Sentences with phrase «member of the committee even»

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The discussions of each candidate were always civil, even when an obvious disagreement emerged among the committee members.

«I promise you it's going to be a lot harder to recruit someone to anti-American and anti-American terrorism if the United States of America was the reason why they are even alive today,» said the senator, a member of the Foreign Relations Committee.

In the run - up to the 19th Party Congress, party watchers speculated that Wang Qishan, the head of the party's corruption investigation division, would be kept on the seven - member Politburo Standing Committee (PSC) even though he was 69, past the conventional retirement age.

«Efforts to set privacy standards have been ignored or even repealed,» said Rep. Frank Pallone (D - NJ), ranking member of the House committee Zuckerberg will testify before on Wednesday.

Even those unhappy with the decision say it is unclear whether the roster of committee members favours one particular candidate over another.

The Green Party Member of European Parliament, a German citizen who looks even younger than his tender 35 years, shepherded the legislation through as vice chair for the parliament's Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs.

One member of the committee that prepared the New English Bible wanted to translate the word correctly, but the majority, feeling that «buttocks» or even «hind parts» would not be well received, settled for the mistranslation «the skirt of his robe filled the temple.»

With stunning consistency, virtually every indicator of civic engagement currently available shows the same pattern of increase followed by stagnation and decline — newspaper reading; TV news watching; attending political meetings; petition signing; running for public office; attending public meetings; serving as an officer or committee member in any local clubs or organizations; writing letters to the editor; participating in local meetings of national organizations; attending religious services; socializing informally with friends, relatives or neighbors; attending club meetings; joining unions; entertaining friends at home; participating in picnics; eating the evening meal with the whole family; going out to bars, nightclubs, discos or taverns; playing cards; sending greeting cards; attending parties; playing sports; donating money as a percentage of income; working on community projects; giving blood.

On the other hand, Edith knows that one member of the committee is bringing magazines that advertise electronic products for «changing the way your church worships» through the use of video and light projectors, high - tech sound equipment, and even a glass pulpit!

He knew the book so well and cared so passionately for it that General Neyland, the revered Tennessee coach, eventually got Bull Cyclone from Scooba appointed to the NCAA rules committee, even though his unknown little school wasn't even a member of that august national body.

Sears isn't even the center of the business district,» said Village Trustee Edwin Frank, a member of the ad hoc committee.

Gala co-chairs Chris Selak of Lionsgate Entertainment and Sandy Walia of Wells Fargo, along with twenty dedicated gala sponsorship committee members planned an unforgettable evening to raise funds for Five Acres programs and services.

Then they pack the room with their buddies — many of the voters who were yelling to table the resolutions weren't even State Committee Members — and just try to outyell their opposition by a so - called «voice vote.»

NY1's Shushannah Walshe reports members of the party's executive committee met this evening and tapped Allegretti ahead of the full nominating convention, which is about to get underway.

First, it appointed in 2009 a seven - member Constitutional Committee comprising mostly academics from a range of fields, including law, literature, and science, thus implicitly acknowledging that the constitution is not exclusively, and not even principally, a legal document, but primarily a social compact, a political declaration that supersedes ordinary legislation by virtue of the fact that the people are superior to Parliament.

Hundreds of attendees, including both County Committee members and newcomers looking to get more involved in local politics, packed the auditorium and were even turned away due to space capacity at the Coney Island Hospital location.

This bill has been stalled in our NY State Senate's Health Committee, where the members of the committee refuse to bring it to the floor for a vote, even after our Assembly has appCommittee, where the members of the committee refuse to bring it to the floor for a vote, even after our Assembly has appcommittee refuse to bring it to the floor for a vote, even after our Assembly has approved it.

««Even to the fairest person, it's problematic,» Dominick Stanzione, former town board member and liaison to the airport, said of Mr. Gruber's position on the committee.

Gentile was notoriously on Speaker Quinn's pay - no - mind list, and suffered the indignity of being denied chairmanship of a committee or even a subcommittee: instead he was made Chairman of the Select Committee on Libraries, of which he was the solcommittee or even a subcommittee: instead he was made Chairman of the Select Committee on Libraries, of which he was the solCommittee on Libraries, of which he was the sole member.

But remember the committee [Appointments] is made up of 26 members and if three are saying something, what about the silent ones... even the Minority is 10, what happened to the 6 [silent ones] excluding me.»

In the ensuing debate, Nii Lantey Vanderpuije, a minority member of the Appointments Committee, was also said to have said on Montie Fm — a sister station of Radio Gold — that he didn't know anything about the alleged bribe, even though he was expected to have benefitted from it.

I don't even know the committee members; they are not card - carrying members of this party.

The meeting, which sources told our correspondent is expected to hold at the Abuja residence of Clark, would be attended by members of the committee, many of whom were said to have arrived Abuja on Friday evening.

After these breaks were enacted, Michael McKee, treasurer of the Tenants Political Action Committee wrote a column for the Metropolitan Council on Housing's website that the renewal passed the Assembly smoothly after «a clear message from the Speaker that he was pushing this bill through, even though many members were unhappy with pieces of it.»

Town Board member Bill Ruland said as the hearing drew to a close that it was clear from the public comments that the issue needed to be visited again and include involvement of people with expertise on the subject, including the working group, the town's agricultural advisory committee and others who offered their help Tuesday evening.

I want to reiterate that, even though investigations have been concluded by the security agencies and the National Petroleum Authority (NPA), a 9 member Committee, under the chairmanship of Dr. Lawrence Darkwah, Head of the Petroleum Engineering Department, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, has been setup by the Minister for Energy.

