Sentences with phrase «who opened the meeting»

The November meeting included a terrific presentation from JCEA President John Ford who opened the meeting showcasing the work of JeffCo's Community High School.

«Kyoto is just the very first step,» acknowledged Margaret Beckett, the UK's environment minister, who opened the meeting.

Not exact matches

This is useful for two reasons: First, you explain the purpose of the meeting to anyone who didn't take the time to read your preparatory messages, and second, you open the floor to any questions or concerns about the meeting's topic.

But some companies may simply be too picky for their own good — the report suggests that too many employers are looking for the «purple squirrel» employee who meets the exact criteria for a job opening.

On the flip side, your mind may open up to new positions within your company when you meet a candidate who would be a perfect fit.

People who can relate to others and understand how they're feeling tend to be open to meeting new people and experiencing new things, all of which has positive effects on intelligence.

In fact, she and others who met at GOSH are currently working on an «open source hardware manifesto» to publish in the coming months that will detail some specific ways repurposed objects can play a bigger role in science and tech projects.

«During the meetings, we stated that Amazon has long supported net neutrality protections to ensure our customers can enjoy an open internet, and we emphasized that the company remains committed to that position,» Gerard Waldron, a lawyer who represents Amazon and participated in the meeting, wrote in an account filed with the FCC.

But I was just amazed by how everyone, young and old wanted to be involved... and was so deeply enriched and touched by the experience and the laughter and the love I experienced from the people I met and how women would in particular open their hearts to me and tell me the stories of where they've come from, particularly because I have the language and was coming there as a woman and just how touched they were that I was there as a woman from England who's learned the language and who's an artist and running this project and come all the way to see them so they didn't feel forgotten I think that was pretty much what they felt... that their stories were being heard so they don't feel forgotten knowing the tents would be around the world.

That lack of pressure (and the option to leave if you aren't having a good time) can help you feel more comfortable, open up, and meet new people — who can easily become valuable professional contacts.

I've been a bridesmaid at the wedding of a couple who met one another while working on the opening team of Epcot's Soarin» attraction.

Virtually every meeting is open to anyone who wants to attend, and we aggressively encourage transparency in everything, from product plans to company finances to partnership negotiations.

David Beckworth, who teaches economics at Texas State and writes on Fed policy at his Macro and Other Market Musings blog, points to the Federal Open Market Committee meeting that took place Sept. 16, 2008 — the day after the failure of Lehman Brothers and the day the Fed was preparing to make an $ 85 billion loan to AIG (AIG).

This astronomical growth has a lot of people jumping into the game, especially now that both Bitcoin futures trading and the world's first crypto - index fund (which is only open to «accredited investors» who meet certain income or net worth minimums) launched this week.

Before you open the door, meet who's on the other side.

The European Central Bank, which supervises commercial banks in the eurozone, is considering opening an inquiry into whether HNA meets the criteria for large bank shareholders, according to two people with knowledge of discussions who were not authorized to speak on the record.

We share business updates at weekly All - Hands Meetings (followed by catered lunch), use Quarterly Town Halls for strategy reviews (followed by fun activities), and put our CEO (who sits in the open space next to you) on the spot to answer «Ask Seth» questions on any topic you think up.

Meet Matt McCracken, one of CMIT's newest franchisees, who recently opened CMIT Solutions of Houston - Willowbrook.

When I went to training about a year before I opened my first studio in Florham Park, I met a studio owner who told me that there would be one client that would walk into my studio and I would know that I made the right decision (Love you, Jill!).

We have open categories for individuals who will bring enthusiasm and integrity to our meeting.

It also fired 5,300 employees who had opened false accounts to meet the sales goals.

Anyone who meets the investment minimum (usually $ 1,000 but sometimes less) can easily open an IRA with a brokerage firm online.

To begin to build that trust, we strive to be the most open fund — we published our full operating manual to Github, people who come in to meet with us have called us «shockingly transparent,» and we still feel the pain ourselves from our own experiences of how much investors» lack of clarity cost founders in time and headache.

As a trader who wants to get things moving as soon as possible, you are well advised to open your trading account with Binary Option Robot, a consistently profitable program which meets all the promises it makes.

There's scarcely anybody in the market who expects an actual monetary policy move from today's Federal Open Market Committee meeting, but it's nonetheless the event of the day.

