Sentences with phrase «than the secretary of»

«The U.S. Secretary of State will be sitting more comfortably in his seat than the the Secretary of State of [today's] energy exporting countries,» Birol said.

President Donald Trump suggested he's smarter than Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, saying in an interview published Tuesday that if Tillerson did call him a moron, as reported, the two should «compare IQ tests.»

Governors know more about what works in prison than secretaries of state.

Frankly, this is a practical decision as I would rather have any living former president take over (assuming they are in good health and not suffering from dementia) in that situation than the Secretary of the Interior.

(4) The credit services organization's principal business address and the name and address of its agent, other than the Secretary of State, in the State of California, authorized to receive service of process.

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Since 1949, the only first - term Secretary of State who lasted less than three years was Alexander Haig, who held the role for 18 months under President Ronald Reagan.

The former secretary of state wrote that in Pennsylvania, her team had 120 more staffers on the ground than President Barack Obama did four years earlier and spent 211 % more on TV ads.

By its launch last September, the program's endowment had swelled to $ 435 million, securing contributions from more than 70 international corporations, and had gained the support of advisors such as former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger and former British Prime Minister Tony Blair.

Sen. Bernie Sanders, down in public polls by more than 20 points to Hillary Clinton in the state, stormed to an upset win over the former secretary of state.

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.

Just to recap, the press secretary went ballistic on Saturday, after numerous reports pointed out that Trump's inauguration ceremony in Washington drew much smaller crowds than the inauguration of his predecessor, Barack Obama.

«Only a wealth addict,» says Polk, «would earn hundreds of millions as a hedge - fund manager, and then lobby to maintain a tax loophole that gave him a lower tax rate than his secretary.»

This rule had an enemy no less powerful than the current US secretary of state and recent CEO of Exxon Mobil, Rex Tillerson.

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?»

When you owe more than $ 10,000 in taxes, the government will file a written claim to your property with the county clerk or secretary of state's office.

«Our country has a massive energy economy and we should absolutely wear it on our sleeves, rather than keep energy resources in the ground,» said Vincent DeVito, Counselor to the Secretary of Interior for Energy Policy.

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.

Rather than work through cumbersome existing processes, President Trump ordered Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross to study the national - security implications of steel dumping.

Our view: Full Senate should approve Mike Pompeo as secretary of state despite his hawkish outlook After more than two centuries, the list of cabinet nominees to be either rejected by the U.S. Senate or withdrawn from nomination is on the order of once...

«Rather than remedy its misconduct, China has chosen to harm our farmers and manufacturers,» Trump said in the statement, and he added that he's instructing the secretary of agriculture to take measures to protect farmers and other agricultural interests who might be ensnared by the Chinese tariffs.

Secretary of commerce Designate Wilbur Ross vows to self - initiate dumping cases rather than waiting for industry to file.

Shareholders who wish to bring business before Walmart's 2014 Annual Shareholders» Meeting other than through a shareholder proposal pursuant to the SEC's rules must notify the Corporate Secretary of our company in writing and provide the information required by the provision of the Bylaws dealing with shareholder proposals.

OPEC's Secretary General Mohammad Barkindo, who met with hedge fund managers, seemed shocked that many of them had no «basic understanding» of oil and were less savvy than was widely assumed.

And we can't forget the resignation of Rob Porter, who was allowed to continue his job as White House Staff Secretary to the President for more than a year, despite being denied proper security clearance.

In their letter to Department of Homeland Security Secretary Elaine Duke, Rep. Nydia Velazquez (D - NY) and Rep. Bennie Thompson (D - MS) wrote, «It would be morally reprehensible to intentionally underreport the true death toll to portray relief efforts as more successful than they are.

When enacted, the tariffs will be the result of a process initiated by Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross, however they are steeper than the 24 % and 7.7 % which were among the possible options recommended by the Secretary.

The parliamentary secretary to the minister of justice says the Liberal government has no plans currently to legalize or decriminalize «any other drug» than cannabis.

