Sentences with phrase «officials called a meeting»

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Just a day earlier, the French prime minister and European Commission officials met separately with Facebook, Google, Twitter Inc and other companies to demand faster action on what the commission called «online terrorism incitement and hate speech.»

Trump has called a meeting with senators and Cabinet officials to discuss potential changes to biofuels policy, according to four sources.

Instead, the board called a private executive session after the official board meeting to hash out the more sensitive business.

Trump's speech came just days after Tillerson reportedly called Trump «a moron» during a meeting with administration officials.

A few days later, officials said, DeLaurentis was called to a meeting with Josefina Vidal, the senior diplomat who had led the Cuban team that negotiated the normalization of relations with the US.

The president of the Brazil Steel Institute, Marco Polo de Mello Lopes, who was meeting with Brazilian officials when they got the call from Washington, said the ultimatum came as a complete surprise.

Later, speaking during a meeting with law enforcement officials at the Broward County sheriff's office, the president thanked first responders for what he called an «incredible job,» according to a White House press pool report.

Trump, traveling in Asia this week, called in to a meeting between White House officials and a collection of moderate Senate Democrats on Tuesday, hoping he could win their support for his tax effort.

The SIT has previously asked the ED, NCB and the Income Tax Department «to take adequate measures to prevent the use of cryptocurrencies,» the publication noted, adding that the Team «has called for a second round of meetings to be held in Delhi next month, where the officials from all the aforementioned agencies will review the use of cryptocurrencies.»

The hundreds of pages of transcripts from eight meetings and six emergency conference calls held by the policymaking Federal Open Market Committee, show Fed officials struggling from the start of 2008 to assess the economic damage of a steep drop in housing prices and then worrying about the implications of their actions to halt the crisis.

At a meeting of administration officials and moderate Democratic Senators, National Economic Council Director Gary Cohn pulled out his cellphone and took a call from Trump, who is traveling in Asia this week, according an account of the meeting from Sen. Sherrod Brown (D - Ohio)-- one of the Democrats gathered for a meeting organized by Sen. Joe Manchin III (D - W.

Further conflict and complaints led the administrative board chairman to cancel all further official discussion of the housing proposal and to call a special meeting of the board, excluding Sid, to discuss objections to several aspects of Sid's behavior.

For Doherty, the job entailed organizing national meetings, minutes and teleconference calls, and translating everything official from English into French and vice versa to meet Canada's dual - language protocols.

Forbidden by segregation to compete in an official meet with the state's black champ — a guy everybody called Cornelius Mitchell, who years later would become the first African - American signed by the Washington Redskins, a future Hall of Fame flanker known as Bobby Mitchell — the two boys from Hot Springs met on a track that had gone to seed and went head - to - head in a series of informal races.

The next day Clark called, and two weeks later Abdul - Jabbar was back on the reservation, meeting with officials, plotting the months to come.

The Metro quote Sky Sports sources behind the reason to believe that those players mentioned are currently attracting interest from other parties outside Leicester and so it was deemed that an»em ergency meeting» would be called between club officials.

Park District officials said a special meeting was called to give the public «ample opportunity» to comment.

Prime Minister Ryutaro Hashimoto called an emergency meeting of health, education and agricultural officials Tuesday as the number of victims in a food - poisoning outbreak neared 6,000, most of them children.

Chiszar stunned park officials earlier this week when he called upon Mokena residents to contact park commissioners or attend park board meetings to pressure the Park District to abandon what he called the «piecemeal» development of the historic farm.

The criticism was mounting as park district officials prepared to meet Thursday with Chicago yacht club commodores to discuss the controversial plan that calls for damming Diversey harbor, as well as the inner and outer harbors at Jackson Park and the 59th Street harbor by next summer.

NEW LENOX — Two former New Lenox Park District officials have called a meeting Thursday to gauge public concern about park board operations.

NEW LENOX — A petition drive asking three New Lenox Park District commissioners to resign began last week at a meeting called by two former park officials.

Diaz Sr. is calling on Schneiderman to release the names of the elected officials with whom he has met to discuss the parade, and says he is praying that Serrano is not one of them.

Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto has called off an official trip to Washington to meet with Trump after a tense phone call brought the two leaders to a policy - driven standstill.

The Supreme Court said that in the future, bribery - related charges would require that any official act performed as part of a quid pro quo would have to involve a formal exercise of government power, not just a meeting or a phone call.

So, if Cohen has agreed with any administration official to approve the AT&T merger, and one of them makes a phone call or arranges a meeting to facilitate the agreement, then a conspiracy case could be established, even if the merger never goes through.

In particular, New York City officials have repeatedly called on Albany to allow it to use design - build, which proponents tout as a way to control costs and meet deadlines.

