Sentences with phrase «president than the storm»

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President Barack Obama on Thursday signed an emergency declaration for Florida because of the storm, which has already killed more than 20 people in Caribbean countries.

Trump will embark on his first foreign trip as president Friday less as an anti-Obama figure than as a latter - day Richard M. Nixon or Bill Clinton — a wounded president fleeing political storms at home for an uncertain welcome overseas.

Rather than focus on the «hubbub» surrounding NFL protests, President Trump should use his social media platform to ask for help and volunteer aid for storm ravaged parts of the United States, Gov. Andrew Cuomo on Monday told reporters.

Citing the environmental, economic and political ramifications of President Donald Trump's pullout from the Paris climate accord — as well as the perilous effects of inconsistent weather and more intense storms that have already befallen their cities and counties — more than 200 New York officials on Monday called on state Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli to divest the state Common Retirement Fund of companies that contribute to man - made climate change.

Thursday's trip was the president's third visit in less than three weeks to survey storm damage and recovery efforts in the United States, following Hurricane Harvey in Texas.

More than two weeks after the Eid el Kabir celebration in Nigeria, the conduct of the Ekiti State Governor, Ayo Fayose, during an Eid prayer in Ado - Ekiti, seems to have gathered a sudden storm following a condemnation by the President of the Muslim Rights Concern, Prof. Ishaq Akintola, who described his action as «highly sacrilegious and unduly provocative.»

Democratic National Committee Chair Tim Kaine (Va.) said that Murphy «embraced President Obama's message of change and his plans to fix our economy and create jobs, and as a result he stormed from more than 20 points down to winning a majority of votes cast tonight.»

4 Hurricanes laid waste to so many powerful armadas that, during the Spanish - American War, President McKinley declared that he feared the storms more than the Spanish navy.

As for the dangers posed by rare, but inevitable, floods of the sort swamping Texas, they have been more discounted than other storm threats like wind, said J. Marshall Shepherd, director of the atmospheric sciences program at the University of Georgia and a past president of the American Meteorological Society.