Sentences with phrase «conference comes to a close»

World The Paris Climate Change Conference came to a close over the weekend and world leaders agreed on a few items.

And the conference came to a close with no Mario Party.

As the game industry's largest conference comes to a close, the fight for better working conditions has only just begun.

Not exact matches

As head of the IMF, Strauss - Kahn isn't allowed to comment directly on French politics, but he came pretty close during a Paris G20 press conference, addressing issues that would appear to be of more interest to French voters than the content of the international economic gathering.

In a conference call, Didi president Jean Liu said that Apple's investment comes as part of an ongoing funding round for Didi that has yet to close.

The Anglo - Catholics are not alone in this by any means, but their cause was greatly discounted by such an unreasonable protest, which looked as if it was the last chance, coming at the close of the conference, and they wanted to make use of that chance.

During its plenary sessions the recent conference «Families 2000» came dangerously close to suggesting that in response to family disintegration, individualism and loneliness the church should become the new family surrogate, a warm and accepting replacement for the puny, broken and disappearing nuclear families whose remains are strewn across the social landscape.

Though there was a separation of church and mission in nineteenth century missionary thinking and practice, they moved steadily closer in the twentieth century, and by the Willingen Conference in 1952, the missionary movement had come to realize the inseparable relationship between church and mission.

As the final workshop came to a close, participants milled back out on the exhibition floor of the South San Francisco Conference Center, eager to put their new knowledge to work.

«About the closest the Bearcats have come to bingo, however, is six straightMetro Conference losses.

And his closest approaches to policymaking come in his conferences with Pepe Gordo, in the small, plywood - paneled office at the back of the plumbing - supply store that is Pelé's largest business venture.

They lost their seven conference games by an average of 45 - 15, coming even slightly close to a win only once, in this home finale against ISU.

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.

The latest tax - the - rich argument is coming from Independent Democratic Conference Leader Jeff Klein in the state Senate, who wants to close what's known as the carried interest loophole, which benefits wealthy hedge funds.

«We spend $ 22 billion on the New York City public school system, so to say we aren't devoting resources is ridiculous,» Bloomberg said at a press conference at Washington Irving High School later Tuesday, where he celebrated the opening of 54 new schools in the coming school year, 19 of which will replace schools that have been closed.

Shafran came to the conference after a stint in Democratic consultant Hank Sheinkopf's shop, which made sense, since then - Majority Leader Malcolm Smith — also a Queens guy — was close to Sheinkopf.

At a closed session on the first day of the 2012 Conservative conference, the party's campaign director, Stephen Gilbert, laid out a plan that would come to be known as the 40/40 strategy.

We'll need to come back to this at the next conference of the climate change convention, to be held in Doha this December — a curious choice, given Qatar's position close to the top of the league table for greenhouse gas emissions per head.

The joint midnight gaggle featuring Skelos and Independent Democratic Conference Leader Jeff Klein came after the GOP conference emerged from a close - door meeting to announce they had agreed that a vote would be held the follConference Leader Jeff Klein came after the GOP conference emerged from a close - door meeting to announce they had agreed that a vote would be held the follconference emerged from a close - door meeting to announce they had agreed that a vote would be held the following day.

DeFrancisco expressed frustration with the fact that some of his colleagues said one thing and did another when it finally came time to cast their votes in the closed door conference, where he reportedly received 15 votes to Flanagan's 18, with six fellow upstaters casting deciding votes.

But Democrats came far closer to breaking the Republican hold on real estate money than they have in the past, raising $ 174,317 from January through mid-July to the Senate GOP's $ 204,517 and the Independent Democratic Conference's $ 74,600.

As he came to the close of his conference speech, he compared his views on Rupert Murdoch, tobacco firms and taxes, to those of David Cameron.

The Ukip leader will attempt to ensure the party's conference in Doncaster comes to a close with a bang by setting out research that outlines how it is making major inroads in Labour's heartlands.

At the festival's announcement press conference, artistic director Thierry Frémaux hinted that another work from a woman could be added to the lineup in the coming days (the festival will likely announce at least a few more selections; at the very least, Cannes has yet to reveal its closing night film).

