Sentences with phrase «about the proposals by»

Keith Simpson, Shadow Foreign Affairs spokesman, on the troops surge: «We were sceptical about the proposal by President Bush of a surge.

Lawmakers and education leaders seemed especially concerned about a proposal by the governor to cap certain «expensed - based aids» that schools receive when they spend money on student transportation, building construction and BOCES services.

The governor was explicit during the interview about a proposal by de Blasio for a surcharge on houses in the city sold for $ 2 million or more.

Landowners in Southern Tulsa County are angry after learning about a proposal by PSO that could mean huge power lines cutting through thousands of acres of property.

Not exact matches

«The first three LNG proposals alone... would require about half of the electricity that's currently consumed by the entire province.»

A group of Perth's young professionals felt so strongly about proposals made in a review of the State's Liquor Licensing Act, they decided to have their say by making a submission signed by 87 endorsees from around the city.

Under Trump's tax proposal, top earners — taking in more than $ 699,000 a year — would see average annual tax reductions of about $ 215,000, according to an analysis by the non-partisan Tax Policy Center.

That proposal was shot down by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, with just about the entire oil and gas industry strongly criticizing the plan.

Now that Puerto Rico's Governor Ricardo Rosselló has introduced a fiscal proposal that will cope with the island's debt and balance the budget, and our decisions are being disciplined by a federal fiscal control board, we need to start thinking about what it will take to create a sustainable economy where more companies like Señor Paleta can grow.

Asked about a proposal drafted by Russia's lower house of parliament to criminalize observance of U.S. sanctions, Medvedev said the restrictions were aimed at destroying Russia's socio - political system and harming the economy and individuals.

Including just the effects of economic feedback from deficit reduction would reduce the cumulative deficit over the next 10 years by roughly $ 160 billion — or about 0.1 percent of GDP, on average — compared with CBO and JCT's conventional estimate of the President's proposals.

Horner said Alberta has tried to address some of Ottawa's complaints about the current system by pitching its own proposal — one that would create a new national enforcement agency as well as a national systemic risk committee made up of all 13 regulators and chaired by the federal minister.

You can gauge the interest in responsible investing simply from the increase in shareholder proposals being filed about ESG issues and the exponential growth in the number of questions being asked by institutional investors, researchers and clients - and as a CEO, I have to make trade offs that may not be in the best short term profit interest of the Bank but are viewed in our best long term interest.

Zooming in on climate change, Proxy Preview highlights one new shareholder proposal «that raises questions about transporting oil and gas by train and several taking up different angles on deforestation that connect ecological and human rights impacts.»

The proposal is about the federal government providing funding to groups, who need assistance and paying for this additional funding by a small «revenue neutral» tax increase.

Like other exporters, Canadian oil and gas producers have worried about protectionist rhetoric employed by Mr. Trump, and a border adjustment proposal in Congress that could effectively place an import tax on goods entering the U.S. market.

I am writing as one of your constituents to express my concern about the tax proposals put forth by federal Finance Minister Bill Morneau.

Perhaps not surprisingly, a recent proposal by the Financial Accounting Standards Board to eliminate pooling has caused deep consternation in corporate boardrooms concerned about earnings and among investment bankers who fear a serious downturn in M&A activity.

Any disputes about what material was or wasn't covered by the attorney - client privilege would then be decided by a judge, under the president's proposal.

We find that during contract negotiation years, unions increase the number of proposals they make by about one - quarter (and by about two - thirds during contentious negotiations), and change the subject of proposals to focus on matters personally costly to managers.

Indeed, recent books about how best to understand theological education include proposals by both Edward Farley, in TheoIogia, and Charles Wood, in Vision and Discernment, [16] paideia as the central model quite deliberately and self - consciously.

Perhaps it is only by being ironically utopian that this or any proposal can serve as an invitation to just that sort of critical reflection about a theological school well known to you.

My proposal is that what unifies this set of practices, making them genuinely «theological» practices and providing criteria of excellence, is that they are all done in service of one end: To understand God more truly by focusing on study about, against, and for Christian congregations.

Probably I can explain what I have in mind better by giving a concrete proposal as an example than by talking about what it would be like.

The one constraint this proposal does lay on decisions about the content of the course of study is that it be focused by rigorous and sympathetic study of a pluralism of types of Christian congregation.

