Sentences with phrase «battles over priorities»

Battles over priorities in a huge governmentwide spending bill are essentially settled, leaving a scaled - back plan for President Donald Trump's border wall and a huge rail project that pits Trump against Capitol Hill's most powerful Democrat as the top issues to be solved.

Not exact matches

See also media from earlier this year - eg, Adele Ferguson, «Beer battle «priority» as ACCC puts heat on Lion, Carlton & United over beer tap deals» (SMH, 16 February 2015)

Both locally and nationally, it has been taken over by the hard - left who are more interested in fighting internal ideological battles than standing up for the priorities of working men and women.»

Though they were on opposite sides of the Sept. 9 primary battle between Sen. Tim Kennedy and Erie County Legislator Betty Jean Grant, and also divided over a subsequent fight for the county Democratic Party chairmanship, Erie County Executive Mark Poloncarz, Buffalo Mayor Byron Brown, Rep. Brian Higgins, and Kennedy have all lined up behind Panepinto, who, thanks to Grisanti's loss in the GOP primary to Kevin Stocker, has become a top priority for the Senate Democrats as they look to take control of the chamber.

Two women have indicated they are open to mediation over allegations that Lord Rennard harassed them, as senior party figures on Wednesday stressed that the priority was to stop the row descending into «mutually assured destruction» and a legal battle.

The battles to come in Washington over spending priorities could determine whether the United States will remain a global leader in scientific research.»

Opponents of national testing last week won the first of what could be several battles in the new session of Congress over the future of what was once President Clinton's top education priority.

Not only does this describe an uphill battle, but it serves to illustrate the puzzling priorities we often emphasize — one half of minority children don't complete high school, over one half of third graders can not read at grade level, and our policy and media attention are focused on affirmative action to achieve diversity in admissions as a compelling objective at our two flagship universities!

Public comment will likely weigh heavily on one of the major points of contention in the battle over spending priorities.

Though we started out solely as a rescue in 2004, over the past several years, our priority shifted to the battle against breed specific legislation in Tennessee, as well as across the country.

Charge of the Risk Brigades: This very serious and already protracted battle is over setting priorities for managing climate risk versus disease, hunger, obesity, drought, and poverty, over population, resource depletion, and so on.