Sentences with phrase «battle over authority»

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The conflict: Americans and Canadians are battling it out over the Peace Bridge, which links Fort Erie, Ont., to Buffalo, N.Y. Americans on the binational authority overseeing the bridge are accusing Canadians of foot - dragging on a redevelopment project on the U.S. side, and Cuomo said the bridge is a «metaphor for dysfunction.»

The inevitable battle between capital and labour, an especially important feature in Marxism, is replaced by disputes over the allocation of consumption and authority, disputes firmly set in a shared effort to make life good.

Within each, he traces how Reformation battles over the criteria for determining the true meaning of Scripture and the proper definition of doctrines shifted authority to natural science, politically ordered confessional institutions, privatized choice, material aggrandizement, and a social - knowledge system finally untethered to religious categories and rationales.

Mayor Kathy Sheehan won a marquee battle with the Common Council to keep the city's new trash fee, but she lost three smaller skirmishes over her picks for the five - member board that runs the Albany Parking Authority.

Governor Andrew Cuomo is battling with Mayor Bill de Blasio and other city officials over how to allocate $ 100 million in state funding for the New York City Housing Authority.

Over the course of an hour - long debate at the Woodstock Playhouse Monday, October 24, Congressional candidates Democrat Zephyr Teachout and Republican John Faso answered moderators» questions on trade, executive authority, the battle against ISIS and other issues, all while circling back to core campaign themes.

Amidst a mounting legal battle between the city of Rye and Westchester County over proposed capital improvements to Playland, many county lawmakers from both sides of the political aisle have continued to assert the county's authority over the park's future.

Invites a years - long legal battle with New Jersey by granting subpoena power over the Port Authority to a Cuomo - appointed official.

This has been borne out in their various proxy battles over the future of charter schools, the funding of the Metropolitan Transportation authority's capital plan, the growth of e-hail giant Uber, and how long the mayor should have authority over the city's public schools.

This sort of thing might seem trivial, but McCarthy has battled for it: the insider - y authority to fret over mundane procedural questions and the Washington confidence to call Barney Frank by his first name.

She first sued the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey over toll increases, which she charged were illegal, though a judge ruled in favor of the transportation agency following a six - year court battle.

And an in - depth interview with Kelsey Belnap about her battle with authorities over a sexual abuse case, involving football players at the University of Montana.

The U.S. Supreme Court declined last week to step back into a lengthy court battle between an athletically powerful private school and Tennessee's high school sports authority over recruiting violations.

She fought many battles with local authorities, hospitals, environmental health departments and succeeded over several years in elevating the status of feral cats from near vermin to animals worthy of humane treatment and showing that control could be achieved by neutering and not killing.

The U.S. coal industry has been left to fight an uphill battle with the EPA over the agency's authority to set rules on CO2 emissions from power plants.

The Libyan Investment Authority has lost a bitter battle against Goldman Sachs over disputed derivative trades, illustrating the risks and rewards of sovereign wealth investments in complex financial services.

Huffington Post co-founder Arianna Huffington is an Uber board member, while former US Attorney has previously came to the assistance of the company as it battled with local authorities over the thorny issue of what type of background checks it should use for its drivers.

What's more, since each parent can theoretically get decision - making authority over their children in some area, parents no longer have to fight a win / lose battle, where one of them gets sole custody and the other gets nothing.