Sentences with phrase «organizing national meetings»

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.

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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.

We organized protests, signed petitions, attracted national and international media attention, met with government officials, and threatened lawsuits.

At a meeting of the National Council of Churches he asked, not for any legal restriction but a «a voluntary agreement among religious leaders of all faiths that from now on they would not resort to conversions because the social logic of conversions is not valid now», that the promise of liberation from caste structure has not been fulfilled as proved by the fact that it persists in all religious communities; and any attempt to organize Hinduism as a religious community like others of the prophetic tradition has been a failure.

Robison, who helped launch the Christian Right in 1980 when he organized a meeting between then - candidate Reagan and pastors in Houston, says he approached Perry with the idea for the rally late last year to confront what Robison said was a national moral crisis.

On Monday, representatives from the Council on American - Islamic Relations - a national Muslim advocacy group - met will sympathetic Capitol Hill staffers to discuss communications strategy and grassroots organizing to counter Islamophia.

1988: A group of youth with LGBT parents meets at a conference organized by a precursor to the Family Equality Council, and begins the organizing that in 1999 leads to Children of Lesbians and Gays Everywhere (COLAGE) as an independent national organization.

The government, at the last quarter of 2015, after a series of meetings of the National Tripartite Committee (NTC) comprising government, employers» association, organized labour and the Fair Wages and Salaries Commission (FWSC) announced a 10 percent pay rise for public sector workers across the country.

«The National Democratic Congress (NDC), has, at its Functional Executive Committee (FEC), Meeting on Tuesday, June 21, 2016, decided not to participate in any debate to be organized by the Institute Of Economic Affairs (IEA), as far as it is related to the 2016 General Election.»

The political party has to set up a party secretariat in virtually every ward, state, and at the national level, pay staff, promote its brand and its agenda, organize meetings, pay sitting allowances, support candidates, run media advertisements, arrange receptions and entertainment, pay for logistics, buy vehicles, pay for air travels and road transportation, the organization of rallies and campaigns, reserve some tidy sum for lobbying at all levels including the lobbying of the media and other groups in civil society.

Speaking at a stakeholders meeting organized by the Media Foundation for West Africa (MFWA) on Monday, November 21, Kwame Sefa - Kayi said journalists must not be made to pay before they cover national events such as the elections.

The AU Committee of Experts seeks to promote and protect the rights enshrined in the Charter particularly; collect and document information, commission inter disciplinary assessment of situations on African problems in the fields of the rights and welfare of the child, organize meetings, encourage national and local institutions concerned with the rights and welfare of the child and where necessary, give its views and make recommendations to Government.

In 2005, the American Chemical Society (ACS) Division of Chemical Education launched the Graduate Student Symposium Planning Committee project, which allows chemistry Ph.D. students to organize symposia at ACS national meetings.

And we at the Postdoc Network are busy organizing our Second National Postdoc Network Meeting.

Using their star power and connections, the foursome have pushed their ideas on conspicuous occasions, a number of which they created themselves: a session at the National Academy of Sciences» annual meeting that Varmus described as «heated;» a briefing by Krischner, Tilghman, and Varmus at the President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology; a meeting at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute that «brought together some senior... influencers to talk about the problem;» a new paper about that meeting that will soon appear in PNAS; and a presentation by Kirschner at the Future of Research symposium organized by Boston - area postdocs in October.

Kinzig's scientific career also seems to be benefiting from the Washington experience: She was awarded the prestigious Aldo Leopold Leadership fellowship for communicating environmental science more effectively to policy - makers, and she is helping to organize an interdisciplinary National Science Foundation (NSF) meeting.

Lanner will discuss the work at a meeting on human gene editing organized by the US National Academy of Sciences and National Academy of Medicine this month in Paris.

The Korey Stringer Institute organized a meeting of national experts in emergency medicine and sports medicine to identify best practices for treating exertional heat stroke in prehospital settings.

The outbreak shows that an aerosol attack with smallpox could kill, said Alan Zelicoff, a physician and smallpox expert at the Sandia National Laboratories in Albuquerque, New Mexico, at a 15 June meeting here organized by the Institute of Medicine.

A meeting was organized on the 15th and 16th of January, 2015 in Nice with the support of the Action Specific in Haute Resolution Angulaire (ASHRA), the Programme National en Physique Stellaire (PNPS), the Lagrange Laboratory and the Observatoire de la Cote d'Azur, in order to present these cases and to discuss them further for future visible interferometers.

The secretariat regularly organizes and cosponsors symposia at the national meetings of the ACS, but equally important is the Secretariat's role in integrating ACS divisions» activities concerned with catalysis and surface science to encourage comprehensive coverage of these subjects at ACS national meetings.

He also has several patents awarded or pending, served on numerous scientific advisory and review committees, organized several national and international conferences (including the 2006 Materials Research Society Fall meeting with more 5000 attendees), and edited 6 books in the field of materials characterization using synchrotron radiation.

Scientists at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory within the Atmospheric, Earth, and Energy Division, along with collaborators from the U.K. Met Office and other modeling centers around the world, organized an international multi-model intercomparison project, name CAUSES (Clouds Above the United States and Errors at the Surface), to identify possible causes for the large warm surface air temperature bias seen in many weather forecast and climate model simulations.

Kerisit has organized and chaired eight symposia at ACS national meetings over the last 5 years.

