Sentences with phrase «battles over new»

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.

In some states there may be confusion after court battles over new state identification requirements.

In NYC, which is seemingly exhausted by a long - running construction boom, the number of pitched battles over new developments appears to be growing.

Willett, who taught at the University of Chicago Divinity School and who was later to become a controversial figure in the battle over the new «higher biblical criticism,» was already an editor at The Christian Century.

(The battle over New York's budget went into high gear Wednesday as a protest against cuts and the end of a «millionaires» tax» blockaded an entrance to the Capitol for almost an hour.

In Albany, the annual battle over New York's byzantine rent laws is starting to heat up.

An East Rochester attorney waging a years - long battle over New York's hydraulic fracturing ban is taking a new approach, filing a lawsuit last week attempting to force the state to compensate him for the oil - and - gas rights on his land.

ALBANY — The battle over New York's budget went into high gear Wednesday as a protest against cuts and the end of a «millionaires» tax» blockaded an entrance to the Capitol for almost an hour.

Energy marketing firms trying to protect their ability to sell natural gas and electricity to utility customers in New York are urging regulators to begin closed - door settlement talks that could end their protracted battle over new energy sales standards.

FINANCIAL DISTRICT — A battle over new classroom space at 26 Broadway is pitting a high - performing lower Manhattan high school against a school from the Upper East Side.

Last year HarperCollins and Amazon waged a quiet battle over new contract terms on the main Amazon.com website.

In Amazon and Hachette's ongoing battle over a new contract, Amazon has received most of the blame — and that's probably not surprising since it's the party cutting off pre-orders, messing with search and shipping Hachette books with multiweek delays.

Environmentalists, just as in a battle over a new runway, are being as partisan in their use of science as their opponents.

The absence of these regulations is becoming even more clear as the battle over New England's energy future is being waged.

None may be more important than the current legal battle over the New Year's Eve «possum drop» (think Times Square, but with a possum) in Brasstown (Clay County), North Carolina.

Not exact matches

Environmental groups have started a new court battle over protections for an imperiled bird on Western U.S. public lands but called a truce in a separate lawsuit involving the bird's smaller cousin.

This spring, he spent two weeks running the numbers and battling insomnia before making a dramatic announcement to his 120 - member staff on April 13, inviting NBC News and The New York Times to cover it: Over the next three years, he will phase in a minimum wage of $ 70,000 at Gravity and immediately cut his own salary from $ 1.1 million to $ 70,000 to help fund it.

Citing concerns about giving Google «a significant advantage over competitors,» a New York federal judge shot down a settlement that would permit Google to make millions of books accessible online — the latest setback in the Internet behemoth's six - year - long legal battle over its digital library.

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

Former Icahn managing director Jonathan Christodoro quit Xerox's board on Friday, paving the way for Carl Icahn to introduce a new battle over the company.

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.

The results of the poll were released late on Monday, in the middle of a legal battle between Apple and the U.S. Justice Department over a judge's order that Apple write new software to disable passcode protection on the iPhone used by one of the San Bernardino, California shooters.

With the new GOP - controlled Congress in session, the battle over immigration is once again in the spotlight.

But as Janigan details, regional battles over resources in the West go back to at least the 1860s when, shortly after Confederation, the new Canadian government agreed to pay # 300,000 to the Hudson's Bay Co. for the lands between Ontario and the colony of British Columbia.

There is a fascinating battle under way over states» rights and taxation, with federal Treasurer Peter Costello wielding his new - found power as chieftain of the biggest pot of gold the nation has ever seen — the GST.

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.

Yesterday, I was a witness to the newly created H1Z1 Pro League, which is a new 10 week competition that includes 75 gamers representing a total of 15 teams who will battle it out over the course of the schedule in Las Vegas while earning roughly $ 50,000 per player guaranteed, plus benefits.

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Last May, after a protracted battle in court, Airbnb agreed to hand over anonymized data on the company's hosts in the city to Eric T. Schneiderman, the New York State attorney general.

A new book on the Canadian workplace — Work on Trial: Canadian Labour Law Struggles, edited by Judy Fudge and Eric Tucker — provides an engaging and accessible account of various labour battles in the courts over the past 85 years involving human rights, employment fairness and union recognition.

The battle between New England Patriot's quarterback Tom Brady and the National Football League (NFL) over deflated footballs continues, with both sides digging in on their...

Since November, YES, the channel that airs New York Yankees games, has been blacked out on Comcast Corp. as the cable giant and the network's parent, 21st Century Fox, battle over terms of payment.

Over in the news business, New York Times CEO Mark Thompson declared that, for his company and its competitors, «the battle will be won on the smartphone.»

