Sentences with phrase «conference hall trying»

A number of students were outside the main conference hall trying to sell copies of Ed Miliband's speech for # 2.

But most of the time, I and the other reporters, photographers and videographers were out in the conference halls trying to make sense of the latest drafts of documents or announcements of positions.

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Mr. Seabrook, the union leader who has been a proud obstacle to plenty of the reform efforts aimed at Rikers Island by Mr. de Blasio over the last several years — he filed court documents to try to stop a new use of force policy and has held City Hall press conferences decrying the mayor's policies and telling him to «shape up or ship out» — pointed to something that would probably be an even larger obstacle to closing down the city's controversial jail complex: resistance from residential neighborhoods who don't want inmates nearby.

We're trying to get a handle on it,» Ms. Mark - Viverito said a news conference near City Hall.

At a crowded press conference on the City Hall steps the council member, Jumaane Williams of East Flatbush, and the aide to Public Advocate Bill de Blasio, Kristen John Foy, described their being stopped, handcuffed and briefly taken into custody as they tried to go to the Brooklyn museum yesterday afternoon.

DMZ Forum is currently trying to raise the $ 400,000 needed to pay for the initiative, said Hall Healy, the organization's interim president, at a news conference in Tokyo.