Sentences with phrase «said the committee likes»

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Poloz was at his sunniest when he testified recently to the finance committee in Ottawa — «We don't believe we're in a bubble,» he told the assembled MPs, saying he sees no signs of the speculative activity that typically characterizes a bubble, like people buying multiple houses to flip them.

When you give the job of crafting your mission statement to a committee, you end up with boring, multi-syllabic paragraphs that say a lot about nothing, much like the one from Apple.

But Andrei Sulzenko, a fellow at University of Calgary's School of Public Policy, who has worked on and studied expert - advice panels like the Jenkins committee, says any proposal that demands a «machinery of government» change is bound to meet stiff resistance.

Technology blogger Gayle Laakmann McDowell served on Google's hiring committee for three years, and she says that Google now prohibits many of the sorts of questions listed on the jacket of Poundstone's book (gems like «How would you weigh your head?»

«The committee would like to the maximum extent possible to rely on variations on our short - term rate,» Yellen said.

«The (Fed policy - setting) committee needs to make policy choices that will lead to more great years like 2014,» Minneapolis Fed President Narayana Kocherlakota said in remarks prepared for delivery in Helena, Montana, citing the dramatic improvement in the U.S. labor market last year.

«They thought it was a little daunting but they liked it because they knew that at least they would be able to get in front of the admissions committee virtually,» she says.

«We've reduced our discretionary spending over the last seven or eight years an incredible amount,» said House Appropriations Committee Chairman Rodney Frelinghuysen, R - N.J. «Maybe some people don't like those agencies, but it's been pretty difficult for them to meet their mandate.»

Cultural fit is admissions committees» biggest criterion, and the only way to get it right is to visit each campus in person, Hofmeister says, and focus on getting into the one «where you like the people.»

Adding insult, the receiver kept referring to their representatives as «the ad hoc committee» — «like we don't know what we're doing,» Hansen says.

said Friday that his committee intends to hold a hearing on the historic data breach, which cybersecurity experts said dwarf other high - profile security incidents affecting companies like Yahoo (yhoo) and Sony Pictures Entertainment.

«We've heard a lot today about how smaller banks are being smothered by unnecessary regulation, supposedly because of Dodd - Frank rules, like the new mortgage rules that went into effect in the first quarter of 2014,» she said during the second Senate Banking Committee hearing this week on regulatory relief for small banks and credit unions.

In response, lawmakers like Senator Mark Warner of Virginia, the top Democrat on the intelligence committee, said that although Facebook's revelation was a good first step, «I'm disappointed it's taken 10 months of raising this issue before they've become much more transparent.»

«There is a technical term economists like to use for behavior like this,» said Edward Kleinbard, a law professor at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles and a former staff director at the Congressional Joint Committee on Taxation.

In questioning before the House of Representatives Committee on Energy and Commerce today, Mark Zuckerberg said that his personal Facebook data was harvested as part of the sweep of personal data that was used by third parties like Cambridge Analytica.

Meadows said Thursday he would like a measure that would index the debt limit to growth in the economy; another conservative leader, Rep. Mark Walker (N.C.) of the Republican Study Committee, said this week that he would support efforts to constrain Medicaid spending.

«There is much to like about it,» Representative Kevin Brady, Republican of Texas and chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, said of the draft letter.

Cuonzo: It almost seems like the committee says November and December are more important than March.

«Spurs fans won't like me saying it, but I was England manager when he came to England and David Dein was on the committee.

Also, at Chelsea, where the manager gets almost no say in transfers, in his second stint Mourinho's the manager who couldn't figure out what to do with Kevin de Bruyne and Mo Salah — he was like Rodgers when the transfer committee gave him toys he didn't like freezing them out until the club had to ship them out.

«If the committee is grading each of your non-conference opponents, you need those games against BYU and schools like ECU, Houston, and Tulsa,» Ausberry said.

This was the Welcoming Committee of Natalya, Carmella, and Tamina securing a victory just like they said they would, and Becky ended up taking the L.

Lord Sebastian Coe, president of the IAAF, described the event as «one of the most successful of all time» and continued by saying: «I'd like to thank the organising committee, Birmingham City Council, the athletes and the fans — who fought through pretty extraordinary weather conditions to be here.»

«We didn't feel like there was a different way to do checking or a safer way to do checking,» says Dr. Steven J. Anderson, chairman of the AAP committee that issued the policy statement.

«We would like nothing better than to stand shoulder to shoulder with you at a (City) Council meeting and say we are together on this,» Scott McKibbin, joint commission and Frontier Park Committee member told the group, which met at the Naper Boulevard Library.

