Sentences with phrase «which saw the president»

Nana Akufo - Addo also acknowledged the special circumstances which saw President Mahama assume the mantle of governance following the death of President John Atta Mills in 2012, and hailed him for standing up to the challenge.

Not exact matches

Jackson's failed nomination is the latest instance of staff turmoil in President Donald Trump's administration, which has seen record turnover and a series of personnel scandals.

In a tightly scripted campaign launch in which there were few surprises, the comments were unexpected, at least by progressives, who saw them as an early sign she may shift away from the centrist economic policies pursued by her husband, former President Bill Clinton.

«We're pitting the different clubs against each other to see which can get the most people to join,» explains Shanna Kane, vice president of marketing.

During President Donald Trump's «major briefing» on the opioid epidemic Tuesday, he said it was «a problem the likes of which we have never seen.»

For an Italian company whose stock trades at a discount because of the European upheaval, but which is actually poised for global as well as American growth, see Fiat Chrysler (fcau) in Fortune's Investor's Guide story, «The 21 Best Stocks to Buy for 2017 — Before Trump Becomes President.»

In the days since the presidential election, states across the country have seen increased incidents of racist or anti-Semitic vandalism and violence, many of which have drawn directly on the rhetoric and proposals of President - elect Donald Trump.

Instead of listing which sites they do not want their ads showing up on, more advertisers are choosing which sites they do want to see their ads, said Barry Lowenthal, president of The Media Kitchen, a New York - based media buyer.

Eugene Rubinchuk, a vice president and part owner at the dealership, which sells used cars with prices ranging from under $ 15,000 to an $ 89,000 Bentley, says he saw posts about extravagant cars like Lamborghinis bought with bitcoin on Facebook.

«While home sales were below what's typical for March, we are seeing more balance between the number of sales and listings on the market in the last two months, which is having a stabilizing impact on home prices,» said Sandra Wyant, president of the Vancouver board.

So pro-Hillary investors might actually see it as a good sign then that the Nasdaq Biotechnology Index is down 5 % since Clinton officially received the Democratic nomination for president, and that the sector has fallen nearly 11 % since Sept. 22 alone, which was just before the first presidential debate.

Multimedia senior vice president Joe Inzerillo says the league is also seeing increased adoption of MLB.tv's «season pass,» which allows people to watch entire games online and costs $ 120 per year.

History and political buffs will want to see World Heritage site Robben Island, which was used as a maximum - security political prison under apartheid; former president Nelson Mandela was famously held there.

One of the more memorable ads in last night's Super Bowl belonged to Airbnb, which aired a second quarter spot that many saw as an implicit rebuke of President Trump's recent immigration ban.

Jack Ezon, president of Ovation Vacations, which caters to clients who have extremely high net worth, usually above $ 100 million, says that private jet journeys are one of the big travel trends he is seeing in 2017.

«Typical tablets without a dedicated keyboard, which IDC refers to as slate tablets, are continuing to lose relevancy across all regions and, as a result, we see the decline happening globally,» Ryan Reith, an IDC vice president in charge of mobile device trackers, said in a statement.

The growing skill of hackers has driven a shift in strategy for companies, which see they can not be stopped and have switched to trying to limit losses, said Kwon Seok - chul, president of Cuvepia Inc., a security firm in Seoul.

«You are seeing manufacturers taking a little bit more risk and launching vehicles that wouldn't have been able to make it in the past,» said Jeff Schuster, senior vice president of forecasting at LMC Automotive, which tracks the auto industry.

President Bill Clinton flew to Gaza for the opening of the Gaza International Airport in 1998, which was seen as a step towards peace in the conflict in the Middle East, but the festivities were short - lived.

The fiscal cliff, off which U.S. taxpayers may have to leap on Jan. 1, 2013, if the Bush tax cuts expire, is seen as being the inevitable consequence of Washington lawmakers» infighting unless President Obama and Congress honestly confront this deadline in an election year.

«We would like to see CBS continue on its path of success and bring Viacom along with the ride,» said Michael Cuggino, president at San Francisco - based Permanent Portfolio Family of Funds, which owns voting shares of CBS and Viacom.

Last week, John F. Kelly, the president's chief of staff, told associates that he did not see how the State of Texas, which has led the charge against the DACA policy, could proceed with a lawsuit while parts of the state are still underwater from Hurricane Harvey.

«We will be seeing promotions significantly above the current 30 percent off, which are the opening table stakes,» said Craig Johnson, president of Customer Growth Partners, a New Canaan, Connecticut - based consulting firm.

President Trump is expected to address the annual convention, which will see an estimated 80,000 gun - lovers in attendance

One of the opponents of the Telegram ban is Iranian President Hassan Rouhani, according an article from local news outlet Tasnim News Agency, which reported that Rouhani sees a need for an end to «monopolies» rather than a ban of one app:

White House officials, sensing growing pressure from Mueller's investigation, see Flood as someone to play hard ball with Mueller over interview and document requests, particularly those in which the president could invoke executive privilege.

Over just the past few weeks we have seen two separate occasions in particular in which the President of the United States has directed negative tweets at specific industries or companies.

