Sentences with phrase «over commencement»

Protest at Harvard Over Commencement Speaker at Education School Washington Post, 5/17/14 «Dozens of student and alumni at the Harvard Graduate School of Education issued a statement... protesting the selection of Colorado state Sen. Michael Johnston (D) as the school's 2014 commencement speaker.»

IYC, while hailing President Muhammadu Buhari over the commencement of academic activities at the Maritime University, urged the Federal Government to mobilise contractors working at the permanent site of the university to enable them to go back to site.

The intolerance displayed by faculty and students over commencement speakers has to be brought to an end.

And such groups provided Catholic support for the president in 2009, when he faced conservative Catholic criticism over his commencement address at the University of Notre Dame, and in 2010, when the bishops opposed Obama's health care law, alleging that it left the door open to taxpayer - funded abortion.

Not exact matches

«To honor Barbara Bush as a commencement speaker is to honor a woman who has gained recognition through the achievements of her husband, which contravenes what we have been taught over the last four years at Wellesley.»

Tech entrepreneur Drew Houston spoke about the importance of obsessing over your dream during his 2013 commencement speech at MIT.

The digital asset's cost shot from next $ 1,000 at the commencement of 2017 to over $ 19,000 in December, before plummeting in early 2018 to tighten at $ 8,630.65 on Monday, according to CoinMarketCap.com.

The commencement of production at a number of large resource projects over the next two years should also provide a significant boost to exports of base metals and oil.

Engineering construction activity has nearly doubled over the past two years and this upswing is likely to be sustained in the period ahead, with a number of significant road and mining - related projects scheduled for commencement in 2004 (Graph 41).

Another factor likely to constrain new development is that the supply of apartments coming onto the market is expected to increase significantly over the next few quarters, given that commencements have been running well ahead of completions since early 2002.

Boehner spokesman Michael Steel said the commencement address won't wade into the political battle over the budget.

I wonder how many of the thousands of commencement speakers, who have over the years magnanimously informed the graduating class that it is now up to them to solve the problems of the world, have realized that they included the implicit proviso: to solve those problems according to our ideals and our methods, to succeed where we have failed, to take the weight of guilt that we can no longer bear.

The Forum agreed at the meeting in June 2014 that the Health Star Rating system should be implemented voluntarily over the next five years with a review of the progress of implementation after two years with a commencement date of 27 June 2014.

Paa Kwesi took over the reins of the Porcupine Wariors just before the commencement of the league campaign following the sacking of Englishman Steve Polack.

The brief ceremony took place before the commencement of the Federal Executive Council (FEC) meeting presided over by the president.

Williams recently defended Sarsour over criticism from Brooklyn Assemblyman Dov Hikind, a religious Jewish Democrat, over her upcoming commencement address at the City University of New York's Graduate School of Public Health and Health Policy.

Senate President Bukola Saraki, his Deputy Ike Ekweremadu have arrived at the court in Abuja Monday morning ahead of the commencement of the trial of the duo over allegations that the forged rules of the Senate before their elections as the two most senior officers of the Senate.

Just over one week after his first - ever visit to Buffalo and fundraising trip to Manhattan, the commander - in - chief is scheduled to return to the Empire State this Saturday to deliver the commencement address at West Point.

The inauguration will take place inside the Council Chambers of the Presidential Villa, Abuja at the commencement of the weekly meeting of the Federal Executive Council to be presided over by Osinbajo.

Benjamin said the advice became imperative because of agitations by some candidates over non-communication on their examination centres by the board to them, less than 72 hours to the commencement of the all Computer Based Test (CBT).

Apple CEO Tim Cook continued his hypocritical moralizing for progressive causes over the weekend, in a commencement address before (unsurprisingly) a friendly audience at Duke University.

The Peoples Democratic Party has raised the alarm over what it called the commencement of a vicious Federal Government induced clampdown on opposition figures.

Staten Island Assemblyman Ronald Castorina and Women's March organizer Linda Sarsour collided on social media this week over the latter's upcoming commencement address at the City University of New York's Graduate School of Public Health and Health Policy — a speech that the Republican lawmaker argued the public institution should cancel, given Sarsour's political and religious views.

Activists protesting Hillary Clinton's commencement speech at Medgar Evers College over the Clintons» perceived failings in Haiti.

Over the years, AUN has had commencement speakers of international renown.

It however stated the date each of the over 100 cases was «referred», the challenges being encountered in the investigation and the source of information leading to the commencement of the probe.

A college for the education of those desiring to enter this profession has been established over a year in this city [now the N.Y.U. College of Dentistry], and the faculty of Harvard College, at their last Commencement, provided for a department of dentistry.»

We took the train to New Haven over the weekend (a 5ish hour ride from DC) and got to partake in all the commencement activities.

Another week has flown by and with commencement getting closer and closer I can't get over how little time I have left in college.

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Chadwick Boseman gives a Wakanda salute at Howard University commencement, protests in Gaza over U.S. Embassy in Jerusalem, a spokeless Ferris wheel, shooting at Sante Fe High School in Texas and more images from around the world.

While HGSE master's and doctoral students were busy wrapping up final projects and making plans for commencement this past May, many in the HGSE faculty were preparing for a whole new set of students to take over the classrooms of Appian Way through their engagement with Professional Education at HGSE.

At Commencement 2010, HGSE diverted over 200 gallons of food scraps and compostable paperware by composting.

Grassa O'Neill stresses that the continuum of education doesn't end with commencement, and her new group strives to establish lifelong learning opportunities for Ed School alumni through its programs, which address a growing need in the field of education.Their institutes attract leaders of pre-K — 12 schools and districts and higher education institutions from all over the world.

As Commencement approaches, we look back the impact our students made over the course of their year at the Ed School.

The most famous of these was the Abbott case in New Jersey in which the courts have issued over a dozen funding orders since the commencement of the case almost 40 years ago.

And while there was much celebration over the improved numbers, still a quarter of all LA Unified seniors, perhaps as many as 10,000, would not celebrating in commencement ceremonies and would be facing uncertain futures.

This vacation, I'm reading a bunch of fiction: The Submission by Amy Waldman; Commencement by J. Courtney Sullivan -LRB-»cause I read Maine over the summer and loved it); Little Bee by Chris Cleave -LRB-»cause I can't believe I haven't read it yet).

During that time they defer commencement of CPP pension and keep their RRSP intact rather than rolling it over into a RRIF.

Attorney General Michael Mukasey gave the commencement address Friday at Boston College Law School, acknowledging the controversy over his appearance but nonetheless using the occasion to defend the government lawyers who are now under attack for their roles in drafting legal memoranda condoning the use of torture in interrogating enemy combatants.

Commencement will be injected into the veins of the rest of CCA 2006's far - reaching provisions over the next two years.

... At least at one commencement, anyway — that of Norm Pattis» eldest son, who graduated from Middlebury College over the weekend.

The BC campus was divided last year over the selection of former Attorney General Michael Mukasey as commencement speaker after he refused to condemn waterboarding as torture.

Over twenty of those reported decisions have been issued since the commencement of trial (I am sure that there are many more unreported decisions).

Graduates, parents, faculty, this is really such a remarkable day — obviously for you, but also for me, because after spending a life obsessing over true crime, the impossible happened: I was asked to speak at the Harvard Law commencement and accept an honorary legal degree.

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The requirements are as follows: The Family Court of the State has jurisdiction over all actions for divorce and annulment of marriage where either petitioner or respondent, at the time the action was commenced, actually resided in this State, or was stationed in this State as a member of the armed services of the United States, continuously for 6 or more months immediately preceding the commencement of the action.

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