These responsibilities include: (i) fostering processes that allow the Board to function independently of management and encouraging open and effective communication between the Board and management of the Company; (ii) providing input to the Chairman on behalf of the independent Directors with respect to Board agendas; (iii) presiding at all meetings of the Board at which the Chairman is not present, as well as regularly scheduled executive sessions of independent Directors; (iv) in the case of a conflict of interest involving a Director, if appropriate, asking the conflicted Director to leave the room during discussion concerning such matter and, if appropriate, asking such Director to recuse him or herself from voting on the relevant matter; (v) communicating with the Chairman and the CEO, as appropriate, regarding meetings of the independent Directors and resources and information necessary for the Board to effectively carry out its duties and responsibilities; (vi) serving as liaison between the Chairman and the independent Directors; (vii) being available to Directors who have concerns that can not be addressed through the Chairman; (viii) having the authority to call meetings of the independent Directors; and (ix) performing other functions as may reasonably be requested by the Board or the Chairman.

It's just a shame that we haven't come to the point in society where it should be required that those who make decisions must meet certain, more highly regulated, fool proof, corruption resistant criteria proving their intellect and open mindedness as well as weeding out individuals with preconceived notions, racist, sexist or religiously or other discriminative views (even if they themselves don't believe they are discriminative in their beliefs... this happens more than many people realize) and overall ignorant minds.

«We accept anyone who wants to come in and volunteer to give the prayer to open up our town meetings.»

Closed meetings are for alcoholics only; open meetings welcome nonalcoholic relatives, friends, and anyone else who is interested, as well as the alcoholics themselves.

James You think that people are opening these meetings with prayer as an «insidious method of identifying those who believe differently than the one leading the prayer» I hope you are wrong.

The first people I meet when I came into town were two men who had been saved 12 years ago in open air meetings from another town.

He who meets men with a double glance, an open one which invites fellowship and a secret one which conceals the conscious aim of the observer — he can not be delivered from his sickness by any talent that he brings to his work, for he has poisoned the springs of his life.

But under John Paul II's 1979 Apostolic Constitution Sapientia Christiana, institutions granting ecclesiastical degrees were opened to all, whether clergy or lay, who met the academic prerequisites and could legally testify to leading a moral life.

Why do you talk about only what he didn't menage to do, or what was wrong in his pontificate?Yes, I agree there were many things that could have been resolved in better way, but he was only a human and as everybody could make mistakes.To me what is important in his pontificate is that he was a first pope who «opened «the church to people, who travelled a lot, met with people, went to synagogue, did much to abolish communism.Sure, he wasn't ideal, but for me the best pope so far.

During his two - month, 5,000 - mile survey trip, Townsend met a number of key figures, of which the most important was Mexico's director of rural education, Rafael Ramírez, who opened the way for him to study the nation's educational system.

It is God's initiative, born of the love that is the source of divine grace, which opens the kingdom to all believers — which is to say, to those who will meet the conditions for entrance into it.

As the opening action unfolds — with a number of dramatic homicides at the hands of ruthless escapee Nichols — we meet Ashley Smith, a chaotic drug addict who is halfheartedly trying to escape her own prison of a narcotics - fueled life.

One need only open their eyes (or more radically, read their Bible) to see women all around us who do not meet these narrow and misleading definitions of «real» or true» and yet live and move and have their being in their full womanhood, affirmed as daughters of the King.

I have meet a lot of people in 2 years who have Do nt be surprised if your kids or generations after you open up their minds to reason and accept Islam.

When I meet someone who identifies himself as Reformed, I make all kinds of assumptions — that he is stuck up, that he thinks Calvin must sit on the right hand of the Father, that he delights in the idea of people being predestined for hell, that he will call me «uninformed» and «unenlightened» when he finds out that I've explored Open Theism.

A director of church relations was hired who opened the college to many church functions - youth events, synod assembly, continuing education events and synod council meetings.

One can only hope that the Patriarch of Moscow will also be open to a meeting with the head of the Ukrainian Greco - Catholic Church, His Beatitude Sviatoslav Shevchuk, who has repeatedly called for such an encounter.

Lesslie Newbigin, the former missionary and bishop of the Church of South India who had himself attended the «38 meeting, opened the discussion with a message at the commemoration service.

I meet many faculty people who, despite the enormously sophisticated research they do, are living with an adolescent or childhood notion of God, which is seemingly unable to open any discourse with their learned discipline.

Duolan Li and Joshua Walker, who make their home near Hampton Park, have plans to open a second eatery on Meeting Street in the near future.

New Orleans has not only opened up culinary opportunities for Vlad, but is also where he met his wife, who is coincidentally from the same city in Russia as Vlad.

Many farms have opened their doors to visitors as farmers themselves are often eager to meet people who want to learn about coffee.

It was also amazing to be able to meet and talk with some of the speakers, other attendees and Crawford members, who were all very open and willing to share their experiences and potential opportunities in the future.

AIM - PROGRESS is open to any manufacturer or supplier from the FMCG supply chain who meets the membership criteria with the execption of companies from the arms and tobacco sectors.

The away side opened the scoring through Belgian international Lukaku, who met Ashley Young's cross before heading the ball past the hopeless Ben Foster.