Sentences with phrase «in attendance said»

Senators in attendance said their closed - door meeting was about messaging — how to connect the energy and climate plan to national security and economic recovery.

At the Future Forum in Davenport, Iowa this week, many in attendance said their high level of debt made it difficult to reach certain goals or leave a better life for their children.

About 87 % of the buyers in attendance said that they planned to make a purchase from an exhibitor in the next 12 months, and more than half of all buyers at the Show said that they would purchase a product that is either new to the market or at least new to their company.

85 % of the parents in attendance said they had only some or little information about how to prepare their children for the PARCC assessments.

Cuomo attended the wedding at the swanky The Sagamore hotel and also gave a warm and light - hearted speech, several in attendance said.

Astorino, the Westchester County executive, gave a strong indication of what his speech will contain late last week at an evening meeting of the state Business Council, where he delivered a scathing and apparently effective critique of Cuomo's economic policies, current New York economic conditions and the failure of the business community to fight for necessary reforms that left several Cuomo backers clearly uncomfortable, some in attendance said.

Many in attendance said they've had difficulty getting doctors to take their chronic symptoms seriously and put them on the long - term antibiotics they need to go about their lives.

Those in attendance said the mainstream media are ignoring their side of the controversy, and attendees talked about how the group is focusing on «legislative battles and befriending people that are able to manipulate the legislative process,» the document said.

Students in attendance said they supported the changes but were mixed on the food samples, calling the jambalaya «nice» but the unsalted corn, carrot and green pepper medley «dry and nasty.»

At a six - day conference in Rome with 300 youth in attendance he said: «Be brave in these days.

The elected officials vowed a lot of support and help, and many in attendance say they are hopeful.

Not exact matches

Some in attendance expressed their anger with the suddenness of the email and its month - long deadline, a former employee said.

Since the first ever STEP event in 2013, organizers say attendance has grown from 100 attendees to over 6,000 at STEP 2017.

About 1,500 entrepreneurs are in attendance at the Summit, which is jointly hosted by the governments of India and the U.S. Rao introduced Trump by saying that in Hyderabad, «IT also stands for Ivanka Trump,» and indeed, her face appears on billboards throughout the part of the city where the conference is being held.

Alistair Brown, the policy officer for the Museums Association in London, said the switch to free admission saw attendance rise 150 percent but many lost up to 40 percent of their government funding.

«In addition to our staff, which had no knowledge of said situation, not a single camera or reporter of more than 100 in attendance captured the alleged incident.&raquIn addition to our staff, which had no knowledge of said situation, not a single camera or reporter of more than 100 in attendance captured the alleged incident.&raquin attendance captured the alleged incident.»

And the CEO of Gen Con, a 50,000 - person gamers» gathering that's reportedly Indianapolis's largest convention in attendance and economic impact, said the law could prompt the group to move the event after 2020, when its contract with the city expires.

Instead of the standard «I'd like to thank my vocal coach» fare, the TV audience and those in attendance at the the Microsoft Theater in Los Angeles were treated to 10 minutes of free - form rambling, thanks in part to marijuana that West said he had smoked backstage «to get the edge off.»

«Lower visitation from mainland China and the region largely contributed to softer overall theme park attendance,» Disney said in a statement emailed to Reuters.

It's a bit hard to say who's in attendance because it's open to everyone.

The Republican presidential frontrunner said his attendance in recent years resulted in various unfavorable reports regarding his perceived inability to take a joke, so Trump will skip the dinner later this month, to be hosted by The Nightly Show host Larry Wilmore, despite receiving numerous invitations from media groups.

CBC hockey analyst Scott Morrison says the team was selling seats when it went to the Stanley Cup in 1997, but only making the playoffs once in the last 12 seasons has hurt attendance.

January 2016: Days before Levandowski left Alphabet, he had another group meeting at his house where he says 10 people in attendance were Alphabet employees.

«As a result, firearms and firearm accessories, knives or weapons of any kind will be prohibited in the forum prior to and during his attendance,» the NRA said.

Other professionals in attendance, including lawyers and CPAs, had a similar opinion, with some of them saying it was because there wasn't any bureaucracy or red tape to hamstring the presenters.

«Last time, we had about 150 people in attendance and one of the suggestions that we heard that resonated was that we need to broaden the conversation,» Pitasky said.

During a staff meeting, Kelly told those in attendance to say he took action to remove Porter within 40 minutes of learning that abuse allegations from two ex-wives were credible, according to the officials, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because discussions in such meetings are supposed to be confidential.

