Sentences with phrase «in elected leadership»

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«But the narrative about St. Louis leaves out the fact that St. Charles County and its elected leadership have helped make several communities in this area some of the best places in America to live, and that the region has one of the best startup scenes in the country.»

Though the President - elect will be coming into power with Republican majorities in both the House and the Senate, many of his most popular positions, like his hardline stances on trade and immigration, are not exactly popular with Congressional leadership.

Not only is she responsible for the leadership, oversight, and governance of brand and marketing strategy worldwide, but she is also a sponsor of the LGBT employee network Aviva Pride and was elected chair of trustees of Stonewall in May of last year.

«To be able to motivate and inspire others, you need to learn how to listen in both individual meetings and at the group level,» Christine Riordan, a leadership coach and president - elect of Adelphi University, told the Harvard Business Review.

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).

Travelink, American Express Travel, is pleased to announce that during the American Society of Travel Agents (ASTA) Global Convention in Reno - Tahoe on September 27, 2016, the ASTA Corporate Advisory Council (CAC) set its Executive Committee leadership roster and Michael Dixon, President of Travelink was elected by his peers to an Executive Leadership position.

Mr. Kenney's supporters swept the first delegate selection meeting held in the Edmonton - Ellerslie constituency, electing 15 delegates for the 2017 PC leadership vote.

Even Dr. Sherman was a member of the federal Liberals before he was elected as a Progressive Conservative MLA in 2008 (he supported Gerard Kennedy in the 2006 federal Liberal leadership contest).

Immediately before entering elected politics, he served as executive assistant to cabinet minister Hugh Horner (father of current PC leadership candidate Doug Horner), who he later replaced as MLA for Barrhead in a closely fought 1979 by - election.

- All of the elected leadership candidates — Niki Ashton, Paul Dewar, Mr. Cullen, Robert Chisholm, Romeo Saganash and Peggy Nash — were placed in prominent spots.

«What's really encouraging to me,» Fadness said, «is all the work that's been done in the years before this, to build up to a day just like today where relationships and collaboration have started to flourish among elected officials and business leadership and nonprofit leadership.»

McIver was elected in 2012 and 2015 as a Progressive Conservative and sought that party's leadership in 2014.

Left for dead in global markets as the hammer of the «rising dollar» pounded down on everyone, the country elected new leadership and began taking the...

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.

However, constituency meetings, especially those at the higher levels of the organizational pyramid, have proved unlikely to act independently because the system for choosing delegates (who are appointed rather than elected) has ensured that the vast majority hold leadership positions in the church or other church - paid positions.

Elect leadership within in the party that is more reflective of the country as a whole.

In order for our process of democratization to be complete, the time has come for me to devolve my formal authority to such an elected leadership,» the Dalai Lama said in his message to Tibet's parliament - in - exile, which is meeting at Dharamsala, IndiIn order for our process of democratization to be complete, the time has come for me to devolve my formal authority to such an elected leadership,» the Dalai Lama said in his message to Tibet's parliament - in - exile, which is meeting at Dharamsala, Indiin his message to Tibet's parliament - in - exile, which is meeting at Dharamsala, Indiin - exile, which is meeting at Dharamsala, India.

Jackie Robinson West Little League has been placed on probation with its tournament privileges suspended until such a time that new leadership in the positions of President, Anne Haley, and Treasurer, Bill Haley, have been elected or appointed, and that the league is fully compliant with all Little League International Regulations.

Heath became the Conservative Party's first elected leader in 1965, a reign brought to an end by Margaret Thatcher in a tumultuous party leadership election in February 1975.

Rudd has sought to turn Monday's leadership contest into an American style primary by asking the general public to contact their elected representatives in support of his comeback.

Add Nasasu County DA Kathleen Rice to the list of elected officials calling on Senate Majority Leader Pedro Espada Jr. to voluntarily abdicate his leadership post and the perks that come with it in light of his current legal troubles.

Only the Liberal Democrats and Plaid Cymru are not currently embroiled in a leadership race — although, perhaps not wishing to be left out, the Lib Dems are electing a new leader of their group in the House of Lords in September.

Labour staged its second leadership contest in a year this summer and elected the same leader.

Gov. David Paterson today lambasted GOP / Conservative gubernatorial Carl Paladino, accusing him of showing a lack of «leadership» for failing to join fellow elected officials — both Republicans and Democrats — in denouncing a recent rash of anti-gay crimes and instead making statements designed to whip up the right.

Levi, Sen. Tom Duane, (the chamber's first openly gay and HIV - positive member); NYC Council Speaker Christine Quinn, (the first lesbian and woman to hold her leadership post); Councilman Jimmy Van Bramer, (one of the first gay elected officials to represent Queens) and Marty Rouse of the Human Rights Campaign Fund will hold a pre-Columbus Day press conference to denounce Paladino's «homophobic comments» at 11 a.m. in Manhattan.

