Sentences with phrase «item on the agenda in»

Setting out her way of working was the first item on the agenda in the Buckinghamshire countryside mini summit.

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Other key Democratic - leaning interest groups were knocking at the President's door with agenda items for him to act on after he was elected in 2008 and re-elected in 2012.

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.

For example, at a recent meeting at her consulting company The Daring Way, Brown told her team they'd have to table one of the items on the agenda, in order to finish the meeting on time.

McConnell did say repealing Obamacare is a «pretty high item on our agenda» along with comprehensive tax reform and achieving border security «in whatever way is the most effective.»

«Assembling a workable public consensus on energy and climate change is the most challenging agenda item in Canadian politics today.

From Brussels, Pompeo will travel on to the Middle East, visiting Saudi Arabia, Israel and Jordan, where the future of the Iran nuclear deal and the conflict in Syria will be significant agenda items.

The priest celibacy issue is the only item even on the agenda, but without female clergy, birth control and acceptance of gay relationships they haven't got a hope in the modern world.

When «The Gift of Salvation» speaks of «needlessly divisive disputes» between Roman Catholics and Evangelicals, it does not refer to the many weighty theological matters on which we still conscientiously disagree, such as sacramental theology, Marian devotion, purgatory, etc. «The Gift of Salvation» takes note of these matters, referring to them as «serious and persistent differences» which are «necessarily interrelated» with the affirmations we have made in common, and are thus future agenda items for us.

The pair met in London last week and Telefoot claim a move for PSG to pip Barca to the Coutinho transfer was one of the three items on their agenda.

In an email to its members, the NYLCV touted Avella's «tireless work» on some of the organization's key agenda items, like getting toxic chemicals out of children's products, promoting clean energy and protecting clean drinking water.

But in exchange for getting the popular Democratic gubernatorial candidate on its line — thus ensuring it would well surpass the required 50,000 - vote mark to live another four years (the party ended up moving to Row D)-- the WFP had to agree to Cuomo's «New NY Agenda,» which included a slew of agenda items — the property tax cap, no new taxes to close the budget deficit etc. — that the left had opAgenda,» which included a slew of agenda items — the property tax cap, no new taxes to close the budget deficit etc. — that the left had opagenda items — the property tax cap, no new taxes to close the budget deficit etc. — that the left had opposed.

Governor Cuomo in recent days has publicly listed agenda items he'd like to see passed if there's a session on salary increases, including, possibly term limits for legislators.

Cuomo clearly enjoyed reliving his big gay marriage victory of two years ago — especially on the heels of a not - so - successful (despite his vehement claims to the contrary) end of session, in which he sustained losses on a number of key agenda items, including the Women's Equality Act, and campaign finance and ethics reform.

The IDC took the Democratic National Committee to task for ignoring worker rights in a recent survey on potential party agenda items.

It was largely comprised of staffers from the AG's office, enthusiastic volunteers and a number of veterans of Cuomo I — in other words, the administration of former Gov. Mario Cuomo, who was, of course, on hand to hear his son declare con - con — his father's pet project — to be a major agenda item.

MAYVILLE - The Chautauqua County Legislature will be holding its monthly meeting tonight in Mayville and among the items on the agenda is a local law dealing with a ban on tobacco products on county - owned property.

Timing is everything in politics: The day before a special election is expected to result in the addition of a 32nd Democrat to the state Senate, the eight members of the Independent Democratic Conference have released a video calling on all of the chamber's Democrats to declare their support for a set of progressive agenda items.

Another key item on the governor's agenda is raising the age of criminal responsibility in the state to 18 from 16.

Cuomo, to chants of «four more years», promised to deliver in his next term on a mostly progressive agenda, including enacting a number of items that were stalled in the State Senate over the past couple of years, like an abortion rights provision as part of a women's rights agenda and public financing of political campaigns.

«If you add up the Tappan Zee Bridge, the LaGuardia (airport), Penn Station and all the other capital projects he had in that budget, and then you say we've got a record - breaking $ 22 billion for the state of New York for infrastructure, that isn't even (the value of) one of the projects that he mentioned for downstate,» said the Syracuse - area lawmaker, referring to some of the other big - ticket infrastructure items on Cuomo's agenda.

It's an indication of two things: that de Blasio learned from his tactical mistakes in confronting charters last spring, and that the mayor has far bigger items than charters on his education agenda.

Levi noted that legalizing same - sex marriage was one of the few social issues the governor mentioned in his State of the State address and also is one of just three agenda items he'll be pushing on his People First Tour.

But Republicans in the Senate — who have held votes on separate items in the agenda — remain opposed to the abortion plank in the omnibus version of the legislation.

A reliable source in the Presidency informed our corespondent that the sole item on the agenda of the meeting was how the governors would work towards the emergence of a former Edo State governor, Adams Oshiomhole, as the party's national chairman.

Wiley, who has focused much of her time in office on expanding broadband access across the city, listed the mayor's top agenda items, including universal pre-Kindergarten, in a speech that also served to introduce her to the legal community, Berke added.

