Sentences with phrase «call a press conference»

«This is pretty much the worst thing you can imagine,» a visibly rattled Haltern Mayor Bodo Klimpel said at a hastily called press conference.

Shortly after being found guilty of three federal felonies, former hedge fund manager and pharmaceutical CEO Martin Shkreli called a press conference to announce he was «delighted» with the verdict — which could send him to prison for years.

The mayor became the proactive poster boy for the health program after he called a press conference at the city zoo, posed in front of the elephants and announced that he, and the whole city, would be going on a diet.

When the president of the United States wants to speak to the world, he doesn't call a press conference or craft a big speech.

He called a Press conference with less than 24 hours notice; and he presented the English bishops with a faitaccompli.

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Frustrated with the position change, he called a press conference a month later to announce his retirement.

Alumbaugh has officially been the head coach since Jan. 4, when Ladouceur called a press conference to officially step down and, essentially, appointed Alumbaugh as his successor.

He also personally signed RvP's, Fabregas», Nasri's walking papers, in fact, he tried smuggling Alexis in his coat to Guardiola waiting with # 50 million at the gate until his coat zip gave him away, Gazidis was alerted and returned the player to the training ground before calling a press conference, triumphantly announcing «we showed ambition by keeping Sanchez»... the theiving Wenger!

He called press conferences, he dug up graduation statistics, he demanded hearings by the North Carolina State Board of Trustees.

No one calls a press conference to unnecessarily apologize to fans.

... a major league player call a press conference to demand the club negotiate his contract — downward?

Nine days before defeating Blocker, the Ragamuffin Man, in unusually somber attire, called a press conference to announce that the fight would be the last of his career — unless he was matched with middleweight champion Leonard or WBC junior middleweight champ Duane Thomas.

It said that the Dodgers had called a press conference for one o'clock.

Here's a brief clip, compliments of Capital Tonight's Kaitlyn Ross, of Senate Majority Leader Pedro Espada Jr.'s hastily - called press conference in response to AG Andrew Cuomo's latest lawsuit against him.

Schumer and Cuomo called their press conference to denounce a federal tax overhaul plan that also could affect the state's budget.

Shortly before Chuck Schumer held his hastily called press conference to say that the Comey firing necessitated an independent investigation into Mr Trump's Russia ties, the White House began circulating an old quote from the Democratic Senate minority leader criticising the FBI director for his handling of the Clinton investigation.

(For the record, Cuomo called this press conference to announce that more social networking sites have signed on to his anti-child pornography initiative.

The day before his sentencing, Dwyer called a press conference and, in front of the assembled journalists and TV crews, took out a gun and shot himself.

Vance and Police Commissioner Bill Bratton called a press conference to blast a decision by Apple not to help investigators hack into an encrypted iPhone used by Syed Farook, who killed 14 and injured 22 others in San Bernardino, Ca.

But she added: «I could call a press conference every day and I could say all the things I want to do, and I could pound my fist in anger at everybody who's not doing what I want them to do.

His successor, David Paterson, called a press conference the day after he was sworn into office to admit that he, too, had engaged in extramarital sex and was soon under investigation for a variety of other misdeeds, including interfering in a domestic - abuse complaint involving one of his senior aides.

City Hall is defending itself after Albany Common Councilor and Democratic mayoral candidate Frank Commisso, Jr. called a press conference this morning to focus attention on an independent report regarding city finances.

BY MICHAEL RICONDA New City — Rockland County Legislators Frank Sparaco (R — Valley Cottage) and Ed Day (R — New City) called a press conference on March 6 to announce a unanimous resolution calling on the county executive and county attorney to comply with a recent court order demanding the execution of a contract -LSB-...]

When Michael Foot was leader, the internal drumbeat against him reached such a crescendo the party was forced to call a press conference in the middle of the 1983 election campaign simply to confirm to voters that he was still leader.

I will call a press conference to formally tell you about it but since it has not been done, we will not speculate about it.

«In fact, the ministry, on several occasions, had to call press conferences to provide details of budgetary spending on the military, to show, against the background of limited resources and other urgent national priorities, that it was doing its best on funding security.

When Mayor Bill de Blasio sat somber - faced beside Governor Andrew Cuomo at a hastily called press conference in the governor's Midtown Manhattan office Sunday evening, he wasn't just attending a run - of - the - mill press briefing on the official response to Ebola.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo called a press conference just after 6 p.m..

That purported de-emphasis comes one week after de Blasio and Schools Chancellor Carmen Fariña called a press conference to celebrate hikes in public - school exam scores while crediting their initiatives for the progress.

State Democratic Party chairman Jay Jacobs has called a press conference for noon at City Hall.

So Bruno called a press conference and started a war.

Long - shot mayoral candidate Randy Credico delivered perhaps the best one - liner of the evening during last night's mayoral forum which took place less than an hour after Democratic front - runner Anthony Weiner, during a hastily - called press conference, admitted to engaging in lewd on - line conversations with a young -LSB-...]

Calling a press conference on the morning of the showdown in Albany, the AG was guaranteed to draw a crowd of reporters to ask his opinion on the latest developments).

On April 4, U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara called a press conference.

Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver called a press conference this afternoon to denounce Zephyr Teachout's «unacceptable» views on the Israel Gaza conflict, signaling that local Democrats are increasingly concerned that Ms. Teachout or her running mate could overachieve in the gubernatorial primary next week.

«As the crime numbers clearly indicate, I'm quite proud of the work of the men and women of this department,» he said, calling the press conference a «categorical rebuttal» of criticisms of the department.

«This was the winner so we just stuck it on the side of a truck and called a press conference.»

Carriage drivers called a press conference at the West Side stables asking the city to include a guarantee in the plan that the stables will be completed before they are required to move the horses.

In 1983, Peters, then a little - known New Paltz attorney, called a press conference at Democratic headquarters Kingston to announce her candidacy for family court judge.

«In fact, the Ministry, on several occasions, had to call press conferences to provide details of budgetary spending on the military, to show, against the background of limited resources and other urgent national priorities, that it was doing its best on funding security.

At a hastily - called press conference at City Hall, Quinn, who was joined by fellow council members and the head of the retail workers» union, announced plans to introduce a new «living wage» bill that will force developers receiving more than a $ 1 million in city subsidies to pay their workers at least $ 10 an hour, plus benefits, or $ 11.50 without — significantly more than the $ 7.25 minimum wage.

Attorney General Eric Schneiderman called the press conference to announce that he would give $ 20 million to help eight newly - formed community land banks get off the ground.

Earlier in the day, Democrats called a press conference outside the federal building in Syracuse to protest Boehner on the topic of Social Security.

Mayor Bill de Blasio and Police Commissioner Bill Bratton scrambled a hastily called press conference Sunday in a desperate bid to shoot down The Post's coverage of a police chief's...

Every science reporter was at Johnson Space Center in Houston, but we called a press conference for four o'clock Pacific time Friday, which is the worst time to announce anything, and we had no scientific papers to back up our findings.

«Of course for a researcher, there is no higher honor,» Ohsumi said this evening at a hastily called press conference on the campus of the Tokyo Institute of Technology.

He then bought toy lookalikes, mounted the paired guns on a piece of plywood and, when the paper was published, called a press conference.

In a hastily called press conference Wednesday evening, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) said that the University of Illinois, Urbana - Champaign, sold as many as 386 potentially transgenic piglets for slaughter, in violation of FDA rules.

They even pose as captains of industry and call press conferences to make groundbreaking admissions on behalf of powerful organizations.