Sentences with phrase «against other conference»

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Airbnb worked to help defeat Prop F, but then held a news conference in which the company said it could mobilize its users to vote down proposed rules that were aimed against it in other cities.

The race pits the two wings of the House Republican Conference against each other, going all out to nominate rival candidates.

George Thomas in his book Christian Indians and Indian Nationalism, gives the story of how K.T.Paul and S.K.Datta of the Indian YMCA who represented Protestants at the Round Table Conference in London, took a determined stand against turning Indian Christians into a communal political entity by Britain imposing on them communal representation, communal electorate and other communal safeguards.

In my opinion these conferences largely ended the possibility of opponents playing one group off against the others.

Raskin also reported that not one story coming out of the six - week conference dealt with UNESCO's battle against illiteracy, its development of alternative energy sources, its educational programs for scientists and engineers, its basic research into food production, and scores of other accomplishments during 1980.

For example, both the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights and the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission have been accused of ignoring or discriminating against other minorities.

After dinner, having sung a Psalm, they returned to their conference upon the other questions (which were three in all) till towards evening; at which time, as the master of the family began, so he concluded with prayer, and I gave them three new questions against their next meeting, which being appointed for time and place, everyone repaired to his own home.36

Organised by the newly - formed Right to Food Coalition, whose members include the Sydney Food Fairness Alliance, Foodbank NSW, Red Cross, SecondBite, Blacktown City Council, NSW Department of Health (South Western Sydney District), Liverpool City Council and others, the centrepiece of this conference is the presentation by Joel Berg, Executive Director of the New York Coalition Against Hunger.

That's the reality under the divisional playoff format that could pit the top two teams in the Eastern and Western Conferences against each other in the second round.

That's the reality under the divisional playoff format that could pit the top two teams in the Eastern and Western Conferences against each other in round 2 after Pittsburgh and Washington were forced into that predicament in back - to - back playoffs.

Looking through the Chief Acavedo's unrelated press conferences about other suspects, suspects that have actual evidence against them who he treated in a more professional innocent till proven guilty manner.

Upsets are especially common earlier in the season, against non-conference foes (tOSU NC team got beat at home badly by a 4 win VT team) and later in the season by conference foes who have years of experience playing each other.

The winner will join the Oklahoma - Oklahoma State Bedlam winner (OU's the big winner of the week, vaulting all the way from No. 7 after beating TCU and maybe even putting itself in the top group) and possibly Baylor in the holding pen; the Bears and Cardinal would also have games during conference championship weekend (and Stanford would have a real chance to impress against USC or UCLA), but the others in this group would be sitting and waiting.

After scoring 89 against Howard and New Mexico during a 2 - 1 start, RU scored a combined 86 in nine conference games — 59 against Minnesota and Indiana and 27 in the other seven games.

I limited it to the western conference because the thing I disagree with is the sentiment that any FO should not trade for good players / sign players in FA / etc if the team «has no chance against 2 other teams in their conference»

Last year, they were able to win two games against the Cavaliers in the Eastern Conference Finals, but were blown out in the other four.

Against seven other power conference opponents, the Tigers have allowed an average of seven targets, four catches, and 51 yards per game to No. 1 receivers.

«We played against each other for the first time when I think we were 8,» said Browning during this year's Pac - 12 Conference Media Days in late July in Hollywood.

Because Notre Dame doesn't have a conference and is only tied into a couple of games per year against ACC schools, the Irish have more scheduling freedom than almost every other FBS team.

Undefeated Wisconsin is now the conference's last best hope for a playoff spot, failing mass chaos in other conferences in the final four weeks — but if the Badgers stumble in the Big Ten title game against a multi-loss East champion looking for one last handful of style points (assuming they survive a visit from Michigan later this month), their résumé likely won't hold up against the other one - loss teams under consideration.

This year, with three conferences, none of the conference top riders have had a chance to compete against each other, so that is strange.

Against the conference opponent that had vexed Urban Meyer more than any other, the Buckeyes cruised to a 48 - 3 victory.

The top seeds in both conferences play against the lowest wild card teams in the first round, and the other division winners face off against the other wild card qualifiers.

It's difficult to measure non-conference strength of schedule with precision, but one method is to look at the percentage of out - of - conference games each major conference plays against other major conferences (plus Notre Dame).

The conference championship game simply matches the two best teams against each other at the end of the regular season.

Through the work of four playwrights, Matt Charman, Moira Buffini, Penelope Skinner and Jack Thorne, the play follows several intertwining stories: a couple in a therapy session discuss the impact that the strong environmental beliefs of one, and the indifference of the other, is having on their relationship, a young woman, against her parents» advice, drops out of university to become a climate change activist, two birdwatchers who, for 40 years, have noted the recession of the ice through tracking the numbers of guillemots, and Ed Miliband's special adviser (SpAd) in the lead up to the Copenhagen Climate Conference.

