Sentences with phrase «woman president makes»

Nearly 20 percent say the opportunity to elect the first woman president makes them more inclined to vote for Clinton in November, and about 10 percent say it makes them less likely to vote for her.

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• Speaking of Time's Up... Attorney Tina Tchen, who Bloomberg describes as «arguably the most well - connected person working in women's rights today, thanks to her six years as an assistant to President Barack Obama and as first lady Michelle Obama's chief of staff,» talks about why it was so important that Time's Up include a legal defense fund: «The fastest way to make sure that someone isn't getting bullied by a lawyer for someone rich and powerful is to make sure that person has a lawyer, too.»

Pointing to examples such as seeing «moral equivalence in Charlottesville» and treating women «like they're pieces of meat,» Comey explained that Trump's inability to «respect and adhere to the values that are at the core of this country,» most notably the truth, make him unfit to be president «on moral grounds.»

«Since 1920, women have sort of been fighting to make the vote real,» says Heidi Hartmann, the founder and president of the Institute for Women's Policy Research (Iwomen have sort of been fighting to make the vote real,» says Heidi Hartmann, the founder and president of the Institute for Women's Policy Research (IWomen's Policy Research (IWPR).

Of the 15 bank presidents and governors who make up the rate - setting FOMC, 3 are women.

That landed it at No. 1,840 on the Inc. 5000 in 2015, and made it the No. 1 company on the Women Presidents» Organization's list of fastest - growing companies in 2014.

As Harvard university president, he made headlines for remarking that women might have an aptitudinal problem with math, one of a few controversies that led to his early resignation.

That's including Vicki Hollub, who made history when she became president and CEO of Occidental Petroleum this spring, the first woman to lead an independent oil giant in the U.S.

«This is unethical and immoral legislation that makes women guinea pigs in an unmonitored, inappropriate experiment,» said Vicki Saporta, the president of the National Abortion Federation.

Let's hope that the next decade will finally bring us the first female president, but that would mean that women need to make that happen.

On Wednesday, Sen. Toni Atkins, D - San Diego, was making history in Sacramento when she took over as California Senate president pro tempore and became the first woman and...

Speakers making the case for why it's time to listen to the experts and Canadians — and get down to business and develop a made - in - Canada proportional representation system include Hassan Yussuff, President of the Canadian Labour Congress, Katelynn Northam, electoral reform campaign lead at Leadnow, Farhat Rehman of the Canadian Council of Muslim Women and Annie Bérubé, director of government relations at Équiterre.

The announcement was made by Dr. Betty Spence, president of NAFE, who describes the winners as «women who have overcome obstacles in achieving heights in their own careers.

«WBENC's 14 WBE Stars are exceptional leaders whose accomplishments make a powerful and positive impact on their industries and their communities,» said Pamela Prince - Eason, President and CEO of WBENC, the nation's leader in women's business development.

The suit, however, makes the former model the second woman this month to take legal action in order to speak publicly about an alleged past relationship with the president.

The Association originated in the thought of its president, who desired to see Brooklyn made a cleaner and more attractive city, through a more patriotic interest on the part of the women.

The president of the university (sic) making a statement while denying insurance coverage to women is an affront; these religious nuts should be charged with intellectual fraud!

More than 50 years later, the moment still resonates profoundly with Clinton, who has had an illustrious political career and could again seek to make history as the first woman president.

«The president's policy respects religious liberty and makes free preventive services available to women,» Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius said in the statement.

The separation between church and state is slowly being dissolved, an atheist will NEVER be elected president, Christians believe that a woman should not be able to make decisions about her own body, religion is responsible for untold amounts of hate, violence, and bigotry.

The image of a woman who is battered for 20 years by her clergyman husband and who would forgive him, «because the Bible tells her to,» the image of a young mother and father who can not understand why their three - year - old daughter was sexually abused in the day care center to which they had entrusted her each morning; the image of a woman who was sacked from the women's program of her church because she refused to comply to the request of the president of the church that she and the other women vote for him in his election campaign; the image of a 14 - year - old migrant domestic worker who faces the death sentence on trumped up charges, because she would not give in to the sexual demands of her employer; the image of a male priest of a church saying that every time he beats his wife she should thank him, because she is one step closer to salvation; or the priest who would make sexual advances on a woman who out of vulnerability turns to the church for pastoral comfort... these are but a glimpse of the many such images that are gathered during the course of this Decade.

«The president's interest at a policy level is in making sure that this coverage is extended to all women because it's important,» said White House Press Secretary Jay Carney.

«We have received a tremendous amount of positive feedback from attendees this year, really making this summit the most successful one in our history,» said Hattie Hill, President and CEO at the Women's Foodservice Forum.

Women of the Vine & Spirits began when President, Deborah Brenner, researched and wrote the bestselling book, Women of the Vine: Inside the World of Women Who Make, Taste, and Enjoy Wine.

While there are women in NBA 2K league staff roles, such as Jazz Gaming Manager Angie Klingsieck and Pacers Gaming team president Kelly Krauskopf, out of the of 250 players that were interviewed, only one was a woman and she ended up not making the draft pool.

A lot of people made fun of Mike Pence in April when it was revealed that the Vice President won't eat alone with any other woman than his wife, Karen, or even attend events where alcohol is served unless she's there, too.

Kudos to the League of Women Voters of Chicago and its president, Edna Pardo, for their stand against the preposterous notion that taxpayers should subsidize profit - making sports enterprises.

It is my hope that President - elect Obama will take the petition seriously and, with the help of Tom Daschle, make the positive changes needed to create an environment where not only can we achieve our national breastfeeding targets, but women and their families can be successful in reaching their personal breastfeeding goals too.

