Sentences with phrase «ended groups of»

Before the meeting came to an end a group of residents revisited the subject of Bronx GOP Chief Jay Savino's law firm winning the bid to handle town tax certiorari matters.

That tenure includes an investigation this year critical of Silver for crafting a secret $ 103,000 settlement to end a group of sexual harassment accusations against Assemblyman Vito Lopez, a Brooklyn Democrat.

That being said, Choice points are easy to accrue and the brand features a higher end group of hotels called the «Ascend Collection».

He calls on delegates to create an open - ended Group of Governmental Experts in December then move to negotiations in 2018 and complete them within a year.

In a statement, press release, and briefing for delegates, the Campaign to Stop Killer Robots urged states at First Committee to articulate their views on autonomous weapons concerns and indicate support for more work through an open - ended Group of Governmental Experts that can step - up the pace though expanded discussions.

Therefore, we urge states to accept the recommendation for an open - ended Group of Governmental Experts next year.

Some 30 states supported the recommendation that they establish an open - ended Group of Governmental Experts to discuss this topic in 2017.

South Africa welcomes the outcomes of the Fifth Review Conference of the CCW that took place in December 2016 particularly the decision to convene a Meeting of the High Contracting Parties to the Convention, and to establish an open - ended Group of Governmental Experts (GGE) to discuss emerging technologies in the area of lethal autonomous weapons systems (LAWS).

In this regard, we welcome the decision of the 5th CCW Review Conference to convene the open - ended Group of Governmental Experts (GGE) on LAWS in 2017.

India — II (18 October)-- «India welcomes the outcome of the Fifth Review Conference of the CCW held in 2016, including the decision to establish an open - ended Group of Governmental Experts (GGE) related to emerging technologies in the area of Lethal Autonomous Weapons Systems (LAWS) in the context of the objectives and purposes of the Convention.

New Zealand looks forward to the meeting of the open - ended Group of Governmental Experts on Lethal Autonomous Weapons Systems taking place next month in Geneva and hopes that real progress can be made towards identifying and addressing the challenges that such systems pose for IHL.»

NAM States Parties to CCW support the establishment of an open - ended Group of Governmental Experts (GGE) related to emerging technologies in the area of Lethal Autonomous Weapons Systems in the context of the objectives and purposes of the Convention.

At their annual meeting on November 13, states should agree to establish an open - ended Group of Governmental Experts that formalizes the work, gives it an outcome objective, and dedicates more time — three or four weeks of deliberations — over the course of 2016.

On Friday, 15 April, states attending the CCW meeting on lethal autonomous weapons systems (another term for killer robots) agreed by consensus to recommend that deliberations on the topic continue with the formation of an open - ended Group of Governmental Experts.

At their last meeting in April 2016, states agreed for the first time on recommendations for future action, proposing the establishment of an open - ended Group of Governmental Experts (GGE) to move deliberations to the next level.

Not exact matches

At a bitcoin breakfast event in Manhattan in April, a group of them traded complaints («They ended up with a pound of soup where they threw in all the different bank rules and AML [anti-money laundering] rules... they ended up with something very salty,» said Tim Byun of BitPay) and hyperbolic predictions (if BitLicense is too stringent, New York City will «lose the next Wall Street» to Silicon Valley, Estonia, or North Carolina, said Fred Wilson of Union Square Ventures).

A number of high - profile attacks in Afghanistan towards the end of January were claimed by competing terrorist groups ISIS and the Taliban — putting the spotlight back on a country that has been at war for over a decade.

At the end of the meeting, before the group is dismissed, it's important to address each action item as it pertains to each individual.

The National Bureau of Economic Research — an independent group of economists — is charged with the official proclamation of a U.S. recession's end.

Industrial hardware and parts supplier Coventry Group has announced a net profit of $ 19 million for the year ended June 30, lodging a 6 per cent increase in revenue to push it back into the black.

«The problem is YouTube is trying to price itself at the higher end of the market,» says Brian Wieser, an analyst who covers Google for Pivotal Research Group in New York.

The expansion plans for Perth's major shopping centres are gaining momentum, with Scentre Group's Westfield Carousel, Westfield Innaloo and Westfield Whitford City likely to be the first to start work, near the end of 2016.

A group of not for profits that joined forces 18 months ago with a mission to end homelessness will today publicly launch its 10 - year plan on Adelaide Terrace, followed by a music event through the streets of the CBD.

