Sentences with phrase «begin with an agenda»

The «owner» should begin with an agenda and take responsibility to shepherd the meeting along in an efficient manner.

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He began staging promotional seminars around the Southeast with such agenda topics as: «Turning an Easement into a Source of Liquidity» and «Defending the Tax Audit From Examination Through Litigation.»

It has a magisterium, found in successive documents of U.N. secretaries general beginning with Boutros Boutros - Ghali's Agenda for Peace in 1992.

if not, i pray for you and i will set up missionaries all across the globe to make sure that the rest of the lost souls also find Santa Clause within them... let's first begin with donations; only from your heart and soul, and because of your kindness... no other agenda... Santa Clause loves you my dear... he has touched my heart so I know he exists... and I want you to believe in Santa Clause as well so you don't have to burn in hell... i want to save your soul my child... come pray with me...

Beginning about 1965, the questions of intelligibility and credibility that had dominated the liberal theological agenda and the questions of continuity with the tradition that had dominated the Neo-orthodox one gave way to issues of praxis.

Business, board and budget meetings begin with silence, and many meetings have an extended time of centering prayer built into their agendas.

Although some Christ - followers find it increasingly difficult to ignore the environmental impact of their lifestyles and are beginning to feel a holy stirring as they wake up to crazy weather patterns, smoggy skylines and disappearing forests, others are uncomfortable with «environmentalists» and even less comfortable with their «agenda.»

It was there and accepted until around the 11th century or so when things began to change by those with a different and overreaching agenda.

I saw Paul in that light and in recent years I began to see Paul in a different light — as a human with an agenda — as someone that steered Christianity in very different direction that it might have gone had he not been involved.

Going back to the major political contests of 2009, beginning with the Governors» races in Virginia and New Jersey and to the Senate race in Massachusetts, the electorate has been asked the same question about Obama's agenda and has given the same response.

Beginning the day's spoken agenda with thoughts on current affairs, the Right Honourable Tony Blair answered questions about dialogue in his capacity as the Representative of the Office of the Quartet.

The manual begins with an uncontentious definition: «Lobbying is the process of seeking to influence government and its institutions by informing the public policy agenda» or, rather more succinctly, «the art of political persuasion».

Coalitions in parliamentary democracies iron out a legislative agenda when forming a government at the beginning of the session, sometimes in writing, and mostly stick with it.

Governor Andrew Cuomo began the budget season with an ambitious agenda than included a wide array of items that he tied to the budget, including raising the minimum wage, the Dream Act, and reforming the state's grand jury process.

Cuomo began the session in January with a hefty agenda, including an ambitious plan to make New York's gun control laws the toughest in the nation; and be the first state to react to the Newtown, Connecticut shootings in December.

The week began with the leak of a confidential report by the state's elections enforcer that alleged that New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio had engaged in an illegal effort to circumvent campaign contribution limits in his 2014 push to bolster the re-election prospects of some sitting state Senate Democrats, who presumably would be more favorable to the democrat mayor's city agenda in Albany.

It began with his lovely eulogy for his father earlier this month, and it continued with a series of pre-State of the State announcements designed to reassert control over the state's political agenda.

Hochul began the presentations with an overview of the Governor's 2015 Opportunity Agenda, detailing his economic, education, and public safety proposals for the year.

Cuomo has been laying the groundwork for an aggressive education agenda as he begins his second term, signaling that he will seek several major changes that, atypically for a Democrat, will put him in direct conflict with teachers» unions.

The President said in four years since the NDC began the «Better Ghana» agenda, it had kept faith with the people, supporting them to work hard to produce the nation's wealth, to uphold truth, abhor corruption, and distributing the benefits of hard work equitably for the greater, social and economic well - being of all Ghanaians.

We have begun a good thing with the economic core of our agenda; let us see it to its proper conclusion,» he said.

He said, «Beginning with the issue of corruption in this discussion is critical in line with the APC / President Buhari's «Change Agenda» and «hype in corruption chase» which has left sour taste given the dishonesty and charade that has characterized the actions of this Government so far.

In line with the change agenda of the federal government of Nigeria and the «Change Begins with Me Campaign», the Nigeria Police force under my leadership is ensuring accountability by ensuring that citizens and residents of the country have a unit through which all grievances against police actions and inactions are taken and redressed.

The governor began the multi-day rollout of his agenda right after the winter holidays during an appearance with Sen. Bernie Sanders (D - VT), who is still popular among New Yorkers on the left after his presidential campaign.

