Sentences with phrase «envoy said»

Envoy said that, once the trial judge found that if the bid had been properly conducted Envoy would have been awarded the contract for the relocation services, then Envoy's loss of profit on that contract was the proper measure of damages.

According to a statement by the Chief Press Secretary to the Governor, Mr. Idowu Adelusi, on Thursday, the envoy said the conduct of the poll should set a higher standard in the conduct of elections in the country.

The UN Envoy said the United Nations and the international community would continue to support the region to get rid of Boko Haram insurgents in the Lake Chad Basin.

Referring to Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy, the envoy said they «aren't going to do anything dangerous.»

Democrats back the deal and even the few who voted against it, including Sen. Chuck Schumer of New York, have now said they will support it, the envoy said.

March 9 - President Donald Trump is ready to meet North Korean leader Kim Jong Un by May in response to Kim's invitation to hold the first - ever U.S. - North Korea summit, a South Korean envoy said, marking a potentially dramatic breakthrough in the North Korea nuclear standoff.

March 9 (Reuters)- President Donald Trump is ready to meet North Korean leader Kim Jong Un by May in response to Kim's invitation to hold the first - ever U.S. - North Korea summit, a South Korean envoy said, marking a potentially dramatic breakthrough in the North Korea nuclear standoff.

Envoys said there may be a deal struck with a new set of binding targets but only the European Union, New Zealand, Australia, Norway and Switzerland were likely to sign up

Not exact matches

While the renewable industry has gained momentum in recent years, «the battle certainly got tougher» with the election of Trump, said Dan Kammen, an energy expert at the University of California, Berkeley and science envoy for the U.S. State Department.

The following winter, a second envoy convinced him («convinced, actually, my wife,» Horváth says) to go back to Canada on a more permanent basis.

Brett McGurk, the top U.S. envoy for the coalition battling the Islamic State group, said he was in northern Syria to prepare for the defeat of the militants.

State Department envoy Clifford Sloan said last month that the United States was in talks with a wide range of countries to speed the transfer of prisoners as President Barack Obama looked to make good on a long - standing promise to close the facility.

«The imponderable is what happens with President Trump,» said Chambers, the United Nations special envoy for malaria.

The United Nations Special Envoy for Syria said on Wednesday he had invited the Syrian government and opposition to a special meeting next week in Vienna.

The tariffs would likely be «front and center» during a meeting on Monday among Freeland, Trump's trade envoy, Robert Lighthizer, and Mexican Economy Minister Ildefonso Guajardo, Brady said.

U.N. special envoy for Palestinian rights Richard Falk said Tuesday the lack of electricity for 1.7 million residents in Gaza Strip is sparking a catastrophe.

The commerce chief was responding to comments by the top US envoy to Hong Kong, who on Tuesday said he was seeking to ease worries that the city would be a «voiceless victim» of the escalating trade friction between China and the United States.

Speaking at the UN Security Council Friday, the OSCE's envoy to Ukraine Heidi Tagliavini said the current situation was at a «crossroads» where the risk of further escalation remained high despite «encouraging signs.»

Myanmar's government leader Aung San Suu Kyi met with United Nations Security Council envoys on Monday over the plight of nearly 700,000 mainly Rohingya Muslims who fled to Bangladesh amid a military crackdown, pledging to investigate any credible accusations of abuse, said diplomats who attended the meeting.

It says in the early stages of the Iran / Iraq conflict, Donald Rumsfeld, acting as Ronald Reagan's special envoy, gave Saddam NSA satellite images of Iran's battlefield deployment and licenses that allowed Iraq unfettered access to America's arsenal of germ and chemical warfare.

Employment Minister Patty Hajdu said the fact that the administration sent a senior envoy to the Canadian cabinet retreat was significant.

Pope Benedict XVI will appoint a special envoy to run a Mexican Catholic order whose founder abused minor - age seminarians and fathered three children with two women, the Vatican said Saturday.

And at the end we decided to send our personal envoy — Cardinal Filoni, and I said if it were necessary when we return from Korea we can go there.

Former British prime minister Gordon Brown, who now works as a U.N. special envoy on global education, said, «Nobody will believe a word the Taliban say about the right of girls like Malala to go to school until they stop burning down schools and stop massacring pupils»...

Buhari who played host to Special Envoy of President Obiang Nguema Mbasogo of Equatorial Guinea, Thursday in Abuja said that since terrorism no longer respects national borders, the international community must urgently evolve and implement more effective collaborative measures to enhance global security.

