Sentences with phrase «with no agenda at»

Facing a state budget negotiation with his agenda at the mercy of his rival - pal Governor Andrew Cuomo and the Senate Republicans who he unsuccessfully tried to unseat last year, de Blasio needed some help.

«Even if it's an informal list, that's better than showing up with no agenda at all,» she says.

Not exact matches

U.S. Treasury Secretary Jack Lew met new Chinese President Xi Jinping on Tuesday at a critical time in relations between the world's two largest economies, with cyber hacking, market access and the Chinese currency high on the agenda for talks

On Friday, Trump addressed the World Assembly for Women conference in Tokyo, touching on her trademark issues of female entrepreneurship and women's economic advancement, topics that align with Abe's much - touted «Womenomics» agenda aimed at adding women to Japan's workforce.

Here is a simple but powerful agenda to follow at your first meeting with an influencer with whom you are looking to build a relationship.

Other key Democratic - leaning interest groups were knocking at the President's door with agenda items for him to act on after he was elected in 2008 and re-elected in 2012.

Rather, when clients looked at their agenda and saw that they had a meeting with the Wexley School for Girls, McAllister wanted them to get excited and to know that it would be the best part of their day.

Outrage at the government for raising transit fares earlier that year snowballed into a protest of everything by everyone with no clear leader or agenda.

While getting any two strangers to work effectively with one another in the workplace is difficult, at times some millennials and baby boomers might seem to have the most opposite set of agendas.

Meanwhile, at least some Trump supporters seem unclear about just what Resistance Radio is, mistaking it for real radio programming with a liberal agenda.

Canada's trade agenda — and its difference to that of its North American neighbor the U.S. — has made news at the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos, Switzerland, with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau touting a «push back against the anti-trade tendency in globalization that will leave us all worse off.»

Their agendas are often at opposition with yours.

Even with hedge funds vanishing from the agenda, debt relief advocacy group Jubilee South called on the G - 8 governments to protect poorer countries from vulture funds, or investors who buy up debt at rock - bottom prices and then sue for the full value.

Staff from SCL's elections division, which through a convoluted corporate structure was interchangeable with Cambridge, discussed what they were doing at a meeting in July 2014 with another contractor for the Bolton PAC, according to an agenda of the meeting obtained by The Times.

All provinces will be asked to look hard at how their energy agendas align with Canada's climate commitments.

The president has responded harshly toward Republican congresspeople whom he considers insufficiently supportive of his agenda, even going so far as to meet with their primary challengers, while a pro-Trump political action committee at one point purchased, then withdrew, campaign ads against a senator who was wavering on the Senate GOP's health - care bill.

It is worth mentioning that John Wilcox is also directly involved in high - profile Morrow Sodali assignments, when the issues at stake («delicate» items in the Agenda, need to deal with activist «shareholders», consultation at Board level, etc) require it.

The point of the chart above is to illustrate that those with an agenda to ride the trend and look smart are correct when they state that the US stock market is not particularly over valued... if one shuts off one's brain and accepts policy (blue Monetary Base line, which is but one of several money supply measures) as being at all normal or healthy.

«The main problem with entropy uncertainty models is that they are used to justify the notion that there's room to push agendas to the limit line of the outer edge of the envelope that supports the policy maker's cognitive bias,» opines Dennis Santiago, Senior Managing Director for Compliance and Analytics at Total Bank Solutions.

Calls for explanation have rippled around the world with Facebook even being called to account at a hearing in Singapore, of which the agenda was originally meant to solely focus on fake news.

With Facebook and Cambridge Analytica putting brand safety at the top of the agenda, everyone — advertisers, agencies, platforms and publishers — is suddenly keen to have these conversations and to take a more collective responsibility for brand safety.

Professor Yvan Allaire, chair of the IGOPP's board of directors, will participate at the upcoming World Economic Forum's (WEF) Davos summit Professor Allaire was invited to join the WEF's recently created «Global Agenda Council on the Role of Business,» following publication of his work Black Markets and Business Blues, (which he co-wrote with Professor Mihaela -LSB-...]

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.

A significant group of bishops could manage to develop an agenda deeply at odds with prevailing circumstances.

In any company, if you keep on bugging people with your personal agenda and waste their time at work, you'll be fired.

Ben Rogers, East Asia Team Leader at advocacy charity Christian Solidarity Worldwide, told Premier: «The Islamic Defenders Front, they for years have been pushing this agenda, trying to shut down churches, attack the Ahmadiyya community - who're a sect of Islam that other Muslims disagree with - and also often raided nightclubs and bars and want Sharia law to be established.

Those of the religious agenda keep on telling themselves that whoever this person that wrote it should be more involved with religion and should keep on pushing the «topic of religion» onto dying people instead of just being a human being and focusing on the person's feelings at their last hours on earth.

Stephen Evans, campaigns manager at the National Secular Society (NSS) says: «We welcome the government's robust response to the specific allegations against schools in Birmingham, but it has a long way to go before we can be confident that children's education isn't being compromised by groups with a religious agenda.

Any other country I would have an issue with the church recruiting for the police, at least here police and the military are «sworn» to protect and serve (the Law) not the people or some ones private agenda.

