Sentences with phrase «first policy convention»

In 2005, he used the first policy convention of the then - new Conservative Party to take potentially divisive social - conservative issues like abortion off the party's agenda.

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Watching the NDP Policy Convention would at first seem to be a big yawn.

Richard Land, head of the public policy arm of the Southern Baptist Convention, criticized First Baptist's action.

But Rodriguez is closing the Republican National Convention's first day with a prayer Tuesday, helping to give presumptive nominee Mitt Romney entrée to the Latino community, a swing voting bloc that has largely abandoned the Republican Party over immigration policy in recent elections.

The three candidates standing to be chairman of the National Conservative Convention answered a first tranche of questions yesterday on candidate selection issues and a second tranche this morning on the role of members in the party conference and policy formation.

* First, our dialogue at political, policy, and technical levels has built confidence among our nations and deepened mutual understanding of the many challenges confronting the world community as we consider next steps under the Convention and continue to mobilize political will to combat global climate change.

Whereas although the Convention, approved by the United States Senate, called on all signatory parties to adopt policies and programs aimed at limiting their greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, in July 1996 the Undersecretary of State for Global Affairs called for the first time for «legally binding» emission limitation targets and timetables for Annex I Parties, a position reiterated by the Secretary of State in testimony before the Committee on Foreign Relations of the Senate on January 8, 1997;