Sentences with phrase «with powerful members»

Hundreds of Realtors met with powerful members of Congress last week in Washington at NAR's 2017 federal policy conference.

While activities such as Grace's are relatively independent of Vatican policies — and hence this section could be seen as a digression from the author's theme — the Knights are headquartered in the Vatican and have connections with powerful members of the hierarchy like O'Connor and Cardinal Bernard Law of Boston.

Not exact matches

Topics included: early reporting on inaccuracies in the articles of The New York Times's Judith Miller that built support for the invasion of Iraq; the media campaign to destroy UN chief Kofi Annan and undermine confidence in multilateral solutions; revelations by George Bush's biographer that as far back as 1999 then - presidential candidate Bush already spoke of wanting to invade Iraq; the real reason Bush was grounded during his National Guard days — as recounted by the widow of the pilot who replaced him; an article published throughout the world that highlighted the West's lack of resolve to seriously pursue the genocidal fugitive Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic, responsible for the largest number of European civilian deaths since World War II; several investigations of allegations by former members concerning the practices of Scientology; corruption in the leadership of the nation's largest police union; a well - connected humanitarian relief organization operating as a cover for unauthorized US covert intervention abroad; detailed evidence that a powerful congressional critic of Bill Clinton and Al Gore for financial irregularities and personal improprieties had his own track record of far more serious transgressions; a look at the practices and values of top Democratic operative and the clients they represent when out of power in Washington; the murky international interests that fueled both George W. Bush's and Hillary Clinton's presidential campaigns; the efficacy of various proposed solutions to the failed war on drugs; the poor - quality televised news program for teens (with lots of advertising) that has quietly seeped into many of America's public schools; an early exploration of deceptive practices by the credit card industry; a study of ecosystem destruction in Irian Jaya, one of the world's last substantial rain forests.

JavaScript can add some powerful functions to your website, including allowing site visitors to view a calendar and book an appointment, make a reservation, or chat with a member of your team.

MMA, or mixed martial arts, is a billion - dollar industry with some of the most powerful fans on earth: our nation's military members.

Cambridge Analytica members like Wylie, who recruited Kogan to work with the company, and Kogan himself, failed to anticipate that handing so much personal data to powerful people might provide them a new way to saturate Facebook with misleading or downright false information.

Building on our long history of mentoring young women from around the world, Notebook Mentoring has focused for the three consecutive year on pairing the daughters of military service members with a select group of Most Powerful Women in a special afternoon session.

In this guest post, Procter & Gamble, a WBENC Corporate Member and one of America's Top Corporations for WBEs, shares with us a powerful campaign launched by their brand ALWAYS.

It's important to keep in mind, leadership won't happen overnight but with the help of your team members it can be a very powerful thing.

In addition, the ongoing war with Yemen, the abrupt resignation of Lebanon's Prime Minister Saad Hariri from Saudi soil, and the internal power struggle within the Saudi monarchy leading to the detention of a large number of powerful members from the royal family sum up the major ongoing conflicts in the region.

With over 300 members so far, it is one of the most powerful experiences of community I have ever enjoyed.

But don't they all have to do with how we relate to each other and to Jesus Christ — whether we relate vertically as child to parent, as serf to free person, as baron to king, as alien to citizen, as tribal member to colonial usurper, as subject - wife to master - husband, as Third World country to powerful nation, as sharecropper to landed gentry, as migrant laborer to union or employer, as novice nun to mother superior, as female to male, as poor parishioner to monsignor - pastor, and on and on; or whether we relate horizontally as the grown - up heir now equal to his father, as world citizen to world citizen, as worker to worker, as minister to minister, as partner wife to partner husband, as sister to sister, and sister to brother?

Grace is a powerful thing but to live a life of non-repentance only to use the «get out of jail free card» in one's dying breath is a twisted concept that has been theologically exploited by Evangelicals in order to «get the numbers up» and provide family members of those who have died with a warm feeling that their loved one made the right choice at the end.

Meanwhile, no one is confirming the main name buzzing out there - Rev. Suzan Johnson Cook, a very prominent New York City pastor with a powerful resume, including: being past president of the conference representing all historically black denominations, developing some faith - related policy for President Clinton, former chaplain of the New York City police department, faculty member at Harvard.