I'd like to close with some powerful quotes that came from ASCD's 2013 annual conference on the power of being connected:

at the 2003 research conference of the Australian Council for Educational Research, successful education comes back to «the person who gently closes the classroom door and performs the teaching act — the person... who is alone with students during their 15,000 hours of schooling.»

Savoir - faire describes the driver who has the ability to block out all distraction — press conferences, autograph seekers, pushy members of the corporate board, the pressure that comes with driving for a legendary marque, and mirrors filled with their closest rivals.

Below, you can watch the live stream from the Mercedes conference, as proceedings come close to their scheduled starting hours.

People had been telling me about this conference for years — that if it ever came close to my geographic area, I had to go.

Clearly the industry faces some big challenges as 2011 comes to a close but if the recent Futurebook conference was anything to go by there does seem to be an undeniable mood of optimism in the air.

I guessed too low for the new Kindle 6 - inch Paperwhite, with its gorgeous frontlit screen, but my tech assistant for the press conference, Garrett Riley, came close to nailing it when I whispered a request for his prediction.

ebookcraft's first - ever ebook design competition, So You Think You Can Code, came to a close on March 31 when we announced the 2016 grand prize winner live to an excited crowd of conference - goers.

Just as the Nintendo press conference was coming to a close, a number of logos appeared on the screen, showcasing Nintendo's upcoming titles, both announced and unannounced, and that's where Mario Party 9 was spotted for the first time.

All the parties are located very close to the conference venue and partnered hotel — making it easy to come to and from everything and make it to the conference the next day well - rested.

Bethesda's first - ever E3 conference has come to a close.

While Paris Game Week was the event this year that had the least coverage, it came surprisingly close to the Tokyo Game Show, but even more surprising, it had more media coverage than its direct European predecessor, the Sony media conference at gamescom last year.

«Blue Thicket,» for example, starts from the top of the canvas with a splendid array of wild untamed gestures followed by a mass of colors huddled together in active conference coming to a serene close as blue streaks seep down drawing one's eyes to rest in just the manner Carol is so proud of.

As the annual climate change conference #COP22 comes to a close, we want to send world leaders a message: Inaction is not an option.

The Copenhagen Accord was cobbled together in a back room by the leaders of the U.S., China, India, South Africa, and Brazil as a last - minute face - saving measure as that conference came to its chaotic close.

The high efficiency plants that the coal association is promoting at its conference don't come close to closing the emissions gap, he said.

Another key takeaway came as the conference was drawing to a close.

As discovery comes to a close, extensions become almost impossible — due primarily to the court's stringent discovery deadlines and general reluctance to extend discovery or to continue the final pretrial conference.

Day two of the 2017 Clio Cloud Conference has now come to a close, marking the end of another phenomenal event with plenty of informative and entertaining talks.

But fandom's biggest champion came in the form of Orlando Jones, who brought the day to a close in a conversation with USC professor, conference co-director and «aca - fan» Henry Jenkins about his engagement with fandom.

Apple's Worldwide Developer Conference (WWDC) has just come to a close with the company announcing iOS 11, macOS High Sierra, along with a lot of hardware products as well.

This comes as the Bitcoin community is coming closer to some resolution after a vigorous and open discussion and will be meeting in Montreal this weekend in aScalability Conference to try and resolve the ongoing debate about Bitcoin's blocksize.

The Apple iPhone X was announced in a press conference yesterday and as soon as it became official, the next thing most buyers would do is to compare it with the Samsung Galaxy Note 4, the worthy competitor that comes really close.

The sale should not come as a surprise to close observers of the space, as Metaio's name has also come up recently as a possible acquisition for Google, which is currently holding its I / O developer conference in San Francisco.

As the year draws to a close, excitement for the coming year is growing, with the highlight of numerous offerings taking place June 30 - July 2nd in Vienna, Austria at the INSPIRE 2016 ISST Conference.

«If we see the dedicated investors (which include dedicated mutual funds, closed - end funds and pension funds) having negative outflows, and if we see that the fast money and maybe even the value and income - oriented investors are lowering their allocations, there's not a lot of cash coming into the group to pick up the pieces,» explained Litt during the conference call.