Sentences with phrase «force held meetings»

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Post-financial market regulations (read: Dodd - Frank) have required banks and other «systemically important financial institutions» to hold more cash on their balance sheet, creating less bond inventory on balance sheets — fewer potential buyers, fewer potential sellers — if portfolio managers are forced to meet client redemptions quickly and en masse.

The first one, «The Phantom Menace,» was about two Jedi Knights who meet a young boy who holds great promise with the Force.

The cleverly crafted offer is designed to get the revised merger proposal (RMP) in front of the WPL shareholders to force a vote (extraordinary general meeting will be held at the end of April).

Courts have said that religious schools can not be forced to recognize or fund groups that oppose their teachings, but the District insists that such religious freedom does not extend to the use of the school's facilities, for example, rooms to hold meetings or permits for rallies.

Major banks CBA and ANZ have urged the repeal of a law which allows activist investors, unions and environmental groups to pursue fringe causes by forcing companies to hold costly shareholder meetings.

The meeting between the two came in the second leg of the semi-final of the Copa Libertadores, but proceedings were forced to be put on hold thanks to the actions of one bad seed of a fan.

The School Nutrition Association (SNA), the leading force behind efforts to roll back school nutrition standards in Congress, held its annual meeting earlier this month and installed a new president, Jean Ronnei.

Also at 5 p.m., NYC Council Speaker Melissa Mark - Viverito holds a «Melissa Meet Up» to celebrate Black History Month, meeting at the Elmendorf Reformed Church with members of the African Burial Ground Task Force to learn about the African burial ground discovered in the neighborhood, 171 East 121st St., Manhattan.

«Earlier this year, the Task Force held productive meetings throughout the State that provided valuable insight into what steps we should be taking next when it comes to our efforts to combat the heroin and opioid epidemic,» said Sen. George Amedore.

At 5 p.m., the Senate's Task Force on Heroin and Opioid Addiction holds a public meeting, Binghamton University's Innovative Technologies Complex, Center of Excellence Building, Rotunda, 85 Murray Hill Road, Vestal.

At 6:30 p.m., the state Senate Joint Task Force on Heroin and Opioid Addiction holds a public meeting to gather information and testimony regarding sober homes and existing regulations, Pace University, Willcox Hall, Stephen J. Friedman Room, 861 Bedford Road, Pleasantville.

The Three Parks Independent Democrats were forced to hold three ballots during an endorsement meeting last night when embattled veteran Rep. Charlie Rangel failed to make the cut in the first two rounds.

And so it was that almost 25 years ago that its anti-bias task force held its first meeting.

The state Indian Point Closure Task Force held its second meeting late last month, where John Sipos, a representative with the NRC, said segments of the property could be released early for development while the plant is being decommissioned.

Angry teachers held a mock grand jury Tuesday night and indicted Governor Cuomo for such things as depriving students of enough school aid to meet the State Constitution and forcing standardized tests on students.

The Nigerian Armed Forces Chief of Defence Staff, General Abayomi Gabriel Olonisakin and his Chadian counterpart, Lieutenant General Mohammad Ibrahim Saed, on Saturday held a crucial strategic meeting, aimed at improving the synergy between the two countries on the ongoing operation against Boko Haram Terrorists and other criminalities, in the Lake Chad Basin Region.

At 5:30 p.m., Carlucci and concussion experts from Rockland and Westchester counties, along with USA Women's Olympic Hockey Player Josephine Pucci, will hold a meeting of the Concussion Task Force, Ellipse Lecture Hall, Rockland Community College, 145 College Rd., Suffern.

Also at 2:30 p.m., the Buffalo School Board will hold a special meeting to discuss the possible forced removal of one of its members, Carl Paladino, who does not plan on attending, City Hall, Common Council Chambers, 13th floor, Buffalo.

Neely, who earned her bachelor's of fine arts in theater management at Howard University and a master's in teaching from Fordham, discussed that «need» she hadn't originally recognized at a Harlem community meeting sponsored by Manhattan Community Board 10's LGBTQ Task Force and Borough President Gale Brewer held in late 2015.

He's held similar hearings before and established a task force to examine it, cited a previous estimate that only 20 percent of the need was being met but added that progress has been made.

Residents at Saturday's tenant meeting shouted and held signs, urging fellow residents to band together to force the complex's management company, Knickerbocker Village, Inc., and its owner, AREA Property Partners, to do more to provide for the tenants» immediate needs, such as supplying generators and heaters.

The task force held is first meeting on Wednesday, May 31 in Cortlandt, Westchester County.

Priti Patel has been forced to apologise for holding 12 meetings with senior Israeli figures - including the country's Prime Minister - while on a family holiday in the country.

The task force, led by State Liquor Authority Chairman Vincent Bradley, will hold an inaugural meeting on February 29th to begin gathering industry input on drafting legislation concerning third party providers.

