Sentences with phrase «against budget cuts»

You name the issues that you covered (you were against budget cuts and calendar changes), and you cite an authority figure, the student dean, who praised your work.

It was used by Bloomberg himself to shut down a peaceable demonstration against budget cuts.

And indeed, who would know better than those masters of the art of being all things to all people, decrying federal debt with one voice while passionately arguing against budget cuts and higher taxes with another?

The weeklong teachers» strike in Chicago has crippled the nation's third - largest public school system as union leaders fought against budget cuts and a reform agenda laid out by the city's Democratic mayor, Rahm Emanuel.

In Arizona, for example, a law prohibiting teachers from speaking out against budget cuts and other education policy issues included a $ 5,000 fine.

Leiden is not the only Dutch university taking drastic measures against budget cuts.

Educators and parent leaders from Brooklyn's PS / IS 180 and PS 231, the District 75 school with which it shares space, held an early - morning «Black Friday» protest against budget cuts and layoffs on June 17 as part of the ongoing series of «Fight Back Friday» demonstrations at schools around the city.

The construction trades unions added their muscle to the fight against budget cuts and layoffs in the public sector when they rallied at Brooklyn's Cadman Plaza and then marched across the Brooklyn Bridge to City Hall in the early afternoon on June 15 in what organizers called a «Solidarity March for the Middle Class.»

Almost the entire Queens political delegation joined close to 1,000 chanting UFT members on the steps of Queens Borough Hall for an April 14 rally against budget cuts and teacher layoffs organized by the UFT's Queens office.

The aid pipeline is shut until Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras, elected Jan. 25 promising to push back against budget cuts, bends to EU policy demands.

Not exact matches

Pensioners demonstrate to protest against deep cuts to pensions and measures included in the government's draft 2018 budget, on November 23, 2017 in Athens.

We rage against out - of - control CEO pay, demand stricter corporate governance, and yet we love the dominant leader who cuts through the noise, gives us something we didn't know we wanted and creates the most valuable company in the world in an industry — consumer electronics and entertainment — that commands just two or three per cent of household budgets and GDP.

New EI policies, designed to hurt rather than help; new appeal mechanisms, rigged against claimants; and employee cuts everywhere, made without rhyme or reason across the public service, as the Parliamentary Budget Office has just reported.

The bishops cautioned against overreaching budget cuts that endanger «poor and vulnerable people.»

Washington (CNN)- A coalition of Christian groups opposing budget cuts for the poor is growing - and so is the conservative media's backlash against the group.

Given the looming March 1 deadline for across - the - board sequestration which would reduce State Department operations by $ 850 million and foreign assistance by $ 1.7 billion, the US» chief diplomat used his speech to defend the foreign policy budget against spending cuts, portraying foreign affairs as the guarantor of American economic prosperity.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo this week has railed against the potential for federal government cuts and their impact on New York's finances, suggesting it has complicated the budget picture.

The Times sides with Bloomberg against Albany, but says some of his «grim budget seems overly dire» — particularly his plan to cut some 6,700 teachers.

At noon, the #NoCuts Coalition, an alliance of dozens of grass - roots groups, civic organizations, faith leaders and labor unions rally against the Trump administration's proposed budget cuts to the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, 26 Federal Plaza, Manhattan.

«These candidates have a proven history of fighting to protect NYC Health + Hospitals against the onslaught of budget cuts coming from Washington.

Parris alleges they cut his budget and retaliated against him.

Gov. Paterson has concluded that Lt. Gov. Richard Ravitch is a «double agent» working for Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver and against his own efforts to cut the state's projected $ 9.5 billion budget gap, The Post has learned.

From May 9 to May 12, thousands of people will be speaking out against Mayor Bloomberg's proposed budget cuts that would slash funding for education and other vital services.

Cable is leading the fight against further cuts to the welfare budget, but the Treasury also faces opposition from potential Conservative leadership challengers including defence secretary Philip Hammond and environment secretary Owen Paterson.

Clinton won the budget showdown against House Speaker Newt Gingrich by agreeing to balance the federal budget, albeit without Medicare spending cuts.

(The battle over New York's budget went into high gear Wednesday as a protest against cuts and the end of a «millionaires» tax» blockaded an entrance to the Capitol for almost an hour.

