Sentences with phrase «person at the meeting said»

As staff briefed him on possible measures and environmentalists pressed him to act, Romney frequently repeated a central thought, people at those meetings said: That climate change is occurring, that the United States has the resources to handle its vast impact but that low - lying poor countries like Bangladesh would suffer greatly.

Not exact matches

«You learn a heck of a lot when you talk to people not in a formal setting, not in a roundtable discussion, not in a town hall meeting, but just when moms and dads are shopping at a grocery store,» she says.

«Before the housewares show — talk about people you know — a good friend of ours was at a shiva call and met this gentlemen,» Och said.

Amazon «is a big, big force, and it has already disrupted plenty of people — and it will disrupt more,» Buffett said at his most recent annual shareholders» meeting.

«You try to meet people with what they give you,» says Shanna Quinn, senior marketing representative for social media programs at United Airlines, who created the tweet.

But in fact, Jeff Wald, co-founder of Work Market and one of the smartest people I've met on this subject, says the freelance share of the workforce has remained stuck at about 34 % for the last few years, and is likely to stay there for the indefinite future.

Activist investor Carl Icahn says he will nominate four people to join the board of Xerox at the annual shareholder meeting next year.

As a student at the University of California, Berkeley, Fiance, who graduated in 2014 and now works for a startup, says that some of his best ideas came from constantly being willing to meet new people and attend social events.

So instead of saying you're looking for a job, say you're looking to meet people at these five companies or with these five job titles.

Most people know to say the other person's name first when it happens at the beginning of the sentence; «David and I went to the meeting.»

The 37 % Rule of statistics says that at age 26 you'll have met enough people to have some solid options without waiting so long that they start pairing off without you.

«If you invested in a very low - cost index fund — where you don't put the money in at one time, but average in over 10 years — you'll do better than 90 percent of people who start investing at the same time,» Buffett said at the 2004 Berkshire Hathaway annual meeting.

«I said to management, this deal will only pass if I have the right hand to call the shots, get the people I think will lead this,» Stronach declared at the 2010 annual meeting.

«Fifty - four precent of all meetings have at least one person on a call with them,» says Anguilo.

For, say, a half - hour meeting of six writers and an editor at a company the size of Inc., the $ 189 spent could give clean drinking water to 9 people in Africa for 20 years, or «significantly impact» relief efforts in Haiti.

«All you're trying to do, whether it's a three - minute pitch or a six - or eight - minute presentation, is to whet the appetite for a follow - up and get an in - person meeting,» says Somak Chattopadhyay, principal at Greenhill SAVP, an early stage venture capital fund in New York, and a longtime Pace judge.

When History, at our first meeting, asked me how I would think of promoting a show based on long - dead people, I said: «Put up a huge poster on Sunset Boulevard with just the word VIKINGS on it.»

«We expect to be cutting a lot out of Dodd - Frank because, frankly, I have so many people, friends of mine, who have nice businesses who can't borrow money,» Trump said at a meeting with CEOs.

Think about it: When was the last time you heard someone say, «You know, I pretty much suck at accurately identifying my and other people's emotions, at applying emotions to thinking and problem solving, at controlling my emotions and cheering up or calming down other people... really, I'm probably the least self - aware person you'll ever meet»?

Buffett, at Berkshire Hathaway (brk - a) annual meeting, said over the years numerous people tried to get him to buy the stock, or wanted him to meet Valeant's former CEO Michael Pearson.

But anyway we did it and then finally I went to these acting classes there and I met some people and a cinematographer at Universal years ago named Irving Glassberg called me up and said who I'd met and he had... We talked about sports and swimming and all that kind of stuff.

«Part of what Li & Fung sells» to retailers «is the right not to attend these meetings or pay into these compensation funds when people die,» said Suri Gurumurthi, a business school professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

«The admissions counselor said to me, «It's nice to meet you in person, because your essay told me nothing at all about your personality.

Some details may be disclosed at next month's annual meeting, but he said people shouldn't expect any details about new airline partners until mid-2019, at the earliest.

I say, «Today I am going to meet the right people at the right time for the betterment of my business and my life.»

