Sentences with phrase «year by his predecessor»

President Donald Trump shakes hands with Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin at the Treasury Department in Washington in April when the president signed an executive order to review tax regulations set last year by his predecessor.

The president's action leaves the national monument, created last year by his predecessor, Barack Obama, in legal limbo.

But in September, President Francois Hollande pledged to continue a ban on fracking imposed last year by his predecessor, Nicolas Sarkozy.

Not exact matches

Menear, who took the reins three years ago, has had the enviable though difficult task of building on his predecessor Frank Blake's remarkable run by finding new avenues of growth and preventing the company from falling into complacency.

His predecessor, in contrast, had wanted the program at 2,000 U.S. McDonald's by the end of the year.

The formula of the speech was largely in keeping with the one favoured by many of his predecessors, despite speculation Macron would seek to shake up France's New Year presidential rite of passage too.

Vestager's predecessor, Joaquin Almunia, held four years of investigations, triggered by complaints from rivals including Microsoft.

Medline is joining less than a year after he was suddenly replaced as CEO of Canadian Tire by his predecessor, Stephen Wetmore.

After a rocky 2014, IBM CEO Ginni Rometty came up with plan to get IBM on track after abandoning Roadmap 2015, a plan formed by her predecessor in which the company was supposed to hit specific revenue targets each year.

Energy Future Holdings (formerly TXU Corp), UPS, and AT&T, including its predecessor companies, have been recognized by WBENC every year since the award was created 12 years ago.

AT&T 1, Energy Future Holdings2, and UPS, and including all predecessor companies, have been recognized by WBENC every year since the award was created 14 years ago.

The amount is the same as pledged in the People's Guarantee — the platform released late last year by Ford's predecessor, Patrick Brown, which was based on wide consultations with party members — but less than the $ 2.1 billion over four years in the Liberal budget.

But with apathy and anger denting the UK's Catholic following (estimated at 9 percent of the population), the atmosphere greeting Benedict is expected to be very different from that festivities which met a pastoral visit 28 years ago by his predecessor John Paul II.

Since a high - profile visit to Israel and the Palestinian territories nearly a year - and - a-half ago, he's gone only to a handful of small countries not far from Rome - racking up nothing like the number of air miles logged by his predecessor, Pope John Paul II.

This was never going to last, since heresy and relativism had, of course, never disappeared from the «papal agenda» and neither — perhaps more to the point — had his (and his predecessor's) analysis that disunity in the modern church was the result of a clash between two different interpretations of the Council itself, one right, the other wrong: as Benedict once more explained it, as his first Christmas as Pope approached in December 2005, «On the one hand, there is an interpretation that I would call «a hermeneutic of discontinuity and rupture» [i.e., the line peddled by The Tabletfor thirty years]; it has frequently availed itself of the sympathies of the mass media, and also one trend of modern theology.

While this statement might seem fuzzy, it is best appreciated by contrast with a statement published almost fifty years earlier by one of the author's predecessors in the presidency, who was explaining why there was no room for a graduate school, in the usual mode, on a Catholic campus.

You know that I am descended from the most Christian emperors of the German nation, from the Catholic kings of Spain, the Archdukes of Austria and the dukes of Burgundy... After death they left us by natural right and heritage these holy Catholic observances, to live according to them and to die according to their example... I am determined to support everything that these predecessors and I myself have kept... It is certain that a single friar errs in his opinion which is against all of Christendom and according to which all of Christianity will be and will always have been in error both in the past thousand years and even more in the present... I am absolutely determined to stake on this cause my kingdoms and seignories, my friends, my body and blood, my life and soul.

The finding of the Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia that the registration by plaintiff's predecessor of the trade - mark had been fraudulently obtained, was based on the fact that in the application for registration, it was stated that applicant's use of the name «Tabasco» had been exclusive, whereas the testimony showed that several other manufacturers, during the preceding ten years, had, to its knowledge, used the word in connection with pepper sauce.

The conclusion of the Court is that plaintiff's predecessor originally acquired a valid trade - mark in the word «Tabasco» as applied to pepper sauce, and that, by no action or inaction during the subsequent years, has plaintiff lost the resultant right to its exclusive use.

By Monday this year's new stadiums had each hosted two series, and the Tigers» Comerica Park, the Astros» Enron Field and the Giants» Pacific Bell Park had begun to exhibit personalities distinctly different from their predecessors».

In the years since, the Australian presence on Tour has grown to 19 players, the most of any nation other than the U.S. And these Aussies are better trained than their predecessors, thanks in part to the free coaching and facilities made available to amateurs since 1993 by the Australian Institute of Sport.

Jose Mourinho is eager to bring Keane back to Old Trafford two - and - a-half years since he was sold to Burnley for # 2 million by Louis van Gaal, his predecessor as United manager.

This year I believe we have a team with greater moral fibre, led by a captain with far greater powers to motivate and inspire than his sulky predecessor.

