Sentences with phrase «group convened»

A presidential advisory group convened by 2017 president William E. Brown showed that the five - year - old REALTOR ® Party initiative, which funds state and local advocacy, would need additional resources.

In July 2010, a dissident group convened a special meeting of shareholders to remove McGoey and co-directors.

A couple years ago, a BC working group convened to publish a review of major sources of public legal information relating to BC family law.

First, its working groups II and III have very much taken on the role of the FCCC's Subsidiary Body for Scientific and Technical Advice (SBSTA), the group convened to give advice on implementation of the FCCC amd Kyoto.

Last Friday the pro-environment business organisation the Aldersgate Group convened a meeting to discuss the EU proposals to cut greenhouse gases (GHGs) by 30 % by 2020.

The work was carried out under the guidance of the multi-stakeholder SDG 7 Technical Advisory Group convened by UN DESA.

The team shot footage at each location and relayed it instantaneously to an editor who was stationed in a student's house, where the group convened for a party at 7:00 p.m. «I want to see the whole story before my dream!»

SB 1403 was the product of recommendations by the Texas Teaching Commission, a statewide group convened by Educate Texas (a public - private initiative) on which TCTA actively served during the year prior to the legislative session.

Cleveland County's Aspel supports the funding model that's been developed by the group convened by DPI's Hussey, and she hopes to see much needed change soon as she looks to make cuts anywhere she can for the upcoming year.

During the course of the next year, they consulted with state officials, mathematicians, and teachers, including a group convened by American Federation of Teachers, a national union.

As a recognized leader in professional development and technical assistance for effective data use, TERC was invited to delve into the topic with researchers, practitioners, foundation program officers, and other stakeholders - a group convened by Ellen Mandinach and Edith Gummer.

The group convened a 16 - teacher policy team last fall to study past and current experiments in teacher pay, survey city teachers about their views, and come up with recommendations about how to change the way city teachers are paid.

Drawing from conversations of the Accountability Work Group convened by the authoring organizations, this report provides recommendations for state to value both college and career readiness in the design for their accountability systems.

Similarly, annual student testing was conspicuously absent from the statement of accountability principles issued by a group convened by CRPE and Fordham.

Herzig and colleagues developed these recommendations as part of a nationwide working group convened by the Society of Hospital Medicine, a professional organization representing more than 57,000 hospitalists.

But a group convened by the UN last week to thrash out the future of the net is calling for an end to US domination of the net, proposing that instead a multinational forum of governments, companies and civilian organisations is created to run it.

Last May Beard led a group convened in Turin, Italy, by the International Telecommunication Union to consider other ways of redefining time.

I served as a member of the 2007 Parliamentary Cross-Party Working Group convened by Lord Falconer and Jack Straw MP to consider House of Lords reform.

The earlier start time is one of a number of changes being considered by a working group convened by Governor Cuomo last year to recommend changes to New York's Prohibition - era liquor laws.

Dudley dates his awareness of the need for these new disciplines from the fall of 1979, when he journeyed to Indianapolis as part of a group convened by Robert Lynn, vice-president for religion at the Lilly Endowment, to review an innovative project on congregational research directed by James Hopewell.

At a working group convened by the FSA earlier this month, one attendee reportedly recommended that it be «seriously discussed as to whether any registered cryptocurrency exchange should be allowed to use such currencies.»

When a group convenes on the first evening, it is made up of twenty men and a few women who are usually strangers to each other; who come from different parts of the country or even of the world; who represent the doctrine and tradition of from eight to twelve different churches, Protestant and Catholic; and who are engaged in different kinds of ministries — education, local church, seminary leaders, denominational executives, and others.

Each year, fellow - led affinity groups convene expert panels to discuss important issues in science and policy.

In a new set of focus groups convened by the Synthetic Biology Project, participants raised concerns about the specific applications of the emerging technology.

Writing groups convened by the Council of Chief State School Officers and the National Governors Association are at work on what they say will be a leaner, better - organized, and easier - to - understand version than the 200 - plus - page set that has been circulating among governors, scholars, education groups, teams of state education officials, and others for review in recent weeks.

Weary of what they describe as unfounded attacks and increasing criticism leveled at the nation's public schools, the leaders of several national groups convened a conference of administrators, teachers, and other education experts here this month to launch a counterattack.

First, we've taken a support position on the Call for Action to Prevent Gun Violence in the United States of America by the Interdisciplinary Group on Preventing School and Community Violence, a group convening experts from all over the country to offer policy guidance and recommendations that we so urgently need.

Findings of the initial survey were released last February, the expert groups convened shortly after.

At one point in the video, they describe «The Geography» of Algiers, pointing to a map that indicates where certain groups convened and organized throughout the Algerian capital.

Given that working groups convened overnight — finally breaking up at 4:30 am — it's perhaps not surprising that this morning started a little rough.

NCSEA's Utility Scale Solar Working Group convenes an active dialogue toward the following goals:

Not exact matches

With no time to convene focus groups, Perkins and Selbert relied on Connolly's sense of the market, which he had gleaned — over a two - month period — through industry contacts and by reading various magazine studies.

American Fidelity Assurance, for instance, convenes «accountability groups» monthly where executives discuss their strengths and weaknesses in the context of the company's leadership values.

You could try to resurvey, using the existing results to write more probing and targeted questions, or you could convene a focus group.

Faced with uncertainty, Gates and Chambers have convened a new global group of influential philanthropists, business people, bankers and political leaders to plug commitment gaps.

Sessions convened a task force to study pot policy, but the group made no recommendations for upending the legal industry.

The IARC evaluates substances suspected of causing cancer in humans, and arrives at its classifications by convening a working group of international experts to review and assess the strength and quality of the evidence — in this case, more than 800 studies.

The strategy group is one of several the White House convened earlier this year to advise the president.

The Alternative Reference Rate Commission, a group of industry representatives convened by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, has established a timetable for transitioning away from the use of...

The Asia Business Leaders Advisory Council (ABLAC) comprises a high - level group of Asian and Canadian business leaders convened annually to identify and articulate opportunities for improved Canadian - Asian business engagement.

It is a Chinese - initiated grouping composed of eleven EU members — and others such as Albania, Serbia, and Montenegro — that convenes an annual summit, most recently in Budapest in November 2017.

Everyone convened in groups they had been assigned then were given tasks by their leader.

Since there is still no consensus on the exact definition of «integrated reporting», IFA has decided to convene a working group to identify its advantages, analyse ongoing experiments, and issue recommendations to its members on the involvement of directors and the Board of Directors in this approach.

He hasn't convened the premiers as a group since December 2016.

Market participants convened by the Treasury Department and the Structured Finance Industry Group, a trade association, have made useful recommendations on how best to balance the demands of lenders, packagers and investors.

The 40 - strong cross-denominational group now convenes every few months to pray about serious youth violence and to hear from experts.

Kyle Haselden, the late editor of the journal, explains that at a conference on Church and Society, convened by the National Council of Churches, one of the so - called «work groups» declared that American society is guilty of overt violence against the poor and maintains an unacceptable order of injustice, and that the church supports this exploitation by its own «systemic» violence.

Critics including Spanish groups called Christian Networks, Lay Europe and a third run by atheists convened a protest march over the costs on Wednesday, and they said they expect up to 10,000 people.

He revealed that after the race riots in Charlottesville, he convened with a group of pastors to discuss what can be done to foster greater unity in the Church.

For nearly four months now, the Anti-Defamation League has directed its 30 regional offices to monitor mosque construction battles, while the group's New York headquarters has convened calls and sent e-mail updates on various mosque construction projects to members of the interfaith mosque coalition.