Sentences with phrase «from elected leadership»

The Challenge will run from January through May and will leverage gamification to motivate youth competitors to take actions like: having a climate conversation with a parent, generating and sharing viral content on social media, or showing up with friends to local legislative offices to demand climate action from elected leadership.

It can complement the message that's coming from the scientific community and from the elected leadership.

Not exact matches

While I understand that the NDP must feel intense pressure to capture votes — including from people who have never taken a course from John Smithin — I often wish that the NDP would show a bit more policy leadership on the issue of the deficit and debt. I was particularly disappointed during the 2008 federal election campaign when Mr. Layton stated, unequivocally, that the NDP would not run a deficit in the following year if elected (even though it was clear that Canada was entering a recession).

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.

The thing that makes me uneasy about having elected officails from certain religious groups is that, being female, I'm not sure a person who suscribes to a set of beliefs that does not permit a woman to occupy the highest leadership posts in the organization is going to promote policies in my best interests.

Unlike MPs elected more recently Watson and McDonnell, very different politicians, have decades of experience, years of mistakes to learn from, battles fought and lost, leadership crises, leadership bids, policies framed and re-framed.

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.

Liberal Democrats are worried about the national party's willingness to embrace centrist / moderate congressional candidates, who might, if they're elected, feel inclined to buck the party leadership and stray from its policy agenda.

We didn't expect a whole lot of heroic leadership from people holding elected office there when I was young.

The article says candidates nominated by the Americans Elect leadership need 10,000 «clicks» from the ranks of people who have signed up to be voters in the Americans Elect primary.

The party's leadership was assumed by Zimet, a former elected official from the Hudson Valley and prominent advocate, who has been complimentary of Cuomo's record on women's issues.

From 1977 to 1981, during the 95th Congress and 96th Congress, Chisholm was elected to a position in the House Democratic leadership, as Secretary of the House Democratic Caucus.

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.

WASHINGTON, D.C. - President - elect Donald Trump has appointed a second congressman from Upstate New York to a leadership post on his presidential transition team.

Deriving from all the above and to stop further slide of unconstitutionality, confusion and wide spread disenchantment of PDP members nationwide, it is hereby resolved that this summit shall set up a steering committee to manage the affairs of PDP and ultimately with our respected members of the BoT who have the conscience of the party until such a time that the proper lawfully organized National Convention of the party where a new authentic leadership of the party will be duly elected in accordance to the provision of our party constitution and guidelines.

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.

The on - topic and off - topic questions in the Q&A portion of the press conference included: the project status when de Blasio took office and how his approach to affordable housing differs from Mayor Bloomberg, whether there are any differences in Phase I of the project as being initiated now versus as approved by the Bloomberg administration, what he sees as a realistic percentage of units being «affordable» in projects located closer to or in Manhattan, whether he counts this project towards his goal of 200,000 affordable units, the NYPD officer recently arrested in India, the status of speed camera approvals from Albany, the FOIL delays and responses which did not produce any emails or documents in the Findlayter case, the NYPD / FDNY hockey brawl, Queens Library President Thomas Galante and the newly elected leadership of NYSUT (the state teachers union).

A spokesman for Zac Goldsmith hit back, telling Politics.co.uk: «Khan experimented with Corbyn and helped elect a Labour leadership who want a new tax on family heirlooms, including jewellery — if he is allowed to experiment with London from City Hall he represents a threat to the economic security of every family in our City.»

Michael Steele chose to side with pricey Albany political consultants — who succeed only in expending billable hours, not winning elections — rather than the elected leadership of the state party, so I can't imagine Steele was expecting any support from the the state powers that be.

Minutes after Natalie Bennett was elected Green party leader, deputy leadership candidates Caroline Allen and Alexandra Phillip were dropped from the race because of their genitals.

WASHINGTON (CNN)- Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and other Democratic leaders are devising a plan to block the appointment of Roland Burris to the Senate for weeks in hopes it will prevent Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich from deciding who fills the seat vacated by President - elect Barack Obama, a Senate Democratic leadership aide told CNN Wednesday.

What is emerging is that this particular election may present the NPP with the most undiversified national leadership, as almost all the elected positions may be filled from the Akan sub group.

But Laufer said state law allows party committees to coordinate in support of the party's candidates, and allows candidates who want to be elected to seek financial aid from the party's leadership.

The newly elected CNPP chairman who is also the current state chairman of KOWA Party, will take over the mantle of leadership from his predecessor, Hon Abubakar Ibrahim Abdani.

The problem we have always had with the PLP is that much of them no longer see themselves as elected representatives of the movement (in part because a lot of them haven't been elected but were parachuted and imposed from the time of Blair) but as the unaccountable leadership of the Party with a job for life.

