Sentences with phrase «long public battle»

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«The current legislation is just the latest battle in what has been a long series of events for the past 150 years,» says Leslie Lenkowsky, professor of practice in public affairs and philanthropy, at Indiana University, in Bloomington.

Public momentum could go a long way if the battle comes down to Musk versus a group of officials who have re-elections to worry about.

The visits were not just about economics; they provided the Islamic Republic with a long - denied public relations platform in the intensifying battle for ideological supremacy in the Middle East.

«For someone like me who has long campaigned for open and honest data in public life I could not have set foot on a battle bus that has at the heart of its campaign a figure that I know to be untrue,» she told the BBC.

So it will go on, I suppose, till we find someone with enough courage, enough learning, enough public standing to undertake the synthesis; there is a battle royal, long overdue, which still has to be fought out at the level of academic debate (p13).

:) It's also funny how once we become moms and we're in public — when we'd normally be a bit more shy or self conscious — nothing fazes us as long as we come out alive and conquering any battles we may have faced with baby.

Moms and dads imagine big (public) messes, stressful tantrums and a long, drawn out battle for the... more

Moms and dads imagine big (public) messes, stressful tantrums and a long, drawn out battle for the bowl.

The long - running battle between the Working Families Party and the NY Post continues this morning with an e-mail from the labor - backed party's executive director that uses the tabloid's latest anti-WFP editorial as a rallying cry for a statewide public campaign financing system.

The two men, engaged in a long - running public battle that has even affected public policy, both spoke about achieving a higher minimum wage, and then shook hands and hugged at the end of the one - mile trot from 145th Street to 125th Street.

There are also raw, long - term battles being fought on new fronts: The teachers» unions, for instance, hate Cuomo's proposed tax breaks for private schools, and the governor disdains the unions» power over public schools.

Former Assemblyman Richard Brodsky has scored a victory in his long - running battle against the Nuclear Regulatory Commission and Entergy, the owner of Indian Point, thanks to a federal appeals court that reversed a lower court ruling on the commission's responsibility to involve and notify the public before exempting the Hudson Valley nuclear power plant from health and safety requirements.

This has been borne out in their various proxy battles over the future of charter schools, the funding of the Metropolitan Transportation authority's capital plan, the growth of e-hail giant Uber, and how long the mayor should have authority over the city's public schools.

The contract showdown between the Buffalo Public Schools and its teachers union has been a long time coming.Perhaps surprising is that teachers are frustrated with those on both sides of the bargaining table, feeling caught time and again in the middle of what has become an epic battle shaped by politics, ideology and personalities.They feel many people in the community bl...

If — and it's a big if — there does turn out to be a contested leadership battle and if — and it's another big if — John Reid has permanently improved his public image and it doesn't drop straight back down against once the news agenda moves on, then he appears to gone a long way towards positioning himself as the best alternative to Brown.

Within a span of just five days, Teachout's long - shot Democratic campaign won round one of a legal battle with Cuomo over her residency, though the governor is appealing the Brooklyn judge's ruling; got a much - needed infusion of some $ 50,000, thanks to a boost from the political action committee of Harvard law professor and leading campaign finance reform advocate Lawrence Lessig; and announced an endorsement from the Public Employees Federation, New York's second - largest public Public Employees Federation, New York's second - largest public public union.

The amicus brief cited examples from an array of groups increasingly using public records laws to gain access to emails beyond those of climate scientists, including animal rights groups that have long waged legal battles against researchers who use animals in their studies and opponents of genetically modified organisms seeking to expose the emails of scientists in efforts to demonstrate links to industry.

It may have seen the report as just another stage in the long public relations battle between BT and cable.

In waging a nasty public battle over CRISPR, the protagonists have given science a black eye for the reason Swanson suggested on that long - ago night in Marin County: money and glory.

Southern Research scientists joined the front lines in the battle against HIV / AIDS in 1986, not long after the deadly viral infection emerged as a terrifying new public health threat in -LSB-...]

While co-directors Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris (Ruby Sparks, Little Miss Sunshine) wring tension and suspense from the same - day build - up to the match, the match itself — captured by grainy, fuzzy TV cameras with the occasional, ground - level insert — and the immediate aftermath (symbolic and figurative, more than real or long - lasting), it's in the months - long lead - up to the match, following Billie Jean King (Emma Stone, never better) and Bobby Riggs (Steve Carell) where Battle of the Sexes steps up its game to offer a sympathetic, insightful, poignant, behind - the - scenes look at the private lives of the public personas who stepped onto the tennis court of the Houston Astrodome on September 20th, 1973, as Americans on both sides of the political divide watched in rapt attention.

