Sentences with phrase «against the program at»

Maffei also says he's already voted against the program at a time no one was paying attention to it.

Not exact matches

With Blue Ant, MacMillan appears to be tacking against the torrents of broadcast television dreck at the bottom of the dial by targeting two coveted demographics, the first of which is thinking, affluent baby boomers: its portfolio includes content about the cottage lifestyle, travel, and PBS - style documentary programming through the Canadian version of the Smithsonian Channel, as well as a nature channel called Oasis.

At age 13, he created a BASIC program that allowed users to play tic - tac - toe against the machine.

But instead of paying for a program — as you would a book or movie on Amazon — you'd get an incentive: a credit, maybe, to be used against your health insurance premium, or a free download at Amazon, or a discounted checking account at Chase.

The panel ruled against Canada's objection that it look at four programs, including Ottawa's supercluster plan, that were not included in its original complaint.

Chess players were given one of three cognitive enhancers (modafinil, methylphenidate, and caffeine) or placebo and matched in 15 - minute games against a computer program set at their level.

Among the people who've left or announced departures, either under pressure or for other reasons, are seven executives who had reported to Mr. Kalanick: SVP of Business Emil Michael, who is one of Mr. Kalanick's best friends and was the second-most powerful person at the company; ridesharing president Jeff Jones (ostensibly the No. 2 executive for Uber's core business); head of growth Ed Baker; engineering vice president Amit Singhal; communications and public policy chief Rachel Whetstone; head of finance Gautam Gupta; and Anthony Levandowski, head of Uber's autonomous vehicles program, who was fired amid theft allegations made against him by his former employer.

It seems bizarre that the most reasonable understanding of why the 2008 bank crisis did not require a vast public subsidy for Wall Street occurred at Monday's Republican presidential debate on June 13, by none other than Congressional Tea Party leader Michele Bachmann — who had boasted in a Wall Street Journal interview two days earlier, on Saturday, that she voted against the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) «both times.»

At issue are reverse mortgage programs, which allow seniors to borrow against their homes for everyday living expenses.

Those who speak out against abortion and family practice and at the same time support cuts in education, school lunch funding, decry reasonable control of weapons and other programs that help children can not call themselves Christians.

For my good friends at the Georgia Family Council, I wrote a post on a recent decision by the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals in Jennifer Keeton's suit against faculty and administrators in the graduate counseling program at Augusta State University.

I am angry at Congress, more specifically any person in Congress who calls himself or herself a Christian and votes against policies and programs for the poor.

People of color have voted and will continue to vote for Barak Obama... The only thing he has done for people of color is be of color and be the elected POTUS... When Obama's eight years is at an end the person who runs against the next democrat will only have to campaign by stating repeatedly «I am a Republican»... Whatever doesn't go right in his administration will be blamed on Obama just as he blamed his failures on Bush... His signature health care program exempts Muslims, Scientologists, Amish etc..

For example, in the case of the Action for Children «s Television call for a ban on commercials for children too young to discriminate, or the church «s protest against excessive and gratuitous violence, the criticism was aimed at a class of programming rather than against an individual program.

At Nuremberg, the German infanticide program was deemed a crime against humanity.

Although billions of dollars are being expended annually on family planning services in less - developed countries, and such programs have been promoted by various governments at the national level for four decades, there are only a few studies that have attempted to measure the demographic and health impact of family planning against a «control group» — a similar area which lacks the service.

It is at this point that I reject the a priori arguments against the community development programs in Chicago and elsewhere.

For example, in 1987 a class action suit was filed against Jim and Tammy Bakker on behalf of some 161,000 donors to the Bakker's PTL programs who had paid $ 1,000 each to become «lifetime partners,» a status which included free accommodations at the PTL theme park.

Do you really think any social program the governemnt could possibly administer will matter to you when you are surrounded by religous Zealots hell bent on punishing our «Evil» nation for its Crusades and crimes against Allah and are blowing themselves up at a mall, hospital, or airplane near you in exchange for a bevy of beautiful virgins?

Many of those outraged by the allegations against Penn State, including that Paterno had reportedly been told about the abuse but declined to notify authorities, have pointed a finger at what they say was the school's and its football program's commitment to maintaining a sterling public image, drawing parallels to the church.

Arguing against the motion is Charles Benbrook, a research professor at the Center for Sustaining Agriculture and Natural Resources at Washington State University and program leader of Measure to Manage: Farm and Food Diagnostics for Sustainability and Health, and Margaret Mellon, a science policy consultant in the areas of antibiotics, genetic engineering and sustainable agriculture.

Released today, the report shows that mandatory EPR programs aimed at food, beverage and consumer product packaging would not deliver against their promise of creating more cost - effective residential recycling programs and driving packaging redesign.

Arguing against the motion was Charles Benbrook, a research professor at the Center for Sustaining Agriculture and Natural Resources at Washington State University and program leader of Measure to Manage: Farm and Food Diagnostics for Sustainability and Health, and Margaret Mellon, a science policy consultant in the areas of antibiotics, genetic engineering and sustainable agriculture.

Despite vandalism in one of the five multilocation field trials in August this year, data are being readied for submission to government regulators who will review Golden Rice against international standards for biosafety, according to Antonio Alfonso, coordinator of the biotechnology program of the Philippine Department of Agriculture (DA) and leader of the Golden Rice project at the DA - Philippine Rice Research Institute (DA - PhilRice).