What is emerging is that this particular election may present the NPP with the most undiversified national leadership, as almost all the elected positions may be filled from the Akan subgroup.

One of the reasons the incoming House Majority Leader, Rep. Kevin McCarthy from California, easily won last week's leadership election to fill Rep. Eric Cantor's number two slot, which he is leaving after his primary loss in Virginia, was his close relationships with scores of members he helped elect.

«The MTA leadership has signaled to us a willingness to enter into direct discussions to explore the process of transferring the site from MTA to city control and we would greatly appreciate if EDC would begin this process,» the elected officials said in the July 23 letter to the EDC.

Democratic hopes got a boost yesterday from Gov. - elect Andrew Cuomo, who said the lieutenant governor could cast the deciding leadership vote if both sides end up deadlocked with 31 members apiece.

After Silver was effectively removed from his leadership post in February, days after his arrest, the chamber elected a new leader, leaving the former speaker to serve as a conspicuous back - bencher.

«Going into The Bronx is a symbolic gesture to try to bring support from that borough's elected leadership but I'm not sure how much of a difference it will make,» said Smikle.

«Every elected official brings in his own leadership team,» Flynn stated, while noting that he's kept more than 80 assistant district attorneys from the previous regime.

«Unfortunately, we continue to see elected officials and police leadership twist this tragedy into an opportunity for them to silence the cries for justice from families who have lost their loved ones to police violence,» said the statement from Ferguson Action, which was signed by several other groups.

Senate Democrats have just emerged from a closed - door conference committee meeting where they consolidated their leadership, electing John Sampson as their leader for 2011 despite the fact that the question of who will control the chamber going forward remains unanswered.

The New York City Council unanimously elected a fiercely liberal Democrat from East Harlem as its powerful speaker on Wednesday, eschewing the moderate leadership that had overseen its ranks for a decade and eliminating the last barrier to a government fully in line with the undiluted liberalism embraced by the new mayor... Previous speakers, such as Christine C. Quinn, had acted as a tempering force in the restive Council, bottling up measures like higher wage mandates viewed warily by the business world.

The committee, which takes its name from the year in which its founders were elected, meets each week to discuss parliamentary business and take grievances to the Conservative leadership.

The New York City Council unanimously elected a fiercely liberal Democrat from East Harlem as its powerful speaker on Wednesday, eschewing the moderate leadership that had overseen its ranks for a decade and eliminating the last barrier to a government fully in line with the undiluted liberalism embraced by the new mayor.

However, before contenders submitted their forms, former Director of Communications, Nana Akomea was quoted as saying, «this particular election may present the NPP with the most undiversified national leadership, as almost all the elected positions may be filled from the Akan subgroup.

The committee, which takes its name from the year in which its founders were elected, meets each week to discuss parliamentary business and its chairman then takes any grievances to the Conservative leadership.

In a 3 - 2 vote, the Town Council approved a change last week to a long - discussed law that restricted elected officials from holding leadership positions in any political party while also maintaining office.

President - elect Donald Trump Tuesday announced the appointment of a second Congressman from Upstate New York to a leadership post on his presidential transition team.

NEW YORK, United States — After a clear yet shocking statement from the American electorate on Tuesday, many are struggling to come to terms with what a Donald Trump victory says about the current political sentiment in the country and what the future leadership of the controversial president - elect might mean for the United States and the world.

But what made Levy's ascension so highly symbolic was its unique combination of all the elements of urban school drama: a mayor whose desire to wrest control from the city's elected school board was long voiced; a city fed up with failure on a grand scale and in the long term; a competition between city hall and school leadership to pass the blame; and the realization, finally, that a system the size of a Fortune 500 company might be better led by someone with the skills of a Fortune 500 executive.

During the four - day Representative Assembly, delegates representing the union's state and local affiliates heard from the new executive leadership, including President - elect Dennis...

It's going to take strong leadership — from newly - elected governors especially — to prepare Americans for the discomfort of austerity.

To turn it around, we need real leadership from our elected officials at all levels of government.

That will require leadership from Gov. - elect Jay Inslee, who opposed Initiative 1240.

Critics argue the law is a corporate - backed privatization tool under the guise of parent empowerment; they are particularly concerned about using parent trigger to force charter school conversions, which could strip away from some schools the leadership of elected school boards.

«I wouldn't necessarily be comfortable with elected leadership positions coming from outside the state,» said Steinburg.

The message for our young girls of color is that women of all backgrounds should have equal opportunities at elected leadership and that our country will benefit from having a government with varied experiences and perspectives.