Sentences with phrase «chief priority of»

A chief priority of our Catholic system is education in the Catholic faith and the faith development of our students.

Consider that standardized testing for all is the chief priority of President George W. Bush's education agenda.

Mnuchin says «sustained economic growth» is the chief priority of the incoming administration and he says «we can absolutely get to sustained 3 to 4 percent» in the gross domestic product.

Not exact matches

A major new spending plan for buildings, roads and power supplies should be the number one priority for the U.S. administration this year, according to a new CNBC survey of global finance chiefs.

Greg Valliere, chief strategist at Horizon Investments said the defeat of the bill would be devastating for Trump's legislative priorities.

Safe handling of customer information is a chief priority for the Department of Commerce, and it will likely be one of the first areas targeted for regulation.

«Paying down debt should be your No. 1 priority,» said Odysseas Papadimitriou, chief executive of comparison site WalletHub.com.

The CEO has made AI a big priority for his company by hiring one of the pioneers of deep learning, Yann LeCun, as its AI research chief.

«Paying down debt should be your number one priority,» said Odysseas Papadimitriou, chief executive of comparison site WalletHub.com.

«Our top priority remains rebuilding the trust of our shareholders, customers, team members, communities, and regulators,» Chief Executive Tim Sloan...

Christopher Hadnagy, chief human hacker from Social - Engineer, says that while the holiday season is a particularly hectic time of year, your security measures should be a priority.

As the chief financial officer of a maturing business, LaPoure lists protecting profitability and cash flow as his two top priorities.

I sincerely believe the Army chief of staff (CSA) when he says readiness is his number one priority.

«The reinvention of our brands requires that we make tough decisions about our priorities and focus,» Chairman and Chief Executive Officer David Brandon wrote Tuesday in a memo to customers.

Facebook chief Mark Zuckerberg announced Tuesday the world's largest social network will soon include a new dating feature — while vowing to make privacy protection its top priority in the wake of the Cambridge Analytica...

NEW YORK (Reuters)- Allergan Plc (AGN.N) Chief Executive Brent Saunders said on Monday that while the company is considering large, transformational deals as part of a strategic review, they are a «very low priority and a very unlikely outcome» of the process.

NEW YORK Allergan Plc Chief Executive Brent Saunders said on Monday that while the company is considering large, transformational deals as part of a strategic review, they are a «very low priority and a very unlikely outcome» of the process.

Still, the short - term priority for the government is to stabilize growth, says Emma Dinsmore, chief executive officer of R - Squared Macro Management in Birmingham, Ala..

Anand Janefalkar, founder and chief executive officer of UJET, says the company gives equal priority to all channels, so customers get the same quality of service whether they start an in - app chat or call an 1 - 800 number.

The service is entrenched in a yearlong study on «multi-domain command and control,» one of Goldfein's top priorities since he took over as the U.S. Air Force chief last year.

First of all, security, analytics and cloud computing are 2015's top - three spending priorities for chief information officers (CIOs), according to a Morgan Stanley & Co. survey of 100 US and 50 European CIOs (see chart).

Rosemount, which came into the firm's stable in 2001 when BRW Rich Lister Bob Oatley sold it for a whopping $ 1.4 billion after building it up as a private company over three decades, is one of the 15 «priority» brands that Mr Clarke has stepped up investment behind since taking over as Treasury chief executive in March 2014.

Professor Paul Boyle, Chief Executive of ESRC comments: «Engaging with the business retail community is a key priority for the ESRC and I am pleased to appoint Nottingham Business School as our Retail Knowledge Navigator.

The belligerent and headline - grabbing rhetoric of the commander - in - chief and his propensity to choose short - term, tactical wins over the incremental execution of the long - term priorities often overshadow the more or less solid intellectual foundations of Trump's foreign policy.

Emanuel, a former White House chief of staff for Obama and congressman from Chicago, made a splash last week when he stepped down from his honorary position with the Obama campaign to begin fundraising for Priorities USA Action.

Police and crime commissioner (PCC) candidates emphasise their autonomy and the importance of the electoral mandate in determining policing priorities and disrupting the cosy complacency that is used to characterise the relationship between chief constables and police authorities.

