Sentences with phrase «in advancing his agenda»

But when asked today which presidential candidate he thought would be the most helpful in advancing his agenda, he demurred.

«Phil has been at my side from the beginning, and as someone who has been instrumental in advancing our agenda, there is no one better suited to deliver our message of fighting to make our city better and fairer,» de Blasio said in a statement.

You would think that given the enormity of this responsibility and the stakes involved, that as an education community, we would do everything in our power to recruit and prepare the very best people to advance this agenda, that we would establish structures and supports to ensure that these teachers succeed in advancing this agenda.

We are clear that it is our responsibility to work with schools in advancing this agenda and that business has a vital role to play as well.

«This year, we will press the United States and other nations to exert strong leadership in advancing an agenda that extends beyond whaling to the broader range of threats that imperil whales throughout our oceans, including ship strikes, chemical and noise pollution, entanglement, oil spills, radioactive contamination, emerging diseases and climate change,» says Kitty Block, HSI vice president, who will be attending the IWC meeting for the 14th time.

Not exact matches

Between advancing the government's agenda in the lower chamber and her mandate to help the country's small firms become «more productive, more innovative and more export - oriented,» Chagger's impact on Canada's economic future could be considerable.

It's essential to have everyone review the agenda in advance of the meeting to prepare a list of questions, answers or advice beside each item.

You are well within your rights to request an agenda in advance.

Another way keep your meeting on track: Make all attendees submit items for a meeting agenda, and send it far enough in advance that everyone can review it.

But two trade agreements President Obama wants to advance as part of an ambitious domestic agenda for his last two years in office — the Trans - Pacific partnership in Asia and the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership in Europe — are getting push - back from both the left and right.

He adds that Nadella «has done a great job improving perceptions of the company in ways that can advance its agenda — with developers, industry participants, and investors.»

Nadella has done «a great job improving perceptions of the company in ways that can advance its agenda,» says Steve Ballmer.

Invite all current investors to join this meeting / call, send an agenda in advance, and ensure that any items discussed during the meeting are followed upon in as timely a fashion as possible.

When speakers are on the agenda, consider requesting their notes several days in advance.

The responsibilities of these committees are to engage stakeholders in payments and advance the agenda presented in the January report Strategies for Improving the U.S. Payment System.

The guiding considerations of an effective U.S. strategy for addressing China's inroads in Europe should be to 1) include Europe in its own thinking and considerations about China, 2) avoid adopting contradictory economic policies that target European allies rather than China, 3) work with Europe to shape and advance a proactive, joint transatlantic agenda to address shared concerns about China.

They are not acting in the best interests of Canadians, or British Columbians, but instead advancing their own political agenda,» CAPP CEO Tim McMillan said.

«They are not acting in the best interests of Canadians, or British Columbians, but instead advancing their own political agenda.»

«By being involved at all levels of government, she helps advance the public policy agenda for retailers, their employees and customers in her community.»

The report, Labour Market Information: An Essential Part of Canada's Skills Agenda, is being published today in advance of a meeting of provincial, territorial and federal labour ministers on June 22.

«Corporations that fund the Chamber should ask themselves if they want to continue funding an organization that has become aggressively partisan in nature, one that advances a reactionary anti-environmental, anti-worker, anti-consumer agenda.»

Dinner was to be served, according to the agenda circulated in advance of the meeting of the Senior Advisory Committee, which is chaired by deputy minister of Finance and includes the heads of the Bank of Canada, the Office of the Superintendent of Financial Institutions, the Canada Deposit Insurance Corp., and the Financial Consumer Agency of Canada.

Advancing a modernization agenda such as this should be a top priority, but it carries risks if not carefully managed.In areas where management is looking for change, it will be important to not seek unnecessary confrontation and to ensure that union leaders and members are treated with respect in the bargaining process.

The question for me then is not whether we should try to engineer or not, but who's agenda we're advancing, consciously or unconsciously — each day — today — in this moment...

The «gadfly» groups could advance favored agendas that denominational officials thought it impolitic to promote in their official capacities, and if the groups got too outrageous the officials could always cut their informal ties, declaring that the groups had «gone too far.»

Vilifying hard working Christians for their success is in itself unchristian — particularly when many pay more than 25 % of their production in taxes — as is using the scripture to advance one's personal agenda.

They ought to blast the sick behavior of clerics, they ought to blast the fact that they have lost their moral authority, because they are more concerned in advancing a Marxist agenda, rather than the Gospel of Jesus Christ.

The New York Times throws sound biblical scholarship to the winds in order to advance a transgender agenda.

As I'm an LGBT ally, I will leave it up to those in the LGBT community to offer their perceptions of how Tony has used the community over the years to advance his own agenda.