Looking to expand his empire, Diaz (guest star Kirk Acevedo) and Laurel (Katie Cassidy) meet with The Quadrant, a coalition of mafia families who run national organized crime.

The one - day meeting, billed as a «bipartisan national education summit,» was organized by Sen. James M. Jeffords, R - Vt., who chairs the Senate Subcommittee on Education, Arts, and Humanities, Secretary of Education Richard W. Riley, and former Secretary Terrel H. Bell.

«There is increasing evidence that cooperative groups that are not well organized... are no better for girls than «competitive» classrooms,» Jane Butler - Kahle, a professor of science education at Miami University of Ohio, said here at the 42nd annual meeting of the National Science Teachers Association.

The national board, based in Detroit, is a privately organized group that is crafting a system to assess and certify teachers who meet its standards for accomplished practice.

Today's meeting was in response to the United Teacher of New Orleans on Monday asking the the National Labor Relations Board to organize and supervise a secret vote of the faculty.

NESRI works with the DSC to organize national advocacy campaigns and actions, and to share strategies and best practices through annual meetings, webinars and the Campaign's on - line resources.

It was during the Miami meeting, the superintendents formally organized the National Alliance of Black School Superintendents (NABSS)- Dr. Russell Jackson was elected President.

The meeting of around 50 people was organized in coordination with Journey for Justice, a national coalition of education activists.

Long - time volunteers, Eileen and Michael Saks, organized yet another successful Meet & Greet at Redner's Market on behalf of the National Greyhound Adoption Program.

In this role, you would also be expected to organize 2 seminars per year for approximately 200 people, attend monthly meetings and be able to travel to 2 - 3 regional and national meetings per year.

Customized guided tours of Yellowstone National Park can be arranged, covering park history, plants and flora, wildlife habitat and more; these tours can be organized to meet your own comfort level.

The committee continues to meet regularly and currently has 11 members, including Pulitzer Prize - winning historian Taylor Branch; Johnetta B. Cole, director of the Smithsonian's National Museum of African Art; Prof. Richard Powell of Duke University, who organized the recent exhibition «Archibald Motley: Jazz Age Modernist»; and photographer, historian and NYU professor Deborah Willis.

The meeting was organized by the National Academy of Sciences to explore the rich batch of behavioral research, from Kahneman to Kahan and beyond, illustrating that information, on its own, has little meaning (a favorite phrase of the risk - communication consultant David Ropeik).

On that front, both a report from a workshop organized by the National Academy of Sciences, «Global Change and Extreme Hydrology,» and an international meeting on «Metrics and methodologies of estimation of extreme climate events» concluded that questions outnumber answers and there's a lot of work to be done.

The CRC helped develop climate - related NRC studies; interacted with government agencies on scientific aspects of climate and climate change; served as the U.S. National Committee for the World Climate Research Program (WCRP); coordinated with other NRC entities involved in climate - related activities; and organized meetings and workshops to promote progress in climate research.

Co-sponsored by the U.S. Green Building Council and the National League of Cities and ably facilitated by Michael Lesnick of the Meridian Institute, the two - day meeting was organized to bring a couple dozen mayors and other city leaders together with experts on resilience to work on teasing out strategies and solutions for making our cities more resilient.

In addition to releasing issues papers and reports, it also organized or fostered the organization of a «National Summit on Innovation in Legal Services» [1] and local «grassroots meetings.»

Mines Action Canada organized a series of outreach events in the Canadian capital of Ottawa on 28 - 29 April 2014, including a parliamentary breakfast briefing, a national press briefing, a public talk, and a meeting of Ottawa - based non-governmental organizations (NGOs) to increase awareness and encourage Canadian support for the goal of a preemptive ban on killer robots.

Since the shooting, Parkland survivors have met with Florida state legislators, challenged the NRA in a CNN town hall, organized protests in Tallahassee, and inspired thousands of students to participate in a National School Walkout on the shooting's one - month anniversary.

Survivors from Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland have been active in the week since the shooting — holding rallies, being interviewed by national media and organizing a bus trip to the Florida State Capitol to meet with lawmakers.

Design and organize client meetings and events including all venue / vendor sourcing and budget management.Selected accomplishments: • Increased client referrals 25 % by conducting in - person meetings and consistent client management • Acquisition of 2 major national client contracts in 3 months through presented sales proposals • Created cohesive company marketing collateral packages including logo development & printing • Streamlined client file organization by the creation of excel based spreadsheets to track client contact & sales resultsBusiness Development Project Manager, Company Name1 / 2006 — 5 / 2007Appointed lead business development strategist for initial contact with new clients.

Common work activities mentioned on a Wellness Coordinator resume sample are recruiting and training employees, organizing seminars and events, budgeting, and meeting national and local regulations.

• Selected out of 27 representatives to organize and present at the 2009 National Sales Meeting in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Organize and lead monthly meetings for nine (9) corridor teams and three (3) National Scenic Byway Committees

Office Intern ANG Law Firm, San Diego, CA Jan 2017 — May 2017 • Maintain correspondence with clients and draft the letters to be sent • Assist in data management, storage, and retrieval • Maintain the office in an organized, neat and clean condition • Attend phone calls and direct them to the appropriate office • Take meeting minutes • Make necessary bookings and travel arrangements for the company's national and international conferences

• Coordinated inter-department meetings • Directed the undergraduate residential student's in charge and directly handled their financial and managerial issues • Coordinated, organized and scheduled various inter university, national and international competitions for undergraduates within a limited budget