Sentences with phrase «back over the majority»

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Sandberg signed The Giving Pledge back in 2014, the commitment by the world's hyper - wealthy to «dedicate the majority of their wealth to philanthropy» over their lifetime.

Looking farther back, the vast majority of the railroad equities have also outperformed the leading market indices over the course of the current bull market.

The Miami Heat's star - studded Big Three has received a majority of the media's attention over the past year and a half, but they have taken a back seat to Linsanity and the New York Knicks...

Unlike many of his predecessors, Pochettino has won the backing of the vast majority of the White Hart Lane faithful, buoyed by the Argentine's faith in young players, the League Cup final appearance, and those eye - catching triumphs over Chelsea and Arsenal in the Premier League.

The Miami Heat's star - studded Big Three has received a majority of the media's attention over the past year and a half, but they have taken a back seat to Linsanity and the New York Knicks over the past few weeks.

The 1963 NCAA title game between Loyola of Chicago and Cincinnati was surely one of the most memorable in tournament history: It was the last title game to be decided in overtime; the last one before UCLA began its intimidating reign of 10 championships, including seven in a row, over the next 12 years; the first one to be played under a lucrative new six - year television contract that launched college basketball into the big - money era; and, most significantly, the first in which the majority of players on both sides were black — or, as most of the nation was still saying back in March of 1963, Negro.

Dating back to 2003, the majority of bettors have taken the over in 86.6 % of regular season games and 90.6 % of playoff games.

In the other half of the bracket, # 2 - seed Ohio State is a 2.5 - point favorite over Kansas and the slight majority of the betting public is backing the Buckeyes.

He is still young and more or less not going to have a problem playing every week at his present club, The new owner who is a Russian with plenty of money to spend on players has no need to sell and will spend the same sort of money we will and at moment the way Ithey are playing and the way we are they would have no trouble turning us over, We need to go back to grass roots which is what the majority want produce local talent and actually give them a chance in the first team, Play entertaining football all the time not respect the point (they will come if you play well) There is talent all over the world we need to find it, Howe is showing the way and in years to come may be a great England Manager but not for us right now and if I was him I would stay put

Not sure why Mourinho praises Luke Shaw as the best left - back at the club, yet opts for Young over him the majority of the time.

Had the Conservatives had a Parliamentary majority (or had formed a coalition with a certain party whose name shall go unmentioned), they might have found a way back to the status quo ante on at least (some of) the reforms that are practically reversible, viz. the House of Lords, the Human Rights Act, the Lord Chancellor's jurisdiction over the judiciary.

Unions have made noise about challenging Sen. John DeFrancisco, the deputy majority leader, over his vocal opposition to a minimum wage increase, though that could be tempered after all 31 Republicans backed the budget bill containing the hike.

This is the first major overhauling of staff Flanagan, a Long Island Republican, has undertaken since he took over the majority leader post from Dean Skelos back in May 2015 after Skelos was forced out of office due to a federal corruption scandal.

The labor group that represents Long Island - based laundry workers have written to Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan blasting him over the GOP - backed efforts to negotiate modifications to a proposed $ 15 minimum wage.

Since taking over the committee from Maryland Rep. Chris Van Hollen after the Democrats lost the majority in the 2010 midterms, Israel, who hails from Long Island, has instituted an aggressive campaign to take back the House.

The following newsmax says: A majority of America's military troops are backing Donald Trump — with career - minded forces favoring him by a 3 - to - 1 margin over Hillary Clinton, a Military.com...

The fight over who should have majority control of the state Senate has devolved into a friendly back - and - forth between Bronx state Sen. Ruben Diaz and former Democratic Committee Executive Director Charlie King.

Deputy Senate Majority Leader John DeFrancisco, meanwhile, expressed frustration over what he saw was a shifting set of priorities dictated by Gov. Andrew Cuomo, who initially proposed the amendments, as well as urged lawmakers to fund a hate crimes task force and back a memorandum of understanding for affordable housing money.

The state Conservative Party executive committee voted Friday to recommend the party back Dutchess County Executive Marc Molinaro for governor over state Senate Deputy Majority Leader John DeFrancisco at its May nominating convention.

For Cuomo, a united Democratic Senate majority is a nightmare scenario: a centrist at heart, he belittled raising the minimum wage before it came back into vogue, ridiculed the idea of hiking taxes on wealthy people, and still won't comply with a ten - year - old court ruling to fork over state cash to underfunded city public schools.

The GOP won back control of the Senate in last year's elections and noted that the previous Democratic majority handed over a $ 7.7 million deficit in January.

As GOP Assemblyman Steve McLaughlin took his protest over a lack of hearings on water issues in Hoosick Falls to the Senate's Republican leadership, his counterpart who also represents the area in Albany backed Majority Leader John Flanagan's stance.

These scores highlight the importance of a Senate Republican majority in moving this state forward, and is further proof that, if given the opportunity, Senate Democrats would increase spending, raise taxes, place obstacles in front of businesses and roll back all of the progress we've made over the last 19 months.»

Labour hasn't yet been able to make significant inroads into the SNP support base, which remains at the same level that delivered last year's majority, and needs to focus on winning over voters who backed the SNP at last year's election.

Ever since World War I, when the the likes of the UK Labour Party, the Australian Labor Party and the German Social Democratic Party split over the slaughter in the trenches, left - of - centre parties have been divided between a principled pacifist wing and what has normally been a majority prepared to back military force when considered necessary.

