At his press conference Mr. Kennedy said, `` All we want in Laos is peace not war a truly neutral government not a cold war pawn ''.

The appointment was announced at a news conference at which Skorich said he would retain two members of Shaw's staff -- Jerry Williams and Charlie Gauer.

A 14-power conference on Laos should then meet on May 5, he said.

At a news conference following the letter's release, Bush said, " I make no excuses.

It is said that he attended only a single scientific conference, which was in Berlin in 1828.

Deputy Foreign Minister of Israel, Danny Ayalon, said the conference was a " serious blow to peace " and " was another lost opportunity for the Palestinian leadership to adopt moderate views.

Greenpeace said in a press conference that the tree was originally from a logged area in the ancient forest which was supposed to be protected.

On 22 March, Rory O ' Connor held what was to become an infamous press conference and declared that the IRA would no longer obey the Dáil as ( he said ) it had violated its Oath to uphold the Irish Republic.

On May 26, 2004, Ashcroft held a news conference at which he said that intelligence from multiple sources indicated that al Qaeda intended to attack the United States in the coming months.

Arkady Volsky, an aide to Andropov and other general secretaries, recounts an episode that occurred after a Politburo meeting on the day following Andropov's demise: As Politburo members filed out of the conference hall, either Andrei Gromyko or ( in later accounts ) Dmitriy Ustinov is said to have put his arm round Nikolai Tikhonov's shoulders and said: " It's okay, Kostya is an agreeable guy ( pokladisty muzhik ), one can do business with him ...." The Politburo failed to pass the decision for Gorbachev, who was nominally Chernenko's second in command, to run the meetings of the Politburo itself in the absence of Chernenko ; the latter due to his declining health, began to miss those meetings with increasing frequency.

However, Asbury turned to the assembled conference and said he would not accept it unless the preachers voted him into that office.

During a PDPA conference Najibullah, talking about the indoctrination programme of KHAD officials, said " a weapon in one hand, a book in the other.

In April 2007, the Malaysian Foreign Ministry parliamentary secretary Ahmad Shabery Cheek said Malaysia and other Asean members had decided not to defend Burma if the country was raised for discussion at any international conference.

At a press conference in November 2008, Nicaraguan Foreign Minister Samuel Santos Lopez said, " Certainly, we think that the decision recognize independent Abkhazia and South Ossetia was fair and appropriate.

At a press conference in November 2008, Nicaraguan Foreign Minister Samuel Santos Lopez said, " Certainly, we think that the decision recognize independent Abkhazia and South Ossetia was fair and appropriate.

In a virtual press conference in May 2009 on the influenza pandemic Dr Keiji Fukuda, Assistant Director-General ad Interim for Health Security and Environment, WHO said " An easy way to think about pandemic ... is to say: a pandemic is a global outbreak.

Speaking at a National Party conference following the news of Biko's death then-minister of police, Jimmy Kruger said, " I am not glad and I am not sorry about Mr. Biko.

In August 2009, at a conference in Timmins, Ontario, a spokesman for Twain's label said a new record from the singer is still " nowhere in sight ".

Illustrating the historic importance Labor assigns to the changes, in a speech to a conference celebrating the 150th anniversary of the Eureka Stockade, Bracks said it was " another victory for the aspirations of Eureka ", and has described the changes as " his proudest achievement ".

On September 19, 2006, in a Reuters Newsmaker conference, Turner said of Iran's nuclear position: " They're a sovereign state.

In a press conference interview, the members of the Stone Roses said they had plans to record a third album.

At the press conference for its publication, Powell said if the government introduced a Bill to reform the Lords.

" We'll publicly propose a new ordinance very soon ," Daley said that afternoon at a press conference concerning the gun ban.

The phrase was coined in adverse reaction to something Murphy said when his devices failed to perform and was eventually cast into its present form prior to a press conference some months later — the first ever ( of many ) conferences given by Dr. John Stapp, a U. S. Air Force colonel and Flight Surgeon in the 1950s.