About 200 trucking industry personnel were in attendance at the event, says Burch.

Hillis defended the event in an interview, saying it was within the bounds of military rules and that attendance is totally voluntary.

The survey suggests that while church attendance patterns over the past three and half decades have been most influenced by changes in how often Southerners, Catholics and women go to services, other factors may play a bigger role in the future, Schwadel said, noting how church attendance had stayed mostly steady despite the demographic changes.

More than half of police officers also say most of their case work involves alcohol - fuelled crimes, while in hospitals 7 in 10 attendances on the weekend is related to alcohol abuse.

«There is a small decline in church attendance over time, but not nearly as large as suggested in popular culture, or even by some social scientists,» said University of Nebraska - Lincoln sociologist Philip Schwadel, who conducted the study.

Church attendance rates by Christians in the United States have stayed largely steady since the 1970s, but there have been some significant changes in the makeup of the congregations in the pews during that time, a recently released study says.

The biggest changes have come in three groups traditionally associated with their reliable church attendance - Southerners, Catholics and women, the study says.

In his new book, «You Lost Me: Why Young Christians Are Leaving Church and Rethinking Faith,» he says that 18 - to 29 - year - olds have fallen down a «black hole» of church attendance.

There is a 43 % drop in Christian church attendance between the teen and early adult years, he says.

Ironically, it was a visit by Ramsey and his attendance of a lecture by the great intuitionist mathematician Brouwer that set Wittgenstein again to the task of philosophy.8 His Logical Investigations in which he established a new — how shall we say it — relational philosophy based on simple language games has become the primary reference of the contemporary philosophical position called language analysis and was a massive attack on Tractatus Logico - Philosophicus.

This was especially congenial to him as he was already saying a weekly Mass for nurses, attendance growing from a handful to a thriving group which also met in his rooms to discuss ethical problems.

Vaughn, who helped coin the term megachurch to define churches with 2,000 or more weekly attendance, said that in 26 years of researching megachurches he has not seen such a young minister named senior pastor of such a large church.

A quarter of adults who attended religious services weekly in 2006 said they sometimes drank too much, a number that rose as church attendance decreased, according to the General Social Survey.

Considering that church attendance and religion in general are on the decline, the survey's other finding may be somewhat surprising: Just 17 percent say they never pray (though that number too, is a new record high)...

Using a four - part measurement of religious observance for Christians — weekly church attendance, daily prayer, saying religion is important and believing in God with «absolute certainty» — Pew found that 70 percent of Christian college grads were highly committed to their religion.

He said told those in attendance: «The tragic and needless loss of life in the Grenfell Tower fire prompts in us the crucial question as to whether change is only prompted when disaster falls.

Time in 1966 said that the postwar religious revival was over, just a few years before the explosion of attendance at evangelical churches.

Great hook!As for April Fool's Day, my daughter came home from work on her lunch hour and said that the local hospital was closed down and had a SWAT team in attendance.

Has a large gap always existed between what people say about attendance and what they actually do, or have consistent responses to the polls masked declines in actual church attendance?

A few years ago a longtime staff member of the National Council of Churches and an active church member responded to our findings by admitting that if Gallup called her to inquire about her attendance in the last seven days, she would say she attended even if she had not done so, and she would not consider her response to be a lie.

«It was as if John Paul was back,» said one young seminarian in attendance, acknowledging the particular charism of hope and enthusiasm which the Holy Spirit is continuing to pour upon the Church through the witness of Karol Wojtyla.

Catholicism holds its own so far as membership ticker tapes are concerned, but no one doubts the extent of the crisis reflected in disastrously declining mass attendance and vocations to priesthood and religious orders, to say nothing of the crises of faith and meaning that go with these other declines.

A little later my dad came in and sat down on the edge of the bed and said quietly that we should have a conversation about Sunday Mass, and probably I was now old enough to make my own decisions about attending Mass, that he and my mother did not think it right or fair to force that decision on us children, that we needed to find our own ways spiritually, and that while he and our mother very much hoped that we would walk in the many rewarding paths of the Church, the final decision there would be ours alone, each obeying his own conscience; that was only right and fair, and to decree attendance now would perhaps actually force us away from the very thing that he and my mother found to be the most nutritious spiritual food; so perhaps you and I and your mother can sit and discuss this later this afternoon, he said, and come to some amicable agreement.