But when he sat down with Time Warner Cable SportsNet's Kevin Frazier for a program titled «Connected With... Dwight Howard» that aired after Tuesday's game against the Orlando Magic, he revealed that his surgically - repaired back was nowhere close to where it needed to be for him to be at his best, and it may have contributed to his issues early on.

No matter what else those programs are working against, there's no easier way to deal with a problem than to have never had it at all.

The Huskies have been working hard to check off as many of Truesdale's skills and situations during practices, and early nonleague games including a Feb. 27 opener at Oak Ridge (the only program with more SJS titles [9] than Sheldon [8]-RRB- and the prestigious Queen of the Mountain Tournament in Pleasanton against top Bay Area competitors will serve to prepare Sheldon for when the games count the most.

St. Louis, which at the time was regarded as having one of the top programs in the nation, entered the matchup with an 11 -2-1 record against California teams, including a win in 1991 over Bakersfield that snapped Bakersfield's 39 - game win streak.

UAB deserves a trip to the Bahamas to cap its first season back after the miraculous resurrection of its football program, and although Ohio played its way out of a shot at the MAC title with a puzzling late - season loss to Akron, the Blazers get a quality opponent to measure themselves against.

Despite the sportsbooks adjusting their lines to give home dog Penn State an additional point, the betting public is sticking with Nebraska, with nearly eight out of ten spread wagers confident that Bo Pelini's boys can escape with at least a four point victory against Joe Paterno's scandal ridden program.

As with the coaches poll, UW begins the 2016 season as an unranked program heading into its Sept. 3 matchup against LSU at Lambeau Field.

Dion McGill, education program manager at the Illinois Council Against Handgun Violence, says we can't underestimate how aware children are of the gun violence in their city.

At Utahns Against Hunger we work to improve participation in the School Breakfast Program and promote alternative breakfast serving models.

Part of the value statement for the Mother's Program at the Women's Health Clinic in Winnipeg is that it «acts AGAINST the conventional constructions of motherhood, by introducing a vision of mothering that is woman defined and centred, empowering and promotes social change.»

Also at 1:30 p.m., community groups announce legal action against the NYPD body cameras program, City Hall, Manhattan.

Lawmakers grilled Gov. Andrew Cuomo's economic development chair Wednesday at a budget hearing, as some of the programs are embroiled in a corruption scandal that's led to charges against several former associates of the governor.

Lawyers representing six of the defendants have spent the past several weeks in a new letter - writing campaign to a federal judge seeking dismissal of the bid - rigging corruption charges leveled against individuals involved in several major upstate economic development programs, including the mega-construction project at Tesla's Riverbend site in South Buffalo.

Staten Island Republicans convinced a state Apellate Division court to uphold an an injunction against Mayor Bill de Blasio's plan to dump the personal files of applicants to the city's municipal identification program, files believed to include the personal information of thousands of undocumented immigrants — prompting the administration to announce it would no longer hold on to any personal records of IDNYC participants at all.

Questions during the off - topic portion of the press conference included his opinion of the expected Democratic candidate in the 11th Congressional District special election and whether he'll campaign for Gentile, the prospect of Department of Homeland Security losing funding, religious organizations renting City school facilities for prayer / worship services and the related lawsuit, a NY Post report criticizing a newly - created NYPD training program, reported terror threats against shopping malls, the absence of a Lunar New Year message from the mayor and his non-attendance at the Lunar New Year parade, his reaction to Governor Cuomo's comment that their relationship will be «the best relationship between a mayor and governor in modern political history,» his scheduled trip to Albany on Wednesday and delays in federal funding of Sandy rebuilding.

If you want to dispute me, convince me that Peter Babalola who has picked gauntlet against Diekola at senatorial meeting is not the same man, the then Olagunsoye Oyinlola's Chief of Staff, who forcefully removed chair meant for Aregbesola at 2006 Oroki Day in Osogbo, where he allegedly instructed thugs to kill him should he wait further at the program.

Hochul lashed out at her GOP opponents, saying they are against Cuomo's Start - Up NY program, which offers a tax free program to new businesses, and for opposing the monetary grant to the region known as the «Buffalo Billion.»

«I am honored and grateful to have this opportunity to join with my Muslim neighbors to speak out against the hate and intolerance that are epitomized by broad based immigration «bans» and heinous threats of harm against nursery and pre-school programs at Jewish Community Centers.

Her political biography mentioned favorite points; her early condemnation and call for resignation by Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, her efforts at toll reductions by the MTA on the Verazzano - Narrows Bridge, her lawsuit against the Port Authority over its tolls on bridges from Staten Island to New Jersey and especially her lawsuit against Mayor de Blasio seeking to prohibit the City's destruction of records related to the IDNYC program.

Dan Weiner, senior counsel at the Brennan Center for Justice's Democracy Program at New York University, said that many of the allegations against Silver will still constitute official acts if the case again goes to trial.

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At least 11 school districts that originally planned to apply for state pre-K grants won't seek the funding, and it's likely more will decide against participating as local administrators struggle with the timing and reimbursement structure of the program.

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.

A lawsuit filed by AG Eric Schneiderman against the Utica City School District charges that children over 16 were funneled into alternative programs, in which they could not earn credits toward a diploma, as part of a broad program aimed at barring immigrants from the district's only public high school.

About a half dozen parents from Frederick Law Olmsted 156 showed up at Wednesday's meeting to speak out against potential cuts to their programs.

A lawsuit filed on Tuesday by the state attorney general, Eric T. Schneiderman, against the Utica City School District charges that children over 16 were funneled into alternative programs, in which they could not earn credits toward a diploma, as part of a broad program aimed at barring immigrants from the district's only public high school.