To the extent that his philosophy consists of proposals about how to live, we are pressed to ask: By what authority would he lead us?

What the proposal does argue is this: Study of various subject matters in a theological school will be the indirect way to truer understanding of God only insofar as the subject matters are taken precisely as interconnected elements of the Christian thing, and that can be done concretely by studying them in light of questions about their place and role in the actual communal life of actual and deeply diverse Christian congregations.

I shall have some critical things to say about this proposal, but let it be known that I am impressed by the adversary even as I seek to slay him.

Their objections fall into two general categories: first, the simplistic proposal that the Peters Projection should be used exclusively (except possibly for navigation), and second, the number of incorrect statements made about the projection, and therefore (by implication) about other projections.

Enriched by the diverse proposals on how theological teaching might be done better, I put this book down still wondering about the «what» of the matter.

The local authority set up an investigative team that was meant to negotiate with the diocese but there was no right of reply about their proposal and so they straight away tried to demolish it by force.

A demonstration against the proposal will be held outside Ealing town hall by pro-life campaigners who say they should be free to explain to pregnant women about alternatives to getting an abortion.

The doctors increased the pressure behind the proposal by noting to the parents that a decision had to be made promptly because a child's sexual identity settles in by about age two or three.

The proposal that has been partially elaborated in this chapter is that a theological school is a community of persons trying to understand God more truly by focusing its study of various subject matters within the horizon of questions about Christian congregations.

· and finally, that it is particularly important to be critically attentive to the concepts of «theory» and «practice» that are employed by any proposal seeking to understand a theological school, and that it is also important to pay attention to the proposal's assumptions about human personhood.

Our proposal is that what makes a theological school theological is that it seeks to understand God more truly by focusing study of these matters through questions about Christian congregations.

As soon as you start to think about how Buttiglione's proposal would work, you realize that — even were it not for the authoritative teaching summed up by St. John Paul — they had a very good reason indeed.

Smucker's noises about producing their original sustainability report also resulted in a similar proposal by Trillium and Calvert in 2010 to be withdrawn, but the resulting report was short on substance.

The proposal was considered so unacceptable by the owners, mainly because they are inflexible about eliminating the Bird exception, that commissioner David Stern walked away from the table.

I began to see «getting my life back» as a pretty tricky proposal: trying to express milk or feed my baby enough to get out seemed stressful, and then when I did go out for a quick walk round the block or to a shop I found myself thinking about my baby, tied to her by invisible threads that followed me wherever I went.

This time, museum officials hope to address concerns raised by civic groups about the height and mass of the previous proposal.

In the fall of 2012, the N.F.L. invited me to its New York City headquarters to present a proposal to the league on ways that I thought MomsTEAM could help them preserve and strengthen the sport of youth football, in part by educating parents, and especially safety - conscious moms, about the dangers of concussions and ways in which the risk of concussion could be reduced.

I have no doubt that the founders and supporters of the Coalition for Divorce Reform, which promotes the Parental Divorce Reduction Act, and the Institute for American Values, which endorses the Second Chances proposal, are sincerely concerned about the number of young children being disrupted by divorce every year.

About 40 people turned out for a recent Plan Commission meeting to discuss the $ 9 million facility that would be built at 4500 Belmont Rd.. The commission also considered a project proposed by the Indian Boundary YMCA, which wants to build a 3,000 - square - foot outdoor pavilion on its campus at 711 59th St.. Although the Park District's proposal is much...

The proposals were drafted by the District 41 Think Tank, a volunteer group of about 60 staff members and parents, formed last year as part of long - range planning.

Approving the proposal would raise taxes for each household by about $ 60 a year for every $ 100,000 of home value, starting in spring 2002.

The proposal opened up discussion among village officials about the need for regulations on food carts, which currently isn't addressed by village code.

«My concern is not about the illegal alien dish washer looking to get to work, this extreme Mayor's proposal, joined by efforts in the New York State Senate to provide New York State driver's licenses to illegals, will simply provide a mask to those seeking to harm the United States,» Ball said in a statement.

Miliband could go further to substantiate his claims by talking more about Labour inspired solutions, including proposals to establish community banks and a state investment bank.

On the eve of Vice President Mike Pence's visit to the Buffalo area, Schumer urged New Yorkers to demand an explanation about Republican proposals to eliminate a major federal tax deduction used by millions of state residents.