Sentences with phrase «big changes we sought»

Many have proposed the big changes we sought — minimum wage, meaningful paid family leave, a balanced budget that caps spending and cuts taxes — but almost all have failed.

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Entrepreneurs tend to look for big changes and big markets when seeking disruptive opportunities, when the opposite may be more effective.

Being an atheist does not mean you KNOW, or that you are CERTAIN, or that you are unwilling to change your mind if evidence comes up, or that you have stopped seeking the answers to the biggest questions.

The big difference between this kind of vision and the kind of vision you speak against (quite rightly IMO) is that it is not one you are trying to impose on the church, nor is it seeking an essential change, but it is still a change you are urging, and the urging changes it from reporting to visionary.

On the eve of Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull's arrival in China, Australia's biggest vitamin and dairy companies are desperately seeking clarification over regulatory changes that have smashed their share prices.

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Seeking his third term, Republican Donald MacKenzie, 47, of Oyster Bay, has always argued that Nassau County government is generally doing an efficient and ethical job of running the budget and the government, and he doesn't see a need for big changes.

Many CF1NY donors do business with the city, including unions and big real estate developers seeking tax breaks and zoning changes for their projects.

This gives the public - school educated a big initial advantage when seeking selection, and open primaries wouldn't change that.

Barring any big changes, the state budget headed next week to the Legislature would give contractors some long - sought tax relief.

The biggest news coming out of the one - day U.N. General Assembly summit on climate change was President Hu Jintao's announcement that China will seek to cut its greenhouse gas emissions by a «notable margin» relative to the 2005 level by 2020.

«I assume they have a much bigger say than they would claim,» said a former negotiator who attended the U.N. climate change conference last year in Lima, Peru, and who spoke on the condition of anonymity in order to talk freely without seeking higher approval.

In the last 50 years, NASA has achieved every one of those goals, and it continues to seek answers to some of the biggest mysteries in science as it evolves with a changing world.

Approaching change with the motivation of feeling trapped is one of the biggest barriers to actually getting the transformation you seek.

For me, the biggest change was to fully embrace the lower protein intake and to proactively seek out fat.

It's a sign of the changing of the times that 15 years ago this combination of A-list stars would have been one of the biggest events of the year, whereas now Money Monster is a sleeper bit of counter-programming for viewers seeking out a more adult alternative to the mammoth blockbusters flooding in for the summer movie season.

The story picks up with Bilbo, the dwarves, and Gandalf (Ian McKellen) trying to evade the still - pursuing orcs by seeking shelter with a «skin - changer» named Beorn (Mikael Persbrandt), who changes forms between a giant bear and a slightly less hairy man, and eventually fleeing into a dangerous forest, where the air causes hallucinations, big spiders ensnare trespassers, and elves aren't too happy with unexpected company.

Schools have made big changes against a tight clock, a consequence of the program's genesis: the 2009 stimulus package, which sought to pump job - boosting federal money into the economy.

Big Change is leading thinking around this through our support for projects which are broadening horizons for young people, and developing oracy skills — and there is mounting evidence that non-cognitive skills such as communication, collaboration and team working are most sought after by employers when recruiting.

Big changes could be afoot for the VW Up in next generation guise as the brand seeks to get more from the tough city car sector

Juicy Excerpt: Another big change since the early days of Buy - and - Hold is that many investors no longer limit themselves to broad U.S. indexes but seek participation in the global marketplace.

Seeking the advice of a veterinarian before any big diet change is important to make sure your pet doesn't get an upset stomach — which can happen even when switching to a healthier choice.

In Dynasty Warriors 9, that has changed dramatically, and in an attempt to stop the series feeling even more stagnant than it has in recent releases, the guys over at Omega Force have sought out big changes to make the experience fresh once more.

stop the series feeling even more stagnant than it has in recent releases, the guys over at Omega Force have sought out big changes to make the experience fresh once more.

I think it «s time to draw a line in the sand dude, between the sort of low - brow, unintellectual, cheap, rock star BULLSHIT peddled by the likes of mass media WHORE - mongers to the genuine god given gifts of visionaries, performers and those who have a message and a wish to change the world — whether there be recrimination, rewards, RESURRECTION, fire, persecution, loneliness - death in obscurity or a bullet in the back... There is a big difference between those who seek only to divulge their weak interests for self indulgence and those who seek only to communicate with HONESTY and TRUTH.

One of the biggest challenges for anyone seeking to change energy habits is the invisibility of power sources.

Short summary: scientists sought political relevance and allowed policy makers to put a big thumb on the scale of the scientific assessment of the attribution of climate change.

Some of the biggest supporters of the Paris accord are small oceanic nations seeking welfare through handouts to save them from baseless predictions of rising sea levels, even though actual changes in sea levels are tiny and not unusual.

And although «weather improvement» is not quite the same thing as «solving» climate change — here we get to a big parallel with the more globally ambitious forms of geoengineering, especially the SRM techniques that seek to create a compensating cooling effect on a planetary scale: they are (likely) much cheaper than emissions reductions.

The Obama administration proposed limits on carbon dioxide emissions from new US power plants Friday, taking a big step toward fulfilling a long - sought goal of fighting climate change by reducing greenhouse gas emissions.

Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird has sought to dampen concern that what the government has called a «sea change» is all that big a deal.

The biggest change the BAPCPA brought was that now there are additional bankruptcy requirements for people seeking bankruptcy (like the debtor education course and credit counseling briefing).

If you want to use digital technology to solve some of the world's biggest problems like how we educate the next generation, improve the health of our elders or tackle climate change, you don't need to apologise for it when seeking investment.

This is big departure from the original Destiny, where more competitive players would tirelessly seek out the new «meta» weapon class and type — in other words, whatever guns the game's internal systems were favoring over others — and abuse and exploit it until Bungie felt compelled to change it.

One of the biggest of these changes is going to be the near bezel - free display as Google likely seeks to bring the consumer a pair of phones that are just as loved as the Pixel and Pixel XL, but with more screen real estate so there is more room to enjoy everything that you would use on your device.

For traders seeking an edge, however, the biggest change was that the market's so - called «kimchi premium» all but evaporated over the course of February's 28 trading days.

The thing is when you are making a career change big time, you will unlikely have much to offer in terms of experience sought by employers.

Or maybe you're just feeling stuck, repeating patterns that you don't want to anymore, feeling stressed, detached, seeking purpose or meaning, or going through a loss or a big change.

If you notice a big change in how they are doing emotionally and behaviorally, if what you try to do to support them does not seem to help, and if they are getting worse rather than better, it is good idea to seek help.

EHC plans seek to change the system in the biggest reform to the special educational needs system for some 30 years.

Seek competent council before you make any big, life - changing decisions.)