Scared at the prospect of a Conservative victory in an early general election, EU powers are apparently willing to prioritize British agenda items in the coming months, lest the Conservatives come to power and hold a referendum on the Lisbon Treaty.

New York Governor Andrew Cuomo says he'll know in a couple of weeks whether two key items on his end of session agenda will become law - an abortion rights bill and public financing of political campaigns.

It's committee week in the Chautauqua County Legislature, with two of the panels meeting later today to discuss and finalize several items on each agenda.

The Green Party's Howie Hawkins weighs in on the shift of leadership in the Assembly and his objections to Governor Cuomo's education agenda items.

«The fight is over this real estate program, but really it comes to something deeper, which is that the forever - fraught relationship between de Blasio and Cuomo — and indeed the fraught relationship between any mayor of New York City and any governor of New York really is at a low point with just nine days left in Albany's legislation session and with several items on the mayor's agenda sitting in Albany's lap,» Jimmy Vielkind, who covers the state government for Capital New York, told WCBS 880.

Mayor Bill de Blasio unveiled a slew of new education initiatives on Wednesday, supplementing his administration's key education agenda item — universal pre-kindergarten — with programs for students in grades K - 12.

Governor Andrew Cuomo in recent days has publicly listed agenda items he'd like to see passed if there's a session on salary increases, including, possibly term limits for legislators.

Some of the items in Cuomo's Promise Agenda are reliant on the state Legislature, where Republicans who control the Senate have been unsupportive of the Dream Act, codifying Roe v. Wade into state law, raising the age of adult criminal responsibility, and more that Cuomo has proposed.

Mayor Bill de Blasio and Governor Andrew Cuomo met last week when the mayor was in Albany to push items on his agenda, also meeting with members of the Senate and the Assembly.

In the Assembly, Speaker Carl Heastie rattled off a list of Democratic agenda items in his opening remarks to kick off the session in the chamber, chastising federal policies that those on the left side of the aisle in Albany say already are having serious repercussions for the statIn the Assembly, Speaker Carl Heastie rattled off a list of Democratic agenda items in his opening remarks to kick off the session in the chamber, chastising federal policies that those on the left side of the aisle in Albany say already are having serious repercussions for the statin his opening remarks to kick off the session in the chamber, chastising federal policies that those on the left side of the aisle in Albany say already are having serious repercussions for the statin the chamber, chastising federal policies that those on the left side of the aisle in Albany say already are having serious repercussions for the statin Albany say already are having serious repercussions for the state.

With machine - like efficiency, the board would have a meeting in the backroom, and then the meeting in the meeting room — where it was not unusual for every item on the agenda to pass with no discussion.

He said the city is continuing to work on implementing the big - ticket items he instituted in previous years, like his affordable housing agenda, a new community policing plan and universal pre-kindergarten.

In an interview Wednesday evening, Klein said that the central problem with trying to come together before November's elections was more basic: a lack of votes on the unaccomplished progressive agenda items.

MAYVILLE — The Chautauqua County Legislature's planning and economic development committee is meeting Wednesday at 6 p.m. in Mayville and among the items on the agenda is a presentation on the hazards associated with hygiene products containing... [Read more...]

On Monday, April 18th, Republican members of the Congressional delegation and key legislative Republicans sequestered themselves for a meeting in which resolving lingering difficulties over maps and making sure party leaders were on board were thought to be top agenda itemOn Monday, April 18th, Republican members of the Congressional delegation and key legislative Republicans sequestered themselves for a meeting in which resolving lingering difficulties over maps and making sure party leaders were on board were thought to be top agenda itemon board were thought to be top agenda items.

The serious financial challenges we are facing in Clarkstown were highlighted during a discussion at last week's town Board meeting on an agenda item seeking to amend the Highway Department's budget.

In his session scheduled for today, he has marriage equality as the first item on the agenda for today's session.

Cuomo has tried to salvage his women's agenda, asking the state Assembly to come back for a special session to act on the other items in the package that do not include abortion rights that the Senate already passed.

This also holds true even for the items that were on the U.S. — China agenda at Mar - a-Lago, such as the future of war - torn Syria after Trump ordered a cruise missile strike in response to that nation's use of chemical weapons in its civil war.

Planetary protection was the first item on the agenda at the Astrobiology Science Conference, which was held last week in Mesa, Arizona.

The adoption of an initial strategy on the reduction of GHG emissions from ships is one of the key items on the agenda of the International Maritime Organization's Marine Environment Protection Committee (MEPC 72), which is now under way at IMO Headquarters in London (9 - 13 April).

Pacing seemed to be an obsession, not just for tracking workout speed, but minding the clock at all times in order to remain «on time» for every item on the packed daily agenda.

Today is a pre-conference day, which consists of a venue site - check with my core PR team, final prep on all agenda items for our domestic and international press, hotel check - in, dinner with the full communications team and (hopefully) a late workout before heading to bed at what I hope is a somewhat decent hour.

The first item on your agenda before trying any new trend should be getting your strands in tip - top shape, and this usually means one thing: moisture.