Sentences with phrase «former governors»

On Monday, he said his record on health care and tax cuts stands out compared to other former governors in the race like Romney and former Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty.

The Chairman of the 22 member committee that includes serving and former governors, former Ministers, former Governor of Cross River State Senator Liyel Imoke, assured the party leadership that the committee will do everything to achieve the goals of the party in regaining power in 2019.

Former ministers, former governors, serving and retired military men, a media mogul and several others, are among those we have called to answer critical questions concerning the management of our commonwealth.

«We're going to have to,» the governor said (as per the NYT's Sam Roberts) at a WSJ forum this morning in which he shared a stage with two of his predecessors — former governors Eliot Spitzer and George Pataki.

Pataki didn't address whether former governors should lobby.

Perez Williams pointed out that in her past positions, she had taken on two former governors — George Pataki and David Paterson — and would be willing to go so again, if necessary.

In the political calculations, alignments and re-alignments of 2014 which brought back Aregbesola for a second term, Adeleke emerged a factor that was required to complete the rank of all former governors of the state to be on one side (that of Aregbesola) as against ambition of the then candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, Iyiola Omisore.

Among those in attendance also were: Governors of Akwa Ibom State, Emmanuel Udom; Nyesom Wike (Rivers); Darius Ishaku (Taraba); Ifeanyi Okowa (Delta); former governors of Benue State, Gabriel Suswam; Ramalan Yero (Kaduna); Jonah Jang (Plateau); Godswill Akpabio (Akwa Ibom); former senate president, David Mark; former PDP national chairman, Ahmadu Ali, and a host of others.

But look around you today, senators, former governors and former ministers with rich pedigree, experience and competences.

But SERAP in a statement today by its deputy director Timothy Adewale said, «Rather than using their executive and legislative powers to promote good governance and abolish laws granting double emoluments and large severance benefits to former governors, the Abia State government is denigrating the judiciary and displaying contempt for the rule of law.»

For all the (legitimate) complaints about Romney's opportunism and tone deafness, he outperformed these former governors «turned «senatorial candidates.

Isn't Huntsman, as USA TODAY says today, «eerily» similar to Romney: Good - looking, highly competent, really rich (with rich daddies, to begin with) Mormon former governors with significant flip - flopping issues?

The returning former governors are producer Kathleen Kennedy, director Michael Mann and composer Arthur Hamilton.

He also served as the deputy governor of Illinois, working for the now - incarcerated former governor Rod Blagojevich.

The phrase had been popularized earlier that year in a book by Mervyn King, a former governor of the Bank of England.

India needs to be — and sustain — the world's next «growth miracle» to fight its poverty problem, according to a former governor of the Reserve Bank of India.

Duvvuri Subbarao, former governor at the Reserve Bank of India, speaks about how a potential trade war will impact the world's second most populous nation.

Because its citizens, starting in 2006, had been covered by a comprehensive state healthcare program similar to the ACA known as Romneycare, after the state's former governor, Mitt Romney.

In his announcement Friday, the former governor took a swipe at immigration hardliners in the White House and Congress.

Jeb Bush, the former governor of Florida, and Scott Walker, the current governor of Wisconsin, are also likely to make announcements that they are seeking the presidency later this spring.

The CEOs were asked to grade Dodge's performance over the past seven years on a 100 - point scale, and the former governor earned a score of 81.

Clinton, Sanders, and Martin O'Malley, the former governor of Maryland, focused instead on stagnant middle - class incomes.

All told, about 16 Republican candidates are expected to join the race, including Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker, and Jeb Bush, the former governor or Florida, who have yet to declare their plans to run.

Oracle fought back in 2015 with its own countersuit that claimed certain Oregon officials connected with the state's former governor were responsible for the project's failure and that they had shifted the blame to Oracle.

«He works for Fox but Chris Wallace deserves exceptional praise,» commented Howard Dean, former governor of Vermont and onetime Democratic contender for the presidency.

