Sentences with phrase «about blocking funding»

It's not just about blocking funding cuts or demanding more sustainable options.

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A VimpelCom subsidiary helped fund Wind Mobile's entry into Canada's wireless industry about five years ago but the federal government blocked the European telecom company from acquiring full control last year.

Back in early April, right before episode one of the current season aired, I posted a comment on TLT which said: «My biggest gripe is about the way JO portrays the schools as being the stumbling block, rather than the lack of funding.

As for concerns about whether or not the administration could retaliate against the lawsuits by blocking federal funding for projects like the Gateway Tunnel, Schneiderman said he's not concerned.

Long Island Republican Rep. Pete King hopes his gift of gab convinced Trump to support funding a stalled rail tunnel linking New York and New Jersey, saying the two conferred about the $ 30 billion Gateway Project the president has vowed to block during the annual Friends of Ireland Luncheon on Capitol Hill.

These areas heavily rely on federal funding of the arts, considering about 79 percent of National Endowment for the Arts block - grant funds go to rural communities and low - income areas, according to The Washington Post.

Spain is about to criminalise abortion; politicians in the UK repeatedly attempt to reduce the 24 - week limit; and today in Brussels, parliamentarians are examining an initiative that if successful would block European Commission development funding for maternal health.

«I'm very concerned about the strength and aggressiveness of you two pushing back,» said Sen. Sherrod BrownSherrod Campbell BrownHillicon Valley: Facebook, Google struggle to block terrorist content Cambridge Analytica declares bankruptcy in US Company exposed phone location data Apple starts paying back taxes to Ireland Overnight Health Care — Sponsored by PCMA — Trump hits federally funded clinics with new abortion restrictions Senate Dems call for probe into why Trump has not issued Russia sanctions MORE (Ohio), the panel's ranking Democrat.

Despite worries publicly issued by Cuomo about lawmakers trying to block the next round of funding targeted for Western New York job creation efforts, lawmakers on Monday delighted in announcing their support for the initiative.

A steady stream of callers complaining about loose litter and overflowing trash, as well as Council staff doing their own investigations of the blocks, led Councilwoman Helen Rosenthal to direct the DOE Fund to those 10 - block routes, said Marisa Maack, Rosenthal's chief of staff.

Some of the projects — and the ones getting the most funding — are ones we already knew about, like Joe Cornish «s Attack the Block and Mike Leigh «s Another Year.

The bill would give states the option of using the funds now distributed through a host of federal programs — amounting to about $ 24 billion a year on the whole — as a single block grant to states for public and private school vouchers.

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You may have heard SSAEG described in more political terms as a new $ 1.6 billion ESSA program that consolidates about 50 different federal funding programs into one state block grant.

One can argue that there are limits to what the federal government can do about states that inadequately fund education and that a Republican Congress would have blocked any attempt by the Obama administration to create more adequate and equitable education funding.

Since we're being asked about the ideal structure of a funding block, which factors it should contain, maybe we should look at all phases of education and try and establish some common themes.

If you own a large block of Vanguard's 500 Index Fund, but are concerned about the market, don't short some Spyders.

Independent developers in Spain are counting the cost of a ministerial decision to block $ 2 million (about $ 2.4 million) in European Union funding, designed to invigorate the local gaming scene.

These companies have known for decades that their products — coal, oil, and natural gas — cause harm, yet even today they continue to fund front groups and trade associations who seek to sow confusion about climate science and block policies designed to reduce the heat - trapping emissions that cause global warming.

It also highlights several of the building blocks already understood to be needed for an ambitious post-2012 climate change framework — the type of international framework that can bring about emission reductions whilst generating essential and significant funding for adaptation.

Legal aid funding is primarily on a block tariff system and a lower level criminal charge that ends with a one - day trial, will result in a total payment of about $ 500 to defence counsel, says Eder.

One post block - quoted a particularly vivid passage from the opinion about debtors» possibly using these inherited IRA funds for vacation homes rather than for the bankruptcy estate.

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The decision to block access to the fund was due to concerns about the «suitability and eligibility standards of this product,» an internal memo circulated to approximately 17,000 advisers states.

When politicians talk about «defunding» Planned Parenthood, they really mean blocking patients who depend on public health care funds from getting their care at Planned Parenthood health centers.

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And the organization's work isn't getting lighter: Title X — a federally funded low - income family planning program — is rumored to be on the chopping block, and a Supreme Court battle over whether or not crisis pregnancy centers can lie about abortion under the protection of the First Amendment looms in the future.