Sentences with phrase «leaders like former»

The news puts Moskowitz in the company of other education reform leaders like former D.C. public schools chief Michelle Rhee and Center for Education Reform director Jeanne Allen, among others.

Also in these ranks: leaders like former Massachusetts governor Deval Patrick (Milton Academy and Harvard), former Tennessee congressman Harold Ford, Jr. (St. Albans and UPenn) and, of course, U.S. Senator Cory Booker, the lone public school graduate among these (Northern Valley Regional in affluent Bergen County and Stanford), who has also been the most vocal supporter of school choice.

Local leaders like former Congressman and retired Army Colonel Chris Gibson have helped me answer the call of leadership.

Party leaders, including Chairman Frank Cardinale, Common Council President Jim Noble and Alderman Tom Hoffay, rubbed elbows with business leaders like former Business Alliance of Kingston Chairman Kevin Quilty and developer Steve Aaron.

What is your relationship with party leaders like former vice president Atiku Abubakar, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu and the President of the Senate, Bukola Saraki?

Not exact matches

There aren't a lot of business leaders who can match a former reality TV personality like Trump for star power, but investor and entrepreneur Mark Cuban is one possibility.

In a New York Times article last year, Perdue compared Trump to Winston Churchill, the former UK prime minister, saying that like the legendary World War II - era leader, Trump was «nobody's choir boy» and «a historic person of destiny at a time and place in America when we've got to make a right - hand turn here.»

Like many Catalan independence supporters, including Manchester City manager Pep Guardiola, Rufian wears a yellow ribbon to highlight the continued imprisonment of separatist figures Oriol Junqueras, the leader of Esquerra, former interior minister Joaquin Form and civil society leaders Jordi Sanchez and Jordi Cuixart.

Meanwhile, parties like Silvio Berlusconi's Forza Italia and the ruling Democratic Party (PD) fell short of expectations, prompting PD leader and former Prime Minister Matteo Renzi to resign.

It's not an exit vote per se, but like former U.K. leader David Cameron, Prime Minister Matteo Renzi may find that it mutates into a plebiscite — in Italy's case on a status quo dominated by stagnation, chronic unemployment, and an increasingly acute banking crisis.

One is that social media sites, like LinkedIn, make it easier for company leaders to stay in touch with former employees, whether they're in the office next door or halfway across the country.

Though some Republicans, like Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, were quick to praise Tillerson's international business experience working with foreign governments, Tillerson's nomination was met with deep skepticism from both parties over his embodiment of the most contentious 2016 campaign issues: Trump's closeness with Russia, climate change skepticism, and potential business conflicts of interest.

People who study organizations these days are making a key distinction between «leaders» and «managers» — the former being those who interact primarily with high - level executive managers, the latter being those who concern themselves with front - line operations like sales or supply chain management.

This is what former Wildrose Leader Danielle Smith used to say before she had her Road - to - Damascus experience, wherein she heard a booming voice that sounded strangely like Preston Manning's, was struck politically blind and suddenly became a PC.

Co-founded by the founder and former executives of SaaS leaders like BigMachines (acquired by Oracle) and SteelBrick (acquired by Salesforce) and backed by more than $ 45 million in capital, G2 Crowd aims to bring authenticity and transparency to the business marketplace.

Behlendorf says «the regulators there, like the political leaders, are former engineers... they understand scale better than regulators in other parts of the world», citing this as evidence that they will be among the leaders in this space.

(dark) 4) How often will they come to your house 5) Since you are in the GOP they parade you around like «we have a black person» 6) Do they say she's a good one (meaning she's a good «n») There are more ways... ask your former GOP leader Mr. Steel.

like former leader... we too have kept open house and had people live with us long and short term for nearly all our married life... we've had debate, argument, sadness, hilarity... even had someone with a disturbing psychosis... not at one stage have we felt the need to make any rules... that would almost be like copping out of relationship.

One man from the village was talking to one of the former leaders shortly after these events, «I feel like I can really talk to you now.»

Writing in an op - ed published by The Observer newspaper, the Nobel laureate accused the former leaders of the United Kingdom and the United States of fabricating a motive to invade Iraq, namely that it possessed weapons of mass destruction, and said that they had acted like «playground bullies.»