And, in September, Cuomo called a meeting between President Donald Trump and New York and New Jersey officials to discuss the program «productive» but «inconclusive.»

The appeals court said Judge Valerie E. Caproni's instructions to jurors in 2015 did not comply with a later U.S. Supreme Court decision that narrowed the acts required to convict public officials in a quid pro quo bribery scheme to formal exercises of government power, not just meetings or telephone calls.

In 2011, Cuomo made the first of what would be several attempts to reform the state's ethics laws, ultimately brokering the agreement that would create JCOPE and a little noticed database called Project Sunlight, which allows users to view the details of meetings outside entities have with state officials from every agency in the state.

Outside David Grandeau, a former state ethics oversight official, and now a blogger, said he thinks the closed door session was a «not a good way to start» the commission, calling the public portion of the meeting a «dog and pony show».

At Silver's trial jurors were told they could convict based on «any action under color of official authority» by Silver, but the 2d Circuit said the Supreme Court ruling required a «formal exercise of government power,» rather than lesser acts like just making a phone call or having a meeting.

The Supreme Court, in a case last year involving former Virginia Gov. Robert McDonnell, ruled that corruption convictions could only be based on performance of an «official act» that represented a formal exercise of government power — not just a phone call or a meeting with a lobbyist.

There seems to be a bromance brewing between Trump and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, according to Rep. Pete King, who called a meeting between the two yesterday with other NY and NJ officials «almost like a love - in at times.»

Senate Democrats met with officials last week at the Albany County district attorney's office amid calls for an investigation into the Republican arrangement of giving stipends to committee vice chairs.

On Friday, a Cuomo administration official said Howe and his firm — a Whiteman subsidiary called WOH Solutions — are banned from contacting or meeting with state officials.

At the same time Lansman's opponents are organising what one might call «alt - Momentum» meetings separate from the «official» Momentum structure.

Sen. Chuck Schumer (D - N.Y.) called a meeting with prominent New York gay elected officials and activists amid concern over whether a provision sought by same - sex couples will be included in the immigration reform bill, POLITICO has learned.

«New York City calls on the armed forces to reform their policies regarding diversity training, bullying, and hazing,» said Councilwoman Margaret Chin, the resolution's lead sponsor, who traveled with advocates and Chen's family to a meeting with Pentagon officials about the incident.

Councilmember Justin Brannan is calling on local officials to meet funding levels mandated for New York City public schools under the terms of a decade - old legal settlement and thanks to the efforts of the Campaign for Fiscal Equality (CFE).

The meeting was prompted by calls to my office from concerned citizens and public officials, including several from Village of Kenmore Mayor Patrick Mang and Trustee Salvatore Muscarella.

New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman (D) vowed that the coalition of Democratic state officials would continue to oppose President TrumpDonald John TrumpMexican presidential candidate vows to fire back at Trump's «offensive» tweets Elizabeth Warren urges grads to fight for «what is decent» in current political climate Jim Carrey takes aim at Kent State grad who posed with AR - 10 MORE's efforts to ban travel from nations the administration says do not meet information - sharing requirements, calling the ban «discriminatory.»

Prosecutors had alleged he used the power of his office by arranging meetings for Williams with other state officials, allowing Williams to use the governor's mansion for a luncheon on the day his product, a dietary supplement called Anatabloc, was being launched and personally touting the supplement to state human resources officials.

Prosecutors had alleged McDonnell crossed the line by arranging meetings for Williams with state officials, allowing Williams to use the governor's mansion for a luncheon on the day his product, a dietary supplement called Anatabloc, was being launched and personally touting the supplement to state human resources officials.

Arranging meetings, making phone calls, or providing access to other government officials in exchange for secret gifts, which is what Governor McDonnell had done, was not substantial enough to support a bribery conviction.

The County Committee may vote to dispense with calling the names on the official roll at any meeting.

She has also held calls and meetings with local elected officials, local hospitals, healthcare providers, and she has spoken with community health groups in our district.

He writes that if the the league doesn't start voluntarily paying corporate income taxes, state officials should take action themselves considering that calls on the federal level have met strong resistance.

At 6:24 p.m., a statement from Gov. Andrew Cuomo's Communications Director Melissa DeRosa landed in my inbox, declaring that the governor will be calling a meeting with legislative leaders plus the state attorney general and comptroller to come up with «one uniform email retention and FOIL policy that applies to all state officials and agencies.»

Disrespectful conduct» from Common Core protesters at a Wappingers Central School District board meeting prompted a call to state police and abrupt adjournment on Monday night, but it's unclear what, if any, policy changes could be headed the district's way, school officials said.