Save your complaints about the overcrowded slate of country music awards shows each year.
Encouraged by the United States and several human rights organizations, Timor-Leste, also known as East Timor, stepped forward a week ago to contest what had been an uncontested slate of 10 countries, one for each Asian seat on the board.
At that time, Netflix missed expectations for domestic growth and its financials — but we'll see how things go now that the company has launched in a huge slate of new countries.
The constitutional framework of the European Union will anyway have to be reconstructed as the E.U. prepares to take in a whole slate of post-communist countries.
Across the grounds, a full slate of varied strains of country could be heard, from old-school honky-tonk and vintage-sounding string band workouts to Eagles- and Flying Burrito Brothers-inspired country rock¸ progressive Americana and heavily pop-leaning sounds.
The Taiyuan protest comes at a politically delicate time in China, with a Communist Party Congress expected in the coming weeks to anoint a new general secretary and a new slate of members for the country's most powerful body, the Standing Committee of the Politburo.
The minerals trade case and the other trade issues are likely to meet Chinese resistance, particularly as senior officials in Beijing are jockeying for position ahead of a Communist Party conclave this autumn that is expected to choose a slate of leaders for the country for the next five years or more.
For the Party, as it prepared to anoint a new slate of leaders to run the country for the next ten years, the timing was excruciating.
He also worked during the 1990s as a lobbyist for Patton Boggs, during which he successfully convinced the U.S. government to provide Pakistan a slate of F-16 jets the country had purchased but, because of its newly nuclear status, had not received.
Women make up more than half the country's population, and they have a slate of grievances about how the nation treats them.
