Sentences with phrase «number of his colleagues on»

Slaughter had been the first woman to chair the House Rules Committee and a number of her colleagues on that committee, both Democrats and Republicans, praised her during a meeting of that panel in Washington earlier this week.

A good number of his colleagues on both sides of the aisle refused to even speak to Espada while he carried the title.

Next week I will have the opportunity to join with a number of colleagues on a panel to discuss with law school students the importance of legal research and writing, largely in anticipation of them becoming lawyers on graduation and needing to have certain skills in order to excel in their profession (and I think it is great that this law school is making this kind of session available to students).

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And, despite Meyers» insistence that Trump would not have appeared on his show anyway, the GOP candidate is a frequent media presence who made a number of late - night TV visits in the early months of his campaign, including with Meyers» NBC colleagues like Jimmy Fallon, on The Tonight Show, as well as a hosting gig on Saturday Night Live.

Continuing to offer no absolute limit on the number of days people can take given that their colleague are happy with their plans

As my colleague Dan Primack has pointed out, the Sunday broadcast involved a game that hardly anyone probably cares about outside the local markets of the two teams — where the game was available on television as usual — and the viewership numbers Yahoo has reported are likely inflated.

John Lilly, the venture capitalist and prolific tweeter, recently cited a friend who categorizes colleagues into buckets, based on the number of tech - industry downturns they've experienced.

A recent Deloitte survey focused on Canadian workplaces found that just over half of gen Y workers felt they were «part of a great organization,» a slightly higher number than their more jaded older colleagues.

Along with quite a number of other colleagues, I sat on that internal committee and we held hearings across the country.

But Facebook was also where Mr. Perry promoted his films, where he posted ads seeking help on the set, and where he communicated with colleagues and a «massive number» of his friends and relatives.

America's hospitals were beset by an unusual number of calamities in 2017: Fires raged in Northern and Southern California; hurricanes displaced thousands in Houston, Florida and Puerto Rico; the deadliest mass shooting in modern history killed 58 people and wounded more than 500 others in Las Vegas; and an attack at a Bronx hospital in which a doctor turned a gun on his former colleagues, killing one and injuring six.

-- State Attorney General Xavier Becerra on the federal government report filed Monday detailing numbers of Dreamers who have been able to renew their status — and are guaranteed two more years of DACA protection: «As a result of the nationwide injunction we secured, at least 30,000 Dreamers who have renewed their DACA status — our colleagues, our classmates, our teachers — can go home to their loved ones at night and keep helping build a better America.

An Open Doors colleague recommends this as a primer on the world's number one persecutor of Christians.

CNN: On religion, Capitol freshmen are more diverse than their incumbent colleagues The 113th Congress is being heralded for its number of women and minorities, but that diversity extends to religion, too.

Through collecting and reworking many of his previously published articles, Ford will attempt in this new book to formulate the requisite complementary natural theology for Whitehead's cosmology in historical conversation with, and in dialectical opposition to, a number of contrasting perspectives on creativity, temporality, immutability, theodicy, and technical (internal) problems in process metaphysics put forth by Robert Neville, Norris Clarke, Donald Sherburne, and other colleagues over the years.

Michael Carrick and Tom Cleverley patrolled the centre of the pitch — Cleverley slightly ahead of his England colleague — and while Wilfried Zaha (in the Community Shield) and Antonio Valencia (against Swansea) stayed wide on the right flank, Robin van Persie led the line as a conventional number nine.

Around 1 year a go I had a work colleague flirting with me over a number of months (of course I flirted back) and during birthday night out she came on strong.

James Cleverly has also impressed many of his Tory colleagues, although Number 10 was not thrilled when the Braintree MP joined up with five fellow MPs to back a European Union exit on 4 January.

Since his speech in favour of air strikes on Syria I am struck by the number of Hilary Benn's colleagues, those who have worked with him in cabinets or shadow cabinets, who tell me he has changed since the summer, finding his political voice or public definition in opposition to Jeremy Corbyn's leadership.

Those numbers don't include the ripple effect as people forward it on to colleagues and others, and they're also destined to go up as the promotional campaign chugs along (press release hits the wires tomorrow, for instance, and the ebook should have a mention in the next issue of Campaigns & Elections magazine).

Though a number of high - profile Democrats have defected from Rep. Charlie Rangel's side to back Sen. Adriano Espaillat's second primary challenge to the veteran Harlem lawmaker, at least one powerful party leader / elected official is refusing to turn his back on his long - time congressional colleague.

While serving on the Board, she was elected by her colleagues to the position of Minority Leader and served on a number of committees, including Ways and Means where she served from 2006 and was Vice-Chair.

But a number of Labour and SNP MPs have now called on the parliamentary authorities to «urgently investigate» the matter, with former Foreign office minister Chris Bryant calling it a «clear conflict of interest»; Caroline Lucas labelling the findings «deeply concerning» and the SNP's Deirdre Brock asking, «What kind of shameless opportunist would be supporting their colleagues in public while betraying them in private?»

It is no secret that Boris frustrated a number of his pro-EU colleagues with his impromptu speech on Brexit outside his Islington house last week.

As the casualties piled up on Friday morning, Tory MP Anna Soubry broke ranks to express her frustration at losing a number of colleagues.

