Sentences with phrase «previous leaders»

Chris Urmson, previous leader of the project, departed in August and is working on a startup.

If forced to make prognostications, the two of us would predict a Party Congress that does not break any major taboos (e.g. scrapping tacit age or term limits for Politburo Standing Committee members), but one that also portrays Xi as powerful and thoroughly in command of the Party (e.g. following previous leaders in having his wisdom included in the Party's constitution).

«We are all products of quality public schools and can compete anywhere in the world; we are beneficiaries of quality education from public schools and we have achieved a lot from the sacrifices made by previous leaders.

Ms. Mark - Viverito's victory also represented a flexing of muscles by members of the Progressive Caucus, who coalesced behind her candidacy early on, and the Working Families Party, which sought a speaker candidate who would mark a tilt to the left from previous leaders.

And the risk is that these may be contradicted or criticised by high - profile commentators such as previous leader Nick Clegg.

Tsipras was elected Leader of Synaspismos during its 5th Congress on 10 February 2008, after previous Leader Alekos Alavanos decided not to stand again due to personal reasons.

As a «serial rebel» under previous leaders, he struggles to play the loyalty card effectively.

Let's just take a quick tour of our post-colonial political scene in Ghana to see how previous leaders emerged:

These ideas contrast with those social liberal principles held by Lord Oakeshott, the Lib Dem president, Tim Farron, many party members and previous leaders such as Charles Kennedy.

Ford's (F) miracle worker saved the company without resorting to bankruptcy or bailouts by doing what previous leaders had tried and failed to do: change Ford's risk - averse, reality - denying, CYA - based culture.

One plausible explanation: even though previous leaders felt insecure, they did not feel that they had to resort to unusually repressive measures to restore fear.

According to section 14.2 of the PC Party constitution, a leadership race must be held between four and six months from the time previous leader resigns.

Burnley drew 1 - 1 against Barnsley last Saturday and that point was enough to take us to the top of the north group of the U18 Professional Development League as previous leaders Nottingham Forest crashed to a 6 - 3 defeat at Hull City.

The current leader is Vince Cable, who was elected unopposed following the resignation of previous leader Tim Farron.

The politician, who took over from previous leader Charles Kennedy earlier this year, spoke about his job as Lib Dem chief.

Paramount is also one of just two major distributors to grow its domestic business in 2011, with the result being a first - place finish in U.S. and worldwide market share, taking the title away from previous leader Warner Bros..

Paradise comes from a different perspective on the ending of WWII in Germany, one in which previous leaders... Read More

Jordan now sits firmly at the top of the standings, with previous leader Matt Neal falling to fourth, 34 points off the lead.

While that may seem like a lifetime for executives over here, for a company that's had few leaders — and who's previous leader help the position for just about 55 years — that's not a long time.

Apple's iPhone and Google's Android operating system launched the smartphone wars, for example, killing previous leader BlackBerry and driving it out of the handset business.

And it is impossible to pay tribute to previous leaders of this party, without mentioning the greatest peacetime prime minister of the 20th century.

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Well before the end of Chinese president Xi Jinping's first term, political experts had already begun speculating that he was planning to stay in power for longer than the 10 - year limit accepted by previous leaders.

Amid the prospect of a Jeremy Corbyn - led Labour party, it is worth looking back at how previous leaders were chosen — and how they fared afterward

On the call, Munoz said the current managers need more time after inheriting an industry laggard from previous leaders.

[45] A review chaired by Jim Murphy and Sarah Boyack into the party's structure in Scotland subsequently concluded that the next leader should lead the entire Scottish Labour Party rather than just its MSPs, as previous leaders had.

Under its previous leader, Ed DeMarco, Fannie and Freddie moved to raise the fees they charge to insure mortgages in an effort to encourage private mortgage guarantors to enter the market.

It reduced Palm, a previous leader in mobile gadgets, to a pile of rubble.

According to Good Jobs First, a non-profit that tracks state tax breaks, since 2000 Amazon has received $ 1.115 billion in 129 communities in the U.S., rocketing past the previous leader in this category: Walmart.

The debacles, dating back to 2006, include prying into the personal phone records of reporters covering the company to its widely criticized hiring of Leo Apotheker as CEO after the company's previous leader, Mark Hurd, resigned amid questions about his relationship with a female contractor.

The process of de-Redfordization started with a cabinet shuffle that purged PC MLAs seen as being too closely tied to the previous leader.

Undoing some of the previous leader's unpopular policies will steal away some of Wildrose opposition leader Danielle Smith «s key talking points, but it will not be enough.

The new CEO, Antonio Osorio, is more focused on cost efficiency and risk controls than previous leaders and is focused on disposing of non-core assets.

Although the previous leaders of the rally started to correct or at least consolidate in the wake of the overbought long - term setups, another batch of coins...

In terms of the number of personnel overseas it was in 1975 (the last year for which comparative figures were available in Mission Handbook) the largest of all agencies, denominational or independent, having passed the previous leader, the Southern Baptist Foreign Mission Board, in the preceding three - year period.

The previous leader was being sexist, practicing false prophecy, using God's name in vain and as the lady here sad and you affirmed, was being abusive.

The experience, for me, has been no less difficult than that of the previous leader that I have shared.

If you are truly praying and not letting racism affect your principals you will vote for a man named Obama who has the same religious principals as all your previous leaders.

It is a great privilege serving as President of AAPT and to collaborate with the current AAPT board and build on the vision, creativity, and dedication of our previous leaders and members.

Labour has not won a major election for a decade, while the party has suffered a sharp erosion of support due to the unpopularity of its previous leaders and its inability to manage the issue of immigration (Clarke, Sanders, Stewart, & Whiteley, 2014).

Another key issue for new members is that Corbyn is perceived as better understanding the importance of the voice of the people than previous leaders.

He rejects the hard - headed instincts of previous leaders, while his commitment to Labour as a party of government is ambiguous.

We know that you and many other commissioners... we know that you inherit some mess from previous leaders, and that it is now our responsibility to continue working, cleaning whatever could be done better, and at the same time to continue with the vision of this administration, which is to close the gap that divides our city between the 1 % and the 99 %.

Despite the delays and prolonged negotiation, Mr. Cuomo hailed the deal as an extraordinary breakthrough in a legislative session that saw the previous leaders of both the Assembly and State Senate step down from their posts amid federal corruption charges, and Mr. Heastie and Mr. Flanagan rise to succeed them.

I have sat through so many — from Nigel Lawson, John Major and the previous leader of the Labour party.»

Flanagan says those allocations were made before he became leader in May, after the previous leader was arrested on corruption charges, and that he's going to take another look at the distribution of the funds.

Moreover, it smacks of the control - freakery he deplored in previous leaders.

Ethics reform was an unavoidable topic when Gov. Andrew Cuomo delivered his last State of the State speech a year ago, just weeks after federal juries had convicted the previous leaders of both houses of the New York Legislature on separate corruption charges.

The Board of Regents that will choose the state's next education commissioner is a lot different than the panel that was in place when the previous leader left last year.