Sentences with phrase «way of aide»

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Two Democratic Senate aides said the speech was an attempt by Democrats to harden their position ahead of «fiscal cliff» negotiations set to get under way after the Nov. 6 elections.

The team assembled in December consisted of about a dozen top managers - including executives from finance, legal and human resources - and aides to discuss ways to mitigate the impact of sanctions on Rusal.

UPDATE III: On background, a Democratic aide in the Senate says: «it's certainly a strange negotiating strategy to go out of your way to decrease your leverage by taking options off the table.»

According to a congressional aide with knowledge of the lawmakers» thinking, the invitation was, in a way, an anti-Trump invitation.

Talk about the aide that people who are victims of disasters or violence receive from humanitarian groups, and discuss ways that she may help, such as by working with her school to raise money for the victims.

A crowd of power plant protestors came to Lower Manhattan from Orange County to follow former top Cuomo aide Joe Percoco in the rain from federal court, where he attended a routine hearing in his bribery case, all the way to the subway, shouting, «Shame!»

When Obama came to the Capital Region soon after the story of his top aides efforts to get Paterson out of the way had leaked, his 10,000 megawatt smile and warm words for Cuomo did not go unnoticed.

«What we know for certain is he created these elaborate economic development schemes to take in millions of pay - to - play campaign donations by creating a culture of corruption that allowed his closest aide to line to his own pockets the way the Governor was lining his campaign coffers.

While all candidates generally attacked Albany's dysfunction, they heaped praise on AG Andrew Cuomo and the way he's handled the investigation of Gov. David Paterson's role in a domestic violence dispute involving his top aide — despite the fact that little information has been released to the public in recent month.

The @POTUS account — named for the in - house acronym derived from «President of the United States» — would «serve as a new way for President Obama to engage directly with the American people, with tweets coming exclusively from him,» a White House aide wrote that day.

Last week, with a key court deadline looming for Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, or DACA, Trump, exasperated, asked his aides for «a way out» of a dilemma he created by promising to roll back the program as a presidential candidate.

W.H. AIDE CONSIDERED SPYING ON CO-WORKERS: The Daily Beast's Spencer Ackerman reports that Ezra Cohen - Watnick, «a former National Security Council official now working for Attorney General Jeff Sessions explored ways to surreptitiously monitor the communications of White House staff for leaks or perceived political disloyalty to Donald Trump.»

While the governor's aides insist the 90 - day rule is commonplace in the private sector, it's way out of line in the public sector.

Federal corruption charges were announced on Thursday against two former close aides to Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo, a senior state official and six other people, in a blow to the governor's innermost circle and a repudiation of the way his prized upstate economic development programs were managed.

In his understated way, aides and friends said, he has advanced gay causes by appointing gay men and lesbians to key positions and, as attorney general, cracking down on two companies accused of discriminating on the basis of sexuality.

He says there's no way of knowing, though, whether Percoco's rehiring forms were actually viewed by the governor or other top aides around him, but he says there's a simpler way to have determined if any conflicts existed.

His marriage last year to Huma Abedin, one of Hillary Clinton's aides, seemed to have put a stop to rumours about his womanising ways - until last Friday, when the crotch shot was posted on his Twitter account.

Prosecutors on Friday rejected a slew of pretrial arguments filed by eight men, including a former top aide to Gov. Andrew Cuomo and an ex-SUNY Polytechnic Institute president, but said that U.S. District Judge Valerie Caproni's idea to split the case into two trials was the best way forward.

Cuomo is still looking for ways stick it to his fellow Democrat, New York City mayor Bill de Blasio, and in fact things recently took a turn for the worse, reportedly due to the mayor's hiring of Karen Hinton, a former Cuomo ally and wife of his ex-top aide, Howard Glaser, without first getting the governor's blessing.

The presidential aide stated this while delivering a lecture entitled «Challenging Current Security Issues For National Transformation: The Way Forward», at the 10th Convocation ceremony of the Benson Idahosa University, Benin City.

«He's on the list, and if there wasn't this enormous gravitational pull toward Hillary, he'd be at the top of it,» said Matt Bennett, a former aide to Bill Clinton and Al Gore and co-founder of the moderate Democratic group Third Way.

Reno Omokri, a former aide to ex-president Goodluck Jonathan has said the only way Nigerians will accept President Muhammadu Buhari is when he reveals the nature of his illness.

«Governor once again repeats a falsehood - fact is a large majority of assembly dems support mayoral control,» Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie's press aide responded in a Twitter post as the press conference was under way.

Prosecutors described the job as a thinly - veiled way of bribing the aide, Joseph Percoco, for the state's help with the company's plans to build the plant.

As reported in Politico New York, there is a second way, other than the state ethics board, for a curious chief executive to find out if his top aides represented outside clients that might pose a potential conflict of interest.

Katko is facing off in the NY - 24 general election against Democrat Colleen Deacon, a former aide of U.S. Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, who won a three - way primary in June.

In the case of the 31st Senate district, Jackson is in a three - way race with labor organizer Marisol Alcantara, who has been endorsed by Espaillat, and Micah Lasher, a former top aide to Mayor Michael Bloomberg and Attorney General Eric Schneiderman.

