Sentences with phrase «last spring before»

Happer said he testified last spring before the U.S. Senate Environment and Public Works Committee and was asked if he thought global warming was a hoax.

However, at the board's last meeting in November, Patricia Rucker, a board member who is a former teacher and now a legislative lobbyist for the California Teachers Association, expressed concern that California started testing students on the Common Core math and English language arts standards last spring before many teachers had fully implemented a new Common Core - aligned curriculum or received adequate training in it.

I've always been a big fan of Loft, but I haven't looked at their website much since last spring before I found out I was pregnant.

I've always been a big fan of Loft, but I haven't looked at their website much since last spring before I...

«Many women get shoved into this [kind of position] who should have proper jobs,» Blower said last spring before she and Freimer left UCSF for two tenured positions at UCLA (7 April, p. 26).

In testimony last spring before a congressional committee investigating human cloning, Rudolf Jaenisch, a cloning specialist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Whitehead Institute, said: «I believe there is no normal clone anywhere.»

Diane Savino, of the Independent Democratic Conference, members of which faced primary threats from de Blasio - backed candidates last spring before agreeing to caucus with Democrats if they won the majority (some still faced primaries), had a warning for the mayor in November 2013.

He was a candidate to be cut last spring before restructuring his contract with the team.

They return the nucleus of a Championship Caliber Team that took down many top - tier opponents in a magical Playoff - run last Spring before falling in the Championship Game.

Not exact matches

The British Finance Minister Philip Hammond delivered his spring budget — the last budget before the government begins Brexit negotiations with the EU.

Still, when flights at Atlanta were grounded for most of one day last spring, it took Delta five days — and about 4,000 canceled flights — before it fully recovered.

But before the company's first AGM last spring, ISS reported that the package went against its guidelines and suggested shareholders vote against.

As for related reports that Carney indulged in private conversations with Liberals about seeking their party's leadership, back before his surprise announcement late last November that he would be leaving next spring to become governor of the Bank of England, his answer today indicated that those were one - sided discussions.

In a call to the trucking industry for name submissions for the mascot last spring, Burch said more than 1,000 names were submitted before a public vote was held.

The various cultic interpretations of the poems remind us that such poetry as this is never created new, but rather always draws from the articulate lover of last spring and the spring before and the spring before that, and so on back not merely over the years, but over the centuries and even the millennia.

COLORADO SPRINGS, CO — The Grocery Manufacturers Association (GMA) last night presented former Procter & Gamble Company Chairman, President and CEO A.G. Lafley with its 2010 Hall of Achievement Award before more than 700 industry leaders at the opening session of its annual Executive Conference.

In stores all over the country this will be the last week or two that citrus will take center stage, before the early strawberries and other spring crops start to come in.

They get me through that last little bit of winter / early spring before the rhubarb shows up in the markets.

These cupcakes were taste tested on all of my students who were there on the last day of school before the spring break (which, surprisingly, was a great deal of them).

It seems like I'm either waiting impatiently for the spring threat of frost to pass (normally not until the week after the Kentucky Derby) or hoping desperately for a last bunch of peppers to ripen before the first frost of the fall sets in (usually shortly after Halloween — this year it came early).

Many of them played together last Fall in the «All Sports» League before splitting this Spring..

She's talking about Natalie Novosel, Devereaux Peters and Brittany Mallory, the trio that combined for 32.7 points per game and helped the Irish get to consecutive national title games before graduating last spring.

The season in the Tyrol lasts from before Christmas until late spring.

Dalton not only had 50 college games and 1,317 college passes on his résumé when the NFL took a close look at him before the draft last spring; he also had several summers of throwing the ball in multiple formations, reading coverages and learning to trust his arm and his head.

No, instead he came out and posted stats of 100 percent passing accuracy and 100 percent of take ons completed before springing in the last minute to intercept a Bayern ball and set up Ozil for the second goal.

He sat silently in front of his locker at the Boston Garden last Sunday before the 82nd and final game of his 10th professional season, a pair of hot towels warming the springs in his knees.

That's what made Thursday's spring training debut such a big deal for Lee, as he hadn't pitched since July 31 when he lasted just 2-2/3 innings before he was lifted to get an elbow MRI.

