Sentences with phrase «of eminent persons»

(05/30/2013) This week in New York City, the 27 members of the high - level panel of eminent persons appointed by the U.N. Secretary General will deliver a report providing recommendations on the post-2015 development agenda.

New York: UN's High - Level Panel of Eminent Persons.

As Co-chair of the Group of Advocates of Eminent Persons of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, President Akufo - Addo concluded by stressing that «even though we may have little or no control over climate fluctuations or changes, one thing we can have control over is our day - to - day activities.»

President Akufo - Addo, who attended the event in his capacity as co-Chair of the Group of Advocates of Eminent Persons of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), stated, in his remarks, at the event, that there is no part of the world that does not recognise the importance of education.

The Commissioner of Police Akwa Ibom State Command, C.P Don Awunah on 15/06/2017 held an interactive session with members of Eminent Persons Forum and...

The Commissioner of Police Akwa Ibom State Command, C.P Don Awunah on 15/06/2017 held an interactive session with members of Eminent Persons Forum and the Police Community Relations Committee Ikot Ekpene Area Command.

At the ceremony, which was also held to commemorate the President's appointment as co-Chair of the Advocacy Group of Eminent Persons, President Akufo - Addo also inaugurated a 15 - member Inter-Ministerial Committee for the implementation of SDGs.

The electoral regulatory body has established a five - member panel of eminent persons to look into the merit and demerit for a new voters» register, but LMVCA feels it is taking forever for the EC to state its official position.

At the ceremony, which was also held to commemorate the President's appointment as co-Chair of the Advocacy Group of Eminent Persons by UN Secretary General, António Guterres, President Akufo - Addo charged the Committee to discharge its duties efficiently, and ensure that Ghana becomes a shining example for the implementation of the SDGs.

Stressing the importance of his appointment as co-Chair of Advocacy Group of Eminent Persons for SDGs, which was announced on 11th April, 2017, by the Secretary General of the United Nations, António Guterres, President Akufo - Addo indicated that the appointment was not about him, but rather about Ghana as a mark of trust in her leaders.

«In such an important job as this, I would need the advice of eminent persons like you.

This Royal Commission, modeled after the former Macdonald commission of three decades ago, would be composed of eminent persons with the mandate to consult Canadians who would report back to you within twelve months with a set of recommendations for energizing the new economy.

A group of eminent people, including activists, journalists, film stars and academics, have issued a... More

This book, edited by a team of eminent people in their fields, develops a unique analysis of the way our adversarial system works and guides the reader through a series of closely argued sections designed to produce clear, cogent, accurate and reliable evidence.

Not exact matches

In another one of our working papers, which links our result to various probability puzzles and statistical biases, we found that the simplest version of our problem is nearly equivalent to the famous Monty Hall problem, which stumped the eminent mathematician Paul Erdős and many other smart people.

Absent such a standard, the shareholder proposal rule becomes nothing less than a species of private eminent domain by which the federal government allows a small minority to appropriate someone else's property — the company is a legal person, after all, and it is the company's proxy statement at issue — for use as a soap - box to disseminate their views.

When the eminent physicist Edward Witten rhapsodized to an uncomprehending science journalist about the mathematical structure of superstring theory («I don't think I have succeeded in conveying to you its wonder, incredible consistency, remarkable elegance and beauty»), he was expressing a delight that only a handful of people in the world could ever share.

And that was when it really took off, this process of burying eminent people there.»

In one of these, the words of Jesus to people in an authoritarian society, to «make up your minds not to prepare your defence beforehand» (Luke 21:14, NEB), make eminent sense.

As that eminent thinker, Radar O'Reilly of M * A * S * H once said, «Animals are people too!»

Many persons think of him chiefly in connection with Form Criticism; but he was equally eminent as an exegete, having published the famous commentary on The Epistle of James in the Meyer series (in 1920) and three volumes on other New Testament epistles in Lietzmann's Handbuch.

Still it is because of the notion of God as Eminent Person that Hartshorne may bluntly pronounce, «Theology is an attempted psychology of deity.

Their argument is that, to put it in Lincoln's language, «if the policy of the government upon vital questions affecting the whole people is to be irrevocably fixed by decisions of the Supreme Court, the instant they are made in ordinary litigation between parties in personal actions, the people will have ceased to be their own rulers, having to that extent practically resigned their government into the hands of that eminent tribunal.»

At the same time, the candid citizen must confess that if the policy of the government upon vital questions affecting the whole people is to be irrevocably fixed by decisions of the Supreme Court, the instant they are made in ordinary litigation between parties in personal actions, the people will have ceased to be their own rulers, having to that extent practically resigned their government into the hands of that eminent tribunal.

This kind of emphasis, plus the felt necessity to adapt to the cultural level of the people addressed, meant that the traditional «plain style» which educated preachers of all ages had consciously striven for was in America always in eminent danger of being leveled into plain vulgarity — as witness the succession of revivalists from Buchard and Finney to Billy Sunday.

«The Command has been directed to also work with the PCRC, Eminent Persons Forum and the local associations to checkmate the activities of any group inimical to the peace of the land.

His tolerance for dissent and his secularism, his commitment to the Oriental - Christian culture as part of a common larger Oriental - Islamic civilisation, and his «integrity as a Christian» member of it, as well as his scholarship, made him an eminent personality and also a contact person for Islamists and the secular, for pan-Arabists and nationalists as well as for the right and the left.

