Sentences with phrase «confab as»

Governor Akeredolu had been reported to have thrown tantrum at two prominent Yoruba representatives on the 2014 National Confab, describing the confab as a gathering of «thieves and fraudulent personalities».

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We reached out to Apple for additional details about its annual fall confab, but doubt we'll get the goods we're hungry for, or so much as a reply.

As is typical of alt - meat confabs, the lunch is vegan.

As before, we sense that the late - October confab will result in no interest rate adjustment.

Cooking Up Change was sponsored by the Healthy Schools Campaign and the national Farm to School Network as part of the annual «Taking Root» confab in Detroit that gathered school food and farm to school advocates from around the country.

Ravitch skipped the leaders meeting at which the governor made that pronouncement as well as the public Red Room confab held the week before.

Susan Del Percio, who handled media for Faso and was part of the team that helped him become the party's gubernatorial nominee at the convention four years ago, has signed on as a consultant to Levy's campaign in the run - up to this year's GOP confab, a source familiar with her hiring confirmed.

That year, as you'll recall, Mike Long was a staunch supporter of former Rep. Rick Lazio and held his convention several days before the GOP confab in hopes of boxing the Republicans in on their candidate selection process.

Staten Island DA Dan Donovan was first up this morning at the state GOP leaders convention planning confab at the Ft. Orange Club this morning, and he received what one attendee described as a «generous» introduction from party Chairman Ed Cox.

Perhaps as a result, I don't get invited to confabs about how a shared passion for integrated multi-modal public transport can re-invigorate the centre - left.

Several speakers at the confab presented Gillibrand's upwardly mobile track as a liability, and said it made her more likely to be dishonest.

However, the governor has since softened his stance just a bit, with his office saying he wasn't invited to attend today's confab and casting it as focused on New Jersey infrastructure in general, and not on the tunnel specifically.

Flanagan's statement was the only definitive news to emerge from the nearly hour - long session — the second such confab in as many days.

Still, the coalition UPKNYC isn't giving up as black and Hispanic lawmakers meet in Albany for a two - day confab.

He was at the Vien and Pupa confabs, as well as at Zalman Teitelbaum's home.

Asked what kind of restructuring the PDP governors recommended, Fayose said if the Federal Government would not implement the 2014 confab report because of its «hatred for Jonathan,» it could as well organise another national conference where «Nigerians will sit together and agree on conditions for national integration, mutual understanding, cohesion, governance structure, peaceful coexistence and respect for one another.»

Duke says as preparations were underway to start the confab, the Constituency Chairman, Kofi Asante accompanied by a group of young men, stormed the venue.

The Gracie Mansion confabs come as the race heads into the end of November without a clear, single front - runner — or a clear favorite of Hizzoner's.

Buba, who spoke at his palace in Jos while playing host to the Senior Special Adviser to President Buhari on Disability Matters, Dr. Samuel Ankeli, acknowledged that the Confab was not a perfect one, adding that the recommendations were not entirely irrelevant as to be thrown into the trash bin.

And there are sequences early on in the movie, such as her tentative confab with a fellow bewigged student, a shy widower (Kôji Yakusho), that bring out the grace notes in their shared loneliness.

The distributor is debuting movies in Cannes after dominating such recent festivals as Sundance but remaining at arm's length from the French confab, which heavily privileges the theatrical experience.

(The movie mixes homages with some success: as a Corleone - style confab commences, a squirrel remarks, «Got ta go get the acorns get the acorns,» a nice stream - of - consciousness reference to Goodfellas.)

Standing at the lectern of Arizona State University's SkySong conference center in April, investment banker Michael Moe exuded confidence as he kicked off his second annual confab of education startup companies and venture capitalists.

CREC will be placed in charge of creating 60 New Charters and consolidating regional school boards and central offices into a regional school choice confab, In 2014 the additonal mandate to equalize outcomes will be announced as part of the CT formula underfunding settlement.

In its sixth year, the Tools of Change Conference — just closed in New York City — easily held its own as one of publishing's two great confabs of a stressful year, the other being last month's Digital Book World Conference + Expo.

They've not only looked at it, but they've addressed it with a first outing that was, as promised, no tips - «n» - tricks writers» confab of the usual needlepoint - lessons variety.

And it's not as if Shatzkin doesn't have a confab to sell you now.

Rejoice, fellow Ethernaut, let us go into the (next) temple of publishing confabs, this time to behold Science as she girds us in this baffling War of Digital Aggression.

And finally, per our usual tradition, our senior curator has chosen one piece written by the moderator of our Critical Distance Confab podcast and these end - of - the - year features, Eric Swain: his analysis of The Charnel House Trilogy as a form of theater, written for PopMatters.

As of Monday most of the industry's leading gaming companies made a point to mourn the victims either onstage at the gaming confab in Los Angeles, California, or on social media, pledging support to those forever traumatized by the shocking act — and in a few cases, to the LGBT community rocked by the homophobic terrorist attack.

As this roving band of art - world rock stars bounced around town amid a week filled with fine - feathered dinners and fancy - pants cocktail confabs toasting SFMOMA's soon - to - open environs, one of the most festive fetes unfolded at a bowling alley.

Singer Florence Welch and McQueen creative director Sarah Burton wore the label's clothes, naturally, as did Kate Moss, at whose feet Peter Saville, Stefan Kalmár and other male guests kneeled for private confabs.

While repeating the refrain that «we can't drill our way out of this problem,» Mr. Reid noted that nuclear energy, as well as increased drilling for conventional energies at home, will necessarily need to be part of the national conversation — as well as this week's confab.

There will be 15,345 more «wonderful speeches» like this as the years roll by, and when the IPCC meets in 2222 for the umpteenth time, annual confab number 200 or so, nothing will have changed, except that the End is getting closer by then....

At various Arctic - development - themed conferences, such as last fall's Arctic Circle confab in Reykjavik, interests eager to expand into the Arctic have been paying lots of lip service to collaboration with Native communities.

As we noted during the 2012 UN climate confab in Doha, Qatar, when Figueres made almost identical statements, the «transformation» she is so ardently advocating is a centrally planned totalitarian one.

Third World movers and shakers who attend climate confabs have their Master's in Hypocrisy from the same Big Famous University Somewheres as their US equivalents.

As Monckton points out in his recent report from the scene, the same trick is used to slip resolutions and agreements through at these confabs.