Sentences with phrase «bill than promised»

Whereas Postmates and Uber are one - time actions, Zirx has to factor in the surge pricing up front since you can't suddenly deliver a larger bill than promised when you pick up.

Not exact matches

Along with Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates, Buffett is a founder of The Giving Pledge, which is a promise made by more than 100 billionaires to give their fortunes away.

These 14 billionaires just promised to give away more than half of their money like Bill Gates and Warren Buffett

But this wrenching concern over the deficit — particularly when the situation in Puerto Rico remains so dire — is hard for some to swallow when conservatives are simultaneously pushing forward a tax reform package that could leave a more than a trillion - dollar hole in the deficit and have signed on to spending bills that added more than $ 100 billion to defense spending, without the immediate promise of offsets elsewhere.

Meanwhile, business Liberals, perhaps including Minister of Finance Bill Morneau, will likely be pushing for less social spending than promised in the platform in order to balance the books on the original schedule.

This single glass of Four Roses that is actively making me forget about the world right now is worth more than a $ 20 bill that you promise to give me in two weeks.

Mayor Bill de Blasio promised 200,000 affordable housing apartments, including 50,000 units for New Yorkers earning less than $ 40,000.

Off topic questions included city enforcement efforts around Airbnb and Airbnb's hiring of de Blasio's campaign manager, why a proposed ban on carriage horses has taken far longer than initially promised by the mayor, Tim Wu's comments on the mayor's central role on defeating Wu and Zephyr Teachout in Tuesday's primary, revised statistics on NYPD chokehold incidents, charter school co-locations, the mayor's lack of a federal security clearance and resulting inability to receive classified information, school bus drivers movement toward a strike, his relationship with Police Commissioner Bill Bratton and his efforts to help elect a Democratic majority in the state senate.

Ryan did, however, promise members of the far - right House Freedom Caucus that he would hold a vote on a much more conservative immigration bill that would provide fewer protections for DACA recipients than the bipartisan Senate bill does.

Her bill would create protections which are inclusive, applying to all torture survivors; preventive, rather than waiting for harm to occur; and effective, by introducing new measures to ensure the Home Office lives up to its promises.

Chancellor Carmen Fariña and Mayor Bill de Blasio visited Automotive HS in Brooklyn on March 25 to showcase the work done in the mayor's School Renewal Porgram, which holds much more promise than the governor's receivership strategy.

Late last year Moskowitz organized tens of thousands of Success parents and students to rally in a show of strength for then - candidate Bill de Blasio, who promised to give charters — and Moskowitz in particular — less favorable treatment than the Bloomberg administration had.

Nevertheless, more than 100 Tory MPs last week «expressed regret» that the promised bill to lay out plans for a referendum was not brought forward in the Queen's Speech.

The mayor — who ran on the promise of representing the outer boroughs — opted to sign his first bill at a Brooklyn ice cream manufacturer, rather than the City Hall Blue Room, where bills are often signed.

It did not go to the floor for a vote despite its high number of sponsors — and despite promises that rules reform would make the council more democratic under Mark - Viverito than it was for the months former Speaker Christine Quinn stalled votes on earlier police reform bills.

Thanks to our Ministers, who overcame resistance from right - wing Tories, the Bill does make a provision to allow a target to be set in the future — but as industry itself, and the Government's independent advisors, the Committee on Climate Change (CCC), have made clear, investors in low - carbon energy need more certainty than this possible future promise before they go ahead and invest billions in new renewable energy installations.

More about his affordable housing plan: Mayor Bill de Blasio promised 200,000 affordable housing apartments, including 50,000 units for New Yorkers earning less than $ 40,000.

The personal care at home bill is intended to enable elderly and disabled people to remain in their own homes — rather than going into residential care — while laying the foundations for the new national care service promised by the prime minister in his party conference speech in September.

It always promised to be a combative party conference, but Labour's political roadshow more than lived up to its billing on Tuesday when Damian McBride's publisher was caught by TV news cameras in an «unseemly» on - air scuffle with a protestor on Brighton seafront.

«Every time this government brings out a new scheme it falls apart... that's why the welfare revolution we were promised is crumbling and the benefits bill is soaring # 20 billion higher than planned.»

In her very first interview on her appointment as work and pensions spokeswoman, back in 2013, she promised to be tougher than the Tories on cutting the welfare bill.

Mayor Bill de Blasio, who increased police presence as part of his promise to make the event «safer than ever,» has stopped short of saying the event should be canceled, in part because of what he said was its spontaneous nature.

There's also an online campaign called Read the Bill along with a group called Read to Vote that's collected more than 80,000 signatures asking lawmakers to promise to read every page of every bill before votBill along with a group called Read to Vote that's collected more than 80,000 signatures asking lawmakers to promise to read every page of every bill before votbill before voting.

As the sequel formula tends to go, Magic Mike XXL promises to be bigger and better than ever before and it makes sure to earn every crumpled dollar bill the audience tosses on the stage for it.

There's mild diversion here and there but for a film that's billed as «sidesplitting», «hilarious», and «laugh - out - loud», that's much less than promised.

(His «signing statement» presciently declared that «[T] his bill promises more than the federal government can deliver, and its good intentions could be thwarted by the many unwise provisions it contains.»)

A second legislative proposal to preserve Washington's charter schools emerged Thursday, with its authors promising to reconstitute even more of the system invalidated by the State Supreme Court than another bill filed earlier this week.

In other words, a bill called Every Child Achieves must be more than an empty promise.

If you're not getting resolution (or things are taking longer than promised) with the billing customer service department, getting a patient advocate involved can be very helpful.

A bill breezing through the North Carolina legislature promises to end a high - profile standoff between the solar industry and Duke Energy, and more than double the state's capacity over the next four years.

More than 80 Labour MPs have signed an amendment to the Climate Change Bill, which would force ministers to promise greater cuts in carbon emissions.

Yesterday he talked about his pending legislation to industry folks, promising it would be friendlier to their interests than the Senate bill that failed last week:

While we all appreciate every last bill - paying client, some have more promise than others.

Kaufman's list should not come as a surprise to any seasoned attorney; it includes client promises that «the company will be huge, and I'll throw work your way» (as a way to get a discount); «this cost me more than you promised»; and «the bookkeeper didn't come in this week» (as an excuse for paying bills).

After trying (and largely failing) to bill that scandalous iPhone performance throttling policy as a battery preservation feature, Apple's damage control kicked in, with promises of discounted battery replacements fulfilled sooner than anyone expected.

The meeting was cordial, the Chairman offered some advice, and also promised to have someone more technical than he was speak with young Bill.