Michael Aryeetey, Chief Operating Officer of the Ghana National Petroleum Corporation (GNPC), who spoke on behalf of Alex Mould, the CEO of GNPC, stated: «Energy has become a national priority.

He even took the unusual step of previewing his legislative priorities last month to UFT chief Mike Mulgrew and other members at the union's headquarters.

David R. Jones, Chief Executive Officer and President of the Community Service Society, said, «In times of economic hardship, government must give priority to the needs of the most vulnerable New Yorkers.

Cuomo can now say he delivered on two of their chief priorities, both the minimum wage and a new paid family leave law.

The order — one of two the Republican commander - in - chief signed this afternoon — demands the hiring of several thousand new border guards and Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials, expands deportation priorities to include any person charged with a crime and calls for a halt to Washington dollars flowing to any «sanctuary city,» though it does not define that term.

Both Gipson, 57, and Serino, 53, say that chief among their priorities is cutting taxes, and lowering the cost of living and doing business in the state.

In Albany, where a number of New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio's policy priorities have succumbed to resistance from Gov. Andrew Cuomo and state Senate Republicans, documents suggest that de Blasio has turned to the real estate industry's chief lobbying group in New York as an intermediary to press politicians on a matter beyond its traditional scope: the city's public school system.

That's going to be my top priority for the next 12 months and I know that's the priority of the service chiefs.»

«My priority in selecting a chief of staff was to find an individual who shares the Senate Democrats» commitment to serving the public and making New York a more affordable place to live, work and raise a family, and that is precisely what I found in Suzy Ballantyne,» said Senate Minority Leader Andrea Stewart - Cousins.

At noon, state Sen. Jamaal Bailey and Assemblyman Dan Quart join the Chief Defenders Association of New York and the state Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers to unveil the 2018 budget and criminal justice reform priorities, Legislative Office Building, LCA Pressroom 130, Albany.

The chief of army Staff said the military authorities would continue to accord priority attention to training and retraining of their personnel in order to ensure the success of the fight against terrorism and insurgency.

WAMC's Pioneer Valley Bureau Chief Paul Tuthill spoke with Jo Comerford, executive director of the National Priorities Project about what the budget deal means.

Key personnel, notably Richard Chalk, the respected Chief of Staff to the Tory Co-Chairman, were told to put the No campaign at the top of their priority list.

«As this County's Chief Elected Official the public safety and public health of this County is my number one priority.

Such a low turnout is sure to bring into question the legitimacy of the new commissioners, who will have the power to hire and fire chief constables and set the priorities for police forces across England and Wales and will all be earning upwards of # 75,000.

For many, Cuomo's tenure has been marked by some significant successes, but also an extensive list of essential policy priorities left on the chopping block due to a chief executive who «governs like a Republican,» as Nixon has said.

The Queens - born commander - in - chief has signed decrees calling for the hiring of several thousand new border guards and ICE officials, expanding deportation priorities to include any individual charged with a crime, and constructing of a wall along the Mexican border.

Police and Crime Commissioners are powerful individuals and their functions are similar to those of the police authorities they replaced: they appoint and if necessary remove, the chief constable; they set the budget and the council tax precept; and set local policing priorities.

In the end, much, if not all, of de Blasio's priorities rely on Cuomo, his antagonist and rival - in - chief.

Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) Chief Executive Larry «Marshall's decision to «realign» CSIRO's priorities could see 350 jobs go over the next 2 years and comes on top of cuts of more than $ 15 million to climate and environmental science in the 2014 - 15 federal budget.

«Cancer research is a high priority for both countries — just witness the launch of a new National Cancer Moonshot initiative in the United States early this year,» said Tom Wang, chief international officer at AAAS and director of the AAAS center, referring to the plan President Barack Obama unveiled earlier this year to direct $ 1 billion toward battling cancer.

«The president made it very clear that safety and security of the American public was his top priority as commander in chief, but he wanted the science to be the guide.»

Today, CSIRO's chief executive, Larry Marshall, sought to allay fears of job losses while defending the agency's new priorities.

In an e-mail sent yesterday afternoon, extramural research chief Sally Rockey told the heads of NIH institutes that during the 11 - day window, «hESC awards should be given priority including non-competing continuations, and new and renewing competing awards.»