Sentences with phrase «which convene»

I'd like to do more pieces like «Beyond the Eternal Food Fight» and «Debate Over Climate Risks — Natural or Not,» in which I convene via e-mail a batch of experts on issues related to sustainable human advancement.

Lastly the report recommends local governments create a Council of Governments which convene and discuss matters of governance as well as the best means to consolidate services whenever possible.

For those looking for more nuance, detail and depth in analysing the changing position of China and Africa in the international system, I recommend visiting the website of the Oxford University China - Africa Network, which I convene and is currently hosting a series of debates between African public intellectuals on what Chinese investment means for local economic conditions from Mauritania to South Africa.

The center upon which we convene.

CGI America is the U.S. arm of the foundation's Clinton Global Initiative, which convenes each September in New York City at the same time as the U.N. General Assembly.

And in a thinly veiled poke in the eye of the FairSearch anti-Google brigade which convened in the autumn of 2010 in the wake of the ITA acquisition, Schmidt highlight that many of its members still account for a huge percentage of the online travel market in the US.

Schaeffer created much consternation among fellow evangelicals by threatening not to appear at the rostrum of the International Congress on World Evangelization which convened in July of 1974 in Lausanne, Switzerland.

An approach that has great potential for consciousness - raising within ordinary congregations is fulfilled by a group in Chicago which convenes its handicapped members once a month at a different church in the Chicago area.

Advocates for gay clergy and same - sex marriage in the UMC viewed the compromise proposals as the best chance to advance their cause at this year's General Conference, which convenes every four years.

That group makes recommendations to the union's leadership, which convenes as Ad Com, which, in turn, brings recommendations to the union's Executive Board.

The governor also offered a new assessment of his decision to disband the Moreland Commission to Investigate Public Corruption, which he convened in the summer of 2013 after lawmakers left the Capitol without doing anything to respond to the arrests of two other senators, Malcolm Smith and John Sampson.

Chris Keates, General Secretary of the NASUWT, the largest teachers» union in the UK, was invited to be a UK commissioner by the Centre for American Progress, which convened a UK - US inquiry, co-chaired by US former Treasury Secretary Larry Summers and Shadow Chancellor Ed Balls, to examine how to secure an economic recovery which benefits all, not just the few.

The CUNY research institutes which convened the summit along with its sponsoring partners exceeded their expectation of creating an action agenda for advocacy coalitions.

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Additionally, the Legislature was in an ongoing special session, which convened in 2009, dealing with issues of deficit reduction.

But it was BioShield's third provision that provoked widespread concern among members of two subcommittees, one from the House Committee on Energy and Commerce and the other from the Committee on Homeland Security, which convened jointly today for their first discussion of the legislation.

The 2013 AAAS Annual Meeting, which convenes from 14 to 18 February in Boston, will focus on these deep and rich connections between the beauty of scientific knowledge and its...

The project was funded, through a competitive grant process, by the USIP, which convened the meeting, where Wolfinbarger and her colleagues shared lessons learned from their case studies, and announced a new website that will feature a «practitioners» guide» for other researchers who want to leverage satellite - image analysis.

So say two of the world's most recognizable icons for luxury and culture — the BMW Group and Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation — which convened a gathering in the lobby of the Guggenheim Museum here Friday to provide details about the city's forthcoming BMW Guggenheim Lab, part of a social science project that aims to solicit input directly from the streets on how to improve urban living.

On July 26, the Foundation joined other leaders in the field to sponsor the ADA Anniversary Roundtable on Disability Employment, which convened political, business and non-profit leaders on Capitol Hill to discuss ways to bring more people with disabilities into the workplace.

A new report by the Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee, an independent group of 14 experts advising Health and Human Services (HHS) and U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) which convenes every five years, says that we should ease up on sugar and saturated fats, but we don't need to worry so much about cholesterol anymore.

He is the former executive director of the Pew Forum on Standards - Based Reform, a Harvard - based, national education policy «think tank» which convened the U.S.'s leading researchers, practitioners, and policymakers to set the national «standards» agenda.

So he told his staff to settle the lawsuit, and he was personally involved in the negotiations, some of which he convened in his famous «smoking tent» in the inner courtyard of his Capitol office suite.

Prior to joining the Patrick Administration, Mr. Reville had chaired the Massachusetts State Board of Education, founded the Rennie Center for Education Research and Policy, co-founded the Massachusetts Business Alliance for Education (MBAE), chaired the Massachusetts Reform Review Commission, chaired the Massachusetts Commission on Time and Learning, and served as executive director of the Pew Forum on Standards - Based Reform, a national think tank which convened the U.S.'s leading researchers, practitioners, and policymakers to set the national standards agenda.

