Sentences with phrase «battle over press»

Not exact matches

Today the Small Business Majority held a tele - press conference and Main Street Alliance held a briefing call with small - business owners on the battle over where the new tax threshold should be set.

Museums and the Battle over Our Ancient Heritage by James Cuno Princeton University Press, 256 pages, $ 24.95

In a recent interview with the press, Arsene Wenger revealed that Arsenal were one of the English teams battling it out over Chelsea playmaker Eden Hazard.

U.S. Sen. Chuck Schumer on Thursday dismissed criticism leveled at him by President Obama's press secretary this week amid a battle over anti-terrorism funding.

Battling the interference of 658 MPs, plus Peers, press and Royalty; coaxing and soothing his collaborator Pugin; fending of the mad schemes of a host of crackpot inventors, including Dr Reid and his Ventilator, and assaults from the egos of countless busybodies intent on destroying his reputation and coming in three times over budget and 17 years behind schedule, Barry eventually succeeded — after countless setbacks and rows which contributed to his death in 1860.

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo - Addo, in a meeting with the press to mark his first year in office, explained that due to sound economic management policies his government has introduced, the battle between the labour unions and government is over.

That kind of thing, and it got some attention in the press, that kind of thing in the heat and the glare of an election battle in the really hot campaigning over the last three or four weeks of campaigning, a talented opponent could take that and really hurt the mayor with it, with that kind of thing.

The prime minister's closing speech yesterday won lukewarm reviews in the press, on a day still dominated by developments in the battle between Miliband and the Mail over an article claiming his academic father «hated Britain».

After six weeks of political battle over mayoral control of New York City schools, including press conferences, dueling statements, four - hour hearings and much behind - the - scenes chatter, Mayor Bill de Blasio ended up almost exactly where he started at the beginning of the process.

At a party, Anji Hunter, — one of Tony Blair's closest aides — told Ed to «look out» for his family, especially his mother, because the press would be «all over» the leadership battle between the brothers.

Meanwhile today's report in the press said it all when it is disclosed that Northern Senators are poised for a battle with President Goodluck Jonathan over his choice of Mr.M» fon Akpan as Executive Chairman of the Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS).

«This has been an uphill battle, but we made it,» said Senator Mary Landrieu (D - LA) in a press statement issued after negotiators came to an agreement over the weekend.

Science writer Ronald Bailey tracks neo-Malthusians in his book The End of Doom (St. Martin's Press, 2015), starting with Paul Ehrlich's 1968 best seller The Population Bomb, which proclaimed that «the battle to feed all of humanity is over.»

After the first movie, both director Sam Taylor - Johnson and screenwriter Kelly Marcel were dropped from the series with industry press reporting continual battles over James's iron - handed insistence on adherence to her books and their stilted dialogue.

Steven Spielberg's The Post is about the publishing of the Pentagon Papers in 1971 and the accompanying battles over freedom of the press, which means that it is both timely as fuck and very aware of that fact (it came together, was shot, and was completed within this year).

All you will ever do is mash the attack button on fodder enemies until a boss is ready to be mashed on, then press a prompted button to repeat the cycle — usually two more times before the battle is over.

Director Antoine Fuqua (Who made a stink in the press upon the film's release over the PG - 13 cut that he had to deliver) gives the film a great look and stages some impressive battle scenes, but the film has no heart.

He is the author of four books: Tough Liberal: Albert Shanker and the Battles Over Schools, Unions, Race and Democracy (Columbia University Press, 2007); All Together Now: Creating Middle Class Schools through Public School Choice (Brookings Institution Press, 2001); The Remedy: Class, Race, and Affirmative Action (Basic Books, 1996); and Broken Contract: A Memoir of Harvard Law School (Hill & Wang / Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1992.)

Richard D. Kahlenberg, Tough Liberal: Albert Shanker and the Battles over Schools, Unions, Race, and Democracy (New York: Columbia University Press, 2007), 282 — 288.

Richard D. Kahlenberg is a senior fellow at the Century Foundation and author of Tough Liberal: Albert Shanker and the Battles over Schools, Unions, Race, and Democracy (Columbia University Press, 2009).

Start your E3 press show by marching Nintendo's Shigeru Miyamoto on stage to play with goofy gun props and laugh with Yves Guillemot over Mario + Rabbids Kingdom Battle.

What does help alleviate the time during battles though is the ability to repeat a character's actions, or even the entire party's to save you rapidly pressing the select button, just to get the battle over and done with as quickly as possible.

While not the best Final Fantasy game of all - time (in my reality that's IX), Final Fantasy IV was one of the first role - playing games to feature a deep, character - driven plot and introduced the world to the Active Time Battle system, adding an element of urgency to pressing one button over and over again.

Outside of battle, the Y button can be pressed at any time to highlight the current on - screen area and possibly reveal dotted outlines over specific structures.

In this metaphor, I'm Richard III, the horse is the smattering of genuinely good - looking games unveiled at Microsoft's E3 press conference this year, and the Battle of Bosworth Field is the amount of big question marks still hanging over the Xbox One.

If a party member's HP reaches zero during battle, they'll stumble around until someone heals them by running over and pressing X (the AI will look after you here too).

Over the phone a few days after the press conference, Wakefield cited the «idea of the West, Manifest Destiny» as general overarching inspirations, though such notions are especially charged in the wake of the Standing Rock Sioux's battle against the Dakota Access Pipeline and the harsh political realities surrounding immigration from nearby Mexico.

City of Hamilton and Canada Post in legal battle over placement of community mailboxes, Canadian Press

In spite of big headline life insurance challenges like Heath Ledger and David Carradine, the truth is that life insurance companies would rather pay a death benefit than fight legal battles and get bowled over by bad press.

If Apple scheduled the press event with an eye to influencing the outcome of its legal battle with the FBI over encryption, that would be «a foolish but not unheard - of» move, suggested Phil Lieberman, president of Lieberman Software.