Sentences with phrase «bigger agenda as»

Even though Majumdar will be overseeing a much bigger agenda as energy under secretary, he will need to spend much of his time guiding ARPA - E, a 2 - year - old agency with a strong reputation that nonetheless faces tough times.

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Pichai headlined the event last year, but this year will mark his big coming out party as the leader setting Google's agenda going forward.

«The Republican agenda is to get regulatory relief for the big banks and use the small banks as the lever to do so,» said Adam Levitin, a professor at Georgetown University.

Richard Trumka mentioned no names as he vowed recently that labor would not endorse yet another presidential candidate who talks big about confronting inequality but offers an agenda that merely fiddles around the edges of the economy, meeting Wall...

U.S. stocks took their biggest loss in five months Tuesday as a health care bill backed by President Donald Trump ran into trouble in Congress, which raised some questions about his agenda of faster economic growth spurred on by lower taxes and cuts in regulations.

And no special interest group has a bigger agenda than the believers, who are fighting to keep their mental illness from being recognized as just that.

Though, as everyone on these boards know, I'm nothing but a Fox News lover and big, loser troll that pushes MY agenda and MY beliefs on everyone until I FORCE them to be like I AM!

There were deep divisions, but there was also a strong focus on worship, regular Bible study and an agenda that focused on the big issues of the world as well as the church, so that no one issue was seen as dominating the entire church.

The Portugal international is making a huge demand to his club, with plenty of big names on his agenda as he looks to force them to improve their squad.

Annoying as Duncan Castles may be for his relentlessly pro-Mourinho agenda, he has a point here in that Wenger probably won't get the same kind of stick as the Special One here despite clearly also «parking the bus» in a big game.

Still, his presence will seemingly not stop the club trying to land another central midfield player as The Sun claims Schneiderlin is still on the agenda in a # 25m move, which could cast some doubt over the futures of some big names currently on the books at Old Trafford.

Any opponents of the 4th place mantra are described as a tiny minority with private agendas and big egos.

The Argentine is a top performer in La Liga and could make a great upgrade for United in defence, with other big names such as Mats Hummels of Borussia Dortmund also on Louis van Gaal's agenda.

How you could witness what the rest of us have these last few years and ever even consider saying Arsenal should beat these teams on financial and historical grounds is completely beyond my comprehension because their is no financial muscle flexed at Arsenal and these teams, even Marseille, are bigger spenders, as for the history, well the problem there is the man that made alot of that history is they current manager and he has no qualms about damaging it as long as he gets to employ his own agenda, which only he now seems to know what this actually is Arsenal deserve nothing on merit going into any game.

Under Phelps» direction, the park board has several big projects on its agenda, such as the renovation of the historic Main Beach beach house, and the lawsuit against several shoreline property owners over who owns the lake bed.

I want to acknowledge here the big contribution Chris Huhne has made to the green agenda and more than that, acting as a powerful voice for our party in government.

As the Trump administration tries to push his agenda, one of its biggest stumbling blocks is turning out to be the White House's own press office.

I mean it should be one of the biggest honours that we have in this country is to actually become a member of parliament and represent constituents of all types and push an agenda that actually helps people as a whole and benefit them,» he says.

«This race will be a choice between a community advocate who stands for ethics reform in government, supporting small businesses and middle class workers, and equality for all people, or a out of touch 1 % er who represents big business, back door politics as usual, and the conservative agenda,» Small said.

The New York State legislative session is ending this week without major progress on big - ticket issues such as campaign finance reform, minimum wage, and the women's equality agenda.

With just one week left in the New York State legislative session, press outlets are predicting that few big - ticket issues, such as public campaign financing, the women's equality agenda, medical marijuana or the Dream Act, will be resolved.

The Daily Gazette: New York's 2014 Legislative Session a Failure The New York State legislative session is ending this week without major progress on big - ticket issues such as campaign finance reform, minimum wage, and the women's equality agenda.

David Cameron has once again tried to reinvigorate his «big society» agenda, with a speech arguing it can serve as the driving force of the centre - right.

The biggest obstacle standing between Paterson and his lame duck session agenda is the Senate, where the balance of power remains undetermined as three races have yet to be decided.

As a group, you're all part of the same agenda, working towards an end goal, your different backgrounds and experiences adding to a collective that is bigger than the sum of its parts.

Part of making politics more sophisticated is admitting that when your party is in power as a junior partner in a coalition government, that it may have to support things that as a party it doesn't corporately agree with to gain influence on less palatable elements of the bigger partner's agenda and to implement at least part of its own.

The move was a particularly damaging one for the Conservatives, who had pointed to the Labour - run council's support for the agenda as proof that the Big Society could work across party lines.

Nor was it part of a wider agenda, as the shocked reaction from both trade unions and big business has attested.

Scrambling to recover from her big loss in New Hampshire, Clinton repeatedly challenged Sanders» trillion - dollar policy plans, and portrayed him as a big talker who needed to «level» with voters about the difficulty of accomplishing his agenda.

The proposals within the collection echo the sentiment of David Cameron's «big society» agenda and pushes for the government to encourage workers in the private and public sectors to form mutuals in order to aid what its authors described as a «broken» economy.

