Sentences with phrase «council cnrs»

Fred Kempe, Atlantic Council president and CEO, discusses the historical meeting between leaders of North Korea and South Korea.

«Members of the Manbij Military Council simply put on army clothes and raised the Syrian flag to avoid friction with the Turks,» he told AFP.

Vice Mayor Marc McGovern has filed a policy order for Monday's city council meeting pushing for an investigation.

Mayor Joanne Monaghan says city council is occupied with trying to steady rising rents and control traffic.

It is the only council disbanding as of Wednesday afternoon.

The European Council president added that it would be the first free trade deal in history to loosen, rather than strengthen ties.

Corning was asked to participate on this council to offer our deep expertise in innovation and manufacturing and advise the government on how to create jobs and strengthen the innovation and manufacturing sectors.

Shortly after CNBC and others broke the news that the council was disbanding, Trump took to Twitter to say he was ending that forum and another featuring manufacturing leaders.

In the face of corporate defections and the member's disclosure, Trump announced plans to dissolve the group and the Manufacturing Jobs Initiative council.

Four unnamed ECB officials told Reuters on Tuesday that the central bank is getting ready to soften its stance on monetary easing next week at a Governing Council meeting.

The #DeleteUber campaign on Facebook and Twitter erupted when Uber was accused of breaking a taxi strike in New York, right around the time Kalanick was taking heat for sitting on the president's business - advisory council in the midst of public outcry regarding Trump's travel ban.

The proceeds will be donated to the Council for Economic Education, which supports economic and financial education.

Uber tweeted that company wasn't trying to break any strike, and Kalanick quit the council, but momentum on social media was already swelling.

Those market participants expecting an end to the European Central Bank's stimulus program in September could be mistaken, according to a member of the central bank's Governing Council.

British Prime Minister Theresa May arrives for the European Union leaders summit at the European Council on December 14, 2017 in Brussels.

Later Wednesday afternoon, Corning CEO Wendell Weeks also stepped down, saying in a statement, «the events of the last few days have transformed the council's laudable mission of job creation into a perception of political support for the Administration and its statements.

Richard Haas, president of the Council on Foreign Relations, a nonpartisan think tank, said this meeting is more serious than in past years largely because of the fallout from Brexit, which is raising concerns about Ireland's economic prospects and the future for Northern Ireland, which is part of the United Kingdom.

Based on data investigators have been accumulating, it's likely a «non-state actor» rather than a particular government group carried out the hacking, according to a Wall Street Journal article quoting Director of National Intelligence James R. Clapper's comments on Tuesday in New York at the Council on Foreign Relations.

«There is no indication of a nexus to terrorism at this time,» said U.S. National Security Council spokeswoman Bernadette Meehan.

Data from the Distilled Spirits Council of the United States show beer's share of alcoholic beverage sales fell to 49.8 % in 2010, from 55.5 % a decade earlier.

European Council President Donald Tusk holds a news conference after receiving British Prime Minister Theresa May's Brexit letter in notice of the UK's intention to leave the bloc under Article 50 of the EU's Lisbon Treaty to EU Council President Donald Tusk in Brussels, Belgium March 29, 2017.

Trump's public chiding of Merck CEO Ken Frazier — the first person to leave the manufacturing council on Monday — also influenced the decision.

As a result I have made the decision to step down from the council.

«You don't want it being undermined,» says Hillary Dawson, president of the Wine Council of Ontario.

«A significant share of the ECB Governing Council typically votes with the president.

Dylann Roof, the white 21 - year - old who allegedly gunned down nine black churchgoers earlier this summer in Charleston, South Carolina, credited the Council of Conservative Citizen with opening his eyes to black - on - white crime in a chilling manifesto posted online.

Accordingly, I have tendered my resignation from the Council effective today.

He was also the National Economic Council lead for the White House «Smart Cities» program, which aims to infuse new technology in U.S. cities.

Musk is on Trump's manufacturing jobs council, his strategic and policy forum, and his infrastructure council.

Frazier: I am resigning from the President's American Manufacturing Council.

Business leaders heard from employees and customers about their roles on the council.

Still, engineers at the nonprofit International Council on Clean Transportation suspected that at least some of the disparity might reflect carmakers» gaming the system and exploiting lax European compliance and enforcement mechanisms.

The president and CEO of 3M, Inge Thulin, announced his resignation from the manufacturing council on Wednesday afternoon.

The exodus was led by Merck CEO Kenneth Frazier who resigned Monday from a manufacturing council, saying, «As C.E.O. of Merck and as a matter of personal conscience, I feel a responsibility to take a stand against extremism.»

«The ads usually say they'll pay you $ 1,000 and give you another $ 1,000 to use for shopping, but after you sign up they send you a check for $ 3,000,» says Katherine Hutt, a spokeswoman for the Council of Better Business Bureaus.

However, given the ongoing tone of the discussion, I no longer feel that this Council can accomplish these goals.

The strategic forum, led by Blackstone CEO Steve Schwarzman and made up of top business leaders, is separate from Trump's manufacturing council, which had seen seven defections this week.

Fingert was the National Economic Council lead for the White House Smart Cities program.

Therefore, I notified members of the council this morning that I could no longer serve on the President's Committee on American Manufacturing.

Here's what experts at the Commercial Equipment Marketplace Council (CEMC) conference say FinTech businesses should know.

In a bid to win Moscow's support, the draft that was vetoed had been weakened to simply «note with particular concern» the violation, which was reported to the council by U.N. experts monitoring sanctions.

«There was broad agreement among members to convey the Governing Council's concerns about the recent volatility in the euro exchange rate, which represented a source of uncertainty that had to be monitored with respect to its implications for the medium - term outlook for price stability,» the minutes said.

«The American strike on Shayrat air base in Syria is an appropriate response to [Assad's] mass homicide,» said Fred Hof, the director of the Atlantic Council's Rafik Hariri Center for the Middle East and former US special adviser on Syria.

Donald Trump tweeted, «Rather than putting pressure on the businesspeople of the Manufacturing Council & Strategy & Policy Forum, I am ending both.

UNITED NATIONS / TEGUCIGALPA (Reuters)- The United States threatened unilateral action against Iran on Monday after Russia vetoed a western bid for the United Nations Security Council to call out Tehran for failing to prevent its weapons from falling into the hands of Yemen's Houthi group.

June 1: @RobertIger: As a matter of principle, I've resigned from the President's Council over the #ParisAgreement withdrawal.

Correction: The headline of this story has been updated to reflect that the Strategic and Policy Forum is separate from the manufacturing council that several business leaders left this week.

Qualification as a Green Giant: The first mass - produced hybrid vehicle, it topped the 2013 Greenest list, an automotive ranking by the American Council for an Energy - Efficient Economy.

Following the failed vote on the British draft, the council adopted a rival Russian draft that did not mention Iran and simply renewed the U.N. sanctions regime on Yemen for a year.

«The European Council... decides that it is sufficient to move to the second phase related to transition and the framework for the future relationship,» EU leaders said Friday, following a two - day summit in Brussels.