«When the door was opened for people to ask questions, I was the first person to put up my hand; it is possible that the minister did not see me... anytime I put up my hand so forcefully, the minister came and said this is the time we want gender balance so it has to be a woman and of cause not being a woman I didn't have the chance and then he will come up and say no we've had a one or two newspapers so let's have radio, because I wasn't with radio, I didn't have the chance and so on and I was getting deeply frustrated and I am not saying this to mean the minister was deliberately avoiding me; it may well be that he genuinely wanted to achieve that balance... it went on and on until the President made an intervention which led to my being given the microphone; that for me may have indicated that the President was willing to listen to everybody...» he narrated.

The President acknowledged the case made by the WIPF for better representation of women in his government and assured that women would fare well in the composition of parastatals and their boards in the first quarter of the year.

Former President John Dramani Mahama has made a case for governments on the continent to take an interest in empowering women in agriculture in order to achieve food security.

Here's the issue: the entire four - day message of the Convention was not about expanding Trump's base of support among minorities or women (the 2016 GOP platform says nothing about providing «equal pay for equal work»; it was not about proposing substantive solutions to problems facing the nation; it was not even about making amends with traditional conservatives and moderate Republicans to achieve party unity (the Republican governor of Ohio, John Kasich, the Bush family, and all former Republican nominees for president, except one, did not attend).

A New York State judge ruled that a defamation lawsuit brought by a woman who has said Trump made unwanted sexual advances could go forward, raising the possibility of a public airing of other allegations of sexual misconduct against the president.

WASHINGTON (Reuters)- U.S. President Donald Trump's attorney, Rudy Giuliani, said on Sunday he would not rule out the possibility that payments were made to women other than porn star Stormy Daniels to get them to stay silent about allegations against Trump.

Meanwhile, when asked if Cohen made any payments to other women on behalf of the president besides adult film star Stormy Daniels, Giuliani said, «I have no knowledge of that, but I would think if it was necessary, yes.»

The president made the promise to end the rampant harassment of market women by Assembly taskforce after his attention was drawn to it by the leadership of the market women.

In 1984, Vice President and Democratic nominee for president Walter Mondale chose Ferraro as his running mate, making her the first woman and first Italian American to run on a major partPresident and Democratic nominee for president Walter Mondale chose Ferraro as his running mate, making her the first woman and first Italian American to run on a major partpresident Walter Mondale chose Ferraro as his running mate, making her the first woman and first Italian American to run on a major party ticket.

Announcing the facility at a meeting with the First Lady and her delegation of women Ghanaian business leaders and entrepreneurs, the President of CBMIE, Mr Chen Yongxin said the facility was made available to Ghana because the country is a preferred destination to do business in Africa and has tremendous confidence in the government of Ghana to improve on the living conditions of the people through the 1D1F initiative.

The President, who called for the strengthening of the AU Advisory Board on Corruption to make it more proactive, also proposed to enlist the support of parliamentarians, women associations, the media, business community, faith - based groups, the youth, educational institutions and traditional rulers among others in the campaign.

«We can not minimize the important contributions women have made to our borough and our city, and I was proud to honor so many deserving women at this wonderful annual event,» said Borough President Diaz.

Laws making homosexuality punishable by jail time in Uganda, and lack of property rights for women in India and the Middle East contribute to the AIDS epidemic by leaving people vulnerable to the disease without the legal standing to seek help, said Joseph Deiss, president of the UN General Assembly at the ceremony.

President John Dramani Mahama wants to give Ghanaian women strong representation in the decision - making process.

Lois B. Morris, president of the Shelter Island League of Women Voters, said Monday that while the «very tasteless» joke made the audience a little «uncomfortable» during the speech, «the people who complained about it weren't there.»

«Amber Small's commitment to her community, to women and public service make her the right choice to represent the 60th Senate District in Albany,» NYSUT President Kim Magee said.

Pennsylvania Republicans picked a tough - talking state senator and a staunch supporter of President Donald Trump to be their party's nominees for governor and U.S. Senate, as a big splash in U.S. House primaries made it more likely that women will break the all - male hold on Pennsylvania's congressional delegation.

Club President Tony Hoffmann reviewed the points made in the letter to Sen Reid regarding his recent reform of Senate Filibusters and the Resolution for Sen. Gillibrand favoring her approach in legislation protecting women military personnel who have been sexually assaulted.

, or without a vigorous opposition press, or with a slanderous and irresponsible opposition press, or which have signed up to supranational bodies outside democratic control, or which have signed up to international treaties ditto, or which make use of protected seats for women or ethnic minorities, or where the if the prime minister is one ethnic group the president is conventionally always another, or where unlimited campaign donations are allowed, or disallowed, or where significant numbers question the legitimacy of the polity holding the vote, or where voting is compulsory, or where non-citizens can not vote, or where they can, or where there is (or is not) a second chamber or supreme court that can block popular legislation...

The three, Japheth Baidoo, organizer; Anita Anan, women's organizer and Kirk Mensah, deputy regional communications director, also made a case for the party to persuade President John Mahama to lead the party in the 2020 elections.

HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP)- Pennsylvania Republicans picked a tough - talking state senator and a staunch supporter of President Donald Trump to be their party's nominees for governor and U.S. Senate, as a big splash in U.S. House primaries made it more likely that women will break the all - male hold on Pennsylvania's congressional delegation.

New Jersey Democratic Sen. Cory Booker called on President Trump on Saturday to resign from office over sexual harassment allegations made by several women against him.