Sentences with phrase «leading officials of»

A World Rugby delegation, led by Chief Executive Brett Gosper and Tournament Director Alan Gilpin, met with FFR President Bernard Laporte and leading officials of the FFR to further key areas of delivery within the initial establishment phase, including:

Jomo Kenyatta Released from Prison August 1961 Jomo Kenyatta, a leading official of the Kenya African Union, is released after seven years of prison, hard labor and house arrest.

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A group of cabbies, led by Kattoua, commandeered Wu's grey minivan and prevented him from leaving the scene until city officials arrived, issued him a fine (reports put the amount at about $ 350) and towed his vehicle.

Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin is leading a delegation of U.S. officials.

There have been reports of unauthorized eyewear that have led to recalls and suggestions from county officials in Richland, South Carolina (one of the areas where the eclipse will be visible in its totality) to seek «other options» than the free glasses made available if people feel uncomfortable.

Houthi supporters hold up rifles as they rally to protest the killing of Saleh al - Samad, a senior Houthi official, by a Saudi - led coalition air strike in Hodeidah, Yemen April 25, 2018.

«Tomorrow the president will announce the actions he has decided to take based on USTR's 301 investigation into China's state - led, market - distorting efforts to force, pressure, and steal U.S. technologies and intellectual property,» White House official Raj Shah said in an emailed statement ahead of the announcement.

Brexit could lead to a fragmentation of the financial services industry in Europe, incapable of fighting against major financial hubs like New York and Singapore, a senior Italian official told CNBC in an exclusive interview.

Layton was, for most of the last decade, the tireless leader of the New Democratic Party (traditionally Canada's «third» party), and eventually led it during its historical first turn as the Official Opposition in the House of Commons.

But the delays have also caused increased consternation among company officials and led to growing violence between law enforcement and protesters, with both sides decrying the actions of the other in recent days.

South Korea and a U.S. - led U.N. force are technically still at war with North Korea and the idea of an official peace deal to change that is not something that can be resolved by the Koreas alone.

Trump's daughter, Ivanka Trump, a senior White House adviser, met Moon on Friday as part of a weekend trip to lead the U.S. delegation to the closing ceremony of the Winter Olympics, but no official meeting between the American and North Korean delegations was planned.

«It was, to some Fed officials, a dangerous delegation of an important duty that had given the central bank access to crucial information about the soundness of the Wall Street firms it was dealing with,» write Gretchen Morgenson and Josh Rosner in Reckles $ Endangerment: How Outsized Ambition, Greed, and Corruption Led to Economic Armageddon.

Earlier, about 100 conservative South Korean lawmakers and activists staged a sit - in near the border with North Korea, facing off against about 2,500 South Korean police to protest against the arrival of a northern delegation led by an official accused of being behind a deadly 2010 attack on a South Korean warship.

In his job as an activist at the Center for Popular Democracy, Barkan led a successful effort to get Fed officials thinking more about low - income Americans as they conduct monetary policy, often arguing against interest rate hikes in the face of high underemployment and weak wage growth.

By Wednesday afternoon, the officials, like Trump, were saying he had in fact been considering ousting the FBI director for months because of a lack of confidence in his ability to lead the agency.

But recovering the rest of the plane is still a long shot — former National Transportation Safety Board official Tom Haueter told ABC News that the wreckage was unlikely to lead investigators to the rest of the aircraft because it had been floating around the ocean for more than a year.

The Mueller probe has already led to the indictments of several former Trump campaign officials, including onetime campaign chairman Paul Manafort, who is charged with engaging in conspiracy and money laundering.

«A cardinal rule of the Obama Administration was that no White House official ever interfered with any independent investigation led by the Department of Justice.

The reaction has been harsh from both sides of the political aisle — and has led to speculation that some top officials may quit his administration.

Peculiar results in U.S. News» specialty MBA rankings have led to speculation that Jesuit schools may be gaming the system, particularly since they are based solely on a survey of business school officials.

A strong U.S. dollar has discounted the price of a European MBA and led, officials say, to increased interest from American students.

Those peculiar results have led to widespread rumors that the schools are gaming U.S. News» rankings, especially because they are based solely on a survey of business school officials.

Because tiger stripe was not official Army issue, units contracted local tailors to produce the uniforms, leading to a lot of variation.

Commenting on this morning's tweets, an Obama spokesman told the New York Times that «no White House official ever interfered with any independent investigation led by the Department of Justice.»

Tales of graft and officials» high living, including extravagant banquets and expensive rounds on the golf course, have prompted widespread public anger because bureaucrats are meant to live on modest sums and lead morally exemplary lives.

