Sentences with phrase «members of the commission on»

Newton Minow, the former Federal Communications Commission (FCC) chair who is a board member of the Commission on Presidential Debates, recently said that presidential debate moderators today have been facing more criticism than they did in years past.

In April, Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced the members of the Commission on Youth, Public Safety and Justice, created in part to address raising the age of criminal responsibility.

They'll discuss the latest scandals in state government including an explosive report alleging illegal conduct by members of the Commission on Public Integrity.

I thank the members of the Commission on the Status of Women, some who have joined us today, for helping us achieve these policies.

Governor Andrew Cuomo meets with members of the Commission on Youth, Public Safety and Justice to receive their report at the Capitol on Monday, Jan. 19, 2015, in Albany, N.Y. (Paul Buckowski / Times Union)

Speaker of the House of Representatives Paul Ryan (R — WI, at lectern) and Senator Patty Murray (D — WA, second from right) thanked members of the commission on 7 September for their report.

Moderated by: Hossam Badrawi, Chairman Nile Badrawi Foundation for Education & Development, former Chairman of the Committee on Education and Scientific Research, Parliament of Egypt Ernesto Fernandez Polcuch, Senior Programme Specialist Natural Sciences, UNESCO Aicha Bammoun, Programme Specialist, Science Directorate, ISESCO Paul Rübig, Chair, European Parliament's Science and Technology Options Assessment (STOA) Liliya Hrynevych, Chairperson, Committee on Science and Education, Parliament of Ukraine Jesus Hurtado, Member of the Commission on Science, Innovation and Technology, Congress of the Republic Peru Ninlawan Petcharaburanin, Advisor for the Committee on Science Technology National Assembly, Thailand Rana Dajani, Associate Professor, Hashemite University, Jordan; Visiting Professor, Yale Stem Cell Center and University of Cambridge

Similarly, testing experts such as W. James Popham and members of the Commission on Instructionally Supportive Assessment argue that the types of standardized exams used in most value - added assessment systems are not «instructionally sensitive.»

AB375 would allow any party to object to the qualifications of members of the Commission on Professional Competence (CPC).

The President shall invite the participation in such conference or conferences of (1) the members of the President's Committee on Equal Employment Opportunity, (2) the members of the Commission on Civil Rights, (3) representatives of State and local agencies engaged in furthering equal employment opportunity, (4) representatives of private agencies engaged in furthering equal employment opportunity, and (5) representatives of employers, labor organizations, and employment agencies who will be subject to this title.

Since 2014 she has also been one of the 19 members of the Commission on Retirement Security and Personal Savings set up by the Bipartisan Policy Center.

Morrow is one of the founding board members of the Kentucky School of Art and a founding member of the Commission on Public Art, Louisville, KY. 21c Museum is North America's first museum dedicated solely to collecting and exhibiting art of the 21st century.

** Plum is a former member of House Commerce and Labor and currently a member of the Commission on Electric Utility Regulation.

Past member of the Commission on Women in the Profession; Task Force on Attorney Client Privilege; Task Force on Building Public Trust in the American Justice System; the council of the ABA Center on Diversity; and the ABA's World Justice Project Committee.

8 The parties agree that the term of office of the persons who are members of the Commission on May 1, 1991 shall expire on June 30, 1995.

Chambers is delighted to hear of Sir Wyn Williams» appointment as a member of the Commission on Justice in Wales, headed by former Lord Chief Justice Lord Thomas of Cwmgiedd.

Ê No member of the permanent Commission may be a member of the Commission on Judicial Discipline.

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In an Oct. 4 letter to acting Secretary of the Army Ryan McCarthy, Sen. Marco Rubio demanded the branch nullify the military commission of 2nd Lt. Spenser Rapone, the West Point graduate, Afghanistan combat veteran, and self - identified member of the Democratic Socialists of America who posted photos of himself wearing a Che Guevara shirt under his uniform and a «Communism Will Win» sign tucked into his cover on Sept. 24.

She also serves as a member of the FDIC's Commission on Economic Inclusion.

Exxon board member Bill George led a National Association of Corporate Directors Blue Ribbon Commission on «Executive Compensation and the Role of the Compensation Committee,» which included recommendations such as not offering contracts to executives (giving the board more flexibility in how it deals with the CEO's pay and tenure), which is reflected in the pay practices at ExxonMobil.

Phyllis was a member of the Center for Strategic and International Studies» commission that advised President Barack Obama on cybersecurity.

At the start of June, before the new law went through, the European Commission said EU member states should avoid «imposing disproportionate obligations» on people who occasionally offer services through platforms such as Uber.

The telephone survey of a representative sample of approximately 3,000 Americans was conducted as part of a broader study of people in the 27 member states of the European Union and in Brazil, China, Croatia, Iceland, India, Israel, Norway, Russia, Switzerland, Turkey, the United States, Japan and South Korea in the summer of 2012 on behalf of the European Commission.

