Sentences with phrase «sitting on committees»

I am certainly no expert and gave up sitting on committees, even so I enjoyed the repartee, because it often is the old - boy's club.

Sitting on these committees can require a lot of extra time and effort, but give the teachers a voice in what is happening within their school.

I've long thought that if we did more to recognize and encourage five - tool scholars, we might induce more scholars to spend more time doing things other than publishing opaque articles in niche journals, sitting on committees, and serving in professional associations.

It's just so much more fun than sitting around writing treatises or sitting on committees.

Finally, the report recommends compulsory diversity and equality training for all principal investigators, supervisors, and scientists sitting on committees for recruitment, promotion, and grant review.

While members have to sell 500 boxes of cookies to sit on the committee, the boardroom meeting is not just about their personal sales: The participating scouts are asked to collaborate and come up with ways to help the organization as a whole.

The lack of any apparent pattern to the decisions seems to reveal that the people who sit on the committee that issues sexual - misconduct rulings don't seem to know how and when to hand down punishment.

«We're always bumping into our bankers at local community functions, and we sit on committees together at different local business organizations.

I sat on a committee of Liberal backbenchers when the whole bank merger issue arose and when the banks themselves, the CEOs of the banks, wanted to expand into the U.S. and merge with a lot of the American banks, which would have caused us the same kind of turmoil that befell the Americans.

The settlement will see the creation of a $ 200,000 fund for helping young Philly entrepreneurs — Robinson and Nelson will sit on the committee that awards the grants.

CEO Arne Sorenson heads Marriott's Global Diversity and Inclusion Council, which is comprised of all continent presidents as well as other company leaders who also sit on the Committee for Excellence.

It is about finding the right experts to sit on the committees that will bring the greatest benefit to Canada.

He has sat on committees that have, over time, covered up many abuse cases, and ignored a bunch.

Yet the Congressional Military Industrial Complex a cadre of congress people who chair and sit on committees that authorize military spending have bankrupted the nation and in the wake of 9 - 11 created a host of liberty robbing laws that are the anti-thesis to what our founders wanted.

More so for Rubio who is on the science committee; or do you think it is acceptable that someone who doesn't believe in science sits on that committee and if you do what would be the purpose — it can only be as an obstruction.

As long as a man remains a pastor in all his relationships, whether preaching, or calling or sitting on a committee, he will find that all of these things can become means of ministry.

«As one of the largest franchisees, I am fortunate that I get to sit on committees and help decide what works and vet out and test proposed ideas, projects and menu items.»

He was asked to provide menu ideas, sit on committees, etc..

I sit on committees in all the three Dublin maternity hospitals and also on the National Home Birth Committee.

The report also called for reform of the Joint Intelligence Committee (JIC) to allow an expert on «home - grown'terrorism to sit on the Committee.

Lib Dem MP Nick Harvey, who sat on the committee which last year reviewed MPs» expenses, told the BBC Mr Brown should have waited for the review rather than revealing proposals «for some sort of political advantage the day before the budget».

Theresa May has just told the Commons that she and David Cameron were recommending that Conservative MPs do not sit on the committee because it «blatantly flies in the face» of the desire the Speaker outlined last week as to its nature.

Brendan Barber, secretary general of the TUC, said the «revelations of the mounting cost of paying for GPs to sit on committees rather than look after their patients, even before the bill becomes law, provide even more reasons why parliament should vote it down».

Kozachenko put a call into Assemblywoman Ellen Jaffee, who sits on the Committee for Families and Children, and is waiting for a call back.

I know this because I sat on a committee of MPs who interrogated them in detail.

Two senators who do sit on the committee — senators Marty Golden of Brooklyn and Kemp Hannon of Long Island — both said they would vote no on the measure.

Legislative Press Release from Assemblyman James Skoufis Assemblyman James Skoufis (D - Woodbury), who sits on the Committee on Consumer Affairs and Protection, warned homeowners of a new scam falsely requiring a fee in order to apply for the School Tax Relief (STAR) property tax exemption.

Rep. Elise Stefanik (R - Willsboro) does not sit on the committee, but said the embattled chief should resign.

This means who sits on those committees really matters.

One of those members looks to be Bill Cash, who's sat on the Committee for 26 years.

Dennis Skinner, who sits on the committee, compared the 172 Labour MPs who backed a no confidence motion in Mr Corbyn to the Union of Democratic Mineworkers (UDM), who he said supported Margaret Thatcher during the miners» strike of the Eighties.

Adrian Sanders, a Liberal Democrat MP who also sat on the committee, told Channel 4 News the its chair John Whittingdale had hinted to colleagues of the personal repercussions of pursuing the newspaper group.

Soon, I was asked to sit on committees that advised both the minister of health and the prime minister.

The IOM panel took note of this as well and recommended that ICOC members should not be allowed to sit on the committees that review grants.

Dad was a chemistry professor at Saint Olaf College in Minnesota, then Oxford College in Minnesota, and a very active member of the American Chemical Society education committee, where he sat on the committee with Linus Pauling, who had authored a very phenomenally important textbook of chemistry.

If you are interested in sitting on this committee, please send an email to me by Wednesday as I'd like to hold the first meeting prior to spring break.

National Testing Push Yielded Few Learning Advances: Report (VIDEO) Huffington Post, May 30, 2011 «Daniel Koretz, a professor at Harvard's school of education who sat on the committee that produced the report, discusses skills needed in the 21st century.»

She also holds a faculty appointment and teaches in the School Leadership Program; sits on the Committee on Schooling; and chairs the cross-role cohort program, which matches HGSE students with multidisciplinary opportunities in three Boston public schools.

Many of those had gone on to act as mentors to younger students and some now sit on the committee for the event.

The project got off the ground when Boston's superintendent of schools, Thomas W. Payzant, M.A.T.» 63, C.A.S.» 66, Ed.D.» 68 — who sat on the committee that designed SERP — agreed to have six of the city's middle schools serve as field sites for Snow and researchers from other universities in Boston and Cambridge.

«It meanders and messes around with all these great looking strategies that don't always work,» says Wurman, who sat on the committee that reviewed the Common Core State Standards in California.

My passion was noticed by the administrative team, and soon I was asked to sit on committees, school - wide planning teams, and to be a teacher team leader.

I have sat on committees both as a staff member and a parent where we dealt with all the «exceptionalities».

The contributions of students are minimized or tokenized by adults by asking students to «rubber stamp» ideas developed by adults, or by inviting students to sit on committees without real power or responsibility.

She has been a jury member for the B.C. Book Prize, and sat on committees for the Canadian Children's Book Centre's Best Books for Kids and the American Library Association's Odyssey Award.

Academics and the like - minded overwhelmingly predominate despite Dwight McInvaill's presence, and not a single school librarian sits on the committee even though school libraries are 98,460 of the 119,729 in the U.S..

Professors Fama and French sit on that committee, in a consultancy role, along with many of the firm's senior executives.

Top consideration if you have major press accolades or have sat on committee boards.

He also sits on the committee of the Grahamstown Festival.

In the end, nearly a third of the Republicans who sat on the committee in 2006 — seven of 24, including Boehlert — were defeated or retired over the next six years in the wake of primary challenges from the right.