Sentences with phrase «speech at his department»

The former Conservative leader argued in a speech at his department that too many people are «parked» on inactive benefits.

President Trump vowed to «crack down» on New York and the roughly 300 other cities that protect undocumented immigrants — including Chicago, San Francisco, Newark and New Haven, Conn. — during a speech at Department of Homeland Security headquarters on Wednesday.

The administration put on a multi-day full - court press: highlighting apprenticeships at Monday's cabinet meeting; visiting a technical school on Tuesday; on Wednesday, a meeting with CEOs and then a major speech at the Department of Labor; finally a roundtable with governors on Thursday.

Not exact matches

He was referring to comments made by President Barack Obama in a Feb. 23 speech at AARP endorsing the Department of Labor's redraft of its rule to amend the definition of fiduciary under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act.

An energetic speech he delivered in 2016 at the Republican National Convention, at which Mr. Trump was nominated, prompted talk of Mr. Giuliani's being appointed secretary of state or, perhaps, of his leading the Department of Homeland Security.

A spokesman for the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) refused to confirm what would be in the Queen's speech - which sets out legislation for the coming year - but said ministers were looking at «all the options» on climate change.

As a longtime supporter of foreign assistance, [2] Kerry's speech jibes with his past arguments, while at the same time reflecting new, immediate concerns about State Department funding after the sequestration cuts.

New Education Secretary Ruth Kelly is preparing for her first speech since taking over at the Department for Education and Skills (DfES).

During the (long) ride back from the Tampa Bay Times Forum to the New York delegation's digs at the Clearwater Hilton last night, my colleague Errol Louis wondered aloud how Christie's speech measured up in the touting - the - nominee department to the stemwinder delivered by then - Sen.

At 12:30 p.m., state Department of Taxation and Finance Commissioner Jerry Boone provides highlights from Cuomo's State of the State speech, Fulton — Montgomery Community College, 2805 NY - 67, Johnstown.

At 10:15 a.m., during the New York Metropolitan Transportation Council's annual meeting, the US Transportation Department's policy undersecretary, Peter Rogoff, delivers a keynote speech to regional government and transportation officials before a roundtable discussion titled «Transportation in Transition: Technology and Innovation»; auditorium, Alexander Hamilton U.S. Custom House, One Bowling Green, near Battery Place and State Street, Manhattan.

During a speech at Baruch College, Ambassador Caroline Kennedy and State Department officials urged students in the United States to study abroad in an effort to better foreign relations and keep young Americans globally competitive.

But Davis is worried that her son Demetris» rapid progression will be stunted now that the Department of Education has announced plans for the school to lose three classrooms used for things such as speech therapy and occupational therapy in the 2014 school year to the expanding Success Academy Harlem 1 school at the building on 118th Street and Lenox Avenue.

Professor Mordechai Paldiel, Former Director of the Department of the Righteous at Yad Vashel, gave a very moving speech recognizing the Albanians of that horrific era for their dedication to saving the lives of the Jews of their nation and beyond.

In his first major policy speech as chancellor, given this morning at NYU, Dennis Walcott focused on the issues of middle schools, ticking off a panoply of problems in grade six through eight and acknowledging his department must do more to address them.

Since taking office May 12, Parks Department Commissioner Mitchell Silver has visited at least eight cities on four continents to deliver speeches and teach classes — but his globe - trotting isn't flying with some colleagues and community members.

Accused by Coalition colleague Nick Clegg of «outrageous untruths» and putting the lives of children at risk by her department's inactivity following her speech to the Tory Party conference in 2014.

«This opens a new door in identifying biological markers for dementia since we might consider using the brain's processing of speech sounds as a new way to detect the disease earlier,» says Dr. Claude Alain, the study's senior author and senior scientist at Baycrest's Rotman Research Institute (RRI) and professor at the University of Toronto's psychology department.

The study analyzed the medical records of 52 children diagnosed with EVA from the UH Rainbow Department of Otolaryngology, selecting records with both a computerized tomography (CT) scan for diagnosis and a median of five sets of audiogram test data to measure speech reception threshold, or the minimum intensity of decibels at which a patient can recognize half of spoken words, and the percent of words the patient recognized.

