Sentences with phrase «took over a colleague»

Not exact matches

Over the weekend, my colleague Shawn Tully published an in - depth investigation of the bruising board battles that took place inside the Weinstein Co..

Such conditions require close scrutiny, but a troubling question is how much oversight the company had over Ben Aïssa, who spent much of his career working in SNC - Lavalin's office in Tunisia, and what — if any — steps were taken if his colleagues or superiors had concerns.

Once the ten - minute pleasantries are done with (wives, kids, colleagues, flight, book recommendations), he'll be telling me about the shower gel in the hotel, or that brand of jacket taking over Italy, his mate's pet insurance or what he learned about eBay's competitors in Africa.

We will ensure that we have sufficient hand - over time between colleagues who might be leaving and others taking over,» a company spokeswoman said today.

Nino let Clarence Thomas take over reading the dissent in Stenberg v. Carhart, as their colleagues were willing to strike down a law in Nebraska that barred the grisly procedure known as «partial - birth abortion.»

In my department, I think we too often bend over backwards for those with children...» Women are also quoted as advising other women not to take advantage of existing leave policies because they will be judged by colleagues as weak and unable to do their jobs.

James Wright, correctly, takes Sherkat's conclusions as an auditor as vindication of his editorial performance, and rightly discounts his colleague's attempt to set himself up as a post hoc referee with a veto over publishing Regnerus's scholarship.

Unfortunately, four months into the project, Dr. Farstad passed away and Dr. Ed Blum, one of his colleagues, took over his responsibilities and quarterbacked the translation effort until his retirement earlier this month.)

A huge customer and colleague sampling campaign will also take place at over 400 stores to generate excitement for the re-launch.

I took a couple of healthy specimens that my colleague and fellow kombucha brewing - enthusiast Brad Leone had saved for me and used a sharp knife to cut it into 1/4 - inch pieces, then I poured kombucha over it just to cover.

Which made me more confident to speak up if this happened to me — my colleague just got back from a business trip and they made her take the lids off and they waved a strip (or something) over top of the OPEN milk bottles.

And I deal with tearful constituents every week who are being told the council can no longer provide the sufficient housing benefit to cover the rent because it takes them over the cap so therefore they have to move, to Barking, to Luton, and it's dreadful... I will absolutely oppose it and I was disappointed my colleagues didn't.»

They followed a conciliatory interview in the Guardian on Saturday in which he conceded that it may take time for him to win over some parliamentary colleagues.

And Mr Davey, 41, said: «Having discussed things with my wife and colleagues, the imminent birth of our first child must take priority over politics and so therefore I have decided not to stand.»

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The Foreign Secretary has dismissed complaints from Conservative colleagues that the Government has failed to take a hard line against Israel over the Gaza conflict.

«From some of the off - stage and some on - stage noises from party colleagues that have been signalled to me, it's almost as if there is a subliminal desire to see David Cameron take over rather than Gordon Brown,» he said.

Participants took part in a real - time electronic poll which explored their views on a series of issues relating to their profession: Among the results were: over three quarters of BME teachers considered themselves to be ambitious, yet stated they are being held back by racial discrimination, and the attitude of senior colleagues; nearly two - thirds (62 %) of BME teachers felt their school or college was not seriously committed to addressing their professional development needs and aspirations; 63 % of BME teachers said their employers were not committed to ensuring their mental and physical wellbeing at work, with workload cited as the single most negative factor impacting on their wellbeing; the vast majority of BME teachers felt the Government does not respect and value teachers and does not understand the day to day realities of teaching (99 %); three quarters of BME teachers said they were not confident that their headteacher will make professional and fair decisions regarding their future pay.

As the Conservative infighting over Europe takes off, William Hague has provided his colleagues...

As their colleagues noisily traded blame over the shutdown, about two dozen centrist senators from both parties crammed for hours into the Capitol Hill office of Maine Republican Sen. Susan Collins to try to chart a civil way out of the mess, using a Native American «talking stick» to take turns speaking.

There was confusion along Ada George Road in Port Harcourt, the Rivers state capital, on Thursday morning, as soldiers took over the Rumukpakani Police station, reportedly in response to the killing of their colleague by a policeman.

We hope that she, her colleagues in Government, and those in the Labour party will take the opportunity over the next 10 months to consider how the next government will deliver rural policy.

All over the country, Democratic governors have been working for weeks on behalf of their Democratic colleagues in D.C., raising campaign cash and stumping on behalf of candidates to assist the party's long - short quest to take back the majority.