Mr. Lehrman previously served as a Director of the Office of WMD Terrorism at the U.S. Department of State and as a member of the professional staff on the President's WMD Commission.

He is on the board of directors for AirSpace Minnesota, and was a member of the executive commission of the Minnesota Science & Technology Authority from 2009 - 2011.

Rep. Ann Wagner, R - Mo., who sponsored the Retail Investor Protection Act, bipartisan legislation passed in the House that would require the Securities and Exchange Commission, not DOL, to take the lead on crafting a fiduciary rule, said Wednesday that she was «working closely with House leadership and members of the Education and Workforce Committee on using the Congressional Review Act to stop [DOL's] ill - advised rule.»

To run DOI's Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement, one of two agencies that regulates offshore drilling, Zinke chose Scott Angelle, a member of the Louisiana Public Service Commission who served on the board of directors of (and was paid $ 989,238 by) oil pipeline operator Sunoco Logistics.

That was the message delivered to the heads of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) Wednesday by three lawmakers and members of the Congressional Blockchain Caucus (CBC), a bipartisan group launched last year in a bid to support the technology and its interests on Capitol Hill.

Western Governors University is accredited by the Commission on Collegiate Nursing Education (CCNE), the Committee on National Security Systems (CNSS), the National Council for Accreditation of Teacher Education (NCATE), and is currently a Microsoft IT Academy Program member.

But an expert in that market, Jeffrey Christian of the CPM Group, acknowledged at the March 25 hearing of the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission, as he had acknowledged in an explanatory report published in 2000, that the London bullion market is actually a fractional - reserve gold banking system built on the presumption that most gold buyers will never take delivery of their metal but rather leave it on deposit with the LBMA members from whom they bought it.

These include holding open Cabinet meetings at least once a month, which will be broadcasted on the Internet; giving Members of the Legislative Assembly (MLAs) a greater role by reforming the Legislative committee system and allowing government MLAs to vote freely (as opposed to voting according to the Party's preferences); restricting the tenure of a premier to two (four - year) terms; holding a Citizen's Assembly on electoral reform to examine alternative models for electing MLAs; instituting a system by which citizens can recall elected officials; and instituting elections for all government boards and commissions.

This picture taken on April 28, 2018 show members of the Election Commission of Malaysia (EC) playing with their phone before candidates handing over election documents during the nomination day ahead of the country's 14th general election in Pekan.

Owen Haacke, Chief Representative for USCBC's Shanghai office, addressed member company interests at the Shanghai Municipal Commission of Commerce's annual Briefing on Shanghai's Commerce and Investment.

The commission, whose 37 - members will begin voting on proposals next week, owes no higher duty to the people of Florida.

Examples of these risks, uncertainties and other factors include, but are not limited to the impact of: adverse general economic and related factors, such as fluctuating or increasing levels of unemployment, underemployment and the volatility of fuel prices, declines in the securities and real estate markets, and perceptions of these conditions that decrease the level of disposable income of consumers or consumer confidence; adverse events impacting the security of travel, such as terrorist acts, armed conflict and threats thereof, acts of piracy, and other international events; the risks and increased costs associated with operating internationally; our expansion into and investments in new markets; breaches in data security or other disturbances to our information technology and other networks; the spread of epidemics and viral outbreaks; adverse incidents involving cruise ships; changes in fuel prices and / or other cruise operating costs; any impairment of our tradenames or goodwill; our hedging strategies; our inability to obtain adequate insurance coverage; our substantial indebtedness, including the ability to raise additional capital to fund our operations, and to generate the necessary amount of cash to service our existing debt; restrictions in the agreements governing our indebtedness that limit our flexibility in operating our business; the significant portion of our assets pledged as collateral under our existing debt agreements and the ability of our creditors to accelerate the repayment of our indebtedness; volatility and disruptions in the global credit and financial markets, which may adversely affect our ability to borrow and could increase our counterparty credit risks, including those under our credit facilities, derivatives, contingent obligations, insurance contracts and new ship progress payment guarantees; fluctuations in foreign currency exchange rates; overcapacity in key markets or globally; our inability to recruit or retain qualified personnel or the loss of key personnel; future changes relating to how external distribution channels sell and market our cruises; our reliance on third parties to provide hotel management services to certain ships and certain other services; delays in our shipbuilding program and ship repairs, maintenance and refurbishments; future increases in the price of, or major changes or reduction in, commercial airline services; seasonal variations in passenger fare rates and occupancy levels at different times of the year; our ability to keep pace with developments in technology; amendments to our collective bargaining agreements for crew members and other employee relation issues; the continued availability of attractive port destinations; pending or threatened litigation, investigations and enforcement actions; changes involving the tax and environmental regulatory regimes in which we operate; and other factors set forth under «Risk Factors» in our most recently filed Annual Report on Form 10 - K and subsequent filings by the Company with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

It is worth noting that Judge Miner's inability to parse that distinction was not shared by the New York State Task Force on Life and the Law, a twenty - four member commission appointed by Governor Cuomo in 1985 to advise on questions of biomedical ethics.