This observation and assertion is grounded on the clear understanding and full knowledge of the Traditional NDC Members and even the National Executive Committee (NEC) of the NDC, that the Parliamentary Primaries which was held on the 22nd November, 2015 to elect a candidate was fraught and marred with violence, intimidations, fraud and false accusations spearheaded by Sam George, one of the candidates, for which reason the result of that elections could not be said or taken to represent the Will and aspirations of the majority of the NDC membership in the constituency and the country at large.

The Republicans initially cited «Obamacare» in the wake of the same - sex marriage bill passage as the reason why they wouldn't follow the Assembly's lead last summer and pass the health care exhange bill, even though one of their veteran members, Senate Health Committee Chairman Kemp Hannon, had been involved in drafting the measure and supported it.

Even before the Professor Kwesi Botchway - led committee comes out with its findings on the root causes of the party's defeat in the 2016 elections, it is an open fact that one of the key reasons for our loss was as a result of the failure of the party to deploy logistics and resources to the grounds for members to undertake effective campaigning.

However, members of the National Caretaker Committee of the party led by Senator Ahmed Makarfi and other stakeholders did not leave the venue, even after Sheriff and his team left.

Appelbaum, who is also a member of the Democratic National Convention executive committee, praised Cuomo for progressive accomplishments during his first two terms — like the legalization of same - sex marriage, enactment of a statewide paid family leave program, and a $ 15 - an - hour minimum wage — even while working with a Republican - controlled state Senate.

«The fact is tha t the ink is not even dry on this bill, and everyone in town is still getting fundraising requests from members of the conference committee and all sorts of other people who were beating up on Wall Street,» an official at a large bank said, citing Reps. Carolyn Maloney (D - N.Y.) and Paul Kanjorski (D - Pa.)

There is simply no time for a Select Committee, even if a full set of members is nominated to serve on it, to conduct any meaningful inquiries... The reality is that this will be another talking shop that costs taxpayers more money at the time that they can least afford it.»

In a letter released Monday evening by leaders of the Democratic State Committee, a quartet of party insiders said the eight - member Independent Democratic Conference should break its alliance with the Senate's 31 Republicans and instead coalesce with Senate Minority Leader Andrea Stewart - Cousins and her 23 mainstream Democrats.

This person lambasts me on the report published yesterday from the International Development Select Committee of which I am a member without even bothering to pick up a phone to check her facts.

But at the moment, it looks like former Assemblyman Frank Seddio has amassed sufficient support to take control of the party organization, even as a number of minority members are pushing for Assemblyman Karim Camara, whose candidacy is complicated by the fact that he's neither a district leader nor an executive committee member.

A member of the National Executive Committee (NEC) of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC), Kofi Kukubor, has charged the party's Council of elders to take «swift action» against some ten regional Chairmen who have endorsed the candidature of John Dramani Mahama for election 2020 even before campaigning officially starts.

Meanwhile, a member of the National Executive Committee (NEC) of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC), Kofi Kukubor, has charged the party's Council of elders to take «swift action» against some ten regional Chairmen who have endorsed the candidature of John Dramani Mahama for election 2020 even before campaigning officially starts.

The payments were revealed last week by The New York Times, which reported that IDC members have received committee leadership stipends, often called lulus, even though they were vice chairs, not chairs, of the committees they serve on.

The two - year federal probe started with a corruption tip involving Banks and eventually snared numerous police officials taking free meals, gifts and even trips from businessmen Jona Rechnitz and Jeremy Reichberg, who were members of de Blasio's Inauguration Committee.

The National Republican Congressional Committee listed McSally as part of its Patriot Program for members who could potentially be vulnerable in 2018 even though she garnered more than 57 percent of the vote in her 2016 faceoff with Democrat Matt Heinz.Hillary Clinton carried the district by nearly five points last November over President Donald Trump, according to calculations by Daily KOS Elections.

Because committee members» ballots are weighted according to how many people in their area voted for the Democratic candidate in the most recent gubernatorial election, Upper West Siders wielded outsize influence in the decision process because of vastly higher turnout rates in their neighborhood — even though it makes up a relatively small portion of the district.

Phil is still in the process of living in a false illusion of being a chairman and can not even get all the committee members to believe in his validity as such.

Payroll records revealed that eight senators — including three members of the breakaway Independent Democratic Conference, who collaborate with Republicans to run the Senate — have received tens of thousands of dollars in stipend payments as vice chairmen of committees during the last three years, even though the money is earmarked for the committee chairmen.

Perhaps it is important that we aver our mind to the historic election petition of 2013, which was not referred to the constitutional committee then headed by Hon. Ayikoi Otoo and the verifiable fact that none of the members of the constitutional committee, not even the Chairman, were on the Party's legal team at the Supreme Court.

«To take politics out of the ethics committee, you're not even supposed to serve on that committee if you're a member of a political party.

The state chairmen and other officials, who are members of the National Executive Committee, started arriving in Abuja on Friday evening ahead of Monday's NEC meeting.

Meanwhile, the Bawku Central Constituency, Mahama Ayariga, on Thursday evening, practically rejected recommendations of the five member Joe Ghartey committee that investigated bribery allegations against Members of the Appointments Committee and Minister of Energy, Boakyecommittee that investigated bribery allegations against Members of the Appointments Committee and Minister of Energy, BoakyeCommittee and Minister of Energy, Boakye Agyarko.

I believe that the Senate Democrats refused to allow Senator Padavan to be seated, even though the Democratic and Republican Elections Committee members in Queens County wanted to certify him with the belief that the math possibilities of his losing had been exhausted.

The 20 - year speaker has the power to decide unilaterally what initiatives make it into the Assembly's budget, what pieces of legislation come up for a floor vote, what resources each member receives for his office and even how much money representatives get from the Democratic Assembly Campaign Committee for their re-election bids.