Sentences with phrase «lobby day in»

You can sign up here for their «Youth Lead the Way» climate lobby day in Olympia.

Please join us on Thursday, April 20, for a carbon tax lobby day in Olympia (in honor of the upcoming Earth Day).

On Tuesday, February 3, New Yorkers for Active Transportation (NY4AT) will be teaming up with New York Public Transit Association (NYPTA) for a lobby day in Albany to discuss pedestrian, bicycling and transit infrastructure.

More than 1,100 UFT members had a successful lobby day in Albany on March 4.

On Tuesday, NARAL Pro-Choice had their annual lobby day in Albany.

According to Carroll, on May 30, 2017, high school students came to Albany for the first - ever lobby day in support of the Young Voter Act.

Speaking of MTA funding, Riders Alliance transit activists are leading a rally and lobby day in Albany Monday to push Governor Cuomo and legislators to pass a congestion pricing plan and fund the MTA.

Speaking with reporters during NARAL's lobby day in Albany, Miller said she did not want to wade into the politics of who should be leading the state Assembly as calls mount for Speaker Sheldon Silver to step down for his handling of the confidential settlement.

It is, among other things, charter school lobby day in Albany, and the state Legislature is in session.

Lt. Governor Robert Duffy spoke at today's Equality & Justice lobbying day in Albany, Politics on the Hudson reports.

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If I had a human assistant, I would certainly rather see him pick up my guests in the lobby and make sure they feel welcome, than fiddle around in Outlook all day trying to manage my 15 weekly meetings.

Abe had put a lot of personal political capital at stake in beating on the agricultural lobby, and not just the farmers... but the [agricultural] banks, pension schemes, all the rest, to get support for a US - led TPP deal, and then Trump pulls out,» Bremmer said, referring to the Trans - Pacific Partnership, a sweeping trade deal, spearheaded by Barack Obama, that Trump exited days after taking office in January 2017.

Every day that week I would go and meet John at his hotel in l'eixample and we would go to Starbucks or to the lobby of his hotel and work on the paper.

Now the hotel has a collection of artifacts from its Willy Wonka days in the lobby and greets guests with locally made truffles.

With apps like Grubhub and Seamless, New Yorkers can order whatever cuisine their heart desires on a given day, only taking time away from their desks to meet the delivery worker in the downstairs lobby.

On a windy, rainy day in mid-September, 40 dieticians make their way past the giant Muskoka chair in the building's lobby (there's another large cup of coffee on its armrest) and into the small McDonald's restaurant that serves as the building's cafeteria.

Parents, students and teachers from South Florida, the state's Democratic stronghold, have been a forceful presence in the Capitol since last week, when busloads of Stoneman Douglas High students spent two days lobbying — and protesting — lawmakers, urging them to take more far - reaching action and ban all assault weapons.

His announcement comes four days after Republican Gov. Larry Hogan said he wanted to entice Amazon to pick Port Covington in South Baltimore, and he promised to personally lobby CEO Jeff Bezos.

When I stepped back into the clinic on Monday, open again as promised, the lobby was abuzz with stories from listless, sweat - slicked patients who were waiting to dose for the first time in days.

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The sixth grade Innovator Team at Salisbury Middle School unveiled its Earth Day - centered mosaic that was installed in the school's lobby to...

Today is an «Evangelical Day of Prayer and Action for Immigration Reform» in Washington, D.C., with many evangelical luminaries, and even more evangelical activists, hosting advocacy worship services and lobbying Congress for immigration legislation that would legalize the approximately 11 million illegal immigrants currently in the U.S..

Afterward, at an event kicking off a lobbying day for more than 300 evangelical pastors on Capitol Hill, Richard Land, president of the Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission and a leader of Evangelical Immigration Table, said that anyone who says the bill provides amnesty needs «a course in remedial English.»

Imagine a time when the word «foyer» no longer brings images of lobbies to the mind of the general public but rather signifies a «place where I once spent five amazing days in silent retreat».

During the campaign to implement these proposals, local organizations lobbied state legislators, in one case holding 11 press conferences on the same day.

Committed to the urban neighborhood, Sojourners is involved not only in political organizing and lobbying, but in food cooperatives, day school tutoring programs, neighborhood recreational programs, and extended - family living situations.

The South African soccer team the Kaiser Chiefs organized a national awareness day; in Burkino Faso, activists partnered with a trucking union for monitoring purposes; drivers of moto - taxis in Thailand keep watch for child sex exploitation; Nepalese trafficking survivors formed Shakti Samuaha, a nongovernmental organization that lobbies officials to make policy changes; organizations in Bangladesh have focused specifically on the taboo topic of male prostitutes and have opened shelters for exploited children.