Nigel Adams, head of democratic services, says: «We understand that there are people, including some eminent legal people, who are not convinced that this part of the Localism Act does what Eric Pickles says it will do.»

Chairperson, Eminent Clergy, ladies and gentlemen, the New Patriotic Party and I won, by the Grace of God, last year's elections with clear marching orders from the Ghanaian people.

He will even have the Government Statistician, the Governor of the Bank of Ghana on the Commission and many more eminent persons who you can gather on the Commission for him to run a constitutional empire.

«President Mahama, at the invitation of the Political Parties Registration Commission (PPRC) of Sierra Leone, will lead the discussions in a closed - door high - level breakfast meeting between the Presidential Candidates and their Running Mates, Commissioners of the PPRC, Electoral Officials, Police Chief, Paramount Chiefs and Eminent Persons,» the statement said.

John Wayne Smith has ambitious plans for the office of governor of Florida: cutting taxes to the bone, eliminating dozens of agencies and offices, rescinding laws that allow the use of eminent domain to take property for private gain, and getting rid of occupational licensing schemes that prevent so many people from earning a living.

He said the mood of anger and disappointment among some party members and some leaders was understandable it was important for «elders and eminent people go round to sooth people and calm tempers to restore an environment of trust and unity in the party so as to create the foundation for the party's restructuring.»

Yet this is precisely what the founders of our republic envisioned when they devised the Electoral College, a singular body with a singular purpose: to afford, as Alexander Hamilton explained to the people of New York in Federalist No. 68, «a moral certainty, that the office of President will never fall to the lot of any man who is not in an eminent degree endowed with the requisite qualifications.»»

The statement said: «These are people who have spent months and days in Kirikiri Prisons in Lagos State and the dungeon of the Department of State Services for attempt to blackmail and extort money from eminent Nigerians, including prominent businessman, Femi Otedola; and a former Governor of Niger State, Dr. Babangida Aliyu.

Eminent domain — ask the average person what it means, and he is likely to think of the government taking property for a high public purpose — a school, park, highway or library.

The lottery study in particular «made people shy away from interventions,» explains eminent University of Pennsylvania psychologist Martin E. P. Seligman, the father of positive psychology and a mentor to Lyubomirsky.

And Prof. Gross is an eminent person I have heard of, and I want to meet him, too.

«These results reinforce our previous findings suggesting that interventions that affect replicative capacity can not only impact disease progression, but also the efficiency of transmission to other people,» says senior author Eric Hunter, co-director of the Emory Center for AIDS Research, Georgia Research Alliance Eminent Scholar and a professor of pathology and laboratory medicine at Emory University School of Medicine.

The report, Understanding Psychosis and Schizophrenia: Why people sometimes hear voices, believe things that others find strange or appear out of touch with reality, and what can help, has been written by a group of eminent clinical psychologists drawn from eight universities and six NHS trusts, together with people who have themselves experienced psychosis.

At the very start of my transformation, I was not only inspired by the people surrounding me in my personal life, my inner circle but also by the hijabi community's most eminent social media influencers.

He didn't actually meet Scott in person until years later, when the eminent director had no recollection of him...

Carter describes the five other people who shaped his early life, only two of them white: his eccentric relatives who sometimes caused the boy to examine his heritage with dismay; the boyhood friends with whom he hunted with slingshots and boomerangs and worked the farm, but who could not attend the same school; and the eminent black bishop who refused to come to the Carters» back door but who would stand near his Cadillac in the front yard discussing crops and politics with Jimmy's father.

Indeed, capturing some of the world's most eminent people with his camera, Arnold Newman set a standard for artistic interpretation and stylistic integrity in the postwar age of picture magazines.

the eminent barrier between your fantasized idea of that person's experiences and how it differentiates from their reality is brought into question.

B: I do remember the occasion when I was at the Art Students League and I think I was in the gallery the day before, and you said with great excitement that you were going to be visited the following day or maybe it was later that same day by this distinguished group of people including Gordon Washburn of the Carnegie Institute I think, John Walker the director of the National Gallery in Washington and one other eminent person, I forget who it was.

His epic canvases, with their disjunct components, resemble collages as much as painting, populated with characters seemingly plucked from momentous historical occasions — protestors, eminent - looking statesmen, soldiers, workers — as well as ordinary people engaged in bizarre, enigmatic actions of no apparent political / historical consequence whatsoever.

One such person is Sir John Richardson, an eminent art historian who came to know not only Picasso, but Francis Bacon, Fernand Léger, and Lucian Freud over the course of his career.

Notable public works include a mural commissioned by Glasgow Museums to mark the bicentenary of the Calton Weavers Massacre, which is displayed in the dome of the People's Palace, Glasgow; and a portrait of eminent medical scientists Professor R. J. Steele, Professor Sir Alfred Cuschieri, and Professor Sir David P. Lane, in Three Oncologists, which was initiated by the National Galleries of Scotland.

It was the second in a series of the Nobel Laureates» and Eminent Person's Lectures at AIT following Prof. Jerome Karle's lecture titled «The Role of Science and Technology in Quest for a World at Peace» on November 26, 2003.