Sentences with phrase «said at last week»

As former Bolivian Ambassadar to the UN, Pablo Solon said at last week's Wolpe Memorial Lecture, «The COP17 will be remembered as a place of premeditated genocide and ecocide.»

«When I was the only Native in class... I didn't have answers to the questions,» Chosa said at last week's Askwith Forum, «Educational Sovereignty at the Santa Fe Indian School,» noting that many Native Americans entering universities are met with the struggle to be a representative of an...

That refusal, as lawmakers said at last week's hearing, leaves little confidence the state will handle future crises properly.

Cuomo, a second - term Democrat who is up for reelection, said at last week's press conference that both campaign committees, as well as his $ 30 million war chest, would be used to try to elect enough Democrats to retake the majority in the Senate.

«We have increased education more than any area in state government, period,» Cuomo said at last week's budget address.

The teen soldier was the alleged victim of racial taunts, including being called «gook,» «chink,» and «dragon lady,» and subjected to daily physical abuse by fellow soldiers, who pelted him with rocks and ordered him to give instructions in Chinese, advocates said at last week's hearing.

Deputy Town Attorney Frank Scalera said at last week's town board meeting that the initial payment was effectively a down payment.

«The theory is that if the by - election results are good enough, surely she will be tempted to have a general election,» he said at last week's event, held by public affairs firm Westminster Policy Institute.

«I think the park district needs some new blood,» Lozaro said at last week's forum at the Northbrook Public Library.

We're a little off schedule, some days are good, but then you get some rainy days,» Park District President Michael Fisher said at last week's meeting.

Not exact matches

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At a rally in Texas last week, however, the candidate expanded on his dislike of the press, and said that he planned to make it easier to sue the media if he is elected president.

Tech web site The Verge last week declared the service «a complete mess,» and a reviewer at Techhive said the bugs and glitches had undermined what otherwise could be a strong offering.

«I cried a lot making this movie,» DuVernay said at a meeting with the press last week.

«It was a close call,» John Williams, president of the San Francisco Fed, said on the weekend, referring to the Fed's contentious decision to leave the benchmark rate at zero last week.

«WTO 2.0,» he said in a speech at the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation summit in Manila last week.

Tim Kittelhake, managing director and COO of Nordsee One, said in an announcement at the end of last week that turbine installation had been completed within seven months.

Fox Networks Group Chairman Peter Rice said at the Milken Institute Global Conference last week that Fox was looking to buy Tribune Media because «having more scale and more control of distribution is important.»

Last week, the Communications Workers of America (CWA) and International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers that represent over 37,000 wireline employees said they had voted to go on strike, if needed, after their contract expired on Aug. 1 at midnight.

The recent price action has become rapid and emotional,» said Nicholas Ferres, investment director at Eastspring Investments, who reduced Japan stocks from overweight to neutral last week.

At the company's VMworld conference last week, VMware tweaked its cloud message again, pitching a new set of services, called Cloud Foundation, that the company says will help businesses run their applications across internal data centers or those run by VMware (vmw), VMware partners, or public clouds.

In Japan, bond yields face a demand squeeze, Yasunari Ueno, chief market economist at Mizuho Securities, said in a note last week.

After calculating and tallying up the maximum possible number of friends each person who downloaded it had at any given time, Facebook last week said the leak affected up to 87 million people, most of whom reside in the U.S.

Last week, at an on - stage event in Lisbon, Ohanian shrugged off a comparison of Reddit's upvoting mechanism to Twitter's hearts, which let a user denote a tweet is a «favorite,» saying: «We're not going to take too many lessons from Twitter,» he dismissed.

Amazon hired banks last week to arrange a series of fixed - income investor calls, a person with knowledge of the matter said at the time.

«It's hard to put your hand into a car's engine when the car is still running, but that's what disruptive innovation is — changing the way things are done before your business is backed into a corner,» said Williams, who spoke to a crowd of 800 business leaders at the World Innovation Forum in New York City last week.

Anecdotally, Jennifer Moss, co-founder and CMO of Plasticity, says clients have told them they've had more people crying at work in the last week than ever.

