Sentences with phrase «changes in news conferences»
Most profiles of Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie have described him as a relatively quiet legislator who is more likely to build coalitions behind the scenes than to push policy changes in news conferences or rallies.
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«The project is about changing the world for people who are not well - served by transportation today,» Sergey Brin, Google's co-founder, said Tuesday at the Code Conference in Rancho Palos Verdes, California, according to an article by Re / code, the technology news site that hosted the event.
«Pockets of risk have begun to emerge» following several years of exceptionally low interest rates that have changed how lenders and borrowers view debt, Morneau told a news conference in Toronto.
In his final news conference of the year, President Barack Obama emphasized that Russia can not change or significantly weaken the U.S., adding that Russia is a smaller and weaker country.
Signs of the changes percolating in the retirement market were everywhere on Wednesday at Dimensional Fund Advisors» first - ever conference focused on the defined contribution space, from the jokes DFA's David Booth told at the expense of the existing king of the retirement market, Fidelity, to the news of the investment product DFA is rolling out to serve as a combination default option and lesson in responsibility for employees who are the least engaged in their retirement planning.
Yesterday brought some good news out of the UN climate change conference in Paris: Carbon emissions stalled — and possibly even decreased — this year, according to a new study.
SCOTTSDALE, Arizona, November 7, 2016 / PRNewswire / — In the news release, «RiceBran Technologies to Host 2016 Third Quarter Financial Results Conference Call on November 10th at 4:30 PM EST» issued on 7 Nov 2016 14:30 GMT, by RiceBran Technologies over PR Newswire, we are advised by a representative of the company that the date in the first paragraph has been changed from «Wednesday, November 10th» to «Thursday, November 10th&raquIn the news release, «RiceBran Technologies to Host 2016 Third Quarter Financial Results Conference Call on November 10th at 4:30 PM EST» issued on 7 Nov 2016 14:30 GMT, by RiceBran Technologies over PR Newswire, we are advised by a representative of the company that the date in the first paragraph has been changed from «Wednesday, November 10th» to «Thursday, November 10th&raquin the first paragraph has been changed from «Wednesday, November 10th» to «Thursday, November 10th»
«I saw that the change was clearly needed,» Valverde said in his postgame news conference.
«In the changing room there is no issue regarding Kepa, but rather regarding the team,» Saborit told a news conference.
Skelos said at a news conference, «They indicated to me and they're right that this is such a personal thing for police, firefighters, so many people in this state and obviously in this country, memorial services that will go on forever, that they just asked if we could change it to the 13th and I think it's a very reasonable request and we'll do it.»
At 11:45 a.m., state Sen. Sue Serino and advocates hold a news conference to urge the passage of legislation prohibiting insurance plans and pharmacy benefit managers from changing drug coverages in the middle of a coverage year, outside the Senate Chambers, third floor, state Capitol, Albany.
«If you don't a change in the leadership, I don't see anything significant happening,» he said at a news conference.
She is supportive of the Common Core education standards, but at a news conference following her election as commissioner, Elia spoke in conciliatory terms when discussing teachers, whose statewide umbrella union has been especially restive over the changes.
The governor and legislative leaders skipped the traditional end of session news conference and announced the deal in a press release, avoiding any questions about the demise of the proposals to make bigger changes to address corruption.
Gov. Andrew Cuomo in a news conference this morning did not mention the women's agenda as potential measures he'd like to push in the spring, but did note the Dream Act, public financing of political campaigns and changes to the teacher evaluation law were items he wished were in the budget.
At 11 a.m., NYC Coalition Against Hunger Executive Director Joel Berg, NYC Public Advocate Tish James, City Councilman Stephen Levin and other officials hold a news conference to criticize changes in participation of city schools in school breakfast programs; steps, City Hall, Manhattan.
Priebus and pugnacious chief presidential strategist Steve Bannon took their strained buddy routine to the Conservative Political Action Conference yesterday, reminiscing about Trump's election victory, promising revolutionary change in Washington, denying their ongoing West Wing power struggle and — naturally — bashing the news media.
But Mr. Cuomo, speaking at a news conference today, did not sound optimistic about the prospects for changes in campaign financing.
«We think there's an inherent corruption risk in having your state university system, which has a different set of rules than state agencies, be the one that's handing out enormous sums of money,» Kaehny said at a news conference in Albany where several watchdog groups called for the changes.
In a statement to a news conference in London, Clegg was scathing about the bill's opponents, referring to them as «an establishment resistant to change [and] vested interests who benefit from maintaining the power of political patronage, while keeping the power of people out»In a statement to a news conference in London, Clegg was scathing about the bill's opponents, referring to them as «an establishment resistant to change [and] vested interests who benefit from maintaining the power of political patronage, while keeping the power of people out»in London, Clegg was scathing about the bill's opponents, referring to them as «an establishment resistant to change [and] vested interests who benefit from maintaining the power of political patronage, while keeping the power of people out».