Instead it looks like at least some of the processes that cognitive psychologists and linguists have historically attributed to the application of rules may instead emerge from the association of speech sounds with words we already know,» says David Gow, PhD, of the MGH Department of Neurology.

Jin Kim Montclare, an associate professor in the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at New York University, gives the keynote speech to a packed house at PPPL's Young Women's Conference at Princeton University's Richardson Auditorium.

Jin Kim Montclare, an associate professor in the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at New York University, discussed her research to create artificial proteins that can be used to target anti-cancer drugs at specific regions of the body in her keynote speech at PPPL's Young Women's Conference at Princeton University's Richardson Auditorium.

This essay is adapted from an April 2003 speech delivered at a Harvard conference sponsored by the U.S. Department of Education's Office of Innovation and Improvement.

Shawn Briscoe is debate coach and adjunct professor in the Department of Communication and Discourse Studies at the University of Alaska Anchorage and coaches speech and debate at South Anchorage High School.

In a speech given at the U.S. Education Department, Peter Harf, the chief executive officer of the firm Joh.

Nevertheless, Undersecretary Gary L. Bauer said at a briefing shortly after Mr. Bennett's Sept. 26 speech in New York City that the Education Department would seek to «broaden the definition» of transitional bilingual education to give districts more leeway in the amount of native - language instruction they provide limited - English - proficient (lep) students.

Gary Evans and Lorraine Maxwell, both environmental psychologists in the Department of Design and Environmental Analysis in the College of Human Ecology at Cornell University, showed that children living and going to school in noisy areas have difficulty acquiring speech - recognition skills.

Seated among the HAA audience during Spence's speech was Kevin Jennings, assistant deputy secretary at the Department of Education and a 1985 graduate of Harvard College, who told an anecdote of his 10th Harvard reunion when he encountered a classmate who had achieved success in the corporate world but was dismayed that Jennings, a fellow Ivy League graduate, had spent the past decade as a teacher.

Social mobility has been the repeated focus of government speeches under both Theresa May's premiership and Justine Greening's leadership at the Department for Education.

The department recently held a symposium on January 26 entitled «Gem Talks» which was a continuation of topics Artist - in - Residence Iris Eichenberg addressed during her keynote speech at the Cooper Hewitt in New York City.

Rail: You said in the Cal commencement speech [History of Art Department 2002 Commencement Address at the University of California, Berkeley] that you are «nearly crazy about facts.»

She found herself having to defend fundamental democratic principles of free speech and activities associated with normal discourse such as «having a private meeting, conducting a workshop, publishing a report, or advocating that a public official take action» and underscored the importance of these activities in her own work at various NGOs and in academia — and as a staff member at the State Department.

The text of his speech is published at the BC Law student blog, Eagleionline (and also on the Justice Department Web site).

Lord Neuberger, President of the Supreme Court, alluded to this in his speech at the Legal Wales Conference 2014 on 10 October: «The academics debate whether it is conceivable that Parliament would enact a law which was so contrary to principle that the courts would ignore it — eg a law which prevents citizens from challenging any decision of a government department in the courts... I profoundly hope that it is an issue which never has to be tested, not least because, if it does, something will already have gone very wrong with our system of government.»

I teach seminars, provide in - house training to law firms and legal departments, and give keynote speeches at conventions and association meetings.

In a speech today at the Federalist Society's National Lawyers Convention, Senator Ted Cruz (R - Texas) attacked the Obama administration's record before the U.S. Supreme Court, characterizing the Justice Department's positions as «radical advocacy for unchecked federal authority.»

«Myths of Brexit» are circulating about the likely legal impact of Brexit on English law and the UK's role in international dispute resolution, Lord Justice Hamblen has warned, in a speech at the Brexit Conference organised by the Hong Kong Department of Justice.

Programmed all wireless communication devices for the Department of Defense use at the 50th anniversary of the Vietnam War Commemoration and I worked with the Department of Defense on site during the President's speech to make sure no one was tapping into the communication signal.

Larry had to present at the next weekly department head meeting in two days, but, if it is an impromptu speech, don't start with an apology.