Aside this recent occurrence, the party has been faced with a number of violent incidents, forcing it to hold a series of meetings to resolve the impasse.

At 9:30 a.m., the Thruway Authority holds a mass transit task force meeting, White Plains Public Library, 100 Martine Ave., White Plains.

Yes, Weiner took the time to help the man who now holds the seat he was forced to give up in disgrace, keeping the meeting on the down - low even though it would have helped improve his image.

Unlike the Medicaid Relief Task Force, which held public hearings all over the state, the governor's hand - picked Mandate Relief group (under the leadership of Paterson administration holdover Larry Schwartz) hasn't met nearly as publicly or as often.

In attempt to justify the suspension of New Patriotic Party Chairman, Paul Afoko, a member of the party's Communication Team, Richard Yeboah, says the party under Afoko's leadership was forced to hold more peace meetings than that which occurs between Israel and Palestine.

Religious groups keen to hold gay marriages in their churches are meeting with Labour today to organise how to force the government's hand on the issue.

Mr Amissah - Arthur, accompanied by some top government appointees from the area and party executives has held series of strategic meetings with Parliamentary candidates, Constituency Chairmen, Municipal and District Chief Executives and the Northern Regional Campaign Task Force.

The Assembly Minority Task Force on Heroin Addiction & Community Response sponsored the report after holding seven meetings throughout the state, considering how best to alter protocol for addressing the heroin epidemic.

Sources say the task force's seven members have held several conference calls, but have yet to meet in person.

While they decided against attending future task force meetings, developer representatives have continued to meet with residents to talk through various issues, and intend to hold more meetings in the future.

According to a release from the governor's office this week, the Indian Point task force's first meeting will be held on May 31 at 7 p.m. in Cortlandt Town Hall, located in the town of Cortlandt.

The task force, she said, met twice in person and held two other meetings over the phone.

The Governor appointed a Task Force that is supposed to make recommendations for action on plastic bags by the end of the year but has failed to hold any hearings or public meetings.

The governor did not hold a face - to - face meeting with legislative leaders, but has previously backed the Assembly's position on mayoral control — something the speaker pointed out with force.

Members of the Urban Jobs Task Force hold signs supporting a Resident Employment Ordinance during a meeting of the Syracuse Common Council on Monday, June 6, 2016.

The threats by the Joint Niger Delta Liberation Force, JNDLF to bomb major government facilities in Abuja as from midnight has compelled the federal government to hold an emergency security meeting.

Mr Miliband also met General David Petraeus, the American commander of Nato forces in Afghanistan, and later held talks with Afghan president Hamid Karzai in Kabul.

Yesterday, Biden held the first meeting of an interagency task force to plan the moonshot.

«There aren't any new data presented, but we have a wealth of anecdotal evidence» pointing to a shortage of domestic scientific talent, says Joseph Miller, Corning's chief technology officer and chair of the task force, which has held a series of open meetings to discuss a long - awaited report that it plans to present to the board next week.

The team reasoned that strong magnetic forces were repelling the stellar wind because gaseous pressures alone would not be enough to hold it off at such a distance, says Vidotto, who presented the findings at this week's meeting of the Royal Astronomical Society in Llandudno in the United Kingdom.

From the 20th to the 22nd March 2018 the MELGEN Consortium joined forces with the GenoMEL and BioGenoMEL consortia to hold their annual scientific meeting, this year hosted by the University Hospital Essen in Germany.

BUZZFEED - June 20 - Osmium Partners is almost certain to win the four board seats it is gunning for when Spark holds its annual shareholder meeting, allowing the activist hedge fund to take control and force a sale of the company.

Tom Solomon (Segel) has just proposed to his girlfriend Violet (Emily Blunt) one year after they first met on New Year's Eve, but before they can get married, she's offered a job at the University of Michigan, putting their wedding plans on hold and forcing Tom to give up his flourishing career as a chef.

He uses still shots of street life as the visual connective tissue between capturing meetings held by various minority groups: Columbians celebrating a World Cup victory and then taking their party to the pavement; a mature LGBT community circle discussing the venue for future meetings; a Halal butcher blessing chickens prior to slicing their throats and having their still - twiching bodies dragged through various grubby processing machines; a group of Hispanic activists gathering stories of small business being forced out of their premises due to unfair rent hikes; and even a group of Christian urban beautifiers who are seen descending into intense prayer when one of their number explains that her father is dying.

The task force will hold public meetings throughout the state to publicize and modify its recommendations.

The 1986 Carnegie Report made a case for the idea that the economic challenges the nation would face in the years ahead could not be met unless students were held to much higher academic standards and the nation did what would be necessary to fully professionalize its teaching force, much as medicine had done a century earlier.