Sentences with phrase «last national gathering»

At the end of March 2014, the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada held its last national gathering in Edmonton, Alberta.

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Such was the case with Michael Flynn, the former national security adviser whose communications with Sergey Kislyak, who until last summer was Russia's ambassador to the US, were incidentally collected as part of routine intelligence - gathering while the US monitored Kislyak.

«People feel marginalised, they feel voiceless and they feel angry, and some of those emotions were seen here last week in St Paul's Cathedral as people gathered for the Grenfell national memorial service,» she said.

Q Women held its first national event last year in New York City, and we are preparing to gather hundreds of women together for our second annual event, this time in Nashville.

Since its debut last April at the Q Gathering in Austin (where Wigg - Stevenson shared the stage with former Secretary of State George Shultz), 2FP's whirlwind «tour» has included the National Cathedral, PBS» Religion and Ethics Newsweekly, the National Association of Evangelicals (NAE) Leaders Forum, and Willow Creek Community Church's young adult ministry, Generation Axis.

«Everybody is trying to improve it for the kids,» said Pope, who last year gave a keynote speech at the convention of the National Association for College Admission Counseling, a gathering of college admissions officers and high school counselors.

Last week, I participated in the national gathering of School Food FOCUS.

Still, it has been his ongoing battle with Cuomo, which has become increasingly pitched in recent months, that has dominated the headlines, most recently the perceived snub at a breakfast gathering of the New York delegation at the Democratic National Convention last week in Philadelphia.

Beals is a member of the Woodstock Democratic Committee, and has been working on the grassroots level since last November's election, when he joined with Swing Left, a new national activist movement, to throw a gathering in Woodstock in March, with the aim of winning back the 19th district congressional seat in the 2018 elections.

Vanguard gathered that the current action of the Governor, came on the heels of last Wednesday's protest in Owerri, by the Nigerian Labour Congress, headed by factional National President, Comrade Ayuba Wabba.

Canada's students gathered in the tens of thousands last week to protest rising tuition and demand better access to postsecondary education during the 6 February National Day of Action.

Last summer on a warm Paris morning, a few dozen members of the International Society for Phylogenetic Nomenclature gathered at the National Museum of Natural History.

Obama frequently defended the National Security Agency (NSA) and its signals intelligence work and posited that as the last remaining world superpower, the U.S. has a responsibility to gather intelligence from sources around the world and share such information with its allies as part of its peacekeeping role.

Last week, from 12 to 13 November 2001, more than 200 life scientists, clinicians, postgraduate students, and teachers gathered at the Clinical Research Centre at the National University of Singapore to share their research findings and to discuss science funding, education, and training.

The SKA will also be the first astronomy project gathering three of the five major emerging national economies: India, China, and South Africa — the last of which will host the core of the radio telescope in its Karoo Desert.

As I told you last week when we kicked off National Sunday Supper Month, there are few things more important to me than gathering around the dinner table with my family.

Over 450 education leaders from 30 states and Washington, D.C. gathered in Boston last month for the first National Convening of Expanding Learning Time, cohosted by the National Center on Time & Learning and the Harvard Graduate School of Education.

An active partnership between families and schools plays an essential role in encouraging children to read, according to the educators, librarians, and parents who gathered last week for a national symposium entitled «Reading and Successful Living: The Family - School Partnership.»

As more than 5,000 educators gathered in Albuquerque, N.M., last month for the annual conference of the National Association for Bilingual Education, the prospects for their primary cause — instruction in a child's native language — looked as bright as they have at any time in recent years.

Or so said a high - profile lineup of speakers at «Science Generation: A National Imperative,» a gathering held here last week at the American Museum of Natural History.

About 400 educators, human - services professionals, and officials of religious organizations gathered at the 10th annual «working with families conference» late last month to plan strategies to grab national attention for problems in their rural communities.

Teachers from schools across the UK gathered at Knebworth House in Hertfordshire last week to mark the start of National Share - a-Story Month.

RENO, NEV. — The word «accountability» was on the minds and lips of many of the 1,500 state lawmakers who gathered here last week for the annual meeting of the National Conference of State Legislatures.

Last year, the DfE's HBT programme involved eight projects from different organisations including Barnado's, Show Racism the Red Card and the National Children's Bureau, which gathered evidence on what works to prevent bullying.

Last week I had the pleasure of attending the National Association of State Boards of Education Annual Conference, where State Board of Education Members from around the country gathered to discuss important education policy issues, build relationships with other policymakers from around the country, and learn about emerging education issues confronting students in Washington and around the country.

At a gathering of tea party activists last August, Jindal vowed to fight any efforts to impose a «national curriculum» (never mind the fact that the Common Core was created and implemented by states).

A small group of them gathered last year to discuss how they can implement a focused, collaborative effort to improve student achievement in struggling schools and how to link that effort to supporting the National Education Association's Priority Schools Campaign.

Last spring, Chris gathered several organizations together to help bring about Genrefest, a one - day workshop that highlighted national best selling author, David Morrell.

News — 1) Harvard Library Director Robert Darnton, my guest on last week's show, says the gathering he hosted last weekend was a success, because a clear consensus emerged in support of creating a National Digital Library, as reported in this post by The Chronicle of Higher Education.

As others make up ground with gathering speed, said Edmund Barry Gaither, director of the Museum of the National Center of Afro - American Artists in Boston, «I think what we're seeing now is the aggregation of forces that have been in motion for at least the last half - century.»

Supporters attend a gathering for Jordan's National Alliance for Reform, a political bloc including the Muslim Brotherhood, in Amman's Sweileh District last September.

The national RPS that gathered 159 cosponsors in the last Congress would be expensive and difficult to attain; it could cause a backlash that might doom renewable energy even in the areas where it is abundant and economical.

An attempted follow - up to last week's chaos on U.S. campuses ended in failure after the Black Justice League at Princeton's call for a day of «national walkouts» failed to gather steam.

At last week's national BBLP meeting, 50 students gathered to discuss issues like low diversity and poor female partnership rates, and even the possibility of a union, which was discussed at a session lead by organizer Mary Kay Hentry of the Service Employees International Union.

June 20, 2017: Last year, the Republican National Committee hired Deep Root Analytics, a data analytics firm, to gather political information about U.S. voters.

The annual National Close the Gap Day — this year on 24 March - is a vital part of that awareness raising and support gathering process — around 570 community - level events that took place last year.

By Kathy Bevan CREA's Agency Task Force is holding an «Agency Summit» meeting with executive representatives of provincial real estate associations from across the country in September to gather feedback about whether or not to issue a national response to the recommendations filed by the Canadian Regulators Group (CRG) Agency Task Force (ATF) last year.

Access to insurance and its affordability are so important to the National Association of Realtors that the 850,000 - member organization, which held its convention in New Orleans last weekend, will start a task force to gather facts and examine solutions.