This lineup is being supplemented with new, developing programs that include Good Food Is Good Medicine, which aims to take the collective knowledge of FamilyFarmed, medical experts, nutritionists, chefs, farmers and others about the powerful connections between food and health, and make that information more readily available to members of the general public; and the Organic Grain Promotion Initiative, which seeks to advance the fast - growing interest in better, more sustainably produced, heirloom grains among retailers, consumers, bakers, distilleries, breweries and others while providing farmers with high - value - crop alternatives to the commodity farming system.

am back again with my «wenger out» campaign in I'll remind you all that having known how powerful Wenger is amongst the board members, it's us fans who have the last say and as I used to urge y ’ all last season, BOYCOTT ALL HOME GAMES FOR THE REMAINDER OF THE SEASON, you'll be all shocked at the speed with which the board will react to the resulting loss of revenues.

Michigan's 38 - 31 Rose Bowl win over Washington salvaged a modicum of pride for the once powerful Big Ten, which, with Ohio State's 21 - 14 loss to Georgia in the Citrus and Illinois's 27 - 17 loss to Hawaii in the Holiday, is now 48 -57-1 in bowl games and a woeful 29 -44-1 since 1975, when the conference began allowing member schools to play in bowls other than the Rose.

I am sure that with such powerful advocacy from hon. Members and from groups and organisations throughout the country, National Breastfeeding Week will be a huge success in raising even greater awareness among parents.

As a member of of LJC, you qualify for VIP coaching: $ 150 / month, with a 3 - month commitment This work is so powerful, and if you feel like you would like more individual time with me, think about elevating the experience by investing in VIP coaching, which includes two 60 - minute calls with me each month.

Family systems theory would suggest that better outcomes may be achieved by engaging with the most powerful family member (Furrow, 2001).

Company records of Midway Games Inc., which is in line to receive city assistance to expand its North Side headquarters, show that one of its board members is William C. Bartholomay, former president of the Chicago Park District board and current president of Near North National Group, a Chicago - based insurance brokerage with close ties to powerful Democrats.

Silver told AQE members that he «respectfully» disagreed with Cuomo's claim in the State of the State last week that New York's public school students lack a lobbyist, adding: «The most powerful lobbying group for our students is their parents.»

The fact that the Greek people see their misfortunes to an extent as the result of an externally - pursued strategic reduction of their living standard is perhaps the clearest indication that EU and its most powerful member states need to be careful when interacting with this proud nation.

The detention of several powerful Saudi figures and members of clergy, can not only be seen in terms of domestic reforms and consolidation of power intended by Mohammed bin Salman, but also as giving him more room to manoeuvre in developing closer ties with Israel, given the hostility Saudi regime would have faced from actors that are anything but pro-Israel.

As a rule, Assembly members are loathe to buck NYSUT, an organization with deep pockets and powerful get - out - the - vote capabilities.

The Momentum chief will go head - to - head with Unite official and fellow Labour national executive committee member Jennie Formby in what is likely to be a bitter race to succeed Iain McNicol in the powerful role.

In a statement on Monday, Emma Powerful, IPOB spokesman, said: «we (IPOB members) will die with him should he set his foot on the sacred land of Biafra».

Speaking on WAMC's Capitol Connection with Alan Chartock, the powerful speaker said his 99 - member Democratic conference felt there was no money to fight over this year.

The NRA is the nation's largest gun rights organization with about five million members, and a powerful lobbying organization that wields significant influence on Capitol Hill.

Livingstone and the leftists became embroiled in factional in - fighting within Labour, vying for powerful positions with centrist members.

But the state United Teachers and the state AFL - CIO, two powerful labor organizations with thousands of members, aren't taking the same route.

Among the external players, the most powerful are the counties of Queens and the Bronx, who collectively control a large block of votes in the Council — 14 members are from Queens, another eight are from the Bronx — and have strong organizations with the ability to help move forward, or hinder, a local politician's career.

