Sentences with phrase «top agenda»

Stewart - Cousins clearly recognizes that Cuomo may well end up needing the Senate Democrats as much as they need him if he wants to get truly progressive versions of top agenda items like campaign finance reform passed.

This stark fact will top the agenda in Manila as the 2015 Asia Clean Energy Forum gets underway today.

Security and economic issues top the agenda for the one - on - one meeting and working lunch Monday.

The Anambra State governorship election fixed for 18th November this year expectedly topped the agenda at the first quarterly consultative meeting of the Resident Electoral Commissioners (RECs), held at the Independent National Electoral Commission's headquarters, Abuja on 28th September.

Helping lawmakers understand the needs of housing topped the agenda as the leaders of four real estate groups met recently in Washington, D.C., as part of NAR's federal policy meeting.

March 08, 2017 - PRESS RELEASE: Post-Election Proxy Season Sees Big Boost in Requests on Diversity and Equal Pay But Climate Change and Corporate Political Transparency Still Top the Agenda

The stalemate in the US Congress will be tested again in the coming weeks when the issue of the debt ceiling is discussed and deficit reduction and spending cuts («sequestration») again top the agenda.

India's first woman head of state, Pratibha Patil, announced at her inauguration last week that stopping female feticide tops her agenda.

Condoleezza Rice, US secretary of state, is in London today to visit foreign secretary David Miliband, with the Mumbai attacks topping the agenda.

The Presidents and Prime Ministers of the eight wealthiest countries met for their annual G8 conference in Northern Ireland and, as expected, Syria topped the agenda.

Healthcare, immigration enforcement, property taxes and the heroin epidemic topped the agenda at a Q&A panel today with the Lower Hudson Valley's Republican county executives, Westchester's Rob Astorino, Rockland's Ed Day and Putnam's MaryEllen Odell.

Rather, the importance of the verifier can, and will only gain traction as the capacity to be able to oversee the successful delivery of on - programme training tops the agenda.

Informal learning now tops the agendas of most chief learning officers.

Proposed tax increases topped the agenda of the Park City Board of Education's retreat Tuesday.

Formal review of the school's 2011 audit topped the agenda as the board of Akili Academy gathered Feb. 27 for its monthly meeting.

China's smoggy skies topped the agenda at the annual parliamentary session this year, while Premier Li Keqiang in January demonstrated the importance of green cars by visiting a factory of BYD Co Ltd, maker of the e6 pure electric car.

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This week is EU Industry Week, with the future of European manufacturing sector topping the agenda...

It is these projects that are in McKibben's sights, and the controversial Keystone pipeline in the US and the vast coal projects in the Galilee basin in Queensland top the agenda.

Equality, diversity and inclusion have also recently topped the agendas of Canadian law societies.

As the session winds down, it seems that two of the governor's top agenda items are doomed in the state Senate.

Access to justice issues, such as legal aid funding, duty counsel programs, pro bono initiatives, non-traditional fee arrangements, alternative business structures, and the public image of the profession in the wake of recent trust fund scandals, are certain to top the agenda in the next Bencher term.

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One of the top agenda items at the meeting held on September 22 was to monitor compliance, and OPEC officials were clearly much happier than they were a few months ago.

Mr. Gates told Mr. Hollande that energy innovation needed to be a top agenda item at the climate change conference now taking place in this airport suburb outside Paris.

Iran and trade are said to top her agenda.

After the neocons came to power, Iraq was the top agenda item at the first National Security Council meeting of George W Bush's administration.

Aside from pleasantries, the budget is a top agenda item.

Today's Siena poll finds Gov. Andrew Cuomo heading into post-budget policy negotiations with a very strong hand, as New Yorkers strongly support his top agenda items — from instituting a property tax cap (83 percent) to creating an independent redistricting commission and legalizing same - sex marriage (both 58 percent).

That's thanks not only to the end of the legal cloud that has hung over the WFP's head since the 2009 NYC elections; but also to the success of its longtime ally, NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio, and renewed national focus on its top agenda item: Bridging the income equality gap.

«Virtually every LGBT and AIDS organization from all five boroughs made the creation of the AIDS Memorial a top agenda item,» said Geto, who explained that was «a critical factor in getting it accomplished.»

The thinking is that passage of GENDA could give a much needed progressive win to IDC Leader Jeff Klein & Co. at a time when the breakaway Democratic conference is under intense pressure from the left for (so far) failing to force a vote on some of Gov. Andrew Cuomo's top agenda items, including the all - inclusive 10 - point Women's Equality Act and the campaign finance reform bill.

LG Bob Duffy isn't merely carrying Gov. Andrew Cuomo's message (along with fellow cabinet members) on the «People First» tour, he's also assisting with the lobbying of Senate Republicans on the governor's top agenda items.

Wiley, who has focused much of her time in office on expanding broadband access across the city, listed the mayor's top agenda items, including universal pre-Kindergarten, in a speech that also served to introduce her to the legal community, Berke added.

The top agenda item in need of resolution in Albany is a proposed medical marijuana law.

Cuomo has long been a supporter of public campaign financing, it was one of his top agenda items in the 2013 legislative session.

WBFO's Dan Karpenchuk looks at some of the issues that top the agenda.

Albany, N.Y. — First things first: before Gov. Andrew Cuomo even got approval from the New York State Legislature for creating tax - free zones around colleges, he's renamed one of his top agenda items from this session.

As the session winds down, it seems that two of the governor's top agenda items are doomed in the State Senate.

On Monday, April 18th, Republican members of the Congressional delegation and key legislative Republicans sequestered themselves for a meeting in which resolving lingering difficulties over maps and making sure party leaders were on board were thought to be top agenda items.

Cuomo had made free tuition at CUNY and SUNY schools for students from families making $ 125,000 or less annually his top agenda item at the start of the year.

We're in danger of repeating this same mistake with the Race to the Top agenda.

That Race to the Top agenda would cost $ 1.14 billion, Florida estimates.

If you think about it, we made significant changes to public policy in education in 2010 as a part of our First to the Top agenda proposed by Gov Bredesen — a Democrat, followed by nightmarish changes to the teachers» environment in 2011 by eliminating collective bargaining, tenure, and removing TEA from their seat at the table, all in the name of «reform.»