Sentences with phrase «president than president»

The group said «Mbaka was not correct in his assessment that Dankwambo, based on his performance in Gombe, would make a better President than President Muhammadu Buhari.»

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The president left the event to attend a meeting on school safety for more than a half - hour.

«What has upset business owners more than anything are the comparisons made between the income of small business owners and that of employees,» Dan Kelly, the federation's president, said in an op - ed published at the Huffington Post on Aug. 25.

This state produces more milk than all of Canada, is a key electoral battleground for President and the home of House Speaker Paul Ryan, so it's little wonder that's where the President made his comments.

In the election of an African - American president less than a half - century after the end of official racial segregation in much of the country, these Americans see the triumph of the values enshrined in the US Constitution over America's legacy of social, political, and economic prejudice.

Colbert, much like Wolf, mocked Bush's apparent distaste for facts, hammered the administration's actions in Iraq, and described Bush's then - 32 % approval rating as «backwash» — all while the president was sitting less than 10 feet away.

Nintendo president Tatsumi Kimishima took the stage at the outset to reveal that Switch will launch globally on March 3, 2017 for $ 299.99 — earlier than some had expected at the price many suspected.

Brian Curin, 39, thought he was managing risk well as president of the footwear retailer Flip Flop Shops, which has more than 90 locations.

«In Catalonia, to be on the board of FC Barcelona is more than an honor,» says board vice president Manel Arroyo, also a business executive.

At the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas earlier this month, Federal Communications Commission Chairman Tom Wheeler signaled that he would heed President Obama's call to preserve net neutrality — that is, treat broadband internet service providers as utilities (subject to more rigorous regulation than previously) to maintain equal access for all to the internet.

Less than two weeks after his much - publicized return to Twitter, rapper Kanye West made a series of overtures to Trump on the president's favorite social media platform.

Ford also tangled with President Donald Trump, who spent more than a year criticizing the automaker on the campaign trail for expanding operations in Mexico.

NEW YORK, May 1 (Reuters)- Oil prices slid more than 1 percent on Tuesday as the dollar remained near a four - month high, but worries that U.S. President Donald Trump will pull out of the Iran nuclear deal underpinned the market.

More than half a century ago, U.S. President John F. Kennedy called the race to space «a great new American enterprise.»

Virtually every Republican and Democratic leader — other than the President — denounced the attack for what it was: an act of terror.

In the United States, the population President Trump represents emits more greenhouse gases per capita than almost anywhere.

While Nintendo hasn't released its sales figures, Nintendo of America President Reggie Fils - Aime told The New York Times earlier this month that in its first two days of availability, the console registered higher sales than any previous Nintendo console.

Protection for Trump has similarly raised other concerns for the Big Apple, which had been paying more than a $ 1 million a day to protect the president and his family prior to the inauguration.

Rather than pay up, Uber got into a lengthy debate with the state in which Anthony Levandowski, vice president at Uber's Advanced Technologies Group (and founder of the self - driving startup Otto that Uber acquired) argued Uber wasn't actually testing «autonomous vehicles» because all its vehicles had human drivers aboard and would for the foreseeable future.

Since 1949, the only first - term Secretary of State who lasted less than three years was Alexander Haig, who held the role for 18 months under President Ronald Reagan.

-- Calvin Sims, president and CEO of International House, a New York City residence and program center of graduate students from more than 100 countries.

She noted that she held more than 25 campaign events in the Keystone State while having major surrogates like Obama and Vice President Joe Biden make appearances as well.

«YVR now has more mainland Chinese carriers than any airport in North America and Europe — more than Heathrow, Paris, L.A., Chicago and San Francisco,» Vancouver Airport Authority president and CEO Craig Richmond said in an address to the Vancouver Board of Trade Jan. 18, when he unveiled plans for a $ 5.6 - billion airport expansion.

The former secretary of state wrote that in Pennsylvania, her team had 120 more staffers on the ground than President Barack Obama did four years earlier and spent 211 % more on TV ads.

We don't get to pick the U.S. President any more than we pick our own parents, so Trudeau's tactical charm offensive is a legitimate response.

