Sentences with phrase «people spoke at the meeting»

In all, about 50 people spoke at the meeting and at least another 50 were present.

Not exact matches

Whenever I speak at events across the country, I break down leadership to its most basic and practical form: It's about meeting the needs of people and developing them to their fullest potential.

Contribute a few comments on this issue during a meeting — you may be surprised at how seriously people take the input of someone who speaks sparingly!

CEO Levy, who had been scheduled to meet with investors yesterday and give a speech at a media conference organized by JPMorgan Chase & Co. in London, spoke instead via videoconference from a remote location, according to people with knowledge of the meeting, who asked not to be identified because the event wasn't public.

If people come up to him after he speaks at a conference, or run into him on the street, or meet him through a friend of a friend of a friend, and have a good idea, he or his staff will recruit them to join the Downtown Project.

Her ability to cut through was on display on Monday this week, when Haley spoke at an emergency meeting of the UN Security Council condemning the suspected chemical weapons attack in Syria that killed at least 40 people and is believed to have been carried out by the government under President Bashar al - Assad, although it denies the allegations.

So, by your reasoning, if «People put so much importance on words» (implying that they don't matter and we shouldn't take thought of how we use them) then I ought to be able to sing along with the lyrics from pac's «hit»em up» with my black friends, curse in a kindergarten class as well as a corporate meeting for my boss... what impression would a client have of my boss if I were cussing in a professional meeting or at a charity event... it doesn't add up, it's a cop - out rebuttal... trying to find loopholes or applying «human reasoning» like» ll take a swearing guy who's helpful» doesn't change Jesus or scripture it's just setting up a what - if scenario and trying to allow that to in some way justify your stance when again, that doesn't change The Holy Spirit or His heart in those who have been born again... the verses (inspired by His own Spirit) speak for themselves.

And every time after they had finished speaking their truth and their journey, they wept at the ways that Jesus had met him in their darkness, at how he had given them friends and community to walk alongside of them, at how even the most lost moments or people of their lives had been restored.

SO, at a government business meeting, where people come to be heard by the people, kermits solution is to tune people out... and that tuning out WILL extend to that person if they have some businiess to speak on.

«You said people can pray when it is their turn to speak, well if the leaders of the council meeting pray at the beginning of the meeting... it is their turn to speak.»

We were a group of 20 students at a mission school in Rome and by taking to the streets each week to speak and pray with the people we met, we put into practice what we learnt from the great Catechism of the Catholic Church and various encyclicals on mission and love: to listen and to love.

If we are to speak of sovereignty at all, this would reside in the people meeting together in local communities.

I have sometimes been in prayer meetings where people clearly lose their train of thought, or they don't really know how to pray for the issue at hand, and so rather than pause, or stumble around for the right words, or simply pray wrongly and let God sort it out (He doesn't mind), the person instead starts to «speak in tongues,» thus trying to impress everybody with their spirituality.

However, generically speaking I continue to be surprised at how many times there are significant issues in families and marriages that involve, as one of the major components, if not THE major component, crisis brought about because people's perceived needs and rights (I call them their «wants») are not being met by others.

I started speaking more regularly this year, which meant I got to meet more of you in person — at churches, conferences, and colleges from Waco, to Portland, to Minneapolis, to Lynchburg.

To the world I say stop hating each other and do good help those in need, feed people who are hungry, do good to all you meet, Jesus never spoke out against any one except to the religious people at that time and it is not any different now!

«Even though this journey is an official visit which will reinforce the good relations existing between the Federal Republic of Germany and the Holy See, I have not come here primarily to pursue particular political or economic goals, but rather to meet people and to speak about God,» the pope said during a speech at Bellevue Castle.

It was so so lovely seeing you speak at Powell's on Monday night in Ptown, though I had to dip out before I had a chance to meet you in person / have my book signed.

Earlier this week I had the privilege of speaking at a Daughters of Norway meeting in Seattle about how we can use food to share our heritage with people we care about — both in the present and as we think about ways to preserve it for the future.

I'm fourteen years old starting my road to recovery and it's very fearing and to know that I have to live with it scares the living daylight a out of me I can't speak much about my cognitive behavior therapy because I've only really doing assements but I'm writing this for myself and yourself I haven't always been religious but in times of fear and need know that you aren't alone God is always there and even wen your in your worse state I usally just lay down meditate a bit and speak to my father God and he always gives me a sense of relief this past week I feel like I have been a constant circle of fear but I would always freak out and be scared for no reason but just know that more than 44 million people have this you are br alone and one day you will meet your savior Jesus christ he put you in a test of life and he's going to congratulate you, you must wait for him and on another note if any one knows how to deal with the fear of the future or staying in a constant state please email me at [email protected] thank you so much everyone and there is a recovery maybe but today or Tommie but you will overcome

But only one person among the more than 50 residents at the meeting spoke against the dog run near Roosevelt Road and Michigan Avenue.

«The people who spoke at the beginning of the meeting feel we can provide the recreational programs ourselves, without merging with the Cary Park District,» Osten said.

His law was that the first three people to speak at a meeting of the 1922 Committee on any subject whatsoever were mad.

Ezeokafor, who spoke to journalists at the annual meeting with the Religious Council in the diocese at St. Patrick's Cathedral, Awka, said it was normal that people asked questions about the health of their President as he was not a private citizen.

Maverick GOP US Rep. Matt Gaetz, 36, speaking at a meeting of younger members of congress, reports The Hill, said Republicans could appeal to younger voters by ending «our party's war on science,» noting that people don't choose to be gay, that the earth is warming, and that medical marijuana helps some people significantly.......

