Sentences with phrase «first convened»

In New York City, the New York Panel on Climate Change (NPCC), a body of experts first convened by Mayor Bloomberg in 2008, developed a concept of Flexible Adaptation Pathways that the city adopted in its long - term planning.

The conference actually first convened 10 years ago and led to a special issue publication in the Journal of Veterinary Medical Education.

Such a system «marks a major shift for Wisconsin,» according to a preliminary report from a state task force Evers first convened last December.

The commission first convened in February to provide an independent recommendation on whether state legislators, who haven't had a raise since 1999, deserve more money.

The mayor first convened a panel of progressive leaders at Gracie Mansion in April and announced plans to create an agenda similar to the Republican's «Contract With America» effort of the 1990s but focused more on income inequality.

Last week, as the jury first convened to deliberate, a juror sent a note to the judge, Valerie E. Caproni, asking to be excused from the case and saying she was «feeling pressured, stressed out... told that I'm not using my common sense, my heart is pounding and my head feels weird.»

The grand jury, which first convened in August, has weighed evidence — including a video recorded by bystanders of Mr. Garner's arrest — and heard testimony from officers and emergency responders involved.

Green activists in the United States first convened in Minnesota in 1984 and approved the «10 Key Values» platform.

At the Nov. 28 Delegate Assembly, the first convened since Hurricane Sandy decimated parts of New York City, UFT President Michael Mulgrew gave a heartfelt thanks to delegates — and all UFT members — who joined the union's relief efforts in the aftermath of the storm.

DiFiore first convened the panel last year leading up to this November's constitutional convention vote that failed.

«If yogurt production requires a summit,» then so should housing, he said, alluding to the conclave first convened by Gov. Andrew Cuomo in 2012 to focus on what was deemed a «vital» agricultural sector.

First convened in 2017, this event taps into the strength of two ongoing Fortune powerhouse conferences: the Fortune Global Forum and our Brainstorm TECH conference, which for the past seventeen summers has brought together the smartest, most innovative people in tech, media, entertainment, and finance in Aspen, Colorado.

The first convening of the By All Means initiative — a partnership between six cities and the Education Redesign Lab at HGSE to eliminate the link between children's socioeconomic status and achievement — was held on May 17.

The Lab's first convening, Poverty Matters: Making the Case for a System Overhaul, took place at the Harvard Graduate School of Education on May 17, 2016.

NASBE has done extensive work on this issue, first convening a year - long study of adolescent literacy in 2005, culminating in a final report disseminated nationally, Reading at Risk: The State Response to the Crisis in Adolescent Literacy.

Not exact matches

He convened the first of what became weekly Wednesday afternoon huddles in the walnut - paneled Mansfield Room, steps from the Senate floor, to rally his ranks.

The country's parliament is convening for its first session since the March 4 elections on Friday.

I first noticed the question a couple of years ago, at a dinner convened by a prominent Silicon Valley VC firm.

The first - ever Fortune Brainstorm TECH International, a powerful new conference will convene world leaders in the innovation economy space December 5 — 6, 2017, in Guangzhou, China.

Over 400 people convened in New York City for the first conference day of GCUC 2018.

The new Assembly will convene for the first time to elect a new Speaker on May 23, 2012 and listen to the Speech from the Throne on May 24, 2012.

Electing a new Speaker The first order of business when the Assembly convenes this Spring will be the election of a new Speaker for the first time since 1997.

Alberta Premier Rachel Notley makes remarks before the first meeting of the Market Access Task Force, convened to respond to B.C. in the fight over the Trans Mountain oil pipeline, in Edmonton Alta, on Wednesday February 14, 2018.

A grant committee featuring national, state and local experts in the areas of long - term recovery, nonprofit and government leadership, and the issue areas identified during the assessment has been convened and held its first meeting on January 11, 2018.

At the Washington Energy Conference of 1974, convened in the wake of the first Arab oil embargo, Secretary of State Henry Kissinger prevailed on Saudi Arabia to buy U.S. arms and Treasury bonds, and to invest its «petrodollar» profits back in Western banks.

The first church counsel convened in Acts 15 to discuss this problem.

The first International Conference on Population was held in 1974 at Budapest, and the second (under the enlarged banner of «Population and Development») was convened in Mexico City in 1984.

The pope would attend the eighth World Meeting of Families, which has been held every three years since the late Pope John Paul II convened the first such gathering in 1994.

