Sentences with phrase «large number of meetings»

It's time particularly for the IPCC to drop the hypocrisy of a large number of meetings in obscure locations that result in a very large number of air miles.

In addition to these major conferences, the secretariat organizes annual sessions of the so - called subsidiary bodies as well as a large number of meetings and workshops throughout the year.

A large number of meeting rooms in the office have no tables inside.

Not exact matches

If you want me to speculate on specific detail, I'm not in a position to do that, only to say that ministers have met and listened to a large number of businesses over the last couple of months and we're quite clear on access being top of the list [of businesses» priorities].»

«As part of the preparation of the new strategy, executives of Vnesheconombank met with representatives of leading financial institutes in Europe, Asia, and America multiple times during 2016,» the bank said, adding that the meetings took place «with a number of representatives of the largest banks and business establishments of the United States, including Jared Kushner, the head of Kushner Companies.

The company's management team usually votes as proxy for a large number of shareholders, because most shareholders, especially if they only own a few shares, do not attend the annual meeting.

Next week the World Economic Forum (WEF) will host its 48th annual meeting in Davos, Switzerland, drawing together a large number of leaders from governments (including President Trump), international organizations, business, academia, and civil society.

I've met with large numbers who haven't put their foot on the lowest rung of their potential yet.

Selected companies gain exposure to a large number of investors from angel groups across the state who co-invest to meet the company's fundraising goals; the angel groups gain far more insights than they can generate on their own.

Another benefit of replacing physical presence with a tax residency regime is that Canada will suddenly become attractive to a large number of international entrepreneurs who, as a result of their normal business travel, would never meet the current physical presence requirements and are not willing to engage in fraudulent behaviour.

In a meeting during apec with Malcolm Turnbull, the new prime minister of Australia, Obama described how he has watched Indonesia gradually move from a relaxed, syncretistic Islam to a more fundamentalist, unforgiving interpretation; large numbers of Indonesian women, he observed, have now adopted the hijab, the Muslim head covering.

This was familiar ground for Mr. Agrawal, now 47, an expert on innovation economics and one of Rotman's most popular professors; he'd attended an «endless number» of government - sponsored panels, round tables and meetings on the subject during his career, and many of the usual suspects were in attendance, including CEOs of some of Canada's largest companies.

The existence of the churches is not in jeopardy; they are and will continue to be for large numbers of persons the only accessible institutions that will meet their need to be affirmed in their identity and sense of belonging in both a human and a divine dimension.

Probably one of the main causes for the increasingly large numbers of divorces or separations in the usual family group is simply that husband or wife become bored or «fed up» with the narrowness and restrictions they meet.

Have you met a large number of atheists on which you draw your conclusions about them?

The International Missionary Conference born of the Edinburgh and Jerusalem meetings had created national missionary councils in a large number of countries.

One is simply to meet the costs of processing the large number of individual donations which comprise the backbone of the broadcastes» support.

Election was for life, and an unusually large number of formerly active members — called «Angels» — had come to this meeting in order to hear the scheduled speaker, Walter Raleigh (later Sir Walter Raleigh), whose wit and humor made him most admired of the active Apostles.

«Empire Kosher brand poultry and deli meat products are on - trend to meet the demands of our loyal consumers who have enjoyed Empire Kosher products for decades, as well as our growing number of millennial consumers,» stated Jeffrey N. Brown, Chief Executive Officer of Empire Kosher Poultry, Inc. «Consumers can now enjoy new products meeting the high standards for kosher and quality that Empire Kosher delivers in its natural or certified organic products, and we are extending that vision to deli meat products, value - added poultry, and soups and broths to be introduced this year at Kosherfest, the world's largest B2B trade show for the kosher industry,» he continued.

B2B meets are organized after matching the requirements of the buyers with that of the sellers, by sending out questionnaires to the buyers and the sellers well in advance.Thus entire process of facilitating the B2B meetings is made time efficient, thus benefitting large numbers of exhibitors.

«We export a large number of SKUs with over 13 SKUs of Topo Chico alone — and we work very closely with retailers to continue to grow and meet the needs of consumers.»

The Eastern Winery Exposition is an Eastern - focused wine industry trade show and conference designed to provide the Eastern U.S. and Canadian wineries and vineyards with an easily accessible, low - cost professional meeting with a large number of winery and vineyard suppliers, at the right time of year.

The hotel staffs at the participating properties have made every effort to meet the hospitality needs of the large number of our 128 teams that travel to the West Coast Jamboree, and their needs are many and varied.

She has a large number of offerings and customizes or creates each session so that it meets the specifics needs of her audience.

More than 31 million children in the United States participate in the National School Lunch Program, or NSLP, each school day, 1 and a large number of students consume up to half of their daily calories at school.2 Yet, many schools were built decades ago and face challenges as they strive to serve foods that meet children's dietary needs.

