Sentences with phrase «mind by the president»

The assumed change of mind by the president has set into motion series of reaction from various quarters of the public.

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Sanger - Katz lays out eight questions that are on a lot of folks» minds after President Trump's latest efforts to undercut the Affordable Care Act — an executive order Thursday morning, followed by an announcement last evening that the government would stop making certain ACA - related payments to insurers — and answers them.

Asked by CNBC about the disagreement with the president, Murray said: «I can't begin to fathom the internal workings of the president's mind.»

Former Harvard president Larry Summers called the program «the single most misdirected philanthropy in this decade,» according to TechCrunch, while Slate Group chairman Jacob Weisberg wrote in Newsweek, «Thiel fellows will have the opportunity to emulate their sponsor by halting their intellectual development around the onset of adulthood, maintaining a narrow - minded focus on getting rich as young as possible and thereby avoid the siren lure of helping others or pursuing knowledge for its own sake.»

«We are calling for better recognitions and dignity for all affected by the agenda of President Trump,» she told Fortune, adding that the Trump administration's anti-immigration rhetoric will be on many protestors» minds.

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Since its birth on April 5, 2012, when President Obama signed the JOBS Act into law, equity crowdfunding has become a byword in aspiring entrepreneurial minds encouraged by the prospect of raising capital directly from the public online.

«Every member of our judging panel has signed on because they recognize the value of discovering the young minds who will change the future landscape of Canadian businesses by thinking green,» said Shelley Broader, president and CEO of Walmart Canada.

It seemed Cohn hadn't given up quite yet, and in fact he was planning to make a desperate final attempt to change Trump's mind by bringing leaders of industries that would be hurt by the tariffs to meet with the president at the White House on Thursday.

White House economic adviser Gary Cohn is making a desperate final attempt to change Trump's mind on imposing the tariffs by bringing leaders of industries that will be hurt by the tariffs to meet with the president at the White House on Thursday.

Before you scream too loudly over this move by President Obama, keep in mind that the prohibition for using federal funds under the executive order by President Bush did not stop the practice of harvesting stem cells from unused embryos in fertility clinics.

Presidents are as gods within the minds of socially clad people who see the uppityness of diplomacies» based upon hindsightiveness and forlorenment, and are as the regurgitations of sameness censored by flagrantly narrowed antipathies.

The willingness of President Bush (in his better moments) to spend money to shore up civil society — making it perhaps less necessary to spend money down the road, as the promise of the «ownership society» was fulfilled — was taken as an opportunity by those not invested in that «limited» project (I have in mind here both the conventional Republicans in the Bush White House and the pork - barrelling Republicans in the House and Senate) to open the federal purse with relative abandon.

It is, of course, impossible to know his heart, though not altogether impossible to know his mind, and it is telling that on what are perhaps the three most crucial international policy issues facing the next president «the Arab world, Iran, and illegal immigration «Gingrich's positions appear to have been shaped significantly by Catholic thought.

It is unfortunate that a country of this stature, who rules the world, from the skies like a god, and lacks comprehensive leadership to deal with these pressing issues... where are the Presidents akin to our late leaders that took the initiative and got things done, America has become a cold, hostile place to live, We lack the sense of unity that made us what we are... There are hundreds of thousand unemployed, Why can't the government promote an agency akin to the peace corps, that utilizes the young folks sitting on their a $ $ and make them earn their unemployment check by working in this storm zone, to rehabilitate and get these folks back on their feet... it would promote a culture of selflessness and charity and would without a question cause a paradigm shift in the minds of our youth, This is what makes a nation great!

She has been lauded by former President Barack Obama as an outstanding businesswoman, and has built a company with mission in mind focused on sustainable farming practices and innovative solutions for a healthier planet.

After surprising the football world by getting Isco to change his mind and choose Madrid over Manuel Pellegrini and Manchester City, with a little help from Zinedine Zidane, Perez has broken down the stubborn resistance of Real Sociedad and the president Jokim Aperribay and sealed the deal for the defensive midfield star Asier Illarramendi.

