Sentences with phrase «most chamber members»

After all, people like to do business with people they know, and most chamber members prefer to work with one of their fellow members over those who are not active in their community.

Not exact matches

And in their most high - profile gambit, House Democrats staged occasional boycotts to deny the Republican - dominated chamber enough members to conduct business.

He is also one of the most media - savvy members in the upper chamber — a trait that has been apparent since the start of his career, when his first, failed bid to become mayor of Newark was captured in a sympathetic documentary, «Street Fight.»

It sounded bureaucratic, and it most definitely was — over the next few years, chamber members held meetings, gave speeches, took meticulous minutes and, in February 1928, published the first edition of the chamber newsletter, The Commerce of the Nation.

We will continue to support other chambers and help amplify their voice whenever possible, because we firmly believe the chamber family is strongest — and our collective Members benefit the most — when we stand together.

Podhoretz has his own twinges of pride: He writes as if the neoconservatives, those Family members who reacted to the late «60s by moving right rather than left, supplied Ronald Reagan with everything he needed to think about communism, although Reagan often said that the writer who most influenced him was Whittaker Chambers.»

For the most part, members of this chamber are from the «other side» of the Las Vegas - area business world.

Today most members are life peers, and the chamber is increasingly diverse in gender and ethnic terms.

And each year, the legislative chambers dole out dozens of lulus, with the richest payments being decided by the ruling party, and generally going to the most experienced and loyal members.

The reasoning is fairly simple: Democrats want the union in their corner next year, and many of the most liberal members of the chamber represent districts with a lot of 1199 members.

Heastie signed onto 287 bills as a co-prime or multi-sponsor, making him the 80th most active member of his chamber in this measure.

Very large countries (ie India) don't generally have thousand - plus member chambers, but it works out pretty well for most of the world.

The most immediate answer, of course, is not much: Despite the I.D.C.'s eight senators joining with Ms. Stewart - Cousins's 21 members, the Democrats are still short of a majority in the 63 - seat chamber, something that Republicans who control the chamber were quick to note, and mock, on Wednesday.

This year, Krueger was also her chamber's most polite member: she thanked her colleagues 349 times, more than twice as frequently as anybody else.

On days in which multiple members were in the chamber, Joe Griffo spent the most time as acting president (speaking 44,345 words, or 6.7 percent).

After their attempts failed, most Democrats walked out of the chamber, though Sampson stayed behind with members of the Independent Democratic Conference.

The I.D.C. announced they were forming a ruling coalition with the Senate's Republican conference in December of 2012, an arrangement that gave I.D.C. members more power and financial resources, and gave the G.O.P. the votes needed to retain control of the chamber, which they've held for most of the past 50 years, despite Democrats» overwhelming registration advantage statewide.

Gioia joined the likes of of Senate President Dean Skelos, Assembly Minority Leader Brian Kolb, and Sen. George Maziarz, who two years ago was rated the most conservative member of the state's upper chamber.

The report said the Assembly's leadership shielded Mr. Lopez, a Brooklyn Democrat who was one of the chamber's most powerful members, from public scrutiny amid allegations against him by his staff of sexual harassment.

Sampson, one of the chamber's most conservative members, also objected to using state money to help bolster Hartford's finances.

The most important function of the whip's office is to ensure that all members and senators are present to take part in votes in the chamber (maintaining quorum and preventing censure motions).

Perhaps one of the most promising of these is the creation of a second chamber composed of members of the public chosen by sortition — a processes whereby political representatives are selected by a lottery, similar to the method of jury selection.

Tedisco said his bill has 40 sponsors, most of whom are members of the chamber's Republican minority.

Besides getting a snapshot of a principal's day, chamber members wanted to learn the types of support most needed by schools.

The bills ultimately passed the House in May 2014, 95 - 14, with the opposition coming from an interesting mesh of the chamber's most conservative and liberal members of each caucus.

Members of Essex Court Chambers were instructed in two of the cases selected by i - law as its eight «most notable charterparty disputes of 2014 ″.

We are calling on our members, and their firms / chambers / friends, to voice their opposition to the government's proposals to destroy access to justice for the poorest and most vulnerable in our society, fundamentally undermining the principle of the rule of law.

It gives us great pleasure to share that Erriah Chambers, our Mauritian member, has recently achieved the following awards: Corporate Law Firm Mauritius — Innovation & Excellence Awards 2015 — Fenice Media — Corporate Live Wire — Most Outstanding Most Innovative Law Firm in Mauritius 2016 — Acquisition International Mauritius Corporate Law Firm of the Year — ...

Under Gordon Pollock's leadership, the chambers has grown substantially and with 82 members is one of the largest and most successful commercial law sets in -LSB-...]

Christopher was the most loyal and well liked member of chambers, and he will be greatly missed by all.

Vivian was a most loyal, well liked and respected members of chambers, and he will be greatly missed by all.

Following thousands of interviews conducted and out of over 100 featured sets, members of Essex Court Chambers featured in the most listings in the country this year, with 72 in total.

Members of Chambers have been heavily involved in most of the large fraud, cartel, corruption and corporate crime cases as well as the most high - profile cases of general crime that have been investigated or prosecuted in this country and several of those investigated and prosecuted abroad.

«Although the research is incomplete, most believe the lack of confidence in public funding is partly what has caused chambers to recruit fewer junior members.»

Most members of Radcliffe Chambers have built their reputations through practice in the areas of work traditionally associated with the Chancery Bar, principally property law, trust and private client work, the law relating to the diverse forms of business association, commercial law, pensions, charities and financial services.