The 43 - year - old led Bayern to victory in the European Supercup, the Club World Cup and then the Bundesliga / German Cup double, although he failed to emulate his predecessor, Jupp Heynckes, by failing to win the Champions League.

Jordan Henderson's indifferent form continued once again at the WWK Arena, as the 25 - year - old Liverpool captain failed to do what his predecessor Steven Gerrard had done so many times on tough European away grounds: lead by example.

That total is nearly 60,000 votes higher than the previous record of 183,672 set by Sen. Chuck Schumer in 2010 (Gillibrand, who was running to fill the remaining two years in the term of her predecessor, Hillary Clinton, received 182,624 on the WFP line that year), and approximately 80,000 over the party's highest 2008 statewide total, which was 159,613 for President Obama.

Pollsters predict another hung parliament in May this year, which is also likely to be characterized by a more complex constellation of political forces than its predecessor.

We are trying to change structures put in place by our predecessors in office for 16 years.

Tasini, who lost a longshot primary challenge to Gillibrand's predecessor, Hillary Clinton, in 2006, admitted his decision to drop out of the race this year was mostly motivated by his failure to raise sufficient funds to, as he put it, «be heard.»

Some were built 100 years ago by predecessors of Niagara Mohawk.

That stands in stark contrasts to the outlandish performances put on by his predecessor, Michael Bloomberg, who used some of his own fortune to hire a Broadway cast each year and put on elaborate, music - filled shows.

This month makes it 14 years since the dust over who is superior was raised by the predecessors of the monarchs.

For the first time yesterday, Cuomo talked at length about the new paradigm created by the creative use of extender bills by his predecessor, David Paterson, during last year's budget battle.

Both candidates said the county should consider a midyear budget, similar to one used by the state, that would remove election year politics from the calendar and allow the next executive to craft his or her own budget, rather than inherit their predecessor's plan.

When he had the chance to increase disability benefits three years ago, as part of his 2012 legislation to create a new pension tier called «Tier VI,» he instead maintained cuts that were put in place during the economic downturn in 2009 by his predecessor, David Paterson.

His win was an historic one in Harlem, which has been represented for the past 71 years by two black congressmen, Rangel and his predecessor, Adam Clayton Powell, Jr..

But the atmosphere was cordial between them and Education Commissioner Mary Ellen Elia, who has been on the job for just over half a year, and who has focused on easing tensions stirred up by her predecessor, and Governor Andrew Cuomo.

Heastie, the first African American speaker in the Assembly's 237 year history, gave a brief speech to the chamber, where he focused on moving on from the scandal brought on the Assembly by his predecessor.

Mayor Bill de Blasio broke with his predecessor by agreeing to settle the men's lawsuits against the city for discrimination and malicious prosecution for $ 41 million last year.

For her keynote Conservative party conference speech, Theresa May attempted to build on the theme set out by her predecessor 13 years ago.

His predecessor, David Cameron, bowed out in the summer of 2018, two years after he won that famous victory in the EU Referendum, by a much more comfortable margin than anyone had predicted.

Like its glossy predecessors this year, the latest TV spot featuring Gov. Andrew Cuomo is paid for by the state Democratic Committee, but this time touts his «Tax Free NY» proposal.

Following last year's controversy which saw the sacking of his predecessor Hugo Swire, Jeremy Hunt affirmed that free museum access would be protected by a Conservative government.

Adams» convoy may be costly but it's still less than the payouts allocated by his predecessor, Marty Markowitz, who spent nearly $ 200,000 a year for two chauffeurs.

State Senator John Flanagan and Assemblyman Carl Heastie, who last year rose to lead their respective legislative chambers after their predecessors were popped by the feds for being in bed with developers, have raised hundreds of thousands of dollars ahead of the 2016 budget season, with donations from key real estate interests.

In an unusual step that county Democrats say is politically motivated, a former Rensselaer County prosecutor wrote a letter to the Justice Department earlier this year asking federal prosecutors to investigate whether District Attorney Richard McNally had improperly ended the grand jury probe that was started by McNally's predecessor, Patricia DeAngelis, a Republican who did not seek re-election in 2007.

Mr. de Blasio was left without the reforms he wanted in New York City's rent laws, and his control of the city's public schools was extended by a mere 12 months (versus the six years last bestowed on his predecessor, Michael R. Bloomberg).

In Ghana, the government of the day work and do things on their own in consultation with their political ideologies and manifestos that do not take into consideration any national plan but here we are, the new government takes over and meet a commission mandated to ensure planning of the nation in the next 40 - years which was constituted by its predecessor.

Murray said that several years ago she forwarded allegations against Hempstead's then town clerk, Mark Bonilla, a Republican, to the district attorney's office, then headed by Singa's predecessor, Kathleen Rice.

His predecessor, Raymond Casey, who resigned Tuesday, made a paltry $ 175,000 a year by comparison.