Sentences with phrase «said at international meetings»

He said at international meetings others had argued that measures to combat climate change would hurt their countries» economic development.

Not exact matches

«Bitcoin just shows you how much demand for money laundering there is in the world,» Fink, the head of the largest asset management firm in the world, said at an Institute of International Finance meeting.

The current system of calorie counting on which our nutrition labels are based «provides only an estimate of the energy content of foods,» Malden C. Nesheim, a professor of nutrition at Cornell University, said at a 2013 meeting of the international nonprofit Institute for Food Technologists.

«We know our solution works for the general U.S. population, but we want to make sure it is more culturally respectful, and can help the health outcomes of these population groups,» says Goodwin, whom I first met at IEEE's Women in Engineering International Leadership Conference last spring.

«A trip is under consideration,» Mnuchin said at a press conference during the International Monetary Fund and World Bank spring meetings in Washington.

«A trip is under consideration,» Mnuchin said at a press conference during the International Monetary Fund and World Bank spring meetings in Washington on Saturday.

«Any possible action will only cause more instability in the region and threaten international security and peace,» Syrian state TV quoted Assad as saying at a meeting with a high - level Iranian delegation in Damascus.

Alexander, the former immigration minister, said that decision was triggered when an Iranian, whom he described as an «Iranian state representative,» showed up at Toronto's Pearson International Airport with a diplomatic passport from St. Kitts and said he had come to meet then prime minister Stephen Harper.

gave us the opportunity to meet a huge number of international industry professionals at Vinexpo,» says Alvaro Baños of Bodegas las Cepas in Spain.

About 90 percent of the employees attending the meeting Saturday favored the «authorization to strike» vote, but Loza would not say how many workers actually attended the vote, which took place at the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers hall in Chicago.

I was going to say that our Prime Minister has met President Medvedev at perhaps three different international summits in the past two years, but to the best of my knowledge, there have not been proper bilateral meetings at any of those summits.»

He said most of those elections were not only adjudged to meet international standards but had also produced varied outcomes for different political parties at different times.

He said leaders of the party, including state, local government and ward executives as well as National Assembly and State Assembly members met at Imo International Convention Centre, Owerri, to deliberate on issues.

«I have seen physical structures and all met the international standard but management and staff must be at peace before such agitation will be considered,» he said.

«Mr Putin is famously a judo black belt but that shouldn't stop David Cameron grappling with him on Russia's deeply unhelpful behaviour over Syria at the United Nations security council,» Amnesty International's Europe and Central Asia director John Dalhuisen said before the meeting.

While speaking at the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank Group Annual Meetings in Washington D.C., United States, Kim disclosed that in his very first meeting with President Buhari, the latter specifically asked him to shift the bank's focus to the north, which he said the bank had done.

«The attendance of international scientists at U.S. meetings and conferences is important in terms of the intellectual content they contribute, for the benefit to the United States from the formation and sustainment of partnerships with U.S. counterparts, and in terms of benefits to the U.S. economy,» the letter said.

A senior State official said they were «cautiously optimistic» that the deal, still under negotiation, would be finalized by a vote at a meeting of the United Nations» International Civil Aviation Organization in a month.

Dye, director of strategy in the Office of the Director General at the World Health Organization, said in his 12 February plenary address at the 2016 AAAS Annual Meeting that the Ebola crisis demonstrated where global teamwork succeeded and failed during the emergency — in an era where WHO's share of international public health funding has declined.

Such situations are often easily resolved, sometimes with a single meeting, says Sural - Fehr, who has become an advocate for international scholars — at her institution and nationally.

But Cavendish is susceptible to the new Foc Tropical Race 4 (Foc - TR4) strain, and could meet the same fate as Gros Michel if the fungus reaches Latin America, the world's leading banana exporter, says Rony Swennen of the Catholic University of Leuven in Belgium, and a banana breeder at the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture in Dar es Salaam.

«We have demonstrated for the first time in an animal model that maternal use of a class of antidepressants called selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors, or SSRIs, resulted in increased fat accumulation and inflammation in the liver of the adult offspring, raising new concerns about the long - term metabolic complications in children born to women who take SSRI antidepressants during pregnancy,» says PhD student Nicole De Long, who presented this research on June 22nd at the joint meeting of the International Society of Endocrinology and The Endocrine Society.

«You may have a student finishing up his or her Ph.D., and that person gets a paper accepted to an international scientific meeting,» says Chris Bargerstock, assistant director for the office for International Students & Schinternational scientific meeting,» says Chris Bargerstock, assistant director for the office for International Students & SchInternational Students & Scholars at MSU.

Justin Guay, an associate with the International Climate Program at the Sierra Club, said it would be ideal for the Executive Board to toss out the methodology entirely when they review the panel's recommendation during their 62nd meeting in Marrakesh, Morocco, this week.

«This basic belief behind conservation is no longer the case,» said Emily Pidgeon of Conservation International, speaking at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

«Although it's too early to declare victory, there's a good chance now that science will not be sidelined as would have been the case had the chair's proposal been adopted,» says Justin Cooke, a mathematical modeler in Freiburg, Germany, who represents the International Union for Conservation of Nature at the IWC meeting.

Meyer and others said the new landscape could have serious implications for how the international climate talks develop at the next major U.N. meeting in Cancun, Mexico, this month.

Corine Wegener, cultural heritage preservation officer for the Smithsonian Institution, said that organizing an international research community to study the primary causes of damage to cultural heritage in times of conflict will be critical to intervention efforts in Syria — a goal to be discussed at the September 19 meeting.