The Marine Corps is looking into allegations that an unknown number of potential Marines, as well as current and former service members, shared naked and compromising photos of their colleagues on social media, Marine officials said.

I was also able to work with my colleagues on both sides of the aisle to secure additional funding for a number of worthwhile organizations in Grand Island and the Tonawandas.

A number of Nick's TWC News colleagues and fellow LCAers (including yours truly) were on hand to witness this happy event.

Phillips and other colleagues cheered when a number of women did secure the chairmanships, including Rachel Reeves on business, Yvette Cooper at home affairs and Nicky Morgan at Treasury.

A number of her cabinet colleagues joined her on the front bench to express solidarity.

Those present included my colleague on the county legislature, Lynn Marinelli; Supervisor Tony Caruana, Councilman Dan Crangle and Highway Superintendent Bill Swanson from the town; Mayor Patrick Mang and Clerk / Treasurer Kathleen Johnson from the village; a number of representatives from the county's public works department; and several other local government officials interested in improving service to town residents.

The paper includes estimates that the number of automated «bots» is 60 million on Facebook and up to 48 million on Twitter, the latter based upon a recent study by Menczer and colleagues.

Using a combination of behavioral and neuroimaging methods, he and his colleagues examine how children develop foundational number - processing abilities, such as the ability to judge which of two numbers is larger or to estimate numbers» position on a number line; why these basic cognitive processes sometimes go awry; and how to help children with serious deficits in numerical processing.

The selection is not exhaustive, on the contrary it just reflects our personal knowledge of recent publications; nevertheless they are in our view representative of the indefatigable work of a large number of scientists affirming Human Rights and in defense of persecuted or at risk colleagues throughout the world.

«An extreme climatic stimulus might cue large numbers of cicadas to shift, perhaps even enough to satiate predators,» Cooley and colleagues wrote in a 2003 essay on climate shifts and periodical cicada life cycles.

However, Schweitzer and her colleagues conducted a number of different tests on the T. rex sample, including testing for keratan sulfate using monoclonal antibodies, and compared their results to the same tests performed on known medullary tissue from ostrich and chicken bone.

Following the Lancet publication in 2012, Wright and colleagues recalculated the numbers and did not find a mortality benefit among people who had less than a 20 percent chance of having a heart attack in the next five years, based on established prediction measures.

Based on the numbers of such planets that astronomers have found in tight orbits around stars nearer to our sun, Gilliland's colleagues expected to see 15 or 20 planets in 47 Tucanae.

In a discipline where one can spend a lifetime working on a single problem, Tao has made major contributions in a number of categories ranging from nonlinear equations to number theory — which explains why colleagues continually seek his guidance.

In a recent review of the literature, Winfree and her colleagues concluded that land - use changes such as urbanization and deforestation can affect native pollinators differently, depending on whether they increase or reduce the numbers and diversity of flowering plants.

Wallach and colleagues gathered research on the life cycles of more than a hundred species of mammalian carnivores — from polar bears and panthers to skunks and stoats — and documented examples of large predators that apparently regulate their own numbers.

Her first study on the topic reported that, in biological and physical sciences departments, a collegial climate — an environment where faculty members feel included in the department's informal network and feel that their colleagues value their research, among other factors — increased the number of papers that faculty members produced.

If so, large - scale supernova surveys could turn up more of these invisible lenses, helping astronomers find and put limits on the number of dark - matter dwarfs in the universe, Quimby and colleagues conclude.

Lee, graduate student Hehe Jiang and Rice undergraduates Elli Ronay, Jackson Stiles and Matthew Neal decided to investigate the ash beds in collaboration with Daniel Minisini, a colleague at Shell Oil who had been doing extensive work on quantifying the exact number of ash beds.

Another important finding, Dunn and his colleagues report, was how these two body measures are related to the number of males in a howler monkey's immediate social group, which ranges from one to three animals depending on the species.

Now, the University of Georgia's Jenna Jambeck and her colleagues in the National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis working group have put a number on the global problem.

Focusing on flu outbreaks in the U.S. between 2003 and 2008, Justin Ortiz from the Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine at the University of Washington and colleagues from CDC and PATH, a Seattle - based nonprofit health organization, found that Google Flu Trends deviated greatest from CDC surveillance figures for laboratory - confirmed flu rates during the 2003 — 2004 flu season, which saw a high number of flu - related deaths in children and, as a result, was a hot topic in the media.

Data on the number and location of surviving fluent speakers of endangered languages are scant, but Amano and colleagues used the most complete source available — an online repository called Ethnologue — for their analysis, he says.

Korpimäki and his colleagues believe kestrels use UV vision to focus their hunting on areas that contain large numbers of voles.

Noting that the timing of KD outbreaks in Japan coincides with certain wind patterns from Asia, climate scientist Xavier Rodó, PhD, and colleagues at the Catalan Institution for Research and Advanced Studies and the Catalan Institute of Climate Sciences, both in Barcelona, used computer models to simulate air currents and airborne particle transport for all days since 1977 with high numbers of KD cases in Japan, based on data compiled by Yoshikazu Nakamura, MD, and colleagues at Jichi Medical University in Japan.