Sentences with phrase «city suburbs against»
Boak is running for the Hudson Valley - area Senate seat in the New York City suburbs against the first - term Murphy, who won the seat formerly held by Republican Greg Ball.
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«The rash of attacks we have seen in the city and suburbs is clearly being fueled by the anti-immigration sentiment sweeping the country — particularly against immigrants of Hispanic origin — that began in Arizona with that state's discriminatory immigration laws,» said Espada, who came to New York form Puerto Rico at the age of five.
Westchester County Executive Rob Astorino is seeking a third term today, facing off against Democratic candidate George Latimer in a hotly contested race for the New York City suburb.
«(Consolidation is) unlikely to reach the voters at this point, given the strong push - back against it, coming not only from communities in the city, but also much of the suburbs,» said Grant Reeher, director of the Campbell Public Affairs Institute and a political science professor in Syracuse University's Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, in an email.
The heavy investment by Mr. Coffey, a novice candidate, reflects a calculation that his most likely path to victory against more established contenders is to win by large margins upstate and place well in New York City's suburbs.
He runs best in New York City and in the city's suburbs but also has a double - digit lead against his competitors upstCity and in the city's suburbs but also has a double - digit lead against his competitors upstcity's suburbs but also has a double - digit lead against his competitors upstate.
In a decision that stunned many observers, Judge Harry Hammer of the state superior court in Hartford sided squarely against the plaintiffs challenging the racial isolation of students in that city and its suburbs.
Earlier this month, at the same time as the proposed ban on pit bulls in Montreal was suspended indefinitely by a judge in that city, pending the continued legal challenge by the Montreal SPCA, and emphatic anti-BSL protests from around the globe, a suburb of Montreal passed a resolution against breed specific legislation.
In the 1980s Kentridge was among one of the many creatives that was political involved against the apartheid — working out of the Market Theatre in one of Johannesburg's inner - city suburbs.
It is being reported in the news that yesterday, the Quebec Court of Appeal overturned a decision rendered by the Superior Court of Quebec refusing to authorize a class action filed by three residents of a suburb of Quebec City against the Quebec Minister of Transport due to the alleged noise pollution caused by the nearby A-73 highway (see a French article in La Presse).
A federal judge has ordered the city of Sunnyvale, Texas, a sprawling Dallas suburb, to revise zoning ordinances that discriminate against minorities and the poor.