Sentences with phrase «big controversies said»

A former deputy commissioner who claims he was fired for complaining about City Hall's alleged misconduct surrounding two of the de Blasio administration's big controversies said Monday that he deserves his job back.

Not exact matches

Kalanick walked her through «the big - ball bets for the future, through the controversies, through the cultural values,» she said, adding the final meeting to get her on the board was last week.

«Tim Cook is looking to do a big number, probably to show how liberal he is,» Trump said back in February, at the height of the iPhone unlocking controversy.

Ironically, the biggest supporters Creationists have in the «teach the controversy» argument are the Raelians who say that the Earth was seeded with life by extra-terrestrials.

There was a big controversy (and eventual schism) back in the day because the Eastern Greek speaking church (future Eastern Orthodox) said the Spirit proceeds ONLY from the Father whereas the Latin speaking Western church (future Catholic church — and this is way before Protestants existed btw) said the Spirit proceeds from the Father AND the Son.

But Clegg said the controversy was not his only regret from the coalition years, listing a number of «big mistakes» including the overly cosy press conference in the rose garden that launched the new government, and his agreement to sit beside Cameron at the weekly prime minister's questions.

Mayor Bill de Blasio, for his part, called he proposal a «very commendable idea» and that it «looks like a real step forward» but said that he looks forward to getting more specifics about the plan, recalling a «big controversy» last year in the state budget where he stated «tried to move some important costs over to the city.»

«I will not let the controversy surrounding one man become bigger that the hearts of millions of Puerto Ricans,» he said.

A former deputy commissioner plans to sue the city for $ 5 million, saying he was fired for complaining about two of Mayor de Blasio's biggest City Hall controversies — the lifting of deed restrictions for Lower East Side nursing home Rivington House and the granting of city favors to mayoral contributor Harendra Singh.

Dr Crispin Halsall, fellow guest editor said: «Scientists working in the field of Chemical research believe this approach will be fundamental in the future to resolving some of the biggest controversies in chemical risk assessment.»

«There's a big controversy as to whether the strengthening involves change in the pre-synaptic cell, or in the post-synaptic cell, or in some combination of the two,» he says.

That said, this is still a big move, which is sure to spark no end of discussion and controversy.

«Schools have a very big responsibility to teach their students to think in more sophisticated ways about social and political controversies, to talk across differences of culture, class, and ideology and to engage in conversation with others that might have very different viewpoints,» Bermudez says.

As to whether these bills are passed, heavily modified, or ignored in favor of whatever the next big Internet controversy is, the story is absolutely worth keeping a close eye on — as is whatever developers like EA, Blizzard, and * any * mobile developer who make their salt on Loot Boxes, have to say.

Thomas Keane gets an exclusive insight into Gavin Turk's new exhibition 2012 kicked off with a controversy between two of the biggest names in contemporary art, with David Hockney seemingly lashing out at Damien Hirst's detached use of assistants to produce his work: «it's a little insulting to craftsmen» he was quoted as saying, while -LSB-...]

I'd say «that's the way it is» and live with it happily on most science controversies (plate tectonics, big bang / steady state, etc) because they don't have a massive impact on our daily lives and so we can easily wait for the science to work itself out, but on issues that look to have massive impacts on our daily lives (fat vs. carbs in diet, CAGW) there must be a better way of dealing with the uncertainties before we throw all our eggs into a single basket.

By 2011, the biggest concern wasn't the curriculum but the controversy, said Susan Buhr, director of the education outreach arm for the institute.

On this podcast, Sam and Matthew talk about typography and address some of the big typographical controversies, like how many spaces you should use between sentences (one), whether you should put spaces around an em dash (if you want to), and why nothing says «I don't care about my work product» like setting it in Times New Roman.

But Touch ID has already set off a firestorm of controversy among privacy advocates who say there could be lots of Big Brother implications, especially following revelations by Der Spiegel Online that the N.S.A. already has the ability to capture photos, GPS data, contacts and texts from iPhones.