Sentences with phrase «at urging»

Washington used to be larger, but congress returned part of DC on the west bank of the Potomac Rover to Virginia, at the urging of local residents.

Maybe you bought it at the urging of a friend or agent but even after all this time you've still never figured out how it works or if it's truly a good investment.

At the urging of G20 finance ministers, the OECD has created an action plan.

To stop publishing them in print at the urging of one group of group of customers who have the option, but apparently not the will, to simply cancel their own subscriptions, just doesn't make any sense.

In 2006, at the urging of chief legal officers, CPBO launched an initiative enabling legal departments to identify, benchmark, and communicate their support for pro bono service.

At the urging of the gun lobby, however, most states have explicitly removed authority from local governments to regulate guns and ammunition, thereby creating a dangerous exception to the traditional rule of local authority.

The likely explanation is that it was adopted as a part of the SRA's larger efforts, at the urging of the LSB and others, to simplify and accelerate the application process, in part by getting «rid of some of the bureaucracy.»

In 2011, at the urging of the state's leading business organizations, bipartisan majorities of Illinois lawmakers approved changes to Illinois workers» compensation laws in an effort to reduce costs for Illinois employers.

Many of the other changes announced to the temporary foreign worker program are aimed at urging compliance but will have no real effect on the process.

Should it do so more often and, perhaps, at the urging of a Canadian Court?

At the urging of the American Board of Trial Advocates and the State Bar of California, all incoming attorneys will have to pledge to act like normal human beings.

1920 - 1921: At the urging of the firm's new leader, Allen Wardwell, John Davis and Frank Polk join the firm, with Davis assuming the role of senior partner.

I became a lawyer at the urging of a mentor of mine who was an FBI agent.

At the urging of Lawrence Lessig, Richard A. Posner, judge of the 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, launches a blog today, together with economist Gary S. Becker.

Wilkinson then uploaded the video online at the urging of his friends, according to the National Post.

At the urging of the U.S. Justice Department, the federal judiciary is considering whether to close Internet access to plea agreements and related docket notations in criminal cases.

The requirement of mandatory tech CLE came at the urging of The Florida Bar, whose Board of Governors endorsed the mandate in July 2015.

Judge White - Labora (not pictured, left) was flagged down by the taco truck proprietor and, at his urging, chased down the blader, until her teenage sun could hop out of the family minivan and pounce on him «like a cobra.»

This is because EPA, perhaps at the urging of others in the Obama Administration, has proposed to regulate GHG emissions on the basis of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) reports and reports primarily based on these reports.

Congress is looking at undoing a recent and unique oil and gas industry exemption from the Clean Water Act of 1974, created at the urging of former Vice President Cheney.

At the urging of Roger Revelle, the same Revelle that inspired Al Gore's mania, Keeling established a sampling station on Mauna Loa in the state of Hawaii.

I learned R at the urging of Steve Mc.

At the urging of their client, two members of the «River Arundo» Master's Group Project — Eliza Berry and Marc Steele — traveled to San Diego last fall to present their project at the California Invasive Plant Council Symposium.

Let the people keep their hard earned money in the US and don't snatch it from their hands at the urging of a world - class socialist.

And yet Gov. Cuomo has sought to shut it down at the urging of — you guessed it — the Sierra Club, NRDC, EDF, and a natural gas company implicated in the federal criminal prosecution of a Cuomo aide.

At the urging of Ken Parish, I'm returning to the topic of global warming, but I'll do my best to keep things civilised.

«At the urging of citizens, the city government formed the Alexandria Archaeology Commission,» Bromberg explains.

The critical influence on her development, however, was the time she spent with Hofmann at his schools in Manhattan and Provincetown, Mass. — an apprenticeship she undertook, with Rivers, at the urging of the artist Nell Blaine.

There, at the urging of his mechanical drawing teacher, he attends a sketch class after school.

