Sentences with phrase «confabs for»

The world has built up at least a half a Trillion $ in opportunity costs (the price of all the much more desirable and productive things we could have spent the money on) ratholing funds on biofuels, wind turbines, solar systems and all those garden spot climate confabs for overpaid climate bureaucrats.

Recently several Canadian Business staffers went to the Cantech Investment Conference, an annual confab for technology firms and potential investors.

On Monday, the White House held a confab for school - choice supporters to talk about what's ahead for its federal school push.

Adi Sideman, CEO of YouNow, shared the news with Fortune in advance of a talk he is slated to give at the ICO Summit, a confab for cryptocurrency enthusiasts held in Zurich on Friday.

Not exact matches

The current fashion is for such «plurilateral» deals, not global confabs.

Global CEOs are remarkably optimistic about the economy in the year ahead, according to a survey of nearly 1,300 of them released yesterday by PwC for the Davos confab.

The legendary investor's harsh words for investment bankers didn't put a damper on the mood at Tulane's Corporate Law Institute confab.

When Fortune talked to them for this story, the two were fresh from their Black Corporate Directors Conference, which for 15 years has been an annual confab that's part power networking event and part activist training.

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.

She also asked for a meeting with the prime minister, a confab Trudeau said he would be willing to have.

Digital marketing strategist James Gunter presented «Hummingbird for Content Strategists» at Confab Central.

U.S. trade chief Robert Lighthizer has a tough message for the body's biennial confab.

Delegates at the week - long confab will select new leaders, including for key financial and economic posts.

The legislative leaders — Democrats AND Republicans, minus Senate Democratic Conference Leader, due to a scheduling snafu — and Gov. David Paterson met at noon today for a quickie closed - door confab and came away with... no deal.

I foresee that some people will call for the review of the former confab recommendations while some will agitate for a new confab.

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.

Suffolk County Executive Steve Levy emerged from today's GOP county leader confab and insisted to reporters that he and primary rival Rick Lazio are deadlocked in their fight for the dominance in the party's weighted convention vote, Capital Tonight's Kaitlyn Ross reports

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.

But overall, the support for the insurgent candidates makes good a promise Paladino made back in January at the Conservative Party's state confab.

The RNC's selection of Cleveland, OH for its 2016 convention could improve New York's chances of landing the Democratic confab.

LAS VEGAS — It wasn't lost on the 2,100 liberal activists gathered in Las Vegas at Netroots Nation for the annual four - day confab that the only Obama administration official who made the trip this time was Treasury Secretary Ray LaHood — a Republican.

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

Back in 1985, the NY Post's Fred Dicker requested access to the Assembly Democrats» daily private confab, and lawmakers responded by rewriting the Open Meetings Law to provide explicit, blanket authority for legislators to conference outside the public eye «to discuss anything including a matter of public business, notwithstanding the member of staff or guests.»

He further noted that the 2014 confab held the answers to most of what Nigerians were agitating for today, adding that his administration did not have enough time to implement the conference recommendations, given that the report was submitted to him in August 2014, a few months before the 2015 general elections.

Jonathan who made this known in a goodwill message he delivered on the occasion of Integration Summit Roundtable in Abuja, said the 2014 Confab report held the key for reshaping and consolidating the necessary common grounds and shred values needed to move the nation forward.

But credible sources confirmed to DAILY GUIDE that the main agenda for the confab was about what could be done, in terms of strategy and planning, to help Mr. Mahama become the NDC presidential candidate and get the support of the opinion leaders.

Confusion broke out on Tuesday morning at Chorkor in Accra, when a group of young men led by the Constituency Chairman of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) for the Ablekuma South Constituency, chased out journalists who were to cover a press confab by a stalwart of the party, Mr. Ato Quarshie.

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.»

After RNC members voted to make their confab with the six candidates for party chairman closed to those not on the committee, nearly two dozen members of the media and a national TV crew were forced to leave the event and wait for news outside the conference room doors.

The executive, I dare say, must confront our fears and maybe revisit the 2014 national confab report which is about to evolve into a nuisance - value booby trap ex-President Goodluck Jonathan inadvertently put in place for this administration.

Legal counseling is not a typical agenda item for a science confab, but it's become an important one in today's political climate, scientists say.

«Reducing the amount of salt in processed foods and restaurant foods is perhaps the single most important thing we could do to reduce blood pressure and the incidence of heart attacks and strokes in this country and around the world,» Michael Jacobson, executive director of the Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI), said after a recent confab of food industry and health reps designed to help consumers limit their salt intake.

This Tuesday, a confab is scheduled for Oscar producer Brett Ratner to tell the Academy Of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences whom he wants to host the Oscars.

UPDATED with the CW series photos: The broadcast networks have made a slew of series orders for the 2016 - 17 season, which are being presented this week at the annual Upfronts confab in New York.

There's still time to register for the confab, which this year moves to the Hilton New York at Sixth and West 53rd.

With F+W Media, Tools of Change, and Publishers Launch developing new conference programming, the outlook for major confabs is enriched this year.

For an updated list of planned confabs, please see the Publishing Conferences page at PorterAnderson.com.

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.

Months of planning and enormous budget spends meant huge productions were already in place for the annual confab, where games publishers unveil their upcoming slates and tease products they'll be launching in the coming year to a savvy audience of thousands of gaming pros and media onsite, and millions more watching livestreams from home.

Golub, also known also for his collaborative marriage to the artist Nancy Spero (a fellow member in the postwar artist confab the Monster Roster), will be the subject of a sweeping retrospective at Tate Modern — his first show in London in 15 years.

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....

Referring to the upcoming UN Paris confab, Canete wrote: «What is clear is that there will be an even greater need for the world's citizens to put sustained pressure on their leaders over the next twelve months to get them to face up to their responsibilities.

Were it not for the East Anglian emails, the big Copenhagen confab of 2009 might have gotten away with plans to impose a global climate regime across the western world.

The confab opened with Harrison Ford addressing the crowd, showing Conservation International's Teamwork video, asking for all to «Get off our butts and get in the game» to save the forests, which doesn't require a huge R&D; investment, like hybrid vehicles.

«It's hard to imagine how they will up the language in time for the next big global confab in Paris.»

The confab is a one - stop shop for software developers across Apple's varied and growing universe of products, including the iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch, Apple TV, Mac computers and the new HomePod speaker.

It's rare for a product unveiled or an announcement made at the confab to become a big deal in the wider world.

Some of us press and analysts who agreed to a day - long non-disclosure agreement on September 12 — the day before the Build conference started — received some background on Microsoft's planned messaging for the confab.