Sentences with phrase «first time a colleague»

I remember the first time a colleague put a flak jacket on me, I almost fell over.

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Ours may need some tweaking, but for now at least, my colleagues and I have found plenty of positive things to comment on: work we're proud of, jokes about office nicknames and even a little cheerfulness about the weather («Not wearing a sweater for the first time in... I can't even remember,» one colleague posted).

This isn't the first time McConnell or one of his colleagues has introduced such a bill.

Brenda Chapman, an animation writer - director with a storied career (Disney's The Lion King, DreamWorks» The Prince of Egypt), made headlines three years ago when she penned a New York Times op - ed addressing her painful experience being removed as the first female feature film director for Pixar's Brave, a mother - daughter fairytale she created, and replaced by a male colleague.

Elliott had originally invested in the obscure financial stock as part of an arbitrage trade, but when a colleague saw that the company was laying groundwork to shield itself from activist investors, he went across the hall to Cohn for the first time.

Researchers at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm and their colleagues looked at myocardial infarction rates in Sweden since 1987 and found that the number of heart attacks rose about 5 percent during the first week of daylight saving time (called summer time in Europe).

COHEN had been accompanied to Prague by 3 colleagues and the timing of the visit was either in the last week of August or the first week of September.

It was not the first time Pishevar had made advances toward Geidt, which she declined to reciprocate, according to the colleagues.

Now, as I get ready to head to OTC for the first time, I thought it would be a good idea to engage expert advice from industry colleagues.

Rakeffet «Rothkoff makes available for the first time some rather interesting remarks by the Rav on the psychology of mourning, the sociology of American prayer, and on a halakhic ruling from the early 1950s that one has a duty not to inform on an ex «Communist colleague unless the subject of investigation presents a genuine present threat.

One of my bloggy colleagues, Katie from Nourishing Simplicity, and I released our first eBooks around the same time.

It may seem a little bit odd to say this after Rob Holding was an unused substitute for most of his debut season as an Arsenal player, especially after this summer of international competition when his club and country colleague Calum Chambers was selected ahead of him for the England under 21 team every time, but I believe that the young defender is going to be a regular first team starter for us next season.

That place which was the backdrop to the first time I saw him, on the night he delivered the soundtrack to the greatest game I've ever seen: Texas over USC in the 2006 Rose Bowl (I interviewed his colleagues from that night for this story).

Following some slick build - up play from his colleagues, bringing the ball down the right of the field, the Belgian was played in as he sprinted down the left, firing home a first - time shot.

At this second Summit, participants included delegates from the October 2011 Summit, as well as multi-disciplinary partners who had joined one of the 9 Task Forces between Summits, and colleagues who joined for the first time as key informants to one of the task forces.

I remember exactly how it felt to see friends and colleagues for the first time, many of whom were already parents.

Feldman and her colleagues studied 89 first - time parents who all fell into one of three groups: Heterosexual primary - caregiving mothers, heterosexual fathers in a supporting parental role, and primary - caregiving homosexual fathers who were raising their children without the involvement of a woman.

Meanwhile, her colleagues predict the level of arsenic exposure increases during the second half of an infant's first year of life — that's the time most mothers switch to formula - feeding.

The saga of state Sen. Hiram Monserrate's (D - East Elmhurst) assault case is out of the courtroom for the time being, but although the first - term legislator avoided any jail time on his misdemeanor conviction for recklessly injuring his girlfriend while dragging her out of his apartment building, he still faces censure from his Senate colleagues and -LSB-...]

Hugh Robertson, minister for sport and tourism, this morning snatched away the spotlight from his Tory colleague Maria Miller, who was taking the stage for the first time as culture secretary in the commons.

This is not the first time myself and my retailer colleagues have been fed a constant stream of tobacco industry scare stories, from front groups and via the trade media, in which doomsday was predicted for small retailers at any measure to cut young people smoking.

Speaking publicly for the first time since her resignation was announced, Ms Miller said, «I think it is the right thing to do to, remove what has become really an unhelpful and very difficult distraction for colleagues.»

I have copied in some colleagues from the 2010 intake who voted for the motion last week, many of whom defied the whip for the first time in doing so, some of whom don't agree with my less than anti-EU views but may well share my disappointment that the vote is being taken down a path that it was not intended.

First of all, they spent a lot of money to get Avella, a former NYC councilman, into the Senate, and his victory was a big deal at the time, particularly since Avella's former colleague, NYC Councilman Jim Gennaro, had come so close to ousting Padavan in 2008.

Liz Truss, Justine Greening and Priti Patel are among the ministers to receive promotions today, while Damian Green and James Brokenshire — both former Home Office colleagues of Ms May — join the Cabinet for the first time.

DiNapoli, a onetime Long Island assemblyman who was appointed to his post by his former legislative colleagues in 2007 following Alan Hevesi's death by Chauffeurgate, is running statewide for the first time this fall.

She also acknowledged the «truly invaluable guidance and support» she receives from her predecessor, Dr. Kwaku Afary Gyan as she thanked her staff and colleague commissioners, «who from the first day I stepped into office at the commission and even in our most trying times, continue to support me and help deliver on the constitutional mandate of the Commission.»

His decision to step aside and endorse his former House colleague turned the Democratic Primary into a mere formality — Berman dominated in both fundraising and name recognition, and cleaned up with nearly 96 percent of the vote in her head - to - head against the fledgling campaign of first - time candidate Arthur Morrison.

As for his distaste for Mandelson's «rush into print», you might recall it was David's denigration of serving cabinet colleagues to his biographer that had caused support to vanish by the time of his first resignation.

After Paterson's re-emptive display last week of blowing up a tentative two - way deal, look for the Senate to make a last - ditch attempt by passing a one - house bill — likely the governor's plan — to provide at least some cover for Sen. Bill Stachowski to also vote for the revenue bill so he and his colleagues can get paid for the first time since they blew the April 1 deadline.

Balboni and Schneiderman were once Senate colleagues, and the former senator — who refers to himself as a «lifelong Republican» — crossed party lines to endorse Schneiderman the first time he ran for AG in 2010 against GOP Staten Island DA Dan Donovan.

New York City teachers, who were included in the data for the first time, performed worse than their colleagues in the rest of the state, with only 9 percent earning the «highly effective» rating, compared to 58 percent outside the city.

[34][35] The first time Ball rose to speak in the Assembly chamber, he called the legislature «dysfunctional», and withstood boos from his colleagues.

And while his bill has gained little support since the Bronx Democrat first introduced it four years ago, with some legislative colleagues bashing it as government overreach, experts say the times may be changing.

The senator is seeking a ninth term when at least five of her Republican colleagues have bowed out, opening up an opportunity for Democrats to fully control the state legislature for the first time since 2010.

One thing is certain: Cuomo is doing no favors for DiNapoli by negotiating this deal with Hevesi so close to the general election, which is the first time the former assemblyman has run statewide since being placed in the comptroller's office by his legislative colleagues in February 2007 after Hevesi's first guilty felony plea in Chauffeurgate.

The House bill passed 26 - 25 with Miller, who voted no the first time, voting yes the second time with her Democratic colleagues.

DiNapoli is running statewide for the first time this fall in hopes of keeping the seat to which he ascended, thanks to his former legislative colleagues, in 2007 following ex-Comptroller Alan Hevesi's resignation due to Chauffeurgate.

Probably the first time, she says, that she has not agreed with her colleagues in 8 years.

It would have been the first time in 35 years that an MP had been expelled from the house by his colleagues.

It is not the first time Mr Farage has faced claims from current and former party colleagues that he is too dictatorial.

According to the Times, which first reported the investigation in April, Bharara's office began presenting evidence to a grand jury and has issued subpoenas to eight of Skelos» colleagues in the chamber's Long Island delegation.

DiNapoli, who in 2007 was tapped as controller by his former legislative colleagues, is running statewide for the first time this fall.

It was the first time Katko, R - Camillus, a freshman in office for about a week, split on a key vote with his Republican colleagues.

Now for the first time, scientists have performed simple algorithms on a silicon - based quantum computer, physicist Lieven Vandersypen and colleagues report online February 14 in Nature.

In 2014, Binder and her colleagues looked at this system again with Chandra and, for the first time, the Hubble Space Telescope.

But this spear is the first evidence of its use in cold parts of Europe at a time toward the end of the Stone Age when the glaciers were receding, say archaeologist Michael Baales of LWL - Archӓologie für Westfalen in Olpe, Germany, and his colleagues.

Now for the first time, David Thomas from the Garvan Institute in Sydney, Australia, and his colleagues have sequenced these giant chromosomes and reconstructed their evolutionary history.

For the first time, humanities scholars can crunch numbers with the best of their natural - science colleagues, thanks to Google's «fossil record» of 5 million books, spanning 500 years.

Claudia Benitez - Nelson of the University of South Carolina in Columbia and colleagues are the first to look for domoic acid in alga particles and sediment up to 800 metres down, where they found the toxin at concentrations more than five times the US federal limit for shellfish sold as food (Nature Geoscience, DOI: 10.1038 / ngeo472).