Sentences with phrase «on the boring committee»

I usually managed to be on the boring committee that set pastoral salaries.

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If there is only one financial expert on the audit committee, that individual is likely to bear most of the burden of assessing new or existing accounting policies.

In his speech to the Committee for the Republic in Washington D.C. on January 16, 2013, Richard Fisher of the Dallas Fed said: «The next financial crisis could cost more than two years of economic output, borne by millions of U.S. taxpayers.

In reflecting upon Vashti McCollum's death, J. Brent Walker, executive director of the Baptist Joint Committee for Religious Liberty, told the CENTURY: «The 1948 case that bears her name set the tone for the Supreme Court's view on the proper relationship between church and state in public schools.»

Costs of such programming, like taxation, are borne by all, whether or not they use the products advertised, he points out, adding that the television «tax levy» on an average family in l980 ranged from $ 80 in Atlanta to $ 29 in Wilkes - Barre - Scranton, Pa. «You pay when you wash, not when you watch,» he told the committee.18.

What was at stake in the Bork bearings was the defense of Roe V. Wade — and bow else to account for the interest of the American Jewish Committee in taking a position on this nomination to the Court?

The Playoff selection committee weighs in Tuesday night, and that's the rankings release that has a bearing on the postseason picture.

In November 2016 we updated our statement on Vitamin D supplementation in light of new recommendations from The Scientific Advisory Committee on Nutrition for the whole population, including new - born babies.

He indicated that Bagbin should bear in mind that he was made the chairman of the parliamentary select Committee on Constitutional and Legislative Affairs based on parliamentary procedures and not because he was better than Nana Akufo - Addo.»

GOP gubernatorial hopeful Carl Paladino, who has not yet given up hope on convincing conservatives to back his candidacy, even though the state party's executive committee has endorsed Rick Lazio, today announced the formation of «Gun Owners for Carl» to inform voters of his position on «the right to keep and bear arms.»

A former economist at Bear Stearns, David Malpass, 54, received enough votes from the Republican Party's state committee to get on the primary ballot.

One such initiative which I know will bear fruit has been the establishment of the Poverty Committee, chaired by Rev. Pointer, to provide a voice for the needs of our most impoverished residents, wherever they may reside, to be heard and acted on by policy makers.

Knowing how grave it is to bear false witness against a neighbor, Member of Parliament for North Tongu, has vowed not to change his stance on the alleged bribery scandal that hit the Appointments Committee as he prepares to face a five - member committee approved by PaCommittee as he prepares to face a five - member committee approved by Pacommittee approved by Parliament.

A Fresh Meadows resident that was born in Jerusalem, Rozic has been a member of CB 8 for the past year, sitting on three committees: land use, education and transportation.

Stretching back to the Neil Hamilton cash for questions saga, the committee on standards in public life was established in 1994 and then in the wake of the expenses scandal, the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority (IPSA) was painfully born.

The Observer overheard State Senator Diane Savino, another backer of Ms. Harris, telling the nominee she would reach out on her behalf to Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie to ensure the Democratic Assembly Campaign Committee bring its wealth of funding and endorsements to bear in the race.

New York's senior senator said he had no intention of returning the $ 8,900 he has received from the GOP candidate in his career, nor would he support reimbursing the Queens - born mogul the $ 116,000 he showered on the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, which Mr. Schumer chaired from 2005 to 2009.

«We need to work together to insulate children from bearing the brunt of these potential cuts,» UFT President Michael Mulgrew said on March 24 in testifying before the City Council Education Committee on next year's school operating budget.

«Seven out of every 10 African - American children are born out of wedlock, according to testimony given by a leading social policy researcher during a Joint Economic Committee hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C.

The AAAS's commitment to engage issues involving scientific freedom, responsibility, and law has two historical beginnings marked by the establishment of a Committee on Scientific Freedom and Responsibility, born as a special committee in 1970 and made permanent in 1976, and by the establishment of the AAAS - ABA National Conference of Lawyers and ScientistsCommittee on Scientific Freedom and Responsibility, born as a special committee in 1970 and made permanent in 1976, and by the establishment of the AAAS - ABA National Conference of Lawyers and Scientistscommittee in 1970 and made permanent in 1976, and by the establishment of the AAAS - ABA National Conference of Lawyers and Scientists in 1974.

On 24 May, the Senate's finance committee expressed concern that the MIRES is to bear about a quarter of the payment credit cancellations in the decree.

If a peer - reviewed paper bears out the news story, «It's one more step on the path to potential clinical application,» says bioethicist Jeffrey Kahn of Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland, who served on a committee convened by the U.S. National Academy of Sciences (NAS) and the National Academy of Medicine in Washington, D.C., to address gene editing.

According to C. Daniel Mote Jr., the retired president of the University of Maryland, College Park, who co-chaired the committee (with Norman Augustine, chair of the Gathering Storm committee), the available information didn't support a large - bore approach that focused on the workforce as a whole.

