Sentences with phrase «elect leaders of groups»

It is often to elect leaders of groups, and Mayors.

Not exact matches

British financial services firm IG Group has compiled an online comparative database of how various elected, appointed and lifetime leaders of OECD countries are compensated.

IG Group compiled a database of how elected, appointed and lifetime leaders of OECD countries are compensated.

So it may come as no surprise that the top five highest - earning elected women serving in governments worldwide, as surveyed by British financial service firm IG Group, coincidentally happen to earn less than their elected male counterparts in an all - gender list of of elected, appointed and lifetime world leaders.

Despite his rural pedigree, I would not discount his ability to build relationships with the group of young municipal leaders who have been elected in recent years, including Calgary Mayor Naheed Nenshi and Edmonton City Councillor Don Iveson.

The leader of the Progressive Conservative Association of Alberta and our new Premier was elected by a group of members smaller than half of the football fans at Commonwealth Stadium.

But the atheist would become leader of the Christian group only if the membership voted to elect the atheist, right?

Jake I see your point, but generally groups want to elect a leader that will be the best representative of the group.

In my opinion, I would have people who supported the values of the group be part of the group and be nominated and elected as my leaders who uphold the standards and values of the group.

Groups elect their own leaders, so if the group wants someone with a particular quality to be part of leadership it can elect that person.

I'm gonna go out on a limb and predict that a straight guy would have a hard time being elected president of the LGBT club, or a Jewish guy would have a hard time becoming the leader of a Christian group, or a liberal would have a hard time becoming leader of the College Republicans.

I am not minimizing the importance of the controversial questions concerning abortion, homosexuality, the role of pastors, separation of church and state, the priesthood of believers, or whether the holy scriptures are to be interpreted by the words and actions of Jesus Christ or by a group of elected leaders.

They denied the validity of the succession of Sunni Caliphs and Shi`a Imams, recognizing as Caliph only the leader elected from their own group.

Only the Liberal Democrats and Plaid Cymru are not currently embroiled in a leadership race — although, perhaps not wishing to be left out, the Lib Dems are electing a new leader of their group in the House of Lords in September.

We need our elected officials to be leaders on diversity, not urging second - class citizenship for some groups of people.»

Peter Reynolds is the elected leader of CLEAR Cannabis Law Reform which is the largest membership - based drug policy reform group in Britain.

Its mission is to cultivate and lift up a grassroots movement of local groups to defeat the Trump agenda, elect progressive leaders, and realize bold progressive policies.

In addition to PTA presidents, you should reach out to leaders of other influential community groups: youth organizations, churches, resistance groups, county parties, and elected officials.

But executive powers stay with the mayor, and while the mayor and «cabinet» have some accountability to a single elected council, in combined authorities they account to a group of leaders of the component authorities.

Kathy Hochul, Democratic candidate for Lieutenant Governor, was joined at an Upper West Side rally today by House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi and a group of Manhattan Democratic elected officials that included Congressman Charles B. Rangel, Assembly Members Keith Wright and Linda Rosenthal, Council Members Dan Garodnick and Inez Dickens and Manhattan Borough President Gale Brewer.

(Brooklyn, NY)-- Today, a group of elected officials including Senator Brian Kavanagh, Assemblymember Jo Anne Simon, City Comptroller Scott Stringer, City Council Speaker Corey Johnson, Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams, Senator Velmanette Montgomery, Assemblymember Robert Carroll, and Council Members Ydanis Rodriguez and Mark Treyger joined City commissioners and community and business leaders to urge Governor Andrew Cuomo to accelerate and streamline necessary construction on the BQE by authorizing «design - build» contracting.

Getting kicked out of New Visions is just the latest repercussion since he joined the IDC — a group that, according to spokeswoman Candace Giove, «conferences with fellow Democrats, but works in majority coalition with 32 senators who elected a Republican leader.»

Addressing the media, the leader of the group, Godwin Henyo, said the way out is for the party leadership to expedite measures towards re-organization of an early congress to elect a new flagbearer.

McCain himself has begun to raise the specter of unified Democratic control of all levers of government; at a speech this morning in Cleveland, McCain condemned the «spending spree» that Obama, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (Nev.) and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (Calif.)-- a group he called a «dangerous threesome» — would take the country on if elected.

«Cities that have adopted instant runoff voting to eliminate runoffs have not only saved millions of dollars but have also improved their democracies by making sure that we are electing our leaders in an election where the most voters, the most diverse voters, are at the polls at one time,» said Grace Ramsey, deputy outreach director for FairVote, a nonpartisan advocacy group, at the news conference.

He noted the opposition of the E.P.A., local elected leaders, environmental groups and members of the New York City Council as a reason to consider the proposal more fully.

«I am grateful to have the support of deputy SNP leader Stewart Hosie MP, former first minister Alex Salmond MP and the encouragement from colleagues across the newly - elected SNP group.