It was the second time (last regular season game at Whitmore) on the basketball court and our final set of games before we pause for Spring Break.

When Yu Darvish was, at last, signed by the Cubs to a six - year, $ 126 million deal just before spring training camps opened.

The No. 4 quarterback recruit in the class of 2016, according to Scout.com, Peters redshirted last season before drawing praise for his performance this spring, including a 9 - for - 17, 160 - yard outing in Michigan's spring game.

A group of Scouts Gathered behind home plate before a Royals - Red Sox game this spring and determined that 1) the American League West is the best it has ever been: 2) the AL West is stronger than any division in baseball in the last 10 years; and 3) the AL West has the three best teams in baseball: Oakland.

While I still don't think it's enough for us to last a full year, I do think I grew more than I ever have before, and we might make it till spring, at least.

The last time I smoked was the winter and spring before I moved from Boulder to Austin eight years ago.

* Tech - savvy farmers using social media * Agribusiness, food safety activists pour money into campaigns * Whistleblowers see new laws aimed at them By P.J. Huffstutter and Lisa Baertlein April 16 (Reuters)- Standing before a crowd of McDonald's Corp shareholders at its headquarters last spring, an unlikely investor prepared for battle.

(Reuters)- Standing before a crowd of McDonald's Corp shareholders at its headquarters last spring, an unlikely investor prepared for battle.

Even before Trump officially opened his high - profile review last spring of federal lands protected as national monuments, the Department of Interior was focused on the potential for oil and gas exploration at a protected Utah site, internal agency documents show.

Spring Forum, the last major gathering before the General Election, will be held at the Hilton Metropole and I hope it will give us all a welcome boost before we all knuckle down for the final push to 6th May, or whenever the election might be.

Clegg tried to show a bit of Thatcherite ankle before his spring conference last weekend, praising the Great She - Elephant's victory over the trade unions as «immensely significant» and saying that the public finances should be repaired by spending cuts rather than tax rises.

He did not attend the president's first appearance in the state last year, joining him at a November rally before attending a private fundraising with Trump this spring.

McWilliams is a Rockland native who lived in Philadelphia for 12 years before moving back to Spring Valley last August, and who has been living in Dutchess County where he is employed by Dutchess Community College, while still being involved in Ramapo issues.

Besides Amundsen's, there was the Japanese expedition under Lieut. Shirase, which had to retreat to Australia last spring in order to replenish its supply of dogs, and which Amundsen says landed on January 16th at the Bay of Whales, two weeks before he sailed for home; Dr. Mawson's Australian expedition, for which $ 215,000 had been raised up to November 1st last, and which was to land three parties between Cape Adare and Gaussberg; the German expedition under Lieut. Filchner in the «Deutschland,» elaborately equipped with wireless, magnetic, and meteorological apparatus, full of the hope of establishing a base southwest of Coats Land in as high a latitude as possible; and lastly, Capt. Scott's English expedition in the «Terra Nova,» which left New Zealand in November, 1910, badly damaged by stormy weather; so badly, indeed, that the necessary repairs and the cost of making good the stores that had been lost seriously depleted the resources of the party.

Lilley's decision to move Warren Spring came just weeks before last year's general election.

«I am feeling better than I have in quite a while,» says Thompson, who resigned last spring just days after testifying before Congress on large cost overruns in the new information technology system.

Shortly before being moved in last month's ministerial reshuffle, Edward Leigh, the technology minister, told journalists that the move to close Warren Spring was prompted by the need to make cuts in public spending.

I have a warm glass of spring water, lemon, local honey and ashwanga every morning now for the last few months (before I put anything else in my body) and I feel I am able to focus better and stay calm in stressful situations at work and home and my energy level is well, more level!

It is full of practical advice and I made the mistake of reading it after training for my first marathon last spring, instead of before.

The next 5 days of our trip was spent on the east coast of the US visiting my parents and helping them to do a lot of spring yardwork, etc. before coming back home last night to a springtime snowstorm here in the rocky mountains of Colorado (hello May powder day tomorrow at A-basin!)

Linda: Before I found YogaSpark last spring, I didn't really enjoy yoga that much.

So before you spring ahead into the next season be sure to take one last good look at winter — you never know what you may find.

Remember how last spring I wrote a post about how to wear your spring dresses before spring?