One of his former aides, Jamaal T. Bailey, easily won a five - way Democratic primary in the election for a Westchester County and Bronx Senate seat left open by Ruth Hassell - Thompson, who stepped down this year to join the administration of a fellow Democrat, Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo.

Narrating his ordeal in the hands of the security aides attached to the Speaker including the DSS and the Police, Udo recalled that «I was severely manhandled and tortured when Luke's convoy ran into my car in a crowded scene along the Uyo - Ibesikpo road, on my way to Eket with my family».

The governor's top aide, Department of Administration Secretary Mike Huebsch, later issued a statement saying Walker would comply with Sumi's order and halt preparations that were under way to begin deducting money from most public workers» paychecks, but that the governor's administration still believes the law took effect after a state office unexpectedly published online.

In a statement signed by Mr. Paul Nwabuikwu, her media aide, Dr. Okonjo - Iweala, insisted that she secured the approval of ex-President Jonathan before the funds were transferred noting that the approval followed the recommendation of a committee set - up by former President Jonathan to advise the administration on the way forward.

«I don't think the people of New York are going to want him thrown out because he tried to take care of his suicidal wife» is the way one Hevesi aide puts it.

Former Cameron aide Sir Desmond Swayne told BBC Radio 4's Westminster Hour the honours list was a «light way» for him to pay off his political «debt of honour».

«I think the governor should learn a little bit more about what happens at the municipal level [and] what kind of services that we actually provide and how we provide them, and then maybe they (Cuomo and his aides) would find out that we're the most efficient way of providing services,» Chipman said Thursday.

Clinton announced ahead of that endorsement that she was changing her college affordability and health care plans to be more in line with the Vermont senator's views, something aides from both campaigns said helped pave the way for Sanders» backing.

In the weeks leading up to the convention, allies and aides of Mr. Cuomo had moved to sap other candidates» support, hoping to clear the way for Ms. Rice.

Washington (CNN)- Senate Democratic leaders have concluded that the only way to pass critical war - funding before the fast - approaching August congressional recess is for the House to drop its insistence that the measure include billions of dollars for unrelated domestic programs, a top Senate Democratic leadership aide told CNN.

Mr. de Blasio and his aides have brainstormed ways to repair the relationship with Mr. Bloomberg, according to advisers to both men, some of whom spoke on the condition of anonymity because the relationship between the two camps remains uncertain and strained.

Tensions between Cox, widely seen as initially opposing Trump's candidacy, and his aides and members of the pro-Trump New York delegation were playing out in other ways over the weekend.

«If we wish to bring American biomedical research to its knees, the way we can do it is by focusing more and more money in very targeted and specific areas,» Robert Weinberg of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology told a group of Congressmen and their aides last week.

For many people turning to Keto to aide in losing weight, changing to this way of eating will require a reduction in total calories — the majority of which will come from the elimination of carbohydrates in the diet — and some may also need to limit their protein intake as well (but this is different for each person depending on their individual activity levels).

Entrusted with returning a family heirloom to its owner by a dying aide, the gang sets off on its merry way — with the king's crown in a satchel for good measure — to relay the news of the monarch's demise and to make good on Longstride's promise.

Georgia's free - spending ways quickly grab the attention of the resort's other high - profile guests, including business mogul Matthew Kragen (Timothy Hutton); his aide, Ms Burns (Alicia Witt); Senator Dillings (Giancarlo Esposito) and Congressman Stewart (Michael Nouri).

Strategies such as one - to - one or teacher aide support, working in small groups, calming or relaxation activities and the explicit teaching of prosocial behaviours were all cited as common ways to support students in this area.

Thousands of schools for African American students across the Jim Crow South were built with the backing of the Rosenwald Fund, one of the earliest and most important foundations in education; philanthropist Grace Dodge founded Teachers College, now at Columbia University, in 1887, which led to training of teachers in pedagogy; the Ford Foundation was involved in promoting the employment of classroom aides, National Merit Scholarships, and the development of Advanced Placement curricula and tests; the National Board of Professional Teaching Standards grew out of work funded by Carnegie Corporation of New York, which also funded the Educational Testing Service to develop objective ways of measuring academic merit, which led to the SAT.

It could clear the way for unions representing staff at International High School of New Orleans and teachers» aides at Lusher Charter School to begin bargaining with their respective charter boards — if the boards do not take the matter to court.

If we add up the numbers of children, their parents and siblings, teachers, administrators, educational aides, office workers, custodians, cafeteria workers and all manner of school support staff, over 50 percent of the U.S. population is in some way connected to a school.

The Midgar stage, meanwhile, presents a layout familiar to Battlefield fans, with an added twist: players can acquire the aide of powerful summons like Ifrit and Odin who each affect the field in different ways.

Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa has set an ambitious goal of getting 40 percent of its electricity from renewable sources by 2020 (a figure that many of his aides, by the way, think is unreachable).

At least a half - dozen of his aides have found their way into the Trump administration.