Sentences with phrase «said the group wanted»

SCF executive director Matt Hoskins says his group wants Republicans to control the Senate, but «it needs to be a conservative majority or things won't change.

Fred Featherstone, a 26 - year resident who was on the citizens committee, said the group wanted the center to have broad appeal, a place where mothers could work out while their children were in class.

He said the group wanted the party hierarchy in Accra to understand that «the thing dem want do, ego bring wahala for north» - to wit — their action would have serious repercussions for the party in the northern parts of Ghana.

Astorino rebuffed the request — which was made by an unidentified RGA staffer who said the group wanted to «avoid conflict» at the meeting — and went ahead with an overnight trip to the St. Regis Hotel in Aspen to meet with donors and other governors, GOP sources familiar with incident told CNN.

But most of all, Biryla says the group wants to make sure some things don't happen, like Governor Cuomo's proposal to phase in a minimum wage hike to $ 15 an hour.

Chairman John Yagielski says the groups want an additional $ 1.9 billion for the 2015 - 16 school year.

OSA's James Parr says the group wanted to show that it was possible to create an open source design that people could build cheaply at home and use to do scientifically valuable observations.

Evan Stone, the co-founder and co-CEO of a teacher group called Educators 4 Excellence, said his group wanted the city to take the time needed for a smooth transition.

The activist, Jaguar Financial Corporation, says the group want a sale of the company as a whole or in parts, and the replacement of co-CEOs Mike Lazaridis and Jim Balsillie, RIMM's two largest shareholders.

U.S. Representative Mark Meadows said the group wants to see health insurance coverage waivers related to community rating protections with the exception of gender, essential health benefits and guaranteed issue.

Diane L. Houk of Emery Celli Brinckerhoff & Abady, a lawyer who worked on the lawsuit, said the groups want the court to require Facebook to take action.

Not exact matches

«We wanted to be the first student group in the world to launch a rocket into space,» Ellis says of the friends» time at the University of Southern California.

Greens and Chevron set to face off over Gorgon vision Chevron is set for fresh battles with WA's powerful green lobby group after the US giant said yesterday it wanted to nearly double the size of the $ 50 billion Gorgon liquefied natural gas project on environmentally fragile Barrow Island off WA's North West.

In a statement to Fortune, Switzerland's Swatch Group didn't have much to say about why politicians and executives might want to wear the budget accessory.

The Syrian President says he wants to defeat the militant group, but he's still buying their energy.

For example, if you have different business units, such as a manufacturing facility and a sales and research facility, you may want to have the core handbook be the same for each group of employees but you may want to include specific policies for specific business units, such as if one business unit has a union or hourly - paid employees, Cooper says.

In March, Iger vigorously defended his presence on the advisory group, quoting from the musical «Hamilton» and saying he wanted to be «in the room where it happens» so he could express his opinions on issues important to his company.

«They came to us as a group and said, «Each of us has an item of clothing that we want but can't find anywhere.

«We are going through the biggest wealth generation opportunity of the century, and people want to participate,» says Meltem Demirors, director of development at Digital Currency Group.

«I don't want to tell the family,» he said when asked if he was planning to reveal his identity and cookie collection to members of the group chat.

«A typical party line is that you want very smart institutional investors from typical VC groups,» says Daniel Oliver, co-founder of Voxel8.

If you're close to retirement, however, you do want to have more conservative investments, said Winnie Sun, founder of Sun Group Wealth Partners in Irvine, California.

The investors want to eliminate the «valley of death» between the early promise of a new energy concept and commercializing it into a viable technology, which «neither government funding nor conventional private investment can bridge,» the group said in a statement.

CBH Group will remain a non-distributing cooperative for the foreseeable future after a majority of its 4,100 members said they wanted to retain the current structure.

«The people of B.C. don't want our Pacific coast to be transformed into a export facility for dirty oil, no matter where the proposed pipeline runs,» says Ben West of the Wilderness Committee, an environmental group.

«Rand has always said that he wanted to be a leader on the message of the Republican Party, and that means talking about old ideas that were part of the party's original message, and introducing new ideas that might help the party broaden its appeal to groups that may have been left out of the conversation,» Doug Stafford, Paul's Senate chief of staff, told Business Insider.

