Sentences with phrase «called national council»

The campaign, developed and funded by a conservative Washington group called the National Council for Better Education, satirizes the nea's new national television advertisements, said Linda Clark, a spokesman for the group.

The annual meeting of British Cycling and its regional representatives and delegates is called national council.

We would not today found an interchurch organization of Protestant and Orthodox churches and call it the National Council of Churches of Christ in the United States of America — at least, not without a certain sense of irony.

Contributing to the discussion, senior journalist, Abdul Malik Kweku Baako, said if Mr. wants to test whether he is still in charge as NPP Chairman, he should call a National Council meeting, a Steering Committee meeting or a NEC meeting and see if anybody will turn up.

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The National Association of Manufacturers and the Small Business & Entrepreneurship Council (SBEC), in partnership with the International Franchise Association and Women Impacting Public Policy, recently launched a coalition and advocacy campaign called Rethink Red Tape.

The council also called for a national agency to try out new approaches to skills training.

For example, in April 2004, the Federal Trade Commission sued a debt - settlement company called National Consumer Council and its affiliates.

Maude Barlow, national chairwoman of the Council of Canadians, has called the deal a «resource grab» by a faltering EU that's resisting its own economic downfall.

Another source said that this wasn't the first time McMaster has called Trump's intelligence into question, citing a separate event where he suggested that Trump was not capable of understanding the issues the National Security Council deals with.

Then the chairman of the National Economic Council calls a meeting.

The National Chicken Council has started to push back against criticisms, releasing a study this week that called out the increased environmental impact of slower - growth chickens.

And the administration has made clear in recent days it will leave formal drafting of a tax bill to GOP leaders on the House Ways and Means and Senate Finance committees who have been part of the so - called Big Six negotiating group, which includes Mnuchin and National Economic Council Director Gary Cohn.

On Wednesday, President Donald Trump is set to unveil a framework for tax reform, building off work done by the so - called Big Six: a group of top tax policymakers in the Trump administration (Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin and National Economic Council director Gary Cohn), the Senate (Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and Finance Committee chair Orrin Hatch), and the House (Speaker Paul Ryan and Ways and Means Committee chair Kevin Brady).

The Canadian Global Cities Council, a coalition of Canada's eight largest urban regional chambers of commerce, is calling for a national urban strategy to advance infrastructure delivery.

«When we see malicious cyberattacks, whether from the Kremlin or other nation - state actors, we are going to push back,» Rob Joyce, a special assistant to the president and the cybersecurity coordinator for the National Security Council, said in joint conference call with journalists by senior officials in Washington and London.

Some members of the party's national council are calling for a leadership election as early as May 2016, which would give an advantage to members who are already well - organized.

At a meeting of administration officials and moderate Democratic Senators, National Economic Council Director Gary Cohn pulled out his cellphone and took a call from Trump, who is traveling in Asia this week, according an account of the meeting from Sen. Sherrod Brown (D - Ohio)-- one of the Democrats gathered for a meeting organized by Sen. Joe Manchin III (D - W.

It calls for the identification and development of resources «which will enable all families to be ministered to creatively and all persons, regardless of their family patterns, to be affirmed and supported in the life of the Church...» Behind such statements lies an emphasis articulated already in 1978 by G. William Sheek, then Director of Family Ministries and Human Sexuality of the National Council of Churches.

Kyle Haselden, the late editor of the journal, explains that at a conference on Church and Society, convened by the National Council of Churches, one of the so - called «work groups» declared that American society is guilty of overt violence against the poor and maintains an unacceptable order of injustice, and that the church supports this exploitation by its own «systemic» violence.

The more liberal Krishna Kanth, the Governor of Andhra Pradesh, in his address to the Assembly of the National Council of Churches in 1991 and following it in a press interview with Neerge Choudhury (Indian Express 21 Oct. 1991) «called for an end to religious conversion in the country, not by law but by a voluntary consensus of religious leaders», because in his opinion, communal strife is closely linked to conversion.

It called for the creation of joint worker - management councils, organized on the local, regional, and national level.

A national council of religious leaders was called into being to become a forum of communication and consultation on inter religious issues and enhance their participation in national development.

The sort of program for which the world crisis calls should be greater by a factor of ten; the National Council of Churches has recommended $ 3 billion per year for economic development abroad.

Except for an independent organization called the National Episcopal Coalition on Alcoholism and Drugs, a handful of diocesan, councils that promote conferences on alcohol and drugs, and approximately a dozen concerned and courageous bishops who require clergy training in the subjects, the Episcopal Church, in which I am a priest, would have no focused program on chemical dependency at all, save one day a year called Alcohol Awareness Sunday.

A few years ago a longtime staff member of the National Council of Churches and an active church member responded to our findings by admitting that if Gallup called her to inquire about her attendance in the last seven days, she would say she attended even if she had not done so, and she would not consider her response to be a lie.

At the 1978 conference, two representatives of the National Council for Civil Liberties supported a motion proposed by a teacher calling on Gay News to give paedophilia more coverage.

United in it, under its new constitution adopted at Jerusalem and under the farseeing chairmanship of Dr. John R. Mott, are not only all the Protestant missionary forces of the West, but also the National Christian Councils which in recent years have come into being in China, Japan, India and many other parts of what is commonly called the missionary field.