The truth is that you've got people like Jesse Norman, who has got certainly a very big fan club around him of people who are very supportive of him and his agenda, and those sorts of things tend to be on a social basis as well as on political grounds...... [Boris] is a terrific figure.

Is there an advantage in getting there first and defining the agenda (having the first penalty kick and putting the pressure on the team that follows) or is there a bigger advantage in having the last word (as Cameron did (spectacularly) last year)?

I hope that David Cameron will re-appoint him to the Shadow Cabinet following the By Election as this will achieve the two aims of nipping whatever the «wider agenda» may be firmly in the bud - AND bringing a Big Beast back into the Conservative Pride!

Ken Clarke, whose liberal prison policy is detested by those on the right, could be a victim of a reshuffle, as might Francis Maude, for his failure to sell the «big society» agenda.

The Governor's second biggest error wasn't the NY SafeAct, it was sadly getting sucked into the idea that the IDC Coalition would deliver on his legislative agenda, which as Stewart - Cousins points out hasn't really happened in a big way to date.

If — and it's a big if — there does turn out to be a contested leadership battle and if — and it's another big if — John Reid has permanently improved his public image and it doesn't drop straight back down against once the news agenda moves on, then he appears to gone a long way towards positioning himself as the best alternative to Brown.

The agenda for New York's six - month legislative session promises big debates over the cost of higher education, government ethics and Uber's proposal to expand into upstate cities like Buffalo and Syracuse, as well as a bill that would «Raise the Age» — therein ending the state's practice of prosecuting 16 - and 17 - year - olds as adults.

This special event is shared between Phacilitate Cell & Gene Therapy World and World Stem Cell Summit agendas, ensuring a unique audience made up of both industry and academic stakeholders as well as investors, big pharma, regulators and, of course, the world's leading cell and tissue banks.

I'm also a big fan of the Lilly Pulitzer agenda collection (I've burned through two now), as well as the designs Band.o has released this year and I've linked a few of my favorites to shop through below.

Right from the moment we first saw her at age 13 in Atonement as the worryingly precocious younger sister at the big house, she's always seemed someone set apart, which makes playing an ordinary Irish village girl in this adaptation of Colm Tóibín's noted novel the sort of challenge which might just set the agenda for the rest of her career.

And for shopping, there's «Big Spender,» with Kiana Ledé (formerly the child star Kiana Brown) as a gold digger flaunting «Bling on my agenda / Last time I paid I just can't remember.»

From the novel Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda by Becky Albertalli, the film's titular senior (played by Nick Robinson) is sitting on a big gay secret, one that becomes quickly apparent to not be as dire to an outsider as it is to the introverted, sensitive Simon.

The irony is acute: support for the reform agenda is driven by data gleaned from testing, even as testing has become the biggest threat to that agenda.

This small investment will pay big dividends as you release colleagues from the grip of repressed stress, freeing up their cognition for the «real work» on your agenda.

Comments from some recent users of this book should help convince you to buy it: As an advocate of the What Works agenda, I think this book really is a wake - up call A fantastic insight into the potential for using documents in research Nails twenty years of research in twenty minutes Worth every dime Every student in my class has been told to buy this book... and it's easy to see why Shines a great big light on the power of documents in research Surely this is the best book in its field First class I kept referring to this book in my presentation last week and the audience was ecstatic Education research, usually has little effect on me... Until now... This book is formidable Crushes the concept that education research is rubbish... fantastic insight Blows you away with its power and simplicity Huge reality check, senior school managers at good schools tell the truth, other's don't, won't or can't, and their students suffer.

Positive comments from some recent users of this book include: Most schools are full of documents and data... Dr Slater is among the first to show how they can be used to compare what is said on paper and in interviews... The results will shock you... Dr Slater is a successful high school teacher and an award winning author... and here's why... Fantastic little book, punches well above its weight... Makes it seem so simple... the art of the genius... As an advocate of the What Works agenda, I think this book really is a wake - up call... A fantastic insight into the potential for using documents in research... Nails twenty years of research in twenty minutes... Worth every dime... Every student in my class (6th form) has been told to buy this book... and it's easy to see why... Shines a great big light on the power of documents in research... Surely this is the best book in its field... First class... I kept referring to this book in my presentation last week and the audience was ecstatic... Education research, usually has little effect on me... Until now... This book is formidable... Crushes the concept that education research is rubbish... fantastic insight... Blows you away with its power and simplicity... Huge reality check, senior school managers at good schools tell the truth, other's don't, won't or can't, and their students suffer.

«Learning and Change Networks are addressing the three big agenda items of schooling improvement - blended learning and cultural responsiveness as a whole - instead of creating projects that deal with those agendas separately, as so often happens.»

As Klein told me in an email last night, «This is the right time — it gives someone three years to move the agenda forward and I have been offered an opportunity at NewsCorp to have a big impact in the area of educational technology, which holds out enormous opportunity for transforming education.»

On the agenda: fending off what the union sees as its biggest threats, including billionaire money, an assault on...

It's taken a while, but Gov. Chris Christie's aggressive school reform agenda and the Democrats» counter to it could be emerging as a big issue in the 2013 gubernatorial election.