But while some may question whether Caitlin would have been selected had she not been gay, including the inevitable question from Matt Lauer in his interview of Caitlin this morning on the Today Show (which Lauer appropriately prefaced by saying that, by his question, he «meant no disrespect»), there is no question in my mind why President Obama chose Caitlin to be part of our delegation to the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi.

Nana Akufo - Addo and his lackeys sensing another excruciating defeat in the upcoming November elections have resorted to the beatings of war drums, preparing the minds of their supporters to arm them to resist what they say are «plots by Chairperson of the Electoral Commission, Madam Charlotte Osei to rig the impending election for sitting President John Mahama.»

Nearly a month after he was fired by the Trump administration, former U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara said in his first interview since his ouster that he remains mystified by the circumstances of his ouster, saying he had never been told why President Trump changed his mind about wanting him to stay on.

With the release of his memoir this week and a set of high - profile media interviews to publicize it, Comey — whose firing by Trump made him a hero to the president's critics — has veered onto risky terrain, shedding the trappings of a high - minded referee and looking instead like a combatant in the country's partisan battles.

Faced with a sprawling investigation by the special counsel in Washington, President Trump must also contend with an independent - minded office of federal prosecutors in his hometown, New York, who are investigating his longtime personal lawyer and fixer, Michael D. Cohen.

There is no doubt in my mind that President Obama has the authority to take these steps - he is building on precedent created by both Democratic and Republican former presidents.

The National Assembly should wake up and assist the President make up his mind, the way they did in the case of the criminal withdrawal of the Security details of the Anambra State Governor by the IGP.

The Minority in a statement said: «While Ayisi Boateng's apparent suicidal mission in the face of overwhelming condemnation by decent minded Ghanaians has made him the «Chemical Ali» of Ghana's Diplomatic Service, the Minority in Parliament like most Ghanaians believe the ball is now squarely in the court of His Excellency President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo - Addo to show this dangerous envoy the exit.»

He contended further that, President Mahama had purely noble intentions when he accepted the gift as «he had in mind clearly what he was going to use the gift for and that the gift was meant to be used by the state.»

Former President Rawlings and founder of the NDC has come under numerous verbal attacks by some members of his own party for speaking his mind and criticizing his own administration for wrong doing

Some of you Ghanaians can choose to settle for less, and allow the greedy and selfish politicians to find it convenient to take you for granted by allowing them to engage in such trivialities on election days, just to woo the «weaker minds» as President John Dramani Mahama reportedly once said.

Fayose, in a statement issued on Wednesday, by his Special Assistant on Public Communications and New Media, Lere Olayinka, said it was obvious that the president's close to three months stay in London had taken his mind off the reality of the economic crises being witnessed in the country.

Once the national conference lacks the sovereign power, it becomes ineffective and would not serve the desire purpose which it is meant to promote and shall end up in refuse - bin at the end.Nigerians must not allow their intelligence to be played upon anymore by small minded president Jonathan.

Some seventy years after his death on this day in 1944, the spirit of legendary Senator George W. Norris, a progressive and fiercely independent - minded Republican lawmaker portrayed by future President John F. Kennedy in his 1957 Pulitzer - prize winning «Profiles in Courage,» is being rekindled in -LSB-...]

Let's keep in mind that Rump won a narrow victory in the Electoral College, lost the popular vote by close to 3 million and will be a minority president.

Even though we are required by law to accept the result of the December 7, 2016 polls, it is regrettable to note that the President elect (Akuffo - Addo) is to me a mistake of the Majority because he does not represent the will of the people, bearing in mind the electoral fraud and hacking in to the Electoral Commission's transmission data base.

«It is very important bearing in mind that the budget was passed by the National Assembly in May and signed into law by the then Acting President Yemi Osinbajo on June 6, 2017.

America may have got much wrong but it didn't quit: «In the early days in Iraq we bragged that our forces could deploy in berets and soft - sided vehicles while US forces roared through Baghdad in heavily armoured convoys... If a fair - minded account of the Iraq war is written, credit should go to President Bush for rejecting two years ago the report by the bipartisan Iraq Study Group that called for force reductions.

«We certainly hope that some members will change their minds,» she added, pointing out that previous secretaries of state nominated by both Democratic and Republican presidents were unanimously approved.