I believe the greatest positive event of the twentieth century occurred in Akron, Ohio... when Bill W. and Dr. Bob convened the first Alcoholics Anonymous meeting.

Napolitano's warning came at the first in a series of hearings convened by the chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee, Rep. Peter King, R - New York, who is determined to investigate what he terms the radicalization of Muslim - American communities, a problem he says is compounded by their lack of cooperation with law enforcement.

Shortly after Emperor Constantine legalized Christianity in 313, he convened the first ecumenical, fully representative, universally recognized council of the Christian church.

When a group convenes on the first evening, it is made up of twenty men and a few women who are usually strangers to each other; who come from different parts of the country or even of the world; who represent the doctrine and tradition of from eight to twelve different churches, Protestant and Catholic; and who are engaged in different kinds of ministries — education, local church, seminary leaders, denominational executives, and others.

One of the first was the World Congress of Faiths, which was convened in London in 1936, by Sir Francis Younghusband (1863 - 1942), an explorer and mystic.

Most recently, we convened at the Gelpi's lovely home to cook and consume a delightful fiesta of homemade pico, guacamole and chips with Coronoas shots of tequila (for Juan and me — my first in my entire life, late bloomer that I am), tortilla soup with roasted pepitas — veganized from a recipe my mother got from the Mansion on Turtle Creek in Dallas — Juan's seitan mole over herbed rice, homemade tortillas, and, for dessert, Barbara's apple - oatmeal crisp and my flan.

The term was first introduced in expert meetings convened by the Smithsonian Institution Migratory Bird Center (SMBC), NAFTA's Commission for Environmental Cooperation (CEC) and the Consumer Choice Council (CCC) in 1998.

MANILA / BANGKOK, 27 October 2015 — The world's first standard for sustainable rice, which sets new and more efficient standards for rice cultivation, was launched today by the Sustainable Rice Platform (SRP), a global alliance of agricultural research institutions, agri - food businesses, public sector and civil society organizations convened by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI).

The First Global Sustainable Rice Conference and Exhibition was convened by UN Environment and the International Rice Research Institute under the auspices of the Sustainable Rice Platform (SRP).

Also, I've been invited to the «Grain Convening» at Paicines Ranch outside San Jose, California during the first week in March.

When she convened her first student stress conference six years ago, Stanford lecturer Denise Clark Pope never imagined the annual event would grow to huge proportions.

-- More than 300 delegates convene in San Antonio, Texas, for the first - ever Youth Sports Congress.

The Family Online Safety Institute thanks the First Lady for convening this important conversation.

1995 — Thanks to funding from the Carnegie Corporation, NCPCA convenes the first meeting of the HFA Research Network with more than 50 HFA researchers in attendance.

The Governor stated that when he came to government, the first task of his administration was to convene an education summit which was chaired by Prof Wole Soyinka, adding that all intervention of government in education since inception came from the recommendations of the summit and nothing about religion.

The preliminary report of the Charter Revision Commission has been released, and while it addresses the issue of term limits — ostensibly the main reason it was convened in the first place — it does not touch some of the more controversial topics, like nonpartisan elections (a past pet issue for Mayor Bloomberg).

This week, the Durban Platform working group (ADP) is convening in Bonn, Germany, for the first of three meetings in 2013, moving in earnest towards its 2015 deadline to agree a new international treaty to succeed the Kyoto Protocol and enter into force in 2020.

The Hollywood establishment, convening publicly for the first time since allegations of sexual misconduct toppled Harvey Weinstein, used the Globes to insist that it would reform itself.

Also at 9:30 a.m., NYC First Lady Chirlane McCray will deliver remarks at a convening by the Laurie M. Tisch Illumination Fund, entitled «The Role of the Arts in Ending the Stigma of Mental Illness,» Roosevelt House, Hunter College, 47 - 49 East 65th St., Manhattan.

The delegates so elected shall convene at the capitol on the first Tuesday of April next ensuing after their election, and shall continue their session until the business of such convention shall have been completed.

As mandated by New York's Constitution, if New Yorkers approve a convention, the convention will convene on the first Tuesday in April following the election of delegates, hence the April 2, 2019 date.

«There are certain requirements in the legislation for the council to convene a couple of times a year — we'll certainly be meeting more often than that the first year — and for the council to make recommendations to the commissioner of health within one year of its first meeting as to the contaminants that should be tested,» says Hutton.