Asia Society's Center for Global Education partners with schools and school systems to promote the incorporation of global education into policy and practice, including through the Global Cities Education Network (GCEN), which convenes city and education system leaders from the Asia - Pacific region and North America to share promising practices for addressing system - wide challenges in education.

And finally, the menu of electronic choices includes the Vehicle Dynamic Integrated Management system, which convenes ABS, traction control and stability control.

Likewise, we have participated in and provided research materials for use in conferences, panels, and seminars at the Turner Contemporary, the Albright - Knox, the Portland Art Museum, the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, and academic institutions, including the Institute of Fine Arts at New York University, which convened a symposium on art - historical reconsiderations of Helen Frankenthaler's work in fall 2015.

In 2013, she was on the project team for the Dance Heritage Coalition's Artist - Driven Archives project which convened several national focus groups including one that she conducted on «Documenting the Creative Process».

A similar sense of gloom hung over Mexican artist Guillermo Santamarina's recent exhibition at House of Gaga, Mexico City, «Funkadelic's Parliament (or the de (re) valued insignias)», which convened gothic literary and musical references.

This document presents a summary of the state of knowledge on ocean acidification based on the latest research presented at the Third Symposium on the Ocean in a High - CO2 World, which convened 540 experts from 37 countries to discuss the results of research into ocean acidification, its impacts on ecosystems, socio - economic consequences and implications for policy.

If these bills aren't sent to the president this year, they'll need to be reintroduced in the 112th Congress, which convenes Jan. 3.

Not exact matches

The movie, which weaves together extraordinary feats of engineering and military, environmental and cultural achievements, hit theaters three days before China's rubber - stamp legislature convened to amend the constitution and allow Xi to potentially rule China for life.

Soon he was convening regular weekly meetings of his management staff, assigning them line - item budget responsibility (which they had never had), and walking them through the P&L (which they had never seen).

With no time to convene focus groups, Perkins and Selbert relied on Connolly's sense of the market, which he had gleaned — over a two - month period — through industry contacts and by reading various magazine studies.

But Mastous also convenes plenty of in - person meetings, between seven and 10 a week, which is a lot for a company with only 25 employees and 30 subcontractors.

First convened in 2017, this event taps into the strength of two ongoing Fortune powerhouse conferences: the Fortune Global Forum and our Brainstorm TECH conference, which for the past seventeen summers has brought together the smartest, most innovative people in tech, media, entertainment, and finance in Aspen, Colorado.

More takeaways from GCUC 2018, which took place at Convene in New York City The afternoon sessions of Day One...

The session was reminiscent of a bipartisan White House meeting Trump convened in January on immigration, in which the unpredictable president promised to sign any compromise solution Congress could craft, only to reject the outcome days later.

Senator Sherrod Brown (D - Ohio) will convene a Senate Banking Committee hearing on Tuesday during which MillerCoors and experts critical of banks» involvement in physical commodities activities and infrastructure assets such as storage facilities and pipelines are likely to heavily criticize banks like Goldman and JPMorgan, which both own large warehouses that store aluminum and trade derivatives contracts reflecting commodity prices.

«While we commend the Prime Minister for his commitment to assert leadership and convene this meeting, which was called for by business and community associations across the country, the situation has worsened,» said Val Litwin, President and CEO, BC Chamber of Commerce.

Polish firm CD Projekt, best known for its The Witcher series of video games, has convened an extraordinary meeting at which it proposes to introduce what appear to be a number of takeover defenses.

That convene also carried many bonds which were associated to cryptocurrencies or underlying technologies like GPUs and blockchain.

I appeal to the American bishops to act courageously by convening a board of theologians and canonists to review the provisions of the Dallas Charter, despite the criticism to which they will certainly be subjected.

He convened the Second Vatican Council during the 1960s, which brought the Roman Catholic Church into the modern world, and the modern world into the Roman Catholic Church.

Twice a year, members of the The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter - day Saints convene for a general conference during which the LDS Church leadership addresses the Mormon faithful.

The pope would attend the eighth World Meeting of Families, which has been held every three years since the late Pope John Paul II convened the first such gathering in 1994.

A consultation convened by the WCC in cooperation with the Innere Mission of East Germany's evangelical churches issued this statement: «We affirm the continuing need for institutions in which the most severely disabled experience help, protection and care, even while at the same time we call for the integration of the disabled and the able - bodied within the local congregation.»

In 1975 Richard and I convened a remarkably ecumenical group of theologians to issue what we called the Hartford Appeal, which was a strongly worded repudiation of the political misappropriation of the gospel.

In 1980, the New York - based organization Concern for Dying convened a group of psychiatrists, philosophers and theologians who prepared a statement on suicide for the terminally ill which is relevant to the cases I have cited:

One of the first was the World Congress of Faiths, which was convened in London in 1936, by Sir Francis Younghusband (1863 - 1942), an explorer and mystic.