«Commerce is going to be really big with us, and we want to show we can compete head - to - head with major commerce competitors,» said Squarespace's founder and CEO Anthony Casalena, a group that includes Weebly, Wix, Shopify and GoDaddy, all of which offer specialized commerce features for small businesses.

«Out of all the people we talked to, she had the most enthusiasm, the most resolve in terms of her vision for what she wanted the company to be, and she did the most research,» says Dan Gallo, president and CEO of Mentor Communications Group and one of the judges of the recent competition.

«We have a housing shortage, and a large group of people who don't want more housing — often people who already have secure housing, and who get richer if there is a shortage,» says Daniel Oleksiuk, a member of Abundant Housing Vancouver, an organization that advocates for changing zoning practices to build more multi-unit housing.

«My daughters, they'll want to talk to so and so (celebrity) and I'll say: «Watch this» and I'll text (trance group) Above and Beyond or I'll text Snoop Dogg and she'll say: «You kidding me?

The Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME) Group said last week that it wanted to start trading bitcoin futures — a move that appeared to give the cryptocurrency greater legitimacy, but that also prompted some to express fears over the implications of bitcoin derivatives, given the low level of regulation in the market.

Just over a third of young whites want to see the law repealed, making them more likely than those of other racial and ethnic groups to say so.

Trump has not yet set out a clear policy on Syria but has indicated he could cut U.S. support for insurgent groups and has said he wants to mend ties with Russia, whose President Vladimir Putin is Assad's strongest international ally.

In fact, research shows that 70 % of students want their universities to update their digital options, with 44 % of the same group saying they'd be happier with their university experience if they could engage with more digital resources.

He said he wanted the removal of the provision letting companies not report some payments to doctors, which consumer groups have complained encourages doctors to prescribe those companies» products.

There's still other things that can be done, but they don't want to be innovative,» says Angela Benton, CEO of NewME, an accelerator for entrepreneurs from underrepresented groups.

Blackstone Group CEO Stephen Schwarzman said the biggest risk to market valuations are geopolitical, and the very things that people don't want to focus on, like North Korea.

FRANKFURT, April 20 - PSA Group wants 3,700 job cuts at Opel in Germany by 2020 and a process of contract buyouts and early retirement has already resulted in a reduction of about 2,000 positions, Opel's works council chief said on Friday.

Meeting with leaders of various business interest groups at the White House, Trump said he wanted the House to pass a bill by Thanksgiving and final approval by the end of the year.

As a last resort, you might want to consider turning off the EMV capability of your new terminals from now through the holiday season, says Julie Conroy, research director for Aite Group.

The NDP may have been born in Saskatchewan, but at the federal level, the Conservatives are saying they're no different from any other Ottawa political group: they want what you've got, and if you vote for them, they'll take it.

Energy companies want to minimize leaking methane because it's the product they sell, said Kathleen Sgamma of the Western Energy Alliance, a trade group.

The CFPB said the proposal would give consumers «a day in court,» have a deterrent effect for companies wanting to avoid group lawsuits, and increase transparency.

The apps will be «lite» versions of standard Office programs that will be heavy on the features people want when they're working on the Internet, such as the ability to share documents, says Chris Bryant, Microsoft's Office group product manager.

«We don't want to be the next Silicon Valley,» said J.B. Pritzker, founder of the investment firm Pritzker Group, at the inaugural Inc. and CNBC iCONIC conference in the Windy City on Tuesday.

«We want to extend our group and kickstart this virtuous cycle of women helping women,» she says.

«We don't want competing groups,» he said.

Bolton's hawkish views could encourage Trump to do what he wants on North Korea and Iran, said Sherman, who is currently a non-resident senior fellow at Harvard's Kennedy School and a senior counselor at consultancy Albright Stonebridge Group.

«This is not the deal that we have wanted to see,» says John Arensmeyer, CEO of Small Business Majority, an advocacy group.

«The Marines Corps allowed us to make sure we could understand the worst - and best - case scenarios, take care of everyone else first, and accomplish the mission with minimum casualties,» says James Warren, founder of the Warren Financial Group, an investment - advisory firm in Kansas City, Mo. «Those are the same principles we consider when doing investment planning: How can we accomplish what we want to do with minimum risk in relationship to the return?»