He may also be faced with incomprehension and hostility when he tries to persuade the school not to support «Red Nose Day» or «Jeans for Genes»; when he suggests that asking pupils to stand at the front of the class and shout out the names of intimate body parts is an invasion of their modesty; when he objects to the non-Catholic geography teacher's presentation of solutions for over-population, the «gay rights» agenda seeping in through text books, the chaplaincyco - ordinator's failure to get abortion agency leaflets removed from the library, or the school nurse's distribution of cards with information on how to get the morning - after pill.

While most of the information that we choose to access and share comes from shaky sources with specific agendas, there's still some information that we stumble across that meets us right at the core of who we are.

You said, «LINCa if you look at my previous posts you will see that the Physc of the APA spoke the bestiality issue out of his own mouth Along with one of the founders of the gay agenda» It's irrelevant who said it.

I trust the reliability of my own god - given gray matter and the quality of my own recipes far more than that of others with their own agendas and power trips to play out at the expense of others.

This from reading a book written by men with an agenda to control the world with their blatherings, centuries of corrupt, evil popes leading to King James, who burned women at the stake and believed in the divinity of kings?

It is, in this its negative aspect, the refusal of every agenda, every scheme, every interpretation that is at odds with the norm as originally established by God.»

A politician, a senator who had been chairperson of the parliamentary committee established, with a thin democratic veneer, to steer the government's abortion agenda past the alleged representatives of the people, expressed outrage at encountering Christian teaching at a Mass at the historic Knock Shrine in County Mayo.

Now this doesn't mean that the Republicans should do NOTHING on immigration, but it does mean that their economic agenda should focus on issues that would help people in the two middle quartiles (and the last quartile) get what Reihan Salam called «the basics of a dignified middle - class life — affordable high - quality medical care, education, and housing» With that in mind, here is a partial (and I'm not sure totally compatible) list of policies that Republicans should be looking at:

is nothing new starting at the very begining with the New Testament books describing the similar false interpretations by men with huge egos and agendas just like those of today... nothing new.

He argued against the evils of slavery with eloquence, but his policy agenda was modest and aimed at the swing voters of the Midwest.

During his homily at the Mass pro eligendo Romano Pontifice [for the election of the Roman Pontiff] on April 18, 2005, Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger cautioned his fellow - cardinals that John Paul II's successor would have to deal with an emerging «dictatorship of relativism» throughout the western world: the use of coercive state power to impose an agenda of dramatic moral deconstruction on all of society.

Gadamer, of how the inspired text, which we question in order to find its meaning and relevance, questions, criticizes, challenges and changes us in the process -» Some who today raise the proper question, whether there are not culturally relative elements in Paul's teaching about role relationships (an the material has to be thought through from this standpoint), seem to proceed improperly in doing so; for in effect they take current secular views about the sexes as fixed points, and work to bring Scripture into line with them - an agenda that at a stroke turns the study of sacred theology into a venture in secular ideology.

For a variety of reasons, some based on fact and some on fantasy, many non-Christian majorities regard Christian presence as a threat, or at least as the sign of a particular geopolitical agenda (linked with the U.S. or the West in general)-- despite the long history of Christian minorities in many such contexts.

More specifically, his goal is «to examine — with a frank apologetic agenda near at hand — the possibilities for envisioning the transformation of humanity through relationship with Christ, as per Biblical tradition and Christian experience, in a process - relational mode»

The economic crisis, previously viewed as an indispensable ally in helping the President enact the agenda, now appears as a malevolent agent, and a perversely ill - timed one at that, since, as Hendrik Hertzberg of The New Yorker explained, «the longest and deepest mass suffering» of the Great Recession, in contrast to the Great Depression, «has occurred with Obama in the White House.»

He shares a conceptual agenda with Eberhard Jüngel, Jürgen Moltmann, Wolfhart Pannenberg, Duane Larson (who has succeeded Jenson at the Lutheran Theological Seminary at Gettysburg) and the late Catherine Mowry LaCugna.

Huckabee has to combine his instinctive understanding of the struggles of people at or under the median, with an agenda for addressing those concerns.

At this stage of the gender revolution, some 15 years after Beijing, the agents of change want countries - national governments and cultures - to «own» the gender agenda, to become themselves the drivers of the process that will transform their own values from within so as to align them with the norms coming from UN headquarters.

I'll mention one fundamental one: if in these contexts I take the liberty to outrightly deny that indeed it was God who said, and not some power group with a dirty political agenda, then WHEN and WHY will I accept «God said...», this and that (and particularly more positive, palatable stuff») at face value?

The honeymoon, that is, between the now enfeebled and increasingly remote souls who for over a quarter of a century had carped and sneered at Pope John Paul II (and by the same token at «PanzerCardinal» Joseph Ratzinger) but who had nevertheless hoped against hope for a Pope who would be somehow reborn if not as a fully paid - up liberal, as a Pope at least who would go easy on all that counter-cultural JPII stuff about being «signs of contradiction» and about continuity with the pre-conciliar Church and who had breathlessly found (so they thought) that, lo, it was even so, in the wonders of Deus Caritas Est. «On his election last spring,» carolled The Tablet, «the former CardinalRatzinger was widely assumed to have as his papal agenda the hammering of heretics and a war on secularist relativism, subjects with which he was associated as head of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith.»

Serious discussion on the unity and mission was started in the ecumenical movement with the declaration drawn up by the Central Committee of the World Council of Churches at its meeting in Rolle, Switzerland in 1951.23 One of the main subjects on the agenda of the Committee was: The Missionary and Ecumenical Calling of the Church.