I recall, during the Asia Regional IYCF - E training meeting in Bali some years ago that a scenario not dissimilar to this situation in terms of large numbers of non-breastfed infants was given for consideration of developing a plan of response and no one wanted to touch it!

The Erie County Industrial Development Agency had a record - setting day today, approving tax breaks for seven projects — the largest number of projects that it has provided subsidies for in a single meeting since it was created in 1970, agency officials said.

«Meetings were quite discursive, because there were a large number of views in the room,» one senior campaign aide recalled.

However I am assured that the mood at a meeting on Downing Street last week with a large number of Conservative council leaders was very upbeat with a warm welcome for the Localism Bill.

The effort has included the holding of two public conferences and 30 meetings during which a large number of excellent development ideas were presented, reviewed and incorporated into the Jamaica Action Plan.

This allowed us to see something of Anglo's operations as well as meet the management of the mine and to learn about the excellent work being done to promote better health and to deal with the very large numbers of HIV positive employees.

Findings also showed it as an empirically and conceptually innovative, diverse, vibrant discipline that in many areas sets the intellectual agenda The UK publishes more than its share of major disciplinary journals; bibliometric indicators reveal international primacy both in volume and citation impact; and a large number of the seminal publications (books as well as articles) continue to have a UK origin UK human geography is radically interdisciplinary and with the spatial turn in the humanities and social sciences has become an exporter of ideas and faculty to other disciplines There was confidence that research in human geography had substantial impact on policy and practice and would successfully meet the challenges of the current impact agenda

A large number of angry NPP Youth groups from Amenfi Central, Amenfi East, Prestea and some places in the Western Region who met with the flagbearer of the New Patriotic Party Nana Akufo - Addo yesterday, questioned him about the whereabouts of the party's National Chairman Paul Afoko, General Secretary Kwabena Agyepong and the Vice Chairman Sammy Crabbe as they didn't see any of them on the campaign tour.

Like many of the other first - time councillors, I've been thrown in at the deep end: tangling with IT, deciphering which emails are for info and which are for action, meeting with residents and large numbers of council staff and working out who does what and how they can help.

That already appeared a very difficult target to meet without this additional factor, though migration numbers have come down a little, including a fall in student migration, the largest category accounting for a third of immigrants to Britain (though not one that evokes much public concern).

«If you said that you're meeting the goals on minority participation and it's a Buffalo project, people expect to see a larger number of African Americans,» said Erie County Legislator Betty Jean Grant.

The communities are where there are large numbers of people living there who are older than 60, but have not been specifically planned to meet the needs of older people living independently in their homes.

Those neighborhoods also made the largest numbers of complaints about people smoking marijuana to 911 and 311 and at community meetings, Shea said, arguing that cops are tackling the crime where they hear it's most prevalent.

He said that the airstrikes were carried out following intelligence gathered by an Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance aircraft which spotted a large number of insurgents at a meeting at Kadari.

The meeting, scheduled for Wednesday, Aug. 27 at 6:30 p.m., is being held at LTV Studios, located at 75 Industrial Road in Wainscott, instead of Town Hall in order to accommodate the large number of expected protestors.

Commending his fellow governors for attending the meeting in large number, Fayose opined that to move the South West forward, they must respect the political beliefs and opinions of others and not do anything to undermine one another.

The graduate division also sponsored a number of social events — both large and small — as a way to get postdocs to meet one another.

I've also had the opportunity to attend courses, workshops, and networking events, and I've met a large number of people.

Some scientists theorize that the so - called Dunbar's number could be larger for online relationships, because the time it takes to have a social interaction is reduced when all you have to do is send a quick message, as opposed to meeting up for coffee, a meal, or a full day of activities.

The Solomon Islands straddles the so - called «Pacific Ring of Fire,» a highly seismically active zone where different plates on the earth's crust meet and create a large number of earthquakes and volcanoes.

And according to Andrea Duina, one goal can lead to the other: «It is especially helpful if a postdoc presents data at a meeting, in either an oral or poster presentation format, so that a large number of people can become familiar with his / her research.»

Although many adults with atopic dermatitis (commonly known as eczema) develop the disease in childhood and carry it through life, a large number are first diagnosed in adulthood — a trend being discussed at the American College of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology (ACAAI) Annual Scientific Meeting.

One way to meet new people is to go where large numbers of people gather.

Weissman says that most clinical studies of stem cells fail to meet what he sees as key criteria: They should be based on clear, peer - reviewed demonstrations of tissue regeneration, replicated by a large number of independent groups that provide rapid, long - lasting benefits.

One of the advantages of working for a large pharmaceutical firm is that my collaborators can be based all around the world and I've had the chance to visit a number of other Novartis sites to meet them.