Sentences with phrase «battle over the majority»

In fact, the senator told me he was not at all happy to see Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan predicting during an interview on WCNY's The Capitol Pressroom that Felder would be staying put, and also downplaying his obviously outsized role in determining the budget outcome — not to mention the battle over the majority.

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.

Take over from a visionary founder whose play for world domination is only half finished (and who is still a majority owner by votes), fix a broken workplace culture, win an existential race (and legal battle) to develop autonomous vehicles, and find a way to turn a profit in a business that has lost billions of dollars a year.

In describing and accounting for the lives of the Religious Right, which we define simply as religious conservatives with a considerable involvement in political activity, the book and the series tell the story primarily by focusing on leading episodes in the movement's history, including, but not limited to, the groundwork laid by Billy Graham in his relationships with presidents and other prominent political leaders; the resistance of evangelical and other Protestants to the candidacy of the Roman Catholic John F. Kennedy; the rise of what has been called the New Right out of the ashes of Barry Goldwater's defeat in 1964; a battle over sex education in Anaheim, California, in the mid-1960's; a prolonged cultural war over textbooks in West Virginia in the early 1970's — and that is a battle that has been fought less violently in community after community all over the country; the thrill conservative Christians felt over the election of a «born - again» Christian to the Presidency in 1976 and the subsequent disappointment they experienced when they found out that Jimmy Carter was, of all things, a Democrat; the rise of the Moral Majority and its infatuation with Ronald Reagan; the difficulty the Religious Right has had in dealing with abortion, homosexuality and AIDS; Pat Robertson's bid for the presidency and his subsequent launching of the Christian Coalition; efforts by Dr. James Dobson and Gary Bauer to win a «civil war of values» by changing the culture at a deeper level than is represented by winning elections; and, finally, by addressing crucial questions about the appropriate relationship between religion and politics or, as we usually put it, between church and state.

A power battle between the clubs two majority shareholders, over a number of matters.

He then sought to formally close that loophole in his campaign fiannce reform proposal, over which he battled bitterly with then - Senate Majority Leader Joe Bruno.

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell is throwing his support behind a GOP proposal that lines up with President Trump's immigration framework, as the chamber turns to a battle over the controversial issue.

He faces a tough battle to win Stockport which he was selected for in 2015 and where Labour's Anne Coffey has a majority of just over 10,000.

UPDATE: Another source said there was also discussion about asking Cuomo tto clearly and vocally support a Democratic majority in the state Senate, where the Dems hold a slim one - vote edge over the Republicans, and it's going to be a major battle in the fall.

Battle heating up in Nevada over whether Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid's coloring inside the lines of the law by posting an old copy of his Republican opponent Sharron Angle's (pre-primary) website.

Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan is finding himself increasingly isolated in the battle over mayoral control of the NYC school system.

As the battle for control of the state Senate heats up, the chamber's Democrats have filed a formal complaint with the state Board of Elections over a $ 1 million contribution to the Republicans from their former leader, ex-Senate Majority Leader Joseph Bruno.

This means that any battles over changes that Corbyn and his team want to make to the party's structure, how the leader is elected in future and deselections of MPs and so on, now have a Corbynite majority supporting them on the NEC.

While Democrats would eventually regain the majority if the legal battles over the two seats end in their favor, the GOP hopes it would be too late to reverse a vote making a Republican the majority leader.

The accusations are flying thick and fast between former NYC Mayor Ed Koch and Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos, who are locked in a battle of wills over redistricting reform.

The Court of Appeal's ruling is a blow to Jeremy Corbyn's battle to remain the Labour leader as the majority of those joining the party are expected to support him over rival Owen Smith.

On Monday, a spokesman for Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid accused GOP leadership aides of «pushing falsehood» in an effort to distract from the political battle over S - CHIP.

With a brutal battle raging for the future of the Conservative party, and the vast majority of Labour's MPs united over Europe, the early stages of the referendum campaign brought temporary relief from the relentless rumours about party coups, splits and leadership challenges.

There is a large over 50's vote in Bexhill & Battle and the majority are very disillusioned with the Tory's over the EU, immigration and the prospect of large housing estates being dumped on their characterful villages by ruthless planners and the National Planning Policy Framework that is set to change so much and not for the better.

Despite its passage with majority vote, Proposal 2 has faced an uphill battle in the courts over the past seven years, and last November the 6th Circuit Court of Appeals struck it down.

They are far too busy battling with Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell over a version of a funding bill for the Department of Homeland Security that leaves out a poison pill kiboshing the Obama Administration's executive order temporarily staying deportation for five million undocumented emigres.

The Conservatives only have a working Commons majority of 14 and the interventions from influential Tory backbenchers over funding highlight the battle Theresa May's government is also likely to face over grammar schools proposals.

Despite intensifying political battles over the new Common Core State Standards in many states this summer, a new poll shows that a majority of Americans have never heard of them.

The top three were separated by thousandths of a second, with only four tenths covering the majority of the GTLM field in practice, and this fierce battle carried over to qualifying, the competitive order shifting drastically as drivers used every inch of the demanding and bumpy Sebring track in search of lap time.

However the majority of comments lauded his efforts in the battle with the Law Society of Upper Canada over civility in the courtroom.