Sentences with phrase «secretary knew this point»

«The home secretary knew this point was coming, yet appears to have turned a blind eye.

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The General Secretary of the NDC at the time, the late Dr Josiah Aryeh, at a press conference in Accra had said: «The identity or identities of the lenders, the intricate corporate maze known as the CNTCI, the conflicting and confusing addresses and telephone / fax numbers, the concealment of critical conditions of the agreement from the Loan Agreement and from the documentation submitted to Parliament, including the issue of the bank guarantee and the sole - sourcing undertakings, all point to one thing.

In a letter to Northern Ireland Secretary James Brokenshire seen by openDemocracy, Scottish National Party MP Martin Doherty - Hughes says that the public should know who funded the DUP's Brexit campaign — and points out that the Secretary of State has the power to publish all political donations since 1 January 2014 under legislation that is already on the statute books, but which has never been enacted.

Education Secretary Arne Duncan «still didn't know» at that point whether the lawmakers would emerge with a decent bill, Duncan told POLITICO.

If Americans know Education Secretary Arne Duncan for anything at this point, it would be as that guy who claimed last week that opposition to the Common Core national K - 12 educational standards sprang from «white suburban moms» who feared that tougher requirements would reveal their children to be as not «brilliant» as they thought.

The Vatican point man behind the workshops is Argentinian Bishop Marcelo Sánchez Sorondo, who came under fire in May for offering a Vatican platform for known proponents of abortion and population control like Jeffrey Sachs and UN General Secretary Ban Ki - moon, whom Sánchez invited to speak at the Vatican in an earlier conference on climate change.

Second, as the executive secretary of the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change points out, divesting from the fossil - fuel industry acknowledges the fact that the majority of known fossil - fuel reserves must be left unburned if we are to avoid catastrophic climate disruption.

No doubt the secretary will give a charming, yet uncomfortable defense of the budget, just like last year; lots of winking and silent pointing back to the White House, with some convenient ignorance thrown in for good measure.

[Aside: Former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld inspired plentiful mockery when he spoke of «known unknowns,» but his essential point was not that far removed from Socrates.]

Also known as secretaries, office assistants and even administrative assistants, office coordinators perform a variety of administrative tasks such as managing information between departments, acting as a point of contact for visitors and provide organizational support in general.