Sentences with phrase «chaired this year by»

The jury is chaired this year by Italian film director Gianfranco Rosi.

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The news was particularly surprising, considering Klein herself was a chair of the Crowdfund Intermediary Regulatory Advocates (CFIRA) that last year supported an anti-fraud intitiative backed by the North American Securities Administrators Association (NASAA), «the oldest international organization devoted to investor protection.»

For example, Ride - On Carry - On, a kid's chair that turns a rolling suitcase into a travel stroller, was invented by a flight attendant who needed a better solution for traveling with her two - year - old son.

She is also a formidable voice for women's empowerment in Turkey, a nation with one of the worst gender gaps in the workplace; the university founded and chaired by Sabancı made headlines last year when it published a report on the impact of domestic violence against white - collar working women in Turkey.

If confirmed by the U.S. Senate, Fed Governor Jerome Powell, President Trump's nominee to succeed her, will take over when her four - year term as chair expires on Feb. 3.

So when he was named last year by Finance Minister Bill Morneau to chair the federal government's blue - chip Advisory Council on Economic Growth, nobody who knew him was surprised that Barton set goals of scaled - up ambition.

Representative Trey Gowdy, the 49 - year - old from South Carolina chosen by House of Representatives Speaker John Boehner to chair the panel, is a Christian conservative elected to Congress in 2010 on the wave of the Tea Party movement.

Wikileaks created turmoil in the U.S. Presidential election last year by leaking emails stolen from Hillary Clinton's campaign Chair, John Podesta, and is regarded by many as a propaganda outlet for the Russian government.

Those appointments came under fire earlier this year as it became clear that HP's newly appointed chair, Ray Lane, circumvented the board's independent nominations process by involving the CEO in identifying board candidates and deciding to oversee the process himself (although he had a long - standing relationship with the CEO and was not a member of the nominations committee).

The most recent to change in course was the Indianapolis Museum of Art, which on April 7 added an $ 18 general admission and aims to increase revenue by 17 percent this year, Matthew Gutwein, the museum board's vice chair said last week.

If Fed Chair Janet Yellen wants to prove that policymakers are not being pulled along by investors who for years have second - guessed them, this week may offer a rare moment of calm to do so.

During the 2015 - 2016 academic year, I chaired the Government of Alberta's Climate Change Leadership Panel, for which I was compensated by the government for 30 days of work with the balance of my time commitment (at least 34 additional days) being covered by a release from the Dean of the Alberta School of Business.

After the end of the fiscal year, upon recommendation of the Compensation Committee after reviewing peer company market data supplied by the Compensation Committee's independent compensation consultant, the Board increased the additional cash retainer for the Chair of each committee.

For years, market participants got used to the concept a Bernanke or Yellen put, i.e., a sort of implicit understanding that the former Fed chairs would act to put a floor under risk assets by easing further if necessary.

The new forum will be chaired by Canada's finance minister Paul Martin for the first two years and will hold its first meeting in Berlin in December.

Tim Manning served as Chair of the Greater Vancouver Board of Trade in 2015 - 16 — a year in which the organization made headlines by achieving a gender - balanced board of directors, released its milestone report the Greater Vancouver Economic Scorecard 2016, and adopted a new name and regional identity, following a historic vote by its Members.

In the years I served on and even chaired commissions for the National Association of Corporate Directors (NACD), some commissioners regularly vilified the «old dragons» who haunted successors by serving on boards.

... Pushed by China and other critics — including trade unions, international aid charities and some other developing countries — last year Mr Kim set up an independent review of the report chaired by Trevor Manuel, South Africa's planning minister.

A press conference by the FED Chair will also take place four times a year at 11:30 am]

The end of Yellen's mandate is near as the current Fed Chair is going to be replaced next year by Jerome Pow...

Last year's aggressive tax cuts are at the heart of a worsening budget situation that will see deficits surge in the years ahead, according to an op - ed by former Fed Chair Janet Yellen and others.

«The problems are above and beyond what we saw last year, and the administration must do more,» said Leonard Leo, chair of the commission, which was founded by Congress in 1998.

His article is based on his convocation address in 1996 inaugurating a new academic year in which YDS, under the leadership of its new dean, Richard Wood, set out to develop new curriculum and programs recommended by a review committee, which was chaired by Kelsey.

And by the way, if you've owned a chair for 20 years you may subconciously be confident that you can still sit in it, but if you're like most people you've probably gained a few pounds over the years and your chair has degraded somewhat over the years, so that confidence may not be as valid as you think... making it much the same as the faith you refute.

Years later, when he was no longer president and I was on my way elsewhere, but US personnel were still waging the war, he dropped by my office, fell glumly into a chair, and said, «Davie, what are we going to do about this damned war?»