North Korea's leader, Kim Jong - un, has told South Korean envoys he is willing to negotiate with the United States on abandoning his country's nuclear weapons, and also said he would suspend all nuclear and missile tests while such talks were underway.

University of California, Berkeley energy professor Daniel Kamman stepped down as science envoy for the State Department, saying Trump's failure to condemn the deadly neo-Nazi rally put the whole country in danger.

Former Nigeria's envoy to Canada, Amb Dare Bejide, has said the defection of former Vice President, Atiku Abubakar to the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) was a sign that President Muhammadu Buhari has disappointed Nigerians.

He said the Commission always looked forward to such kind of engagements and reassured the envoy of deeper ties.

The Minority in a statement said: «While Ayisi Boateng's apparent suicidal mission in the face of overwhelming condemnation by decent minded Ghanaians has made him the «Chemical Ali» of Ghana's Diplomatic Service, the Minority in Parliament like most Ghanaians believe the ball is now squarely in the court of His Excellency President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo - Addo to show this dangerous envoy the exit.»

The president who said that his government was committed that, made the disclosure while in audience with the Special Envoys of President Pierre Nkurunziza of Burundi, Maj. - Gen.

An Online publication, Premium Times, said the Thai envoy, Wattana Kunwongse, had written it accusing the Minister of Agriculture of lying.

Osinbajo said his friend, Asekun, got the envoy job on merit, saying the job «is just very fitting» for Asekun, who was hitherto the Chairman of Wema Bank Plc..

U.S. Special Envoy for Climate Change Todd Stern said in a statement to ClimateWire: «At the upcoming meeting of their presidents, the United States and Brazil will address the broad range of bilateral issues that engage them.

«A remarkable thing has happened at the World Bank over the past 15 years,» World Resources Institute President and former World Bank climate envoy Andrew Steer said recently.

«Given that Mexico was the key place where this concept was developed and formalized, Mexico wanted to be an important player going into the meetings in Paris,» said Carlos Pascual, who served as the U.S. ambassador to Mexico from 2009 until 2011 and later the State Department's special envoy and coordinator for international energy affairs.

«But mayors, as we know, have never waited for Washington to act here in the United States,» said Bloomberg, who is also the United Nations» special envoy for cities and climate change.

«Parties understood exactly what was going on in the discussions in Durban about this new legal agreement,» said Todd Stern, the United States» special envoy for climate change.

The Obama administration will host a high - level meeting to discuss ways to mobilize hundreds of billions of dollars in annual international global warming assistance, State Department Special Envoy for Climate Change Todd Stern said in a recent speech.

That's when the first internal conversations began between U.S. Special Envoy for Climate Change Todd Stern's office and the White House, allowing Stern to say publicly in Warsaw that a post-2020 process was underway and lobby, successfully, for countries to formally unveil their targets during the first quarter of 2015 (ClimateWire, Nov. 18, 2013).

U.S. Special Envoy for Climate Change Todd Stern has said the United States» submission will be released by tomorrow.

«This is too logical a transition for anyone to have an ideological argument against clean energy, because it stands against economic growth and good business sense,» says Daniel Kammen, professor of energy at the University of California, Berkeley, and science envoy for the U.S. State Department, who is attending the talks, «That's what people are saying here — they're incredulous that anyone would want to back off on this.»

This is the issue that is probably, historically, the most contentious in these negotiations,» said U.S. Special Envoy for Climate Change Todd Stern.

«One of the things that should happen is that the climate envoy's office should be expanded so that's in their portfolio,» Light said.

«We wanted to ensure that Envoys» experiential programs had the same intentionality, curriculum, and assessment that was so critical to a quality school,» Leighton says, pointing out that education outside of the classroom can be far more than the cliché of a field trip.

«I don't think we'd have Envoys if we didn't have the Graduate School of Education,» Leighton says.

«Envoys is transforming how schools, families, and students think about educational travel,» says co-founder Luis Enrique Garcia, Ed.M.»

Early reports in other newspapers said it would be built on the Chevrolet Trailblazer / GMC Envoy platform, but it will instead be based on the smaller, cheaper architecture that will be used for the 2004 Chevrolet Colorado and GMC Canyon pickup trucks, which will replace the S - 10 series.

Most of the stretch is in the middle of the vehicles to keep from positioning seats over the rear wheels to prevent ride harshness for passengers and to ensure protruding wheel wells don't block entry or exit from the back seats, said Jeanne Brooks, assistant brand manager for Envoy.

GMC says the Envoy can haul a 5,000 - pound load.