Some recipes call for cod, striped bass, or snapper, but because these fish are considered «moderate mercury» fish by the National Resources Defense Council, they are best eaten only occasionally.

«Costco's announcement should be yet another major wake - up call to the National Pork Producers Council that instead of defending archaic gestation crates, it should be working to eliminate them.»

For those of us who devote our lives to keeping sports active children safe, impact sensors have the potential to provide staunch opponents of collision sports such as football a chance to reconsider whether they can be made safer by solving one of the most pressing and chronic problems in concussion safety: the chronic underreporting of concussion by athletes; what a new report from the Institute of Medicine and National Research Council calls a «culture of resistance.»

Led by the Milk Processor Education Program and the National Dairy Council, the program aims to «keep chocolate milk on the menu in schools nationwide», in light of «lunch advocates [who] are calling [to remove chocolate milk from the lunch line, a decision that could] cause more harm than good when it comes to children's health.»

Originally appearing as an article in School Nutrition Magazine, «A Wellness Wake - up Call» addresses the impact of The Wellness Impact report, which was created jointly between National Dairy Council, GENYOUth Foundation, the American College of Sports Medicine, and the American School Health Association.

For questions or concerns about this health hazard, call the National Safety Council at 800-424-5323.

The National Security Council has called for public vigilance, revealing Tuesday Ghana faces a credible terrorist threat.

Second, it called for the creation of the Advisory Council for National Transition (CATN)(2013).

On December 31, 1981, Ghanaians woke up to hear the voice of Flt Lt Rawlings on radio claiming that he had overthrown the government of the PNP and launched a revolutionary government called the Provisional National Defence Council (PNDC) to re-arrange the social and economic order of the country.

He is therefore calling on the National Peace Council and government to organize a national day of fasting and prayers for the nation to avert more gory diNational Peace Council and government to organize a national day of fasting and prayers for the nation to avert more gory dinational day of fasting and prayers for the nation to avert more gory disasters.

«It is worthy of note that the petition calling for the applicant's removal from office was not sent to the national council at all but rather to the National Disciplinary Committee dnational council at all but rather to the National Disciplinary Committee dNational Disciplinary Committee directly.

The President of the National Peace Council, Most Reverend Professor Emmanuel Asante, called on political leaders to be tolerant of divergent views of people who either belong or do not belong to their camps.

Calls for political party supporters to defend themselves following the recent wave of post-election disturbances are a threat to the nation's peace and security, the Chairperson of the National Peace Council, Most Reverend Professor Emmanuel Asante has said.

Council Speaker Mark - Viverito eulogized yesterday a convicted terrorist and sponsor of political violence against the United States, calling her «our icon and national patriot.»

«We call on the various Civil Society Organizations (CSOs), National Peace Council, the CODEO and the international community «to take steps to reverse these disturbing trends so that we can have proper free and fair elections in the future since free and fair elections for 7th December 2016 have escaped us.»

Conservative groups including the Family Research Council and National Organization for Marriage fired off a letter last week to Boehner, National Republican Congressional Committee (NRCC) Chairman Greg Walden (Ore.) and Senate GOP Leader Mitch McConnellAddison (Mitch) Mitchell McConnellGOP lawmakers want Trump to stop bashing Congress Parkland father calls out Trump, McConnell, Ryan after Santa Fe shooting Overnight Finance: House rejects farm bill in conservative revolt NAFTA deal remains elusive as talks drag on Dodd - Frank rollback set for House vote MORE (Ky.) chiding them for backing DeMaio and Tisei, as well as Senate hopeful Monica Wehby (Ore.), who supports gay marriage.

Off topic questions included a Department of Investigations report detailing problems with corrections officers at Rikers Island, de Blasio's message to protestors resuming anti-NYPD protests, his relationship with police unions, a call by the head of the Lieutentants Benevolent Association to strengthen laws concerning resisting arrest, an increase in police protection for Jewish organizations and sites and Dov Hikind's claim of a decrease in police presence, delays in the implementation of the City's municipal ID card program, his message to PBA members dissatisfied with their union leadership, his position on a city council plan to fund the purchase of additional bullet - proof vests for police officers, whether the Democratic National Committee has expressed concerns around the recent protests as it considers whether to hold the 2016 convention in Brooklyn, whether his «thoughts» on the anti-NYPD protests have «evolved» and whether he will direct the NYPD to change its FOIL request process to accept email or other electronic requests.

With that incident calling the reliability of the National Transitional Council (NTC) into question and continued criticism of its haphazard military strategy, many observers are starting to ask searching questions of the body ready to take over from Gaddafi.

Jamal Abdi from the National Iranian American Council told the investigative journalism organisation Pro Publica: «We are inundated with calls and questions of how this is going to affect people.»

At the weekend's National Council in Perth, SNP activists supported a resolution calling for shooting estate licensing to be introduced in Scotland, making it certified party policy to support licensing for driven grouse estates.

The Ashanti regional constituency chairmen of the main opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP) are calling on the Council of Elders of the party to immediately consider a withdrawal of their statement asking the National chairman of the party to be suspended.

Meanwhile, the Chairman of the National Peace Council, Rev. Emmanuel Asante has called on the President to strongly condemn the lawless and violent takeovers of state facilities by some suspected members of his party.