Queens Borough President Melinda Katz will speak at the press conference the Queens Jewish Community Council (QJCC) is holding tomorrow morning to give elected officials and community leaders the opportunity to show support for the State of Israel and its people as Israel continues to defend itself from the rocket attacks the terrorist group Hamas -LSB-...]

In 1998 Michael German was elected as leader of the Welsh party, and he led the new Assembly group.

A diverse group of celebrities, newsmakers and elected officials including Stephen Colbert, Whoopi Goldberg, Ken Burns, Giants coach Tom Coughlin, Brooklyn Nets, New York Islanders, New York Yankees, Carson Daly, Tom Brokaw of NBC Nightly News, George Stephanopoulos of ABC News, Rosanna Scotto of Good Day New York, Harry Belafonte, former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, Senators Kirsten Gillibrand and Richard Blumenthal, New York City Council Speaker Melissa Mark - Viverito, New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman, Police Commissioner William Bratton, Former New York City Mayor David Dinkins and Rabbi Peter J. Rubinstein, are among the first to share welcome messages.

But the announcement was postponed after a group of 20 elected officials and community leaders, including former Gov. David A. Paterson, former Representative Charles B. Rangel and former Assemblyman Keith L.T. Wright, complained that their «input, insight and influence» had been ignored.

McGovern was first elected as a councillor for Brunswick Park in the London Borough of Southwark in 2006, later becoming the Deputy Leader of the borough council's 29 - member group of Labour councillors.

«We have the support from a diverse group of elected and community leaders, organizations, and residents who believe it's time for Tallahassee to be more responsive to the people.»

The universal group of elected officials included State Senator Andrea Stewart - Cousins, Westchester County Board of Legislators Chairman Ben Boykin, Vice Chair Alfreda Williams and Democratic Majority Leader Catherine Borgia, Assemblymembers J Gary Pretlow and Shelly Meyers (who is the Democratic nominee for Latimer's vacant State Senate seat) just to name a few.

First this week came the unveiling of the umbrella group NY Jobs Now, a coalition of unions, business leaders and elected officials who back the amendment.

My sincerest thanks goes out to the unwavering endorsements provided to me from all of the labor unions, newspapers, advocacy groups, elected officials, and community leaders.»

A bevy of NYC elected leaders joined tenant groups outside City Hall to demand the state government bolster protections for tenants of more than one million apartments across the five boroughs.

These volunteers are now part of the state's largest group of elected leaders and will play an important part in preparing students for the challenges ahead and making their communities a better place.»

With 22,236 votes, the former leader of Tower Hamlets» Labour Group, Christine Shawcroft, was also elected to the NEC.

Add Assembly Minority Leader Brian Kolb's name to the list of elected officials and groups calling on Gov. Andrew Cuomo to release the propose...

The 2008 Labour group leadership election was the first time Labour had elected its Scottish leader with the participation of its members, using a system similar to that used at the time by the UK - wide Labour Party (the system had been adopted in 2007, but no ballot had taken place as Alexander had been unopposed).

Mark - Viverito had the support of the vast majority of elected officials, including three of the six out gay members of the Council: Majority Leader Jimmy Van Bramer of Queens, Carlos Menchaca of Brooklyn, and Ritchie Torres of the Bronx, despite the fact that it is a direct subsidy to schools mostly run by anti-gay religious groups that made up the bulk of those lobbying for it.

In 2017, newly elected Liberal Democrats leader Vince Cable criticised «pop up» anti-Brexit parties formed following the 2016 referendum, saying of those groups policies»... it is the kind of ideology - free, technocratic, authoritarian centrism that would be more at home in, say, Singapore.»

He also agreed to work with party leaders to elect a Democratic majority in the state senate, where Republicans and a small group of conservative Democrats have been blocking progressive legislation.

Adams and Diaz formed the task force in January to study issues surrounding G&T, and the group is made up of the elected officials and three parent leaders from each borough.

«There's been immense interest from many different parts of the state, from many different groups, amongst SUNY campuses, amongst elected leaders,» Doyle said.

He can hardly be blamed for the make up of a parliamentary group elected before he became leader.

He was elected as leader of the Welsh Conservative group on the 14 July 2011, having won 53.1 per cent of the vote.

• Unpledged delegates (or superdelegates) are a group of state elected officials and party leaders.

WHITE PLAINS, NY — Westchester County Executive Robert P. Astorino today joined a bipartisan group of elected officials and environmental leaders to announce that the county has entered into an official partnership with Sustainable Westchester, a consortium of local governments that facilitates green initiatives like Solarize Westchester, Community Choice Aggregation and the Municipal Solar Buyers Ggroup of elected officials and environmental leaders to announce that the county has entered into an official partnership with Sustainable Westchester, a consortium of local governments that facilitates green initiatives like Solarize Westchester, Community Choice Aggregation and the Municipal Solar Buyers GroupGroup.