Sentences with phrase «men in a room»

And, while she touted the bravery of many women, she made sure not to exclude the men in the room:

She had irked some critics in May when she commented during a conference, «There can be 12 white, blue - eyed, blonde men in a room and they're going to be diverse too because they're going to bring a different life experience and life perspective to the conversation.»

This forced the men in the room to recognize the contribution — and denied them the chance to claim the idea as their own.»

A guy introduces himself like this: «I'm the smartest, best - dressed, and most handsome man in the room.»

Now, remember, I was the only man in this room.

I certainly hope that the author of «Jesus of Nazareth: The Infancy Narratives» isn't the smartest man in the room.

«Maybe it's time to not elect the smartest man in the room, but to elect someone smart who will listen to all the other smart people in the room, and not just in the room but in the church - someone who brings people together, who builds a team,» Reese said.

The rest were left out for not being a cohesive enough narrative for the old men in the room.

I don't know any of the men in this room.

The young men in the room had a lot to say — video games are a large part of their life.

HOWEVER, if in the next 99 rooms there are 100 men in each room, and in each room 1 of them is gay and 1 of them is bi, it becomes normal that 10 % of the men are gay and 10 % of the men are bi.

I'm not the smartest man in the room, but I have the capacity to search for truth... and I have found it.)

The charges brought against Uthman, such as nepotism, were not so heinous as to justify the march of malcontents from the garrison towns against him at Medina or their penetration of his house and their brutal murder of the aged man in his room.

It would ne nice to accept our own moral compasses or as I put it «a morally correct manner» and then leave it at that, accept only detailed proven facts and then use your best judgment on the rest, its more likely to be right then listening or reading «facts» by those who tell you to not look for them or prove them one way r the other, that's the Fox News of the religious world... Religion is more dangerous then a blind man in a room of razors, it hurts, kills and destroys more of humanity then any «God Made» disaster.

The men in the room knew Dunleavy, knew he was not a braggart.

Remember the anesthesiologist who thought every gay man in our room was the father?

As Don Hiltz walked into the clubhouse of the Naperville Sportsman's Club Sunday afternoon, the 20 men in the room turned to welcome the 50 - year member.

After reading up about co-sleeping (James McKenna's papers are very helpful) I can see that having my little man in the room is a good thing for him, but I've also noticed that I didn't get the problems with very engorged painful breasts which if he wasn't in our room and feeding more often I might have.

Otherwise, this would have been just another rubber - stamp meeting of the «Three Men in A Room», doling out cash in a secretive and obscure process.

So, when news surfaced Friday night that Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan and a top Cuomo aide had signed a Memorandum of Understanding making changes to the SAFE Act, it caused quite a bit of confusion, and also prompted a blistering statement from the third man in the room, Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie.

Apparently he thought the title included «Budget Czar», so that he could implement more borrowing thru his cozy relationship the «the only man in the room that counts» — Shelly Silver.

Klein is one of the four men in the room negotiating the budget agreement alongside Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan, Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie and Gov. Andrew Cuomo.

Mel Miller, 78, was once one of Albany's most powerful elected officials — a member of the storied «three men in a room» who made all the state's big decisions behind closed doors.

«I am running to build a real Democratic State Senate majority that finally fully funds our public schools, protects tenants from being thrown out of their homes and strengthens our loophole ridden rent laws, passes badly needed ethics reforms, election reforms and real criminal justice reforms and makes Andrea Stewart - Cousins the first woman Senate Majority Leader, breaking up the so - called «three men in a room.»

Could we be looking at a budget season with four men in a room instead of the traditional three?

As long as 3 dishonest men in a room can dictate what does and does not reach the floor for debate then lets drop the pretext that we have a representative government and eliminate everyone except the 3 dishonest men in a room and maybe the NYS voters will do their job and fire them at the ballot box.

«I think the three men in a room is a little overstated,» he said.

Kolb, a Republican, says he doesn't like the «three men in a room» process that decides which proposals make it into the final spending plan.

Conservative columnist Brian Hamlin suggests that New York's «three men in a room» tactic allows much needed efficiency when it comes to the state budget deal.

It's been known as «three men in a room,» because the governor and the two majority party legislative leaders hash out details in private in the governor's office.

In 2004, it took the three men in a room until August, 133 days past the deadline to reach an agreement; that's 19 weeks, over a third of the year.

Cuomo has often tried to use the three men in a room budget meetings as a symbol of good natured decision making.

The Carey Institute is headed by former New York state Senator Seymour Lachman (D - Brooklyn / Staten Island), author of «Three Men in a Room: The Inside Story of Power and Betrayal in an American Statehouse» (2006) and the upcoming «Hugh Carey and the New York Fiscal Crisis: How America's Empire State Avoided Bankruptcy,» scheduled for release this summer by SUNY Press.

-LSB-...] state legislative session ends next week, meaning that the «three men in a room» will need to agree to something over the next week in order to enact it into -LSB-...]

But he was blocked, time and again, from taking the reins of the Democratic conference and in 2008, when the Democrats finally won a 32 - 30 majority in the Senate, from becoming one of the Three Men in a Room.

New York State politics is often derided as «three men in a room» making a decision.

The state legislative session ends next week, meaning that the «three men in a room» will need to agree to something over the next week in order to enact it into law.

Direct your pointed questions at the Three Men in a Room and their mooted replacements.

NEW YORK, NY (05/06/2015)(readMedia)-- As a second of Albany's powerful «three men in a room» has been indicted on federal corruption charges, the need to combat and prevent corruption in Albany could not be clearer.

One of the legendary three men in a room, he negotiated on behalf of the Assembly with five different Governors (Mario Cuomo, George Pataki, -LSB-...]

There are many problems with Albany's «three men in a room» system.

In the meantime, they are still negotiating on a variety of issues including whether Cuomo can unilaterally change spending without even the other two men in the room.

Yet minority leaders are left out of the closed door budget meetings with the governor, known around the Capitol as «three men in a room.»

Many, including federal prosecutor Preet Bharara, blamed the three men in a room system for permitting corruption.

``... As long as you have three men in a room playing games in secret, you're going to have the same problems we've had in the past.

The separate but concurrent corruption trails of former Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver and Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos, two of the three men in the room who helped craft much of the recent ethics laws;

Along with Gov. Andrew Cuomo, the leaders of both legislative houses make up the so - called «three men in a room» who privately hash out most important policy in New York, as well as its $ 150 - plus billion annual budget.

Together with Gov. Andrew Cuomo, Mr. Skelos and Mr. Silver made up the «three men in a room» who negotiate the state budget and run much of its legislative business — a model Mr. Silver has derided.

The patient, cool - headed senior senator from Alabama — often the tallest man in the room — holds immense sway over the financial reform debate.

But, the double meaning is his ability to produce political winners out of the kind of super-secret «Three men in a room» deals he decried as a candidate.