At the least, an international debate should occur, says Keim, who believes that in the meantime, scientists should neither publish the results of H5N1 transmissibility studies nor present them at meetingAt the least, an international debate should occur, says Keim, who believes that in the meantime, scientists should neither publish the results of H5N1 transmissibility studies nor present them at meetingat meetings.

At NRDC, Paine says that discussions he has initiated on broadening the NNPA and other international nuclear energy mechanisms to include safety and environmental concerns have met with fierce resistance from industry and foreign governments.

At a meeting at the Liberian ministry of health last week, a U.S. Agency for International Development representative said he had been sent specifically to find out if the numbers can be trusteAt a meeting at the Liberian ministry of health last week, a U.S. Agency for International Development representative said he had been sent specifically to find out if the numbers can be trusteat the Liberian ministry of health last week, a U.S. Agency for International Development representative said he had been sent specifically to find out if the numbers can be trusted.

A: At the G7 meeting, Dr. Bernice Dahn, [the Liberian minister of health], said when governments pay international [nongovernmental organizations] to go and do the delivery of service, the people in the community trust these organizations that take care of them instead of the government.

Officials have been saying quietly at international meetings that this is why they have accepted so many of Europe's current wave of refugees.

Dr Samuel Turvey, Senior Research Fellow at ZSL, who co-chaired the major international conservation planning meeting in Hainan that produced the report, said: «Ensuring a future for the Hainan gibbon is one of the most important global priorities in mammal conservation.

Although the country has been far less studied than Mesopotamia, it played a critical role in the rise of empires and economies in the region starting around 1000 B.C.E., researchers said at a meeting here last week of the International Congress on the Archaeology of the Ancient Near East.

At the Saturday, December 6, keynote session, ASCB President Jennifer Lippincott - Schwartz welcomed them all, the international and the interdisciplinary crowd along with cell biologists at all levels from grad students to senior faculty, saying, «This looks like a big meeting but ASCB is really a galaxy of small meetingAt the Saturday, December 6, keynote session, ASCB President Jennifer Lippincott - Schwartz welcomed them all, the international and the interdisciplinary crowd along with cell biologists at all levels from grad students to senior faculty, saying, «This looks like a big meeting but ASCB is really a galaxy of small meetingat all levels from grad students to senior faculty, saying, «This looks like a big meeting but ASCB is really a galaxy of small meetings.

With the Agreement now ratified and in force, the next challenge is actually meeting its ambition, says the study's lead author Dr Glen Peters, senior researcher at the Centre for International Climate and Environmental Research in Oslo (CICERO) and project manager of the Global Carbon Project.

Speaking at a special session on censorship at the annual meeting of the International Reading Association held here last week, Ms. Krug said the ALA office now receives about 900 reports of «challenges» per year — up from 300 per year in 1978.

Education that seeks to meet the needs of the 21st century must be global in outlook, says Fernando Reimers, professor of international education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education.

The Saturday morning meeting held at Paterson's International High School lacked the rancor of the Newark meetings, but Hodges and others said they would make it up with persistence and urged attendees to take their concerns to local, state and even federal officials.

«The superintendents share solutions with each other to the challenges that come with scaling innovation,» said Edna Wallace, NCLDC Lead at RTI International «The superintendents and chief academic officers regularly take best practices from other districts in the network and implement them in a way that meets their local need.»

The Korean automaker also is taking a hard look at bringing its flagship K9 sedan to the U.S. market to bolster the brand's lineup on the premium end, said Tom Loveless, Kia's vice president of sales, speaking at the American International Automobile Dealers Association meeting here.

Mitsubishi's 525 dealers will meet their new Galant in May and will send it into battle immediately afterward in the hot family sedan category.In size, it will go against the Honda Accord and Toyota Camry, said Richard Recchia, executive vice president of Mitsubishi Motor Sales of America Inc.The Galant was displayed at the North American International Auto Show in Detroit.In price, Recchia said the Galant will wrestle the Nissan Altima.

«We hope to capture a set of readers who perhaps don't read on paper, as well as a new generation who will grow up reading and writing on computer screens in school and will have different reading habits,» said Maru de Montserrat, agent at International Editors Co. and president of ADAL, «It's important to meet that demand, rather than waiting for readers to take matters into their own hands and create a black market of scanned books.»

«To reach our goal of flying 20 million passengers this year, we remain committed to expanding our domestic route network, where we lead with 37 destinations; and looking at opportunities to grow our international market where we can meet rising demand and sustain our year - round low fare proposition,» said Atty JR Mantaring, vice president for corporate affairs, Cebu Pacific.

With more than 100 million people worldwide using iPads, the new «Best Western To Go» iPad app helps Best Western meet the growing needs of travelers who research and book travel with their iPad,» said Dorothy Dowling, senior vice president of sales and marketing at Best Western International.

David Keith said at the recent Harvard meeting that an international organization of some kind (he didn't mention the IPCC) be formed and study the problem.

Administration officials have said they are working on a position on global warming but have not made a commitment to present a proposal at the next international meeting on the subject, in October.

To pick three, he says the world is cooling, Arctic sea ice increased 60 percent over last year at this time, and the International Panel on Climate Change is under so much attack they had to hold a «crisis» meeting.

«We don't want countries to do nothing until 2026, then realize they can't meet their commitments,» says Jake Schmidt, director of the international program at NRDC (which publishes Earthwire).