Sentences with phrase «powerful member»

I mean he was clearly one of the three or four most powerful members of congress.

I mean he was clearly one of the three or four most powerful members of congress.

The more powerful members often keep fighting in check.

Much of the preservation begins with marriage, and a matchmaker is one of the most important and powerful members of the community.

The more powerful the members are, the more difficult the challenge you can complete, the bigger the rewards.

Hundreds of Realtors met with powerful members of Congress last week in Washington at NAR's 2017 federal policy conference.

«We are at a loss why the President would set up a panel comprising members of his cabinet to investigate other senior very powerful members of the same Executive.

Furthermore, the Christian versions of the household codes are the only ones that speak directly to the less powerful members of the household — the slaves, wives, and children — probably because the church at the time consisted of just such powerless people.

The fact that the Greek people see their misfortunes to an extent as the result of an externally - pursued strategic reduction of their living standard is perhaps the clearest indication that EU and its most powerful member states need to be careful when interacting with this proud nation.

Targeting environmental laws But Smith is not the only powerful member of Congress who's got the EPA in his cross-hairs.

It is long past time that the era of backroom deals that delivered new funding to schools represented by politically powerful members of the legislature has ended.

March 5, 2014 SEATTLE — Student athletes playing under NCAA auspices today filed an antitrust class - action lawsuit against the NCAA and the NCAA's most powerful members including the...

Onondaga County GOP Chairman Tom Dadey picked up some support form the state Senate's second most powerful member as he mulls a potential challenge to NYS GOP Chairman Ed Cox next week.

In many cases parents, who should protect their children, remain silent if the violence is perpetrated by a spouse or other family member, a more powerful member of society such as an employer, a police officer, or a community leader.

While activities such as Grace's are relatively independent of Vatican policies — and hence this section could be seen as a digression from the author's theme — the Knights are headquartered in the Vatican and have connections with powerful members of the hierarchy like O'Connor and Cardinal Bernard Law of Boston.

Amstrup is a very powerful member of the PBSG and he's held tightly to the predictions of polar bear declines to extinction he made that resulted in a «threatened» listing for polar bears under the ESA in 2008 (Amstrup et al. 2007, 2010).

«Even while being elevated as one of the most powerful members of Congress, Louise always remembered where she came from and her first priority was to her community and her constituents.»

To the contrary, your authority is enhanced by making your employee feel like a powerful member of the team, whose contributions and perspectives are important.

That would be dramatic, since Kalanick, despite being ousted as CEO in a Benchmark - led coup earlier this summer, remains a powerful member of the company's board of directors.

But he then drew opposition from some of the Democratic Party's most powerful members, particularly Sen. Elizabeth Warren, who held up his nomination for months.

While new undertakings were belittled by some of Bigelow's powerful members, the projects were also invested with fervent hopes that they could wake the church up.

As a powerful member of the board put it in the midst of a debate about whether the president should be required to be Lutheran, «It is a matter of indifference to the board what the president does on his weekends.»

Maziarz announced his retirement from the chamber in 2014, which caught Albany lawmakers by surprise because he was considered one of the more powerful members of the State Senate.

I want our Chief Secretary, Philip Hammond, the star of this week's Question Time, to be one of the most powerful members of the government.

So it's no surprise a new campaign targets the second most - powerful member of the Senate, Syracuse - area Republican John DeFrancisco, a vocal opponent of the increase.

Mr. Silver spoke to reporters for the first time about the scandal that last week engulfed the Assembly and one of its most powerful members, Vito J. Lopez of Brooklyn.

In Evan's case there is the added ethical problem that his Mommy Toby Stavisky is a powerful member of the Queens political establishment and a powerhouse in the Democ» RAT» ic Senate «Crazy» (corrupt) Committee.

The second - most - powerful member of the House of Representatives, McCarthy sees potential for Republicans to strengthen their majority in the House here in upstate New York.

But led by Saudi Arabia, by far the group's most powerful member, the group has resolutely refused to trim supply this time, reports the BBC.

Not to state that the US, the most powerful member of the UN, is an ally of Israel.

Felder, a freshman, caucuses with the Republicans, and another four Democrats, compromising a rump faction known as the Independent Democratic Conference (IDC), negotiated a power sharing agreement with the GOP that kept Long Island Republican Dean Skelos as the Senate's most powerful member, despite his party having lost its outright majority in last year's election.

The report said the Assembly's leadership shielded Mr. Lopez, a Brooklyn Democrat who was one of the chamber's most powerful members, from public scrutiny amid allegations against him by his staff of sexual harassment.

But since he's taken a leadership position in state government as the most powerful member of the Assembly, he says it's part of his job to take a broader view of the state.

Through his role as a financial fix - it man, former state Budget Director Bob Megna may be one of the most powerful members of the governor's inner circle that most people have never heard of.

Philip Hammond will be one of the most powerful members of a Cameron government: «Gordon Brown downgraded the job of Chief Secretary and removed from his Cabinet colleagues their right to be involved in the overall spending decisions of government.

A safe, intelligent and hardworking frontbencher, George Osborne said that Mr Hammond would be «one of the most powerful members of the government.»

The second most powerful Member of the Assembly is the Chair of Ways and Means.

Moments after the National Electoral Council's televised announcement, state television carried images of Mr. Maduro, holding his wife's hand and flanked by several of the more powerful members of his government, walking down a narrow lane outside the presidential palace, smiling and waving.

In the lieutenant governor's absence, a president pro tempore presides, usually a powerful member of the majority party.

Schumer, D - N.Y., who is seeking his fourth term, is one of the most powerful members of the Senate.

The investigations outlined how Lopez (D - Brooklyn), once one of the Assembly's most powerful members, routinely groped and harassed young female staffers.

WASHINGTON (CNN)- The House Ethics Committee voted unanimously Thursday to expand its investigation of Rep. Charlie Rangel, one of the most powerful members of Congress.

Through his role as a financial fix - it man, Megna may be one of the most powerful members of the governor's inner circle that most people have never heard of.

«Mr. Felder is a powerful member of the State Senate who sits on the Health Committee,» said David Goldberg of NYSD 17 for Progress in a statement.

Washington (CNN)- The House of Representatives censured veteran New York Rep. Charlie Rangel on Thursday - a stunning downfall for a congressman once considered one of the most powerful members of Congress.

But it doesn't take a Ph.D. — or a law degree — to understand that clearly defined rights and procedures, plus the backing of a union, can strengthen and clarify the position of a lone, impecunious individual seeking redress for perceived unfair treatment by a powerful member of a large institution.