After four weeks he said, «You know, the people at my last job said I didn't listen, and these people say I don't listen and my wife of 38 years said I don't listen.»

«Suffice to say, I had serious misgivings, which I think have been confirmed by the fact that he pled guilty to a felony in federal court,» Christie said at a press conference last week.

However, PepsiCo did say that Nooyi «misspoke» at one point during the Times conference last week, when she characterized employees» response to Trump's surprise victory.

After Nooyi appeared at a New York Times conference last week, online boycotts began to float around alleging she said she «loathed» President - elect Donald Trump and «hated» his supporters.

Contradicting what he said last week at the Republican debate in Texas, Trumpcare would «let people slip through the cracks.»

«Like it or not, people want exposure to bitcoin,» CBOE CEO Edward Tilly said last week at the same conference where Dimon spoke.

In light of the deadly mass shootings in Florida last week, Caraway said he was seeking to put citizens first, and found hosting the convention at this time to be inappropriate.

Last week, Facebook held its annual Oculus developer conference at which Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg said the social network would give $ 250 million to companies and developers that build VR software in order to spur the creation of more compelling VR content.

«It is possible that the acquisition of COL is the first step in separating UTX into two entities: a Commercial Operation and a Defense and Aerospace Group,» Howard Rubel, equity analyst at Jefferies, said in a note last week as speculation about a deal being struck by the two companies increased.

«The value of the Canadian dollar went up too much, too fast over the last few weeks,» Luc Vallée, chief strategist at Laurentian Bank Securities, said on July 17, when the exchange rate was around 78 U.S. cents.

As we reported last week, Square filed a document with state regulators in Alaska saying Dorsey owned 28 percent of the company, which was valued at $ 1.6 billion in its last financing round.

Speaking at the Structure Security event in San Francisco, chief security officer Bob Lord said that a Motherboard report this summer, which described a hacker selling Yahoo accounts on the Internet, was not related to the massive hack the company disclosed last week.

More recently, J.Crew said last week that it would end on - call shifts nationwide and provide one week of advance notice about schedules to employees at all New York store locations.

«It represents two extremely polarized and separate networks that are not talking to each other,» said Gilad Lotan, chief data scientists at Betaworks, who presented the graphic last week at Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.

The development of crowdfunding, however, is powering another Renaissance of creators on a «much bigger scale,» said Ohanian speaking in New York City last week at the BBC Future World - Changing Ideas Summit earlier this month.

German Foreign Minister Frank - Walter Steinmeier said last week at a meeting of NATO foreign ministers in Turkey that he expected UN approval to be forthcoming, with Russia overcoming initial scepticism.

In what they said was an attempt to combat «speculation,» authorities last week forced over 200 supermarkets to slash prices, creating chaos as desperate Venezuelans leapt at the chance to buy cheaper food.

Speaking at the American Institute of CPAs last week, IRS Small Business / Self - Employed division head Faris Fink said the agency will be shifting its auditing focus from corporations to small - business partnerships, which have grown significantly in number over the last six years.

«Depleting reserves in order to protect the current level of USD / MYR could prove expensive as we head into Fed lift - off later this year,» analysts at Morgan Stanley said in a note last week, noting that the country has among the lowest coverage of external liabilities in Asia.

Sekulow's comments about the Secret Service garnered widespread attention, raising questions about whether Trump himself was present at the meeting he said he learned about only last week.

«I've been spending a fair amount of time in the last few weeks just looking at this and saying, as a small company, how can we hedge more effectively?

At Fast Company's Innovation Uncensored event last week in New York City, Paul English, the co-founder and CTO of popular travel site Kayak.com explained that when it comes to staffing his company with techies he prefers to hire folks with no travel industry experience who have shown exceptional ability in another area — say, Olympic - level athletics.

A legion of Canadian corporations recently acquired new CEOs: Guy Laurence joined Rogers (which owns this magazine) last December, one month after BlackBerry brought in turnaround artist John Chen to fix its ailing smartphone business; at TD Bank, Bharat Masrani spent a year (some might say his entire career) preparing to take over for Ed Clark, while across the street at CIBC, internal candidate Victor Dodig was given just six weeks before he replaced Gerald McCaughey.