But a CNN / WMUR survey conducted by the University of New Hampshire also indicates that the race is far from settled, with nearly nine in ten potential Republican primary voters saying they haven't come close to making up their minds and more than four in ten saying they're not satisfied with the field of GOP candidates running for president.

While Ayisi Boateng's apparent suicidal mission in the face of overwhelming condemnation by decent minded Ghanaians has made him the «Chemical Ali» of Ghana's Diplomatic Service, the Minority in Parliament like most Ghanaians believe the ball is now squarely in the court of His Excellency President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo - Addo to show this dangerous envoy the exit.

«Those polls are strategies adopted by the NPP in this year's election to undermine the performance of the President but Ghanaians have made up their minds.

The vow to cure cancer brings to mind some past efforts, such as President Nixon's war on cancer of the early 1970s, and a pledge by Andrew von Eschenbach, former National Cancer Institute (NCI) director (2002 — 06), to eliminate suffering and death from cancer by 2015.

Such issues came to mind during remarks by Daryl Chubin, senior vice president for policy and research at the National Action Coalition for Minorities in Engineering, and Shirley Malcom, director of the AAAS Directorate for Education and Human Resources.

At last week's meeting, NWO President Stan Gielen said the funds Bruins has in mind are distributed by NWO but are earmarked by the Ministry of Education, Culture and Science, which would have to give permission.

President Chakma and Western Provost Janice Deakin, as well as renowned researchers from the Brain and Mind Institute, BrainsCAN and the Rotman Institute of Philosophy, will be joined by Kate Young, MP London West and Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Transport, and Peter Fragiskatos, MP London North Centre, at the official opening.

In line with this view, Gary Hart, the retired U.S. Senator and one - time presidential hopeful, argued that although a big part of success as president is picking smart people for key positions, «it takes a pretty keen mind, honed by study, travel, experience, and exposure to competing ideas, to form good judgment and to know whom to trust on complex substantive issues.»

Tervezett program: 15:00 - 15:05: Welcome speech by László Lovász, President of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences 15:05 - 15:25: Presentation by Sierd Cloetingh, President of Academia Europaea (AE), Vice President of the European Research Council (ERC), on AE and ERC 15:25 - 15:40: Presentation by Lynn Kamerlin, President of the Young Academy of Europe (YAE) in 2014 - 2015 on YAE 15:40 - 15:50: Presentation by Balázs Gulyás, Member of the Board of Trustees of AE, on the AE - ALLEA Joint Annual Meeting in 2017 in Budapest 15:50 - 16:20: Lecture by László Csiba (AE: 2015), Professor and Chairman, Department of Neurology, University of Debrecen: When our mind goes blank: contradictions and surprises in the clinical practice and research.

His actions in this area brings to mind the political genius of Lyndon Baines Johnson in pushing through Title IV of the Civil Rights Act and, much more recently the pressure put upon Congress by President Barack Obama to get a comprehensive health bill through a Congress as sharply divided as the body confronted by Lincoln.

On one hand, the speech tests the audience's patience for legalese; on the other, it is a tour - de-force, a brilliant meditation on the fundamental tension between moral right and democratic law, delivered by an actor so thoroughly in command of the character that it feels almost effortlessly tossed off — one can only imagine that Lincoln, the lawyer and the president, spent many sleepless nights playing this debate out in his mind.

Starring Frank Langella, Michael Sheen, and Oliver Platt Directed by Ron Howard (A Beautiful Mind) Rated R for some language Appropriate for ages 15 + After President Richard Nixon (Langella) left office in the 70s, the press went crazy trying to arrange interviews that he wouldn't give.

Hollywood, beset by scandal in 2017, wouldn't mind backing a movie about the power of the free press as a sideswipe at an unpopular president, much less a movie about the power of the free press that might be the most feminist film Spielberg has ever made.

The names bring to mind adventures in a familiar, everyday world that transforms into an insane one, whether it be an encounter with a cheetah in Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle or a stop at a Texas ranch in Harold & Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay (By that point in the movie, the idea of a regular world had gone out the window) where the then President of the United States reveals he enjoys marijuana almost as much as the heroes.