Sentences with phrase «at general conference»

The United Methodist Church in the USA is silencing the voices of LGBTQ people at their General Conference this year.

Decisions made at General Conference determine the denomination's practice so far as that can be settled by legislation at least until the conference meets again.

At the General Conference session in 1985 an African graduate student studying in America pointedly asked when the Adventist Church would follow the papal lead in appointing African «cardinals.»

Not exact matches

Helena Morrissey of the London - based Legal and General is making a big push for sustainable investing, saying at a conference Monday that individual investors are becoming increasingly wary of putting their money in the market as they fear companies will act in ways that run counter to the investor's own moral beliefs.

There have been signs of traction already: General Electric, an AWS customer, has been a presence at this conference for a few years now, and companies don't get much bigger than that.

At a conference of county sheriffs in Washington, DC, on Thursday, Attorney General Jeff Sessions promised «we're going to do something» and «we can and must do better.»

Bloomberg surveyed a bunch of oil traders and energy executives at the conference, and the general sense was that oil would trade between $ 50 and $ 60 per barrel, up from an informal consensus of between $ 40 and $ 60 last year.

Nor has fellow Uber investor General Atlantic, said Anton Levy, a managing director of that firm, at the conference.

At Fortune's Brainstorm Tech conference in Aspen in July, investors at private equity firms TPG Capital and General Atlantic — both large shareholders of Uber — said neither of them had marked down their holdings amid the company's turmoiAt Fortune's Brainstorm Tech conference in Aspen in July, investors at private equity firms TPG Capital and General Atlantic — both large shareholders of Uber — said neither of them had marked down their holdings amid the company's turmoiat private equity firms TPG Capital and General Atlantic — both large shareholders of Uber — said neither of them had marked down their holdings amid the company's turmoil.

The founders point out how attendance at conferences in general has gone up dramatically over the last five years because people are making these digital connections with brands and peer - to - peer, and want to meet people in real life.

Martin Moen, the director general at Global Affairs Canada who oversees North American trade policy, told a conference in Ottawa earlier this month that it would be «very difficult to see a path forward» for NAFTA if the U.S. continued to insist on changes that would constrain cross-border commerce, such as a the suggestion that the value of U.S. government contracts won by Canadian and Mexican firms should match the value of contracts American companies secure in Canada and Mexico.

Here's how Conaway and team make the most of their time and money at SaaStr Annual 2017 — though these are good tips for any other marketing conference in general:

OPEC is working on a «very long - term» deal to try to extend its alliance with other oil producers, Secretary General Mohammad Barkindo said at an energy conference in Baghdad, Iraq on Wednesday.

At the annual Herzliya security conference near Tel Aviv, Major - General Amir Eshel said qualitative and quantitative improvements in the air force since the 2006 Lebanon war meant it could carry out in just two or three days the same number of bombings it mounted in those 34 days of fighting.

«We know our solution works for the general U.S. population, but we want to make sure it is more culturally respectful, and can help the health outcomes of these population groups,» says Goodwin, whom I first met at IEEE's Women in Engineering International Leadership Conference last spring.

Either way, I got a general sense at the conference that employers were unsatisfied.

U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions takes questions during a press conference at the Department of Justice on March 2, 2017 in Washington, DC.

At 4:30 p.m. Eastern Time, Gilead's management will host a conference call to discuss the company's financial results for the first quarter 2018 and provide a general business update.

At 4:30 p.m. Eastern Time today, Gilead's management will host a conference call and a simultaneous webcast to discuss results from its first quarter 2018 and a general business update.

Their tensions seeped into public view in February, when General McMaster said at a security conference in Munich that the evidence of Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election was beyond dispute.

The Deputy Attorney General gave thumbs up for almost 200 court administrators and sheriffs from across B.C. to hold a leadership conference at River Rock Casino Resort, even after the NDP government revealed it was a magnet for whale gamblers from China and dirty money.

It is not known whether Attorney General David Eby was consulted or even knew that the Court Services Branch continued to hold the conference at River Rock.