«It was robust to begin with,» said Cuomo, of his legislative agenda.

Governor Cuomo began the budget season with an ambitious agenda than included a wide array of items that he tied to the budget, including raising the minimum wage, the Dream Act, and reforming the state's grand jury process.

Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo of New York has been laying the groundwork for an aggressive education agenda as he begins his second term, signaling that he will seek several major changes that, atypically for a Democrat, will put him in direct conflict with teachers» unions.

And yet this may be just the beginning with emerging activities such as mining the seabed for mineral and biological resources rising high on international political agendas (2).

The agreement between Israel and Jordan, which sets out an agenda for future negotiations, lifts that threat, allowing talks to begin with the World Bank and the US government to finance construction of the Wahda, or Unity, dam.

In addition to garbage management, I've got a few more fun things on my weekend agenda beginning with this week's Friday Link Love reads.

Brolin, good as always, plays an agent with a hidden agenda, and the good guys begin to grow

As a group of individuals (each with their own ties and agendas with the town and each other) converge on the enclave, strange things begin to happen.

Brolin, good as always, plays an agent with a hidden agenda, and the good guys begin to grow indistinguishable from the bad boys.

5 Nocturama This audacious French thriller by Bertrand Bonello begins with a topical premise — a crew of young radicals prepare to execute a coordinated terror attack across Paris — but Bonello's true agenda is socialist black comedy.

The virtues essentially stop with the shot design and the work of Edward Norton (himself being a sort of walking meta joke, as his character arrives on scene and immediately begins armchair directing and taking control, something for which Norton himself has been infamous on set), and while the other actors are fine, they do not manage to separate themselves as anything other than puppets for Inarritu's agenda, who looms over every frame like some petulant child with a grudge and a budget that allowed him to force his opinions on an unwitting public.

At the beginning of the last decade, before concerns about the nation's graduation rate ascended to prominence on the policy agenda, only about two - thirds of U.S. public school students were finishing high school with a regular diploma.

Beginning with Jeb Bush and his able and imaginative education team, Florida moved forward on a reform agenda.

One of the unique aspects of the TSM, which sets us apart from others who have begun to articulate similar innovation agendas, is our structured approach to providing technical assistance and ongoing support for projects that receive FOI funding, as well as for those whose work with us is funded by other sources.

Baraka's education agenda begins with a moratorium on One Newark.

Though nominally just a commission report, A Nation at Risk (1983) told Americans that we faced a crisis of educational achievement and began to nudge the country through a 90 - degree change of course from the «equity» agenda of the previous quarter - century to the «excellence» obsession of recent decades, complete with academic standards, tests, and results - based accountability systems.

Conference attire is business casual and the registration desk is located in the Sky Lobby Monday's pre-conference workshops will run from 1:00 - 5:00 pm with registration opening at 12:30 Monday evening's reception and awards dinner will begin at 5:30 pm with registration opening at 5:00 pm General registration and breakfast on Tuesday will begin at 8:00 am Click here to view the conference agenda and bring a mobile device if you have one!

The meeting will begin at 8:30 a.m., with public agenda items beginning at 10 a.m..

The meeting will begin at 5 p.m., with public agenda items beginning at 6 p.m..

Linda Darling - Hammond argued to me that «with respect to the agenda that began with No Child Left Behind, which has been sort of high - stakes testing without investing, and very little investment in teacher training and capacity, and so on, I would say that these last six years have been a continuation of the eight years that preceded them.»

In the weeks to come the Board will begin an orderly transition and continue to move forward with our reform agenda.

An Edcamp — with its open agenda, rich with possibility — begins with an invitation for educators to contribute and connect.

She has worked with the MSU Center for Regional Food Systems as the Underserved Farmer Development Specialist where she provided technical assistance to underserved farming groups such as farmers of color, women farmers and beginning farmers as well as developed research agendas focused on better supporting these populations.

Unions» headaches begin at the top, with President Obama and his education secretary, Arne Duncan, Democrats who have pursued an agenda that builds substantially on the policies of Republican President George W. Bush.

The power for setting educational reform agendas has shifted, beginning in the early 1980s, from the local to the state and federal levels and is still unfolding with the No Child Left Behind Act.

The work of leading teachers doesn't begin with setting agendas or finding the right protocol, but with assuming a growth mindset — that is, that all teachers can, with effort and persistence, grow in their practice.