«I know enough that you can not have the advancing of the radical homosexual agenda and religious liberty at the same time, in the same nation,» he preached.

Whether attacking the Times et al. for skewing the story to advance their own agenda, or complimenting the pope for using an unsuspecting press to help him broadcast Gospel truths, almost all such authors have agreed in insisting that there was nothing contrary to doctrine in the matter of our pontiff's remarks.

The interest may be to convey to students a certain range of information, or to cultivate in students certain capacities for research, or to «form» students in certain ways, or to advance the instructor's research agenda, and so forth.

Mostly Im just interested in advancing my own agenda and protecting my own insecurities.

The best is the closing remark... which I've been saying similar here for the last day or two: «However, you have become what you claim to despise; you have imposed your own agenda on Scripture in order to advance your own goals.

How scientists ultimately handle the evolution controversy in all its aspects may provide a clue as to whether they are authentically concerned about scientific integrity or whether they merely wish to advance their respective philosophical agendas, be they naturalistic or theistic.

The rubber of nonsense hitting the road in order to advance someone's agenda.

@raison — I laughed out loud at your phrase in a discussion of abortion and Catholics: «the rubber of nonsense hitting the road in order to advance someone's agenda».

Thus» according to this narrative» the legend of Palatucci, reportedly begun by his relatives in the 1950s, was embellished by each group to advance its agenda.

These essays clearly establish that the «legacy» is, first, securing and advancing the teaching of the Second Vatican Council and, second, setting the agenda for the Church's faith and life in the twenty «first century.

This chain of events happened way TOO FAST for it not to have been planned in advance to further this private's agenda.

President Barack Obama has taken another step in advancing his pro-choice agenda.

An annual event that coincides with International Women's Day (March 8), it brings together hundreds of feminists (in theory) to improve the lot of women and (in fact) to advance a radical anti-life, anti-family agenda.

The play reveals a great deal about a mentality that demands open - mindedness and excoriates dogmatism, only to advance its own certainties more insistently — that promotes tolerance and intellectual integrity but stoops to vilifying the opposition, falsifying reality, and distorting history in the service of its agenda.

INCHEON, South Korea, 25 October — Sixteen countries in the Asia - Pacific Region can look forward to better access to the most advanced rice technologies to improve their respective rice sector as they declared full support for the regional Rice Action Agenda for ASEAN +3 proposed by the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI).

However, advances in environmentally - friendly building technology, coupled with a strong business case for sustainability, have effected a market shift that is pushing the environment up the agenda like -LSB-...]

Times political reporter Nicholas Confessore does an excellent job of exploring the factors leading to this stunning reversal, which include a recent change in SNA's leadership, its choice of a new lobbying firm and its decision to use more aggressive legislative tactics to advance its agenda on Capitol Hill.

IAS, WHO, UNICEF, UNAIDS, Consensus Statement, «Asking the Right questions: Advancing an HIV Research Agenda for Women and Children», dated 8 March, 2010 IBFAN, Press Release 2012 on the Right to Adequate Food, Digest of the «Report of the Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food to the Human Right Council (A / HRC / 19 / 59)» IYCN Project Preventing malnutrition of mothers and children within the context of HIV and emergencies (Haiti) UNICEF 2011, Levels & trends in child mortality, Report 2011 US Expert Panel Report & Recommendations to the US Congress and US Global AIDS Coordinator Prevention of Mother - to - Child Transmission of HIV, Jan 2010, Summary of successes and challenges of PMTCT, as well as recommendations for improved implementation UNAIDS 2011, Countdown to Zero: Global plan towards the elimination of new HIV infections among children by 2015 and keeping their mothers alive, 2011 - 2015 UNAIDS 2011 (with WHO and UNICEF) Global epidemic update UNICEF 2011, Levels & trends in child mortality, Report 2011

Much of the upcoming policymaking work will take place in a GOP - controlled Congress — the «people's branch» — as lawmakers in both chambers consider whether or how to advance President Trump's agenda, as well as their own legislative priorities.

International AIDS Society and 15 other leading organizations, including WHO, UNICEF and UNAIDS, Consensus Statement, «Asking the Right questions: Advancing an HIV Research Agenda for Women and Children», dated 8 March, 2010 International Breastfeeding Journal, Thematic issue on HIV and infant feeding: Lessons learnt and ways ahead, reports from sub-Saharan Africa, including South Africa, Uganda, Malawi and Ethiopia, edited by Dr Karen Marie Moland and Dr Astrid Blystad, Collection published: 26 October 2010 Kuhn L, Reitz C and Abrams EJ, Breastfeeding and AIDS in the developing world.

With the growing trend of school gardens, «the idea of a school as a venue in which to advance a social agenda has reached rock bottom,» she concludes.