Sentences with phrase «officials talk of»

There is a flurry of applause and hand shaking, as officials talk of a «quantum leap» and a «new world».

While federal officials talk of repealing the Affordable Care Act, there's a soaring number of New Yorkers who are buying insurance through the state exchange.

It is not clear where those dispensaries will be, though officials talk of allowing for geographic balance.

During the Vietnam war, when government officials talked of «regrettable by - products,» they meant civilians killed by mistake; «pacification» meant the forcible evacuation of Vietnamese from their huts, the rounding up of all males, the shooting of those who resisted, the slaughtering of domesticated animals and the burning of dwellings; «incursion» meant another invasion of another country; creating a «sanitized belt» meant forcibly removing all the inhabitants of the area being «sanitized,» cutting down the trees, bulldozing the land and erecting «defensive positions» with machine guns, mortars and mines.

City officials talked of the new track turning Chicago into a U.S. center for international track and field events and envisioned it as a permanent sporting facility for the city.

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There is little talk of tax cuts and balanced budgets, items which form the economic lodestar of the Official Opposition; think tanks such as the Fraser Institute, the Macdonald - Laurier Institute, the Atlantic Provinces Economic Council; and almost everyone who writes a column for the Financial Post, including former finance minister Joe Oliver.

And Savage says he and other officials within Alberta Environment have been asked to prepare more research in anticipation of talks to consider changes to the province's climate strategy.

As the marches began, government officials prepared for more talks at a central Athens hotel with representatives of bailout creditors as the two sides were near an agreement to maintain draconian spending controls beyond the current rescue program.

«Moon relayed Abe's wish for a normalization of bilateral ties to Kim based on the clearing of historical legacy issues, and that Kim expressed his willingness to talk to Japan at any time,» the official said.

Brexit talks are a «very difficult process» but they need to move fast to give enough time for officials to negotiate a trade deal, the vice president of the European Commission has told CNBC.

Brexit officials for both the U.K. and the EU have claimed some progress in the latest round of talks — a small step in the right direction.

But according to Verhofstadt, those represented — respectively — an official start to talks and the public presentation of both sides» initial positions.

According to this group of volunteers, the Paul campaign has its official volunteers sign a non-disclosure agreement that prevents them from talking to the press.

In talks with Kislyak in December, Kushner floated the possibility of setting up a secure line of communication between the Trump transition team and Russia — and having those talks take place in Russian diplomatic facilities in the US, essentially concealing their interactions from US government scrutiny, The Post wrote, citing US intelligence officials briefed on the matter.

«If you are in a position of public trust, and you talk to, meet, or collude with a foreign power» while trying to subvert normal state channels, «you are, in the eyes of the FBI and CIA, a traitor,» said Glenn Carle, a former top counterterrorism official at the CIA.

The Army and Air Force wanted a two - year delay to further study the issue, said the officials, who were not authorized to talk about the internal discussion publicly and spoke on condition of anonymity.

A report issued by Deloitte in 2011 called for revamping the K - 12 curriculum to expose kids to entrepreneurial concepts, and Stuart says government officials and policy experts are even considering the possibility of specialized, innovation - focused schools.Programs like the lecture series currently offered at Toronto French School that brings in entrepreneurs to talk to students can make a difference, he says.

A senior White House official agreed that these concerns should be addressed, and the talking points that emerged from an interagency briefing were scrubbed of all references to terrorist attacks.

After the tax bill passed, many Trump officials began to talk up the possibility of moving forward on the package.

Blair Levin, former FCC official, discusses the news that Disney held talks with 21st Century Fox to acquire most of the company and whether this deal would pass muster with regulators.

A senior North Korean diplomat left for Finland on Sunday for talks with former U.S. and South Korean officials, Yonhap News Agency reported, amid a series of diplomatic encounters ahead of a possible U.S. - North Korean summit.

«It stands to reason the eight schools in the official Ivy League account for 10.7 percent of total capital raised and 7 percent of companies - talking undergrad numbers here - to get at least a first round of venture financing, as pedigree accounts for a lot when it comes to backing a first - time entrepreneur,» he wrote.

In talks with fund officials over the past year, Goldman executives presented an analysis of the fund's allocations based on publicly available data and suggested areas it could improve, such as where to spend the risk budget and whether to be more active or passive in certain portfolios, said the comptroller staffers, who spoke on the condition they not be named.