In the days that followed, Alastair Furnival, Chief of Staff to Assistant Health Minister Fiona Nash resigned, after it was revealed he held shares in Australian Public Affairs (APA), a lobby group whose clients include Cadbury, Kraft and the Australian Beverages CounciIn the days that followed, Alastair Furnival, Chief of Staff to Assistant Health Minister Fiona Nash resigned, after it was revealed he held shares in Australian Public Affairs (APA), a lobby group whose clients include Cadbury, Kraft and the Australian Beverages Counciin Australian Public Affairs (APA), a lobby group whose clients include Cadbury, Kraft and the Australian Beverages Council.

We started our day at 8 am, meeting in the hotel lobby.

This newly - created position will oversee all three culinary outlets at the luxury hotel, located in downtown Boston — BOND restaurant lounge, serving locally - influenced cuisine and craft cocktails; Café Fleuri, which serves breakfast and lunch, and is famous for its Saturday Chocolate Bar and Sunday City Brunch; and The Reserve, a refined lobby lounge, serving continental breakfast, The Langham Afternoon Tea by Wedgwood, and a stellar selection of Champagne, wine and beer throughout the day and evening.

Additionally, the group taps chefs across the country for «fly - in» advocacy days to lobby and educate.

One day in Cincinnati, Majerus was walking through a lobby when he heard a guy say about him, «That's somebody.

In the old days, or so legend has it, there was a man who hung around the lobby of the antiquated St. Nicholas Hotel in downtown Du QuoiIn the old days, or so legend has it, there was a man who hung around the lobby of the antiquated St. Nicholas Hotel in downtown Du Quoiin downtown Du Quoin.

Horschel, though, hinted during a tweet - a-thon with Twitter followers on Tuesday that some last - minute lobbying by Day, likely in the form of a sixth W for the 2015 campaign, could sway the swing votes.

The move, announced in the Daily Telegraph on Father's Day, comes after several months» behind - the - scenes lobbying by the Fatherhood Institute and other influential voices, including former FI chief executive Duncan Fisher OBE, keen to see joint birth registration become a reality.

After that, it'll be time for Snowland, where it'll snow every day in the lobby area, you can dine in a life - size Gingerbread House and meet Santa, of course!

Parents are lobbying to get the start of the school day at Annandale High pushed back so that students get more sleep and can be more focused in class.

Yesterday, the School Nutrition Association (SNA) concluded its three - day Legislative Action Conference, for which over 900 school food professionals travelled to Washington, D.C. to lobby for the goals set out in the organization's 2017 position paper.

If you stood in the lobby of your local emergency room you would no doubt see that every day kids visit this unpleasant place because of injuries they sustain in the home.

He gave me a card from Shannon, called her while walking on the park and the next day at 7:30 am she was in my hotel lobby with the stroller.

Each day we would buy bananas and apples at the grocery store and sandwiches for lunch in the bakery in the lobby of our hotel.

Since 2009, the league, to its credit, has also been lobbying hard in favor of laws - now in place in 31 states and the District of Columbia, and with more sure to follow this year - requiring concussion education of parents and athletes, banning same - day return - to - play after a suspected concussion, and requiring medical clearance before a concussed athlete is allowed back on the playing field, diamond or ice.

The fact that the infant formula companies are spending big bucks to lobby in Washington proves just how lucrative this business really is, and what a shame that such an inferior product is being fed to the majority of babies, some from day one.

I wouldn't use the term lobbying unless you were asking for trouble... There is no sense that third parties have a legitimate role in standing up and expressing views and opinions of others on the policy issues of the day.

One Conservative PPC, Margot James, standing for Stourbridge, told The Times that she felt so uncomfortable using her day job as a freelance public relations consultant lobbying Tory MPs that she is donating her fee to a charity in her constituency.

But then a lot of parliamentary journalism in those days could appear to be constrained both by the last gasps of parliamentary restrictions on the press and a more clubbable atmosphere between MPs and the lobby.

It is true Eweida would have been perfectly able to do her job while wearing a crucifix and the judgement in her favour is not a big deal, especially on a day which can only be considered a serious set - back for the Christian lobby.

I will put my credentials of fighting for progressive causes up against my two opponents any day of the week — one of whom lobbied for a Republican mayor in Albany, and another who paved the way for an unprecedented third term for a Republican mayor.»

Although your conferences, events, policy summits, lobby days, fly - ins, call - ins, rallies, and other all kinds of other activities will likely be taking place at an actual venue, you can just set up your own venue with the name of your event.

When Fiona Hill and I used to meet for a sharpener in the Osteria dell» Angolo (known to lobby correspondents as the Nancy Dell» Olio) in Marsham Street during her Home Office days, the staff there used to call her «Lady Cunningham».

He greeted all the other patrons at the bar, mostly teachers and education advocates in town for a lobby day the following day at the Capitol.