Sentences with phrase «week led an official»

Senator Kirsten Gillibrand last week led an official Senate trip to the Middle East to meet with allies to discuss strategy to fight global terrorism.

Not exact matches

Last week, the NDP — in its new role of official Opposition — said it aimed to restore civility in the House of Commons and the NDP's biggest rabble rouser has even promised to lead the charge.

In the weeks leading up to the event, the three signatories squabbled over the shape of the union, amid ill - concealed concerns among Kazakhstani and Belarusian officials that Russia seeks to dominate the union.

ATHENS, Greece (AP)-- Greece's left - led government submitted to Parliament late Wednesday a new package of creditor - demanded tax hikes and reforms worth 1.8 billion euros ($ 2 billion), which it hopes to have approved by lawmakers in time for a meeting of European officials next week.

Continental Resources Inc, led by billionaire wildcatter Harold Hamm, is prepared to increase capital spending if U.S. crude reaches the low - to mid - $ 40s range, allowing it to boost 2017 production by more than 10 percent, chief financial official John Hart said last week.

With less than three weeks to Black Friday and the «official» start of the holiday shopping season, both major retailers and smaller eCommerce businesses are faced with the ever - shortening lead times on holiday shopping.

But leading up to Super Bowl 51 (two weeks ago in Houston, Texas), law enforcement officials around the country arrested as many as 522 would - be sex buyers and traffickers — including 183 potential buyers and 9 traffickers in Houston itself.

To support this, a reinvigorated Indonesia rice research work plan was drafted this week by senior officials and leading scientists from the Indonesian Agency for Agricultural Research and Development (IAARD) and the Philippines - based International Rice Research Institute (IRRI).

Arsenal published their accounts last week on the official website and those accounts were a subject of a number of articles by leading media houses in the UK.

Facing a 4 — 4 Indiana team a week after escaping from East Lansing with a last - play win (the Hawkeyes beat Michigan State on Stanzi's seven - yard TD connection to McNutt as time expired), Iowa needed that pair of clutch bombs from its quarterback, a slew of favorable calls from the officials and — with the Hoosiers leading 21 — 7 and lining up two yards from another touchdown in the third quarter — a miraculous interception in which the ball ricocheted four times among three players before landing in the hands of Iowa safety Tyler Sash, who dashed 86 yards for a touchdown.

This week, New York Congresswoman Elise Stefanik led a delegation of North Country officials to Ottawa, Canada to discuss economic development ties.

Schumer last week told The Daily News he was taking a wait - and - see approach on whether he'd recommend Bharara, who has led successful prosecution efforts against top state elected officials from both parties, for another term in the new presidential administration.

The Labour MP led the calls for Theresa May to take action on the Windrush crisis and has duly been named «Campaigner of the Week» by parliament's official magazine.

The group, which lobbied against the bill heavily in the weeks and months leading up to the vote, said the fund is being set up for town clerks like Laura Fotusky, the Barker, Broome County official who resigned rather than approve gay unions who could face «harassment, denial of rightful promotion, or unfair termination.»

As they prepared to begin testing young children for lead poisoning this week, school officials in Newark, NJ acknowledged that water in the city's schools had contained elevated levels of lead for years.

According to the Albany Times Union, earlier this week the chairman of the state Association of School Business Officials sent a letter to Senate Republican Majority Leader John Flanagan, explaining that flat funding due to low inflation could lead to layoffs and program cuts.

This week on the Campbell Conversations, host Grant Reeher is joined by two local public officials who see in this moment the opportunity for a wholesale renewal of the housing and real estate landscape surrounding the old highway, which could lead to a city - wide regeneration.

Last week, city officials said the city would offer testing to children six and under living in more than 2,000 NYCHA apartments that may have lead paint.

GLENS FALLS — A pending merger between cable companies coupled with a $ 500 million state grant program now underway is likely to substantially boost Internet access in Warren County and elsewhere the Adirondacks, a leading economic development official said this week.

Hours after Heastie's elevation this week, the reference to his leadership position was removed, leaving no indication in Silver's official profile that he had ever led the chamber.

Topics of discussion included the Buffalo Billion scandal, the ramifications of this week's School Board elections, and efforts by City Hall and Erie County officials to deal with Buffalo's lead poisoning problem.

If this week's arrests lead to more charges and convictions, they could further thin out the ranks of black and Latino elected officials around the country.

And American officials are using the U.N. meeting this week to convince Iran — once led by Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who routinely denounced the U.S. and Israel — to join the fight against ISIS.

(CNN)- Election officials counting previously untallied ballots in a New York congressional Democratic primary say incumbent U.S. Rep. Charles Rangel is expanding his lead over his top challenger, who went to court last week to ensure counting would continue.

With Attorney General Andrew Cuomo poised to make his long - expected entry into the governor's race official, and Democrats and Republicans set to hold their state conventions in coming weeks, it seems a good time to remind those who want to lead this state that there's a difference between a campaign and a coronation.

