Sentences with phrase «pushed by advisers»
Two educators with strong ties to New York City are also being pushed by advisers to Mr. de Blasio: Kathleen M. Cashin, a member of the New York State Board of Regents; and Carmen Farina, a former deputy chancellor.
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Bannon's rivals, led by senior White House adviser and presidential son - in - law Jared Kushner and former Goldman Sachs president Gary Cohn — and with the crucial backing of President Trump's daughter Ivanka — are an informal group of aides that has been pushing for the administration to take a more establishment - friendly turn.
The president's top economic adviser lost a battle to prevent the imposition of steep tariffs pushed by protectionist advisers.
A former Labour special adviser himself, Forde skillfully managed the New Labour banter by pushing the right buttons, chucking in the odd impression, gently mocking his interviewees and ensuring that it didn't get too serious too often.
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FBI Director Christopher Wray clashed publicly with the president for the first time today, condemning a push by House Republicans to release a secret memo that purports to show how the bureau and the Justice Department abused their authorities to obtain a warrant to spy on a former Trump campaign adviser.
Four of the advisers, Jonathan Rosen, Nicholas Baldick, Bill Hyers, John Del Cecato, ran the mayor's campaign and subsequently helped run a nonprofit to push his political agenda that is now being investigated by federal and state authorities.
Emerging from a Democratic Caucus meeting Tuesday morning — where they were briefed on Obama's plan by top White House adviser Rob Nabors — the Democrats pushed back hard against the president's proposal to reduce future cost - of - living raises for beneficiaries of the popular retirement program.
The advisers are the same people who ran de Blasio's campaign for mayor and subsequently ran the nonprofit to push his political agenda that is now being investigated by federal and state authorities.
The hope is that such advisers will help keep the government «more honest» by pushing politicians to consider hard scientific evidence before passing new policies, says committee chair Phil Willis.
i am pretty much turned off by Advocare advisers and how they push to sell.
Instead, he read the turn - by - turn directions aloud, then told us we could access a recording of those directions by pushing the phone button on the mirror and asking for the «virtual adviser».
The current push by the White House, Department of Labor and Securities and Exchange Commission to hold advisers to a more rigorous standard may do away with some abuses.
Savers are understandable irate and have pushed their advisers to find alternate investments (called «funky bonds» by The Wall Street Journal) which will offer returns in excess of the rate of inflation.
Annuities are pushed hard by financial advisers since they make much more on them than selling index funds.
Since 2004, he's served as an adviser to the Kennedy Forum (an advocacy group founded by Patrick Kennedy to push for reforms in the US behavioral system).