Sentences with phrase «for elected leadership»

What is recognition if it is not demonstrated by respect for the elected leadership of Australia's First Peoples?

One survey of 15 - 24 year - olds shows that a majority (57 %) say they are not at all likely to run for an elected leadership position (32 % in 1998); 53 % say they are not at all likely to work for a political party; 50 % say they are not at all likely to join a political club or organization; 46 % say they are not at all likely to volunteer in a political campaign; 44 % say they are not at all likely to participate in a political march or demonstration.

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Not only is she responsible for the leadership, oversight, and governance of brand and marketing strategy worldwide, but she is also a sponsor of the LGBT employee network Aviva Pride and was elected chair of trustees of Stonewall in May of last year.

On June 16, Mr. Hill registered to contact elected officials about setting up a «workable» framework for those projects for Spectra subsidiary Westcoast Energy Inc., a top donor to Christy Clark's successful Liberal leadership campaign.

Mr. Kenney's supporters swept the first delegate selection meeting held in the Edmonton - Ellerslie constituency, electing 15 delegates for the 2017 PC leadership vote.

Immediately before entering elected politics, he served as executive assistant to cabinet minister Hugh Horner (father of current PC leadership candidate Doug Horner), who he later replaced as MLA for Barrhead in a closely fought 1979 by - election.

While Oakey implies that the union leadership is somehow unaccountable, able to do whatever it wants, the reality is that union leaders at all levels — from shop stewards to presidents — are elected to their roles for fixed terms by either workplace colleagues or the broader membership.

Left for dead in global markets as the hammer of the «rising dollar» pounded down on everyone, the country elected new leadership and began taking the...

If we are a Christian congregation we can elect a man of virtue as pastor but there is no need for any contest concerning leadership.

However, constituency meetings, especially those at the higher levels of the organizational pyramid, have proved unlikely to act independently because the system for choosing delegates (who are appointed rather than elected) has ensured that the vast majority hold leadership positions in the church or other church - paid positions.

SBC presidents are elected one year at a time; the post is largely honorific, except for its ability to fill certain leadership positions.

In order for our process of democratization to be complete, the time has come for me to devolve my formal authority to such an elected leadership,» the Dalai Lama said in his message to Tibet's parliament - in - exile, which is meeting at Dharamsala, India.

ORGANIC FARMERS ASSOCIATION ANNOUNCES POLICY LEADERSHIP National membership organization for organic farmers hires Policy Director, elects first Policy Committee

A student leadership program that's easy - to - run Fits easily into the existing curriculum Caters for the whole class as well as elected student leaders

New leadership was elected for the SNA Board of Directors and the Leadership Development Committee.

President - elect Nana Addo also expressed gratitude to all and sundry whose actions and inactions guaranteed the party's victory and reminded them of the task ahead as we approach January 7 for him to officially commence his leadership as the president of Ghana.

That members of a reformed Lords would be unable to stand for re-election effectively removes that effect from the equation, and there is no evidence to suggest that Lords elected under an open preferential system would be any more likely to follow the party leadership than those elected under STV.

Gov. David Paterson today lambasted GOP / Conservative gubernatorial Carl Paladino, accusing him of showing a lack of «leadership» for failing to join fellow elected officials — both Republicans and Democrats — in denouncing a recent rash of anti-gay crimes and instead making statements designed to whip up the right.

I thank the entire leadership of my Party including the President - elect, the Vice President - elect and the MPs for their support.

But would it be reasonable for, say, Labour or the Liberal Democrats to elect someone who is not an MP but because they have good leadership qualities?

Each party elects its own leaders (with all the Democratic Assemblymembers or Senators voting for their Assembly leadership or Senate leadership, respectively).

Molinaro, who has been highly critical of Cuomo, said that while he won't run for the state's highest office, he believes New York needs «new leadership, new ideas and renewal of a spirit of community that too many of our elected officials have abandoned,» and he vowed to be an «ardent supporter» of whoever is ultimately tapped by the GOP.

Elsewhere in England and Wales, since the Local Government Act 2000, there have been a range of options for how a local council executive leadership can be constituted, and installing a directly elected mayor is one of these options.

And some of our elected «democratic» lawmakers, otherwise known as the Independent Democratic Conference (IDC), repeatedly caucus with republicans in exchange for leadership roles (which gets them a bigger paychecks, staff, and offices) and more funding for their districts.

The frontrunner for the Labour leadership has some good ideas that were rejected by voters when they elected Margaret Thatcher.

Aggressively referencing London's mayor, Osborne called for a new civic leadership, based not on political parties but on elected mayors.

