Sentences with phrase «way out of committees»

If the bill makes its way out of committees and is ultimately approved by the full county board, Westchester would follow 10 other counties in the state that have raised the minimum age to purchase tobacco to 21.

Not exact matches

The House on Tuesday voted to pass the version of the tax bill that came out of the bicameral conference committee, appearing to pave the way for the Senate to pass it later in the night.

And because executives are invited to sit on the compensation committees of other companies, it often works out this way — even if they don't have a personal relationship with the CEO they're evaluating.

-- Title X of the CHOICE Act, the brainchild of the R's on this committee, proposes to micromanage the Federal Reserve in ways that would be hugely detrimental to its independence and its ability to carry out its mandates.

This progressed all the way to Committee Stage until it ran out of time (when one Parliament ends, all Bills that have not been passed must be re-presented and start again in the next Parliament).

The Public Works Committee is hammering out the details involved in giving the Randolph Street right - of - way to the Park District, Borchert said.

The last hour has seen the political and constitutional reform committee issue a report complaining that the government's ignoring its recommendations about going to war; Labour have put out a line on the strikes, saying they're «usually a sign of failure»; and the Institute for Government is telling us that Whitehall is leading the way in headcount reductions, with an overall reduction of 8.4 % since the comprehensive spending review in October last year.

Parliamentary committees (particularly the Public Accounts Committee) and the public audit offices should be pressing for stepped overlapping series (that is, the numbers worked out in the old way and the new way) to be provided every time the definition and categorization of administration costs changes.

Hours later, Crone and Myler released this statement: «Just by way of clarification relating to Tuesday's CMS select committee hearing, we would like to point out that James Murdoch's recollection of what he was told when agreeing to settle the Gordon Taylor litigation was mistaken.

Lawmakers met Monday afternoon for the start of the joint budget committee process — a meeting known in Albany as the «mothership» and initially held as a way of enhancing transparency in the opaque state budget process, but also a chance for lawmakers to lay out their public priorities in the talks.

Mr Crone and Mr Myler's statement reads: «Just by way of clarification relating to Tuesday's CMS [culture, media and sport] select committee hearing, we would like to point out that James Murdoch's recollection of what he was told when agreeing to settle the Gordon Taylor litigation was mistaken.

But I was struck reading Hansard this morning by the way in which the debate which Tim reported at yesterday's meeting of the 1922 Committee also spilled out on to the floor of the Commons.

Hamish Meldrum, chairman of the British Medical Association's (BMA's) GPs committee, said change was necessary to get the «best out of us» but warned that the top - down and speedy way in which it had been introduced was not working.

«I'm getting politically intoxicated by all of these alcohol bills that come out of the economic development committee,» Barron said, who said he wants another way of creating jobs that «doesn't involve alcohol».

Finance Committee Chairwoman Kathleen Joy says the city can't continue to cut it's way out of yearly budget deficits, so lawmakers felt the time was right for this increase.

As Chairman of the City Council Public Housing Committee, Ritchie believes that a good rooftop is the first - but not the only way - out of poverty and homelessness.

The Senate's release goes out of its way to note that these committees have subpoena power, and therefore will be able to compel witnesses to testify — if necessary.

The scale and shocking manner of the defeat is what has prompted the national executive of the party to put in place the Kwesi Botchwey committee to investigate and find out from members and all interested parties the causes and reasons why we lost the election the way we did.»

The top Republican on the House Energy and Commerce committee, Texas Rep. Joe Barton, has been threatening to force the committee clerk to read the 900 - plus page bill as a way to drag out the markup of the Democrats» climate change legislation.

It wasn't enough for longtime Independence Party activist and ex-state committee member Frank Morano to quit the party and publicly lambaste it on his way out the door, now he's trying to get the organization investigated by the Board of Elections, claiming its coffers have served as a sort of piggy bank for the personal interests of its leaders.

«She can't be both a party leader and rally the troops and then say offensive remarks, and then say, «by the way John Defrancisco, you're chair of the [state] Senate finance committee, could you help me out with the city of Syraucse and give me eight million dollars?»

Washington (CNN)- As early as next week, the National Republican Senatorial Committee will «go on the offense,» according to a senior Senate campaign strategist, laying out its path to victory in a number of Senate races — not claiming to be on the verge of a majority, but well on its way.

The Board of Elections, a quasi-state agency funded by the city, is set to roll out a new website in the coming months which will provide New Yorkers with an «electronically assisted way» to fill out a voter registration form and an absentee ballot application, according to BOE Executive Director Michael Ryan, who testified at a budget hearing of the City Council's Committee on Governmental Operations on Monday.

Describing a committee hearing at which he took a drubbing from otherwise progressive colleagues outraged he was standing in the way of congregations reclaiming their place in the schools, out gay Councilman Daniel Dromm told me the resolution is a shoe - in.

He said the committee has been asked to work out better ways for the implementation of the Report.

This is one simple method to take some of the fear out of the journey: If committee membership must change, because of unforeseen circumstances, the rules that apply and the process that is followed should not change — all the more reason to have carefully documented your work plan and progress in writing along the way.

Leonard Spector of the Center for Nonproliferation Studies in Washington DC told a US Congressional committee last week that in a recent military exercise, the US and 18 other nations, and «more than 12,000 participants» rehearsed ways to «prevent the transfer of chemical arms out of Syria».

If you have an opportunity to respond to a letter that is unjustifiably critical, try (if you can) to succinctly point out, in the gentlest possible way, that the writer is not the best person to judge work in your field, and guide the committee toward more informed opinions (external evaluators and reviewers of papers or grant proposals).

