the parents described the new system as a «ticking time bomb» that would erupt right as the city's incoming mayor assumes office.

The 1986 graduate of Albany Law School and former Albany County prosecutor assumed his post in January 2010 after being appointed by President Barack Obama.

«Government is now saying that sole - sourced procurement must be approved by cabinet, so are we to assume that President Mahama and his cabinet approved this without doing any due diligence, without establishing that there are competent local companies that can do this.

The plaintiffs contend that the President can not assume powers exclusively held by the Judiciary under the constitution of Ghana.

His seat was assumed by Paul's brother, Peter Vallone Jr., who ran for Queens borough president this year and lost in the primary.

The Catholic Bishops» Conference of Nigeria on Thursday told President Muhammadu Buhari that the enormous goodwill with which he assumed office in 2015 is being fast depleted by some «glaring failures» of his government.

I stand to be corrected, but I assume Doe Adjaho was in a dilemma not knowing what the Constitution meant by saying «where the president and the vice - president are both unable to perform the function of the president, the speaker of parliament shall perform those function until the president or vice president is able to perform those function or a new president assumes office as the case may be» (11).

Producer and environmental activist Laurie David — wife of comedian Larry David — assumed that NSTA would be all too happy to send its members free copies of An Inconvenient Truth, the climate change tutorial by the former vice president that was a surprise hit at the box office.

Whenever the Vice President and a majority of either the principal officers of the executive departments or of such other body as Congress may by law provide, transmit to the President pro tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives their written declaration that the President is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office, the Vice President shall immediately assume the powers and duties of the office as Acting President.

He was originally reluctant to take the job offered by President John Kennedy, assuming that it might be better handled by someone with a better grasp of science or technology.

With the catchphrase opening «Good evening, I'm Chevy Chase and you're not,» and aided by his bumbling impersonation of President Gerald Ford, the actor quickly assumed breakout status, earning Emmys for both his writing and acting.

IndieWire reports that Fox Searchlight Pictures Presidents Nancy Utley and Stephen Gilula announced today that Larry Baldauf has been named Executive Vice President of Marketing effective early March assuming the role previously held by Stephanie Allen.

«Although our organization gives specific consideration to work by artists of African descent, the performances of Mr. Langella and Ms. Jolie are undeniably transcendent and deserving of our recognition,» remarked AAFCA outgoing President Gil Robertson, who will assume the role of East Coast Vice President in 2009.

Washington — Compared with what they would have received if fiscal 1981 federal spending policies had remained in effect, state and local governments have lost $ 42 billion in federal assistance since President Reagan assumed office, according to a new analysis by a national public employees» union.

Before Betsy DeVos assumed the role as the Secretary of Education in a tie - breaking vote by Vice President Mike Pence, she called «public education a «dead end.

After the death of controversial President Juan Peron in 1974, his third wife, Isabel, assumed power (Peron's second wife was Eva, made famous by the musical Evita).

by Merritt Clifton WASHINGTON, D.C. ---- Humane Society of the United States executive vice president Patricia Forkan is to assume authority over HSUS domestic operations effective on January 1, 1996.

Wilkinson will assume the role currently held by Richard Sellers, AFIA's senior vice president of public policy and education, following his retirement from the association at the end of 2018.

Finally, in 1980, the president assumed more power and took steps to diminish the power of the military and restore a measure of rule by popular support.

Many of his current responsibilities, including the CEO title, will be assumed by Global President Satoru Iwata.

Following the sale of Newcourt to CIT Group Inc., David assumed the role of President of CIT's International Operations and left CIT in 2001 after its acquisition by Tyco.

The American left is currently whining because Trump is issuing executive orders on this, that and the other: Apparently, they assumed that the strategic deployment of executive orders would only ever be wielded by Democrat presidents.

According to the Wall Street Journal, the bill passed the Senate by a veto - proof margin, and assuming the House approves and President Bush signs it, Amtrak will now have enough money to pay off some of its debt; cover operating expenses and the cost of buying new rail cars and expanding service; encourage states to invest in rail programs; and improve safety.

Whenever the Vice President and a majority of either the principal officers of the executive departments or of such other body as Congress may by law provide, transmit to the President pro tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives their written declaration that the President is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office, the Vice President shall immediately assume the powers and duties of the office as Acting President.

Assuming that, e.g., a sitting President went and shot somebody, and was duly convicted by a jury of his / her peers, etc., in... let's say Washington D.C.... What would happen to the sentence?

Subsequent to the acquisition of Blue Circle by Lafarge in 2001, he also assumed responsibility for Lafarge's operations in the region as Regional President for Asia.

As the nation adjusts to the ramifications of President Obama's Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, medical assistants holding the CMA (AAMA) credential awarded by the Certifying Board of the AAMA are assuming additional, vital roles in the health care delivery system, such as patient advocate and health coach.

Unfettered by any employment contract to Gap, Chiquet is assuming the president - elect position at Chanel.