Losing Shumlin is seen as a blow for Canadian businesses, particularly in Quebec, where the former governor had cultivated important ties around strengthening trade and inter-regional business.

Rick Perry, former governor of Texas who also ran in the 2012 presidential race and who suggested last week he would make his own bid, also made it official Thursday.

She'll try to address it by rounding out her ticket with Virginia Sen. Tim Kaine, a Harvard - educated former civil rights lawyer who's nonetheless got lunchbucket cred as the successful former governor of a Southern state.

Former governor Kathleen Kennedy, who won a seat in the Producers Branch, defeated longtime governor Mark Johnson, who was running for re-election.

He and his vice presidential running mate Bill Weld, the former governor of Massachusetts, are likely to appeal particularly to Republicans who are uncomfortable with the populist campaign Trump has mounted.

The actor and former governor of California said in a Politico - sponsored podcast at the SXSW festival in Austin that he is in talks with law firms about possibly suing global oil companies «for knowingly killing people all over the world.»

Johnson, the former governor of a state that bordered Mexico, a U.S. trading partner that Trump regularly maligns, favors a more open immigration policy that would allow undocumented immigrants to get work visas to fill jobs that U.S. workers don't want.

A popular former governor of South Carolina, Haley adds mainstream, establishment credibility to the Trump administration and is often described as one of the most effective members of the Cabinet and a rising star in the party.

Gary Johnson is a former governor of New Mexico.

The former governor of New Jersey led the EPA under George W. Bush from 2001 to 2003.

The California congresswoman also claimed in July of that year that Romney intentionally drew boos during his address before the NAACP, and suggested that the former governor wanted to use the image of black people heckling him to curry favor with white voters.

Meanwhile, the former governor of the Bank of Canada raised a red flag about the «carbon bubble,» Canada's premiers agreed to develop a Canadian energy strategy that would address climate change, and Elon Musk broke ground on his Gigafactory that will slash the costs of electric vehicle batteries and, by extension, the cars themselves.

Dark horses include former Governor Kevin Warsh and current Chair Janet Yellen herself.

Mark Carney, the former Governor of the Bank of Canada who now heads up the Bank of England, legitimized the concept of the carbon bubble by confirming that the «vast majority of [fossil fuel] reserves are unburnable» if we are to avoid dangerous climate disruption.

In May 2012, all eyes were on Kansas as its former governor, Republican Sam Brownback, signed into law «the nation's most aggressive experiment in conservative economic policy,» as Russell Berman wrote in The Atlantic.

Oh crap, just took another look at the complaint, happened in Illinois, this is where a former governor is now serving a 14 year sentence, one scandal after another.

Deval Patrick, former governor of Massachusetts and a likely Democratic candidate for President in 2020, is also a partner at Bain.

Deval Patrick, the former governor of Massachusetts and now a managing director at Bain Capital, offers another tactic.

Opinion: The future of philanthropy in Canada is in doubt, writes the former governor general.

A host of Democrats, including former Governor Pat Quinn, is vying for Illinois's open attorney general's seat.

Here, David Dodge, former Governor of the Bank of Canada and Chancellor of Queen's University, looks back on his days in university.

Mitch Daniels, former governor of Indiana and current president of Purdue University, knows that no one in the audience is there to hear a commencement speaker.

Paul Jenkins, the former No. 2 at the Bank of Canada, and Gordon Thiessen, a former governor, flagged this structural flaw in Canada's regulatory regime in a report they wrote for the C.D. Howe Institute in 2012.

Gordon Thiessen, a former governor of the Bank of Canada; Paul Jenkins, a former senior deputy governor at the central bank; and David Longworth, a former member of the Bank of Canada's policy committee all have flagged this problem.

Mr. Moerdler, a former Commissioner of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, will join the Governor at the summit's keynote session, «Conversation with Former Governor Paterson.»