Sentences with phrase «recent state convention»

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Schachter, on Tuesday named to a new state panel investigating the Stoneman Douglas shooting, carries soul - crushing grief with him everywhere he goes, including at a recent interview at the Marriott Coral Springs Hotel, Golf Club and Convention Center.

Off topic question topics included whether the mayor and his wife have smoked marijuana inside Gracie Mansion, a Daily News call for the mayor to «accept responsibility for inflaming the police», whether the mayor believes he should apologize for comments on the police, whether the Democratic National Committee has expressed concerns about current mayoral / police friction as it considers Brooklyn as a site for the 2016 Democratic Convention, whether the mayor supports the recent Cuomo / Christie veto of legislation on the Port Authority, a pending state legislative bill on police disability pensions, the expected special election in the 11th Congressional District, whether the mayor believes there is a police slowdown, the dismay of the recently shot and wounded police officers at Mayor de Blasio's hospital visit, the possible change in the Staten Island Chuck / Groundhog Day ceremony, the meeting today between Police Commissioner Bratton and union leaders and how Mayor de Blasio envisions the current mayoral / police friction ending.

«Hillary Clinton is weak, ineffective, pandering and, as proven by her recent email scandal... she's either a liar or grossly incompetent,» the Republican nominee has stated in the lead - up to the GOP convention — a refreshing blast of common sense from a political rebel who refuses to follow Washington's go - along - to - get - along rules.

A supporter of Ms. Starkey speculated that she was receiving opposition because she voted her conscience for an Attorney General candidate at the recent Democratic State Convention, and she was being punished for this through this primary.

The slate of Hawkins, Brian Jones, lieutenant governor, Ramon Jimenez, attorney general and Theresa Portelli, comptroller, was nominated at the recent Green Party state convention in Troy.

Vermont Senator Patrick Leahy says he'd rather see the Congress craft a constitutional amendment to overturn recent U.S. Supreme Court decisions on campaign finance than have states call a constitutional convention to address the issue.

The Campaign for a Constitutional Convention, meanwhile, has raised $ 96,000 and spent $ 84,000, according to the most recent records filed with the state elections board.

The TV documentaries included excerpts from past constitutional conventions, mostly U.S. state constitutional conventions held during the latter half of the 20th Century, plus a smattering of recent path - breaking constitutional conventions held in other countries.

The New York City businessman especially wants to dominate the delegate count in his home state, after losing dozens of delegates elsewhere in recent weeks who promised to vote for Cruz — rather than Trump — if given the chance on a second ballot at the convention.

At a recent Wisconsin Education Association Council's convention, banners over the booth of one out - of - state professional development provider read, «Three credits — five days!»

DeVos received an enthusiastic response when she started her remarks by stating that this convention was the first event she has been to in recent memory where the protesters probably weren't there «just for her,» which is her «badge of honor.»

Schachter, on Tuesday named to a new state panel investigating the Stoneman Douglas shooting, carries soul - crushing grief with him everywhere he goes, including at a recent interview at the Marriott Coral Springs Hotel, Golf Club and Convention Center.

Since 2013, the subcommittee has orchestrated several successes and positive outcomes, some of which include: • Collaborating with the PIJAC Zoonosis committee to update the Healthy Herp Handling poster promoting healthy reptile and amphibian handling practices; develop the Zoonotic Disease Prevention Series for Retailers; draft informative store signage on how to prevent zoonotic diseases; participate in meetings on rodent and reptile disease transmission with the Centers for Disease Control; and produce and revise best management practices (BMP) documents; • Collaborating with the United States Association of Reptile Keepers on past and current attempts to pass legislation, ordinances, and regulatory activity that may impact herp ownership and related businesses; • Attending Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) meetings with reports and summary of actions affecting import and export of reptiles; • Addressing the 2013 Center for Biological Diversity petition to list 53 herp species under the Endangered Species Act; • Reviewing and commenting on the recent US Fish and Wildlife status review on the proposal to list wood turtles under the Endangered Species Act; • Submitting comments on proposed listing of flat - tailed tortoise and spider tortoise under the Endangered Species Act; • Introducing federal legislation in 2013 to allow for the export of certain constrictors listed as injurious in air shipments with aircraft that land in a state for refueling; • Providing volunteer support for auctions at 2013 National Reptile Breeders Expo and several North American Reptile Breeders Conferences; • Providing extensive consultation on constrictor caging standards in Ohio.

Matthew Ronay's first major museum presentation in the United States surveys a recent body of meticulously hand - crafted and vibrantly colored sculptures, reliefs and installations that deliver a phantasmagoric vision of physical and psychic processes fueled by visual traditions and conventions in art, science, and popular culture.

Recent awards include the Chevalier of the Order of Arts and Letters from the Republic of France, the Medal of Arts from the city of Raleigh, the Legacy Leadership Award from The Triangle Business Journal, the Design Guild Award from the North Carolina State University College of Design, and the Thad Eure Memorial Award from the Greater Raleigh Convention and Visitors Bureau.

Mr. Djoghlaf said that in his most recent conversations with U.S. State Department officials, they said their attentions were focused on U.S. accession to two other international treaties that were languishing in the Senate: the U.N. Convention on the Law of the Sea and the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants.

Even though the material scope of Protocol no. 16 is clearly confined to the Convention and its protocols, some concerns have been expressed in the recent past, notably at the recent hearing held by the ECJ on the draft agreement on EU Accession to the Convention («DAA»), that the use of this new instrument of consultation by courts of the EU Member States might be problematic from the point of view of EU law.

Mr. Torrijos has spoken extensively on class action topics, including: Class Actions in the Age of Big Data (November 15, 2014, 2014 Consumer Attorneys of California Annual Convention); Structuring Class Settlements That Will Get Approved (October 2, 2014, Bridgeport Continuing Education 2014 Wage & Hour Litigation & Management); Class Action Settlements: Rule 68 Offers of Judgment and Other Strategic Tools (April 11, 2014, Bridgeport Continuing Education 2014 Class Action Conference); Getting Your Settlement Approved (September 2014, JAMS Class Action Seminar); The Changing Standards of Class Certification (January 10, 2014, Bridgeport Continuing Education Consumer Class Action Conference); Class Actions: Recent Developments (January 2014, myLawCLE); CAFA Removal and Remand: Latest Developments (March 29, 2011, Stafford Publications); and Is it better to file a nationwide class action or state - only class action?

The recent decision of the Supreme Court of Japan, in the Hague Abduction Convention case between James Cook and Hitomi Arimitsu — which upheld the Osaka High Court's revocation of its prior order that four children wrongfully retained in Japan should be returned to their habitual residence in the United States — vividly highlights the loopholes and fundamental weaknesses in the Implementing Act under which the Convention was brought into Japanese law and the resistance within Japan to acceptance of the principles underlying the Convention.

Schachter, on Tuesday named to a new state panel investigating the Stoneman Douglas shooting, carries soul - crushing grief with him everywhere he goes, including at a recent interview at the Marriott Coral Springs Hotel, Golf Club and Convention Center.

Taking note of some recent statements from the State party in relation to asylum - seekers, the Committee recommends that the State party implement faithfully the provisions of the 1951 Convention relating to the Status of Refugees, as well as the 1967 Protocol thereto, with a view to continuing its cooperation with the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees and in accordance with the guidelines in UNHCR's «Handbook on Refugee Determination Procedures».