President Trump and the American people need action on gun violence far more than we need leaders who show empathy, says Jake Novak.

Benioff raised more than $ 500,000 for President Barack Obama's second term election, but also gave $ 10,000 to Paul Ryan's run for House before the Republican was named Mitt Romney's running mate in the 2012 election.

This is more than triple the number of times President Barack Obama was mentioned during the same period of his administration.

President Obama is often characterized as a proponent of restraint: He recognizes that the use of force may have higher costs than benefits and that its downstream effects can be incalculable.

«Every startup competition has their own goals that are much bigger than just giving free money away to startup founders,» says Jonathan Allen, President and co-founder of Longneck & Thunderfoot (L&T), a content marketing firm and previous winner of a $ 50,000 Arch Grant.

Rather than building more big box stores to sell grocery, health, and beauty products under one roof, Loblaw will be able to use urban - friendly Shoppers locations to offer its President's Choice brand items while the drug stores continue to sell pharmaceuticals and cosmetics.

A little more than two years later, at the encouragement of activist investor Bill Ackman, Harrison came out of retirement to become president and CEO of Canadian Pacific Railway (CP).

In Trump's first six months in office, federal agencies issued rules at less than one - fifth the average rate under President George W. Bush.

A sea change in economic conditions has pushed interest rates considerably lower than they were in the past and are likely to stay there for a while, San Francisco Fed President John Williams said Friday.

Coach K's salary is more than some Fortune 500 CEOs make and certainly more than the $ 1.4 million combined salary for Duke's president and North Carolina's governor.

When it comes to financing business growth, the stats are grim: «Women raise 50 % less capital than men do,» explained Geri Stengel, president and founder of digital media and market - research agency Ventureneer and a Forbes columnist whose writing focuses on successful female entrepreneurs, during a breakout session, «And, often, capital means success.»

Oil prices slid more than one per cent on Tuesday as the US dollar remained near a four - month high, but worries that US President Donald Trump will pull out of the Iran nuclear deal underpinned the market.

At January's Consumer Electronics Show, Viveport President and HTC Senior Vice President Rikard Steiber unveiled HTC's plans to open more than 5,000 VRcades.

Indeed, Intel and AMD's chips are less than half the size of the current CPU / GPU layout found in today's powerful laptops, according to vice president of Intel's Client Computing Group, Chris Walker.

Despite the very real challenges that keep many small - business owners cautious, a recent survey of the Women Presidents» Organizations» Zenith members reported that these women - owned businesses with annual revenues of at least $ 50 million are more optimistic than one might expect.

«You have to take more than just a step back,» says David Omholt, president of Plano, Texas - based franchise consulting firm Entrepreneur Authority.

Former Liberal Party WA president David Honey's convincing by - election victory in the blue ribbon seat of Cottesloe was no accident; the strong Liberal showing was more than a year in the planning.

-- Jay Simons, president of software company Atlassian which offers team collaboration products including JIRA, Confluence, Bitbucket, and HipChat, which are collectively used by more than 48,000 companies worldwide.

FCC Chairman Ajit Pai, named by President Donald Trump in January, is planning to take a new look at the current overall limit on companies owning stations serving no more than 39 % of U.S. television households.

Or perhaps the media outlets that participated are being played by a man who instinctively understands the media and how to manipulate it more than probably any previous president — a man who got $ 2 billion or so worth of free press coverage.

The basic definition of microfluidics is «fluid flow in a channel that has a dimension of less than one millimeter,» according to Ben Moga, president and cofounder of a company called Tasso Inc..

The French president warned that trade wars, rather than trade deals, «destroy jobs» and raise prices for the middle class.

As President Donald Trump gets «very close» to a new Afghanistan strategy, there's more at stake than just military victory.

«The country, now more than ever, is looking for innovations that can improve care and increase efficiencies,» says Robert Grajewski, president of Edison Nation Medical.

President Donald Trump called into Fox and Friends Thursday morning to talk about a range of topics from his visit with French President Emanuel Macron («we accomplished a lot, more than anyone knows») to Kanye West's tweets, to his support for YouTubers Diamond and Silk («Diamond and Silk are warriors!»).