I am not lessened by those that do not believe what i believe, i served this country and spent a year in Iraq, many of my fellow soldiers were Christian but i served beside Atheists, mormons, Catholics, wiccans, Jews, even a satanist, yes a satanist, and guess what, we were friends, I cared deeply for them and they for me, These were the guys that protected me so i could sleep, my life was in their hands and theirs in mine... I think you all have a very bad idea of what a Christian is, i think you have no idea what you're talking about when you judge us all as a religion... you need to get out of your house and off of your computer chair and learn what people are really about... Maybe then you will understand Humanity rather than just secularizing everybody and hating them... you are sad people, yet my beliefs teach me to pray for you, and hope that you come to reason...

Fast forward to today, and the Foster's board now chaired by David Crawford has abandoned its grand ambitions to run a multi-beverage alcohol company - something shareholders, staff and customers called for years ago - and will split the businesses into two listed entities.

Garden catalogs cover the ground by my cozy chair... What sorts of things are you planting this year?

The company is privately owned, but a year ago a board of five directors was appointed chaired by Justin Breheny, a former IAG and ANZ executive.

She is an experienced organic veteran, having been appointed to a five - year term on the National Organic Standards Board (NOSB) by Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsak, with her final role as board chair from 2015 — 2016.

In a discussion chaired by HVS chairman Russell Kett involving senior executives from Starwood Capital, Precis Holdings, citizenM and London & Regional Properties, the panel debated how it is leisure rather than corporate demand that is currently of more interest to hoteliers, as corporate rates have been relatively static over recent years.

Another bunch of whites, who didn't know either group and didn't want to, was caught up; two people were knocked unconscious, one of them a 23 - year - old college student, Barbara Steele, who was struck by a chair and would receive six stitches near her left eye.

During the second half of the blowout, Iowa's head coach, Fran McCaffery, did something that reminded us all too well of what happened twenty seven years, by hurling one of the chairs.

Or so people thought until last Saturday night's breakthrough by another tiny (4» 8») 13 - year - old, Naomi Nari Nam of Irvine, Calif. «I've been around so long, I'm not easy to impress,» said former U.S. Figure Skating Association president Morry Stillwell, «but before she had even finished, I was jumping out of my chair.»

The High Back Executive Office Chair is backed by a 5 - year workmanship warranty.

We have had the Peg Perego high chair for three and a half years now, and it has been used constantly by our 2 grandchildren.

Glider or rocker: You can get by without one, but a glider or rocking chair comes in very handy during all those feedings and night wakings in your baby's first year.

Last year I had the pleasure of reviewing Fearless Feeding: How to Raise Healthy Eaters from High Chair to High School, an excellent guide to feeding children co-written by registered dietitians and moms Maryanne Jacobsen (Raise Healthy Eaters) and... [Continue reading]

We were given the Fisher Price rocker chair by Stu's Grandma as she had bought it when his cousin came to visit from Australia a few years ago, it was great to use as a rocker and the vibration function was great to help Oliver sleep as a newborn, but I feel it is geared to slightly bigger babies / toddlers, he desperately tried to hit the toybar but just couldn't reach!

She stopped using a high chair at 1 year, stopped using a sippy cup by 18 months, and when we started potty training she refused to use a «baby potty» or potty seat.

This is not only convenient, it can help you save money by not having to buy new high chair each year.

For instance, if your 2 year old bites someone or reacts violently by kicking or throwing something, you should explain why such actions are not allowed and then take the child to an isolated place (a chair in the kitchen, for instance) for a timeout to get calm.

Chosen for its high quality, oak ensures that your chair will become even more attractive as the years go by.

This year's sponsorship committee is chaired by Five Acres board member Rustin Mork along with Scott Street, both long - time Five Acres supporters.

Whether it's a sock monkey made by Grandma or a rocking chair made by Grandpa, the toy will be treasured for many years to come.

Each year pediatricians and emergency personnel respond to situations caused by things like a baby falling out of a high chair and breaking a bone or climbing out of their stroller and getting seriously injured.

The Sir Edward Heath Charitable Foundation was registered in January 2006, and is run by a body of trustees chaired by Lord Armstrong of Ilminster, who, as Sir Robert Armstrong, was Heath's principal private secretary during his premiership (and was later Margaret Thatcher's Cabinet secretary for many years).

Kaminsky, elected to fill the chair held by disgraced former Majority Leader Dean Skelos, won a special election and won a full term in a presidential election year.

Chaired by the Chancellor of the University of Oxford and former European Commissioner Lord Patten, the line - up included two distinguished politicians who have been deeply involved with Ukraine's integration over many years: former Polish President Aleksander Kwasniewski and former head of NATO, Javier Solana.

Insiders say earlier this year, all eyes were on who Nassau County Democratic Chair Jay Jacobs and Sufflok County Democratic Chair Richard Schaffer would choose to run for the seat previously held by Republican Assemblyman Joe Saladino, who left to become Oyster Bay Town Supervisor.