Sentences with phrase «many voices at the table»

While I have disagreed with the President in certain instances this year, I continued to participate in the Forum because I believed it was important to have a voice at the table for investors, including our clients.

«We» can mean different groups of people in different contexts, and honestly I often have to point out that the «we» too often excludes non-White voices at the table.

Theological nuances aside, Pastor Bernard seems to have always been on the less supportive end of the spectrum but joined the president's advisory board anyway, hoping to be «a minority voice at the table to help influence policy, ideas, and initiatives.»

16:17 - 18 make it crystal clear why divisers should not have a voice at the table in the church.

But to give them a voice at the table of the church is foolish and not the teaching of the Bible.

This is the first step to give athletes a voice at the table and is challenging «amateurism.»

Is everybody's voice at the table?

Menin, who briefly abandoned her Democratic Party registration between 2001 and 2003, said that after 9/11, «I would do whatever I could to work for the community and make sure the community had a voice at the table,» pointing out the need to work with the Republican administration of Governor George Pataki.

How can educators gain a voice at the tables where big decisions about curriculum, testing, and the profession are made?

The best possible tenure system can only be developed with many voices at the table, including the voice of my union, says E4E - Los Angeles teacher Phylis...

Education scholars note the powerful benefits of having teacher voice at the table when education policy is being discussed — both for teachers and for the educational system as a whole.

«I'm happy to have the chance to be a voice at the table representing NIU,» Parker says.

With the Federal and State governments playing a significant role in education policy and funding, we must make sure we have a voice at the table.

Their statement of purpose is based on their belief that, «For far too long, education policy has been created without a critical voice at the table: the voice of classroom teachers.»

«For far too long, education policy has been created without a critical voice at the table — the voice of classroom teachers.

I said that my position was weak, because we were the smallest company at the table, but he said to me, «You have a voice at the table.

In order for conservatives to have a voice at those tables, we need to be seen as serious contributors.

You should think of yourself as an invited guest who is free to disagree with the hosts, or argue with the other guests, but not to throw food, nor to drown out all other voices at the table.

Even at a stakeholder scale of discussions, a voice at the table for this conversation should prove enlightening.

VACCHO also installed a members» timeline in the building that lays out how, since opening its doors on 16 April 1996, VACCHO has been striving to improve the health and wellbeing of Aboriginal people and ensuring Aboriginal Victoria has a voice at the table at a local and national level.

Sometimes changes in policy and laws that affect MFTs negatively are targeted at us, but often they are simply the result of having no MFT voice at the table when the policies were created.

Not exact matches

As well, the U.K. rule changes demand that corporate boards give greater voice to employees at the boardroom table.

In his testimony before the Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee on November 28th, 2017, he stated, «We make better decisions when we have diverse voices around the table — both at the Board of Governors and at the Reserve Banks... We've seen what works.

Muslims get a voice at the writers» table, and networks can tap into new and diverse talent pools.

Suddenly the younger woman at the other table «raised her voice and hurled a single German word at the old woman opposite.

We claim to honour the «least of these» and to be a people who lay down power, who believe that the greatest is the servant, and that the way to really get ahead in the Kingdom of God is to put others first, to amplify other voices, to make room at the table.

When the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. sat at his kitchen table, in the winter of 1956, terrified by the fear of what might happen to him and his family during the Montgomery bus boycott, he said he heard the voice of Jesus promising, «I will be with you.»

Democracy means all voices should have a place at the table.

Once you've sat down at the table, I highly recommend whipping out a little tub of yellow powder, piling several spoonfuls of said powder into your bowl, and then leaning towards your dining partner to offer, in a low and somewhat creepy voice, «nutritional yeaaaaaast?».

Lunch with Lucy, the three of us sitting at the little Sesame Street table, Danny and I hunched in the tiny chairs, laughing while she does ridiculous voices to say «I love you!»

Wenger said at the start of the season that this is one of the best squads he has managed... look at the table, look at the results (shamed), and look at our performances... wenger is gulty for this, and the suporters in england habe to grow up their voices... its impossible that people were demanding for chenges and the board and wenger were taking a laugh of you and continuing with their reign... its unacceptable that those guya even care about us fans and you are capable to look to anotger side and bought alll that sh about «a great change on the squad and a promised new wenger, its bs... wenger has to go and for that you england arsenal fans have to grow up some balls and do ur job... what was that bellerin episode?

«He'd be sitting at a table in Toots Shor's just talking, and people would turn around and look because they'd heard such a unique voice.

O'Neill is disappointed that the Premier League allowed Arsenal to bend the transfer rules to sign a player who could have a decisive role in determining the order of the upper reaches of the league table, and he could ask a club representative to voice their objections at a Premier League shareholders meeting tomorrow.

Girls in the classroom need to recognize that their voice matters, that their voice needs to be heard not just by the teacher but by the boys in the room, and that they deserve a seat at the table, that they deserve to have value.

A small group of children practices the English alphabet, sounding out the vowels and consonants in high - pitched voices around a table at Bright Star Kids University in Buffalo Grove.

Leave your tween at the kitchen table alone to go apologize profusely to your other children for raising your voice at them when they are mere innocents in this hellish scenario.

Talk pleasantly at the table — no lectures, arguments, or raised voices.

The creative industries need a stronger voice in Government and a strong secretary of state at the Cabinet table — not no voice at all.

Partly this is because moderate voices in the Remain movement have been overruled by «fundamentalist» groups like Best for Britain, but it's also because a vague, catch - all call for the people «to have a place at the table» was necessary to unite a rag - tag coalition of anti-Brexit groups.

«New Yorkers deserve a voice in how their communities are governed, so I'm glad that Governor Andrew Cuomo chose today to give Battery Park City residents two seats at the table,» State Senator Brian Kavanagh said.

«If NYSUT uses its political power... we've got to be at the table, we've got to be in the discussion and make sure our voice is heard,» Radford said.

We know he's the best choice to allow labor to have a real voice and a real seat at the table rather than being on the menu where we've been so to speak with the current administration,» Alvarez said.

Today, Mr Kinnock said he believed the Labour leader does not have the «requisite skills or experience to ensure there is a strong Labour voice at the negotiating table» during Brexit talks.

The IDC's budget proposal, introduced in January, «included a $ 1.47 billion investment in the Foundation Aid formula for the first year with a multi-year commitment to achieve complete funding,» Alcantara told parents earlier this week, adding that as an IDC member, she has «a voice at the budget table» and is «confident that the end of this year's budget process New York state will have invested a record amount of funding in education.»

I think, in the end, how it works in practice as a real world issue is something like this: * Where EU states do agree on overall strategy and policy, such as on the Middle East, the coordination can give them a voice at the top table.

«Furthermore, British politics will be completely dominated in the coming years by the Brexit negotiations, and I do not believe that you have the requisite skills or experience to ensure that there is a strong Labour voice at the negotiating table as we undertake this monumentally complex task.

All voices must be heard, and all ideas must have a place at the table.

She added that hers would be «a leadership style that allows all voices to be at the table, helping to shape the direction we take as a legislative body; a leadership style that puts the will of the members and the needs of their constituents before the ambitions of a Speaker.»

Pridgen says over Brown's tenure, no one was clamoring for higher taxes, but with a Democrat in the mayor's office, a Common Council made up of Democrats and no at large - bids on the council, maybe those voices just weren't invited to the table.

Despite the fact that a vote on the closing of I.S. 231 in Queens was tabled until March 23, those in attendance at Brooklyn Technical High School voiced their heartfelt opinion on a number of topics, 1010 WINS» Al Jones reported.