Pictured at the 2016 Brainstorm: HEALTH conference (clockwise from top right): Dr. Elizabeth Blackburn, President, The Salk Institute; Deborah DiSanzo, General Manager, IBM Watson Health with Jonathan Bush, Chief Executive Officer, athenahealth; Sir Andrew Witty, Chief Executive Officer, GlaxoSmithKline with Dr. Seth Berkley, Chief Executive Officer, Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance; Sean Parker, President, The Parker Foundation

General Motors» management team was speaking at the Deutsche Bank 2017 Global Auto Industry Conference...

At the conclusion of my conference yesterday, I did a number of interviews and then made my way a few miles home, collapsed into my favorite chair, and thought back over the myriad of ideas, the whirlwind of friends, and the just general all - around fabulous time I had experienced over the past four days.

12-21-2009 Caledonia Mining Secures a Renewed Zimbabwe Gold Dealership License 11-12-2009 Caledonia Mining Announces Third Quarter 2009 Results 11-09-2009 Blanket Mine Awarded Exporter of the Year 09-04-2009 Caledonia reduces exercise price of outstanding options 08-11-2009 Caledonia Mining 2009 Second Quarter and Half Year Results and Management Conference Call 07-01-2009 Mitsubishi Corporation Withdraws From Proposed Participation in the Rooipoort and Mapochsgronde Platinum Projects in South Africa 05-28-2009 Report on 2009 Annual General Meeting and Shareholder Update 05-18-2009 Caledonia Mining First Quarter 2009 Results 05-06-2009 Blanket Mine Commences Production and Export of Gold 04-03-2009 Caledonia Mining announces the Imminent Resumption of Gold Mining at the Blanket Gold Mine in Zimbabwe 04-02-2009 Caledonia's Q4 and Annual Results 2008 Conference Call 04-01-2009 Caledonia Mining announces its Fourth Quarter and 2008 Annual Results 04-01-2009 Caledonia Mining Fourth Quarter 2008 Results Filing Delayed

Sean Riley, the President, CEO, and General Counsel of Mortgage Equity Partners, will be moderating the Cyber Security - Overseeing your IT Department panel discussion at the New England Mortgage Bankers Conference («NEMBC») this year in Newport, RI.

Urban municipalities conference The Alberta Urban Municipalities Association held their annual general meeting at the end of November where they debated and adopted a series of new policies.

The conference was seen at the time as something of a diplomatic triumph for the Rudd government, with Rudd highlighting Australia's new approach to climate change by formally ratifying the Kyoto protocol, personally handing the document to UN secretary general Ban Ki - moon, and using the conference to signal a new diplomatic shift towards Asia.

At a press conference on the opening day of the Assembly, General Secretary Emilio Castro attempted to sum up his goals for the meeting by first repudiating the notion that it would focus on global crises.

It wasn't until August 1852, at the LDS Church's general conference in Salt Lake City, that plural marriage was first spoken about publicly.

The main business of a General Conference session is to elect the officers and departmental heads at both the General Conference and division levels and to make changes in the constitution of the church and in the Church Manual.

Moreover, Folkenberg has taken a stand for reducing the staff of the General Conference because of the shortage of funds and widespread demands that more tithe be retained at lower levels, and is already implementing this policy vigorously.

In November 2006 Cardinal Carmillo Ruini, the Vicar General of the Diocese of Rome and at the time the head of the Italian Episcopal Conference (CEI), gave a keynote address to an international conference entitled «University and The Social Teaching of the Church» (Università e Dottrina Sociale della Chiesa, Rome Conference (CEI), gave a keynote address to an international conference entitled «University and The Social Teaching of the Church» (Università e Dottrina Sociale della Chiesa, Rome conference entitled «University and The Social Teaching of the Church» (Università e Dottrina Sociale della Chiesa, Rome 17.11.06).

At a Boston press conference Michael Ferber said, «Every time the general opens his mouth he gets another couple of hundred draft cards.»

Ruff preached at numerous Baptist General Conference churches and also on the Moody Radio Show (WMBI) with the full support of her denomination and Bible Institute.

There a plenty of non-trinitarian Christian denominations like the Christadelphians, Christian Scientists, Dawn Bible Students, Friends General Conference, Iglesia ni Cristo, Members Church of God International, Jehovah's Witnesses, Mormons, La Luz del Mundo, Living Church of God, Oneness Pentecostals, Unitarian Universalist Christians and the United Church of God... The very idea of the Trinity didn't become Christian dogma until some 300 years after Christ's death, and even then it was quite a debate at the Council of Nicea...

Establishing a precedent for John Paul II at Puebla, Paul VI journeyed to Medellín in 1968 to address the General Conference of Latin American Bishops.

The Lausanne conference had two main roots — one in the World Missionary Conference in Edinburgh in the spring of 1910, which revealed how widely on the foreign missionary fields the spirit of federation and unity was operating, and the other in the General Convention of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the fall of 1910, which called for a commission on a world conference on Faith and Order, having to do with the whole church, at home aconference had two main roots — one in the World Missionary Conference in Edinburgh in the spring of 1910, which revealed how widely on the foreign missionary fields the spirit of federation and unity was operating, and the other in the General Convention of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the fall of 1910, which called for a commission on a world conference on Faith and Order, having to do with the whole church, at home aConference in Edinburgh in the spring of 1910, which revealed how widely on the foreign missionary fields the spirit of federation and unity was operating, and the other in the General Convention of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the fall of 1910, which called for a commission on a world conference on Faith and Order, having to do with the whole church, at home aconference on Faith and Order, having to do with the whole church, at home and abroad.

The next General Conference declined this proposal, and said the money would be better spent subsidizing chairs in Bible studies at the church's existing colleges.

When the United Methodist General Conference discussed the proposal at its Pittsburgh convention in May, it vitiated the original document.

At the time of the riots in California campuses, the appearance of a campus minister on the floor of the Methodist conference was similar to the welcome of General Swartzkopf at an American Legion meetinAt the time of the riots in California campuses, the appearance of a campus minister on the floor of the Methodist conference was similar to the welcome of General Swartzkopf at an American Legion meetinat an American Legion meeting.

The bright and personable priest from Merseyside, who as General Secretary ruled the roost at the Bishops» Conference headquarters at Eccleston Square for eight years from the mid-1980s, was seen by many Catholics at the time as a breath of fresh air [Note: for «many Catholics» read «The Tablet»].

Most important of all was the establishment of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (the World Bank) and the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (now the World Trade Organization) at the 1944 Bretton Woods Conference in New Hampshire.

Carlos Campo, Ashland University president Vincent Bacote, Wheaton University theology professor Kyle Duncan, former general counsel of the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty and lead counsel in the Hobby Lobby case Tom Farr, Religious Freedom Project at Georgetown University Kellie Fiedorek, Alliance Defending Freedom Wayne Grudem, Phoenix Seminary Chad Hatfield, St. Vladimir's Orthodox Seminary chancellor Thomas Kidd, Baylor University professor Daniel Mark, United States Commission on International Religious Freedom Michael McConnell, Stanford University Law School Doug Napier, Alliance Defending Freedom Samuel Rodriguez, National Hispanic Christian Leadership Conference president Meir Soloveichik, Yeshiva University Rick Warren, Saddleback Church Thomas White, Cedarville University president

He did a lot of research on black holes early in the 1970s, but ended up stating that his original thesis was wrong at the Conference on General Relativity and Gravitation in 2004.

This same dynamic has just repeated itself at the UMC's quadrennial General Conference.

At the 1988 General Conference of the United Methodist Church in St. Louis, legislation affirming that «we do not condone the practice of homosexuality and consider this practice incompatible with Christian teaching» was adopted by a 765 - 181 vote of the delegates.

Elsewhere at the conference, the shadow hancellor promised to cut ministers» pay by 5 % and to reduce child benefits in real terms if Labour wins next year's general election.

At the 1977 conference a Liberal peer said, from the Chair, that the conference expressed its support for objective and rational discussion on paedophilia and child sexuality in general.