But veteran recruiter Chris Stafford, president and founder of C. J. Stafford & Associates, which specializes in mining industry personnel, doesn't see the mining industry repeating the mistakes of the past.

The madcap meeting with Trump on guns, which was meant to add clarity and more urgency to the debate, instead saw the president undermining the importance of «due process,» calling for «comprehensive» gun control, and even humoring the idea of an assault weapons ban — all somewhat unexpected positions for a GOP president to hold.

The resignation followed an intervention by the country's military after Mugabe sacked his vice president, Emmerson Mnangagwa, earlier that month, and attempted to replace him with his wife, Grace Mugabe, which many saw as a ploy to eventually prepare her for the presidency.

Democrats have been pushing to formally refute the GOP memo, which they see as an effort by Trump and his allies in Congress to divert attention away from special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation into possible collusion between the Trump campaign and Russians, and possible obstruction of justice by the president.

Scott Hannah, president of the Vancouver - based Credit Counselling Society, which helps consumers who are drowning in debt, says he's seen little evidence households have learned anything from the financial crisis.

The deal, which was sealed at a meeting with the Russian president, Vladimir Putin, at his mansion on the outskirts of Moscow on Thursday, will see BP collect $ 16.7 bn in cash and a 12.5 % stake in Rosneft in return for its 50 % stake in the TNK - BP venture.

While Americans could debate the overt reform proposals in President Ford's February order (see March 10 Century editorial, p. 211), we may never know the full content of Executive Order 11905, which merely hints that «in some instances detailed implementation of the Executive Order will be contained in classified documents.»

By the time W finished his second term, I had graduated from college, come to terms with the fact that the criminalization of abortion is highly unlikely no matter the party in power, expanded my definition of «pro-life» to include Iraqi children and prisoners of war, and experienced first - hand some of the major problems with America's healthcare system, which along with poverty and education issues, contributes to the troubling abortion rate in the U.S. I remained pro-life idealistically, but for the first time, voted for a pro-choice president, hoping that the reforms I wanted to see in the healthcare, the economy, immigration, education, and for the socioeconomically disadvantaged would function pragmatically to reduce abortions.

The protocol for such a visit — which is also the legacy of historical relations between the Holy See and Italy — includes an exchange of public speeches, and requires that both the Pope and the President wear their designated official attire for state occasions.

Thanks to a compassionate Delta agent, I was able to change the flight and get in just in time to look longingly at one of the most beautiful breakfast buffets I've ever seen in my life and shake the president's hand (which is why I'm describing my illness as food poisoning and not a stomach virus... because I'd like to think my presence there did not compromise national security).

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If they truly believed in it, you'd never see anything like opening prayers at the GOP convention (I assume the Democrats will do the same, so this isn't a knock against the right specifically), and you wouldn't have presidents and candidates kowtowing to «evangelical leaders» all the time, which to me is no different than a president or candidate consulting with the Pope, the only difference being the evangelical leaders are Americans.

President Bill Clinton and Pope John Paul II both intervened with President Boris Yeltsin in 1997 when they saw drafts of a new law which threatened to negate the freedoms of the non-Orthodox and move toward reestablishing Orthodoxy as the state religion.

There's joy tempered with concern on Tahrir Square in Egypt, which saw a successful revolution topple President Hosni Mubarak this year.

Others in the progressive faith worlds, meanwhile, say Democrats - including President Barack Obama - have shied away from the faith - based messaging that they honed in the years after the 2004 election, which was seen to be determined by so - called values voters.

«There are a number of Democratic members of Congress who are calling themselves pro-life, but it's hard to do that after voting for healthcare, which was the largest expansion of abortion we've seen,» says Tom Minnery, senior vice president of CitizenLink, a conservative advocacy group connected to Focus on the Family that is also spending money this cycle.

Possibly the most telling index of Graham's status is, however, a letter in the Nixon Archives in which one woman wrote the president to see if he could get her an appointment with Billy Graham.

So Rick Perry wears his religion on his sleeve, where all the world can see his piety, yet Romney gets slammed on and hated on for his religion (which lots of poeple don't know much about, nor want to know about, they've just «heard» its different), which he has repeatedly stated would not guide his policy as president.

After seeing the way in which the religious groups tried to manipulate the AFL - CIO and treated with contempt its president, Lane Kirkland, Higgins writes, «I decided that my life was too short to play along with this sort of dialogue between religion and labor.»

Last March, the Vatican issued the statement «We Remember: A Reflection on the Shoah,» which was prepared under the direction of Edward Idris Cardinal Cassidy, president of the Church's Commission for Religious Relations with the Jews, and introduced by Pope John Paul II himself (see FT, May 1998).

«What we're seeing from the left, of which I would suggest to you, President Obama is a member of the left and substantial left - of - center beliefs, that you can't even have a Christmas party.

«While we are glad to see and commend the local authorities under international pressure acted swiftly and fairly to resolve the church's land with this right decision, we are still deeply concerned about the justice for this family of martyr which is still not done,» stated Bob Fu, China Aid's president.

I believe this country is Election Weary in ways I have never seen in all my life, and I've been around since Kennedy was President; which was the last time that religion played such a role in the presidential campaign.