(1) The vast majority of members would rather have a quiet body, offering technical assistance here and there and convening an occasional summit.
(2) Israeli television reported that Binyamin Netanyahu, the prime minister, was being briefed on the search and had convened an emergency security cabinet session with his senior defence chiefs at the defence ministry compound in Tel Aviv.
(3) The report of a panel convened by Save the Children and chaired by an independent expert from Public Health England says there is no conclusive evidence as to how Cafferkey was infected, but it points to the difference between her equipment and that of other volunteers.
(4) The World Health Organisation has convened an emergency committee to discuss the “explosive” spread of the Zika virus , with one of its scientists estimating there there could be 3m-4m Zika infections in the Americas over the next year.
(5) The conference was convened by the Prince of Wales, who has set up a working group to find ways of funding forest protection.
(6) A group convened by the WHO recommended full disclosure, but ordered an urgent review of the security and safety of labs where such viruses are stored.
(7) A verification of the epidemiological material, convened according to a common programme and the method of identification was made in separate districts of Ivanovo and the Andizhan Region.
(8) The two sides announced a renewed intention of convening a Geneva 2 conference to seek an overarching peace deal in Syria.
(9) The case, which highlighted the ultimate power of commanders as "convening authorities" to nullify a conviction by a military jury, became a focus of last month's Senate hearing on military sexual assault .
(10) I can therefore tell all members of this house that the cross-party charter will be on the agenda at a specially convened meeting of the privy council on 30 October.
(11) Addressing the World Economic Forum's 2006 panel, which was convened to consider global catastrophes, he gave this advice: "A great leader acts in awareness of the big picture and accepts responsibility for the long-term consequences of the policies he or she pursues.
(12) On 9 September, just two days after Stapel was suspended, the university convened an ad-hoc investigative committee of current and former faculty.
(13) Medical Research Council, Academy of Finland convened a Consensus Development Conference on Blood Cholesterol and Coronary Heart Disease on April 24-26, 1989.
(14) An interdisciplinary task force was convened to design and implement the transfer center, requiring two months from conception to implementation.
(15) And this week, at a summit of police and religious leaders convened by De Blasio and Cardinal Timothy Dolan, he drew a sharp contrast between the violent clashes between police and protesters in Ferguson with the peaceful protests that have marked Garner’s death.
(16) When the IPCC took over the investigation, a meeting was convened with the family and City of London police.
(17) His intervention came on the day that the 115th Congress convened, with Republicans in control of both chambers, hoping that the incoming president will prove willing to sign long-planned bills into law.
(18) The Biological Stain Commission-sponsored workshop was convened to address the following issues: a manufacturers' testing program for probity of commercial antibodies, development of a manual for performance criteria and quality control assurance procedures, standardization of package inserts, standardization of information provided in the Materials and Methods sections of publications, establishment of a reagent and procedure clearing house, study of the effects of different fixation regimes on tissue antigens, and investigation of the environmental conditions needed for antigen-antibody interaction.
(19) As the talks quickly broke down in Luxembourg, in Brussels, Donald Tusk, the president of the European council, promptly convened an emergency leaders’ summit on Monday evening, putting the onus on both Merkel and Tsipras as the two key leaders to bend towards concessions to clinch a deal.
(20) You know, there has been talk about "should we convene a conversation on race".
Covenable
Definition:
(a.) Fit; proper; suitable.
Example Sentences:
(1) A part of this service was a covenant in the form of a responsive reading between the new physicians and the public.
(2) Mecom also said that it had reached an agreement with its banks to amend its debt facilities including a trading covenant "holiday" until June next year.
(3) These covenants prohibit sellers from competing with buyers and employees from competing with former employers for a specified period of time.
(4) He was critical of the MoD for failing to help single servicemen and said that the post should be responsible for overseeing the military covenant – Britain's "duty of care" to its armed forces.
(5) Ironically, this was the same approach initially favoured in the case of the military covenant, which Fox was forced to ditch after pressure from armed forces charities.
(6) While agreeing with Veatch's criticisms of unilateral ethical decision making by physicians, Kultgen argues that his contract model has only limited value--as a heuristic device for thinking about the principles underlying medical ethics--while conceptual difficulties preclude its serving to reconcile conflicting traditions in ethical theories or to achieve a consensus on a morally valid medical covenant.
(7) The Covenant itself is out of private reach, residing in the Public Records Office.
(8) Covenants come with caveats and ancient woodlands are fair game if there is overriding public interest.
(9) I can’t speak for members, but from the trustees’ perspective a defined benefit scheme, when combined with a sponsoring employer with a weak covenant, is almost the perfect storm for pensions.” The Pensions Regulator has the power to pursue parties that it believes should contribute to underfunded schemes, and experts believe that it is considering whether to pursue Green.
(10) "Revenue at the time was not generating the sufficient margin for us to be generating the cash needed, there was a risk that covenants could be breached.
(11) The report, From Right to Buy to Buy to Let , recommends a review and calls for mandatory covenants on all right-to-buy properties so they cannot be let through the private sector.
(12) The International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, to which Iran is a party, requires states that have not yet abolished the death penalty to restrict its use to the "most serious crimes".
(13) This is a covenant between me and God, and between me and the people of Pakistan," he said, under the new party symbol, a martial-looking falcon.
(14) 2) and the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (Article 12.
(15) Clock is ticking The company also told the stockmarket that it risked breaching its banking covenants by Christmas if it did not undertake an equity fundraising.
(16) He said the police had violated national policy by “causing nine Australians to be placed in danger of being subject to capital punishment”, 14 years after Australia had signed up to the second optional protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights.
(17) "Jimmy Saville asked you about the length of time necessary for charitable covenants to qualify for tax relief," a prime ministerial aide noted.
(18) Surgical professionals enter into an unwritten covenant to keep an unspoken promise to discharge their unseen duties in the aseptic chain of events, with only their own consciences to monitor their responsibility to the patient.
(19) The most noteworthy threats to the traditional covenant are the changing values and erosion of trust emanating from the competition model of delivering and paying for medical services.
(20) "The government's treatment of Dieu Cay appears to be inconsistent with Vietnam's obligations under the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, as well as the provisions of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights relating to freedom of expression and due process," it said in a statement.