The eighth link features a photo of Heastie himself, standing on the rostrum at the front of the Assembly chamber on Feb. 3, 2015 — the day he was elected to replace Assemblyman Sheldon Silver as speaker, becoming the first African - American in New York history to hold that leadership post.

Sen. Jesse Hamilton, a Brooklyn Democrat first elected in 2014, will be joining the Independent Democratic Conference, bolstering the clout of its leader, Bronx lawmaker Jeff Klein, in the coming leadership battle in the state Senate.

Molinaro has been highly critical of Cuomo and said in his January announcement that New York needs «new leadership, new ideas and renewal of a spirit of community that too many of our elected officials have abandoned.»

Research looking at the impact of the mayor in Bristol has shown that the introduction of an elected mayor directly resulted in an increase in the visibility of city leadership.

Elsewhere in England and Wales, since the Local Government Act 2000, there have been a range of options for how a local council executive leadership can be constituted, and installing a directly elected mayor is one of these options.

And some of our elected «democratic» lawmakers, otherwise known as the Independent Democratic Conference (IDC), repeatedly caucus with republicans in exchange for leadership roles (which gets them a bigger paychecks, staff, and offices) and more funding for their districts.

In all the many sub-dramas over last week's elections did you find yourself surprised that the disgraced former Tory MP Neil Hamilton managed to get himself elected to the Welsh assembly, one where he already seems to have leadership designs this week?

In this chapter, Brown also charts the rise of women into positions of political leadership writing that «by 2013, more than eighty women had held the highest elected governmental office in a variety of countries, spanning every continent in the world» (p. 38In this chapter, Brown also charts the rise of women into positions of political leadership writing that «by 2013, more than eighty women had held the highest elected governmental office in a variety of countries, spanning every continent in the world» (p. 38in a variety of countries, spanning every continent in the world» (p. 38in the world» (p. 38).

Queens Democrat Cathy Nolan in a radio interview on Thursday said electing a woman speaker of the state Assembly would bring a more «collaborative style» to the chamber's leadership.

The UN feels uneasy about being in the position of making decisions, in the place of a democratically elected leadership, which will then lead countries down a particular path.

Productive third - party involvement designed to alter the confrontational foreign policy narrative as well as a structural environment that allows enough leverage for domestic decision makers (elected civilian leadership in Pakistan's case) to implement and enforce new policies are also imperative for change to happen.

The Liberal Democrat leadership withdrew their support for boundary reforms in a tit - for - tat move following the collapse of their cherished plans to introduce an elected Lords this week.

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.

Clegg was replaced by Tim Farron, who was elected in the leadership election.

«Independent Democrat» is not a recognized political party in New York State, so members of the IDC run as Democrats, but then support Republican leadership once elected.

County committee members are expected to meet twice next year — once in the spring to pick party - backed candidates for elected office and again in the fall to elect party leadership — including Schaffer.

Left to his own devices, as he makes clear in his diary entry for 12 October 1980, he would have stood for the leadership in October that year when Callaghan resigned in a deliberate attempt to pre-empt the decision of Labour's party conference to have the wider franchise for electing the Leader that all major parties now take for granted.

Elected to Parliament in 1983, he joined the hard left Socialist Campaign Group, backing Heffer rather than Kinnock for the leadership.

In 2004, the party was given an unexpected boost by winning the support of former Labour MP and television presenter Robert Kilroy - Silk, who got himself elected to the European parliament, was appalled by the reactionary politics of his new colleagues, failed to win the leadership and, in the words of an activist, «disappeared in a puff of vanity»In 2004, the party was given an unexpected boost by winning the support of former Labour MP and television presenter Robert Kilroy - Silk, who got himself elected to the European parliament, was appalled by the reactionary politics of his new colleagues, failed to win the leadership and, in the words of an activist, «disappeared in a puff of vanity»in the words of an activist, «disappeared in a puff of vanity»in a puff of vanity».

The Labour party has always fought for equal treatment, and against prejudice and discrimination, but, in their desperation to steer the party in a certain direction, and get their favoured leadership candidate elected; many party members are now betraying their own ideals and values.

Jacobs: I would say right now in the party side — I think what I've seen of the leadership on local elected people, such as Barry Weinstein in Amherst or Mary Cook in Grand Island.

Jones, too, said he would prioritize ethics reform in Albany if elected, citing the ethics board formed in Franklin County under his leadership that requires county officials to disclose outside financial income.

Early this week, according to a knowledgeable Democratic source, members of the state Senate's black caucus held a private meeting to discuss the ongoing leadership crisis in their chamber, which — even if it resolves in favor of the Democrats — could result in the ouster of the highest - ranking black elected official in New York.

According to my source, they're very concerned about losing the leadership post, which has gone to a black senator since November 2002 when David Paterson ousted then - Senate Minority Leader Marty Connor (a white Brooklynite) became the first non-white elected to lead a legislative conference in New York history and the highest - ranking black elected official in New York.

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.