Speaking at a news conference, Mayor Michael Bloomberg said Monday that Benepe had «done extraordinary work as parks commissioner, leading transformative changes in every corner of New York City.»
At a news conference after proposing a bill to strengthen penalties for domestic - violence offenders, Mr. Cuomo, a Democrat, was asked by public - radio reporter Karen DeWitt if he would make changes in light of a lawsuit alleging a former Cuomo aide sexually assaulted a state employee.
Tara Houska, right, a member of the group Eradicating Offensive Native Mascotry, calls for the Washington Redskins to change their name during a news conference on Tuesday, Sept. 16, 2014, at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C..
The award presentation will provide some of the conference's most hopeful news for marine mammals in peril from threats ranging from climate change to chemical contaminants.
Conference chair Katherine Richardson, a biological oceanographer at the University of Copenhagen, told the opening plenary session that the conference would ensure that policymakers would pay attention by providing compelling messages in three broad areas: how bad the climate science is [that is, how bad the impact of climate change will be], the «good news» that's out there in terms of new ways of mitigating carbon emissions, and the prospects for adapting to the proliferating impacts that scientists are seeing around Conference chair Katherine Richardson, a biological oceanographer at the University of Copenhagen, told the opening plenary session that the conference would ensure that policymakers would pay attention by providing compelling messages in three broad areas: how bad the climate science is [that is, how bad the impact of climate change will be], the «good news» that's out there in terms of new ways of mitigating carbon emissions, and the prospects for adapting to the proliferating impacts that scientists are seeing around conference would ensure that policymakers would pay attention by providing compelling messages in three broad areas: how bad the climate science is [that is, how bad the impact of climate change will be], the «good news» that's out there in terms of new ways of mitigating carbon emissions, and the prospects for adapting to the proliferating impacts that scientists are seeing around the world.
The most radical news at the conference was the first reported use of CRISPR / Cas9 to generate precise genome edits (changing only a single base pair) in two genes, not only in cell lines in vitro, but also in specific tissues of embryos in ovo.
ACE - Africa researcher Sarah O'Keefe was interviewed for a news item on climate change in East Africa for Voice of America during a recent conference on climate change in the region.
During a White House news conference, President Obama called for «a change in attitude on the part of the Republicans,» who would repeal the law, adding that «This thing is working.»
During a mid-day news conference, Jindal called on the Legislature and state Board of Elementary and Secondary Education to come up with «Louisiana standards and a Louisiana test» to replace Common Core, the country's biggest education change in a generation.
«For them to say «You can't go on strike, but we can make a unilateral change in terms of employment by way of a 7 percent pay cut,» that's just an outrageous violation of the way labor law works,» CTU Vice President Jesse Sharkey said at an afternoon news conference.
As the day begins in North America some of you have probably already heard the news that a deal has been cut here in Bali at the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change Conference of Parties.
At a news conference on Tuesday, Yu Qingtai, China's special representative on climate change, said China stood with poorer developing countries insisting that the financial obligation of rich nations to compensate poor ones fully for the costs attending climate change was enshrined in the original 1992 framework treaty.
«Nobody on this planet is going to be untouched by the impacts of climate change,» IPCC chairman Rajendra Pachauri told journalists at a news conference in Yokohama.
IRIN News: Several issues around the UN mechanism that aims to curtail greenhouse gases by preventing forest loss were resolved in Warsaw at the Conference of the Parties (COP) to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), and the meeting is being described by many as the «Forest COP».
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20 Oct 2009 16:40 BST Posted by Olive Heffernan Category: In the News, Keith Kloor, UN Conference on Climate Change, Copenhagen
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UN Climate Change News 10 May, 2018 — Against the backdrop of a record hot April in the host country of Germany, governments are concluding two weeks of talks aimed at preparing the Paris Agreement's operational guidelines for adoption at the annual climate conference to be held in Katowice, Poland in December.
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11 Dec 2009 17:08 GMT Posted by Olive Heffernan Category: Daniel Cressey, In the News, UN Conference on Climate Change, Copenhagen
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At a news conference in February 2015 in Brussels, Christiana Figueres, then executive secretary of U.N.'s Framework Convention on Climate Change, admitted that the goal of environmental activists is not to save the world from ecological calamity but to destroy capitalism.
De Boer told a news conference that Copenhagen must be a «turning point» in the international response to climate change.
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China's climate change envoy, Yu Qingtai, made headlines when he declared in a news conference earlier this month that «there is no one in the world who is more keen than us to see China reach its emissions peak as early as possible.»