Now back at Breitbart, Bannon is quoted in the book as saying that if such a meeting needed to take place, Trump Jr. and Kushner should have set it up «in a Holiday Inn in Manchester, New Hampshire, with your lawyers who meet with these people,» according to The Guardian.

«I was excited to meet at this historic place and it is really moving that you came all the way to the demarcation line to greet me in person,» Kim said.

«People really have been looking at this [additive] technology historically more as a technology solution,» said Bartel, «but it's now meeting business needs for customers.»

Ford's top executives expect to present the plan to the company's directors at the board's July meeting, these people said.

«We've deliberately looked for people who are builders, who've been there with growth companies, who are best in class at what they do, and we really don't care where they're located, because at this small size we can do everything on the phone, and we use GoTo Meeting and Skype,» she says.

When he appeared at Google's shareholders meeting this month, David Drummond, Google's chief legal officer, surprised people when he said the company would release the data.

January 2016: Days before Levandowski left Alphabet, he had another group meeting at his house where he says 10 people in attendance were Alphabet employees.

«Chemical weapons have once again been used on Syrian men, women and children,» Haley said at Monday's meeting to discuss what appeared to be a chemical attack on Douma, the last rebel - held town in Syria, on Saturday that left 49 people dead and scores injured.

«This is something that is way below other people's radars and at a point in their growth cycle when they are the most open to meeting with us,» he said.

She said the relationship began with a sexual encounter at the tournament and continued with phone conversations and in - person meetings for about a year, some of them involving Trump's desire to put her on his television show, «The Apprentice,» according to the transcript.

«We have to get more people joining the collaboration,» said governor Jerry Brown at the meeting.

«One of the people I met with at Harvard medical said he might be able to get us millions of medical records and also genetic data to link up to everything.

He plans to build applications that will use data from Facebook to create temporary social networks, say at a conference or sporting event, to help users meet people who grew up in the same town or like the same band.

At the informal dinners and meetings in New York, Houston and Washington, investors pushed back at several aspects of the deal, the people said, asking not to be identified discussing private meetingAt the informal dinners and meetings in New York, Houston and Washington, investors pushed back at several aspects of the deal, the people said, asking not to be identified discussing private meetingat several aspects of the deal, the people said, asking not to be identified discussing private meetings.

Verizon, as well as some private equity firms, met with Microsoft last month to talk about potential funding for a bid, people familiar with the matter said at the time.

I been saying this a number of times in the blogs now, that if someone other than Christian did this at a meeting... I will tune them out if I choose to... my point had been... why cant anyone else tune people out..

If you were at a meeting and after the prayer you got up and went to the podium and said, «god is a fairytale, thanks for wasting our time, now can we get to the peoples business?»

I am offended by many things my gov» t does, I can get offended by what people say in public meetings, some of the stuff I have seen in public meetings bores me, makes me wish I wasn't there, but at the end of the day... I am fine and I move 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.»

Most people like Jesus, or at least have some respect for Jesus, but I recently met a man who said that he has never met anybody whose life was better for following Jesus.

«We've all been taught to laugh at the idea that some people were «born criminal,»» said Stark to a packed room at the Religious Research Association meeting last month in Houston.

In a briefing, sent out ahead of the meeting, the Church said the Synod would look at «the liturgy for Affirmation of Baptismal Faith, contained in the Common Worship service book, may be used with people who have already been baptised» but who wish to «reaffirm their identity in Christ after a significant personal transition, including gender.»

It continues even today — or would you say it is OK for the announcer at a mass meeting in South Africa of a world - travelling evangelist to state the Lord has shown him the first xxx of people who donated $ x000 within the next two minutes will become millionaires within 48 hours.

«I have yet to meet a Jewish person who hasn't heard about this,» says Troy, who served as a Bush administration liaison to the Jewish community and was a former deputy secretary at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

There is a class of persons to whom by all spiritual affinity I am bought and sold; for them I will go to prison, if need be; but your miscellaneous popular charities; the education at college of fools; the building of meeting - houses to the vain end to which many now stand; alms to sots; and the thousandfold Relief Societies; — though I confess with shame I sometimes succumb and give the dollar, it is a wicked dollar which by and by I shall have the manhood to withhold,» is what Emerson would say, Brigitte.