Consistent with the Hoover Report's recommendations that the United States had to reconsider «long - standing American concepts of fair play» and «learn to subvert, sabotage and destroy our enemies,» the shadow government built alliances between U.S. government officials, the Mafia, and international drug cartels; assassinated many thousands of civilians in Southeast Asia; carried out or attempted assassination of foreign leaders; trained death squads and secret police forces; worked to shore up unpopular dictators like the Shah of Iran and the Somoza dictatorship in prerevolutionary Nicaragua; worked to destabilize «unfriendly» governments such as Allende in Chile and the Sandinistas in Nicaragua; cooperated with the Colombian drug cartel to plot the assassination of the former U.S. ambassador to Costa Rica, Lewis Tambs, with the intention of justifying a U.S. invasion of Nicaragua by blaming his death on the Sandinistas; contracted with the Reagan administration and the National Security Council to find ways of circumventing a congressional ban prohibiting aid to the contras, including the trading of arms to Iran in exchange for hostages and money for the contras; illegally shipped weapons from the United States to the contras and allowed returning planes to use the same protected flight paths to transport drugs into the United States; 11 targeted the U.S. people for disinformation campaigns; and helped prepare contingency plans for declaring a form of martial law in the United States that would have formally suspended constitutional freedoms.

Previously criticized for sluggishly wandering the pitch until given an opportunity to poach, the former Barcelona youth is not only the Nerazzurri's top scorer, but he is also the assist leader; alongside Antonio Candreva with eight assists in a team that boasts the likes of Ever Banega, Ivan Perisic and Joao Mario.

Another Republican, Minority Leader Brian Kolb in the Assembly, also dropped his bid and joined Republican figures like former Rep. Chris Gibson in pushing Molinaro to reconsider his stance on the race.

He lived through 12 years as the loyal opposition to GOP Gov. George Pataki and Senate Majority Leader Joe Bruno, foiled a coup attempt by former Assemblyman Mike Bragman in 2000, weathered Gov. Eliot «the steamroller» Spitzer and now has managed to get along with hard - charging Gov. Andrew Cuomo, largely by giving him pretty much everything he wants from a policy perspective (even things the Dems were never expected to go along with, like Tier VI and the property tax cap).

Marv Cermak would like people to stop touting former Senate Majority Leader Joe Bruno's good deeds.

Anyway, it looks like both sides are calling in the big guns in advance of tonight's Wednesday's dueling chairmanship votes — one that will see Ragusa re-elected to another two - year term, the other resulting in the election of former NYC Council Minority Leader / 2005 NYC mayoral contender and 2010 LG candidate Tom Ognibene.

Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos does not at all like the tone Gov. Andrew Cuomo is taking with the Legislature these days, saying Cuomo is «heading in the direction» of former Gov. Eliot «Steamroller» Spitzer, whose tough approach with state lawmakers proved largely unsuccessful (even before the prostutition scandal that pushed him from office).

Like so many others, he is waiting to see the outcome of the April 19 special election for former Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos» Long Island seat, which could indicate which way the wind is blowing in terms of the GOP's effort to retain the majority.

«Nigel's great strength is articulating alternative points of view... He's a former leader (and) like Nick Clegg or David Cameron he's moved on to other things.

But as the former leader of the strongest political party representing Bosnian Muslims, SDA (Party of Democratic Action), Bakir Izetbegovic spoke in the name of only one section of the Bosnian population, to which he exclusively referred to as Bosniaks, much like his late father did.

Meanwhile, the idea of a new Act of Union to replace the 1707 original has been floated in the past by Dennis Canavan, the then maverick Labour MP who later became chair of Yes Scotland for the 2014 independence referendum; and more recently by the likes of former Lib Dem leader Menzies Campbell and former Labour Welsh Secretary Peter Hain.

But we know all too well what the reality of those victories have meant — corruption scandal after corruption scandal, with politicians like Ed Mangano, (former Senate Majority Leader) Dean Skelos, and (former Oyster Bay Town Supervisor) John Venditto being dragged out in handcuffs for using our tax dollars to enhance their own bottom lines.»

Attorneys representing former Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos, who was also convicted, along with his son Adam, on corruption charges, have — like Silver's lawyers — used the U.S. Supreme Court decision in the case of former Gov. Bob McDonald to appeal the conviction of the ex-Long Island Republican lawmaker.