There was confusion along Ada George Road in Port Harcourt, the Rivers State capital, on Thursday morning, as soldiers took over the Rumukpakani Police station, reportedly in response to the killing of their colleague by a policeman.

Labour says Theresa May is still «failing to take responsibility» for the publication of a letter to colleague Michael Gove that appeared to accuse the Department for Education of failing to act over alleged extremist links in some Birmingham schools.

His colleague teachers, he added, then advised him to go eat some food while they take over the rehearsal but he lost his balance and fell unconscious.

It was not the last time Krueger took her colleagues in the Legislature to task over crimes against women.

Since 2006, Lopez has reigned as the Democratic County Leader in Brooklyn, taking over after his predecessor and Assembly colleague, Clarence Norman, was convicted of pocketing campaign contributions.

Anxiety over the process is already taking hold; senior members of the delegation vividly remember how two colleagues were ousted 10 years ago when the state lost two Congressional districts.

My colleague Paul Owen will then be taking over and blogging from the conference into the evening.

My colleague Paul Owen will then take over the blog and keep it going into the evening.

Whitehall sources suggested that May had been urged to take a harder stance over Brexit by cabinet colleagues who have argued that a rerun of the referendum would result in an even more emphatic victory for Brexit, in the region of 60 % -40 %.

So he, Meites, and their colleagues analyzed series of blood samples taken over 12 - hour periods.

O'Neill and his colleagues are setting up such field trials, bringing wild, uninfected mosquitoes into outdoor cages of infected individuals, to see if the Wolbachia strain will take over under natural conditions.

In Barres» opinion, women who transition to men have an easier time in the sciences than men who transition to women because transgender women take on the same incompetency stereotype as heterosexual women; they are either not taken seriously or are talked over by male colleagues.

More galling was when she was left out of decision - making altogether, including a few times when department heads reassigned male colleagues to take over her projects without consulting her.

Svejcar and his colleagues at the Eastern Oregon Agricultural Research Center hope to develop a model where noninvasive plants — those that do not reproduce prolifically and take over an area — can be used to counter invasive weeds.

Together with his AWI colleague Dr Stefan Hendricks, they evaluated the sea ice thickness measurements taken over the past five winters by the CyroSat - 2 satellite for their sea ice projection.

But because New Zealand originally lacked rats, which can spread seeds, Burns and his Victoria University colleagues Catherine Duthie, a graduate student, and George Gibbs wondered if the mouse - sized wetas had taken over the seed - dispersal job often held by these furry species.

To determine how the drug works in the human brain, Mantzoros and colleagues observed 48 obese men and women — half taking the drug, half taking a placebo — over the course of a four - week experiment.

In the study, published in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, Diehl and her colleagues outline a series of nine experiments involving over 2,000 participants in the field and the lab designed to examine the effect of taking photographs of an experience on people's enjoyment of an activity.

McGuire and his colleagues and students have collected reptiles and amphibians throughout the island — flying lizards are his particular love — and taken genetic samples to reconstruct the evolution of species over time and perhaps shed light on how and when the islands came together.

Bingham and her colleagues are now part of a major investigation, the European Prospective Investigation of Cancer, better known as the EPIC study, in which teams of researchers are taking blood samples and painstakingly recording exactly what some 400 000 Europeans eat over periods of several weeks.

Over the years, he and his colleagues have shown how some plants can take up certain metals in such large quantities that it is possible to «grow» a crop of metals.

New research by University of Delaware oceanographer Wei - Jun Cai and colleagues at Université Libre de Bruxelles, Texas A&M University - Corpus Christi, University of Hawaii at Manoa and ETH Zurich, now reveals that the water over the continental shelves is shouldering a larger portion of the load, taking up more and more of this atmospheric carbon dioxide.

These patterns held even after Gray and colleagues took the overall word count and number of blog posts into account, suggesting that the increase in positive emotion words was not simply due to the effects of writing over time.

To see where the epidemics originate, Colin Russell and colleagues at Cambridge University took 13,000 viral samples from all over the world between 2002 and 2007, and mapped their immunological similarities.

But when the scientists took another took a look at the Galileo images, they saw something Sagan and his colleagues apparently missed — bright flashes of light over land as well.

(The exact number is difficult to gauge because many of the 250 people who joined the Science guild by the final day of the conference attended different sessions, and untold numbers took part by looking over their colleagues» shoulders or via live - streamed video.)

By looking at high - resolution images taken by SDO and STEREO over the same time period and in different wavelengths, Alzate and her colleagues at the University of Aberystwyth were able to focus down on the cause of the puffs and the interaction between the small and large - scale eruptions.