Sentences with phrase «said it interviewed dozens»

Educational Justice Political Action Committee, which formed to «address the major disparities that exist in education funding and quality» citywide, said it interviewed dozens of Council candidates about their education stances before endorsing 13 of them.

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Emily Castor, director of transportation policy at Lyft, said in an interview the company had «a pipeline of dozens of public transit agencies» that are discussing partnerships with the ride service.

«The challenge that this administration has refused to take on is that there is a very real call in the west to defeat and destroy the threat from radical Islamic terrorism, whether it fights under the name of Al Quaeda [sic]... or Boko Haram or ISIS or any of the other dozens of groups that are founded on the central principle of the destruction of the West and the imposition of Sharia law,» Pompeo said in an October interview with the Wichita Eagle newspaper.

The challenge that this administration has refused to take on is that there is a very real call in the west to defeat and destroy the threat from radical Islamic terrorism, whether it fights under the name of Al Quaeda... or Boko Haram or ISIS or any of the other dozens of groups that are founded on the central principle of the destruction of the West and the imposition of Sharia law,» Pompeo said in an Oct. 17 interview with the Wichita Eagle.

«The committee has been briefed by intelligence agencies and we have interviewed dozens of experts on al - Shabaab,» the transcript said.

In conducting dozens of interviews, she has failed to find a single convert who traces her or his conversion to the books, When she asked the publisher for proof of its claim, she received copies of seven letters by writers who said they knew of someone else converted through reading.

U.S. Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand in a radio interview Thursday said it's up to Sen. Al Franken as to whether he should resign as he faces allegations of groping and unwanted sexual contact from a half - dozen women.

Bellone said he personally conducted more than 30 interviews of more than a dozen candidates — some in his office and others by phone and Skype.

And as I said over the course of a dozen or so interviews with TV and radio stations this morning, as transportation options get better, City employees should come in to work.

But some county legislators — as well as the dozen current and former CPS workers interviewed by Investigative Post — say the department's problems are far from over.

But seven of the dozen CPS workers interviewed by Investigative Post said they had worked on cases where that had happened.

More than a dozen state legislators, legislative officials and other insiders interviewed by the Daily News give credit to Preet Bharara for targeting Albany wrongdoing but are fuming over what they say is the powerful prosecutor's publicity seeking, tarring of the entire Legislature, and wading into governance issues far beyond the scope of his office.

Though few will say so publicly for fear of angering Cuomo, in interviews, close to a dozen people in and around New York politics registered their doubts that Foye would have sent such a harsh and extensive email, leaked early on, and continued to have had such an active role, without more contact with the governor's office.

Beginning on February 18, they said, they held more than eight meetings in which they conducted approximately a dozen interviews, including, in some instances, follow - up sessions with the same individual.

In an interview with STAT, he said he has used Watson for about two dozen patients.

«I know personally dozens of academic scientists... who have unanswered questions about the risk issues,» said Doug Gurian - Sherman, a senior scientist in the Food and Environment Program at the Union of Concerned Scientists, in an interview after the Lynas speech.

In recent months he got job interviews at a dozen hospitals to be a resident, he says.

In interviews this month, more than three dozen students, alumni and teachers said that large - scale cheating, like an episode in June when 71 juniors were caught exchanging answers to state Regents exams through text messages, was rare at Stuyvesant.

Over the course of two dozen interviews with a variety of education leaders, most agreed that the city's schools - while far from universally safe - are safer than they were a decade ago, but also say that the city isn't yet properly equipping schools to transform discipline policies.

It got me thinking about how we — players, critics, journalists — really struggle to appreciate that these games are created not just by the one or two people we see in a dozen pre-release interviews and profiles, but by dozens if not hundreds of people, each with some small say in what the final creative work will look like.

He says that he began not with images, but with interviews — of half a dozen Europeans and Americans in the arts and sciences, with the finished work their «proxy portraits.»

«I've always had this intimate relationship with drawing,» Mr. Ofili said in an interview at the Studio Museum, surveying dozens of watercolors that were about to be hung on the gallery walls.

For that October story, I interviewed two dozen Arctic hands, almost all of whom said there had to be a human element.

There were at least several dozen additional scientists in attendance, said one attendee, Stanley B. Goldenberg, a hurricane researcher for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration in Miami whom I've interviewed in the past on Atlantic hurricane patterns.

In interviews, more than half a dozen environmental economists and climate policy experts said yes.

At the request of The Associated Press, eight climate and biological scientists graded for scientific accuracy what a dozen top candidates said in debates, interviews and tweets, using a 0 to 100 scale.

Still, more than four dozen scientists, economists, engineers and entrepreneurs interviewed by The New York Times said that unless the search for abundant non-polluting energy sources and systems became far more aggressive, the world would probably face dangerous warming and international strife as nations with growing energy demands compete for increasingly inadequate resources.

Schwartz says he invests two to three hours per week on CELB, which «has led to dozens of interviews, new relationships, recognition from my peers (and adversaries) and yes, clients.»

Via the ABA Journal, a dozen law firm managers interviewed by the Legal Times (registration required) say that they do not plan to invest more money in minority recruitment and may in fact downsize some programs.

... [T] here are no obvious bilingual stars among women on the region's appeal courts (the most frequent source of Supreme Court judges) and in its law firms, more than a dozen legal observers in Atlantic Canada said in interviews.

«I've seen dozens of cases where very talented folks are making it to final rounds of interviews only to lose the spot at the end where references have been called and firms are still not owning up to the nature of the layoffs,» Bolzan said.