This is something which has been very well documented and mourned in a report from the National Academy of Sciences that was issued by a committee headed by Norman Augustine just a few months ago and this report — which is called «he Gathering Storm» — lays out in some detail the concern that that [leaves us] with a long hole over the next couple of decades, because of weaknesses in [the] way we fund basic physical sciences, the way we are training people to do physical sciences, the way we treat science in elementary and high - school programs — all of those factors, the way we pay teachers, the way we use the patent system where we try to provide incentives in some of the physical sciences; we are losing our leadership gradually to other countries, especially in Europe and [of] particular concern in Asia, where the rise of science in, particularly China, to a certain extent India and other parts of Southeast Asia, are cause for long - term concern.

While he did not promise or rule out creation of an NGO, Al Khalili urged the scientists to sign up for an advisory committee that would suggest the best ways to promote collaboration.

HBP's board of directors announced on 19 March that it will follow the advice of a mediation committee set up to find a way out of the crisis; the panel's recipe includes a management overhaul and a re-evaluation of the scientific goals that relegates modeling of the whole brain to the back burner.

Paula Stephan, an economist at Georgia State University in Atlanta and a member of the current report's modeling subcommittee (Stephan was also a member of that 1998 NRC committee), writes to Science Careers in an e-mail that it's «disappointing to see that NIH did not figure out a way to shift more funds into training grants and fellowships and away from research assistantship stipends» or «implement any requirement for limiting the amount of salary that can be written off of grants — something that could dampen the demand for graduate students.»

«We want to find out who the victims were, uncover their biographies and their fates, and as such give them part of their human dignity back and find an appropriate way of remembrance,» says Heinz Wässle, an emeritus director of the neuroanatomy department at the Max Planck Institute for Brain Research in Frankfurt, Germany, and head of an MPG committee overseeing the new investigation.

White House science adviser John Holdren went out of his way to attack it, and three former NSF directors urged the committee to rethink its approach.

The Death of Stalin: Hilarious, but not in a laugh - out - loud way, this comic retelling of Stalin's death and the ensuing power struggle is told from the standpoint of the Central Committee, with a fretting, befuddled Khrushchev (Steve Buscemi) going up against the ruthless, depraved Beria (Simon Russell Beale).

The legislature's Senate education committee recently discussed ways of changing the Texas Grant Program, not long after TheDallas Morning News reported last month that $ 27 million out of $ 120 million available to students went unused over the 2001 - 02 academic year.

At the moment, I'm focused on my year - end evaluation report because contrary to what is written in your editorial, there ARE consequences to my current locally - determined evaluation system.The Education Committee was acting in a responsible way when they listened to the concerns of the professionals — the educators who work with students every day — and moved Substitute Bill 24 out of cCommittee was acting in a responsible way when they listened to the concerns of the professionals — the educators who work with students every day — and moved Substitute Bill 24 out of committeecommittee.

As the financial industry, including private student lenders, pumped millions into lobbying, and as Biden was on his way to collecting more than $ 100,000 for his re-election campaign from banking interests, he became one of three Democratic senators appointed to the committee responsible for hammering out a final bill.

The legislative representative to the League of California Cities urged the CalPERS Investment Committee Monday to think «out of the box» in finding a way to exceed its 7 % investment return projections, saying that cities won't be able to pay their monthly contributions to the pension plan if returns are that low.

«Our mission is «finding good homes for good kitties,» and the volunteer marketing committee, which I lead, does all we can to help carry out this mission by thinking of new ways to introduce our cats to potential adopters.

In announcing the $ 1.4 million prize to a surprise winner, from a field of over 190 candidates, Nobel Committee director Ole Danbolt Mjoes said «Lasting peace can not be achieved unless large population groups find ways in which to break out of poverty,» he went on, «Microcredit is one such means.

Carla Lowe: We organized CALM four years ago as a political action committee, we're all volunteers, when we realized that the legalization issue was going to make the California ballot, and we needed to be able to speak out differently than we have done for 37 years as 501c3 groups, going way back to the late 70s when we founded the very beginning of the basic parent movement that saw what marijuana was about and what it was doing to our kids.

As citations serve the purpose of formally notifying registrants about issues that may lead to regulatory penalties or other measures, a discipline committee may be unable to find that the registrant failed to comply with standards in a way not be set out in the citation.

And the joint statement by opposing experts is to set out and not simply show the issues on which they agree and disagree which is presumably the Rule Committee's way of saying «Sock it to «em».

The board also argued motives of the committee members were «unknowable» and ruled out «the examination of the members of any collective body on the motives that underlie a decision made by way of a written resolution.»

As my boss Diana Lowe pointed out to me, making the deliberations of a rules committee available via the internet may affect or limit the range of presentations made by counsel in court, whereas rules are formulated to stand on their own, and counsel needs to try them in all ways to see if they are sound.

I wish that the LSUC would set up a committee with just that mandate instead of continuing to waste its time looking at ways to sell our independence and the true public interest out to nonlawyer entities that intelligence and experience show are and will increasingly be anti-competitive, will add two more layers of overhead, will put profit seeking on behalf of remote shareholders ahead of our ethos of giving advice that is in the best interests of the client not ourselves.

There is no evidence that the new lawyer training experience provided by the LPP is inferior to articling, that lawyers trained through the LPP are less competent than those who passed through articling, or that the two providers of the LPP (Ryerson University and the University of Ottawa) are failing to provide a good training experience — in fact, the committee went out of its way to praise these providers.

Chapter 5 of the Report assesses the ways in which the implementation of the 1998 amendments to the Native Title Act have borne out the findings of the CERD Committee in 1999 and 2000 that the Act as amended is discriminatory of Aboriginal people.

This focus on ensuring equality of opportunity is reflected in the way the right to health is understood, largely as set out in General Comment 14 of the Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights.