Sentences with phrase «attempt at a leadership»

Mr Kyerematen made an attempt at the leadership of the New Patriotic Party in 2007, capturing 32.3 per cent of the votes cast.

Party president Mr Hughes is making his second attempt at the leadership, after being beaten by Mr Kennedy in 1999.

Not exact matches

So no wonder when aspiring business owners attempt to burnish their leadership ability, they often think that being at the top takes exceptional character and heroic actions.

They are attempting to create an identity for the company that distinguishes it in the marketplace,» says David Ulrich, a business professor at the University of Michigan and co-founder of the RBL Group, a consultancy that advises businesses on human resources, leadership, and organization.

This was followed by five subsequent phases of development in a regular pattern of succession: (1) the organization of home and foreign mission societies to channel new leadership into church planting or into the field; (2) the production and distribution of Christian literature; (3) the renewal and extension of Christian educational institutions; (4) attempts at «the reformation of manners» — i.e., the reassertion of Christian moral standards in a decadent society; and (5) the great humanitarian crusades against social evils like slavery, war and intemperance.

Though Herron failed in leadership and the movement quietly disappeared into a broader stream by 1900, it did give birth to an attempt at a colony in Georgia that published a paper entitled the Social Gospel.

Gary, the NRA at least in the person of its leadership has consistently fought every attempt at rational legislation to provide legitimate, legal, and constitutional regulation of guns.

Maybe, Jose Mourinho should take a long look at himself and attempt to fix the issue with his leadership and coaching skills rather than throwing money at every obstacle that gets in Chelsea's way.

Salmond vehemently denied the claims, but the impression remained that he was attempting to be a backseat driver at a critical time in Sturgeon's leadership.

Gov. David Paterson said the sacrifice state workers are going to make is «only necessary because their union leadership has rejected all other reasonable attempts at compromise.»

It has attempted to accommodate a fast - evolving secular culture by compromising with it, while at the same time failing to adapt and modernise its own leadership structures to be more relevant and effective in both contemporary public debate and in attracting new members.

The candidates for the Conservative leadership today attempted to woo business leaders at the CBI annual conference in London.

Corbyn can clearly win any democratic leadership contest within Labour, so another coup attempt along similar lines to the 2016 leadership election would not succeed at present.

Nex, which used to be known as Icap and is one of the world's biggest money - broking firms, is attempting to head off a rebellion at next week's annual general meeting by announcing its chairman will personally pay back the # 25,000 used to fund the candidates, including one who ran against Lib Dem leadership contender Sir Vince Cable.

On domestic policy, all the candidates are tilting leftwards and are at least attempting to be bold, even if at times they seem to be conducting a private conversation, addressing the party rather than the nation - as Tony Blair did so successfully when he ran for the leadership in 1994, or David Cameron did when he became leader of the Conservative Party in 2005.

The executives have however vowed to resist any attempt by the party leadership at both the constituency level and at the national level, to impose on them any candidate ahead of the branch reorganization.

Silver has fought off occasional challenges — an attempted leadership coup in 2000, the carping of the Post about his mysterious job at a personal - injury law firm.

Others expressed outrage at the parliamentary Labour party for undermining him from the start of his leadership and mounting the coup attempt against him.

Unfortunately, this odd betrayal of leadership at a time when our constituents needed her most seems to be part of a pattern that comes shortly after similarly short - sighted attempts to gut federal funding for New York's homeland security even while approaching the 10 - year anniversary of 9/11.

Jay Kriegel, senior advisor at Related Companies, led a national coalition in 1986 that thwarted an attempt to eliminate the SALT deduction, and today he has taken a leadership role in the coalition to protect it.

Although he has instructed staff to prepare the ground for a future leadership attempt, the moment is too early into his second term at City Hall

Because of the new rules, the members are the gatekeepers to the leadership — so there is no point in a kamikaze - like attempt at a coup.

As I pointed out at the time, there has been a steady stream of media stories about attempts to form new groups of MPs more closely aligned to the leadership than many members of the»22 Executive.

And there will be other victories too - every Monday and Wednesday till mid-May, under Dick Newby's leadership in the Lords, we will be working cross party to beat the Government's pathetic attempt at trying to get to a Brexit deal.

[140] Lamont had attempted to quash rumours of a leadership challenge at the 25 September 2014 session of First Minister's Questions, the first of the post-referendum era.

The Islington South MP, who courted controversy after sneering at the White Van Man in 2014, said Labour's national executive committee has attempted to rig the leadership contest by attempting to stop Mr Corbyn from standing.

I also do not believe it will be at all easy to change the leadership of Labour so soon after electing a new leader in such a short space of time - It shouldn't be discounted also that Corbyn could do very well as party leader in the next few years and stop dead in their tracks any attempts by his rivals within the party to challenge his authority.

[13] Lamont had attempted to quash rumours of a leadership challenge at the 25 September 2014 session of First Minister's Questions, the first of the post-referendum era: «When the First Minister is long gone I will still be doing my job on behalf of the people of Scotland.»

The new proposal, which Yuste believes would cost at least $ 50 million per year, in addition to existing BRAIN funds, to do well, is an attempt to remedy what the group sees as an important omission by BRAIN leadership.

This book makes a strong attempt to discuss education leadership at its core without the jargon.

While early attempts at digital interface controls may have seemed cumbersome or clunky, Audi was always seemingly at the forefront of ergonomic leadership with previous MMI systems.

And yet, despite some encouraging developments in renewable energy and some breakthroughs in international leadership, carbon emissions continue to rise at a steady rate, and for their pains the scientists themselves — the cruelest blow of all — have been the targets of an unrelenting and well - organized attack that includes death threats, summonses from a hostile Congress, attempts to get them fired, legal harassment, and intrusive discovery demands so severe they had to start their own legal - defense fund, all amplified by a relentless propaganda campaign nakedly financed by the fossil - fuel companies.

The recent announcement by Ian Paisley that he was resigning his dual leadership roles, as First Minister of the Northern Ireland Executive and as Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) leader, almost a year after the restoration of a devolved power - sharing Assembly based in Stormont, Belfast, is perhaps an apposite time to assess the successes of the latest (hopefully permanent) attempt at devolving law - making powers to a region in the UK, and also to evaluate the robustness of institutionalised power - sharing as it meets the myriad challenges confronting the fledgling Assembly.