Sentences with phrase «informal contacts»

The board gains further insights through formal and informal contacts with the candidates.

That makes your relationships indispensable, since it's through informal contacts that you'll learn which houses are being prepared for sale.

Even if they do not, they can receive some supportive help and guidance from occasional informal contacts.

The generally very informal contact between lecturers and students is an experience I would be sorry to have missed!

View from a former minister: Michael Gove may struggle to make progress on prison reforms if he can not depend on informal contact with David Cameron and George Osborne.

Crude prices held firm, underpinned by robust demand forecasts and prospects for informal contacts sought by OPEC with U.S. shale oil producers at a key industry meeting in Houston this week.

It is also true that there is little in the way of a support system forCatholics who do wish to evangelise beyond informal contacts with family, friends and work colleagues, and even here there is an unfulfilled need for preparatory formation.

Sources said informal contact had been made with the party to warn that those MPs who are members of both the Labour and Co-operative parties could see their funding slashed.

Whilst formal structures underpin the business of government, real political decision making also requires the myriad informal contacts that ministers make with each other — and friendship and trust are vital.

If possible, before applying, make informal contact with potential supervisors (find links between your interests and their research) and with university departments (to see where opportunities and funding are likely to occur).

Each Garda District in Ireland has a juvenile liaison office and it is their responsibility to maintain informal contacts with young people at risk and to liaise with teachers, Child and Family Agency staff, school attendance officers and other gardaí in their local area.

After they complete their training, Peer Educators participate either as informal contacts in their schools — giving information and referrals — or conduct formal presentations on abstinence, contraception, and HIV.

Students were encouraged to explore the interrelationship of the visual arts through informal contacts and lectures by visiting artists.

I'd be surprised if Michael Gove makes the progress he (and many others) would want him to make in prison reform now that he will find it harder to depend on informal contact with the prime minister and chancellor.

This «agent» role appears to work best in communities of 25 to 50,000 where the visibility and competence of one individual can be reinforced by frequent and informal contacts with professionals in the community care - giving services.

«There has been some informal contact with Metcash on the code and we'd be looking to engage formally with Metcash and Aldi and other retailers both on the code and on the retailer and supplier and retailer roundtable.»

Usmanov was reported to be personally involved in trying to persuade the Argentine hitman to move to the Emirates, but Red and White Holdings issued a statement that read: «Contrary to inaccurate media reports, Red & White would like to clarify that it has not made any formal or informal contact with either Paulo Dybala, his agent or Palermo football club,»

«I know there are some informal contacts but we say to everybody — if they want to do something they have to go to Wolfsburg, not to me,» he said, as reported by Goal.

But it is understood a move to the Premier League is his preferred choice and according to the Independent, Arsenal have made «informal contact» with Enrique.

It is unclear whether there have been formal or informal contacts between the Kennedy and Miliband camps.

«Did I have informal contact with Woolf Campaign — yes I did and it's hypocritical for them to duck that point in my opinion,» he said.

However, I kept in touch with the angel investor throughout the remainder of my PhD, and through this informal contact I got an insider's view of a number of business proposals and learnt a great deal about the commercialisation of science.