Sentences with phrase «than a secretary at»

Fact: Vince Tabone was nothing more than a secretary at the EDC, pushing papers and sending out press releases yet he takes credit for job creation that he had no part in.

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Less than a month after the Jan. 20 luncheon, the first lady announced she had hired Niceta Lloyd to fill one of the most coveted behind - the - scenes roles at the White House: social secretary.

The candidate claimed that by keeping interest rates at the same level, she is «doing political things» and «being more political than Secretary Clinton.»

Ryan Williams, former deputy national press secretary for Romney's presidential campaign and senior vice president of communications at FP1 Strategies, said he believed some conservative pundits were «just drawn to Trump's style more than policies.»

A leaked audio recording of Theresa May speaking at Goldman Sachs in May — before the referendum and before she became prime minister — features the then - home secretary saying: «If we were not in Europe, I think there would be firms and companies who would be looking to say, do they need to develop a mainland Europe presence rather than a UK presence?»

Though the FBI was unable to uncover any of the devices, the report did not find that she used more than one device at a time while secretary of state.

Notice of any proposal that a shareholder intends to present at the 2015 annual meeting of shareholders, but does not intend to have included in the Company's proxy statement and form of proxy relating to the 2015 annual meeting of shareholders, as well as any director nominations, must be delivered to the Company's Secretary by mail at 1 Infinite Loop, MS: 301 - 4GC, Cupertino, California 95014, or by email at [email protected], not earlier than the close of business on October 31, 2014 and not later than the close of business on November 30, 2014.

This new initiative was announced by Ms Low Yen Ling, Senior Parliamentary Secretary for Ministry of Trade and Industry and Ministry of Education, at the 2018 World Intellectual Property Day Event held in April which saw more than 200 participants from the creative and innovation community gather to celebrate World IP Day alongside 191 member states across the world.

Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross plans to ask Congress for a major increase in funding Thursday to salvage the 2020 Census, a program beset by cost overruns, poor preparation and a population of Americans who are less likely than at any point in recent history to self - report their existence to the...

Once, the First Secretary of the Regional Communist Party insisted that the «black beetles» vote in town rather than at the monastery as a way of teaching «the atavistic deviant non-working-class element of society» a lesson.

Veteran analyst of the press (and former presidential press secretary), Bill Moyers, considering a classic moment of media failure, concluded: «The disgraceful press reaction to Colin Powell's presentation at the United Nations [on February 5, 2003] seems like something out of Monty Python, with one key British report cited by Powell being nothing more than a student's thesis, downloaded from the Web — with the student later threatening to charge U.S. officials with «plagiarism.»»

Australian Workers Union NSW state secretary Russ Collison was furious at the government, rather than the company.

The International Secretary General of MSF, Oberreit, illustrated this method when, at the same time as the tweet was issued about «victims of EU policies», he called on European governments to change their priorities: «rather than maximising the number of people they can push back, they must maximise the number they welcome and protect.»

He said: «They have a leader who will not sing the national anthem, a shadow chancellor who seems to admire the IRA more than he does the British Army, a shadow foreign secretary who sneers at the English flag and a shadow home secretary who seems to advocate unlimited immigration.

Other than this, identifying a direction has revolved around looking at the backgrounds, characters and objectives of the new leaders, in particular Mr Xi, and to a lesser extent, Li Keqiang, the Party secretary.

«Everybody knows there's real pressure on school places at the moment, and the secretary of state for education knows better than most.

The home secretary's new «extremism disruption orders», unveiled at the 2014 Conservative party conference, look to tackle the «full spectrum of extremism», targeting a wider group of individuals than those falling under the 2006 Racial and Religious Hatred Act.

The changes, announced by Finance Secretary John Swinney in the Scottish Parliament today, mean that the tax, which will apply from 1 April 2015, will be lower for those buying properties at average Scottish prices than initially proposed in the Draft Budget 2015 - 16 and also lower than in the rest of the UK.

Mayor Michael Bloomberg criticized U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius for making the morning - after pill unavailable to women younger than 17 at a LaGuardia Community College event Monday morning.

Frank Mauro, executive director emeritus of the Fiscal Policy Institute and a onetime secretary of the Assembly Ways and Means Committee, argued against Proposal One, writing at the time that it would have made the state budget process «even more of a mess than it has been in many recent years.»

*** One suspects another clash of the PM's inner circle is looming after the education secretary said «teachers should definitely be paid more than they are at the moment».

Speaking at an event in London, shadow work and pension secretary Liam Byrne argued that many of the government's planned welfare cuts will cost more than they save.

While I've not done a comprehensive review of all 2014 races, I did take a look at the Kentucky Senate campaign, and my analysis shows that Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell has outspent his challenger, Secretary of State Alison Lundergan Grimes, on digital by more than three - to - one as of the June 30, 2014 campaign finance reports.