The WFP, along with a range of liberal pressure organizations and Democrats have been trying to push the IDC back to the mainline Democratic fold over the last several weeks, following the election of a 32nd enrolled Democrat to the Senate, giving the party a numerical majority, but not a working one.

The business - backed Long Island Association and labor unions are planning what sources described as a «sizeable» ad purchase to criticize Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan over the lack of an agreement for a $ 1.9 billion project to upgrade the Long Island Railroad.

Senate Republican Majority Leader John Flanagan said he has some reservations about the idea and whether it could be used as a back doorway for the state to increase taxes and generate more revenue to fill the over $ 4 billion budget deficit.

Klein had some harsh words for Sampson over the weekend, telling me he was «disgusted» with the Brooklyn senator's leadership and doesn't believe he'll be able to lead the Democrats back to the majority in 2012.

-- CU backed Gustavo Rivera over Senate Majority Leader Pedro Espada Jr., saying the Bronx lawmaker has «has become a symbol for hubris, corruption and wrongdoing in the state legislature due to ongoing investigations by the attorney general and federal authorities and his leadership in bringing Senate business to a month - long halt last summer.»

Participants took part in a real - time electronic poll which explored their views on a series of issues relating to their profession: Among the results were: over three quarters of BME teachers considered themselves to be ambitious, yet stated they are being held back by racial discrimination, and the attitude of senior colleagues; nearly two - thirds (62 %) of BME teachers felt their school or college was not seriously committed to addressing their professional development needs and aspirations; 63 % of BME teachers said their employers were not committed to ensuring their mental and physical wellbeing at work, with workload cited as the single most negative factor impacting on their wellbeing; the vast majority of BME teachers felt the Government does not respect and value teachers and does not understand the day to day realities of teaching (99 %); three quarters of BME teachers said they were not confident that their headteacher will make professional and fair decisions regarding their future pay.

(I asked him this question, since, as you'll recall, the Democrats were forced to cut way back on their payroll after losing the majority last fall and going vastly over budget).

Flanagan, a Long Islander, is potentially heading to friendly territory with a stop at the Otesaga Hotel in Cooperstown: Seward, after all, was one of several upstate Republicans to back his bid for majority leader over Senate Finance Committee Chairman John DeFrancisco, a Syracuse lawmaker.

(They did accept him back, after all, and let him keep his majority leader title in order to retain their control over the chamber).

If Senate President Malcolm Smith's comments at the DRC straw poll over the weekend are any indication, redistricting reform isn't exactly popular in the Senate, either, where Democrats are eager to finally get back at the GOP by redrawing them out of existence — assuming they manage to hold onto the majority in November.

The Senate Democrats and the governor have been at odds over the past year, following Cuomo's failure to significantly follow through on his pledge to help the conference in its 2014 quest to win back the majority.

Caroline Jones said on Thursday that a majority of the group backed her over Mr Hamilton to lead the group of five.

All over the country, Democratic governors have been working for weeks on behalf of their Democratic colleagues in D.C., raising campaign cash and stumping on behalf of candidates to assist the party's long - short quest to take back the majority.

Elsewhere, Salmond would be back in Westminster with a comfortable majority over the Lib Dems, and Chief Secretary Danny Alexander would lose by 29 points.

The paper reports that Labour is intending to try and highlight divisions with Conservative Party over climate change in the top Tory target seats where the Green Party won more than 2 % of the vote at the last election - in the hope of stopping Green supporters from switching to back the Conservatives and helping to deliver a Tory majority in the Commons.

Key legislative Democrats, with strong teachers - union backing, have sought to give the Regents, who are controlled by the Legislature's Democratic majority, sole control over charter schools.

Well another politician who stands by a minority (the wealthy) and not the majority (the working class) when over 72 % of the public agrees we should bring back the wealth tax so we don't have to lay off Goverment employees and cut back on services such as education fire fighters law enforcement then we are not living in a Democracy.

Though Assemblyman Bill Nojay took his own life last week, a majority of Republican voters in his Assembly district backed him over opponent Rick Milne in Tuesday's primary.

Isn't it strange that Harriet Harman was never heard saying polls have shown over and over again that the majority of voters want the railways taken back into public ownership or that they think that local authorities should be responsible for schools?

After over a month of defections, re-defections, squabbling, plotting, finger - pointing, name - calling, lawsuits, locked chambers, mock sessions, and overall anarchy, the Albany impasse came to a sudden end last night when Pedro Espada returned back into the Democratic fold in exchange for being named the majority leader.

The candidates seated on either side of him ranged from Robert Carroll, the Democratic Party - backed favorite to succeed Brooklyn Assemblyman James Brennan, to Kent Iverson, a white independent hoping to take over Congressman Charles Rangel «s majority - minority district — to Arthur Schwartz, a Sanders campaign lawyer challenging long - sitting Manhattan Assemblywoman Deborah Glick.

There is majority support for electoral reform among all age groups, although 18 - 24 year - olds (68 per cent) are more likely to back change than those 65 and over (52 per cent).

As for being «spanked» in 2005 under Michael Howard (who you say swung to the Right), he actually got the best result for the Conservatives since 1992 by cutting the Labour majority down to the 60s from over 100 and winning back many seats.

YouGov's constituency model put it as «Likely Labour» with a majority of perhaps 10 % over Con, and the UKIP vote falling back to little more than 10 %.

ALBANY — Members of the Assembly's Democratic majority were angered Tuesday night over a plan they said was developed by Governor Andrew Cuomo and Senate Republicans to hold back a school funding increase until June, when an appointed commission would recommend a new teacher - evaluation system.