At a meeting Monday with a group of influential labor leaders representing some of the state's powerful unions, including 1199 SEIU, 32BJ, the Hotel Trades Council and the Communications Workers of America, Cuomo said he couldn't pass a budget with campaign finance reform because of Senate opposition, and pressed the leaders to rein in the restive members of the Working Families Party, who vote on the party's endorsement.

«I've got my people looking to see if we can do something with that fourth license that wasn't given... it would make sense to me that we might have an option at that,» Libous, the second most powerful GOP member in the Senate, continued.

It's totally plausible that the U.K. will continue to be a full member for a long time with the extra advantage that it may send the «Article 50» letter at any moment and it may use this threat as a powerful weapon.

IPOB Media and Publicity Officer, Mr. Emma Powerful said IPOB is a non violent group with responsible men in the society in Nigeria and in diaspora as members and therefore, can not involve in any violent activity that may possibly harm or take the life of anybody from within and outside Nigeria.

The Wall Street Journal reports Schneiderman's re-election campaign has purchased $ 1 million worth of advertising time with broadcast TV stations in New York, Albany, Buffalo, Rochester and Syracuse, New York's five biggest media markets; his endorsers include labor unions such as the powerful United Food and Commercial Workers Union Local 1500 with 23,000 members in New York City, on Long Island, and in Westchester, Putnam, and Dutchess counties.

In doing so, we note the powerful words in your impressive inaugural address as Speaker, to the effect that, for Members of Parliament, holding a Diplomatic Passport is both a privilege and responsibility which should not be abused: and that those who abused that trust would be appropriately dealt with.

The endorsement roll out of Farrell, the chairman of the Assembly's powerful Ways and Means Committee, was coupled with the backing of Councilwoman Inez Dickens, Harlem clergy members and the support from former Gov. David Paterson.

Most Council members had two unstated reasons for supporting Greenfield in using tax money to fund religious schools: they either have constituents who would like their choice to send their children to these schools to be further subsidized or they want to buy themselves good will with the increasingly powerful and cohesive blocs of Orthodox, fundamentalist, and Catholic voters should they decide to seek higher office.

Liberal Democrats have been polled on their favourite number - crunchers, with the choice of self - proclaimed Jeremiah of Twickenham Vince Cable, or the member of the powerful «quad» group of ministers, Danny Alexander.

There's speculation that at least two CB3 members, Marlow and Carlina Rivera (an affordable housing activist with the politically powerful GOLES organization), will run for the seat.

Unite, with 2 million members, is the most powerful of the union section of Labour's electoral college.

Several members said they think it's «great» that Silver is still pushing ahead with the task force, even if he doesn't hold the same powerful position he once did.

For the past six years, he has served as ranking member of the Assembly Ways and Means Committee, the powerful tax - writing committee with influence over the state's $ 168 billion budget.

«When you have an Attorney General who is a cabinet member and is the most powerful person in terms of fighting corruption, how is that possible in our part of the world that you sit there with your colleague and you are the one who will look at your colleague and say you are a thief, you have stolen money from the state and you have done something against us?

Engagement with members of Congress, for example, is most powerful when scientists transform scientific findings into real - life stories that use facts to demonstrate how a policy prescription will either hurt or improve the lives of constituents, the two said during the webinar, which drew more than 1,700 participants and nearly 300 questions.

«While ChIP - seq is very powerful in that it can query an entire genome for characteristics associated with enhancer activity in a single experiment, it can fail to identify some enhancers and identify some sites as being enhancers when they really aren't,» says Diane Dickel, a geneticist with Berkeley Lab's Genomics Division and member of the SIF - seq development team.

The powerful position of professors in combination with the passive attitude of faculty governors and members of the Board of Governors plays an important role.

Ralf Jungmann, Ph.D., an alumnus of Harvard's Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering and currently a Professor at the Ludwig Maximilian University (LMU) and the Max Planck Institute (MPI) of Biochemistry in Germany and Wyss Institute Core Faculty member Peng Yin, Ph.D., have been developing DNA - PAINT, a powerful molecular imaging technology that involves transient DNA - DNA interactions to accurately localize fluorescent dyes with super-resolution.