For older education researchers, all calls to conduct formal experiments probably have a «déjà vu» quality, reminding them of a battle they thought they had won long ago — the battle against a «positivist» view of science that privileges the randomized experiment and its related research and development model whose origins lie in agriculture, health, public health, marketing, or even studies of the military.

The public ate it up, but that kind of endless battle could last only so long.

The district and Ms. Johnsen are currently locked in a long - running legal battle whose outcome could have consequences for other nurses working in public schools.

Despite long waiting lists and well - documented academic gains for Success students, leaders are in a near - constant battle with city education officials for the space in under - utilized public - school buildings that will allow their programs to continue to grow.

No longer would funding be limited to the most sophisticated and aggressive parents, who are more likely to spend years battling with an intransigent public school bureaucracy.

In response, the Battle Creek Public Schools district has developed a plan to lengthen the school day by 50 minutes and delay start times from 7:45 a.m. to 8:15 a.m. (Editorial, Longer school day makes sense (Nov. 22, 2011) BattleCreekEnquirer.com.)

The lawsuit — which was filed in 2011 and became the longest legal battle over school finance in state history — was brought against the state after the Legislature cut $ 5.4 billion in public education funding from the state budget while schools were already struggling to implement new academic standards.

In April, all four on the Mayor's slate for the school board — not one of them with a child in public school — defeated a slate of candidates from the teachers» union that has long battled the Mayor over school choice.

While there is a war on public education it is no longer a one - sided battle, as educators across the country are showing the power of collective action.

In Massachusetts, a years - long battle over eliminating a cap on expanding public charter schools will become even more heated thanks to incoming Gov. Charlie Baker, who has signaled that he will support reformers on this issue through his appointment of former New Schools Venture Fund boss - turned - federal education official Jim Peyser as the state's new superintendent.

They have long been at war with the teachers» unions as they battle for better schools and better services and have advanced a systematic attack on teachers» unions all the way to the Supreme Court of the United States, which will hear a case, Janus v. AFSCME, this month that could deal a major blow to public - sector unions nationwide.

Hachette, currently entangled in a long and very public battle with Amazon, relies heavily on fiction bestsellers.

Hachette, currently entangled in a long and very public battle with Amazon, relies heavily... [Read more...]

Amazon finally issued a public response to the festering battle with book publisher Hachette, claiming that the negotiating tactics it has pursued in contract talks are commonplace, justified and aimed at giving better long - term value to Amazon shoppers.

A self - taught artist, he sketched and painted for pleasure from an early time, but it wasn't until the 1940s when a long battle with tuberculosis disrupted his life and job as a bank official, that he began painting seriously, and in 1951 he began exhibiting his work in public.

The move comes after a decade long legal battle between those who wanted to relocate the collection to a larger premises and those who wished to maintain the vision of the gallery's founder, Albert C Barnes, limiting public access and allowing the school to use the art collection for study purposes.

But the 110 million album - selling folk musician has been battling to be taken seriously as a visual artist for almost as long as he has been singing songs, and now 12 of his artworks are set to enter the National Portrait Gallery - the first time he has exhibited in a public museum in the UK.

Public power has long been a San Francisco battle, finding its way on the city's November 4th ballot eleven times since the 1920s.

The only reason Master Stirling can read me in a Canadian national newspaper is because Maclean's and I fought a long, hard public battle and won it!

Highlighting the importance of the environmental cause and bringing to the middle of the public debate the concern with the «Common Home», the Laudato Si Encyclical released in June 2015, he shed light on a battle front long deprecated by the Church.

The publication of this judgment is not only of wider legal and public interest in knowing the outcome of this long fought and extensively reported court battle.

In this article on The Conversation, Professor Emily Banks, Scientific Director of the Sax Institute's 45 and Up Study, outlined why one of the most powerful weapons that doctors, public health departments and governments could use in their battle to decide which disease to help prevent next was the long - term population study or «longitudinal cohort study», because it can build up a comprehensive picture of health at a population level over time.

... We end up with a full - blown battle over the meanings of words; each side digs in for the long haul (at least on the surface as far as the public is concerned).