* David Davis, the former shadow home secretary, spent more than # 10,000 of taxpayers» money on home renovations and furnishings, including a new # 5,700 portico at his home in Yorkshire.

«I was the chief secretary to the Treasury who did the last spending review of the last Labour government [in 2007] and my instructions from [chancellor] Alistair Darling were to settle government departments at around 1 % -1.5 % — lower than overall growth in the economy,» he says.

And do party members believe that Andy Burnham, secretary of state for health at the time of Mid Staffs, is the candidate most able to cut through Tory attacks and persuade voters that he, rather than David Cameron, or whoever replaces him, should be prime minister of Britain?

While Democrats outnumber Republicans by more than 2.5 million statewide, outside the New York City area, the two parties are almost at parity, according to the latest statistics from the state Secretary of State's office.

Hilary Benn, shadow communities and local government secretary, told the Ipsos MORI event at the Labour party conference last year that the coalition has made it difficult for Labour to be heard as the media focussed on coalition differences rather than what Labour's view is.

At first glance, new business secretary Sajid Javid's instincts look much more free - market than his predecessor Vince Cable.

Shadow health secretary Andrew Lansley claimed the average length of hospital stays fell in the early 1990s quicker than at any time under the present Labour government.

Mr Brown said his new health secretary would look at out - of - hours care, but seemed to imply this would focus on providing convenient services rather than the specific issues raised by the report.

The super PAC backing Clinton raised $ 4.9 million last month and had more than $ 44 million left to spend at the end of the month, putting the former secretary of state in the strongest financial position of any candidate in either party.

At some point the secretary of state's refusal to listen to evidence and personal attacks on his critics must be considered more than personal failings.

President Trump's next nominee for Labor Secretary must be committed to protecting workers» rights, rather than seeking to undermine them at every turn.

«At the moment, students who achieve better results than expected have to defer their application for a year or settle for a place at a less prestigious university,» said general secretary Martin WarAt the moment, students who achieve better results than expected have to defer their application for a year or settle for a place at a less prestigious university,» said general secretary Martin Warat a less prestigious university,» said general secretary Martin Ward.

A reclusive secretary and bookkeeper with no personal ties to either Canisius College or D'Youville College set aside most of her more than $ 2 million worth of savings to pay for scholarships at the two institutions after her death last May at the age of 92.

«Seven secretaries of state, all in major departments, have been in post longer than their permanent secretaries, changing the balance of power at the top.»

In a joint letter to The Times, the general secretaries of the NUT, NASUWT, ATL and of UNISON, warned the Education Secretary that he «ignores at his peril» the views of more than 800,000 teachers and support staff.

«We received a clear legal opinion from Tim Owen QC and Julian Knowles, the barristers at Matrix Chambers specialising in human rights and extradition law, that the scope for the exercise of discretion by the home secretary is greater than you believe,» Keith Vaz, chairman of the committee, wrote.

[168] In a January 2015 written statement, Defence Secretary Michael Fallon reported that» All Vanguard Class SSBNs on continuous at - sea deterrent patrol now carry 40 nuclear warheads and no more than eight operational missiles».

Labour MP Pat Glass - who was appointed shadow education secretary less than 24 hours ago - has said she will be stepping down as an MP at the next election.

Following a shooting at a Florida high school that left more than a dozen dead, Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos said Thursday that Congress should hold hearings on school shootings.

Cuomo and his delegation of more than a dozen officials, which included New York's attorney general, its comptroller and its secretary of state, spoke Tuesday at a public round table at the University of Puerto Rico's medical sciences campus in the capital of San Juan.

International trade secretary Liam Fox also sparked fury last year by suggesting businesses were «too lazy and too fat», with many bosses choosing to spend time on the golf course rather than at work.

Former foreign secretary David Miliband warned yesterday that the party «is further from power than at any stage in my lifetime».

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo was flying in a state plane at more than 10,000 feet in July when the oxygen masks fell from the ceiling and «swung ominously» while the plane descended, said John PL Kelly, the governor's press secretary at the time, who was aboard.

Political parties whose principal candidate received less than 5 percent of the total votes cast for all candidates for Michigan Secretary of State at the most recent general election are considered non-major parties and can not nominate their candidates by primary election.

State Health Commissioner Howard Zucker, Deputy Secretary of Health Paul Francis and Deputy Commissioner Dan Sheppard spent more than two hours listening to local residents at I.S. 392, and assuring them no decisions would be made without first weighing their concerns.

As Tory MPs showed their support for the former education secretary by giving him a warm welcome at meeting of the backbench 1922 Committee, Vine tweeted a link to the article which described her husband as a more remarkable reformer than Margaret Thatcher.

William Hague's response to Petraeus» success was bland at its best and the Shadow Foreign Secretary was too ready to credit Sunni leaders rather than American policy for the halving of violence despite the connectedness of the two developments.