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How to use the word executive in a Sentence? Page #27

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The proposed Iranian nuclear agreement is classically an executive agreement and doesn't need to be a treaty with advice and consent of the Senate, but Congress should be able to opine given that congressionally mandated sanctions would have to be lifted.

Condoleezza Rice

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

The president's remarks were meant to be instructions. He is the semi-executive president, and the head of the executive branch. We should pay attention to what he says.

Trade Minister Nurettin Canikli

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

Take executive action on immigration? Bucket. New climate regulations? Bucket. It's the right thing to do.

Dick Cheney Obama

Found on CNN
9 years ago

Not every single executive would've done it. There are very recent examples of executives who would've essentially climbed into a bunker and not answer every question.

Doug Thornell

Found on CNN
9 years ago

Having an election in 2017 for the chief executive using universal suffrage is the genuine hope of the central government, and also the common wish of the majority of Hong Kong's people.

Chinese Vice President Li Yuanchao

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

We are determined with (Chairman) Piech and (Chief Executive Martin) Winterkorn to continue the successful path of VW also in future.

Berthold Huber

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

We've always known that the governor is his own best communicator, whenever possible we try to put him in his own words and let him do his own talking. At Christie's events, audience members are screened by state police before entering, but they're not screened for political ideology. In an ear when many politicians and campaigns select their audiences, a Chris Christie town hall is different. Anyone who hears about the town hall is allowed to show up. Neil Levesque, executive director of the New Hampshire Institute of Politics at Saint Anselm College, said town halls are popular because people like getting the chance to ask follow-up questions.

Kevin Roberts

Found on CNN
9 years ago

I think that's a poetic description of what has happened and poetry, like most language, is limited but it does have wings ... to carry a point, Giuliani pushes for Lynch confirmation 'A moderately tough confirmation' Senate Republicans adamantly deny the delay in scheduling a vote on Lynch's nomination is because she is African-American. Many point out that Lynch, if confirmed, would be replacing the country's first African-American attorney general who was confirmed by an overwhelming margin. Instead, Republicans and Democrats say the delay is part of an ongoing partisan battle. For some, it's part of a fight over a human trafficking bill that has stalled in the Senate. For others, the delay is retaliation for President Obama's 2014 executive actions on immigration. On the eve of Holder's announcement of his plans to leave the Department of Justice, the political number crunchers at FiveThrirtyEight.com predicted whoever the President nominated would.

Lorenzo Lynch

Found on CNN
9 years ago

And, you know, I am confident that any president who gets elected will be knowledgeable enough about foreign policy and knowledgeable enough about the traditions and precedents of presidential power that they won't start calling to question the capacity of the executive branch of the United States to enter into agreements with other countries.

President Barack Obama

Found on CNN
9 years ago

This Executive Order authorizes the Secretary of the Treasury, in consultation with the Attorney General and the Secretary of State, to impose sanctions on individuals or entities that engage in malicious cyber-enabled activities that create a significant threat to the national security, foreign policy, or economic health or financial stability of the United States.

President Barack Obama

Found on CNN
9 years ago

According to our projections, we will collect 10 million signatures to say 'Obama: repeal the executive order,'.

Jorge Rodriguez

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

The executive has received a windfall based on the bull market, which isn’t always attributable to their own performance, and that’s wrong.

Brandon Rees

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

You’re seeing overpayment, or outsized payments, for what is market performance or mediocre performance, directors can’t ignore the issue of pay inequality or rising executive pay.

Aeisha Mastagni

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

Those who voiced opposition to this bill are primarily arguing against capital punishment in general and that decision has already been made in our state, we regret anyone ever commits the heinous crime of aggravated murder to merit the death penalty and we prefer to use our primary method of lethal injection when such a sentence is issued. However, when a jury makes the decision and a judge signs a death warrant, enforcing that lawful decision is the obligation of the executive branch.

Marty Carpenter

Found on CNN
9 years ago

We regret anyone ever commits the heinous crime of aggravated murder to merit the death penalty and we prefer to use our primary method of lethal injection when such a sentence is issued. However, when a jury makes the decision and a judge signs a death warrant, enforcing that lawful decision is the obligation of the executive branch.

Marty Carpenter

Found on CNN
9 years ago

However, when a jury makes the decision and a judge signs a death warrant, enforcing that lawful decision is the obligation of the executive branch.

Marty Carpenter

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

When a company wants to join The Ecosystem, a developer or executive at a company looks for ways to make use of our cognitive technology, approaches us, and then a member of our team sees how to use their specific case, bring it to the ‘ build cycle ’ to make it a reality, and then eventually take their product into the market.

Lauri Saft

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

The executive committee today... decided that, yes, we are going to play in November and December and, yes, the final is going to be played on Dec. 18, it's a Sunday and it's also the national day of Qatar and, in principle, we try to play in 28 days.

Spokesman Walter De Gregorio

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

Unfortunately, there is at the moment no single government executive body that deals with Crimean matters.

Eskender Bariyev

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

It specifically inserts itself directly to the leader of another country saying, 'Don't negotiate with these guys because we're going to change this,' it is incorrect because they cannot change an executive agreement.

State John Kerry

Found on CNN
9 years ago

As far as we're concerned, Congress has no ability to change an executive agreement.

State John Kerry

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

We have changed leadership, set up a safety command center and now receive instant messages from the chief executive down to take immediate measures for the smallest incidents, including when a puddle is found or a customer trips.

Choi Kyung-in

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

When it says that Congress could actually modify the terms of an agreement at any time is flat wrong, you don't have the right to modify an agreement reached executive to executive between leaders of a country.

State John Kerry

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

On the face of it, this executive order should have been bullish if anything to oil, if it impedes oil moving of Venezuela in any way, but Venezuela is such a basket case that people tend to worry about so many other things concerning that country, and that's possibly what caused the market to go down.

Phil Flynn

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

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