Speaking at City Hall, Quinn said one of the proposals would change state law to require Level 2 sex offenders to appear in person and meet with law enforcement officials once a year.

Speaking at the meeting of the South - East caucus of the People's Democratic Party, PDP, the Deputy Senate President said the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, had so far shown that it was not a good manager of the economy.

Also speaking to newsmen at the end of the meeting, Raymond Dokpesi, one of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) National Chairmanship aspirants, said that all the eight chairmanship aspirants would sign a peace accord as part of their commitment towards successful convention.

The meeting, at Brooklyn Technical High School, lasted more than six hours Tuesday night into early Wednesday as about 300 people spoke, some of them screaming and taunting Ms. Black until she could not take it any longer.

The Business Secretary denied being close to tears as he spoke at Wednesday's meeting, but admitted «I do feel very strongly» about it, before highlighting the importance of having a customs deal with «the minimum of frictions» to firms operating a just - in - time production line such as Toyota, which employs 3,500 people at plants in North Wales and Derbyshire.

Several people spoke at Tuesday's town board meeting in favor of the law, including representatives from the American Heart Association and the Tobacco Action Coalition of Long Island.

At a town board workshop meeting back on June 2, Town Clerk Suzanne Reavy read a letter from Lomasney's neighbor, Edward Hixson, which echoed the overriding sentiment of many of the people who spoke against stricter animal husbandry regulations last year: Neighbors should work things out amongst themselves.

And yet, when people meet Miliband or hear him speak at length they change their opinions.

Purchase spoke of his despair at the pragmatic rightwing views which he believed the Labour leadership had stolen from the Conservatives and which failed to meet the needs of those he called «our people».

Law said 50 people spoke up at a public meeting, and around 2,000 wrote to the board.

Objections to the pipeline were raised by 17 of the 18 people who spoke for nearly 90 minutes at a Town Board meeting Wednesday about the plan to pipe Bakkan crude oil and refined gasoline, diesel and heating oil close to or along the state Thruway corridor from Albany to New Jersey.

«What is particularly missing at this time is her coming out in public, meeting her constituents, talking to TV cameras, explaining what happened, perhaps being a little humble about all of this and giving a satisfactory explanation to her constituents and the wider Conservative family to be quite frank, because speaking to people from the West Midlands region where she is an MP, these things do have a knock - on effect and there are other marginal seats far closer to her constituency where people have got Labour majorities to overturn which may be more difficult if the local Conservative politician is seen as tainted and not having justified their actions and also I gather that Conservative Party HQ has had party donors from the region expressing concern that she hasn't satisfactorily justified what she has done.»

Smyth and McLaughlin spoke to about 60 people attending the Meet the Troy Candidates event at School 12 in South Troy sponsored by the Troy Neighborhood Action Council.

At the Democratic Party's lunchtime meeting in Tarrytown, Schumer spoke to his hopes for the future, including that he will become Senate majority leader and, in the event the Republican - controlled Senate does not relent in its opposition to an Obama nominee, «our madam president will surely nominate a person for the Supreme Court who is in the legal mainstream (and) will uphold fundamental rights and common sense precedents now so severely under attack by the right - wing.»

At the Democratic Party's lunchtime meeting in Tarrytown, Schumer spoke about his hopes for the future, including that he will become Senate majority leader, Hillary Clinton will be elected president and she will «nominate a person for the Supreme Court who is in the legal mainstream (and) will uphold fundamental rights and common sense precedents now so severely under attack by the right wing.»

Ortiz told me he's hoping to set up a summit between the incoming and outgoing governors, who have already spoken at length on the phone since the election, but (at least as far as I know) have not yet met in person.

But not a single person in attendance at the meeting spoke in favor of the deal.

Take Back Parliament launched dramatically a few weeks ago, at the height of the coalition negotiations, when several thousand people chanting «fair votes now» and «we want to speak to Nick» gathered outside the LGA building where Nick Clegg was meeting and called the Liberal Democrat leader out to demand he does not abandon the party's historic commitment to PR.

And in a pointed jibe to Mr Corbyn, Scottish Labour leader Kezia Dugdale, who spoke at the meeting, said: «Never forget the best way to represent and deliver for working people will always be from the government benches.»

Whether I meet them at community events, district outreaches, business tours, helping them with a problem through my office, or speaking at their front door, the time spent with real people is invaluable.

Speaking on the absence of the National Chairman of the Party, Chief John Odigie Oyegun, at the meeting, Eta said: «we were told that the National Chairman was duly invited for the meeting like every other person.»

Speaking at the opening of the bank's spring meetings, he noted that fewer than 100 people control as much of the world's wealth as the poorest 3.5 billion combined.

But whoever these people were, their descendants successfully spread far and wide, for their genes show up not only in Europeans but also in Native Americans, according to a talk by paleogeneticist Johannes Krause of the University of Tübingen in Germany, who spoke at a biomolecular archaeology meeting last week.

You could try cold - calling on the telephone, but chances are the people you are trying to contact are either at a conference, are in meetings with their own people, or are just too busy to want to speak with you.

And this fits in, allegedly — I mean Peter Usher makes a big deal of it, but a few other people; it's not just Peter Usher, a few other people have looked at that and said, «Well, you know, there is one English thinker who spoke about infinite space in Shakespeare's time» and we've already met him, it was Thomas Digges.