Douglas M. Pratt, president of the PTC, who attended the meeting, said the transit company is reviewing the work on the El.

Amalric was pious and attended mass every day, although he also " is said to have absconded himself without restraint to the sins of the flesh and to have seduced married women …" Despite his piety he taxed the clergy, which they naturally opposed.

Criticism includes several examples of cropping quotes from President Obama, Vice President Biden and Vice President Gore so they appear out of context, using image-manipulation software to edit the appearance of reporters from The New York Times and using footage from other events during a report on the November 5 Tea Party rally in Washington, D. C .; Media Matters said the intention of Fox News was to make it appear as if a larger number of protesters attended the event.

An annual " It's a Wonderful Life " celebration that Capra attended in 1981, during which he said, " This is one of the proudest moments of my life ," was recounted in The New Yorker.

In an effort to clarify this issue, Max Ferdinand Perutz later published what had been in the progress report, and suggested that nothing was in the report that Franklin herself had not said in her talk ( attended by Watson ) in late 1951.

Kosiński was friends with Roman Polanski, with whom he attended the National Film School in Łódź, and said he narrowly missed being at Polanski and Sharon Tate's house on the night Tate was murdered by Charles Manson's followers in 1969, due to lost luggage.

Some of his books said that he was born in Norfolk, Virginia although he later claimed that was a mistake ; he attended high school at the Baltimore City College.

Opened by Charlton Heston and introduced by Frank Sinatra, the ceremony was attended by so many Hollywood stars — said to be more than for any event in history — that one columnist wrote at the time that a bomb in the dining room would have brought about the end of the movie industry.

It has been said, however, that the influence he exerted on those who attended his lectures was not beneficial in this respect, that his opinions were delivered so dogmatically, and all who differed from him were disparaged and denounced so contemptuously, as to repress instead of stimulating inquiry.

There, he attended a lecture by Osama bin Laden and is said to have found him " unimpressive ".

Tulane University Sports Law Program Director Gabe Feldman ( who attended the hearing in court ) said, " Clearly the judge, by her questions, indicated she thinks Goodell overstepped his authority, and this case was always going to be about if he executed his power fairly ...

In May 2009, Ladies ' Home Journal posted an article on its Web site that said Abdul told them she attended the La Costa Resort and Spa the previous year to recover from physical dependence on prescription pain medications.

He regularly attended Joseph Priestley's Pennsylvania church when he was nearby, and said that Priestley's theology was his own, and there is no doubt Priestley should be identified as Unitarian.

Benjamin Franklin is also said to have occasionally attended the club's meetings during 1758 as a non-member during his time in England.

It is said too that he attended the courses of Arcesilaus and his successor Lacydes, in the Platonic Academy.

In an effort to clarify this issue, Perutz later published the report, arguing that it included nothing that Franklin had not said in a talk she gave in late 1951, which Watson had attended.

" In his autobiography, Music is my Mistress ( 1973 ), Ellington said he missed more lessons than he attended, feeling at the time that playing the piano was not his talent.

Robertson has said, " Although I worked hard at my studies, my real major centered around lovely young ladies who attended the nearby girls schools.

Based on the rare occasions when Arkan attended school, he was said to be a decent student with a quick and argumentative mind.

It was said that characters in the strip were based on people in Haverhill especially at the high school, which was attended by Bob Montana.

One authority said of the crowd which gathered there, " They had the hair of their heads very few of them longer than their ears, whereupon it came to pass that those who usually with their cries attended at Westminster were by a nickname called Roundheads ".

On one occasion, young Oscar Wilde attended one of Whistler's dinners, and hearing his host make some brilliant remark, apparently said, " I wish I'd said that ", to which Whistler riposted, " You will, Oscar, you will!

In a February 2010 interview with Jazzwax, Brubeck said he attended Mills, a women's college ( men were allowed in graduate programs ), specifically to study with Milhaud, saying, " Milhaud was an enormously gifted classical composer and teacher who loved jazz and incorporated it into his work.