«She is the leading person who combines the trust of the political appointees with technical knowledge, and it is clear that she is speaking to the highest levels,» a former Treasury official told Politico last July.

Saudi Arabia over the weekend saw the arrests of leading government officials and business figures, as well as increased tension with the kingdom's rival Iran.

Before Comey tapped him to lead the Richmond office in 2014, he was section chief of the Public Corruption and Civil Rights Section, investigating some of the highest profile cases against government officials and civil rights violations in recent years.

Toys R Us made official its liquidation on Thursday morning, filing documents with the bankruptcy court that will lead to the sale or closing of its roughly 800 U.S. stores.

Brady led a delegation of U.S. lawmakers to Mexico City to press officials on the need to conclude the talks, which have unnerved financial markets worried about the possibility that the North American supply chain could be disrupted.

Kushner, who had a broad portfolio in the White House, including leading Middle East peace negotiations and an effort to modernize and reduce the size of some government programs, lost his interim top - secret security clearance, two U.S. officials familiar with the matter said on Tuesday.

Davis's agreement to Monday's agenda led some EU officials to believe that May's government may at last be coming around to Brussels» view of how negotiations should be run.

A few days later, officials said, DeLaurentis was called to a meeting with Josefina Vidal, the senior diplomat who had led the Cuban team that negotiated the normalization of relations with the US.

Cobb has been the lead lawyer representing Trump in an investigation by special counsel Robert Mueller of Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election, and possible collusion with Russians by Trump campaign officials.»

An offer for the studio from a group of investors led by former Obama administration official Maria Contreras - Sweet failed to produce a deal earlier this year, after New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman filed a civil lawsuit against the company and demanded more compensation for Harvey Weinstein's victims.

Its official - looking coin and paper currency led to its creator, Bernard von NotHaus, being found guilty of «making, possessing, and selling his own currency» in 2011.

The official statement conceded that «monetary policy alone can not lead to balanced growth,» an overdue admission on the part of finance ministers that they have been leaning on their central bankers for too long.

China's Ministry of Ecology and Environment (MEE) held talks on Thursday with leading government officials in three cities in north China that failed to meet air improvement targets.

GSK will mark the official opening of the Rockville site with a ceremony to be led by CEO Sir Andrew Witty, Debruyne, and Maryland Lt. Governor Boyd Rutherford.

Famous as the site of the 1972 break - in that led to President Nixon's fall, the complex is a grande dame of Washington real estate that has counted senators, top administration officials and a Supreme Court justice as residents over the years.

But U.S. officials have since received intelligence reports that during that same three - day trip, Page met with Igor Sechin, a longtime Putin associate and former Russian deputy prime minister who is now the executive chairman of Rosneft, Russian's leading oil company, a well - placed Western intelligence source tells Yahoo News.

Last week, the NDP — in its new role of official Opposition — said it aimed to restore civility in the House of Commons and the NDP's biggest rabble rouser has even promised to lead the charge.

And while the New Democrats are rightly celebrating the historic results that led to their first - ever chance at being official opposition and the hope that a social democratic government is within reach, the reality is that Canada will suffer four years of Conservative rule — at a minimum.

The four - member Commonwealth Ministerial Action Group, led by Foreign Affairs Minister Lloyd Axworthy, met with Pakistan's army ruler Pervaiz Musharraf, the Chief Justice of Pakistan, and other political leaders and government officials as they assessed the political situation in the country.

According to Chinese officials, «information technology continues to drive financial innovation,» and thus, in order to advance to an «international leading level,» a complete overhaul of the country's financial services IT infrastructure is vital.

«Repatriations did not lead to an increase in domestic investment, employment or R. & D., even for the firms that lobbied for the tax holiday stating these intentions,» concluded the study, which was conducted by a team of three economists that included a former Bush administration official.

One of the most fortunate events in my life was to study under four brilliant economists at Stanford, who also formed my dissertation committee - Ronald McKinnon, an influential and original scholar in international economics; Thomas Sargent, a leading «rational expectations» theorist; John Taylor, also a «rational expectations» macroeconomist (currently serving in the Bush administration, and a leading candidate to succeed Alan Greenspan at the Fed, according to the Wall Street Journal), and Robert Hall, who heads the official Recession Dating Committee of the National Bureau of Economic Research.

The Russia investigation, allegations of domestic violence by a top White House staffer, reports of outlandish spending by Cabinet officials, and just general frustration with Trump's chaotic management style have led to a number of departures from the Trump White House.

By that afternoon, however, the promising leads had collapsed, and officials confronted a risky decision: proceed without the help of the public to avoid tipping off the suspects or publicize images of them and risk driving them deeper into hiding or worse.