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — Against the backdrop of city and state budget - cutting teacher layoffs, Rep. Michael Grimm weighed in on LIFO with Schools Chancellor Cathie Black, calling it «unacceptable» during a meeting with her in his Washington office.

That was the approach Darling adopted in the budget today, as he did in the pre-budget report at the end of 2009, and which looks set to be part of a developing story of departmental cuts that will be announced from Whitehall this afternoon... As ever, one must guard against exaggeration and oversimplification, but the 2010 budget, which may be Labour's last for a long time, was a very Mandelsonian speech.

«Inside the government it has been Mandelson who has led the fight against Gordon Brown's instinct to use the budget as a way of pitting «Labour investment» against «Tory cuts».

Police chiefs see the row over the riots as a good opportunity to fight back against government plans to cut the police budget.

Also this week, the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee went on the attack against Turner after he wrote in an op - ed that he wants to «end government dependencies» and cut the federal budget by up to 35 percent.

«Labour will argue against the proposed increase in EU spending and instead support a real - terms cut in the budget... When we speak of budget reform, some will want to focus only on cuts to «EU fat cats» in Brussels.

Meanwhile, legislative insiders said Silver and his aides were quietly sounding out Senate Democrats in an early effort to build an alliance against Cuomo's looming budget cuts.

Frustrated over budget cuts to her school district, Tkaczyk decided to run against Amedore.

As a result of this afternoon's Statutory Instrument, which we will vote against, the grassroots sport budget will be cut by over # 100,000 for every parliamentary constituency, enough to fund a 100m grass sports pitch or a floodlit multi-use games area for each one.»

Stephen Kinnock followed the party line in abstaining, but 48 of his colleagues voted against ministers» plans to cut # 12bn from the welfare budget.

The latest to tee off on Gov. David Paterson is Broome Community College President Kevin Drumm, who sent an e-mail message to the campus community in which he railed against a 2 percent budget cut coming from Albany that will hurt institutions of higher learning like his.

Which explains why, for years, 1199 propped up a conservative Republican state senate to form a bulwark against New York governors who sought to cut the state's swelling Medicaid budget.

Sir Paul Stephenson told the Today programme he was extremely concerned by budget cuts set against the backdrop of a surge in demand on policing caused by unrest over the coalition government's austerity agenda.

According to the Press & Sun - Bulletin, the protestors «were against natural gas drilling in the Southern Tier, and cuts in the governor's proposed budget to education, mental health and health.»

At the same time, Cuomo has railed against Republicans in Congress in opposition to the plans to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act and make other budget cuts that could impact New York.

At 2 p.m., state Sen. David Carlucci and Meals on Wheels Rockland rally against the president's planned budget cuts and raise awareness of the impacts they would have throughout the Hudson Valley, 121 W. Nyack Road, Nanuet.

TRIBECA — One day after a homeless man allegedly raped and tried to strangle a 21 - year - old woman in the TriBeCa section of Hudson River Park, politicians gathered at the site of the attack to speak out against anticipated budget cuts to the NYPD.

The Tory rebel, who resigned as work and pensions minister over the ex-Chancellor's budget, is speaking out publicly against the planned cut to Universal Credit, which he says will cost three million people more than # 1,000 a year each.

ALBANY — The battle over New York's budget went into high gear Wednesday as a protest against cuts and the end of a «millionaires» tax» blockaded an entrance to the Capitol for almost an hour.

After supporting the first «Ryan budget,» which called for severe cuts in entitlement programs, Gibson voted against the next three.

One day earlier, Quinn and other politicians spoke out against anticipated NYPD budget cuts in the wake of the attack.

The Greens have actively organized against the ongoing wars in Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan and Libya and call for a 50 to 75 % cut in the military budget.

The party is planning to campaign against the CGT cuts in the coming weeks to apply more pressure on the chancellor following Iain Duncan Smith's shock resignation as work and pensions secretary, when he branded Osborne's budget «deeply unfair», triggering the scrapping of the disability benefit cuts.

If the residents vote against the tax increase, Dr. Hamilton says they will have to cut $ 1 million from the budget, which would most likely cut universal pre-K.