Public accounts committee (PAC) chairman Edward Leigh said the Ministry of Defence (MoD) negotiated «like an innocent at a table of cardsharps» when it sold Qinetiq to US firm Carlyle for # 374 million in 2003.

«I would like to thank the Rochester Business Alliance Board of Directors, executive committee, and search committee for their confidence and for providing me with this outstanding opportunity,» Duffy said in a statement this morning.

And when I talk with professional political fundraisers at groups like the Democratic National Committee or the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, they say that they CA N'T send too many emails — any message they DO N'T send leaves money on the floor.

In response to the report the Department for Transport said it is the role of the Public Accounts Committee to ask questions of major projects like High Speed 2 and that it welcomed the scrutiny.

«He [Amidu] has not been sacked from the party... we don't sack people like the way Afoko and others were sacked... no letter calling for his sack has come to the disciplinary committee,» he said.

The Commons» Scottish affairs committee said evidence from Unite suggested claims of blacklisting of employees worried by issues like health and safety and their employment rights required rapid investigation.

Multiple White House aides said Hicks's decision to leave was unrelated to her appearance before the House committee, insisting she told a small group of people in the days before the session that she had planned to resign, partly because she never liked Washington and chose not to try to pretend to.

NY - LEAD has so far floated no proposals to curb the power of so - called independent expenditure groups like, say, the Committee to Save NY — the pro-Cuomo entity formed by business interests that spent about $ 10 million last year to bolster key aspects of the governor's agenda and is gearing up for another push this year.

«The hospital industry has never liked the Health Department looking over their shoulder,» said Assembly Health Committee Chairman Richard Gottfried, who is fighting to get the audit funds restored.

Iowa Democratic Party Chairman Troy Price was in Las Vegas last week for the Democratic National Committee's fall meeting and said Democrats can not take Midwestern states like Iowa for granted.

«I'm never like that outside a courtroom or a committee hearing room,» Gowdy said.

In a brief telephone interview this afternoon, Conservative Party Chairman Mike Long went one step further, saying that while public campaign finance is not currently a line - in - the - sand issue like same - sex marriage, he may revisit that question with executive committee members in the coming weeks.

Committee member Irving Like said the state requiring an elected board of directors would be a good start.

Former county legislature chairman Dan Alfonso liked to say that the work of the legislature is done in committee, so in that sense, the committee assignments handed out by newly - minted legislature Chairman Ken Ronk last week bear scrutiny.

Councilwoman Vanessa Gibson, chairwoman of the Committee on Public Safety, said that it was troubling that the colorful packaging of the drug looked like candy, had cartoon characters on the cover and came with names such as «Scooby Snax.»

«Generally what happened was somebody said we have a donor who would like to help Ted,» said Dave Garretson, chairman of the Monroe County Democratic Committee at the time.

Issa would like Obama's cooperation, says Kurt Bardella, spokesman for the ranking Republican on the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee.

«After executive session, we would like to report that the decision on the position for permanent president of Nassau Community College was not reached,» said trustee Arnold Drucker, co-chairman of the search committee after the trustees returned to the public session at their board meeting.

Saying that a compromise could not be reached shortly after 3 p.m., Democratic Rep. Toni Walker of New Haven announced, «At this point, I would like to adjourn the appropriations committee.»

Commenting on his dismissal as the then Chairman of the Confiscated Vehicles Committee, Mr. Carl Wilson said he was hounded out by some elements in the NDC who did not like him, and that the then President, Atta Mills, did not sanction the dismissal.

Linda Belfer, a longtime Gateway Plaza resident and chairwoman of CB1's Battery Park City Committee, said she likes that the Authority gives the community a say in decisions about the neighborhood, like the selection of an operator for the new community center on North End Avenue.

NationBuilder co-founder Joe Green says that the company is having productive conversations about those features with Democrats in other types of organizations, like the caucus committees that seek to achieve majorities in state legislatures by bringing in support for key candidates.

«We had someone go over there and talk to the Canal Fest workers and said «You have to take it down, it's only fair,» and then it seems like they put them back up,» said Austin Tylec with the North Tonawanda Democratic Committee.

David Dukler professed a «passion for bicycling,» saying that he was involved in New Paltz's committee that is studying options for creating bikeways and would like to see the same sort of effort get underway in Gardiner.

The choices, said committee Chairman Rich Gerentine at last week's legislature meeting, were to do nothing, thereby costing the county something like $ 2 million a month in sales tax revenues, or this cockamamie scheme.