Rex Tillerson continued talks with Mexican officials on Thursday ahead of a planned meeting with President Enrique Peña Nieto, NBC News reports.

Though I do recall several conversations I had during that pre-speech reception, I do not have any recollection of meeting or talking to the Russian ambassador or any other Russian officials.

U.S. officials have sporadically floated the idea of direct talks with North Korea if it maintained restraint.

Ahead of the Jan. 20 inauguration, Pence and other officials insisted publicly that Flynn had not discussed sanctions in his talks with the Russian ambassador.

«It's not so much about the funds, the Europeans have enough money to lend to Greece,» an official close to the bailout talks, who asked to remain anonymous due to the sensitivity of negotiations, told CNBC earlier this week, adding that the issue is more of credibility.

Abdulbaki Todashev, the father of 27 - year - old Ibragim Todashev, told a Moscow press conference that U.S. officials haven't told him anything about the May 22 shooting and that he believes that his son was killed to keep him from talking.

The Paris crisis talks involved police as well as officials from City Hall and the company that runs the tower which was built to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the French Revolution in 1789 and is visited by an average of about 19,000 people per day.

Trump was not expected to put much emphasis in his talks with Xi on thorny issues like the disputed South China Sea and self - ruled Taiwan, claimed by China as its own, although the two presidents» aides may deal with those matters privately, the official told Reuters, speaking on condition of anonymity.

The White House is now clearly avoiding that kind of talk:» We will have ongoing discussions with Canada and Mexico,» a senior White House official said in a pre-announcement briefing.»

Brady led a delegation of U.S. lawmakers to Mexico City to press officials on the need to conclude the talks, which have unnerved financial markets worried about the possibility that the North American supply chain could be disrupted.

Officials from the U.S., Canada and Mexico met for the final round of NAFTA talks Monday, but sources told Reuters that the renegotiations would end without a trilateral statement between the countries.

There might be some light at the end of the tunnel: Chinese officials have urged trade talks in recent weeks in order to avoid an all - out trade war.

China's Ministry of Ecology and Environment (MEE) held talks on Thursday with leading government officials in three cities in north China that failed to meet air improvement targets.

Instead of driving from one office to another to get their paperwork in order, residents simply cross the gleaming corridors to talk to officials seated at desks in the open - space area.

While the government's policies have remained opaque, officials with the Russian Central Bank have talked about blocking the access of people inside the country to virtual currency websites, and Mr. Putin has pointed out the many potential illegal uses of the technology.

The first official also said that the announcement of the North Korea talks with Tillerson out of the country was a sign that things were awry.

At Tuesday's official unveiling of Faraday Future's FF 91 first production prototype, the company was anxious to talk about everything except price.

Although differences of opinion remain, officials from the countries insist they are making quick progress toward a goal of concluding their talks by the end of May.

Despite what officials described as a warm meeting, China and the European Union could not agree on a broader final communique meant to focus on a range of other issues discussed at the talks, including a commitment to free trade and measures needed to reduce a global steel glut.

In Denver, Amazon and local officials talked at length about public transit options and the creation of bike lanes, said Mr. Bailey.

But Trump officials said the president and his team remained in contact with President Xi Jinping and expressed hope to him of resolving the dispute through talks.

Meanwhile, as reported yesterday, Iran and Iraq continued to express objections to cutting their own supply during the lengthy meeting of OPEC officials Monday, as talks failed to bridge differences, one delegate said.

After a series of phone conversations with company officials that began in August 2015, Flaxman came to Starbucks headquarters in December to talk with chairman and ceo Howard Schultz and other leaders about what he and his team considered a wildly ambitious goal: TurboVote would help lift voter participation to 75 percent, at a date to be determined.

Officials at the Port of Oakland say they have entered exclusive talks with a Major League Baseball team considering the...

But The NYT's Keith Bradsher reports a lack of experience in international trade law among Chinese officials «could make it even harder for the two sides to find common ground before the talks end on Friday.»

In a surprising, but very positive turn of events, South and North Korean officials agreed on an April summit today, while Kim Jong Un» s regime expressed will to open talks with the US on denuclearization.