The ASPB Lawrence Bogorad Award for Excellence in Plant Biology Research was approved by the Society's executive committee in 2005 to honor Dr. Bogorad's many contributions to plant biology, including his influential efforts to bring the techniques of molecular biology to bear on problems in plant biology; his groundbreaking research on chloroplast genetics, biogenesis, structure, and function; and his inspired teaching and mentoring.

The film feels like it's been assembled by committee, and news stories about the film's troubled production bear this out: after an initial round of photography during which the ending was being crafted almost on the fly, the film's release was delayed so that a new ending could be written and shot in an attempt to glue together two halves of a story that still don't feel like a whole.

They monitor all relevant legislation, propose bills, carry out background research on issues, attend committee hearings, keep scorecards on legislators, and bring their formidable power to bear in getting legislators to vote their way.

Northumberland - born Neil Carmichael MP, chair of the education committee, said: «The North East is taking part in a review of its post-16 education provision and we are keen to hear about how the process is going for our inquiry on this issue.

Bear has served on political and scientific action committees and has advised Microsoft Corporation, the U.S. Army, the CIA, Sandia National Laboratories, Callison Architecture, Inc., Homeland Security, and other groups and agencies.

If you need to choose good topics for research papers it can be difficult and boring process especially if you think about how to collect material upon the research paper and who will be on the committee.

Among those on hand will be Smokey Bear, Pollyanna the Clown and members of the Keep Lake County Beautiful Committee, which has supported resolutions declaring April as Environmental Awareness Month.

Here's your chance to get back to nature.The fourth annual Earth Day Celebration will take place Saturday at Jaycee Beach on Lake Minneola in Clermont.Sponsored by the South Lake Animal League, the festival marks the 25th anniversary celebration of the first Earth Day.More than 5,000 people are expected to attend the daylong event featuring environmental exhibits, eco-oriented products, Earth Day crafts and children's activities.Exhibits, crafts booths and food concessions will be open from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.Among those on hand will be Smokey Bear, Pollyanna the Clown and members of the Keep Lake County Beautiful Committee, which has supported resolutions declaring April as Environmental Awareness Month.

Born in Baltimore and a graduate of what is now known as the Maryland Institute College of Art, Louis has a long history with the BMA, having exhibited in the museum's annual Maryland artist exhibitions four times in the late 1940s and early 1950s, and having served on the BMA's advisory artists» committee.

(41.5 x 58 cm) Courtesy the artist and Luhring Augustine, New York, and i8 Gallery, Reykjavík Christina Kubisch German, born 1948 Cloud, 2011/2017 Electrical cable, electromagnetic induction headphones, and fourteen - channel audio composition Dimensions variable Technical assistance: Eckehard Güther Headphone engineering: Manfred Fox, Berlin San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Accessions Committee Fund purchase Drawing for Cloud, 2017 Ink on paper 11 7/16 x 16 9/16 in.

(23.7 cm) diameter Courtesy the artist and bitforms gallery, New York Amor Muñoz Mexican, born 1979 Rhythmic Manufacture, 2015/2017 Watercolor on paper, metronome, table, coverall, clock, and HD video with sound Performance at San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, July 12 — 15, 2017 Dimensions variable Video production: 32K Productions Courtesy the artist Camille Norment American, born 1970 Lull, 2016 Dynamic sound installation with pendulum microphone Dimensions variable Courtesy the Camille Norment Studio O Grivo (Nelson Soares and Marcos Moreira Marcos) Active since 1990, Belo Horizonte, Brazil Cantilena, 2017 Kinetic sound installation (wood, bamboo, MDF, copper pipes, brass rods and sheets, steel rods, violin and guitar strings, nylon wires, iron sheets, galvanized steel sheets, brass paper, electrical wires, and electric motors) Overall dimensions variable San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Accessions Committee Fund purchase Susan Philipsz Scottish, born 1965 Night and Fog (Clarinet), 2016 Twelve - channel sound installation, 47 min.

Ian Moyer, PhD candidate in the Committee on the Ancient Mediterranean World at the University of Chicago, in collaboration with Richard A. Born, Smart Museum Senior Curator, and Elizabeth Rodini, Smart Museum Mellon Projects Curator.

Nolan, who sits on the fair's selection committee, brought several of his Chicago - born or - based artists, including David Hartt and Julia Fish.