So at the end of 2011, when he discovered The Barter Group, a trade exchange of 450 small businesses in Greater Phoenix, he leapt at the chance to join.

At the end of the year, people in the standard diet group and the fasting group lost similar amounts of weight compared with those who didn't do any type of diet at all.

Not satisfied with the gun industry's response to demands for help ending an epidemic of gun violence, groups representing millions of workers are pressuring what they see as an even bigger change - maker.

Construction group Pindan said today it planned to make full payments to all sub-contractors by the end of this week, after co-founders George Allingame and David Pringle complete the sale of several

The jobs of both the president of the Eurogroup and Euro Working Group will soon be up for grabs as incumbents step down at the end of the year.

Food & beverage was one of the worst performing sectors, with online food ordering group Just Eat falling to the bottom of the STOXX 600, ending down 12.5 percent.

Included in the press release are parts of six e-mails obtained from the CBSA (download these documents), along with a CBSA Ruling and three trade compliance verifications, that lay out the group's case that the CBSA retroactively imposed an end use certificate requirement on these goods.

Kraft Foods Group said this week it will remove synthetic colours and preservatives from its popular mac and cheese line in both Canada and the U.S. by the end of 2016.

Some of these include using artificial intelligence tools to automatically identify propaganda efforts similar to those allegedly carried out by Russia - linked groups in upcoming world elections, and boosting its security and content review team to 20,000 by the end of the year.

The protest was coming to an end when the police started trying to disperse the people who had gathered, the event's organizers — Sandugo, a recently formed alliance of minority groups — told the Philippine news site Rappler.

Imagine you discovered that 80 percent of the leads who arrived from AdWords ad groups A, B and C converted to a sale, but only 5 percent of the leads who came through ad groups D, E or F ended up buying.

Novogratz, who left Fortress Investment Group in 2015 after the fund lost money, told CNBC in November that bitcoin could multiply more than four times by the end of this year.

To that end, today and tomorrow roughly 1,000 participants will divide into 12 working groups of between 60 and 100 people.

Perth - based gold miner Millennium Minerals has negotiated $ 5 million in additional debt funding from its major shareholder IMC Group but the deal is dependent on Millennium's current bankers agreeing to reschedule debt repayments due at the end of this month.

Fortescue Metals Group has ended a tough week for the iron ore sector by halving its projected capital expenditure for the 2015 financial year to $ US650 million, in response to the continued weakening of the iron ore price.

said Murray Brown, marketing manager at Alliance Group, which processes around 30 percent of the country's lamb production and aims to market more prime lamb into China's high - end hotels and food shops.

Toward the end of the meeting, I asked the members of the group how many of them had received some form of bank financing.

In addition to Valeant, Sino - Forest Corp., CGI Group, DH Corp and Home Capital Group have been on the receiving end of accusations in recent years.

The latest report from the International Panel on Climate Change, an intergovernmental group charged with researching the effects of carbon emissions, said at the end of September that climate change is unequivocal and that going forward, sea levels will rise at a faster rate than they have over the past 40 years.

If you have a group of people with different perspectives around the table, you are going to end up in a better place, in decisions you make and in things you decide to invest in.

Each group was then given 30 minutes to plan a university recruitment video that, at the end of the allotted time, was filmed by a research assistant.

Last year there was a string of serial rapes and we are speaking with some of the local advocacy groups and developing a plan to keep the space open and staffed Friday and Saturday nights until an hour after the bars close so that if there is anyone feeling uncomfortable or threatened by a situation can come and use the space as a safe haven and have the option of being walked home at the end of the evening.

German industrial group Siemens expects to update software in some of its medical scanners by the end of the month to deal with vulnerabilities that could, in theory, allow some of this equipment to be hacked, a company spokesman said on Monday.

«The material that WikiLeaks is going to publish before the end of the year is of... a very significant moment in different directions, affecting three powerful organizations in three different states as well as... the U.S election process,» he said via a video link at an event marking the group's 10th anniversary.

The dispute between Abu Dhabi - based investment fund Goldilocks Investment and commodity trader Noble Group shows no signs of ending soon, but one fund manager at Goldilocks said he hoped for a resolution.

Tech companies and trade organizations disclosed they had 48 arrangements with lobby groups that discussed NAFTA with administration officials or lawmakers in the second quarter, up from 17 groups in the first quarter and one group at the end of 2016, according to the data.

To that end, the Exchanges run a number of initiatives with these groups, including mentoring programs and workshops.