What is new is that women in the diaconate will be the explicit focus of a commission set up by the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, that half of the theologians named by the Pope to serve on it are women, and that a leading advocate for women's admission to the diaconate, Professor Phyllis Zagano of Hofstra University, is one of the members.

Only these two decrees formed the subject matter of the work of the Theological Commission of the Council, for the celebrated Schema 13 really fell within the competence of the Commission on the Lay Apostolate and the schema on Ecumenism which was passed, its radiance dimmed a little here and there but not substantially affected, belonged to Cardinal Bea's Secretariat, of which I was not a member.

The statement called on the member councils of the International Missionary Council to further the cause of Christian unity and to consider fresh ways of relating their experience and concern for unity to the deliberations and actions of the churches within their membership, and to the Commission on Faith and Order of the World Council of Churches.

This tentative model for understanding the causes of problem drinking is offered in the report of the Cooperative Commission on the Study of Alcoholism: «An individual who (1) responds to beverage alcohol in a certain way, perhaps physiologically determined, by experiencing intense relief and relaxation, and who (2) has certain personality characteristics, such as difficulty in dealing with and overcoming depression, frustration, and anxiety, and who (3) is a member of a culture in which there is both pressure to drink and culturally induced guilt and confusion regarding what kinds of drinking behavior are appropriate, is more likely to develop trouble than will most other people.»

Since 2003 he has served as a member of the International Theological Commission, and since 2008 as a consultant to the USCCB Committee on Doctrine.

The announcement of the new members of the Pontifical Commission for the Protection of Minors came on the same day that a Vatican investigator will take the testimony in New York of one of the main whistleblowers in the Chilean cover - up scandal.

The members were all in Rome to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the formation of the Joint International Methodist - Catholic Dialogue Commission - the first of which was held in the hill town of Ariccia in Rome on October 1967.

The joint declaration also asks for international pressure on the UN Human Rights Council — of which Nigeria is a member — to form a commission of inquiry «to investigate the atrocities committed against civilians in general, and against Christians in particular in northern Nigeria, including bringing the perpetrators of violence to justice.»

Another member of the commission, Ljubo Lucic, O.F.M., a professor on the theological faculty in Sarajevo, confirmed Krasic's remarks.

(e) post on the Sites or through the Applications any franchise, pyramid scheme, «club membership,» distributorship or sales representative agency arrangement or other business opportunity which requires an up - front or periodic payment, pays commissions only (except for postings that make clear that the available job pays commission only and clearly describes the product or service that the job seeker would be selling, in which case these types of postings are permissible), or requires recruitment of other members, sub-distributors or sub-agents;

«I assisted a friend who served on the Chesapeake Bay Commission, and this is inaccurately being tied to Smithfield Foods,» Hart said in an emailed statement, referring to Treacy, who's a member of the cCommission, and this is inaccurately being tied to Smithfield Foods,» Hart said in an emailed statement, referring to Treacy, who's a member of the commissioncommission.

It is understood Member States have again agreed not to sell any skimmed milk powder (SMP) out of public intervention this week after the Commission recommended to refuse all the offers on the count that they were well below prevailing market prices.

We call on the European Commission to propose to member states a ban on glyphosate, to reform the pesticide approval procedure, and to set EU - wide mandatory reduction targets for pesticide use.We call for the ban of glyphosate - based herbicides, exposure... more

Changes to competition laws (milk wars discussion and recommendations relating to MMP (introduce effects test), predatory pricing (recommend Minister direct ACCC to investigate Coles for breach of s 46 relating to predatory pricing), unconscionable conduct (suggest it be defined), statutory duty of good faith, unfair contract terms (seeks «recognition of the competitive disadvantage faced by farmers» and extension of unfair contract terms protection to small business), collective bargaining (seeks relaxation of public interest test for boycott approvals in agriculture markets, increase «ability for peak bodies to commence and progress collective bargaining and boycott applications» on behalf of members - and further dairy specific recommendations, ACCC divestiture power (wants ACCC to have similar divestiture powers to Comp Commission in UK - «simpler process of divestiture», ACCC monitoring powers (wants Minister to direct ACCC to use price monitoring powers to «monitor prices, costs and profits relating to the supply of drinking milk») and mandatory code of conduct (wants mandatory code and «Ombudsman with teeth to ensure compliance»)-RRB-.