Even now, Ms. Goodman says, he has increased his prices, at her urging, only so much to make up for that disparity and discourage speculation; new paintings that would probably go for $ 20 million at auction are priced at well under half that, closer to $ 5 million.

In September 1935, at the urging of Pollock, Guston moved to New York, applied (successfully) to the WPA, and began work as a muralist in the WPA program.

In 1820 Ingres and his wife moved to Florence at the urging of the Florentine sculptor Lorenzo Bartolini, an old friend from his years in Paris.

In Chelsea, Marianne Boesky offered two discoveries: a formerly neglected, deceased American Abstract Pop artist, Nicholas Krushenick; and a long, tall, charming Glaswegian named Tony Swain, whose landscape paintings on newsprint were pressed into project - room service at the urging of Boesky consultant Clarissa Dalrymple.

He worked in New York, spent several years traveling to Europe, New Mexico, and Nova Scotia (solo exhibitions have been mounted for each of these periods), and then, at the urging of his New York dealer Alfred Stieglitz, eventually returned to his home state of Maine, where he had lived until he was twelve and would spend the last six years of his life.

At her urging, and under the tutelage of émigré Surrealist artist Matta (Roberto Sebastián Matta Echuarren), Motherwell first experimented with the papier collé technique.

At the urging of a friend, Rea pulled her brushes and a canvas out of storage.

The ballet, like Ovid's poem, comes to a close with Actaeon being savagely mauled by his own hounds at the urging of his friends and fellow hunters, who no longer recognize him.

At the urging of his close friend, the artist Paul McCarthy, Puusemp gathered newspaper clippings, letters, and public notices that chronicled the Rosendale project, publishing them as a single volume titled Beyond Art — Dissolution of Rosendale, N.Y.. Now, in an exhibit titled «Against the Romance of Community,» the Swiss Institute explores those documents alongside other artworks focused on how communities behave, interact, and identity themselves.

At the urging of their close friends Jackson Pollock and Lee Krasner, Brooks and Park spent their first summer on the East End in 1947 in a tiny shack on the Montauk bluffs.

The Dallas Museum of Art was one of the first museums to buy a Pollock painting, and the board did so only at the urging of Stanley Marcus, founder of the Neiman Marcus stores.

Born in 1934 in Bombay (now Mumbai) to a middle - class family, Khakhar earned a degree in economics at the urging of his widowed mother, working for most of his life as an accountant.

One of the few big installations in «America Is Hard to See,» this signature work by the «scatter artist» Karen Kilimnik was acquired just last year from the collector Peter Brant at the urging of curator Scott Rothkopf.

However, at the urging of my not - typically - a-gamer fiancée, I've fallen into the black hole of Trivia Crack and have come to realize that it's actually one of the best trivia games I've ever played...

The islands off Port Hardy on the northern tip of Vancouver Island are now included in God's Pocket Provincial Park, in part created at the urging of Jacques Cousteau due to its incredible underwater diversity.

Eventually, after sharing tons of our chicken jerky creation with family and friends, and at their urging, we started TriPom Chews to offer pet owners a SAFE «Made in America» Chicken Jerky solution.

After another official complaint filed by Dee Wingfield, forty - one dogs have been surrendered by Marjorie Ingraham to Broome County Humane Society at the urging of Detective Leon Brown, of the Broome County Sheriff's office.

At the urging of the humane community, Congress also enacted legislation to require states seeking Federal Emergency Management Agency assistance to accommodate pets and service animals in their emergency evacuation plans when major disasters occur.

At the urging of Jill Rosen, author of the Baltimore Sun's «Unleashed» blog, more than 100 Baltimore residents pledged to get tattoos if the motley but warm - hearted crew of the National Geographic Channel program would visit Baltimore.

At the urging of Clermont veterinarian Dwain Zagrocki, Minneola City Council members decided Tuesday night they will try to locate a site for an animal shelter that could serve the needs of both the city and the South Lake Animal League.

Roxy, a pitty, was picked up by animal control and brought to a kill shelter at the urging of neighbors and local rescuers.