The Solicitor is the chief attorney for the United States Department of the Interior, principal legal adviser to the Secretary of the Interior, and is assisted by a Deputy Solicitor, Special Assistant, Ethics Director, Senior Counsel for Collaborative Action and Dispute Resolution, six Associate Solicitors, eight Regional Solicitors, and a staff of more than three hundred attorneys and four hundred total employees.

(CNN) US President Donald Trump's decision to meet with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un «was not a surprise in any way,» US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said Friday, less than a day after the top US diplomat said conditions were not yet ripe for negotiations with North Korea.

«It is more important than ever to re-energize the national dialogue surrounding the nation's armed forces to inspire and influence business, government, nonprofit leaders and the general public to get involved,» said former Secretary of Defense Robert Gates.

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.

Fred Abt, father of Parkland shooting survivor Carson Abt, said he had discussed with Education Secretary Betsy DeVos over lunch that rather than waiting for first responders to arrive, it would be more efficient to have firearms locked on school campuses.

Dr. Carroll is the National Director, Quantitative Economics and Statistics (QUEST), Earnst & Young and former Deputy Assistant Secretary for Tax Analysis of the US Treasury Department, finds ESOPs have higher distributions than 401 (k) plans and that 65 % of S corporation ESOPs offer an additional retirement plan compared to 45 % of all establishments.

«For more than a year, [Horowitz] has been investigating how the Justice Department and the FBI handled the 2016 probe of Hillary Clinton's use of a private email server when she was secretary of state.

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.

WASHINGTON — Department of Veterans Affairs Secretary David Shulkin improperly accepted Wimbledon tickets and airfare for his wife during a European trip last summer that cost taxpayers more than $ 122,000, according to a VA inspector general report released Wednesday.

Liu He, a Chinese vice premier and economic adviser to President Xi Jinping, told Steven Mnuchin, the American Treasury secretary, in a phone call just more than a week ago that the two countries should «stay rational and work together to maintain the overall stability of their economic and trade relations.»

The United States tax code is so backward that billionaire investor Warren Buffett pays only 17 percent in income taxes, a rate even lower than that of his secretary.

In a joint interview with Marketplace on March 13, former Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson, former president of the New York Federal Reserve and former Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner, and former Federal Reserve Chair Ben Bernanke stressed that while the financial system is stronger now than it was before the 2008 financial crisis, that could change if certain regulations are rolled back.

For more than a year, the IG has been reviewing the handling of the 2016 investigation into Hillary Clinton's use of a private email server as secretary of State.

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...

More than 60 years after her television debut — in which she belted a parody love song about then - Secretary of State John Foster Dulles — Carol Burnett is joining the big names flocking to streaming services.

Recently, both President Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton have been caught using the phrase «freedom of worship» in prominent speeches, rather than the «freedom of religion» the President called for in Cairo.

Is it important that our Secretary of Homeland Security, Janet Napolitano, refers to man - caused disasters rather than terrorism?

As for the somewhat chaotic condition in the Vatican in the latter years of the pontificate — not to mention the poor preparation for the 2012 pilgrimage to Mexico and Cuba, which seems to have had an impact far beyond the Caribbean — why did Pope Benedict not ind himself a more competent «prime minister» than Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone, whose record as Secretary of State the pope emeritus continues to defend in Last Testament: a defence that may be admirable as personal loyalty, but is inexplicable otherwise?

The secretary general of the Assyrian Patriotic Party, which funds Dwekh Nawsha, told The Washington Post that more than 900 people had asked how to join, and the group's Facebook page has more than 20,000 likes.

But he and Madame Secretary seem to have missed one of Niebuhr's crucial lessons: that in this world we can not do everything we would like, and by trying to do more than we can, we wind up doing much less than we should.

This advocacy effort appears to be gaining even more momentum than the movement to release Church of Iran pastor Youcef Nadarkhani (which CT covered regularly), especially now that 80 members of Congress «from both parties signed a Feb. 12 letter urging Secretary of State John Kerry to «exhaust every possible option to secure Mr. Abedini's immediate release.»»

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.