Sentences with phrase «last public pronouncements»

In one of his last public pronouncements, former congressman Maurice Hinchey endorsed Shayne Gallo for Kingston mayor in 2015.

Not exact matches

Even Ferro — despite public pronouncement — has shown signs of weakening in this resolve over the last week, I'm told.

 Mr. Poloz himself bent over backwards in his last Monetary Policy Report to not use that term — even though the Bank's own numbers (projecting negative GDP growth for both the first and second quarters of 2015) suggested a recession was indeed already underway. Instead, public officials are normally sanguine and rose - coloured in their public pronouncements, hoping to incrementally shift consumer confidence with their cheeriness, and thus spark more spending. [A ridiculous extreme of this approach was provided when George Bush blithely encouraged Americans to go shopping in the days after the 9 - 11 terrorist attacks.]

This was what George Osborne's speech on Monday could have been like: the kind of oh - so - sober grimness which has characterised the chancellor's public pronouncements for much of the last five years.