Abandoning the costly battle over China also frees up Uber to pursue more profitable new enterprises.

Obama has been battling some in Congress over his plans to use more private space companies, like Space X, for getting people to orbit with NASA concentrating on missions to send astronauts to new places, such as nearby asteroids.

The months - long battle over Jho Low's $ 260 million superyacht took an unexpected new twist.

«This data shows that the battle for market share is far from over,» John Kilduff, a partner at Again Capital LLC, a New York - based hedge fund that focuses on energy, said by phone.

NEW YORK, NY, August, 2017 — Though it is the seemingly endless battle over the future of the Affordable Care Act that has dominated headlines since the Trump administration took the helm, there are many other issues the alternative investment industry is eager to see play out in the 115th Congress.

LOS ANGELES (AP)-- The battle over the fortune of ailing media mogul Sumner Redstone shifted to a new front Monday after a judge threw out the case over his medical care and both sides vowed to hit each other with new lawsuits.

So I laughed out loud when I read a line from a piece published in New York Times about a «quieter battle» being waged within churches over gay marriage and gay ordination.

This is very far from being a new analysis: Family and Youth Concern, still battling away, was doing pioneering work over 30 years ago (for which its founder, Valerie Riches, was deservedly made a papal dame), pointing out how disastrous for society the undermining of the traditional family based on marriage - not least by successive governments - really was.

The New York Timeswebsite reported on 12 April 2007 on the public battle between two American Jewish scholars over the Holocaust.

Why do we struggle so much because its our old nature that fights against our new nature in Christ which ever one we give into is the one that rules us.But as a born again believer sin shall not have dominion over us.The battle has been won by Christ so by believing in him we also walk as he does as a victor not a victim.Its his holy spirit that empowers us to do what is impossible in the flesh.But to do that our old nature or heart must be crucified with Christ.brentnz

Tommy God has already forgiven you for your sin the moment you asked Jesus into your life and confessed him as Lord.From that point he paid for your sin in full past present future.It is not sin that stops us from being with the Lord so you are saved.The problem you are experiencing is the battle for your life in the here and now satan is out to destroy you and he knows our weaknesses.If you are honest there were already issues in your life that you struggled with and never got the victory over.So where do you go from here as i found myself in the same situation i was a christian but walking according to the flesh.God does nt change his mind he always loves us but because of our choices we distance ourselves from God.The issue is that we like sin thats our wicked hearts and to be fair we cant change our nature only Christ can do that our old nature must be crucified with Christ.The stumbling block is our pride we have to admit that we cant do it For me that was terribly difficult i was so independent thinking i could do anything but the truth was a made a real mess of things.I sense you are at a crossroads and are feeling desperate and confused.So as a brother in the Lord you need to confess your sin to God and tell him that you are weak -LCB- we all are -RCB- and that you cant do it in your strength -LCB- None of us can -RCB- but ask him to send the holy spirit to help you deal with the temptations and the sin that you struggle with and he will help you to change your life he will empower you as he did me.Rather than look at who you are look to Christ and walk in him and he will make you a new man and sin will not have dominion over you.Jesus came to set us free from bondage.Having once been a slave to sin i know what it is like to have been set free by the power of God and that is what Christ is offering you today.All it takes is a desire to change or repent and admit we cant do it and trust him to give you the strength to walk in him regards brentnz

Can we lose that salvation i believe so if we totally turn away from him by rejecting the conviction of the holy spirit in our lives.I say that because as a new christian i accepted Christ into my life and the holy spirit was convicting me to surrender my heart to him as Lord and i was resisting him i would not surrender to him fully and so he gave me a choice to either accept him or reject him.I believe he gives everyone the chance to make that commitment as Lord of there life.When we make that deeper commitment and follow him he will continue to perfect us through his holy spirit so that we conform to his image.By the way i knew that if i rejected him at that point that was it he would never bother me again i would have been eternally lost the thought was terrifying at the time.There was definitely a spiritual battle being fought over me i was very aware i needed to decide which side i was on.Thankfully i chose the winning one.brentnz

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Los Angeles Times: Growing ties between Egypt, Turkey may signal new regional order Egypt and Turkey are forging an alliance that showcases two Islamist leaders maneuvering to reshape a Middle East gripped by political upheaval and passionate battles over how deeply the Koran should penetrate public life.

Weaver, Sylvester, «Selling in a New Era,» speech to the Advertising Club of New Jersey, 24 May 1955, quoted in William Brody, «Operation Frontal Lobes Versus the Living Room Toy: the Battle Over Programme Control in Early Television,» Media Culture and Society (Beverly Hills: Sage) Vol.

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.

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.