Sentences with phrase «last general conference»

I was fearful before the last General Conference that the third largest Christian body, the United Methodist Church, would adopt a theological statement that would provide weapons to those Methodists who would like to silence some of the voices now being heard.

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Bloomberg surveyed a bunch of oil traders and energy executives at the conference, and the general sense was that oil would trade between $ 50 and $ 60 per barrel, up from an informal consensus of between $ 40 and $ 60 last year.

The founders point out how attendance at conferences in general has gone up dramatically over the last five years because people are making these digital connections with brands and peer - to - peer, and want to meet people in real life.

«We know our solution works for the general U.S. population, but we want to make sure it is more culturally respectful, and can help the health outcomes of these population groups,» says Goodwin, whom I first met at IEEE's Women in Engineering International Leadership Conference last spring.

Cardinal Vincent Nichols said: «For the last five years I have been constantly grateful to the Archdiocese of Birmingham for releasing Mgr Marcus Stock to be the general secretary of the Bishops» Conference.

Indeed the General Secretary of our Bishops» conference is quoted as saying last April that there is no «empirical data» to support Cardinal Bertone's comments linking paedophilia and homosexuality.

Ever since the 1980 General Conference declined to take a definitive position on the ordination and appointment of «self - avowed practicing homosexuals,» the 1984 General Conference, which met last spring in Baltimore, was targeted by several groups within the church to accomplish just that purpose.

Though other mainline denominations have opened the doors to the full participation of gay members, the UMC's General Conference spent the last 44 years consistently voting to maintain the denomination's ban on same - sex unions and on ordaining non-celibate clergy.

Delegates at the United Methodist Church's General Conference last year approved the sexual orientation amendment, as well as several others that would have changed how the international church is governed.

Treasury Wines Has Changed Its Business to Manage the Risks of Climate Change At the Agribusiness Outlook Australia conference in Sydney last week Treasury Wine's general manager of sustainability, Gioia Small, said climate change was «changing the way we are responding as a business»...

This last weekend was LDS General Conference, which means we spent Sunday snuggled up at home watching and learning from the leaders of our church.

From time to time, Russell says, he would get overtures from NBA teams, one of them coming last February from an Eastern Conference team, which he won't identify, that wanted to hire him as general manager.

«Nana Akufo - Addo and the NPP as a party are tired of the deliberate attempts by the NDC and their agents to tag the man as a corrupt person,» Acting General Secretary John Boadu said at a news conference last Friday.

A party pursuing an agenda of increased tax and redistribution, regulation and nationalisation is never going to have a cosy relationship with media barons and big business in general (though it's worth noting that the corporate lobbyists who stayed away from last year's conference came flooding back this time) but it can reach people in other ways.

Last weekend, I discussed on Radio France International the meeting in Khartoum (Sudan) of thousands of politico - religious militants with strong links to the government: the general conference of the Islamist movement known as Al - Harakat Al - Islamiyyah is the most important political rally in the country of the last 10 - 15 yeLast weekend, I discussed on Radio France International the meeting in Khartoum (Sudan) of thousands of politico - religious militants with strong links to the government: the general conference of the Islamist movement known as Al - Harakat Al - Islamiyyah is the most important political rally in the country of the last 10 - 15 yelast 10 - 15 years.

Assembly Democrats emerged from a two - hour closed - door conference on Tuesday morning as Attorney General Eric Schneiderman's last official day in the job winds down.

The last Autumn Conference before a General Election always looks a little different, perforce.

State Attorney General Eric Schneiderman sounded the alarm about the deep cuts at a canal - side press conference last week, saying the slashed funding would send New York «back to the bad old days of choking smog and rampant pollution.»

Details emerging from an audio recording which captures the voice believed to be that of that Deputy General Secretary of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Nana Obiri Boahen reveals that the Presidency gifted the party GH cents 50 billion for its extraordinary National Delegates Conference in Cape Coast last year.

World Health Organization director - general Tedros Ghebreyesus last week told a conference in Uruguay on non-communicable diseases that Mugabe had agreed to be a «goodwill ambassador» on the issue.

And for those who say that this weekend's Special Conference has cleverly bound the unions in for one last general election push, and if the reforms don't work they can be unpicked in five years?

The National Assembly Conference Committee on Electoral Act (amendment) bill had adopted a controversial reordered sequence of the 2019 general election, putting the presidential election last contrary to timetable released by INEC.

Mr Cameron wants to focus this year's party conference, the last before the general election, on «getting Britain working».

Gov. Andrew Cuomo laid out a plan to tighten anti-bribery laws last week and the Independent Democratic Conference later would release a kitchen sink - style package of bills ranging from campaign finance changes to strengthening the role of the state attorney general.

The acting General Secretary of the NPP, Mr John Boadu, who inaugurated the committee last Friday, expressed optimism that this year's National Delegates Conference of the party would come off incident - free.

Gordon Brown gave a largely unsurprising speech to the UN general assembly last night, setting out his key foreign policy objectives ahead of the G20 summit in Pittsburgh and the UN conference on climate change in Copenhagen.

