Sentences with phrase «standing as a national leader»

Ted Lempert, president of Children Now, said one reason they wanted to conduct their poll on the Common Core was to illustrate California's standing as the national leader.

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In a press release, Chancellor Jerry Falwell, Jr. described Beck as a «conservative leader» and «one of the few courageous voices in the national media standing up for the principles upon which this nation was founded.»

Consistent with the Hoover Report's recommendations that the United States had to reconsider «long - standing American concepts of fair play» and «learn to subvert, sabotage and destroy our enemies,» the shadow government built alliances between U.S. government officials, the Mafia, and international drug cartels; assassinated many thousands of civilians in Southeast Asia; carried out or attempted assassination of foreign leaders; trained death squads and secret police forces; worked to shore up unpopular dictators like the Shah of Iran and the Somoza dictatorship in prerevolutionary Nicaragua; worked to destabilize «unfriendly» governments such as Allende in Chile and the Sandinistas in Nicaragua; cooperated with the Colombian drug cartel to plot the assassination of the former U.S. ambassador to Costa Rica, Lewis Tambs, with the intention of justifying a U.S. invasion of Nicaragua by blaming his death on the Sandinistas; contracted with the Reagan administration and the National Security Council to find ways of circumventing a congressional ban prohibiting aid to the contras, including the trading of arms to Iran in exchange for hostages and money for the contras; illegally shipped weapons from the United States to the contras and allowed returning planes to use the same protected flight paths to transport drugs into the United States; 11 targeted the U.S. people for disinformation campaigns; and helped prepare contingency plans for declaring a form of martial law in the United States that would have formally suspended constitutional freedoms.

Fidel Castro, in contrast, admired the General as a national liberator, in the Bolivarian tradition (and also for standing up to the Americans), while the Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat celebrated him as the defender of his people against military occupation.

In an interview on «The John Gambling Show» on AM 970 The Answer that aired on Tuesday, Patric J. Lynch, president of the PBA, discussed the failure of local and national leaders to stand up for police officers, as well as the need for New York City to pay its police officers a competitive wage.

Alex Salmond today said he would be standing down as Scotland's First Minister and Scottish National Party leader after voters in Scotland rejected independence in an historic referendum.

The National Republican Congressional Committee (NRCC) today released the following joint statement from House Republican Leader John Boehner, House Republican Whip Eric Cantor, and NRCC Chairman Pete Sessions regarding the the special election in New York's 23rd Congressional District: «As the House stands on the cusp of the forthcoming vote on a trillion - dollar healthcare reform measure, it is vital that we unify behind a candidate that will support reining in massive government spending and work with Republicans in Congress to restore fiscal sanity and propose thoughtful measures to get our nation's economy on the right track.

In a statement, Mr Farage confirmed he intended to follow through with his pledge: «I'm a man of my word, I don't break my word, so I shall be writing to the Ukip National Executive [Committee] in a few minutes saying that I am standing down as leader of Ukip.»

The election followed the announcement by Iain Gray that he would stand down as leader in the autumn of 2011 following the party's heavy defeat to the Scottish National Party in May's Scottish Parliament general election.

Following a lengthy and distinguished career as a public school leader, Deborah's standing as a national and international education leader has only grown since she came to HGSE,» McCartney said in an email to the HGSE community.»

There are many talented and dedicated leaders in districts across the country working on family outreach, but part of what makes Crain stand out is her ability to take high - concept ideas — such as home visiting or parent collaboration, for instance, and translate them into real action, says Karen Mapp, a senior lecturer at Harvard University and a national expert on parent engagement.

«As a long - standing national leader on shared renewables, IREC views the formation of the Coalition for Community Solar Access as an important step to continued and enhanced market maturitAs a long - standing national leader on shared renewables, IREC views the formation of the Coalition for Community Solar Access as an important step to continued and enhanced market maturitas an important step to continued and enhanced market maturity.

Wu, who is currently a member of National People's Congress Standing Committee and a vice-chairperson of the Financial and Economic Affairs Committee, made her remarks as keynote speaker at the Sanya International Financial Forum, a mainstream event featuring political and business leaders.

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To preserve America's global standing as well as advance our national interests, U.S. leaders must serve as fierce advocates for human rights, which is why Planned Parenthood remains wary of Rex Tillerson, who during the course of his hearing failed to acknowledge known human rights abuses conducted by foreign governments over the years.