Conference is concerned about evidence from the research which shows that when members who are being bullied initiate Grievance Procedures against headteachers or other senior leaders, they may experience a lack of natural justice in the forms of honesty, fairness and impartiality because this same group are the most likely perpetrators of workplace bullying.

In the years prior to the 2014 Gaza conflict, far left - wing and Islamist traditions came together and cross-fertilized each other in the context of the failure of the Israeli - Palestinian peace process, the Second Intifada, the Durban conference, the 9/11 attacks, and widespread and fierce public protests against the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.

The plan requires both the IDC and mainline conference to work together on filling two open Senate seats in a special election and drop support for primary challenges against each others» members.

David Weprin speaks as Queens Borough President Melinda Katz, City Councilman Barry Grodenchik, second from right, and other officials take a stand against adding tolls to East River bridges during a news conference near the Queensboro Plaza subway station on Sunday, Aug. 27, 2017.

U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara announces corruption charges against two former aides to Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo and seven other defendants at a Manhattan news conference on Thursday, Sept. 22, 2016.

The International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung disease in some few days passed organised its 20th Conference of the Union Africa Region at the Accra International Conference Centre, Accra Ghana with the focus on Accelerating Implementation Through Partnership to END, TB / HIV Tobacco and other related NCD's.

At a news conference Monday in Mineola, Singas said the bill would eliminate the need for prosecutors to prove that threats against schools, churches, malls or other mass gatherings constitute an imminent terroristic act meant to intimidate certain populations.

The state's Catholic Conference spent $ 2.1 million between 2007 and 2015 lobbying against efforts to reform the law, as well as other measures.

The deal between the Senate Democrats and the IDC — in which each conference will not support primaries against the other's members — only holds if Democrats take the majority sometime during the 2018 session.

At 11 a.m., NYC Coalition Against Hunger Executive Director Joel Berg, NYC Public Advocate Tish James, City Councilman Stephen Levin and other officials hold a news conference to criticize changes in participation of city schools in school breakfast programs; steps, City Hall, Manhattan.

«In fact, the ministry, on several occasions, had to call press conferences to provide details of budgetary spending on the military, to show, against the background of limited resources and other urgent national priorities, that it was doing its best on funding security.

The Governor got the Senate Democratic Conference and the Democratic Assembly Members to vote against their own community interests and against themselves, while on the other hand, the Governor created his own, private, HUGE Member Items — or should I say, Governor Items and Governor Capital Funds for his disposal, making everyone believe that he did away with the system — and in the process, using the Democrats as rubber stamps.

Cuomo noted that the agreement ensured that Democratic senators wouldn't work against other incumbents in the reunified conference.

Operation High - Rise nets 40 arrests Press Release edited from Rockland DA's Office Rockland County District Attorney Thomas P. Zugibe announced at a press conference on Monday the arrest of 22 individuals and the filing of criminal charges against 18 others on a variety of drug - related charges as part of a large scale undercover narcotics investigation -LSB-...]

The race pits the two wings of the House Republican Conference against each other, going all out to nominate rival candidates.

ALBANY — In the early spring of 2014, mainline Democrats in the state Senate and members of the breakaway Independent Democratic Conference waged war against each other.

The New York State Catholic Conference has argued against the window for years, saying it could potentially cripple parishes, school districts and other nonprofit organizations in cases from decades ago that might be impossible to defend against.

«I and other members of the Senate Democratic conference stood firm against mid-year cuts to schools and also rejected health care cuts that would have cost New York hundreds of millions of dollars in lost federal funds,» Onorato said.

The Catholic Conference and other critics of The Child Victims Act have argued the look - back window would lead to a torrent of frivolous claims against the church and other defendants.

Parents and advocates from the Shuang Wen School / PS 184M — which the DOE is investigating for its paid after - school program and enrollment practices, among other issues — announced a federal lawsuit against the department and Schools Chancellor Dennis Walcott at a press conference Monday outside the agency's Chambers Street headquarters.

«In fact, the Ministry, on several occasions, had to call press conferences to provide details of budgetary spending on the military, to show, against the background of limited resources and other urgent national priorities, that it was doing its best on funding security.

Addressing a press conference today [Tuesday], Mr. Hamid said, «according to the President, Bugri should paint Akufo - Addo as a rabid anti-northern person who could never be trusted to advance the people of the north... he was supposed to say that Akufo - Addo was knocking the head of one northerner against the other.»

Assuming that the Republican conference is roughly 50 members and the Democrats» roughly 100, if Silver gets the 51 votes within his conference and wins his parties nod for Speaker, what are the odds that 26 Democrats who voted against Silver in conference will join 50 republicans on the floor of the assembly and vote for someone other than Silver for Speaker?

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