Untitled (Ghardaïa) Artist: Kader Attia born 1970 Date: 2009 Classification: installation Medium: Cooked couscous on wooden table and digital prints on paper Dimensions: Overall display dimensions variable Purchased using funds provided by the Middle East North Africa Acquisitions Committee 2010 © Kader Attia

from Still Water (The River Thames, for Example), [no title] Artist: Roni Horn born 1955 Date: 1999 Classification: on paper, print Medium: Lithograph on paper Dimensions: image: 770 x 1055 mm Presented by the American Fund for the Tate Gallery, courtesy of the American Acquisitions Committee 2005, accessioned 2008 © Roni Horn, courtesy Hauser & Wirth, London

Why the quote marks on «research» when the mere history of the matter is that Reynolds gave Rockefeller University five million a year for a decade to spend on medical research as it saw fit, with its retired former president, who raised the funds, chairing the research committee, and receiving an honorarium for his work in retirement - he was born in 1911.

«Statement of James M. Inhofe: Hearing: Full Committee Hearing entitled, «Examining Threats and Protections for the Polar Bear»,» U.S. Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works, January 30, 2008.

The Committee on Climate Change responded that it did not hold any information in relation to questions 3 to 9, nor in relation to question 12 (while noting question 12 does not bear directly on the Today programme interview).

The House of Commons work and pensions committee is bearing down on the board along with the official receiver, the Insolvency Service, the Pensions Regulator and the Financial Conduct Authority.

Although the 2014 Stronger Workplaces for a Stronger Economy Act (Bill 18) originally included a statutory amendment to have experience rating premium costs borne by the client company, this was removed at the committee stage and replaced by a provision giving the government authorization to make regulations on this issue.

However, alongside my hope lurks a fear born of the last thirty years» worth of task forces, committees and inquiries and the mouldering bones of their ernest recommendations and calls to action, a fear which is occasionally fanned into anxiety when I reflect on the amorphous, long - term nature of the reform efforts underway in various jurisdictions.

In the recent case of College of Chiropractors of British Columbia v. Health Professions Review Board, 2016 BCSC 391, the B.C. Supreme Court addressed the duties of an inquiry committee under the Health Professions Act, when a complainant asserts injury caused by alleged negligence, but the committee dismisses the complaint based on the treatment having been appropriate, regardless of evidence from other health professionals bearing on whether the treatment caused the injury.

Born 1950; graduated in law from the University of Lund (1975); Clerk at the Landskrona District Court (1976 - 78); Assistant Judge at an administrative court of appeal (1978 - 82); Deputy Judge at an administrative court of appeal (1982); Legal Adviser to the Swedish Parliament's Standing Committee on the Constitution (1983 - 85); Legal Adviser at the Ministry of Finance (1985 - 90); Director of the Division for Personal Income Taxes at the Ministry of Finance (1990 - 96); Director of the Excise Duty Division at the Ministry of Finance (1996 - 98); Fiscal Counsellor at the Permanent Representation of Sweden to the European Union (1998 - 2000); Director - General for Legal Affairs in the Tax and Customs Department of the Ministry of Finance (2000 - 05); Judge at the Supreme Administrative Court (2005 - 09); President of the Administrative Court of Appeal, Gothenburg (2009 - 11); Judge at the Court of Justice since 6 October 2011.

Born 1950; lawyer (1974 - 80); law degree from the University of Athens (1973); diploma of advanced studies (DEA) in labour law from the University of Paris II, Panthéon - Sorbonne (1977); national expert with the Legal Service of the Commission of the European Communities (1988 - 1990), then Principal Administrator in Directorate General V (Employment, Industrial Relations, Social Affairs)(1990 - 1994); Junior Officer, Junior Member and, since 1999, Member of the Greek Council of State; Associate Member of the Superior Special Court of Greece; Member of the Central Legislative Drafting Committee of Greece (1996 - 98); Director of the Legal Service in the General Secretariat of the Greek Government (1996 - 1998); Judge at the General Court of the European Union (1998 to 2010, President of Chamber from 2004 to 2010); Member of the Supreme Council for Administrative Justice (2011 - 2012); Member of the Special Court for Disputes relating to the Remuneration of Judges and of the Special Court for Actions against Judges (2013 - 2014); Member of the Advisory Panel of Experts on Candidates for Election as Judge to the European Court of Human Rights (2014 - 2015); Member of the Committee responsible for giving an Opinion on Candidates» Suitability to perform the Duties of Judge at the European Union Civil Service Tribunal (2012 - 2015); Lecturer in European Law at the National School for the Judiciary (1995 - 1996 and 2012 - 2015); Judge at the Court of Justice since 7 October 2015.

Assembly Bill 773, according to the Legislature's website, was referred to the Committee on Rules and is sponsored by state Reps. Mark Born and John Nygren.

In addition, Stephenie is a graduate of the Advanced Studies program at the Neufeld Institute, a committee member for the Dalai Lama Centre for Peace and Education, and is on the Advisory Board of the non-profit The Reading Bear Society.

Whilst many of the issues and recommendations raised in Part II do not bear directly on the proposed amendments under the Bill, the Commission considers that it may be of assistance to the Committee to have those matters consolidated within the body of this submission for ease of reference.