Sir Richard was appointed to the post during last year's Conservative Party conference — just weeks after retiring as chief of the general staff.

One of Cameron's first acts as prime minister was to cancel regular Downing Street press conferences, while one of his last acts has been to effectively kill off the general election debates altogether.

At the Conservatives» last conference before the 2010 general election, William Hague issued a rallying cry to the party members.

This conference, the last before the general election, is, essentially, a job interview for becoming prime minister.

The Social Market Foundation (SMF) hosted its first keynote address with Oliver Letwin MP, Danny Alexander MP and Brendan Barber - General Secretary of the TUC - at the Liberal Democrat Party Conference last night.

Last month, Saladino's Democratic challenger, Marc Herman, had proposed a town inspector general at a news conference Saladino disrupted.

It was the last address from the deputy prime minister to conference delegates ahead of next year's general election,

Dokpesi, who was speaking on the conference sheduled for Thursday in Abuja, said the fielding of Jonathan made the party to lose the last general election.

Q: At a press conference last week, you said that WHO's plan to distribute vaccine to the developing world is now moving into its operational phase, and that WHO Director - General Margaret Chan has approved a list of 95 countries eligible for vaccine donations.

Last September, the National Council for Private School Accreditation gave an inaugural stamp of approval to six charter organizations that accredit private schools, including the Association of Christian Schools International, the Florida Catholic Conference, and the General Conference of Seventh - day Adventist Schools.

At a press conference last year, as the Indiana General Assembly was re-writing its school funding formula, state Rep. Tim Brown, a Republican, put it this way:

Just last week, U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder, U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan and Connecticut's own United States Senator Christopher Murphy participated in a press conference in Baltimore to release new federal guidelines about appropriate school discipline.

Late last week, Representative Gary Holder - Winfield of New Haven and most of the members of the General Assembly's Black and Puerto Rican Caucus held a press conference to speak out about Governor Malloy's «education reform» legislation.

It should also be fun seeing if Sony's press conference can live up to the expectations set by last year's general insanity.

A new and rewarding research lifestyle emerged which involved the giving of advice to all types and levels of government, the broadcasting of unchallengeable opinion to the general public, and easy justification for attendance at international conferences — this last in some luxury by normal scientific experience, and at a frequency previously unheard of...

A number of observers also criticized Sanchez last May for offering a Vatican platform to known proponents of abortion and population control like Jeffrey Sachs and UN General Secretary Ban Ki - moon, whom Sanchez had invited to speak at the Vatican in an earlier conference on climate change.

As reflected in the travaux préparatoires, article XIV was originally drafted in almost identical wording as a second paragraph of the then article X addressing the rights and duties of federal or non-unitary contracting states (now article XI).1390 As drafted at the time, this proposed reciprocity provision did not meet unanimous approval, as some delegations wished to clarify that it would only apply to federal states.1391 It was not until the United Nations Conference on International Commercial Arbitration convened for the preparation and adoption of the Convention that the representative for Norway proposed an amendment for a general reciprocity clause that would stand as a separate article.1392 A majority of the delegates accepted this amendment on the very last day of the Conference.

Last week, several lawyers from the Office of the Judge - Advocate General converged to Ottawa, at the Government of Canada Conference Center, for a National Retreat on integrated information management.

It organized a successful conference in Vancouver last February on how to use Internet and social media technologies to better educate the general public about the law.

At a conference on white - collar crime in New York this spring, the deputy attorney general of the United States tried to clarify the intent behind a directive that was widely known by her last name, instead of its actual title, the Individual Accountability Policy.

CLICK HERE TO VIEW CONFERENCE PROGRAMME >> At Legal Week Corporate Counsel Forum Europe companies that attended last year were Barclays, Boston Consulting Group, BMW Group UK, Brewin Dolphin, Broadridge, BT, BTG, Cancer Research UK, Capgemini UK, City & Guilds, Co-operative Group, De La Rue, Dell, EE, Genworth Financial, Hammerson, HarperCollins Publishers, Hitachi Data Systems, HSBC, IHG, Imperial College London, ITV Commercial and Online, JLT Group, JTI UK, KPMG, Leah Cooper Consulting, Legal & General, Lloyds Banking Group, Lockton Companies, Microsoft, Mitie, National Grid, PGI - Protection Group International, Phoenix Group, Powa Technologies, Rolls - Royce, Royal Mail, Satellite Information Services, Serco, Standard Chartered Bank, Tate & Lyle, TelecityGroup, Tesco, The AES Corporation, Unisys, Unite Group, Vannin Capital, Viacom International Media Networks, and Vodafone.

That would certainly pique the interest of law firms and legal insurance protection insurers, noted Scott Ferrauiola, associate general counsel at Watson IBM Corporation, at a conference held last fall in Montreal.

The 11th - hour letter, sent by the Oregon attorney general and signed by representatives of 17 states and DC, follows a high - profile press conference last week from the New York attorney general, who said the FCC had declined to investigate net neutrality comments posted under stolen identities.

And while it's still an open question as to whether such tests will go live, during the Blockchain Connect conference in San Francisco last week, Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse framed the general skepticism as old - fashioned and out of touch.