With the U.S. Congress set to take up climate change legislation next week, Obama Administration officials today joined with leading climate scientists to emphasize that global warming is real, it's going to get worse, and that action is needed sooner rather than later.

But last week, after extensive coverage in the NZZ am Sonntag newspaper and criticism from its own faculty about its handling of the case, it launched an official investigation into the original allegations: that a leading professor there, astrophysicist Marcella Carollo, mistreated graduate students for more than a decade, while the administration ignored complaints against her.

Government officials this week told staff at the Australian Antarctic Division (AAD), the nation's lead polar science agency, that planned funding cuts mean the division will be seeking «[a] lternative funding models» for research, including philanthropic donations and commercial sponsorship.

April 5, 2014 • Officials at Fort Hood, Texas, are investigating an argument that may have led to a shooting spree there this week.

We got our first official still from Guy Ritchie's big screen take on the classic spy series The Man from U.N.C.L.E. earlier this week [see here], and now we have another image from the film featuring the two leads Henry Cavill (Man of Steel) and Armie Hammer (The Lone Ranger)... Set against the backdrop of -LSB-...]

The nominations for the 27th Annual IFP Gotham Awards were announced just last week, sounding the official bell of that start of Awards Season after nearly two months of festival lead - up.

With a little over a week to go until its release, a new UK trailer has arrived online for writer - director Daniel Mulloy's refugee drama Home which stars Jack O'Connell and Holliday Grainger; take a look below after the official synopsis... A family, led by their confident and caring father (Jack O'Connell), heads out on what appears -LSB-...]

If the constitutional amendment now pending in the Senate to return prayer to the public schools were to become law, school officials would be permitted either to lead students in prayer or to offer a moment for silent meditation, a Reagan Administration official said last week.

About 100 protesters and angry parents led by local officials of the NAACP stormed the Minneapolis school board's final meeting of the year last week, prompting board members to leave the meeting with their business unfinished.

Perhaps it's this environment, amid increasing skepticism of virtual charter claims, that led officials with the attorney general's office in California to lash out at K12 Inc. last week while announcing the conclusion of a long - running investigation of the virtual charter outfit.

This week's snow storm led to closings that lasted up to three days for many schools across the state, forcing school officials to make tough decisions on how to make up for the lost time.

Each week when that happens, we'll update this post with the latest, all leading up to the official debut of the Dodge Challenger SRT Demon in April at the New York International Auto Show.

Grey, is not the first mega bestseller to be stolen or leaked in the weeks leading up to the official publication.

The first purported video of the new Nexus 7 II have come online, just a week ahead of what might be the official unveiling and / or release of the Nexus 7 2, on July 24 at 9:00 am in San Francisco, led by Google's Android and Chrome OS head Sundar Pichai.

During the weeks and months leading up to the IPO, officials will travel the country in roadshows as an attempt to drum up excitement over the upcoming stock debut, which will hopefully will ramp up demand.

Even though the official kick off to the Pan Am Games was today, in the week leading up to it markets have given traders more than enough diving, hurdles and nail - biting drama for weeks to come.

In the weeks leading to the release of the SNES Classic / SNES Mini / Famicom Mini, Nintendo is planning to share official interviews with the developers of some of the games.

Leading video games retailer GAME has announced its biggest lock - in series of all time, with 75 stores opening late to give gamers exclusive early access to forthcoming blockbuster The Last Of Us, weeks ahead of the games official release date on Friday 14th June.

Sonic Mania Plus ™ Leads The Pack During SEGA's Sonic The Hedgehog SXSW Panel Burbank, California — March 19, 2018 — Last week at SXSW, SEGA ® hosted the «Got ta Go Fast: The Official Sonic the Hedgehog Panel» and revealed a range of announcements based on the beloved franchise.

Last week the official sequel, TRANSFORMERS: Dark of the Moon arrived on our doorstep — while it shares the name of the upcoming film the story is allegedly a lead - in to the film.

A group of students in December occupied the top floor of the Foundation Building for a week in December after rumors that the school's financial problems may lead officials to begin charging tuition.

This year, 284 leading galleries from 33 countries brought some of their best artworks for the six - day event last week, including the two - day exclusive VIP showing before the official kickoff on Thursday.

On the eve of Senate hearings examining the destruction of the Deepwater Horizon rig and the unabated release of oil from the damaged seafloor well, President Obama ordered a team of government officials and scientists led by Energy Secretary Steven Chu to head to Houston this week to confer with BP's brain trust on next steps to stem the unfolding environmental disaster.

A week later, Friday, June 9, Illinois Democrat constitutional officers — State Treasurer Mike Frerichs and other top elected officials — joined with radical environmentalists to demand that Governor Rauner join the California - led Climate Alliance.

«Their research experiment, which involved sending official - looking flyers to 100,000 Montana voters just weeks before Election Day, is now the subject of an official state inquiry that could lead to substantial fines against them or their schools.»