Productive third - party involvement designed to alter the confrontational foreign policy narrative as well as a structural environment that allows enough leverage for domestic decision makers (elected civilian leadership in Pakistan's case) to implement and enforce new policies are also imperative for change to happen.

The Liberal Democrat leadership withdrew their support for boundary reforms in a tit - for - tat move following the collapse of their cherished plans to introduce an elected Lords this week.

At the women's rally for Ms. Illuzzi, three elected officials introduced her — two of them men — and focused their remarks largely on tearing into Mayor Bill de Blasio and Council Speaker Melissa Mark - Viverito, whose policies they argued made the city less safe, requiring Ms. Illuzzi's leadership.

While the leadership position comes with such privileges as helping fellow Dems get elected, it has also cast Israel as a national target for Republicans and the far right.

County committee members are expected to meet twice next year — once in the spring to pick party - backed candidates for elected office and again in the fall to elect party leadership — including Schaffer.

Left to his own devices, as he makes clear in his diary entry for 12 October 1980, he would have stood for the leadership in October that year when Callaghan resigned in a deliberate attempt to pre-empt the decision of Labour's party conference to have the wider franchise for electing the Leader that all major parties now take for granted.

Addressing the media, the leader of the group, Godwin Henyo, said the way out is for the party leadership to expedite measures towards re-organization of an early congress to elect a new flagbearer.

Elected to Parliament in 1983, he joined the hard left Socialist Campaign Group, backing Heffer rather than Kinnock for the leadership.

The Labour party has always fought for equal treatment, and against prejudice and discrimination, but, in their desperation to steer the party in a certain direction, and get their favoured leadership candidate elected; many party members are now betraying their own ideals and values.

And for all leadership positions, local (including elected mayors), regional and national, there should be term limits on holding such office — no more than eight to 12 years.

Assemblyman Alan Maisel, Council Member - elect, Brooklyn «It's a great day for the City of New York that we're all united in Brooklyn under the leadership of Melissa Mark - Viverito.»

When George Osborne announced in November 2014 that Greater Manchester was to get its own directly elected «metro mayor», he lauded the potential for dynamic civic leadership to develop the city - region's economy and transport infrastructure.

The comedian Eddie Izzard, who lost his bid for a place on the NEC on Monday, urged the party's leadership and newly elected committee members not to create new divisions.

But the Progressive Caucus insisted the «incredibly divisive national atmosphere» President - elect Donald Trump's incendiary anti-immigrant rhetoric has created demands party leadership that will stick up for minorities.

This group elects state leadership, meets with the general public, spreads the Reform Party message and provides the manpower required for the success of a political organization.

For the Labour leadership, the choice is simple - take a principled view that they support an elected House of Lords and so ask their MPs to vote with the Government, saving it from possible defeat; or take a more pragmatic view that their job is to break up the Coalition and so ask their MPs to vote against the Bill.

Each CEC consists of 12 members (9 elected members, 2 appointed by the Borough President and 1 non-voting high school student appointed by the superintendent) who serve as volunteers and provide hands - on leadership and support for their district's public schools.

While 2018 has marked a watershed moment with regard to women running for elected office, we know that there is still much work to be done to ensure greater gender equity, including more opportunities for women to have many seats at the political and business leadership table.

Today, however, such a system is not commonly practiced and most parliamentary system parties» rules provide for a leadership election in which the general membership of the party is permitted to vote at some point in the process (either directly for the new leader or for delegates who then elect the new leader in a convention), though in many cases the party's legislators are allowed to exercise a disproportionate influence in the final vote.

In theory this could be interpreted to support an argument that a parliamentary party ought to have the power to elect their party leader directly, and indeed, at least historically, parliamentary system parties» leadership electoral procedures usually called for the party's legislative caucus to fill a leadership vacancy by electing a new leader directly by and from amongst themselves, and for the whole succession process to be completed within as short a time frame as practical.

Antoniello was elected at a time when the party was in dire need of consensus, after the party was torn in two, members and leadership taking sides in their support of either Steven Matteo or Lisa Giovinazzo for the Council seat.

«While I will not be running for governor, I deeply believe New Yorkers deserve new leadership, new ideas and renewal of a spirit of community that too many of our elected officials have abandoned,» Molinaro wrote.

As his term as Westchester's County Executive approaches, County Executive - elect George Latimer today announced the nomination of the core leadership team for his upcoming administration.

We wish to extend our congratulations to the President elect of the Republic of Ghana, His Excellency Nana Addo Danquah Akuffo Addo and his Vice, Alhaji Doctor Mahamudu Bawumiah and the leadership and members of our great party for the convincing victory chalked in this year's elections.