Meanwhile, U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara, whose efforts have led to convictions for the likes of former state Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver and former state Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos, made clear that he will continue looking for possible corruption in Albany and the city.

Former Democratic National Committee Chair Howard Dean will be a primary leader of the organization, which will work with like - minded Democratic groups like Color of Change, Emerge America, Run for Something, Indivisible Team and Swing Left.

He voted remain but has since clashed with the likes of former SNP leader Alex Salmond over the suggestion the British people have put their future and economy at risk.

The CEO of the unnamed medical malpractice firm — like Anthony Bonomo, a former NYRA official — was afraid that if Adam Skelos lost his job at the company he would lose access to the elder Skelos, who just ascended to the majority leader post in the chamber.

Prominent Republicans like Shays and former Republican House leader Newt Gingrich have endorsed Lieberman.»

As for what he will do to repair the damage to the voters» trust, to counter the cynicism and ridicule that pervade Albany, thanks to him and felons like Dean Skelos, the former Senate majority leader, he has no answer.

And it's no longer a joke that the Manhattan - based prosecutor might be listening in on every phone call made by an Albany power broker — when former Senate leader Dean Skelos» son told his dad, «You can't talk normally because it's like fucking Preet Bharara is listening to every fucking phone call,» it turned out to be the truth, and is now a matter of public record.

Senate Deputy Majority Leader Tom Libous hinted this month that Senate Republicans were wavering in their opposition to the special tax on the wealthy that Cuomo says puts high - tax New York at a competitive disadvantage and helps drive the very rich, like former Rochester - area billionaire Tom Golisano, from the state.

She's backed by Democrats like Christine Jennings, the former Sarasota County Democratic Executive Committee chair, House Minority Leader Janet Cruz and Florida House Victory.

Former Senate Majority Leader Pedro Espada Jr., who also chaired the Housing Committee, liked to point out that he was the highest - ranked Latino in the Legislature, even though his position was little more than a title (with a lot of cash for staff and offices behind it, as it turns out).

A meeting of black leaders was convened last weekend in Mt. Vernon by the Rev. Al Sharpton and attended by people like former state Comptroller H. Carl McCall (Cuomo's primary opponent in 2002), political consultants Bill Lynch and Roberto Ramirez (who got caught up in Cuomo's pension fund pay - to - play probe), Sen. Ruth Hassell - Thompson, Senate President Malcolm Smith, Rep. Greg Meeks and the NAACP's Hazel Dukes.

Ideally, Sampson needs a No. 2 who's an upstater (remember that the conference lost two upstate members, Darrel Aubertine and Antoine Thompson), an Hispanic (former Senate Majority Leader Pedro Espada Jr., love him or hate him, was the highest - ranking Latino leader in the Legislature — a point Sen. Ruben Diaz Sr. likes to emphasize from time to time) and a Leader Pedro Espada Jr., love him or hate him, was the highest - ranking Latino leader in the Legislature — a point Sen. Ruben Diaz Sr. likes to emphasize from time to time) and a leader in the Legislature — a point Sen. Ruben Diaz Sr. likes to emphasize from time to time) and a woman.

Democratic operative and former district leader Venancio «Benny» Catala posted on Facebook campaign - like artwork saying, «Elect Fernando Cabrera» and thanking him for his effort in naming a street for the Highbridge cimmunity activist Loretta Ruddock - Smith.

Hell, your cat probably doesn't like being compared to Espada, the disgraced former majority leader of the Senate who brought New York's government to a standstill during the leadership coup of 2009 and was later found guilty of bilking the federal government for the funding of his health clinics.

The group, called NY Jobs Now, includes Heather Bricetti, the president and CEO of the state Business Council, along with labor leaders like the AFL - CIO's Mario Cilento, UFT President Michael Mulgrew, Gary LaBarbera of Building and Construction Trades Council of Greater New York and former New York City Comptroller Bill Thompson.

Former Labour leader Lord Kinnock has said it «doesn't look like» his party can win the general election.

Paterson suggested that would have sparked a battle much like the one that ended up taking place several months later when now - former Sen. Hiram Monserrate and soon - to - be-former Senate Majority Leader Pedro Espada Jr. abandoned the Democrats and joined forces with the GOP in the infamous coup.