Sentences with phrase «battle over the proposal»

The battle over Proposal 2 was nasty.

The move comes as a blow for the government, which is already facing backbench revolts over health reforms and is set for a battle over proposals to give schools more freedom.

Richmond's multi-ethnic coalition is already gearing up for another battle over the proposal, Soto said.

She acknowledged that the ongoing regional battle over the proposal is making progress slow and difficult.

Throughout Florida's legislative session, education reform groups and teachers» unions have done battle over proposals to pass a very controversial «parent trigger» law.

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BRUSSELS, May 2 - The European Commission met on Wednesday to agree proposals for a bigger new multi-year budget that will trigger battles among member states over how to fill the funding gap left by Britain's exit next year.

There's a school of thought around Parliament Hill that Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Finance Minister Bill Morneau have stumbled unwittingly into the battle now raging over their proposal to seriously tighten up the rules on small - business taxation.

While TIM had already said that Elliott's proposal would not be discussed on Tuesday, investors are watching out for any clues on future moves from the two top investors who have been locked in a battle over the past seven weeks.

Despite a new proposal from the Obama administration last week, a battle over religious freedom and contraception continues as rallies in more than 100 cities across the country will take place today.

A legal battle has erupted over a vacant piece of land located at the northeast corner of Butterfield Road and Illinois Route 53 near Glen Ellyn where a proposal to build a mega gas station was rejected last year by DuPage County board members.

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.

Mr Cable says that, behind the scenes, the Tories and Liberal Democrats are fighting a «constant battle», including over tax proposals.

A battle is brewing over a proposal to convert a decades - old convent in Blue Point, Long Island into a 76 - bed drug and alcohol rehabilitation facility for women.

... That was lead of David Rubin's column in today's Syracuse Post-Standard, in which he sided with the city's mayor, Stephanie Miner, in her ongoing verbal battle with Gov. Andrew Cuomo over the governor's controversial pension smoothing proposal.

A key vote by a European Parliament committee has set the scene for a battle royal over the toughest technical proposals yet to threaten European motorcyclists say the BMF.

De Blasio is also currently battling to get Gov. Andrew Cuomo and the Republican - run State Senate to back his proposal for a «mansion tax,» a new levy on home sales over $ 2 million, which he hopes would provide new revenues for senior housing.

Sanders insisted he wasn't taking sides in a battle between Gov. Andrew Cuomo and de Blasio over how to fund the subways — even though Cuomo has called the millionaires tax proposal «dead on arrival.»

Many of the battles in the 2016 race have been over cultural divides, but not necessarily those that cut neatly across demographic lines: Stavisky's side has been hammering Jung for his proposal to ban pictures of same - sex couples from textbooks and his pro-life stance on abortion.

The Collins amendment, which House leaders accepted late Monday, prompted an extraordinary political battle a day later, as Collins and Cuomo angrily assailed each other over the proposal.

Greeting the member - lobbyists, state Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie asked them to consider the sea change in Albany this year in contrast to last year, when the union was in an all - out battle with the governor over his education proposals.

ALBANY — Good - government groups are preparing to do battle with each other over a ballot proposal to change the state's redistricting process.

«[F] or decades, she has fought a battle with many of her biochemist colleagues over the properties of DNA and, more recently, her unorthodox proposal about how the body repairs damage to this vital molecule» using electricity, Service writes.

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.

Leaving aside the merits of the Trump school choice proposals, those plans face «uphill battles» in Congress, where Republicans are eager to assert their prerogatives over the budget, said Martin West, an associate professor of education at Harvard University and a former K - 12 adviser to U.S. Sen. Lamar Alexander (R - Tenn.)

Nashville school officials have rejected a proposal to open a charter school in a middle - class part of the city, highlighting a broader national battle over efforts by operators of such publicly financed, privately run schools to expand into more affluent areas.

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.

FERC is unlikely to take up the proposal as written, analysts and former regulators agreed, but regulators currently at the agency have indicated they plan to address plant compensation and reliability questions — making the NOPR the Trump administration's opening salvo in what is likely to be a long and contentious regulatory battle over the future of the fuel mix and competitive electricity markets.

CK: Battles have sprung up in a number of individual states across the United States over proposals to mandate labelling on all food grown using GMOs.